I love your description of Stanley Kubrick as an alien observing human beings. I think he gets the reputation for being cold and distant, when all he's really doing is depicting people with a certain indifference. perhaps we're not as cute and cuddly as we think we are.
Kubrick being cold and distant is definitely something he grew into. But I maintain, some of his early work is full of emotion. The bar scene at the end of Paths of Glory is one of the most powerful and empathetic moments I’ve ever seen in a motion picture.
That indifference was especially effective in The Shining because it made Stephen King look like a monster. Jack Torrence was originally written as an idealised version of King himself. Not a Gary Stu because King still made him a deeply flawed man but a tragic hero instead of the raving beast that Kubrick and Jack Nicholson brought to the screen. It's no wonder King hated it. Kubrick used The Shining to prod at the deepest insecurities he has about himself.
Yeah, for me it's between There Will Be Blood and The Master are my favorites. Although I was really surprised by Adam Sandler's acting ability in Punch-Drunk Love. I really didn't care for him before I saw that movie.
Listening to you talk about Tarkovsky was amazing. You express so much of how I feel about him, in a such an eloquent and articulate way. Best reviewer out there.
My favourite directors 1. Alfred Hitchcock 2. Stanley Kubrick 3. Martin Scorsese 4. Ridley Scott 5. Sergio Leone 6. Akira Kurosawa 7. Stanley Kramer 8. Orson Welles 9. David Lean 10. Steven Spielberg
My fave director is Wong Kar Wai. From Days of Being Wild to In The Mood for Love...what a stretch of fantastic movies. The Maggie Cheung scene in Ashes of Time makes me cry every time.
I’m gonna shout out my boys Paul Thomas Anderson and Park Chan Wook, my top two favourite directors. They inject so much personality and professionalism into their films. Each one feels unique and almost like a different experience from the other.
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is one of the most unnerving movies I have ever seen. The way he made every situation go from worse to the nightmares levels of haywire shit. The ending as well, he leaves you dirty and in that water, as a viewer. As disturbing as Old Boy.
Bergman's body of work is very extensive, and although not all his works are that great, he's the only director that I have seen who managed to make so many masterpieces, mantaining such a high level of quality even in his minor works. Summer with Monika, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona, Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage, and Fanny and Alexander are five stars out of five for me. But apart from those, Bergman also gave us Autumn Sonata, Hour of the Wolf, The Virgin Spring, Shame, Saraband, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence, From the Life of the Marionettes, The Passion of Anna, Smiles of a Summer Night, etcetera. All excelent, way above average films that most people could only dream of making. I once read that creativity tends to lean more towards either quality or quantity, but Bergman managed to do both, because unlike other filmmakers with extensive filmographies, I would definetely say that a vast majority of his ouvre is remarkable. On the other hand, Tarkovsky only made seven films...But for me, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror, and Stalker, are at the same level of Bergman's greatest achievements. Ivan's Childhood is a remarkable opera prima, but I think it's not as great as his other works. And, although Nostalghia and The Sacrifice are absolutely flawless, I feel like, as Geoff Dyer would say, Tarkovsky was doing "self-karaoke" with these two films. However, he was definetely one of the greatest and most talented and visionary artists in cinema history. So Bergman and Tarkovsky are my absolute favorites, but I also feel great admiration towards Stanley Kubrick, Federico Fellini, David Lynch, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Yasujirō Ozu, Sergei Parajanov, Béla Tarr, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Terrence Malick, Chantal Akerman, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Haneke, etcetera.
Woody Allen also has a large filmography with many great films. His later years have had some misses, but still a few nice gems among them. The guy could have another 10 films or so in him.
It’s just truly amazing the amount that Bergman was capable of putting out while remaining consistent and at the highest caliber. Even his films that are not his best are better than most peoples lol it’s quite astonishing. As for Tarkovsky I completely agree with you on almost everything, except I would switch out Solaris for Ivan’s Childhood. Solaris is great but I don’t get the same emotional reaction that I do with his other films of that time. Maybe I need to rewatch, it’s the one of his films I’ve seen the least. Still brilliant but doesn’t hit me the same. Where as Ivan’s Childhood I had a similar reaction the first time I watched it, I enjoyed it, but it didn’t make soul sing or something or the sort, because it is much more traditional, when Tarkovsky was still finding his own unique voice. But in rewatches I found it really quite brilliant his capability of working within a traditional frame but at the same letting those moments of transcendental emotion (if that’s what you could call it lol) come pouring through. It’s clearly a personal story since during WWII he was about the same age that Ivan would have been, I dunno I think it’s just one on rewatches it really shines and hits home. His examination of childhood really effected me. It’s definitely a different period in his career but the visuals are also just as breathtaking, just in a different way, much more reminiscent of Bergman, but on Bergman’s dreamy side but taking it further.
John Cassavettes. He might not be the most cinematic, definitely far from being one of the best, but his style, so minimalistic, that focuses on those so complex characters, it feels so personal, so intimate. It can’t be theatrical because of that very same thing, because how close and intense characters and situations connect with one as a viewer. Also it has that low budget vibe to his films that communicate the love for film. Don’t know, I love that man, he’s so passionate.
I’ll have to join the chorus of people requesting that you review Tarkovsky 🙂. “Stalker” is a punishing masterpiece but “The Mirror” is my personal favorite. He changed the way I see the world.
Charlie Kaufman is undoubtedly my favorite filmmaker, although most people see him as more of a screenwriter than a director. As for people that are mainly recognized as directors it would be Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman and David Lynch for me.
Holy shit, Synechdoche is a fukin masterpiece, ive never seen such a depressing movie be so funny "I wont settle for anyhing less but the brutal truth.... brutal... brutal". " ..to delve into the merky cowardly depths of my lonely fucked up being, and he'll get notes too and those notes will correspond to the ones I truly receive everyday from my god" ......fuckin hillarious
@@skateboard446 If it had just been called by its original title The Wages Of Fear it might have faired better. Great soundtrack. Great first half hour introducing the characters. ☝
@@davidellis5141 Absolutely. Such "realism" in everything he does...just brilliant, amazing director. Like you say, cinematography, music, and perfect casting choices.
My favourite director top 10, but obviously, except for the top 3 can change at any time ;): 10) Coen brothers: They are fantastic story tellers with often pretty extreme characters and still very identifiable which is amazing 9) Tim Burton: I like the fairytale quality in his work and like the Coen's very quirky charcacters who never seem to fit in but we fall over every single time 8) Akira Kurosawa: the great master from Japan that always makes great stories, sometimes on a very small (Ikiru, my favourite film of his), sometimes on a grand scale (Ran), sometimes very modern in topic , sometimes very traditional, always completely engrossing 7) Stanley Kubrick: Up until A Clockwork Orange, after that I found his movies uninteresting, but up to that movie just amazing with personally to me 2001, A Space Odyssey as his unrivalled masterpiece 6) Takeshi Kitano: Very dear to me, mostly because the stories mostly are quite simple, but what happens internally with the characters is far from simple, Hana-Bi (Fireworks) is my favourite movie of his again on a deceivingly simple story but so beautifully written and played, not least by the iconic director himself with amazing cinematography as well 5) Julio Medem: My favourite director when I'm in a poetic mood and want to hear great tragic moving stories in beautiful Spanish language and characters 4) Jean Pierre Jeunet / Marc Caro: the great French duo that I still think did their best work together, so imaginitive storywise and how their movies were shot. Hard to pick a favourite, I've seen most of them many times and it's a tie between The City of Lost Children, Delicatessen and Amelie 3) Alfred Hitchcock: The master of suspense, period. I have all his movies, including from the silent era and always revisit and enjoy. Vertigo is my favourite and very close breathing in its neck Psycho. Only one I dislike which is Frenzy. 2) Andrei Tarkovsky: There's film makers and then you have Tarkovsky, I have all his movies and treasure each one, though The Sacrifice the least, too much dialogue in that one, not his strong suit, felt too much like some lost Bergmann movie and not just because of the Swedish language and having Nyqvist, Bergmann's cinematographer, shoot the movie. Weird thing is, though it actually dealt with the possible end of the world, paradoxically it felt like much less at stake than in his Russian movies. 1) David Lynch: What can I say, I feel his movies in my soul, every single time it connects on such a deep level.
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Really great channel, just discovered it recently! I agree with most of your reviews. Some of my favourite "classic" directors/filmmakers, in no particular order: Paul Morrissey, Sergei Parajanov, Claude Lanzmann, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Stan Brakhage, Andrzej Żuławski, Elem Klimov, Chris Marker, Ousmane Sembène, Jonas Mekas...
She's the best, especially because she asks more of her viewers than most. She expects us to take the time to think as deeply about films as she does. She chose an appropriate name. She is deep..
Jonathan Rosenbaum is quite good also, he has an 'alternative list' from the American Film Institute top 100 films. Very interesting suggestions on movies not given as much coverage.
Pauline Kael reincarnated goddamn! I've seen so many swingin dicks out there reviewing films, their verbal rhythms are so off. Shes got it, the best one I've seen. Its just a coincidence that she's gorgeous. I wish she had a more professional set up, but i don't care.
Ang Lee. The Icestorm was for me the first time I understood how impersonal inter family relationships could be. It left me so lonely and cold. His sensitivity is so unapologetic and takes loving care of his characters. Betty Von Vilma as an example in Taking Woodstock was a character who showed that a little bit of kindness could change how people can perceive you and your intentions. His characters always show his willingness to show there humanity and grace.
Kar Wai Wong is the director that speaks to me the most. The running themes in all his movies of an alienation caused by crushing urbanization and people's longing for connection to the point of obsessive romance and his style with the camera is poetry in cinema.
For me, I would say Ozu. His pillow shots and poetic minimalism really say more about the about the human condition than any other fimmaker, in my mind. I especially love the scene in Tokyo Story when Tomi wonders if she'll see her grandson as a doctor. The child's indifference and the wide shot of her following the child conveys much more than a sentimental movie line could.
That was fun. It's hard to pick favourites when there are so many to choose from but I would say, Ingmar Bergman, RW Fassbinder, Michelangelo Antonioni, Peter Greenaway would be on my list, and also Dario Argento, Shinya Tsukamoto and David Cronenberg. There are others too but the list might go on forever.
My favorite director is Clint Eastwood. Good range of movies, from fun & entertaining to deep, intense examination. And I really respect that he runs his productions with care & respect. I've never heard of anyone who had a bad experience working on an Eastwood movie.
Eastwood has one of the most baffling resumes in film history. He’s capable of powerful, timeless films like Unforgiven and Outlaw Josey Wales, and total crap like Space Cowboys. His “one take and move on’ philosophy is admirable, and also occasionally disastrous. I love and hate him.
What I like about Eastwood is that there is ZERO pretension in anything he does, he’s just telling the story. Even in “sappier” movies like Richard Jewell, he shows how tough the situation is while demonstrating why the police are suspicious in a believable way.
@@Mr.Goodkat that’s weird to me. Those are the only truly great films he has directed, my opinion of him as a director would be quite different if he hadn’t made them. I wouldn’t call myself a fan, what of his films make you a fan? I’m curious.
Not sure how I subscribed to you over two years ago then let you fall off my radar, I'm not going to make that mistake this time, you really know your films.
On Kubrick (who is my own favorite): to me, his style, his identifiable "Kubrick-ness", came into being with _Dr. Strangelove._ His films before that are still meticulously crafted and contain many of his thematic preoccupations, but that hard-to-identify visual language that was uniquely his own was still nascent. He was experimenting, I think, doing things that he would not repeat after he settled in to his personal style. I'm thinking of things like the theatrical lighting and the camera passing through walls _(Lolita),_ didactic dialogue _(Paths of Glory, Spartacus),_ reliance on genre tropes _(The Killing)._ All of them either went away or became more subtle, striking a balance between realism and stylization. The visual compositions locked in, too. There is no mistaking a Kubrick shot - even in isolation - for anyone else's, starting with _Strangelove._ I miss him.
Dude when you do these, are these your first takes? These are you first reactions, right? No scripting? If so, hell, even if not, you should be a professional communicator.
Thanks. I select the questions ahead of time. But I don't really do preparation for topic videos. I just kinda respond with my impulsive reaction to make it more interesting. Maybe I'm just lazy. That's probably the real answer.
Brian De Palma. The cinematography, the subject matter, the acting, the editing and overall the way his films are crafted. If you watch his earlier films, those are some of the finest comedy films you'll see.
@@ZodsSnappedNeck ah thats cool! Tbh I didn't enjoy it at all. But I forced myself through it somehow. The bad quality turned be off too much and the rest wasn't good (for me) either. I loved the few minutes in the beginning so much when it was black and white but then it got unwatchable sadly :/
During my formative years, Steven Spielberg was making films with exactly the qualities I was looking for. While I tend to like films rather than directors, the ten year period which included Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. -- The Extra-Terrestrial, and The Color Purple (along with the still underrated Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) was one of the most remarkable runs in cinema history... even with the clunker 1941 thrown in :).
1. Terry Gilliam 2. Stanley Kubrick 3. Ingmar Bergman 4. Roman Polanski 5. Alfred Hitchcock 6. Coen Brothers 7. Edgar Wright 8. David Lynch 9. Billy Wilder 10. Elia Kazan
For me it is probably Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Powell & Pressburger (while I love Michael Powell as a director, he was never better than when he was together with Pressburger).
The Archers don't get nearly enough credit for just how much they helped advance the cinematic medium. The stuff they were doing in the _1940's_ is unbelievable. They have at least 3 or 4 films that are at least a decade or two ahead of their time. And 3 of those films came in back-to-back-to-back years, which is even _more_ insane.
These topical videos would be great as an ongoing series, "Favourite Film Directors Part IV" "Most overrated...PIII" etc, there's endless potential there.
Leni Riefenstahl worked for a brutal dictator, but her works had a remarkable vision and artistry that remained influential in the ensuing decades. When she died, even the Oscars mentioned her in the "In Memoriam" segment, though she remained a controversial figure even to this day. The me-too era has brought to attention many notable female directors of the past, such as Chantal Ackerman, Maya Deren, Agnas Varda, etc. -- a group that is unlikely to include Riefenstahl any time soon.
I agree. But every now and then he gives us something great like Bridge of Spies which is a great movie that nobody talks about. Some other great filmmakers I like are PTA, the Coen brothers, Fellini, David Fincher and David Lean זהב
None of the great directors only made masterpieces, but if you want a straight answer, I'll have to agree with many: Tarkovsky, Kubrick, Kurosawa, Hitchcock. I love the doll house look of Wes Anderson and the toy approach of older Tim Burton animation. Yep: I am more into cinematography and feel than about story or message.
As a thought exercise I like to list at least one per continent, e.g: Guillermo Del Toro (Americas) Andrei Tarkovsky (Europe) Takeshi Kitano (Asia) George Miller (Oceania) Jahmil X.T Quebeka (Africa). Of course summing down continents to a single guy is reductive (and it depends how you define continents as of itself, e.g the americas) but it's an interesting exercise to see what you can come up with for each one as an encouragement to go look for more.
Mine are Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick Terry Gilliam Tim Burton Martin Scorsese Francis Coppola David Fincher Spike Lee Gordan Parks and Steven Spielberg.
My favourite director has to be Sion Sono! He may not be a Kubrick or a Tarkovsky, but he’s definitely one of those directors who are able to set themselves apart from the rest. He is a “shock poet of the cinema”, as you would call em, and I wish more people were familiar with his work.
@@aaronshouting588 wow thank you. i think i wrote off sono after tokyo tribe. what a fool i was. lucky someone uploaded the whole 4 hours of love exposure to yt. i have strange circus on dvd - it holds up better than suicide club but sc will always hold a special place in my memory & heart
I wish Hideaki Anno and Mamoru Oshii were more recognized outside of Japan. They are mostly know for their animated works, so they are rarely discussed outside of anime communities. Also, their live action movies are hard to find; especially Anno, his only live action movie licensed outside of Jqpan is Shin Godzilla.
It would be difficult to pick 10 directors, let alone one. The Sight and Sound poll asked film professionals and journalists to name their favorite directors one year, and the results were: 1. Orson Welles, 2. Alfred Hitchcock, 3. Jean-Luc Godard, 4. Jean Renoir, 5. Akira Kurosawa, 6. Stanley Kubrick, 7. Federico Fellini, 8. John Ford, 9. Sergei Eisenstein, 10. Francis Ford Coppola & Yasujiro Ozu (tie). But of course, this list omits many greats such as Chaplin, Truffaut, Keaton, Lang, Pabst, Antonioni, Bergman, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman, Allen, Tarkovsky, Lean, etc. etc. In surveys like this, the list of people who are NOT named is often a better list than the list of people who are.
@@Bigfrank88 It's "favourite" directors though and truth is he's maybe my number 1 I don't think Tarantino, Hitchcock or Spielberg have ever made anything as good as some of the stuff Brest has done.
Errol Morris's first 3 films are masterpieces...if I had to pick only one it might be him. But I don't so...Fellini (8 1/2) and Kubrick (2001) made the greatest works of cinema art imo (I haven't seen as much Bergman but he's probably on that same level). David Lynch. Eisenstein (I would love to see what that guy could do with today's technology...or even fifty years ago's technology). Kazan. Roman Polanski...Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby are both way up there for me. Alan J Pakula. Mike Leigh. I really hope Tomas Alfresdson recovers from that God-awful "Snowman"...Tinker Tailor is brilliant. Richard Linklater. Milos Forman. I've already said Polanski so I might has well say Woody Allen too...the category is favorite directors, not favorite humans.
Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton need to be on the favorites list as they are the innovators that laid the groundwork. Im surprised not have seen Sergio Leone listed. Mel Brooks, anyone?
Fincher is my favorite. A dark horse for me is Jeff Nichols. I really dig all his movies: Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter (maybe the best movie I've seen about mental illness), Mud, Loving, Midnight Special, and The Bikeriders. He's got a great eye and sensibilities. I'll watch anything he makes.
1. Kim Ki-duk 2. Vincent Gallo 3. Naoko Yamada 4. Andrei Tarkovsky 5. Jim Jarmusch 6. Abbas Kiarostami 7. Clint Eastwood 8. S. Craig Zahler 9. Park Chan-wook 10. Edgar Wright More directors I need to watch: Wong Kar-Wai, Gus Van Sant, John Ford, Federico Fellini, Jean Luc-Godard, Paul Verhoeven, Tobe Hooper, Masaaki Yuasa, Paul Schrader, Charles Burnett, Lars Von Trier, Robert Bresson
Almost a meme answer but Nolan for me. No one out there is stretching the modern blockbuster like him and no one out there can make you go to the cinema at the risk of your own life so surely and wholeheartedly.
My top ten: 1) Alfred Hitchcock 2) John Ford 3) Billy Wilder 4) Fritz Lang 5) Sergei Eisenstein 6) F W Murnau 7) Ingmar Bergman 8) Federico Fellini 9) Roberto Rosselini 10) Jean Renoir Remember cinema have more than 100 years, the great masters of cinema are dead, the golden age of american cinema are the 30s 40s and 50s decades, nowadays hollywood cinema is thrash, the last 20 years no masterpieces coming out from hollywood cinema
You are so right. Many of the great Hollywood directors from the past seems now forgotten. My Top 25 directors are: 1. Alfred Hitchcock 2. Billy Wilder 3. John Ford 4. William Wyler 5. Ingmar Bergman 6. John Huston 7. Charles Chaplin 8. Fred Zinnemann 9. Richard Brooks 10. Robert Aldrich 11. Elia Kazan 12. Howard Hawks 13. George Stevens 14. Robert Wise 15. Sidney Lumet 16. Anthony Mann 17. Henry Hathaway 18. Sergio Leone 19. David Lean 20. Steven Spielberg 21. Michael Curtiz 22. John Sturges 23. Zhang Yimou 24. Fritz Lang 25. Sydney Pollack
My top 5 in co particular order: Kurosawa Kubrick Bergman Tie: Antonioni/Fellini Tie: John Ford/John Huston. These guys were prolific and never suffered the directors decline.
Some of my favorites: Hitchcock, Ozu, Ray, Romero, Kubrick, Leone, Wilder, Wyler, Bob Rafelson, Robert Siodmak, Rudolph Mate, Roger Corman Jacques Tourneur, Shirley Clarke, Barbara Loden, Ida Lupino...I'll stop now. I'm a Taurus and we tend to ramble on.
Great to see that someone mentioned Robert Siodmak and the giant director William Wyler. This man made one classic after another and was unfairly dismissed by french pseudo critics in the 50s and 60s. Wyler and Fred Zinnemann, Richard Brooks, George Stevens, Elia Kazan, John Huston and Stanley Kramer count to the best american directors ever. They made intelligent films without pseudo art attitude.
My top 10 would be 1. Andrei Tarkovsky 2. Martin Scorsese 3. Gaspar Noé 4. Stanley Kubrick 5. Robert Eggers 6. Michael Haneke 7. Ingmar Bergman 8. Quentin Tarantino 9. Miloš Forman 10. Martin McDonagh
Oh man, hear we go… 5. Sean Baker Hands down has some of the best cinematography in his films and the director of my favourite genre of movies - Indie Cinema. Top Three Favourite Films By Him Are - 3. Red Rocket 2. Tangerine 1. The Florida Project 4. David Fincher If you want to watch a movie with complex and interesting characters and twists that you don’t see coming then check out David Fincher movies. Top Three Favourite Films by him are - 3. Fight Club 2. Gone Girl 1. The Social Network 3. Stanley Kubrick Watching at Stanley Kubrick movie is like breaking up with a girl and missing them but at the same time you never want to see them again because you know deep down that, that bitch is crazy. Top Three Films By Stanley Kubrick - 3. Full Metal Jacket 2. The Shining 1. Eyes Wide Shut 2. Martin Scorsese I love Marty. This man literally directed my favourite movie of all time (The Wolf Of Wall Street). His movies age like fine wine and I hope he loves to the age of a million so he can pump out some new movies for us. Top Three Films By Marty 3. The Irishman 2. Goodfellas 1. The Wolf Of Wall Street Honourable Mentions: 20. Francis Ford Coppola 19. Baz Luhrman 18. Ridley Scott 17. Tim Burton 16. Todd Phillips 15. Jordan Peele 14. Guillermo Del Toro 13. Judd Apatow 12. David Lynch 11. Christopher Nolan 10. James Mangold 9. Edgar Wright 8. Robert Zemeckis 7. Paul Thomas Anderson 6. Steven Spielberg 1. Quentin Tarantino It’s Tarantino. What else is there to say? Snappy dialogue and cool violence can go a long way. Top Three Films By QT 3. Django Unchained 2. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood 1. Pulp Fiction
A person's choice of favorite anything tells you more about the person making that choice than anything. That person's upbringing, education, nature, leanings, preferences, etc., no doubt all play a part in his or her choices. But unfortunately, the person is usually not aware of that, nor the effects they have. So there is really no cogent discussion to be had as to why those choices are made. No films can please everyone, and only certain people like certain films. Only certain viewers love "Parasite," for instance, though a great film that it is. And in the post-me-too era, I suspect films like "Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" (1975) will become more and more prominent and admired. 30 years ago, 8 out of 10 Americans (I'm making this up, but I'm not far off) said "Gone with the Wind" was their favorite film. That certainly has changed. And that tells us more about our society today than it does about the films.
Thats why you cant trust modern critics, or modern acclaimed arthouse movies Too skewed by current socialsphere, not classic, will not last (Except terrence malick)
For some reason Michelangelo Antonioni always spoke to me: il Grido, L'Avventura, La Notte, L'Eclisse, Red Desert, Blow Up, The Passenger ... or maybe it's Monica Vitti, his muse. lol
Felinni, Tarkovsky (Stalker, Nostalgia, Sacrifice, Andrey Rublev), Bergman, Bertolucci, Viskonti, Antonioni, Skola, Roberto Rossellini, Vitorio De Sica, Otar Ioseliani, Truffot, Bunuel, Lui Mal, Bernard Blier, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Renoir, Akira Kurosawa, David Linch, Milos Forman, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Billy Wilder, Ken Loach, Spielberg, Marcelo Piñeyro, Frensis Coppola, Polansky, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Fasbinder, Liliana Cavalli, Oliver Stone, Kubrick, Haneke, Almadovar, Nolan, Fincher, Gaspar Noe, Denis Villeneuve, Guillermo Del Toro, Paul Verhoeven, Sodemberg, Tarantino, Coen Brothers, Vess Anderson, Guadagnino, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lars Von Trier, Emil Kusturitsa, Ang Lee; Koreans: Won Kar Wai, Bong Joon-ho (not Parasites, but Mother), Kim Ki Duk and some other honorable mentions!!!!!
1) Stanley Kubrick 2) Paul Thomas Anderson 3) Terrence Mallick 4) Joel Coen 5) Wes Anderson 6) Andrei Tarkovsky 7) Ridley Scott 8) Sergio Leone 9) Clint Eastwood 10) Alfred Hitchcock
10. Michaelanglo Antonioni 9. John waters 8. Paul vorhoeven 7. David Lynch 6. John woo 5. Ingmar bergman 4. Chantal akerman 3. Jonas mekas 2. Alan Clarke 1. Luis buñuel (the goat)
Top 10 1. Martin Scorsese 2. Quentin Tarantino 3. Oliver Stone 4. James Cameron 5. Sam Raimi 6. Steven Spielberg 7. Brian De Palma 8. Michael Mann 9. Tim Burton 10. John Woo
nice to see oliver stone mentioned - he almost made my top 10 list - if the question were asked in 1995 he'd be mentioned a lot since he had just finished an amazing decade
Someone like him seriously needed to move to France or somewhere in continental Europe where he would've blended into the art scene and be taken seriously by everybody. He was otherwise "just a Chinese guy" to the average Anglo-American viewer.
My favorite director is without a doubt Paul Thomas Anderson, every single film he has made (not including Inherent Vice or Hard Eight) is perfect imo. Close second would be David Lynch.
Akira Kurosawa Satyajit Ray Federico Fellini Luis Buñuel Andrei Tarkovsky Jean Luc-Godard Stanley Kubrick David Lynch Terrence Malick Asghar Farhadi Terry Gilliam Richard Linklater Bong Joon Ho Yorgos Lanthimos Denis Villeneuve Can't shorten more!
I loved the video where you talked about bad guilty-pleasure movies that you like. So on the subject of favorite directors, do you have any favorite bad directors?
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A director I found consistently fascinating was Ken Russell, even though so much of his work is just crap. Sometimes, even in an atrocious film, there was a moment or moments of genius, Mahler, for example.
My top 10 1. Martin Scorsese 2. Robert Altman 3. Alfred Hitchcock 4. Federico Fellini 5. Akira Kurosawa 6. Stanley Kubrick 7. Quentin Tarantino 8. Sam Peckinpah 9. Oliver Stone 10. Michael Haneke
I’ve only seen A Man Escaped from Bresson, but that’s just a perfect film that doesn’t do anything flashy or experimental, it just shows what is happening. The LONG take in Funny Games really cemented Haneke’s connection with that stripped down style for me (even if much of that film is more bombastic in its portrayal of sadism than other parts).
I found this interesting as I do not have allegiances or preferences by director. I love the individual films. I DO have a director I hate. I shall never see another film by Yorgos Lanthimos. I should have walked out on the The Favourite.
I liked the Favourite. I look at Lanthimos as though Kubrick and Wes Anderson had a child and had some kind of trauma that made dark (almost black) humor the only coping mechanism.
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When it comes to film polls on important cateogories such as favorite films or directors, I trust only the Sight and Sound poll that is held every 10 years (next one is in early 2022). Most online film polls I've seen are A JOKE. Rotten Tomatoes' all-time great films contain many films made in the last few years! And IMDb's top film list heavily favors 90s films, because the IMDb site was created in the 90s. The Sight and Sound poll is done "by invitation" only. Voters are selected by Sight and Sound, at random, across the world, and across different demographics. That eliminates "fan-voting" or anything that would skew the results. And the results would correctly reveal a cross section of opinions at the time.
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I love your description of Stanley Kubrick as an alien observing human beings. I think he gets the reputation for being cold and distant, when all he's really doing is depicting people with a certain indifference. perhaps we're not as cute and cuddly as we think we are.
Kubrick being cold and distant is definitely something he grew into. But I maintain, some of his early work is full of emotion. The bar scene at the end of Paths of Glory is one of the most powerful and empathetic moments I’ve ever seen in a motion picture.
That indifference was especially effective in The Shining because it made Stephen King look like a monster. Jack Torrence was originally written as an idealised version of King himself. Not a Gary Stu because King still made him a deeply flawed man but a tragic hero instead of the raving beast that Kubrick and Jack Nicholson brought to the screen. It's no wonder King hated it. Kubrick used The Shining to prod at the deepest insecurities he has about himself.
@@tomnorton4277 that totally makes sense lol. Stephen King took Nicholson's depiction as a personal attack
Mine is Paul Thomas Anderson. I have enjoyed every single one of his films and There Will Be Blood is my favourite film in general.
@hoibsh Wrong Paul Anderson. There is like 3 out there with the same name.
Yeah, for me it's between There Will Be Blood and The Master are my favorites. Although I was really surprised by Adam Sandler's acting ability in Punch-Drunk Love. I really didn't care for him before I saw that movie.
@@baddog6003 Well not everyone has good taste. Get well soon!
@@baddog6003 boogie nights?
@@christopherpaul7588 The Wedding Singer; Blended didn't interest you ? 😵😹
For me, its Tarkowsky, Lynch and Villeneuve. Runner ups are PTA, The Coen Brothers and probably Charlie Kaufman.
Listening to you talk about Tarkovsky was amazing. You express so much of how I feel about him, in a such an eloquent and articulate way. Best reviewer out there.
My favourite directors
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. Martin Scorsese
4. Ridley Scott
5. Sergio Leone
6. Akira Kurosawa
7. Stanley Kramer
8. Orson Welles
9. David Lean
10. Steven Spielberg
My fave director is Wong Kar Wai. From Days of Being Wild to In The Mood for Love...what a stretch of fantastic movies. The Maggie Cheung scene in Ashes of Time makes me cry every time.
I’m gonna shout out my boys Paul Thomas Anderson and Park Chan Wook, my top two favourite directors. They inject so much personality and professionalism into their films. Each one feels unique and almost like a different experience from the other.
PTA
My top two as well! Glad to see my boys getting some love.
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is one of the most unnerving movies I have ever seen. The way he made every situation go from worse to the nightmares levels of haywire shit.
The ending as well, he leaves you dirty and in that water, as a viewer. As disturbing as Old Boy.
Lars Von Trier, Tim Burton, Harmony Korine, David Lynch, Woody Allen, Jim Jarmusch, Gaspar Joe, Satoshi Kon, Kelly Reichardt for me
Well, I forgot Jarmusch in my huge:)) list!!!!
Bergman's body of work is very extensive, and although not all his works are that great, he's the only director that I have seen who managed to make so many masterpieces, mantaining such a high level of quality even in his minor works. Summer with Monika, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona, Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage, and Fanny and Alexander are five stars out of five for me. But apart from those, Bergman also gave us Autumn Sonata, Hour of the Wolf, The Virgin Spring, Shame, Saraband, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence, From the Life of the Marionettes, The Passion of Anna, Smiles of a Summer Night, etcetera. All excelent, way above average films that most people could only dream of making. I once read that creativity tends to lean more towards either quality or quantity, but Bergman managed to do both, because unlike other filmmakers with extensive filmographies, I would definetely say that a vast majority of his ouvre is remarkable.
On the other hand, Tarkovsky only made seven films...But for me, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror, and Stalker, are at the same level of Bergman's greatest achievements. Ivan's Childhood is a remarkable opera prima, but I think it's not as great as his other works. And, although Nostalghia and The Sacrifice are absolutely flawless, I feel like, as Geoff Dyer would say, Tarkovsky was doing "self-karaoke" with these two films. However, he was definetely one of the greatest and most talented and visionary artists in cinema history.
So Bergman and Tarkovsky are my absolute favorites, but I also feel great admiration towards Stanley Kubrick, Federico Fellini, David Lynch, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Yasujirō Ozu, Sergei Parajanov, Béla Tarr, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Terrence Malick, Chantal Akerman, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Haneke, etcetera.
Woody Allen also has a large filmography with many great films. His later years have had some misses, but still a few nice gems among them. The guy could have another 10 films or so in him.
It’s just truly amazing the amount that Bergman was capable of putting out while remaining consistent and at the highest caliber. Even his films that are not his best are better than most peoples lol it’s quite astonishing.
As for Tarkovsky I completely agree with you on almost everything, except I would switch out Solaris for Ivan’s Childhood. Solaris is great but I don’t get the same emotional reaction that I do with his other films of that time. Maybe I need to rewatch, it’s the one of his films I’ve seen the least. Still brilliant but doesn’t hit me the same. Where as Ivan’s Childhood I had a similar reaction the first time I watched it, I enjoyed it, but it didn’t make soul sing or something or the sort, because it is much more traditional, when Tarkovsky was still finding his own unique voice. But in rewatches I found it really quite brilliant his capability of working within a traditional frame but at the same letting those moments of transcendental emotion (if that’s what you could call it lol) come pouring through. It’s clearly a personal story since during WWII he was about the same age that Ivan would have been, I dunno I think it’s just one on rewatches it really shines and hits home. His examination of childhood really effected me. It’s definitely a different period in his career but the visuals are also just as breathtaking, just in a different way, much more reminiscent of Bergman, but on Bergman’s dreamy side but taking it further.
1. Ingmar Bergman
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. Orson welles
4. Alejandro Jodorowsky
5. Gaspar Noe
Bergman - pretty but so tedious.
Tarkovsky's worst movie is better than most filmmakers best.
Top 5 for me are Tarkovsky, Kubrick, Malick, Hitchcock, Bergman.
@Sot P, no, I think this list accurately represents my top 5 filmmakers, but thank you for your input.
@Sot P Loser
John Cassavettes. He might not be the most cinematic, definitely far from being one of the best, but his style, so minimalistic, that focuses on those so complex characters, it feels so personal, so intimate. It can’t be theatrical because of that very same thing, because how close and intense characters and situations connect with one as a viewer. Also it has that low budget vibe to his films that communicate the love for film. Don’t know, I love that man, he’s so passionate.
Always rated Killing of a Chinese Bookie .
His films don’t always totally work for me, but when they do they really do, Killing of a Chinese Bookie (esp the 1978 cut) is absolutely great.
I’ll have to join the chorus of people requesting that you review Tarkovsky 🙂. “Stalker” is a punishing masterpiece but “The Mirror” is my personal favorite. He changed the way I see the world.
One of those was the one I was planning on reviewing. But I won't reveal which!
Charlie Kaufman is undoubtedly my favorite filmmaker, although most people see him as more of a screenwriter than a director. As for people that are mainly recognized as directors it would be Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman and David Lynch for me.
Holy shit, Synechdoche is a fukin masterpiece, ive never seen such a depressing movie be so funny "I wont settle for anyhing less but the brutal truth.... brutal... brutal". " ..to delve into the merky cowardly depths of my lonely fucked up being, and he'll get notes too and those notes will correspond to the ones I truly receive everyday from my god" ......fuckin hillarious
@@juancamilo4684 did Kaufman write synecdoche too?
josh berkin yep
the cool thing about Fincher is he got his worst film out of the way first (Alien3) and has just been consistently good ever since
Same with Cameron
Game is worse.
William Friedken. The French Connection , Sorcerer , To Live & Die In LA , Killer Joe & The Exorcist ! Pretty amazing.
Sorcerer is pretty underrated, definitely in my top 5 of all time
William Friedkin for sure...one of the greatest directors of all time.
@@skateboard446 If it had just been called by its original title The Wages Of Fear it might have faired better. Great soundtrack. Great first half hour introducing the characters. ☝
@@larsliljeblad800 He was Awesome at on location shooting. Respected Cinematography & music. His movies were an experience.
@@davidellis5141 Absolutely. Such "realism" in everything he does...just brilliant, amazing director. Like you say, cinematography, music, and perfect casting choices.
David cronenberg has to be one of the most underrated directors ever. Definitely one of my favs
Very unique and distinctive, for sure, even outside of his body horror films. Dead Ringers is my favorite of his
My favourite director top 10, but obviously, except for the top 3 can change at any time ;):
10) Coen brothers: They are fantastic story tellers with often pretty extreme characters and still very identifiable which is amazing
9) Tim Burton: I like the fairytale quality in his work and like the Coen's very quirky charcacters who never seem to fit in but we fall over every single time
8) Akira Kurosawa: the great master from Japan that always makes great stories, sometimes on a very small (Ikiru, my favourite film of his), sometimes on a grand scale (Ran), sometimes very modern in topic , sometimes very traditional, always completely engrossing
7) Stanley Kubrick: Up until A Clockwork Orange, after that I found his movies uninteresting, but up to that movie just amazing with personally to me 2001, A Space Odyssey as his unrivalled masterpiece
6) Takeshi Kitano: Very dear to me, mostly because the stories mostly are quite simple, but what happens internally with the characters is far from simple, Hana-Bi (Fireworks) is my favourite movie of his again on a deceivingly simple story but so beautifully written and played, not least by the iconic director himself with amazing cinematography as well
5) Julio Medem: My favourite director when I'm in a poetic mood and want to hear great tragic moving stories in beautiful Spanish language and characters
4) Jean Pierre Jeunet / Marc Caro: the great French duo that I still think did their best work together, so imaginitive storywise and how their movies were shot. Hard to pick a favourite, I've seen most of them many times and it's a tie between The City of Lost Children, Delicatessen and Amelie
3) Alfred Hitchcock: The master of suspense, period. I have all his movies, including from the silent era and always revisit and enjoy. Vertigo is my favourite and very close breathing in its neck Psycho. Only one I dislike which is Frenzy.
2) Andrei Tarkovsky: There's film makers and then you have Tarkovsky, I have all his movies and treasure each one, though The Sacrifice the least, too much dialogue in that one, not his strong suit, felt too much like some lost Bergmann movie and not just because of the Swedish language and having Nyqvist, Bergmann's cinematographer, shoot the movie. Weird thing is, though it actually dealt with the possible end of the world, paradoxically it felt like much less at stake than in his Russian movies.
1) David Lynch: What can I say, I feel his movies in my soul, every single time it connects on such a deep level.
Really great channel, just discovered it recently! I agree with most of your reviews.
Some of my favourite "classic" directors/filmmakers, in no particular order: Paul Morrissey, Sergei Parajanov, Claude Lanzmann, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Stan Brakhage, Andrzej Żuławski, Elem Klimov, Chris Marker, Ousmane Sembène, Jonas Mekas...
Julie Taymor films, for some reason, always draw out tears from me. I think it's the beauty of her use of colour in so many of her shots.
Ok now favorite film reviewers, I'm going with the homegirl DFL
Yeah that would be a great topic video. Hopefully Maggie would include RUclips film reviewers
She's the best, especially because she asks more of her viewers than most. She expects us to take the time to think as deeply about films as she does. She chose an appropriate name. She is deep..
Jonathan Rosenbaum is quite good also, he has an 'alternative list' from the American Film Institute top 100 films. Very interesting suggestions on movies not given as much coverage.
Pauline Kael reincarnated goddamn! I've seen so many swingin dicks out there reviewing films, their verbal rhythms are so off. Shes got it, the best one I've seen. Its just a coincidence that she's gorgeous. I wish she had a more professional set up, but i don't care.
Thank you for mentioning Fellini & Rota; one of the greatest collaborations in all of film.
Ang Lee. The Icestorm was for me the first time I understood how impersonal inter family relationships could be. It left me so lonely and cold. His sensitivity is so unapologetic and takes loving care of his characters. Betty Von Vilma as an example in Taking Woodstock was a character who showed that a little bit of kindness could change how people can perceive you and your intentions. His characters always show his willingness to show there humanity and grace.
Kar Wai Wong is the director that speaks to me the most. The running themes in all his movies of an alienation caused by crushing urbanization and people's longing for connection to the point of obsessive romance and his style with the camera is poetry in cinema.
For me, I would say Ozu. His pillow shots and poetic minimalism really say more about the about the human condition than any other fimmaker, in my mind. I especially love the scene in Tokyo Story when Tomi wonders if she'll see her grandson as a doctor. The child's indifference and the wide shot of her following the child conveys much more than a sentimental movie line could.
That was fun. It's hard to pick favourites when there are so many to choose from but I would say, Ingmar Bergman, RW Fassbinder, Michelangelo Antonioni, Peter Greenaway would be on my list, and also Dario Argento, Shinya Tsukamoto and David Cronenberg. There are others too but the list might go on forever.
My favorite director is Clint Eastwood. Good range of movies, from fun & entertaining to deep, intense examination. And I really respect that he runs his productions with care & respect. I've never heard of anyone who had a bad experience working on an Eastwood movie.
Eastwood has one of the most baffling resumes in film history. He’s capable of powerful, timeless films like Unforgiven and Outlaw Josey Wales, and total crap like Space Cowboys. His “one take and move on’ philosophy is admirable, and also occasionally disastrous. I love and hate him.
What I like about Eastwood is that there is ZERO pretension in anything he does, he’s just telling the story. Even in “sappier” movies like Richard Jewell, he shows how tough the situation is while demonstrating why the police are suspicious in a believable way.
@@ronbock8291 Unforgiven and OJW are overrated as hell and this is coming from an Eastwood fan.
@@Mr.Goodkat that’s weird to me. Those are the only truly great films he has directed, my opinion of him as a director would be quite different if he hadn’t made them. I wouldn’t call myself a fan, what of his films make you a fan? I’m curious.
@@ronbock8291 Well that's weird to me those are weak movies (not saying bad) and not even among his best as far as I am concerned.
Not sure how I subscribed to you over two years ago then let you fall off my radar, I'm not going to make that mistake this time, you really know your films.
On Kubrick (who is my own favorite): to me, his style, his identifiable "Kubrick-ness", came into being with _Dr. Strangelove._ His films before that are still meticulously crafted and contain many of his thematic preoccupations, but that hard-to-identify visual language that was uniquely his own was still nascent. He was experimenting, I think, doing things that he would not repeat after he settled in to his personal style. I'm thinking of things like the theatrical lighting and the camera passing through walls _(Lolita),_ didactic dialogue _(Paths of Glory, Spartacus),_ reliance on genre tropes _(The Killing)._ All of them either went away or became more subtle, striking a balance between realism and stylization. The visual compositions locked in, too. There is no mistaking a Kubrick shot - even in isolation - for anyone else's, starting with _Strangelove._ I miss him.
He's no match for M. Night Shamalamadingdong.
Dude when you do these, are these your first takes? These are you first reactions, right? No scripting? If so, hell, even if not, you should be a professional communicator.
Thanks. I select the questions ahead of time. But I don't really do preparation for topic videos. I just kinda respond with my impulsive reaction to make it more interesting. Maybe I'm just lazy. That's probably the real answer.
Dudette.
Michael Mann: Heat, Manhunter, Miami Vice, Last of the Mohicans, The Insider, Collateral.
You forgot his best: Thief.
Ben Kylo Damn right! “Thief” is definitely his best!
His Manhunter is far superior to the other. The Tooth Fairy is Awesome ! I am , an avid fan.
David Ellis “Manhunter” is exceptional... #2 only to “Thief” lol
Brian De Palma. The cinematography, the subject matter, the acting, the editing and overall the way his films are crafted. If you watch his earlier films, those are some of the finest comedy films you'll see.
David Lynch. I love that man. And every one of his films are bangers, bar Dune (still entertaining though).
agreed!
Blue Velvet ia one of thw best movies ive seen in a long time. Recently saw it
Did you really like Inland Empire?
@@suspirialove I felt legitimately uncomfortable for the entirety of Inland Empire, and I loved it.
@@ZodsSnappedNeck ah thats cool! Tbh I didn't enjoy it at all. But I forced myself through it somehow. The bad quality turned be off too much and the rest wasn't good (for me) either. I loved the few minutes in the beginning so much when it was black and white but then it got unwatchable sadly :/
Lynch / Malick / Carpenter
If you add Kubrick, then we have the exact same taste.
During my formative years, Steven Spielberg was making films with exactly the qualities I was looking for. While I tend to like films rather than directors, the ten year period which included Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. -- The Extra-Terrestrial, and The Color Purple (along with the still underrated Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) was one of the most remarkable runs in cinema history... even with the clunker 1941 thrown in :).
1941 is actually a remarkable piece of filmmaking if you look at it like a down and dirty burlesque.
@@Tolstoy111 1941 > Temple of Doom.
1. Terry Gilliam
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. Ingmar Bergman
4. Roman Polanski
5. Alfred Hitchcock
6. Coen Brothers
7. Edgar Wright
8. David Lynch
9. Billy Wilder
10. Elia Kazan
Great video my favourite is Kubrick he is a master. Every one of his films are a work of art
My favorites are Terry Gilliam, Wong Kar-wai and David Lynch
For me it is probably Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Powell & Pressburger (while I love Michael Powell as a director, he was never better than when he was together with Pressburger).
Powell and Pressburger changed the way I look at art.
@@deepfocuslens Glad to hear that. I return to those movies possibly more than any other classics just to marvel at the stunning film making.
The Archers don't get nearly enough credit for just how much they helped advance the cinematic medium. The stuff they were doing in the _1940's_ is unbelievable. They have at least 3 or 4 films that are at least a decade or two ahead of their time. And 3 of those films came in back-to-back-to-back years, which is even _more_ insane.
These topical videos would be great as an ongoing series, "Favourite Film Directors Part IV" "Most overrated...PIII" etc, there's endless potential there.
Leni Riefenstahl worked for a brutal dictator, but her works had a remarkable vision and artistry that remained influential in the ensuing decades. When she died, even the Oscars mentioned her in the "In Memoriam" segment, though she remained a controversial figure even to this day. The me-too era has brought to attention many notable female directors of the past, such as Chantal Ackerman, Maya Deren, Agnas Varda, etc. -- a group that is unlikely to include Riefenstahl any time soon.
Leni's a fascinating artist - read two biographies of her
I really like that Steve Spielberg guy.
I agree. But every now and then he gives us something great like Bridge of Spies which is a great movie that nobody talks about.
Some other great filmmakers I like are PTA, the Coen brothers, Fellini, David Fincher and David Lean זהב
None of the great directors only made masterpieces, but if you want a straight answer, I'll have to agree with many: Tarkovsky, Kubrick, Kurosawa, Hitchcock. I love the doll house look of Wes Anderson and the toy approach of older Tim Burton animation. Yep: I am more into cinematography and feel than about story or message.
Here are my favorites in no particular order:
Fincher
PTA
Kubrick
Scorsese
Bergman
Tarantino
Linklater
Villenueve
Tarkovsky
Anderson
Hitchcock
One thing that certainly unites the Kubrick style is that they are all visually beautiful.
Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, David Fincher, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Michael Mann, Mel Gibson.
As a thought exercise I like to list at least one per continent, e.g:
Guillermo Del Toro (Americas)
Andrei Tarkovsky (Europe)
Takeshi Kitano (Asia)
George Miller (Oceania)
Jahmil X.T Quebeka (Africa).
Of course summing down continents to a single guy is reductive (and it depends how you define continents as of itself, e.g the americas) but it's an interesting exercise to see what you can come up with for each one as an encouragement to go look for more.
takeshi kitano is my main man😎.....Hana-bi
Low key though, how is it that you only have 20k subs and you’ve been here for a decade. That’s just not right
I love preston sturges also,william wyler,stanley kubrick,coen brothers
Mine are Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick Terry Gilliam Tim Burton Martin Scorsese Francis Coppola David Fincher Spike Lee Gordan Parks and Steven Spielberg.
My favourite director has to be Sion Sono! He may not be a Kubrick or a Tarkovsky, but he’s definitely one of those directors who are able to set themselves apart from the rest. He is a “shock poet of the cinema”, as you would call em, and I wish more people were familiar with his work.
love love love suicide circle
Mö Zö Love Exposure is my favourite 😍😍
@@aaronshouting588 i have some catching up to do ^^
Mö Zö highly recommend Love Exposure, Cold Fish, Guilty of Romance, and strange circus
@@aaronshouting588 wow thank you. i think i wrote off sono after tokyo tribe. what a fool i was. lucky someone uploaded the whole 4 hours of love exposure to yt. i have strange circus on dvd - it holds up better than suicide club but sc will always hold a special place in my memory & heart
I wish Hideaki Anno and Mamoru Oshii were more recognized outside of Japan. They are mostly know for their animated works, so they are rarely discussed outside of anime communities. Also, their live action movies are hard to find; especially Anno, his only live action movie licensed outside of Jqpan is Shin Godzilla.
My favorite director is Woody Allen.I've seen like 30 films of his and plan on seeing more.
Woody Allen is the most unfunny jew. He’s not funny. He’s low brow humor cheap humor for me. He’s not funny, and he’s a Pedo / Perv
It would be difficult to pick 10 directors, let alone one. The Sight and Sound poll asked film professionals and journalists to name their favorite directors one year, and the results were: 1. Orson Welles, 2. Alfred Hitchcock, 3. Jean-Luc Godard, 4. Jean Renoir, 5. Akira Kurosawa, 6. Stanley Kubrick, 7. Federico Fellini, 8. John Ford, 9. Sergei Eisenstein, 10. Francis Ford Coppola & Yasujiro Ozu (tie). But of course, this list omits many greats such as Chaplin, Truffaut, Keaton, Lang, Pabst, Antonioni, Bergman, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman, Allen, Tarkovsky, Lean, etc. etc. In surveys like this, the list of people who are NOT named is often a better list than the list of people who are.
Solid list. Not all mine, but still!!!!!
Frank Capra, Charlie Chaplin, Steven Spielberg, Martin Brest, Alfred Hitchcock, Sergio Leone, Quentin Tarantino.
Sam raimi is great too.
Martin Brest lol
@@Bigfrank88 What? he made great movies.
@@Mr.Goodkat Sure but he’s pretty far off from the rest of the guys on your list.
@@Bigfrank88 It's "favourite" directors though and truth is he's maybe my number 1 I don't think Tarantino, Hitchcock or Spielberg have ever made anything as good as some of the stuff Brest has done.
Errol Morris's first 3 films are masterpieces...if I had to pick only one it might be him. But I don't so...Fellini (8 1/2) and Kubrick (2001) made the greatest works of cinema art imo (I haven't seen as much Bergman but he's probably on that same level). David Lynch. Eisenstein (I would love to see what that guy could do with today's technology...or even fifty years ago's technology). Kazan. Roman Polanski...Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby are both way up there for me. Alan J Pakula. Mike Leigh. I really hope Tomas Alfresdson recovers from that God-awful "Snowman"...Tinker Tailor is brilliant. Richard Linklater. Milos Forman. I've already said Polanski so I might has well say Woody Allen too...the category is favorite directors, not favorite humans.
7:47 I’m 100% with you here. Couldn’t agree more-Kubrick’s style is so unique, yet recognizable.
My favorite of all time.
So difficult to pick up a top 10 of my favorite directors...can I try a top 50?
I'd like to know your opinion:
-Alfred Hitchcock
-Akira Kurosawa
-Stanley Kubrick
-Ingmar Bergman
-John Sturges
-Yoshishige Yoshida
-Clint Eastwood
-Sidney Lumet
-Roman Polanski
-Yasujiro Ozu
-Jean-Pierre Melville
-Federico Fellini
-John Frankenheimer
-Kenji Mizoguchi
-Delmer Daves
-Fritz Lang
-Maya Deren
-Hiroshi Shimizu
-Robert Siodmak
-Luis García Berlanga
-Mario Bava
-Woody Allen
-Sam Peckinpah
-Don Siegel
-Blake Edwards
-Edgar Ulmer
-Mariano Ozores
-Roger Corman
-Terry Gilliam
-Heinosuke Gosho
-Tobe Hooper
-Martin Scorsese
-Quentin Tarantino
-John Carpenter
-Yasuzo Masumura
-Kevin Smith
-Joel Coen
-Hideo Gosha
-David Cronenberg
-Ringo Lam
-Seijun Suzuki
-Abel Ferrara
-David Lynch
-Takashi Miike
-John Woo
-Paul Verhoeven
-Joe Dante
-Brian DePalma
-Dario Argento
-Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Well, I stop
Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton need to be on the favorites list as they are the innovators that laid the groundwork. Im surprised not have seen Sergio Leone listed. Mel Brooks, anyone?
Fincher is my favorite. A dark horse for me is Jeff Nichols. I really dig all his movies: Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter (maybe the best movie I've seen about mental illness), Mud, Loving, Midnight Special, and The Bikeriders. He's got a great eye and sensibilities. I'll watch anything he makes.
1. Kim Ki-duk
2. Vincent Gallo
3. Naoko Yamada
4. Andrei Tarkovsky
5. Jim Jarmusch
6. Abbas Kiarostami
7. Clint Eastwood
8. S. Craig Zahler
9. Park Chan-wook
10. Edgar Wright
More directors I need to watch: Wong Kar-Wai, Gus Van Sant, John Ford, Federico Fellini, Jean Luc-Godard, Paul Verhoeven, Tobe Hooper, Masaaki Yuasa, Paul Schrader, Charles Burnett, Lars Von Trier, Robert Bresson
Kim Ki-duk's Pieta is something else!!!!!
1. Akira Kurosawa 2. Mani Ratnam 3. Satyajit Ray 4. Martin Scorcese
5. Ozu
Almost a meme answer but Nolan for me. No one out there is stretching the modern blockbuster like him and no one out there can make you go to the cinema at the risk of your own life so surely and wholeheartedly.
My top ten:
1) Alfred Hitchcock
2) John Ford
3) Billy Wilder
4) Fritz Lang
5) Sergei Eisenstein
6) F W Murnau
7) Ingmar Bergman
8) Federico Fellini
9) Roberto Rosselini
10) Jean Renoir
Remember cinema have more than 100 years, the great masters of cinema are dead, the golden age of american cinema are the 30s 40s and 50s decades, nowadays hollywood cinema is thrash, the last 20 years no masterpieces coming out from hollywood cinema
You are so right. Many of the great Hollywood directors from the past seems now forgotten.
My Top 25 directors are:
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Billy Wilder
3. John Ford
4. William Wyler
5. Ingmar Bergman
6. John Huston
7. Charles Chaplin
8. Fred Zinnemann
9. Richard Brooks
10. Robert Aldrich
11. Elia Kazan
12. Howard Hawks
13. George Stevens
14. Robert Wise
15. Sidney Lumet
16. Anthony Mann
17. Henry Hathaway
18. Sergio Leone
19. David Lean
20. Steven Spielberg
21. Michael Curtiz
22. John Sturges
23. Zhang Yimou
24. Fritz Lang
25. Sydney Pollack
My top 5 in co particular order:
Kurosawa
Kubrick
Bergman
Tie: Antonioni/Fellini
Tie: John Ford/John Huston.
These guys were prolific and never suffered the directors decline.
Some of my favorites: Hitchcock, Ozu, Ray, Romero, Kubrick, Leone, Wilder, Wyler, Bob Rafelson, Robert Siodmak, Rudolph Mate, Roger Corman Jacques Tourneur, Shirley Clarke, Barbara Loden, Ida Lupino...I'll stop now. I'm a Taurus and we tend to ramble on.
Nicholas or Satyajit?
Great to see that someone mentioned Robert Siodmak and the giant director William Wyler. This man made one classic after another and was unfairly dismissed by french pseudo critics in the 50s and 60s. Wyler and Fred Zinnemann, Richard Brooks, George Stevens, Elia Kazan, John Huston and Stanley Kramer count to the best american directors ever. They made intelligent films without pseudo art attitude.
My top 10 would be
1. Andrei Tarkovsky
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Gaspar Noé
4. Stanley Kubrick
5. Robert Eggers
6. Michael Haneke
7. Ingmar Bergman
8. Quentin Tarantino
9. Miloš Forman
10. Martin McDonagh
Oh man, hear we go…
5. Sean Baker
Hands down has some of the best cinematography in his films and the director of my favourite genre of movies - Indie Cinema.
Top Three Favourite Films By Him Are -
3. Red Rocket
2. Tangerine
1. The Florida Project
4. David Fincher
If you want to watch a movie with complex and interesting characters and twists that you don’t see coming then check out David Fincher movies.
Top Three Favourite Films by him are -
3. Fight Club
2. Gone Girl
1. The Social Network
3. Stanley Kubrick
Watching at Stanley Kubrick movie is like breaking up with a girl and missing them but at the same time you never want to see them again because you know deep down that, that bitch is crazy.
Top Three Films By Stanley Kubrick -
3. Full Metal Jacket
2. The Shining
1. Eyes Wide Shut
2. Martin Scorsese
I love Marty. This man literally directed my favourite movie of all time (The Wolf Of Wall Street). His movies age like fine wine and I hope he loves to the age of a million so he can pump out some new movies for us.
Top Three Films By Marty
3. The Irishman
2. Goodfellas
1. The Wolf Of Wall Street
Honourable Mentions:
20. Francis Ford Coppola
19. Baz Luhrman
18. Ridley Scott
17. Tim Burton
16. Todd Phillips
15. Jordan Peele
14. Guillermo Del Toro
13. Judd Apatow
12. David Lynch
11. Christopher Nolan
10. James Mangold
9. Edgar Wright
8. Robert Zemeckis
7. Paul Thomas Anderson
6. Steven Spielberg
1. Quentin Tarantino
It’s Tarantino. What else is there to say? Snappy dialogue and cool violence can go a long way.
Top Three Films By QT
3. Django Unchained
2. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
1. Pulp Fiction
Tarkovsky
Lynch
Kubrick
Wong Kar-wai
Leigh
6:15 I must be getting old. Usually if I have a dream in a bathroom it means I have to wake up and go to the bathroom, or I'll wet the bed.
likewise - for some reason I have many dreams set in elevators - interpretation?
A person's choice of favorite anything tells you more about the person making that choice than anything. That person's upbringing, education, nature, leanings, preferences, etc., no doubt all play a part in his or her choices. But unfortunately, the person is usually not aware of that, nor the effects they have. So there is really no cogent discussion to be had as to why those choices are made. No films can please everyone, and only certain people like certain films. Only certain viewers love "Parasite," for instance, though a great film that it is. And in the post-me-too era, I suspect films like "Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" (1975) will become more and more prominent and admired. 30 years ago, 8 out of 10 Americans (I'm making this up, but I'm not far off) said "Gone with the Wind" was their favorite film. That certainly has changed. And that tells us more about our society today than it does about the films.
Thats why you cant trust modern critics, or modern acclaimed arthouse movies
Too skewed by current socialsphere, not classic, will not last
(Except terrence malick)
For some reason Michelangelo Antonioni always spoke to me: il Grido, L'Avventura, La Notte, L'Eclisse, Red Desert, Blow Up, The Passenger ... or maybe it's Monica Vitti, his muse. lol
Park Chan Wook is the bollocks. Just one of the best.......
Felinni, Tarkovsky (Stalker, Nostalgia, Sacrifice, Andrey Rublev), Bergman, Bertolucci, Viskonti, Antonioni, Skola, Roberto Rossellini, Vitorio De Sica, Otar Ioseliani, Truffot, Bunuel, Lui Mal, Bernard Blier, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Renoir, Akira Kurosawa, David Linch, Milos Forman, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Billy Wilder, Ken Loach, Spielberg, Marcelo Piñeyro, Frensis Coppola, Polansky, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Fasbinder, Liliana Cavalli, Oliver Stone, Kubrick, Haneke, Almadovar, Nolan, Fincher, Gaspar Noe, Denis Villeneuve, Guillermo Del Toro, Paul Verhoeven, Sodemberg, Tarantino, Coen Brothers, Vess Anderson, Guadagnino, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lars Von Trier, Emil Kusturitsa, Ang Lee; Koreans: Won Kar Wai, Bong Joon-ho (not Parasites, but Mother), Kim Ki Duk and some other honorable mentions!!!!!
1) Stanley Kubrick
2) Paul Thomas Anderson
3) Terrence Mallick
4) Joel Coen
5) Wes Anderson
6) Andrei Tarkovsky
7) Ridley Scott
8) Sergio Leone
9) Clint Eastwood
10) Alfred Hitchcock
10. Michaelanglo Antonioni
9. John waters
8. Paul vorhoeven
7. David Lynch
6. John woo
5. Ingmar bergman
4. Chantal akerman
3. Jonas mekas
2. Alan Clarke
1. Luis buñuel (the goat)
I have so much love for Antonioni. I watched his movies in my formative years (13-20).
@@LAZISH he’s the greatest geographical director
@@skateboard446 Yup. My love for Mediterranean, urban badlands and Patagonia are due to his movies.
Terence Fisher, John Carpenter, Martin Scorsese, Shane Meadows, Ari Aster, Robert Eggers, Alex Garland, Steven Spielberg
Have you seen satyajit ray ? He is one of my favourites .
I echo ORSON WELLES: When he was asked who were his favourite film directors, he said, 'I have three: John Ford, John Ford and John Ford.'
Top 10
1. Martin Scorsese
2. Quentin Tarantino
3. Oliver Stone
4. James Cameron
5. Sam Raimi
6. Steven Spielberg
7. Brian De Palma
8. Michael Mann
9. Tim Burton
10. John Woo
nice to see oliver stone mentioned - he almost made my top 10 list - if the question were asked in 1995 he'd be mentioned a lot since he had just finished an amazing decade
Edward Yang deservs more love!
YES!
Someone like him seriously needed to move to France or somewhere in continental Europe where he would've blended into the art scene and be taken seriously by everybody. He was otherwise "just a Chinese guy" to the average Anglo-American viewer.
for the tarkovski I think you need almost a power point where you guy in different rooms, maybe have a drone.
My favorite director is without a doubt Paul Thomas Anderson, every single film he has made (not including Inherent Vice or Hard Eight) is perfect imo. Close second would be David Lynch.
Hard eight is great also
@@peterpellechia5985 It is. But not a masterpiece like the rest of his filmography.
I think it is
@@peterpellechia5985 Well, agree to disagree.
Yeah,there is just something about phillip baker hall
As for director & composer teams, the Hitchcock/Herrmann 10 year period cannot be matched. No one comes close to those two.
Akira Kurosawa
Satyajit Ray
Federico Fellini
Luis Buñuel
Andrei Tarkovsky
Jean Luc-Godard
Stanley Kubrick
David Lynch
Terrence Malick
Asghar Farhadi
Terry Gilliam
Richard Linklater
Bong Joon Ho
Yorgos Lanthimos
Denis Villeneuve
Can't shorten more!
I loved the video where you talked about bad guilty-pleasure movies that you like. So on the subject of favorite directors, do you have any favorite bad directors?
Gaspar Noe ??
Martin Scorsese
Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick
Sergio Leone
Francis Ford Coppola
David Lynch
Orson Welles
Hayao Miyazaki
Steven Spielberg
Quentin Tarantino
Tim Burton
Billy Wilder
David Fincher
Honorable mention: John Carpenter
She's soooo on point on Kubrick 👌🏼
Orson Welles. Citizen Kane is my 4th or 5th favourite of his films.
Michael Mann, John Woo, William Friedkin and Sergio Leone are my favorites.
I don't think I have a favorite anything in life. I love too many things. But, if I were directing movies, I'm sure my favorite director would be me.
Your confidence is admirable
A director I found consistently fascinating was Ken Russell, even though so much of his work is just crap. Sometimes, even in an atrocious film, there was a moment or moments of genius, Mahler, for example.
...and even the epic tastelessness of Salome's Last Dance conceals hidden depths.
Even his crap films are kind of interesting. He’s an acquired taste for sure but his wackiest stuff showcases some major directing chops.
The Boyfriend is a total masterpiece. I loooovvve that one.
Zodiac is my favourite Fincher too.
Do you think directors that are protectionist are the best directors. Kubrick, George Steven's, David Fincher, ext. ?
My top 10
1. Martin Scorsese
2. Robert Altman
3. Alfred Hitchcock
4. Federico Fellini
5. Akira Kurosawa
6. Stanley Kubrick
7. Quentin Tarantino
8. Sam Peckinpah
9. Oliver Stone
10. Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke films always make me feel miserable, in the best way possible. He’s a genius imo
he's very influenced by Robert Bresson; someone you should really check out if you're serious about cinema
I’ve only seen A Man Escaped from Bresson, but that’s just a perfect film that doesn’t do anything flashy or experimental, it just shows what is happening. The LONG take in Funny Games really cemented Haneke’s connection with that stripped down style for me (even if much of that film is more bombastic in its portrayal of sadism than other parts).
I found this interesting as I do not have allegiances or preferences by director. I love the individual films. I DO have a director I hate. I shall never see another film by Yorgos Lanthimos. I should have walked out on the The Favourite.
I liked the Favourite. I look at Lanthimos as though Kubrick and Wes Anderson had a child and had some kind of trauma that made dark (almost black) humor the only coping mechanism.
Michaelangelo Antonioni
David Lynch
Lav Diaz
Andrei Tarkovsky
Lynn Ramsay
Lino Brocka
Krzysztof Kieślowski
George A. Romero
Andrzej Żuławski
Brian DePalma
Bela Tarr
John Carpenter
Steven Spielberg
Ingmar Bergman
Kenji Mizoguchi
Jonathan Glazer
Steve McQueen
Denis Villenueve
Alfred Hitchcock
antonioni - nice
Very good list Dominic, 'Dekalog' and 'Satantango' are two of the greatest of the great films. capo di tutti capi
Park Chan Wook, Stanley Kubrick, Sam Raimi, Mario Bava and F.W. Murnau
When it comes to film polls on important cateogories such as favorite films or directors, I trust only the Sight and Sound poll that is held every 10 years (next one is in early 2022). Most online film polls I've seen are A JOKE. Rotten Tomatoes' all-time great films contain many films made in the last few years! And IMDb's top film list heavily favors 90s films, because the IMDb site was created in the 90s. The Sight and Sound poll is done "by invitation" only. Voters are selected by Sight and Sound, at random, across the world, and across different demographics. That eliminates "fan-voting" or anything that would skew the results. And the results would correctly reveal a cross section of opinions at the time.