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Poll Question: Pick your favorite out of mine
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Points: 16715 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 01 2008 at 02:35
Originally posted by BroSpence BroSpence wrote:

Marty is a brilliant director and its bullsh*t he won the Oscar for a poor remake.  Woody is great too.  People don't give Woody the respect he deserve for his directing work.  All the others listed are mostly great.  Can't stand that lame-o Francis Ford.  The guy makes three great movies (The Conversation, Godfather I & II) and suddenly he is mr. popular and highly acclaimed?  He hasn't done much worthwhile since Godfather II and he was a producer for the turd pile known as "Supernova". 
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Points: 2614 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 01 2008 at 01:40
Marty is a brilliant director and its bullsh*t he won the Oscar for a poor remake.  Woody is great too.  People don't give Woody the respect he deserve for his directing work.  All the others listed are mostly great.  Can't stand that lame-o Francis Ford.  The guy makes three great movies (The Conversation, Godfather I & II) and suddenly he is mr. popular and highly acclaimed?  He hasn't done much worthwhile since Godfather II and he was a producer for the turd pile known as "Supernova". 
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Points: 16715 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 31 2008 at 22:24
No Coens Brothers love? :( Fargo may be my favorite movie ever, although of course I cannot deny that The Godfather is better.
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Points: 65266 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 31 2008 at 22:10
from your list I'd have to say Woody by far--  incredibly prolific, absolutely brilliant, and both funny and dark at any given moment..  best ones; Crimes and Misdemeanors, Zelig, Radio Days, Love and Death, Broadway Danny Rose, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy


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Two of my favorite directors are Frank Darabont and Christopher Nolan.

From your list, I chose Ridley Scott.

By the way, has anyone seen the only movie Jake Scott (his son) directed?  It's called Plunkett and Macleane, starring Robert Carlyle and Johnny Lee Miller, with Ken Stott and Liv Tyler.  That is my absolute favorite funny movie of all time (perhaps tied with the Coen brothers' remake of The Ladykillers).

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Points: 16111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 31 2008 at 21:31
Although Eraserhead is burned clear into my skull I don't think I can vote for anyone but Kubrick in this poll. Just finished watching "A Life In Pictures", actually!

Although Michel Gondry and Lynch get big honorable mentions
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Points: 6336 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 31 2008 at 21:27
So here are some of my all time favorite directors. I must say before I go any further that I haven´t seen that much of Hitchcock, and what I´ve seen (the Birds, Rear window, The rope) are not that exciting for me... well Rear window kinda is, but I want to see more of him before shuffing him with my other favorites... and see if he deserves itWink

I invite you not only to choose your favorite from my list but to also let the forum know which, if not on this list, is your favorite director. Also, if you want, a top 5... those are always fun. AND, if you want to add your favorite movie of each director... that would just be dandy!

So, here I go...

  1. Stanley Kubrick - (THE director among directors, perfection in every second) 2001, A space odyssey (my all time favorite movie)
  2. David Lynch - (Twisted, artistic, weird, avant garde and genius) Mullholland drive
  3. Darren Aronofsky - (A technical monster with some really interesting ideas) The Fountain
  4. Orson Welles - ( Someone just too ahead of it´s time, there is a before and after in cinema history because of him) Citizen Kane
  5. David Fincher (The new perfectionist, a visual virtuoso with the darkest atmosphere and interesting twisted stories) The Fight Club


Edited by el böthy - November 08 2008 at 13:17
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