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Octamarium 
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 Topic: Your favourite director
Posted: December 30 2005 at 07:02 |
I wuold like to know which is your favourite director and why? Which movie you prefer of your favourite?
I love (and study) cinema, so, it could be interesting for me to know you preferences!
My preference goes to David Cronenberg...I love him!!!!
His best movie for me is eXistenZ....but I like all of him (Spider, M.Butterfly, Shivers, The Fly etc etc)
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: December 30 2005 at 07:06 |
The incomparable Martin Scorsese.My favorite films of his are Goodfellas and Taxi Driver.
I am also a big fan of Tim Burton,Terry Gilliam and David Fincher.
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Logos
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Posted: December 30 2005 at 08:52 |
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Tarantino...
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Trotsky
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Posted: December 30 2005 at 09:32 |
I'm trying to avoid being a smart alec ... but the omissions include
my favourite classic director (Alfred Hitchcock)
my favourite French director (Francois Truffaut)
my favourite comedy director (Gerald Thomas)
my favourite contemporary director (Tim Burton)
my favourite anime director (Satoshi Kon ... please watch this genius if you can!!!)
off this list I think I like Kubrick, Lynch and Polanski 
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Jared
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Posted: December 30 2005 at 10:10 |
Off the list, it will be Kubrick, with Polanski close behind,
but I've also always had a soft spot for Woody Allen ( as most of you know...)
I won't go through the names that have been omitted, because Martin has already given us a flavour..
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Velvetclown
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Posted: December 30 2005 at 10:14 |
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Terry Gilliam !
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Atkingani
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Posted: December 30 2005 at 11:10 |
From the list I voted Kubrick (probably my number 1) but I missed Fellini, Kurosawa, Buñuel and some others.
Anyway the list is full of great directors!
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Octamarium
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Posted: December 30 2005 at 11:40 |
Well...it was impossible for me to include all grat directors of this world.....I admit these ones are the first coming through my mind when I created the poll!
However.....a great lack not to keep in Fellini, Allen, Tarantino, Bunuel and Burton (most of all).....I simply forgot it...damn my mind
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Bartvarium
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Posted: December 30 2005 at 11:45 |
You forgot Tarantino!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think the best is TINTO BRASS WHIT "FALLO"  
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Blacksword
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Posted: January 04 2006 at 08:24 |
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Kubrick from the list. I also like Scorsese and Coppola.
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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BaldFriede
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Posted: January 04 2006 at 09:33 |
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I miss Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. From that list I pick Polanski.
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Phil
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Posted: January 04 2006 at 10:11 |
Yes indeed, especially if you claim to be a film buff...oh, and Orson of course.....
Edited by Phil
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Octamarium
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Posted: January 04 2006 at 10:36 |
All right....I have to apologize for my omissions!!!Truly....when I made the poll.....these were the first directors passing through my mind!!but however it was impossible for me to put in all great directors of this world!!!
I missed also Pasolini, Citti, Griffith, Ejzenstein, Godard, Rohmer, Kieslowski, Haneke, Singer, Kusturica (I love his Underground),Woo, and so on!!!
If I could, I'll take away Spielberg (that I dislike sooooo much) or Jackson, and I'll put in some of these (or others like De Sica, Rossellini, Resnais, Renoir, Lang, Peckinpah, Sturges....too much to count)!!
Sorry
Edited by Octamarium
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Trotsky
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Posted: January 04 2006 at 10:46 |
Hey no worries, Octamarium ... it's impossible to have an all
encompassing poll of this sort, even if you limit to just English
language directors ...
It spawned a nice exchange ... that's the worth of your thread!
Plus the revelation that fandango, Phil & I have pretty similar tastes ...
can't believe I left out Woody Allen since I've seen 15-20 of his
movies ... Play It Again Sam a particular sentimental favourite!
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"Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.”
"No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present."
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Octamarium
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Posted: January 04 2006 at 10:55 |
 Trotsky wrote:
can't believe I left out Woody Allen since I've seen 15-20 of his movies ... Play It Again Sam a particular sentimental favourite!
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Allen is one of my favourite too!!
I love Manhattan, Annie Hall, The purple rose of Cairo but most of all Crimes and Misdemeanors!!!!
I love him also as a writer (and for his theatrical experiences)
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Posted: January 04 2006 at 11:02 |
Kubrick
with honorable mentions for: Spielberg, Gilliam and Tim Burton
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ANDREW
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Posted: January 04 2006 at 12:48 |
I've voted for SPIELBERG but
TIM BURTON is the best!!!
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ShaunoNoNo
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Posted: January 06 2006 at 12:58 |
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Although I'm a big fan of Kubrick, Coppola and Spielberg; my vote goes to Scorsese.
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Page to Squire
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Posted: January 08 2006 at 09:25 |
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What about Takeshi Miike
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Moogtron III
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Posted: January 08 2006 at 11:32 |
Not a connaisseurs choice maybe, but Spielberg is my fav. director. Most of the time his movies are exciting from A to Z. I love Jurassic Park and Schindler's List especially.
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