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DanthraX

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Topic: My Favorite Movie Directors
Posted: August 15 2011 at 00:21

These are my favorite movie directors and this is a sample of their amazing filmography:

- Nolan: Inception, Memento, The Dark Knight

- Aronofsky: Requiem For A Dream, Black Swan, The Fountain

- Scorsese: The Departed, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas

- Eastwood: Mystic River, Gran Torino, Unforgiven

- Kurosawa: Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Yojimbo

- Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds, Reservoir Dogs

- Fincher: Seven, Fight Club, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

- Forman: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Man On The Moon, Amadeus

- Kubrick: A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining

- Coens: The Big Lebowski, Fargo, No Country For Old Men

- Boyle: 28 Days Later, Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire

- Spielberg: Schidler's List, Catch Me If You Can, Munich

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Posted: August 15 2011 at 00:25

Kubrick. Fellini. Wes Anderson. Almodovar. Woody Allen. < my favorites, so from the list, Kubrick.

Coens come in at a close second. Big smile

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Posted: August 15 2011 at 00:30

In this order:

Kubrick

Coens

Arronofsky

Eastwood

Spielberg

Scorsese

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Posted: August 15 2011 at 00:46

EchidnasArf wrote:

Kubrick. Fellini. Wes Anderson. Almodovar. Woody Allen. < my favorites, so from the list, Kubrick.

Coens come in at a close second. Big smile

I've been wanting to watch a Wes Anderson movie, can you recommend me one in particular?

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Posted: August 15 2011 at 01:25

Rushmore
Bottle Rocket
The Darjeeling Limited
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Not necessarily in that order, but I'd say start with Rushmore. His best film IMO.

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Posted: August 15 2011 at 04:12

Only Kubrick is among my 20 favorite directors from this list (ok, maybe Coen brothers. And I'll admit I haven't seen more than one movie by Kurosawa). Have you seen anything by Herzog, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Lynch, Truffaut... mm?

Btw: I absoluterly hated the three Wes Anderson movies I've seen.

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Posted: August 15 2011 at 04:19

Kubrick of the ones you've mentioned. Some other favourites include Sergio Leone, Alfred Hitchcock, Nicholas Roeg and Michael Powell.

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Posted: August 15 2011 at 04:24

Kurosawa from this list.

As for my own top, I never managed to break the tie between Fellini and Tarkovsky. My favourite of the currently active directors is Woody Allen.

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Posted: August 15 2011 at 04:41

Kurosawa. Also thumbs up for Milos Forman, he made some hilarious stuff in the 60's.

From outside this list Tarkovsky, Bresson, Wenders, Godard, Kieslowski, Borowczyk, Pasoloni, Trier, Kusturica etc.

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Posted: August 15 2011 at 15:02

harmonium.ro wrote:

Kurosawa from this list.

As for my own top, I never managed to break the tie between Fellini and Tarkovsky. My favourite of the currently active directors is Woody Allen.

Did you see his latest Midnight in Paris? I wanted to see it in theaters but never got to it.

Saperlipopette! wrote:

Only Kubrick is among my 20 favorite directors from this list (ok, maybe Coen brothers. And I'll admit I haven't seen more than one movie by Kurosawa). Have you seen anything by Herzog, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Lynch, Truffaut... mm?

Btw: I absoluterly hated the three Wes Anderson movies I've seen.

Lynch is really interesting. I've only seen Eraserhead (which I enjoyed immensely) and Dune (which I feel more or less indifferent towards). What other films would you recommend from him?

Wes Anderson seems to be a love or hate sort of director for a lot of people. Which Wes Anderson movies did you see?

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Posted: August 15 2011 at 15:13

Eraserhead and Blue Velvet are easily the best Lynch movies if you ask me. Elephant Man is great too but I'm rarely in the mood to watch it.

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Posted: August 15 2011 at 15:13

EchidnasArf wrote:

Did you see his latest Midnight in Paris? I wanted to see it in theaters but never got to it.

Seeing Midnight in Paris in a Parisian cinema, in a beautiful summer night, was a must, so to say. Cool

I would have been eligible for perfectly justified lynching, otherwise. Stern Smile

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Posted: August 15 2011 at 15:29

Vompatti wrote:

Eraserhead and Blue Velvet are easily the best Lynch movies if you ask me.

Those are fantastic but I would reccomend starting with (my favorite) Mulholland Drive.

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Posted: August 15 2011 at 15:32

I'm not familiar with a lot of people you guys (and girls?) name here...

I must admit that when I look for movies out of the mainstream I search on IMDb's top 250, and so far thanks to this I have found really good movies and directors I never had the chance to watch before, like One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Kurosawa's, Hitchcock's, Kubrick's, etc...

I'm perfectly aware that those ratings means nothing in the end, but when you see a highly rated movie with 120.000 votes there's a high chance you may like it... The same apply here on Progarchives, I had discovered tons of amazing bands thanks to the ratings and the reviews, of course there's always exceptions, for example I never could get into Mike Oldfield or Magma...

So from all you have mention here, I think I'm going to start looking for some Tarkovsky's films first... Thanks a lot!

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Posted: August 15 2011 at 15:38

harmonium.ro wrote:

EchidnasArf wrote:

Did you see his latest Midnight in Paris? I wanted to see it in theaters but never got to it.

Seeing Midnight in Paris in a Parisian cinema, in a beautiful summer night, was a must, so to say. Cool

I would have been eligible for perfectly justified lynching, otherwise. Stern Smile

Well, I didn't manage anything close to that, but I did recognize every place in the opener's slideshow.

No idea where the guy got picked up from, though.

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Posted: August 15 2011 at 15:54

harmonium.ro wrote:

EchidnasArf wrote:

Did you see his latest Midnight in Paris? I wanted to see it in theaters but never got to it.

Seeing Midnight in Paris in a Parisian cinema, in a beautiful summer night, was a must, so to say. Cool

I would have been eligible for perfectly justified lynching, otherwise. Stern Smile

Jealous. So how was the film?

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Posted: August 15 2011 at 18:39

EchidnasArf wrote:

These three.

The Darjeeling Limited
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

To me they seemed very shallow, and just about being stylish. Designed for the indiecrowd or hipsters.

Got Rushmore and that Puppet Movie in the house for some reason too, but haven't seen any of them yet.

Proggers should enjoy checking out some of Werner Herzog films, and not only for the lovely soundtracks by Popol Vuh. Aguirre is his greatest masterpiece imo. (Fitzcarraldo and Nosferatu are essential as well)

I've answered the Lynch question in my previous post. (Lost Highway is another must see).

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Posted: August 15 2011 at 23:54

Well if you've already formed an unfavorable opinion of Wes Anderson, you probably won't enjoy his other films. But honestly, if you own Rushmore and haven't seen it, you should really give it a shot as it is a lot different than the 3 you listed. Don't take his movies too seriously. They're all comedies at heart.

Rushmore is gold. Approve

You own it. Confused

Watch it.

Never seen the Fantastic Mr. Fox and I'm not really interested in seeing it.

Never seen a Herzog film. I'll have to check those out.

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Posted: August 16 2011 at 03:50

Stroszek is also a masterpiece.

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Posted: August 16 2011 at 17:03

None for Taratino yet? I will have to go with him. Love everything he has done except the Kill Bill movies.

Poll Question: Which of these do you prefer?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Christopher Nolan	3	[6.67%]
Darren Aronofsky	3	[6.67%]
Martin Scorsese	2	[4.44%]
Clint Eastwood	1	[2.22%]
Akira Kurosawa	4	[8.89%]
Quentin Tarantino	5	[11.11%]
David Fincher	2	[4.44%]
Milos Forman	2	[4.44%]
Stanley Kubrick	14	[31.11%]
Ethan & Joel Coen	7	[15.56%]
Danny Boyle	1	[2.22%]
Steven Spielberg	1	[2.22%]
This topic is closed, no new votes accepted