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Poll Question: Which of these do you prefer?
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3 [6.67%]
3 [6.67%]
2 [4.44%]
1 [2.22%]
4 [8.89%]
5 [11.11%]
2 [4.44%]
2 [4.44%]
14 [31.11%]
7 [15.56%]
1 [2.22%]
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I love Nolan, Tarantino, and The Coen Brothers.  Nolan has my largest amount of favorites, but the Coen brothers have the Big Lebowski, so I voted them...
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Stanley Kubrick but my own list is as follows:1 Sergio Leone,2 Stanley Kubrick,3 Sam Peckinpah,4 Sergio Sollima,5 Sergio Corbucci,6 Clint Eastwood,7 Peter Watkins.......

 
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Sergio Leone.  Out of these I'll vote for the Coen bros.  Scorsese did a lot of fantastic things but he also had a lot of flops IMO.
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Kurosawa by a long way. Couldn't care less about most of the others, then again I usually find it hard to sit through an entire film.
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Chaplin, Hitchcock, Huston, Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Iñárritu, Eastwood, Coen Bros, von Trier, Bergman ...

voted Kurosawa, because few days ago I, once again, saw Red Beard and still liked it so much.


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from this list, Nolan by a big margin--  Eastwood bores me, Tarantino is innovative but overrated, Kubrick and the Coens have enough kudos, and Spielberg's a joke






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Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

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.


same her, though I want to add Mulholland Drive, which is very good.
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from your list, Eastwood- Forman- Kubrick in no particular order
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I'm a big time Coen Brothers fan. Those guys crank out masterpieces like it's going out of style. Scorcese and Tarantino are also up there for me though. 
You have pretty much taste in directors aside from Fincher who I've always thought to be somewhat overrated
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None for Taratino yet? I will have to go with him. Love everything he has done except the Kill Bill movies.
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Stroszek is also a masterpiece.
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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.

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Never seen a Herzog film. I'll have to check those out.
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Originally posted by EchidnasArf EchidnasArf wrote:


Originally posted by Saperlipopette! 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?


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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Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Originally posted by EchidnasArf EchidnasArf wrote:

Originally posted by harmonium.ro 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.
Clap 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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Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Originally posted by EchidnasArf EchidnasArf wrote:

Originally posted by harmonium.ro 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.
Clap 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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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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Originally posted by Vompatti 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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Originally posted by EchidnasArf EchidnasArf wrote:

Originally posted by harmonium.ro 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.
Clap 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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