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Favourite Movie Director

shack

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I'd say it's the director who has a body of work of movies that moved you or impacted you. And again, PICK ONE AND ONLY ONE. You can list the ones you considered but make a final choice.

The ones that come to my mind are:

Clint Eastwood
Alfred Hitchcock
Steven Spielberg

and then I have trouble choosing between the last two.

The very close runner up is Marty Scorcese but I gotta give it to another New York boy,

Allan Konigsberg AKA Woody Allen.

I admit his movies are not as powerful or iconic as Scorcese's but I derived so much joy from watching his huge body of work. Initially just his wacky comedies (Bananas, Take the Money and Run, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex) but over time they became much more sophisticated (Annie Hall, Manhattan, Broadway Danny Rose, Bullets Over Broadway) and even late in his career he brings in great ensemble casts (Cate Blanchett, Scarlet Johansen, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Rachel McAdams, Alec Baldwin, Louis C.K., Miley Cyrus and more) for some whimsical productions (Match Point, Midnight in Paris, Blue Jasmine). It seems like every actor wants to work with him.

I'm sure that I'm leaving out some worthy contenders but those guys made the most movies that I never get tired of.
 

Zoot Allures

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Anyone who tells the truth instead of sensational BS

Who would that be? Kubrick comes to mind as he tries to be loyal to true science

Hate films that are not scientifically accurate which most are esp when it comes to outer space genre IE ships do not make noise when they blow up in outer space as it is a vacuum and sound does not travel in a vacuum

Space Odyssey was well done as well as the Star trek tv series. The movies not so much

Most historical movies are BS and I hate being lied to which is Quentin Tarantino does although he does know how to keep you on the edge of your seat and I love the way he manipulates time sequence in a movie like Pulp Fiction. It makes you think

Hitchcock knew how to keep your interest in a movie. You have to watch to see how it ends. He was a master at suspense with his well thought out cameras angles
 

Insidious Von

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To be a great director you need at least four films considered great, so I'll go with those that have five.

Akira Kurosawa: Perhaps the most influential director. (Rashomon, Seven Samurai,Throne of Blood,Yojimbo, Ran)...danmand likes Throne of Blood, Japanese version of MacBeth.
Alfred Hitchcock: Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho
Stanley Kubrick: Paths of Glory,Spartacus,Dr Strangelove, 2001, A Clockwork Orange
Martin Scorcese: Taxi Driver,Raging Bull, After Hours, Goodfellas, Silence
Christopher Nolan: Memento, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception, Dunkirk

Potential for five:

Sam Mendes: Road to Perdition, American Beauty, Skyfall, 1917.
 

Anbarandy

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Michael Cutriz

Runner Ups:

Billy Wilder
Val Lewton
Fritz Lang
Alfred Hitchcock
 

Insidious Von

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Billy Wilder: Double Indemnity,The Lost Weekend, Sunset BLVD, Some Like it Hot, The Apartment
Sidney Lumet: 12 Angry Men,Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, The Verdict

Sidney Lumet last film was Before The Devil Knows You're Dead.
 

Insidious Von

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Lumet's Network is timeless, perhaps the best black comedy of all time.

He probably didn't know how right he was.

 

james t kirk

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Ridley Scott.

And yes, Sidney Lumet's work is always sublime. I have watched "12 Angry Men" probably 10 times and never tire of it. Simply remarkable.

 

Don Draper

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Way too difficult!

Billy Wilder

David Lean

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean Jacques Beineix

Pedro Almodovar

Wong Kar Wai

Giuseppe Tornatore

Akira Kurosawa

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bemeup

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John Frankenheimer certainly had a spotty record, littered with both classics and turkeys. Some of the flops were beyond his control, botched editing jobs forced by the studio. But in his prime he directed in succession from 1962 to 1968: The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days In May, The Train, Seconds, Grand Prix and The Fixer. Later he added French Connection 2, Black Sunday and Ronin to his resume.
 
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