Woody Allen (great decade all in all)
Larry Clarke (made bully and whassup rockers this decade)
Wes Anderson
director of the decade is francis ford coppola for coming back (finally) as a personal filmmaker
The Establishment:
Haneke
Hou
Mann
Dardennes
von Trier
Up and Comers:
Martel
Dumont
Costa
Lodge Kerrigan, I hope things go better for you this coming decade. Much better.
I hate lists.
Paul Thomas Anderson
David Lynch
Gaspar Noe
Woody Allen
Wes Anderson
Wong Kar-wai
Coen Brothers
Roy Andersson
Chan-Wook Park
Guy Madden
Lars Von Trier
Pedro Almodovar
Spike Jonez
David Fincher
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
David Cronenberg
Guillermo Del Toro (really JUST for Pan’s Labyrinth)
Michael Moore
Terry Zwigoff
Darren Aronofsky
Spike Lee
Christopher Nolan (minus those AWFUL Batman films)
Harmonie Korrine
Well, that’s all I can think of at the present moment… perhaps I’ll add more later…
The old masters:
Terrence Malick
Aparna Sen,
Hou Hsiao Hsien
Yoji Yamada
Hayao Miyazaki
Yoichi Higashi
Dang Nhat Minh
Rudolf Thome
Clint Eastwood
Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet (who died 2006)
new good directors:
Benoit Pilon
Abu Sayeed
Shaheen Dill-Riaz
Stefan Hayn and Anja-Christin Remmert
Phyllis Katrapani
Shaan Khattau
Yang Yong-hi
Bradley Rust Gray
Richard Brouillette
Francois Delisle
Rajnesh Domalpalli
Liasndro Alonso
Fatih Akin
coen brothers
clint eastwood
wong kar wai
von trier
inarritu
chan wook park
chris nolan
jason reitman
i think the best directors were clint eastwood, jason reitman and chan wook park
eastwood had 5 great movies: iwo jima, mystic river, gran torino,changeling, million dollar baby and 1 very bad movie: the flags of our fathers
reitman’s 3 movies were great
park: i love the vengeance trilogy and jsa; thirst is very good but i really didnt like i am cyborg it is ok
so i would give chose as the best new director: chan wook park
the best established director: eastwood
very good rok hope u will comment on my clint eastwood thread there are a lot of haters here
Glad to see there are some who like GRAN TORINO.
so i would give chose as the best new director: chan wook park
the best established director: eastwood
Whenever you place these two names together, somewhere a puppy dies.
nice,ROKUROTA,i agree with you !
it is,indeed,the decade of Chan-wook. He starts the decade with a somewhat touching Anti-war movie JSA (2000),.makes a brilliant vengeance trilogy along the decade,in between created a different romantic comedy,and ending the decade with an above average vampire story,Thirst
nice,ROKUROTA,i agree with you !
it is,indeed,the decade of Chan-wook. He starts the decade with a somewhat touching Anti-war movie JSA (2000),.makes a brilliant vengeance trilogy along the decade,in between created a different romantic comedy,and ending the decade with an above average vampire story,Thirst
I agree with those already mentioned by Rüdiger Tomczak and would also like to highlight Hong Sang-soo, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pedro Costa, Lav Diaz, Lucrecia Martel and Götz Spielmann.
The filmmakers that impressed me most with their body of work during the decade were:
Wes Anderson
Claire Denis
Michael Haneke
Werner Herzog
Gus van Sant
and in spite of lack of production, Paul Thomas Anderson
Best talent to arise during the decade may be Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Also a special mention to Judd Apatow for turning American mainstream comedy around.
Steven Soderbergh has to be the great mystery of the decade. Can’t figure the guy out.
Newer filmmakers:
Christopher Nolan
Paul Thomas Anderson
Very new filmmakers (that show promise):
Duncan Jones
Older filmmakers:
Wong Kar Wai
Hayao Miyazaki
Ridley Scott
Steven Soderbergh
Michael Mann
Filmmakers of the Decade:
Sofia Coppola
Lars Von Trier
Hayao Miyazaki
Michael Haneke
Michel Gondry
Christopher Nolan
Gus Van Sant
Peter Jackson
David Lynch
Pedro Almodovar
I was impressed by:
Old masters:
Avi Mograbi
Buddhadev Dasgupta
David Lynch
Dominik Graf
Frederick Wiseman
Gianni Amelio
Gus Van Sant
Hayao Miyazaki
Heinz Emigholz
Hirokazu Koreeda
Kinji Fukasaku
Mamoru Oshii
Marco Bellocchio
Ming-liang Tsai
Michael Mann
Pierre Coulibeuf
Rudolf Thome
Shohei Imamura
Terrence Malick
Yimou Zhang
New(er) Masters:
Angela Schanelec
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Carlos Reygadas
James Gray
Kang-sheng Lee
Lav Diaz
Olivier Meyrou
Paul Thomas Anderson
Sabu
Takashi Miike
Ulrich Köhler
Vincent Gallo
Wes Anderson
Jia Zhang-ke and Hong Sang-soo are in a class by themselves.
Hong Sang-soo is the greatest director to have ever graced my television screen.
Peter Jackson reinvented fantasy with “The Lord of the Rings” and “King Kong.”
Martin Scorsese drew parallels to his own life in “The Aviator” and gave his gangsters emotional resonance in “The Departed.”
Clint Eastwood shaded the gray area between good and evil with “Mystic River” and “Letters from Iwo Jima.”
Spike Jonze returned to childhood as remembered by adults in “Where the Wild Things Are.”
Alfonso Cuaron connected adolescence with social status in “Y Tu Mama Tambien” and reimagined a postapocalyptic thriller in “Children of Men.”
Christopher Nolan challenged plot structure in “Memento” and showed that superhero films could have intelligence in “The Dark Knight.”
The geniuses at Pixar (all of them) grew in inventiveness and depth with each successive film, showing that animated fare could be equally as appealing to adults as to children.
Others:
Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson
Alejandro Gonzales Inurritu
Guillermo Del Toro
Steven Soderbergh
A director who only made one film in the decade:
Mitsuo Yanagimachi: Came out of a ten-year hiatus with “Who’s Camus Anyway?” in 2005, possibly the greatest making of a movie movie I’ve ever seen (yes, that includes Godard’s and Fellini’s) and then promptly disappeared again.
My other favorites are Jia, Reygadas, Linklater, Martel, Puiu, Sang-soo, and Lisandro.
With the exception of the first half of Tropical Malady, I missed the boat on Weerasethakul.
“Who´s Camus Anyway?” is indeed a well-made contemporary film, though only the last half an hour is comparable to the great masters in my opininion. The director Yanagimachi also made one of the finest Japanese films of the 1980´s called “Fire Festival”.
Off the top of my head, some of those who defined the decade (in no particular order):
Guy Maddin
Pedro Almodovar
Gus Van Sant
Clint Eastwood
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Lukas Moodyson
Hayao Miyazaki
Satoshi Kon
Lucretia Martel
Bela Tarr
Zhang Yimou
Hou Hsiao Hsien
Lynn Ramsay
David Cronenberg
David Lynch (mixture of his two features and expansion of internet films)
P.T. Anderson
Woody Allen
Michael Moore
Werner Herzog
larry clark gets no play here, did anyone see bully?
“Who´s Camus Anyway?” is indeed a well-made contemporary film, though only the last half an hour is comparable to the great masters in my opininion. The director Yanagimachi also made one of the finest Japanese films of the 1980´s called “Fire Festival”.
The last half hour is certainly where he turns the screws and evokes the emotional catharsis, but the first part of the movie makes this possible through an effortless and low-key construction of shifting relationships that I’ve only seen matched by Renoir and Linklater.
Thanks for the Fire Festival recommendation- I’ll check it out.
Yes, I did unfortunately see ‘Bully’. Clark and Harmony Korine aren’t, in my opinion, much to speak of as auteurs. Showing disgusting people and horrible situations with poor, cheap camerawork isn’t high art. It makes one more of a PROVOCAUTEUR than a true artist. Especially when there is a jumbled or non-existant sense of space or time in regards to composition and editing.
1. Apichatpong (Blissfully Yours)
2. Denis (Friday Night)
3. Tsai (I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone)
4. PTA (Punch-Drunk Love)
5. Haneke (Cache)
6. Van Sant (Last Days)
7. Coens (A Serious Man)
8. James Gray (Two Lovers)
9. Spielberg (A.I.)
10. Johnnie To (Sparrow)
HM: Ulrich Seidl, HHH, Linklater, K. Kurosawa, M. Leigh, Jia, Gondry, Roy Andersson
Need to see more from: Martel, Ferrara, Rivette, Serra, Alonso, Costa, Lee Chang-Dong
Denis (for The Intruder, Friday Night, 35 Rhums, etc.)
Haneke ( The Piano Teacher, Cache, The White Ribbon)
Tsai (Visage, I don’t want to sleep alone, What time is it there?)
Godard ( Notre Musique, In Praise of Love)
up and comers:
Guy Maddin (Been making films for awhile, but as of this decade he’s begun his climb towards his apex in artistry)
Pedro Costa
The last 10 years …..
I’ll list 10 I find inspiring
(No particular order)
Martin Scorsese
Quentin Tarantino
Steven Spielberg
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Alfonso Cuarón
Sam Mendes
Peter Jackson
Ridley Scott
George Clooney
Mel Gibson
CLINT EASTWOOD
As much as I would love to go with someone outside of the Hollywood establishment, Clint Eastwood has to be the director of the decade. No one can honestly say a director has made as many films as Eastwood has this decade with as consistently great results. Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Letters From Iwo JIma, Changeling, and Gran Torino are all Great films (with MDB and Letters being near-masterpieces), while others Flags of Our Fathers and Space Cowboys aren’t exactly shitbirds either (not to mention there is Invictus that is soon to be released, which has gathered positive early reviews). And this is coming from a person who’s favorite filmmaker is Andrei Tarkovsky…
Distant Contenders:
- Peter Jackson (LOTR is THE cinematic achievement of the decade)
- Alfonso Cuaron (If he made one of two more films on par with Children of Men or Y Tu Mama Tambien he would have run away with this)
- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarrittu
- Coen Bros.
My pick for Best Film of the Decade:
WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES (Tarr)
Runner Up:
LOTR: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (Jackson)
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The official Filmmakers of the Decade thread. Who is your pick for filmmakers who defined the 2000s? Who is the best new filmmaker of the decade, and which established filmmakers had a terrific ten years?