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Your 5 Favourite Directors

Denis Leborgn​e

almost 4 years ago

Jean-Luc Godard
Fatih Akin
Wong Kar-Wai
Tsai Ming-liang
David Fincher

I could add : Zhang Yimou, Kim Ki-duk, Jaco Van Dormael, Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Alejandro Gonzales Iñárritu, François Truffaut, Elia Suleiman…

John Bloomfi​eld

almost 4 years ago

Max Op[huls
Jean Renoir
F.W. Murnau
Yasujiro Ozu
Luis Bunuel

Black Irish

almost 4 years ago

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Joel & Ethan Coen
3. Orson Welles
4. Preston Sturges
5. Jean-Luc Godard

Somehow this doesn’t seem right, but it’s a start. :)

Rüdiger Tomczak

over 3 years ago

Yasujiro Ozu
John Ford
Jean Renoir
Satyajit Ray
Alfred Hitchcock

better would be 11 favorite directors for a football team.

Alexand​ria

over 3 years ago

1)Hayao Miyazaki
2)Alejandro Jodorowsky
3)Terry Gilliam
4)David Lynch
5)Roman Polanski

……..
6)Stanley Kubrick
7)Werner Herzog
8)Joel and Ethan Coen
9)Federico Fellini
10)Wes Anderson

Eduardo Young

over 3 years ago

0.9. Michael Bay (joking)
1. Orson Welles
2. John Ford
3. Alfred Hithcock
4. Martin Scorsese
5. John Huston

Amos

over 3 years ago

For the moment:
1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Orson Welles
3. Wong Kar-Wai
4. Martin Scorsese
5. P.T. Anderson

Wayne Rockmor​e

over 3 years ago

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Billy Wilder
3. Steven Spielberg
4. Howard Hawks
5. Krzysztof Kieslowski

ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE

over 3 years ago

1. Jacques Tati
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Buster Keaton
4. Charlie Chaplin
5. Chuck Jones

Brad S.

over 3 years ago

Stanley Kubrick
Robert Altman
Martin Scorsese
Steven Spielberg
Alfred Hitchcock
Orson Welles
Akira Kurosawa
John Ford
Charlie Chaplin
Quentin Tarantino

Law

over 3 years ago

For now:
(in alphabetical order)
Ingmar Bergman
Jean-Luc Godard
Hong Sang-soo
Alain Resnais
Jacques Rivette

Drew.

over 3 years ago

Hmmmm

1. Ingmar Bergman
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. Krzyzstof Kieslowski
4. Martin Scorsese
5. Federico Fellini (or Bertolucci or Welles or Dreyer or Kazan or Chaplin or Hitchcock or Godard or….)

Law

over 3 years ago

You modernist! :)

Drew.

over 3 years ago

I fell off the back of the smart bus. Is there anyway you could take a few moments and return for me by explaining what you mean by that? :)

lopezm4​25

over 3 years ago

1. Wong Kar Wai
2. Jean Luc Godard’
3. Federico Fellini
4. Woody Allen
5. Francois Truffaut

Michael

over 3 years ago

1. Jean-Luc Godard
2. Woody Allen
3. Nicholas Ray
4. Ingmar Bergman
5. Francois Truffaut

Menalqu​e

over 3 years ago

1. Andrzej Zulawski
2. Werner Herzog
3. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
4. David Cronenberg
5. Peter Greenaway

but also should mention Godard, King Vidor, Mario Peixoto, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Tarkovsky, Jesus Franco, and Valery Rubinchik

Ryan William​s

over 3 years ago

1. Paul Thomas Anderson
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Coen Bros
4. Alfred Hitchcock
5. David Lynch

HM: Kubrick, Nolan, Fincher

That being said, PTA is far and away my favorite.

Elmen Tsaruky​an

over 3 years ago

1. Ingmar Bergman
2. Stanley Kubrick
2.5 Federico Fellini
3. Michelangelo Antonioni
4. Robert Altman
5. Coen Brothers

Also, PTA, Gilliam, Scorsese, Hitchcock, Herzog, Godard, Traffaut, Fellini

Elmen Tsaruky​an

over 3 years ago

1. Ingmar Bergman
2. Stanley Kubrick
2.5 Federico Fellini
3. Michelangelo Antonioni
4. Robert Altman
5. Coen Brothers

Also, PTA, Gilliam, Scorsese, Hitchcock, Herzog, Godard, Traffaut, Fellini

rishi goswami

over 3 years ago

Top Five Directors
1.Terrance mallick
2.Akira kurusowa
3.Satyajit ray
4.Stanley kubrick
5.Wong kar wai/ Mike leigh/ François_truffaut

James

over 3 years ago

Akira Kurosawa
Paul Thomas Anderson
Terence Malick
Richard Linklater
Alfred Hitchcock

Honorable Mentions: Igmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Wong Kar Wai and Spike Lee.

Dennis Brian

over 3 years ago

Jean-Luc Godard
Manoel De Oliveria
Woody Allen
Henry Jalgom
Warren Beatty

have to mention: Spike Lee, Robert Altman, Warren Beatty, Wes Anderson, DW Griffith and Orson Welles

Dennis Brian

over 3 years ago

Jean-Luc Godard
Manoel De Oliveria
Woody Allen
Henry Jalgom
Warren Beatty

have to mention: Spike Lee, Robert Altman, Warren Beatty, Wes Anderson, DW Griffith and Orson Welles

N_Coffield86

over 3 years ago

Woody Allen
Guy Maddin
Andrei Tarkovsky
Hal Hartley
Harmony Korine

Elvis Is King

over 3 years ago

Robert Altman
Brian De Palma
Alfred Hitchcock
Akira Kurosawa
Orson Welles

JL21

over 3 years ago

In order- Bergman, Malle, Bunuel, Kurosawa, Hitchcock. Honorable mentions to Scorsese, John Huston, Fritz Lang, Resnais (I need to see lots more), Wild Bill Wellman, the Coens, Guy Maddin, Milos Forman, Dreyer, and a few more who escape me right now.

JL21

over 3 years ago

I’d add PTA but he needs a larger body of work for me to forgive raining fucking frogs. Boogie Nights and TWBB are both personal favorites.

WakeUpS​tudios

over 3 years ago

Martin Scorsese
Woody Allen
Wes Anderson
David Lynch
Francois Truffaut

Daniel McCarth​y

over 3 years ago

1) The Coen Brothers
2) Stanley Kubrick
3) Paul Thomas Anderson
4) Wes Anderson
5) Alfred Hitchcock