Best Director

Logan wrote: I liked Jarmusch's Mystery Train, Night on Earth, and Down by Law very much.

Coffee and Cigarettes

I would really love to vote Fellini because I feel he's forgotten among the greats but I have to go with Kubrick. The man is a legend, 2001: A Space Odyssey showed me that directing is more than just pointing a camera.

Well Paul K. That might have worked on the moviearchives. To spark an interest for a poll like this on a progarchive, I had to make a broad selection. No matter how you think of my poll, I included 24 of the greatest names from 20th. century filmhistory. Highbrow or lowbrow, art and entertaiment.

So far its been a discussion on who should/could/shouldn't be included, what are peoples favorites and a lot of reccomendations.

The list of peoples favorites (in the poll) is pretty interesting and varied too:

1. Kubrick
2. Tarkovsky
3. Polanski and Spielberg.

Not that it means all that much.

I'm pleased. If I only had selected. The Eisensteins, Pasolinis or Bergmans we would either still be at page one, or 2/3s of the posts would be people complaining about the snobby selection, and shouting where's Lucas, or where's Jackson.

Prolific as nobody else, he even invented a genre, and produced a movie with no protagonist; my vote is for mr. Fellini. He is a tender, imaginative and fierce director, with a great sense of composition, a level of writing that can be compared to nobel prize witters; his 8 1/2 is a killer movie, with the greates end I've ever witnessed (I can't help it, I always cry when I see the end of that movie, same with "I la nave va". He is a crazy genius and I simply worship him. Take off Spielberg from the list, he's mearly average if compared with the great art shown by other like Kurosawa, another favourite. And Mr. Greenaway should be in that list too; he's admirable.

Eetu Pellonpää wrote: [IMG]height=175 src="http://www.theyshootpictures.com/images/tarkovskyandrei.jpg" width=162>

That one too... I can't stop watching "Stalker"...
    

Steven Spielberg

Fassbinder wrote: Nice to see people from the non-Russian speaking auditory who like Tarkovsky!   Actually, I think that the Soviet cinema suffers from a weak exposure out of the USSR (well, like other national cinemas). Nevertheless it has a unique cinematographic tradition with incredibly high level of both actors play and directors work.   But I think few are known outside, Tarkovsky is one of them. There are also two brothers: Andrey (Andron) Konchalovsky and Nikita Mikhalkov, both are known in the world. For me, Mikhalkov was great director of great films until he's made "Tired (wearied?) by the Sun". After that he's gone even worse with "Siberian Barber". Ironically, I think that only two aforementioned works are known worldwide.

The debut film from '03 "The Return" from the russian director Andrey Zvyagintzev, is one of the best films I've seen from the last couple of years.

I voted Hitch, because he consistently made great films. Orson Welles also right up there for me.

OTHER

 

Scorsese

IS THE DADDY OF THEM ALL