Film directors. Who was/is the best?

[ringer]

My favorites are Scorsese, Coppola, and Tarantino, in no particular order.

 

[ElOgro]

No love for Mel Brooks?

 

[One-Off]

My favorites are Scorsese, Coppola, and Tarantino, in no particular order.

You forgot Fellini and Bertolucci.

 

[ringer]

No love for Mel Brooks?

I'll definitely give some love for Mel Brooks. He produced/directed some of the funniest movies of my youth.

 

[ringer]

Even though he was and is a creepy weirdo, Woody Allen is on the list. Roman Polanski was even worse, but as a director he was great.

 

[Chocki]

Coen brothers
David Lynch

 

[Aruka]

I like the Coen bros quite a bit.

Paul Thomas Anderson

David Lynch

Bong Joon-Ho

Paul Verhoeven

Stanley Kubrick

 

[silentbutdeadly]

Funny story…

I was in Sicily for my cousins wedding about 7yrs ago. After the wedding I had a half day to kill and went to some mountain town outside of Catania with another cousin, her husband and their daughter and her then bf. We got caught in a deluge of rain and ducked into the first restaurant we saw for lunch. It ended up being a tourist trap with photos of all these American and Italian actors who dined there donning the walls. Pacino, Gibson, De Niro, etc. as the hostess led us to our table I noticed there was one photo that was notably larger than the rest and it was a big photo of Rocco Siffredi sitting at that table. I tried to keep it to myself and not draw attention to it but then I made eye contact with my cousins husband Joe and he let out a giant smirk. We look over his daughters bf and he’s looking at us and cracks a smile and Joe flipped his smirk to a fathers glare. The rest of the meal the daughters BF didn’t say a word.

I thought this story was going to end with a torn rectum

 

[ringer]

I like the Coen bros quite a bit.

Paul Thomas Anderson

David Lynch

Bong Joon-Ho

Paul Verhoeven

Stanley Kubrick

Kubrick is definitely on my list. Coen bros as well.

 

[Chocki]

Clint Eastwood.
Martin Scorsese.

Always loved Scorsese and Clint has made a shitload of good films. Crazy to think he started his directing career in 1971 with Play Misty For Me. Anyone who hasn’t seen his mtn climbing thriller The Eiger Sanction should.

 

[Mr Pecker]

He's hit or miss but I've always loved Terry Gilliam.

No miss there.Dude is totally legit.

 

[Duffy LaCoronilla]

Funny story…

I was in Sicily for my cousins wedding about 7yrs ago. After the wedding I had a half day to kill and went to some mountain town outside of Catania with another cousin, her husband and their daughter and her then bf. We got caught in a deluge of rain and ducked into the first restaurant we saw for lunch. It ended up being a tourist trap with photos of all these American and Italian actors who dined there donning the walls. Pacino, Gibson, De Niro, etc. as the hostess led us to our table I noticed there was one photo that was notably larger than the rest and it was a big photo of Rocco Siffredi sitting at that table. I tried to keep it to myself and not draw attention to it but then I made eye contact with my cousins husband Joe and he let out a giant smirk. We look over his daughters bf and he’s looking at us and cracks a smile and Joe flipped his smirk to a fathers glare. The rest of the meal the daughters BF didn’t say a word.

 

[Eunice]

Most in my list have been mentioned (Tarantino, Coen Bros, PTA, Lynch, the "creeps"). I find Yorgos Lanthimos interesting. David Fincher.

 

[Autoprax]

Even though he was and is a creepy weirdo, Woody Allen is on the list. Roman Polanski was even worse, but as a director he was great.

I thought Polanski too but what a monster.

Chinatown is a perfect movie.

That thing flies.

 

[enframed]

Yes also to:

Kubrick
Gilliam
Besson
Coen Bros
Verhoeven
Lynch

 

[bonzer5fin]

the dude that did caligula.

 

[Havoc]

michael mann

 

[Frankie Bones]

Orson Welles
Stanley Kubrick

 

[Chocki]

Nicholas Winding Refn has directed some thought provoking and badass films.