Vick started a great thread about top 5 movies and with toplists, we always find oursellves leaving out movies we love but don't immediately think about.

In the tradition of that thread, what filmmakers make you actively seek out even their most obscure of works? Who do you pretty well know is going to entertain/challenge you?

My top 10 filmmakers:

Sam Raimi
Robert Rodrigues
John Waters
Dario Argento
Wes Anderson
Joel And Ethan Coen
Martin Scorsese
Ted V. Mikels
Takashi Miike
Tod Solondz


damn, I could probably list 25 here as well...

Martin Scorsese
Sam Raimi - spoke to him on the phone once!
Paul Thomas Anderson
Peter Jackson
Coen Brothers
David Lynch
David Caesar
Peter Weir
Milos Forman
Quentin Tarantino

Aaarrrggghhhh! I have to stop at ten otherwise this could go on forever!

DAMN YOU SYK!

:biglaugh:

I know

I really needed to have Peter Jackson, Fred Olen Ray and Jim Wynorski up there as well

Tarkovski,
Nikita Mihalkov,
Tarantino,
Spielberg

Tarantino
Martin Scorcese
Robert Altman
Coen Brothers
M. Night Shalayman

And a few independents always pop up with one hit wonders but never crack the big time....

I would like to be on the drugs some of the guys above MUST be on - DAYUM, they must be good!


:bdance:

WTF? Have you not heard of directors like Peter Jackson or Sam Raimi? These guys started out making movies for thousands of dollars and now make movies with budgets of hundreds of millions. Most interesting directors started as independents and many of them chose to stay there, where they have much more artistic freedom.

Film is not about "the big time", it's about making good movies.

it used to be like that in Europe...but things change even there.

Not really. To me the movie subject matter itself is more important than who is directing it.

I can't believe noone mentioned "The Godfather" of film making: Stanley Kubrick! :wnw:

Do you understand what the role of the director is?

Do you understand what the role of the director is?[/b][/quote]
Yes, I do. But just because some director is making a movie about something and he/she made movies I've liked before doesn't mean I'm gonna go see a movie about something I have no interest in. I watch movies to be entertained. No director, no matter how supremely talented they may be, is gonna get me to watch a film where I have zero interest in the subject matter

Do you understand what the role of the director is?[/b][/quote]
And if you read that it illustrates my point exactly.

this is what I get to limiting myself on number of filmmakers listed
;-)

Get my two passions out of the way first:

John Hughes
Kevin Smith


OKay now:

Powell & Pressburger
David Cronenberg
John Boorman (well mostly)
Roman Polanski
Carol Reed (The third man, et al)
David Lean
David Lynch
Curtis Hanson (LA Confidental AND Wonderboys puts him on my list)

and Sofia Coppola is really starting to win me over

hmm..I am forgetting people