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Favorite movie director?

nkotb
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Re: Favorite movie director? March 28, 2006 at 10:09 PM UTC #
Fuck the naysayers…

George Lucas. No matter how lame Phantom Menace was.
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Re: Favorite movie director? March 30, 2006 at 03:35 AM UTC #
Originally posted by Sir HC:
No love for Gilliam?
He was already mentioned.


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bunnyman
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Re: Favorite movie director? March 30, 2006 at 04:11 PM UTC #
Sofia Coppola has a promising future if you ask me…the Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation were good.
markie
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Re: Favorite movie director? March 30, 2006 at 04:22 PM UTC #
Originally posted by FREE RANDY CUNNINGHAM:
Here are a few that Team Dupek feels deserve mention:

Roman Polansky
I thought it was team Dupek that boycotted Polanski (or is Ploansky a porn star director of stars like Mary Carey?) because of trouble with young girls?

Oh were is that search function, GGW?
markie
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Re: Favorite movie director? March 30, 2006 at 04:24 PM UTC #
Originally posted by pdx pollard:
Ron Howard!
His work is of such consistant quality. What would you say was his masterpiece? It must be hard to ignore the greatest Director teaming up with the worlds greatest living actor, Tom Cruise, so Far and Away?
Shadrach
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Re: Favorite movie director? March 30, 2006 at 04:26 PM UTC #
Originally posted by bearman:
Sofia Coppola has a promising future if you ask me…the Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation were good.
So then is she your favorite director?

I enjoyed Lost In Translation, but felt Virgin Suicides was just an okay debut. Let her make a few more films and if she continues to impress she might crack my top 20.
markie
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Re: Favorite movie director? March 30, 2006 at 04:30 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Shadrach:
Originally posted by bearman:
[qb]I enjoyed Lost In Translation, but felt Virgin Suicides was just an okay debut. Let her make a few more films and if she continues to impress she might crack my top 20.
Two films, both style over substance and instantly forgettable. Compard to Tarantinos first two movies nepotism looks likely.
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Re: Favorite movie director? March 30, 2006 at 04:49 PM UTC #
Here's a list that will make you shake your head in disgust:

Top grossing movies of all time.
ratioci nation
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Re: Favorite movie director? March 30, 2006 at 05:01 PM UTC #
Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
His work is of such consistant quality. What would you say was his masterpiece? It must be hard to ignore the greatest Director teaming up with the worlds greatest living actor, Tom Cruise, so Far and Away?
hard to say, every time he releases a new one it becomes my favorite

I actually had not even realized that he directed "The Missing" did anybody even see that?

My real list would look something like:
Coen Brothers (minus Ladykillers and Intolerable Cruelty)
Fincher (although the last one sucked and it has been a while)
Terry Gilliam
Mike Leigh
Kubrick (except for Barry Lyndon)
David Cronenberg
Wes Anderson
probably forgetting others

I saw somebody mention David Gordon Green, I really liked All The Real Girls but could not stand George Washington and didnt really care for Undertow.
markie
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Re: Favorite movie director? March 30, 2006 at 05:15 PM UTC #
Can you be considered a great movie driector if you have only made 1 great and 1 really good movie?

Benjamin Button (2007) (announced)
Zodiac (2006) (filming)

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Panic Room (2002)

Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99 (1999) (V) (video "Bad Girl")
Fight Club (1999)
… aka Fight Club (Germany)
Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael (1999) (V) (video "Freedom '90")
The Game (1997)
Se7en (1995)
The Best of Sting: Fields of Gold 1984-1994 (1994) (V) (video "Englishman In New York")
Aerosmith: Big Ones You Can Look at (1994) (V)
Dangerous: The Short Films (1993) (V) (video "Who Is It")
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Alien³ (1992)
Madonna: The Immaculate Collection (1990) (V) (videos "Express Yourself", "Oh Father" and "Vogue")

The Beat of the Live Drum (1985)


Nice Paula Abdul video though.
HoyaSaxa03
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Re: Favorite movie director? March 30, 2006 at 05:19 PM UTC #
Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
The Game (1997)
i thought this movie was really underrated … it was well-constructed and a lot of fun, definitely not on the level of fight club and se7en though
Darth Ed
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Re: Favorite movie director? March 30, 2006 at 06:13 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Bags:
I cannot stand Gilliam.
I wouldn't say he's my favorite or anything, but he's one of my favorites. He's not consistently great, but I really like Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and 12 Monkeys, not to mention his Monty Python films.

Originally posted by nkotb:
Fuck the naysayers…

George Lucas.
Rock on, my brother! May the Force be with you!

Originally posted by Shadrach:
I enjoyed Lost In Translation, but felt Virgin Suicides was just an okay debut. Let her make a few more films and if she continues to impress she might crack my top 20.
I'd agree with that assessment. I'm looking forward to seeing how she does with her new film, Marie Antoinette. The trailer with it's '80s pop soundtrack was cool.

Originally posted by pdx pollard:
I saw somebody mention David Gordon Green, I really liked All The Real Girls but could not stand George Washington and didnt really care for Undertow.
That was me! Curiously, I have the exact opposite reaction as you; I loved George Washington and Undertow and only mildly liked All the Real Girls.
Darth Ed
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Re: Favorite movie director? March 30, 2006 at 06:16 PM UTC #
There's nothing to read here. Move along. Move along…
Shadrach
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Re: Favorite movie director? March 30, 2006 at 06:36 PM UTC #
Saw his name mentioned briefly before, but one of my current favorites has to be Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
El Tee
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Re: Favorite movie director? March 30, 2006 at 06:49 PM UTC #
Hughes (who doesn't love Ferris Bueller?),
Polanski,
Hitchcock,
Coen Bros.,
(Kevin) Smith,
(Wes) Anderson…
Scorcese - of course! Gangs of New York blew the Aviator out of the water. (and my cousin has been co-producer on many of his films;))
I did like Ang Lee's work on Brokeback.
And I dug the direction of Good Night, Good Luck…however, I might have more an affection for the lighting director for that movie.
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Re: Favorite movie director? March 30, 2006 at 06:59 PM UTC #
David Cronenburg
Gaspar Noe (he'll probably overtake first after a few more films)
David Lynch
Aaron Woodley

in that order.
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Re: Favorite movie director? March 30, 2006 at 07:53 PM UTC #
Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
Originally posted by FREE RANDY CUNNINGHAM:
Here are a few that Team Dupek feels deserve mention:

Roman Polansky
I thought it was team Dupek that boycotted Polanski (or is Ploansky a porn star director of stars like Mary Carey?) because of trouble with young girls?

Oh were is that search function, GGW?
Hate the sin, not the sinner.

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renton007
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Re: Favorite movie director? March 30, 2006 at 08:25 PM UTC #
Woody Allen

Others would include Fellini, Kazan, Kubrick, Kurosawa, Stone, Bergman, and Winterbottom.
ratioci nation
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Re: Favorite movie director? March 30, 2006 at 08:31 PM UTC #
Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
Can you be considered a great movie driector if you have only made 1 great and 1 really good movie?

Fight Club (1999)
The Game (1997)
Se7en (1995)
forgetting Alien 3, I think these 3 were a pretty good start to a career
hostiledm
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Re: Favorite movie director? March 30, 2006 at 10:32 PM UTC #
Originally posted by pdx pollard:
Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
Can you be considered a great movie driector if you have only made 1 great and 1 really good movie?

Fight Club (1999)
The Game (1997)
Se7en (1995)
forgetting Alien 3, I think these 3 were a pretty good start to a career
Have you got a chance to see the extended cut of that flick? It really is a much different movie. They cut everything that fleshed that movie out when he walked off the project.
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