Who is your favorite film director - living or dead?

[terrya]

Mine is Billy Wilder. What a tremendous body of work he left us. From "Some Like it Hot" to "Sunset Boulevard" to "The Apartment" to "Stalag 17" to "Double Indemnity"...to even his "lesser" films like "One, Two, Three" and "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes"...Wilder was a genius.

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. David Lynch.

His films speak to my life.

Yes, my life is strange.

[quispquake]

5. I second Lynch...

From his movies to his TV work...he's my fave...

[Khephra]

23. I'll go with Lynch too

But Cronenberg is a real close second.

[WI_DEM]

2. I agree with you on Wilder--he was great

He could move from film noir with the dark "Double Indemnity" to the rollicking fun of "Some Like it Hot". The man was brilliant.

[jedicord]

3. Rob Reiner or Alfred Hitchcock

Rob because his movies are always funny and cheer me up.

Alfred, 'cause his movies scare the bejeezus out of me.

[Lovecrafty]

4. Stanley Kubrick!!!

My personal favorite Kubrick film is "A Clockwork Orange". If you watch it again, pay particular attention to the political situation in the movie...especially the conversations of the writer who Alex brutalized. Sounds eerily like our current political landscape here in America!

The second best Kubrick film, IMHO, would be "Paths of Glory". EXCELLENT anti-war film showing the casual attitude generals have for their men. One of Kirk Douglas' finest roles!

[sundog]

13. I second Kubrick... may be cliche, but he was a genius

never get tired of him

[BigMcLargehuge]

6. Ishiro Honda, Akira Kurosawa, Hiyao Miyazaki

then -

Hitchcock, Corman, Castle, Merriam C. Cooper

[bif]

7. Werner Herzog. Fellini in close second.

[NewJeffCT]

8. Terry Gilliam

Monty Python movies, Brazil, Time Bandits....

[XNASA]

9. Kubrick & Hitchcock & Wilder

I mean, who else is there?

[AverageJoe]

10. John Houston!

Maltese Falcon, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Man Who Would Be King....

And I also love Barbet Schroeder, if only for Barfly!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

11. Hal Hartley, Stanley Kubrick, Nic Roeg, Wim Wenders, Bruce Robinson.

[Magrittes Pipe]

12. I half expected you to name some pretentious fuck like Lars von Trier.

Hey! I LIKE von Trier! Who are you calling pretentious, you asshat? Fuck you!

What? Did I say something?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

14. The whole Dogme nonsense sucks.

Give me Robocop any day! :evilgrin:

[Magrittes Pipe]

16. Nothing blew up in "The Celebration" or "The Idiots."

What horrible films. x(

[Bog Frog]

15. Jane Campion. Tim Robbins. Sydney Pollock. Jonathan Demme.

Campion: The Piano

Pollock: Tootsie, Out of Africa

Demme: Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, The Manchurian Candidate

Robbins: Dead Man Walking, Bob Roberts

[Webster Green]

18. I love Jonathan Demme.....

Add: 'Melvin and Howard', and 'Stop Making Sense'

[Bog Frog]

20. only one thing I don't like about his style

When he fills the frame with an actor's face, and the actor speaks directly to the lens. It worked in Silence of the Lambs -- was damned effective there. But when I saw it in Philadelphia, it didn't seem quite right. :shrug:

Can't wait to see The Manchurian Candidate.

[Kid_A]

17. Steven Soderbergh

I don't think this man can make bad movie. His last several (Solaris, Ocean's 11, Traffic, Erin Brockovich, The Limey) have all been EXCELLENT. Except for Full Frontal. That was just weird.

And I also really like James Cameron when he does sci-fi, not when he does overblown love stories about boats.

[JohnKleeb]

19. Scrocese

[joeybee12]

21. Federico Fellini--the rest are just amateurs in comparison....

...well, not quite, but I think he's the only person whose films can be called "art." The rest are just craftsman.

Gotta love George Cukor, though, too.

[arwalden]

22. Billy Wilder