Your Favorite Movie Directors?

Hi,

The list would be endless!

Here's my conceptual view of these 3 ... and you don't have to think it means I don't like them. They are fine in my book, but not the best.

Tarantino, while putting a lot of help into some foreign films, has spent a lot of time copying many of them. Cameron, is the biggest rip off artist of all ... and Roger Dean, for one, has never got a single cent for it ... and nowadays, World of Warcraft is not giving Roger Dean a single cent either for a character that he had created and was ripped off senseless and directly! Spielberg is the ultimate directing professor at college ... and you can learn more about directing watching his work than almost anyone else except Hitchcock and Kubrick. For me, and his actors make his work better, he's too mechanical ... and a part of the great bunch of well known folks that spend their time at USC and UCLA telling the students what film "is" ... even though they know very well that things are very different in other places in the world ... but Hollywood is what matters! You get caught with a camera in your hand and your project just got a C-.

richardh wrote: ... David Fincher, Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Guillermo Del Torro and Danny Boyle! ...

Guillermo is neat ... but I'm having a hard time watching some of his films, and I have not quite figured out why ... I kinda like things that are free from being tied up (so to speak) and I find his films are too tied up to something or other. But I have to watch a couple of things again, because saying this here makes it look like I did not see anything. 

There are many directors that deserve a mention ... Jane Campion, although she was way better and more to the point in the early days, instead of the great this or that now. Peter Weir did a bunch of far out and neat things ... look up one of his really early pieces ... The Plumber, or the one short about the cars in a rally/demolition thing. George Miller, also deserves some credit. Paul Cox is another far out director that has done some nifty things ... and difficult things that came off well. Zhang Yimou ... stands out for me, and so does the slew of other film makers that he brought with him in china.  Giuseppe Tornatore has put out a bunch of really nice films, and his Cinema Paradiso is a gem, as is Everybody's Fine, both with some incredible performances. Jim Sheridan is magnificent, although he gets more credit as a theater director than he does as a film director. Carlos Saura for his forays into dancing ... and a new version of Carmen (the old against the new!). Ken Russell, that did the most bios of anyone, from his early days ... is a great. Sam Peckinpah who created one of the best westerns ever, and made violence in a couple of films look like a dance on Broadway! Mike Newell is well known for his theater and film directing and really good stuff. Nikita Mikhalkov is another far out director, and has gotten himself an Oscar in his closet courtesy of his daughter. David Lean the master of long shots and visuals in film ... something that is a long lost art these days with some "action" cartoons more important for the money it makes for some. Akira Kurosawa ... not much else needs be said except that he is remembered and the names of the folks at the Japanese Studios that hated him are long forgotten. Krzysztof Kieslowski is fantastic and his Veronique is a gem and then some! Not to mention how the music is used. Derek Jarman, for his insane imagery ... Juzo Itami, for his far out and totally eccentric comedies. Federico Fellini, for his crazy antics, and above all the most important image EVER in film, that we don't like to see ... the kid at the start of INTERVISTA ... and we don't like him, because we think he is simply being a jerk ... the kid just wanted to take a pee!!!!! And .. that's Fellini in one take! Bernardo Bertolucci deserves a mention as to how he uses colors and creates images in his films ... some really nice stuff and almost all of them with outstanding music!

There you have it  ... a quick look through my spreadsheet of films I have reviewed and are posted on my website (over 600!) ... all foreign films ... and yeah, I suppose I should include Huston and Hitchcock and one or two others ... but there is so much stuff out there being ignored my friend ... just so much ... and it deserves the attention!