What are your favorite directors? (Page 2 of 4)

David Fincher
Wes Craven
Steven Spielberg
PT Anderson
James Mangold
Frank Darabont

I can't believe I left Terry Gilliam off my list.  He's one of the best and most original director's around.  Plus he directed Time Bandits and was in Monty Python.

del toro
sam raimi
the scott brothers

I welcome a war about my list; but it's rock solid!!

Robert's Top 20 Directors of All Time
1. Quentin Tarantino
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Paul Thomas Anderson
4. Oliver Stone
5. Gus Van Sant
6. Wes Craven
7. Francis Ford Coppola
8. David Lynch
9. Michael Mann
10. Pier Paolo Pasolini
11. Darren Aronofsky
12. Terrence Malick
13. Alejandro Jodorowsky
13. David Cronenberg
14. John Ford
15. Sidney Lumet
16. Cecil B. DeMille
17. Stanley Kubrick
18. Edward D. Wood Jr.
19. Alfred Hitchcock
20. Bruce McDonald

George Romero
Quentin Tarantino
Martin Scorcese
John Landis
Rob Zombie
Neil Marshall
Lucio Fulci
Tobe Hooper

Thanks!!

I hope you got the Best Buy exclusive Blu-Ray edition of Basterds the hour long "Times" interview with Tarantino was great. I'm realy digging the special features too... the clapper and Hi Sally moments were classic.
I'm such a Tarantino fan. I seen Basterds 11 times in theatres (and it doesn't get old); but I watched it today on blu (of course ) and it gets me everytime of how shearly brilliant QT is as a filmmaker. Needless to say I had to watch it again right after. This and Pulp truly are film drugs!! They are just so damn addicting.

Last edited by robertthunder (2009-12-16 01:28:54)

It was damn hard to come up with this list. There were some filmmakers like Peckinpah, Spielberg, Cameron and Fellini that I thought for sure would make the top 20 list but when you lay it all out and take a look and start to actually figure out the list it can surprise you. In all reality Cameron should be in Bruce McDonald's spot But I had to weigh in directors control; and up until Avatar Cameron had full control, but the studio made him cut it to a PG-13 rating and a run time of 3hrs (The original version was R and 4hrs and 3 min long) which is where I think Cameron lost his touch a bit. I still think he is a wonderful filmmaker. (But then again I havent seen Avatar yet).
And Spielberg to a filmmaker just never comes into play. He is like that guy we just don't talk about because we know he is great and we don't feel the need to point that out.
It shocked me Coppola only made 7th.

Like most here this is in no particular order or genre:

Takashi Miike
David Fincher
Frank Henenlotter
Park Chan Wook
Milos Foreman
Richard Linklater
Oliver Stone
Quentin Tarantino
Richard Kelly
Gus Van Sant
David Lynch

I am sure there are many, many more... but these come to mind and are all highly respected by me.

I forgot these ones............

Alejandro Jodorowsky
David Cronenberg
Terry Gilliam
Guillermo Del Toro
Kevin Smith
John Hughes
Sam Mendes
George Romero
Jim Jarmusch
Judd Apatow

and several others. But the two lists I wrote combined cover the majority of my favorite directors.

Lee Vorvoort