Best Director (#1)

[Cloned]

If there's interest I'll continue a series of polls.

Post who should be added (or removed).

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[Do Make Say Think]

Where the **** is Denis Villeneuve

 

[Cloned]

Where the **** is Denis Villeneuve

The poll function only lets you have so many options lol.

I was debating including him over some others, but ultimately I think he's about 5-10 years (and 2-3 more quality films) away from being a serious consideration.

 

[OhCaptainMyCaptain]

Joe & Anthony Russo

 

[OhCaptainMyCaptain]

JJ Abrams

 

[kihei]

India's Satyajit Ray for me.

HM's: Jean Luc Godard; Francois Truffaut; Andrei Tarkovsky

 

[Legionnaire]

Hitchcock.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Uwe Boll

 

[H3ckt1k]

A second vote for uwe boll

 

[Tkachuk4MVP]

Kubrick

HMs: Leone, Hitchcock, Lean

Need to see some more of the others (i.e Fellini, Tarkovsky, Kurosawa)

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

1. Raoul Ruiz, no contest

2. Alain Resnais, Marguerite Duras, Tsai Ming-Liang
3. Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Haneke
4. Luis Bunuel, Chris Marker, Alain Robbe-Grillet
5. Yorgos Lanthimos, Abel Ferrara, Atom Egoyan, David Cronenberg, Brian De Palma, Éric Rohmer, Gaspar Noé, Pascal Bonitzer, Nobuhiro Suwa, Andrei Tarkovsky, Lars Von Trier, Catherine Breillat, Werner Schroeter, Emir Kusturica, Stanley Kubrick, etc.

Probably forgetting quite a few.

I understand that most of my favorites might not be very popular choices and not in the poll, but Jean-Luc Godard, Luis Bunuel, Tarkovsky, and maybe Chris Marker and Haneke should be ahead of quite a few of the choices there.

 

[Fantomas]

There have been many great directors, but a few more underrated ones worth mentioning are Victor Erice, Edward Yang, Marlen Khutsiev and Michael Powell.

And what about women directors? Honestly most of my picks are men (movies are historically a male dominated industry after all), but I do like the work of Maya Deren, Larisa Shepitko and Gillian Armstrong a lot.

 

[Nemesis Prime]

No Michael Bay? Invalid poll.

Clint Eastwood. Dude has never made a bad movie.

 

[Jumptheshark]

JJ Abrams

I hope your rehab goes well

 

[Jumptheshark]

for me you need to break this poll into like 2o year era

2000 to 2019
1980 to 1999
1960 to 1979
and so on

 

[Don'tcry4mejanhrdina]

Kurosawa for me.

 

[Savi]

Kubrick for me

 

[SeanConn]

Wong Kar Wai

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

I would put Ron Howard and Robert Zemeckis over several directors listed as well

 

[GlassesJacketShirt]

Went with Kubrick (who is my favorite no doubt) but I have a hard time taking this vote seriously without Neil Breen on the ballot.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Add Fritz Lang.

 

[wedge]

I have to go with Spielberg. He's done so many great movies, blockbusters and more serious ones.

I also always like Robert Zemeckis and he should be in the poll before a couple others (Peter Jackson, besides LOTR, hasn't done enough things to be considered the best ever, IMO. Zemeckis has Back to the future, Forrest Gump, Roger Rabbit).

 

[Blender]

Tommy Wiseau

 

[OhCaptainMyCaptain]

I hope your rehab goes well

Me too

 

[kihei]

1. Raoul Ruiz, no contest

2. Alain Resnais, Marguerite Duras, Tsai Ming-Liang
3. Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Haneke
4. Luis Bunuel, Chris Marker, Alain Robbe-Grillet
5. Yorgos Lanthimos, Abel Ferrara, Atom Egoyan, David Cronenberg, Brian De Palma, Éric Rohmer, Gaspar Noé, Pascal Bonitzer, Nobuhiro Suwa, Andrei Tarkovsky, Lars Von Trier, Catherine Breillat, Werner Schroeter, Emir Kusturica, Stanley Kubrick, etc.

Probably forgetting quite a few.

I understand that most of my favorites might not be very popular choices and not in the poll, but Jean-Luc Godard, Luis Bunuel, Tarkovsky, and maybe Chris Marker and Haneke should be ahead of quite a few of the choices there.

Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want to Sleep Alone is my favourite film of the century (pretty much in a tie with Jia Zhangke's Still Life). Both are in my all-time Top Ten.