Favorite directors (and your favorite of their films)

[Neglify]

I love every one of them. 

Even "A Life Less Ordinary"? I admit that it has some charming aspects, but it's the only BAD FILM he's done.

 

[Ryantology]

I love every one of them. 

Even "A Life Less Ordinary"? I admit that it has some charming aspects, but it's the only BAD FILM he's done.

Noooope! Not even a little. I meant that I love the three movies I mentioned (28 Days Later, Millions, and Sunshine) while of course loving Trainspotting, 127 Hours, and Steve Jobs. Didn’t love Slumdog Millionaire as much as some others and haven’t checked out T2 yet.

 

[Neglify]

Phew, I was starting to think unpleasant thoughts about you there, bro. Glad we got that cleared up.

 

[TM2YC]

It's true, Boyle does make such a varied selection of films. I'd highly rate 'Steve Jobs'. I used to love 'Shallow Grave' back in the day but on the last recent re-watch I found the characters absolutely insufferable .

 

[addiesin]

A few categories:

Dark and or gritty done right:
Brazil/ Terry Gilliam
Delicatessen/ Jean Pierre Jeunet
The Shape of Water/ Guillermo Del Toro
Fargo/ Coen Bros
The Prestige/ Chris Nolan
Moon/ Duncan Jones
Fight Club/ David Fincher

Nostalgia that still holds up:
Ferris Bueller/ John Hughes
Back to the Future 2/ Robert Zemeckis
Jurassic Park/ Stephen Spielberg
Labyrinth/ Jim Henson

Roller coasters:
Mad Max Fury Road/ George Miller
Dead Alive/ Peter Jackson
Scott Pilgrim/ Edgar Wright
Night Watch/ Timur Bekmambetov

 

[Last Impressions]

Terrence Malick - New World , Days of Heaven, Thin Red Line, Badlands, Tree of Life
Paolo Sorrentino - This Must Be The Place, The Great Beauty, Youth, Consequences of Love
David Lynch - Eraserhead, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive
Shane Meadows - This Is England, Dead Man Shoes
Lars Von Trier - Nymphomaniac, Melancholia, Dancer in the Dark,
Kelly Reichardt - Meeks Cutoff , Wendy and Lucy, Old Joy
Coen Brothers - The man who wasnt there, Oh Brother, Big Lebowski, Intolerable Cruelty, Fargo
Wim Wenders - Paris Texas, Wings of Desire
Walter Hill - Southern Comfort, Crossroads - his early films
Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Inglorious Bastards, 
Sam Mendes - Road to Perdition, American Beauty, Revolutionary Road, Away we Go
Robert Altman - three women, Nashville, Short Cuts
Martin Scorsese - After Hours, Taxi Driver, Age of Innocence, Casino, The Last Waltz
Steven Speilberg - E.T, Jaws, Close Encounters, Schindlers List, Indiana Jones, Saving Private Ryan 
Alejandro G Inarritu - The Revenant , Babel, Biutiful, 
Andrei Tarkovsky - Solaris, Stalker, The Mirror
John Carney - Once, Sing Street, Begin Again
Chris Columbus - Early films up to around Bicentennial Man after that not so good
John Hughes - more for his writing but he directed some great films too
Stanley Kubrick - Clockwork Orange , 2001, Eyes Wide Shut
Sofia Coppola - Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, Somewhere
The Polish Brothers - Northfork, Twin Falls Idaho
Darren Aronofsky - The Fountain, Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream
Jim Jarmusch - Broken Flowers, Only Lovers Left Alive, Night on Earth
Damien Chazelle - Whiplash, First Man ....and parts of La La Land
Denis Villeneuve - Blade Runner 2049, Prisoners, Arrival, Sicario, Enemy

 

[Jrzag42]

WALTER HILL
I forgot to mention him! Streets of Fire is my favorite movie, and I loved The Warriors the one time I saw it. Haven't seen anything else by him though. 
Wings of Desire is high on my list of films I need to watch, all thanks to a music video someone made pairing that film with Feathery Wings by Voltaire.
David Lynch I've see Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, loved the former, didn't love the latter, but I desperately want to watch his others.
I haven't even heard of a lot of your films, Last Impressions. I'll have to check some more of them out.

 

[Ryantology]

I loved The Warriors the one time I saw it.

Definitely top ten movie for me. Me and my brother loved it when we were kids. We still occasionally have a habit of ending our voicemails to each other with “cannnnnnn youuuuu dig iiiittttt?”

 

[Film Snob]

Ozu - Late Spring

 

[TM2YC]

WALTER HILL
I forgot to mention him! Streets of Fire is my favorite movie, and I loved The Warriors the one time I saw it. Haven't seen anything else by him though. 

Yeah good call, I don't think he's often mentioned as one of the greats because he tends to make violent, transgressive "Genre" films but I've not seen a film by him that didn't blow me away, then again I've only seen: 'The Driver', 'The Warriors', 'Southern Comfort', '48 Hrs' and I remember liking 'Last Man Standing' back in the 90s (haven't seen it since as it's hard to come by in HD). I've got the blu-ray of his first film 'Hard Times' sitting there waiting to watch.

 

[Sinbad]

^Johnny Handsome is a nice little oddity from him and I always liked Trespass too which kinda riffs on Assault from Precinct 13 and is penned by Bob Zemeckis and Bob Gale. The recent Hotel Artemis reminded me a lot of Walter Hill's genre flicks too.

 

[Duragizer]

Added Frank Darabont to my list. My favourite film of his' The Shawshank Redemption.

 

[bionicbob]

Added Frank Darabont to my list. My favourite film of his' The Shawshank Redemption.

If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend THE MAJESTIC and THE GREEN MILE.

All three movies have a wonderful Old Hollywood meets early Spielberg charm.

But the less said about THE MIST, the better.... except of course, WORST MOVIE ENDING EVER.

 

[thecuddlyninja]

But the less said about THE MIST, the better.... except of course, WORST MOVIE ENDING EVER.

Whoa whoa whoa, the ending to that movie is great!

 

[Sinbad]

But the less said about THE MIST, the better.... except of course, WORST MOVIE ENDING EVER.

Whoa whoa whoa, the ending to that movie is great!

Didn't King say that he would have ended it that way if he had thought of it himself? It's a hell of a gutpunch but so much better than the original ending in the book.

 

[addiesin]

But the less said about THE MIST, the better.... except of course, WORST MOVIE ENDING EVER.

Whoa whoa whoa, the ending to that movie is great!

Didn't King say that he would have ended it that way if he had thought of it himself? It's a hell of a gutpunch but so much better than the original ending in the book.

King also said Maximum Overdrive will scare the hell out of you, and that cocaine is a hell of a drug (the former being a lie, the latter being an explanation).

 

[thecuddlyninja]

King is welcome to his opinion, as is Bob, for me it's a hell of a gut punch. It's a sickening ending, unimaginable. It makes me feel strongly in a way that few other movies have, and I love that.

I enjoy the story and the ending works pretty well in print but it would have felt very cheap and unsatisfying in the movie IMO.

 

[bionicbob]

I dunno....  I loved The Mist until those last five minutes.  Never read the book, so I have no comparison.
Maybe cause I have lost friends to suicide, that the ending made me uncontrollably angry.
I might have preferred it if they had just ended with their deaths, but to then show the military arriving moments afterwards, it was sickening and cruel to me.  

Sue me, I wanted a happy ending. 

 

[thecuddlyninja]

That's very understandable and I respect that. I'm in a similar boat so it makes the impact very strong. I like working out the dark stuff through stories but definitely to each their own. That's what's cool about art.

 

[TV's Frink]

I loved the Mist from start to finish.