Favorite Directors? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Crikey! That's a long list. I wouldn't know where to start!

Since I had already made the following list for a ridiculously (I appreciate the absurd) overstuffed poll, A Drove of Directors , and don't feel like preparing a fresh one... Done in alphabetical order by surname, even if in cases I use surname first:

Woody Allen
Pedro Almodóvar
Robert Altman
Lindsay Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson
Theo Angelopoulos
Michelangelo Antonioni
Denys Arcand
Hal Ashby
Ingmar Bergman
Bong Joon-ho
John Boorman
Robert Bresson
Luis Buñuel
Chen Kaige
Jean Cocteau
Joel & Ethan Coen
Francis Ford Coppola
David Cronenberg
Atom Egoyan
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Federico Fellini
David Fincher
Terry Gilliam
Jonathan Glazer
Jean-Luc Godard
Michel Gondry
Peter Greenaway
Michael Haneke
Robin Hardy
Todd Haynes
Werner Herzog
Agnieszka Holland
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Alfred Hitchcock
Agnieszka Holland
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Shohei Imamura
Juzo Itami
Jim Jarmusch
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Terry Jones
Spike Jonze
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Aki Kaurismaki
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Abbas Kiarostami
Takeshi Kitano
Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
Fritz Lang
Yorgos Lanthimos
Ray Lawrence
Ang Lee
Mike Leigh
Jens Lien
Sergio Leone
Ken Loach
Bigas Luna
David Lynch
Terrence Malick
George Miller
Hayao Miyazaki
Gaspar Noé
Yasujirō Ozu
Peter Weir
Park Chan-wook
Wolfgang Petersen
He Ping
Satyajit Ray
Jean Renoir
Alan Resnais
Jacques Rivette
Nicolas Roeg
Éric Rohmer
Walter Salles
John Schlesinger
Martin Scorsese
Vittorio De Sica
Volker Schlöndorff
Ridley Scott
Tony Scott
Todd Solondz
Oliver Stone
Quentin Tarantino
Andrei Tarkovsky
Béla Tarr
Lars von Trier
François Truffaut
Tsui Hark
Tom Tykwer
Denis Villeneuve
Luchino Visconti
Wim Wenders
Michael Winterbottom
Robert Wise
Edgar Wright
Wong Kar-wai
Zhang Yimou

Edited by Logan - October 20 2019 at 17:26

^ Jones but no Smith, and not a single Alan Smithee, unless one counts David Lynch with Dune.

Pierre Perrault

Hi,

It's hard for me to add to the list of "great directors" that stood out in the earlier history of film.

Nowadays, film pretty much all over is just not as experimental and crazy as so many things that were done in the 1950's and 1960's for example, and not finding them, because the distributional elements of these things is completely out of touch with the ability to reach people ... many of the artistic things done, are buried, and websites like Netfuxx, or Huludump, are more interested in their own "series", even though many of them have a lot of respectable actors and such, but in the end, its "stories" have so much saccharine that their interest is down the road by the outhouse!

I did see the one about the Italian family with Sean Bean on it, and it was nice, but, I miss not being able to see a Lars Von Trier, Jean Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni ... and so many others, because these websites don't believe in the art form whatsoever ... you can't even search for the films ... my sister, lives in Paris, and gave me a listing of European films that she can see on Netflux, over 50 to 75 of them, or something like it ... and I could only find 3 films, and they were American films ... The Red Violin was one of them.

It's just pathetic ... these sub-studio companies are making sure that the film industry, at least in America, is basically just the American product, and then the worse of them all ... the Japanese listing of films is all ... you got it ... anime stuff!

How sick and dumb is that?

Edited by moshkito - October 21 2019 at 06:14

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MortSahlFan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 01 2018 Location: US Status: Offline Points: 3075	Post Options Post Reply Quote MortSahlFan Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Favorite Directors? Posted: October 20 2019 at 16:07
	In order (if you can) Vittorio De Sica, Robert Bresson, Frank Capra, Luchino Visconti, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, John Cassavetes, Ingmar Bergman, John Huston, Akira Kurosawa, Elia Kazan, Robert Altman, Billy Wilder, Aki Kaurismaki, William Wyler, Paul Mazursky, Sidney Lumet, Abbas Kiarostami, Stanley Kubrick
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	Crikey! That's a long list. I wouldn't know where to start!

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	I'll just go with three. Kieslowski Jaglom Woody
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	Since I had already made the following list for a ridiculously (I appreciate the absurd) overstuffed poll, A Drove of Directors , and don't feel like preparing a fresh one... Done in alphabetical order by surname, even if in cases I use surname first: Woody Allen Pedro Almodóvar Robert Altman Lindsay Anderson Paul Thomas Anderson Wes Anderson Theo Angelopoulos Michelangelo Antonioni Denys Arcand Hal Ashby Ingmar Bergman Bong Joon-ho John Boorman Robert Bresson Luis Buñuel Chen Kaige Jean Cocteau Joel & Ethan Coen Francis Ford Coppola David Cronenberg Atom Egoyan Sergei M. Eisenstein Rainer Werner Fassbinder Federico Fellini David Fincher Terry Gilliam Jonathan Glazer Jean-Luc Godard Michel Gondry Peter Greenaway Michael Haneke Robin Hardy Todd Haynes Werner Herzog Agnieszka Holland Hirokazu Kore-eda Alfred Hitchcock Agnieszka Holland Hou Hsiao-hsien Shohei Imamura Juzo Itami Jim Jarmusch Jean-Pierre Jeunet Terry Jones Spike Jonze Alejandro Jodorowsky Aki Kaurismaki Krzysztof Kieślowski Abbas Kiarostami Takeshi Kitano Stanley Kubrick Akira Kurosawa Fritz Lang Yorgos Lanthimos Ray Lawrence Ang Lee Mike Leigh Jens Lien Sergio Leone Ken Loach Bigas Luna David Lynch Terrence Malick George Miller Hayao Miyazaki Gaspar Noé Yasujirō Ozu Peter Weir Park Chan-wook Wolfgang Petersen He Ping Satyajit Ray Jean Renoir Alan Resnais Jacques Rivette Nicolas Roeg Éric Rohmer Walter Salles John Schlesinger Martin Scorsese Vittorio De Sica Volker Schlöndorff Ridley Scott Tony Scott Todd Solondz Oliver Stone Quentin Tarantino Andrei Tarkovsky Béla Tarr Lars von Trier François Truffaut Tsui Hark Tom Tykwer Denis Villeneuve Luchino Visconti Wim Wenders Michael Winterbottom Robert Wise Edgar Wright Wong Kar-wai Zhang Yimou Edited by Logan - October 20 2019 at 17:26

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	^ That list is so long you have three Andersons, two Scotts, and almost two Jonses. Alan J. Pakula Oliver Stone the Nolans Peter Hyams Hitchcock
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	^ Jones but no Smith, and not a single Alan Smithee, unless one counts David Lynch with Dune.

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	Hal Ashby was a favorite of mine I left out.
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	Hi, It's hard for me to add to the list of "great directors" that stood out in the earlier history of film. Nowadays, film pretty much all over is just not as experimental and crazy as so many things that were done in the 1950's and 1960's for example, and not finding them, because the distributional elements of these things is completely out of touch with the ability to reach people ... many of the artistic things done, are buried, and websites like Netfuxx, or Huludump, are more interested in their own "series", even though many of them have a lot of respectable actors and such, but in the end, its "stories" have so much saccharine that their interest is down the road by the outhouse! I did see the one about the Italian family with Sean Bean on it, and it was nice, but, I miss not being able to see a Lars Von Trier, Jean Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni ... and so many others, because these websites don't believe in the art form whatsoever ... you can't even search for the films ... my sister, lives in Paris, and gave me a listing of European films that she can see on Netflux, over 50 to 75 of them, or something like it ... and I could only find 3 films, and they were American films ... The Red Violin was one of them. It's just pathetic ... these sub-studio companies are making sure that the film industry, at least in America, is basically just the American product, and then the worse of them all ... the Japanese listing of films is all ... you got it ... anime stuff! How sick and dumb is that? Edited by moshkito - October 21 2019 at 06:14
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