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Who is everyone's favourite director?
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03/22/03 07:52 PM
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My favourites are Sergei Eisenstein, Stanley Kubrick, Francois Truffaut and Akira Kurosawa.
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Re: Who is everyone's favourite director?
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03/23/03 12:14 AM
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Hitchcock, Kurosawa, and Coppola. I like many others like Scorsese, Stone, and Wells.
Filmbuff, you have interesting tastes. I am not familiar with Eisenstein, I have never seen any of Truffaut's films (though I have heard great things about "The 400 Blows"), and as you can see, I am a fan of Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Ran, and his little known "Dreams"). But I am not a fan of Kubrick. I found "The Shining" boring (sorry Anthony), and I thought "2001..." was beautiful, but very strange (parts of the end look like a drug trip). But if I had to chose a Kubrick film I really liked, it would be "Lolita". This bizarre little film (with a hint of Film-Noir) is my favorite of Kubricks, and his most underrated film.
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Re: Who is everyone's favourite director?
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03/23/03 09:54 AM
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Scorsese, Coppola, and Speilberg, for sure. But I also like Michael Mann ( Heat), Brian De Palma, and John Woo. I'm gonna be keepin' my eye on Conrad L. Hall, too, the Road to Perdition director. Anyone who can take a mere graphic comic book and create something as phenomenal as that definitely has an eye for directing! Admittedly, I like some of the pictures directed by "Opie" (Ron Howard)...that little red-headed kid from The Andy Griffith Show has sure come a long way! 
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Re: Who is everyone's favourite director?
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03/23/03 10:19 AM
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I've just realised no one excluded TV directors. So...
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Re: Who is everyone's favourite director?
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Ron Howard directed Gladiator ?!  My favourite director is Quentin Tarantino.  I also admire Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Francis Ford Coppolla (of course).
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Re: Who is everyone's favourite director?
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03/23/03 12:28 PM
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Originally posted by Snake:
I'm gonna be keepin' my eye on Conrad L. Hall, too, the Road to Perdition director. Anyone who can take a mere graphic comic book and create something as phenomenal as that definitely has an eye for directing!
Conrad L. Hall was actually the cinematographer for "Road to Perdition" and he is up for an Oscar. Sadly though, he died a few monthes back. The director was Sam Mendes, who also did a great job. And Ron Howard didn't direct "Gladiator", that was Ridely Scott (Alien, Black Hawk Down).
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Re: Who is everyone's favourite director?
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03/23/03 12:45 PM
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J'adore Quentin Tarantino
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"We're all gonna be three little Fonzies - and what was Fonzie?!", "Cool?", "Correct-a-mundo!"
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Re: Who is everyone's favourite director?
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03/23/03 12:48 PM
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Quentin, Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg are my favs
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Re: Who is everyone's favourite director?
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03/23/03 02:05 PM
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Originally posted by Omar Suarez:
Conrad L. Hall was actually the cinematographer for "Road to Perdition" and he is up for an Oscar. Sadly though, he died a few monthes back. The director was Sam Mendes, who also did a great job. My bad, Omar! That's what happens when you ask your son to read it off the DVD box to you rather than checking IMDB yourself!  Anyway, yeah, Mendes did an outstanding job, as did Hall. The cinematography stood out to me as much as the story and acting did, and not many films can do that to the audience. Hate to hear of Hall's death, though. (BTW: I think you'll dig The Deer Hunter.) Anthony Lombardi: The only movie I've seen from start-to-finish of Tarantino's was Reservoir Dogs, which I thought was fairly good. I've only seen parts of Pulp Fiction (like the famous "WHAT?!?" scene  ), but I swear I'm gonna sit down and watch the whole thing one of these days!
"Vaya con Dios, Castle. Go with God."
"God's going to sit this one out." The Punisher (2004)
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Re: Who is everyone's favourite director?
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03/23/03 05:19 PM
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Originally posted by Omar Suarez:
And Ron Howard didn't direct "Gladiator", that was Ridely Scott (Alien, Black Hawk Down). DOH! I must be thinking of A Beautiful Mind. He directed that, didn't he?
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Re: Who is everyone's favourite director?
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03/23/03 07:26 PM
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Originally posted by joltinjoe05:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Omar Suarez:
I must be thinking of A Beautiful Mind. He directed that, didn't he? Yes, and won the Oscar for it. mick
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Re: Who is everyone's favourite director?
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04/08/03 01:55 PM
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Akira Kurosawa
Wong Kar-Wai
Ingmar Bergman
Scorsese
Coppola
Hitchcock
Fellini
Wes Anderson
Truffaut
Orson Welles
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Re: Who is everyone's favourite director?
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04/09/03 12:33 AM
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Scorsese, Coppola, Murnau, Mamoulian, Huston, Ford, Lu;met, Whale, Lang.
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