Favorite movie director?

[palahniukkubrick]

How about it? My vote goes to Stanley Kubrick. He never made the same film twice, and was the master of interesting camera angles. His use of music in his flicks was wonderful as well.

[BookerT]

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[markie]

Would you really say any of Jarmusch's movies have really been masterpieces?

[BookerT]

Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
  Would you really say any of Jarmusch's movies have really been masterpieces?

i don't really like masterpieces. but yes, i would consider "dead man" to be a masterpiece.

[Arlette]

Billy Wilder or Sidney Lumet.

[Darth Ed]

Probably Zhang Yimou, but Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, Akira Kurosawa, Kim Ki-Duk, Changwook Park, Terry Gilliam, the Coen Brothers, David Lynch, Wong Kar-Wai, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Alfred Hitchcock, David Gordon Green, Krzysztof Kieslowski, George Lucas, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Preston Sturges, Pedro Almodovar, Ridley Scott, Hayao Miyazaki, John Woo, Orson Welles, Buster Keaton, and Tim Burton are close runners-up.  

[ratioci nation]

Ron Howard!

[Random Citizen]

Kubrick and Truffaut

[snailhook]

"dead man" is DEFINITELY a masterpiece, and jarmusch's best film.
 
 for me:
 
 kubrick
 herzog
 godard
 tarkovsky
 fellini
 bunuel
 jodorowsky
 cassavetes
 leigh
 altman

Here are a few that Team Dupek feels deserve mention:
 
 John Ford
 Robert Aldrich
 Terrence Young
 Sam Peckinpah
 Richard Brooks
 John Boorman
 Robert Wise
 Blake Edwards
 Ken Annakin
 Lindsay Anderson
 Nicholas Roeg
 John Irvin
 Roman Polansky
 Terrence Mallick
 William Friedkin
 David Cronenberg
 John Carpenter

[Sir HC]

No love for Gilliam?

[Darth Ed]

Originally posted by Sir HC:
  No love for Gilliam?

He made my list...

[HoyaSaxa03]

you all are a bunch of elitist pricks ... i like watching michael bay movies whilst listening to angels and airwaves and drinking natty light

[edbert]

Originally posted by Sir HC:
  No love for Gilliam?

I'm anxious to see Tideland but it can't get US distribution... very frustrating

[yinzer]

kevin costner.
 
 seriously though, if you look at somebody's whole career, it is hard to top kubrick.
 
 no mention of scorsese on anyone's?  have you seen taxi driver or raging bull or goodfellas?  i mean the guy has made some steaming piles of shit, to some extent, for the last 15 years, but he has made some great films as well.