Your Five Favorite Film Directors

sablebrush52 · Apr 19, 2015

A couple of years back I asked people here about their five favorite films. Sees like everyone enjoyed offering up their best of the best.
Who are your five favorite directors and what is your favorite of their films?
In no particular order:
Frank Capra - Mr. Smith Goes To Washington

Clint Eastwood - Hereafter

John Ford - The Quiet Man

Alfred Hitchcock - Strangers On A Train

Buster Keaton - The General
Seriously, I could easily have added 5 more, but I ain't a'gonna do that.

mso489 · Apr 19, 2015

All of the above. I also like Fellini, Antonioni, Bergman, Orson Wells, Charlie Chaplin, Woody Allen, among many others.

danielplainview · Apr 19, 2015

Nice topic. It should be interesting to see everyone's choices.
Not in any particular order.
Martin Scorsese- Last temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, etc.
Paul Thomas Anderson- There will be blood, Boogie Nights
Coen brothers- Fargo, The big Lebowski
Stanley Kubrick- The Shining, Dr. Strangelove
Quentin Tarantino- Inglorious Bastards, Jackie Brown

darwin · Apr 19, 2015

Capra, It Happened One Night
Ford, The Quiet Man
Wyler, Roman Holiday
Hitch, North By Northwest
Wilder, The Apartment

huntertrw · Apr 19, 2015

Alfred Hitchcock: "Rear Window"
Stanley Kubrick: "2001: A Space Odyssey"
Robert Wise: "The Day The Earth Stood Still"
Leo McCarey and James W. Horne: "Big Business" - A silent film starring Laurel & Hardy
Clint Eastwood: "The Outlaw Jose Wales"

agnosticpipe · Apr 19, 2015

John Waters

warren · Apr 19, 2015

Eastwood: "Honkytonk Man" "Bronco Billy"

Ford: "Stagecoach" "The Searchers" "How the West was Won"

Leone: "Once Upon a Time in the West"

Victor Fleming: "Lord Jim" and "The Virginian"

Coppola: "Gardens of Stone"

mortonbriar · Apr 19, 2015

christopher nolan - batman trilogy

coen brothers - the big lebowski

peter jackson - the lord of the rings

bryan singer - x men films

terry gilliam - 12 monkeys/brazil

brian64 · Apr 20, 2015

Coen Brothers - pretty much all of their films...but especially No Country For Old Men, Big Lebowski, Fargo and Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Stanley Kubrick - 2001, Dr. Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut
John Huston - Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Man Who Would Be King
Sergio Leone - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Richard Linklater - Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly
Clint Eastwood - many...but top of the list would probably be Unforgiven
EDIT: I must also add David Lynch - Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway

fnord · Apr 20, 2015

Killer post, Jesse, and I did my best to screw it down to North American directors. (Damned hard to curtail.)
John Ford – The Searchers

Mr. Coppola – The Godfather Part II

Orson Welles – The Magnificent Ambersons

John Huston – Moby Dick

Martin Scorsese – Good Fellas and/or Casino
I’ve left out Raoul Walsh, Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks, Sam Fuller plus William Wyler and that really annoys me.
Fnord

cmdrmcbragg · Apr 20, 2015

Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas

Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction

Akira Kurosawa - Seven Samurai

Sergio Leone - For a Few Dollars More

Coen Bros. - The Big Lebowski

lochinvar · Apr 20, 2015

John Ford- The Rising of the Moon, The Quiet Man, The Searchers, The Man Who shot Liberty Valance

John Huston- Key Largo, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Maltese Falcon, Moby Dick

Alfred Hitchcock-The 39 Steps, Notorious

John Carpenter-The Thing, Escape from New York, Big Trouble in Little China

Clint Eastwood-Unforgiven, Firefox, Gran Torino

peckinpahhombre · Apr 20, 2015

In no particular order, my favourites are:
John Ford - The Quiet Man

John Huston - The Maltese Falcon

Howard Hawkes - Rio Bravo

Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction

Martin Scorcese - Goodfellows

freakiefrog · Apr 20, 2015

Coppola - Bram Stoker's Dracula

Eastwood - Unforgiven

Scorsese - Gangs of New York

Spielberg - Hook

Lucas - Star Wars

newbroom · Apr 20, 2015

Milos Forman - "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

Coen's - "Fargo"

George Pal - "The Time Machine" 1964

Robert Altman "M.A.S.H."

Sergio Leone - "Fistful of Dollars", "Once Upon A Time in the West"

Honorable Mention: Hitchcock - :"Psycho, The Birds, North by Northwest".

cacooper · Apr 20, 2015

No particular order:
H.C. Potter - Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Michael Curtiz - Casablanca
John Huston - The Maltese Falcon
Alfred Hitchcock - North by Northwest
Stanley Kubrick - Dr. Strangelove
And many, many more.
CACooper

cacooper · Apr 20, 2015

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thedudeabides · Apr 20, 2015

Great thread!
Hitchcock - Vertigo

Tarantino - Reservoir Dogs

Scorsese - Goodfellas

Coen Brothers - Fargo

Spielberg - Jaws

sablebrush52 · Apr 21, 2015

It's hard to stick to five, ain't it?
I could just as happily listed:
John Huston - Treasure Of The Sierra Madre

William Wyler - Best Years Of Our Lives

Michael Curtiz - Casablanca

Martin Scorsese - Gangs Of New York

Howard Hawks - Bringing Up Baby

William Wellman - Nothing Sacred

Orson Welles - Citizen Kane

David Lean - Lawrence Of Arabia

Elia Kazan - On The Waterfront

Josef Jon Sternberg - The Blue Angel

Jean Renoir - La Grande Illusion

Preston Sturges - Sullivan's Travels

Rene Clair - I Married A Witch

Akira Kurosawa - The Seven Samurai

Sam Peckinpah - The Wild Bunch

Sergio Leone - Once Upon A Time In America

The Coen Brothers - Fargo

Gregory La Cava - My Man Godfrey

Henry King - Prince Of Foxes

Victor Fleming - Wizard Of Oz

Steven Spielberg - Empire Of The Sun

Charles Chaplin - The Goldrush

Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather
to name just a few.
It's really interesting to see ow often John Ford, John Huston, Hitchcock and the Coen Brothers have been on the short list so far.

tuold · Apr 21, 2015

A lot of people mentioned Stanley Kubrick but not what I feel to be one of his best films, "Barry Lyndon".

Spielberg is one of my favorites but I think "AI-Artificial Intelligence" was his best effort at directing.

Milos Forman and "Amadeus" is one of my all time favorite movies.

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