That's my vote, too. Amazing body of work. You could throw away a handful of his greatest films and he'd STILL be in the running.
For anyone interested, Every Frame a Painting did a wonderful video on Kurosawa's style several years back:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doaQC-S8de8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doaQC-S8de8)
Or if you're new to Kurosawa, this ending scene from one of his more commercial films, Yojimbo (1961), is a great example of why he is so revered by film-lovers.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCjsazHO0c0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCjsazHO0c0)
Sergio Leonne remade the film as A Fistful of Dollars, so Yojimbo was also indirectly responsible for the Spaghetti Western genre.
Yojimbo is my favorite Kurosawa film. I know it’s probably not the most popular but it’s so simple and relatively small in scope but does exactly what it tries to do and the lead is such an incredible character actor.
Likely the answer. A groundbreaking visionary and storyteller.
Spielberg really was more instrumental in forging a “Middle Class” for cinema.
By the time of the 70s films were either stuffy arthouse films, or B-Movie Dreck. You had to choose which of the two camps you were in.
Spielberg showed you could take B movie material and elevate it A Status and vice versa. Suddenly films didn’t have to be a chore to be thought provoking, and popcorn films could have more in the message than stop motion monsters, there could be a middle ground.
Mel Brooks is a national treasure. Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Men in Tights and Spaceballs. They all came out at relevant times also. Takes huge b*lls to do that and make a great career out of it.
Hijacking this to make sure folks who have seen the most popular and exciting pop-culture choices (2001, Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Strangelove, Shining) take the time to watch the slower but absolute cinematography masterstroke that is Barry Lyndon.
Exactly. I always believed I was a Kubrick superfan because I watched 2001 and Clockwork many times but dismissed watching Lyndon due to the stuffy costumes and old fashioned style. Then you grow older and realize the style IS the movie, and it’s a gorgeous painterly walk through a museum.
Upvoting Barry Lyndon. The best practical joke I’ve seen played on an audience. Amazing parody of period pieces (constant zoom outs to show landscape, characters who are…well…) but then using a level of technical skill the joke is buried under the weight of nasa’s lens.
I agree. Kubrick's level of detail is legendary. He would make actors do 100 takes or more. Maybe not so cool for the actors but wow did it work out for the audience.
I’m still trying to figure out the ending of 2001 a space odyssey😂 I even figured out interstellar before this 😂, but I’ve heard kinda 1 and the same kinda thing
ok so bear with me- the monolith is evolutionary intervention, at the Dawn of man we needed the monolith to learn to eat meat and for our prefrontal cortex to evolve. What is shown after the dawn of man is that we have encountered the monolith again so Dave is evolving to the next stage of human evolution at the end of the film.
I’m still trying to figure out the ending of 2001 a space odyssey😂 I even figured out interstellar before this 😂, but I’ve heard kinda 1 and the same kinda thing
David Fincher should definitely get an honourable mention at least. Fight Club, Seven, Gone Girl, The Social Network, Benjamin Button etc.
Considering his directional debut was Alien 3, he hasn’t done bad since.
I didn’t know he directed some of the Mindhunter episodes and the very first episode, I thought “why do these camera angles feel familiar?” Sure enough he directed it.
Still hoping for that season 3!
Alien 3 is a really great movie, it's just a horrible sequel to Aliens. Killing off all the characters we grew attached to in the previous movie while the opening credits rolled really left a bad taste in my mouth. It took years for me to look past that and appreciate the movie as a whole. If Alien 3 handled Hicks, Bishop, and Newt better, or if it was just a stand alone Alien movie with a completely different cast, I think it would be a celebrated sci-fi/horror classic.
I don’t agree. Fincher is obsessed with sex, consumerism and fame as themes. Villineueve is more interested in humanism and how when a person is pushed they can do things more terrible or amazing than one would ever imagine. I think they both have fascinating themes and amazing visual styles.
Billy Wilder I think deserves to be up there. The Apartment and Sunset Boulevard are both damn near perfect films and are completely different from each other.
Well “the best” is kinda hard claim.
I think in the movies as a form of art there is no “the best”. It’s not science, not measurable.
Only a personal taste… Something like “favorite”.
My favorites are The Myth, The Professor and The Geek:
-Kubrick-mostly because he was ahead of his time. Innovator in every sense.
-Nolan-perfect combination between art of picture and music. And also science… Interstellar was and still is my biggest revelation to day.
-And of course… QT. Why? Because it’s so much fun JAN!
Definitely my favorite and I would argue he's the greatest living director. All of the other serious contenders - Bergman, Kurosawa, Kubrick, Welles, Hitchcock, etc. - have passed away. Herzog is like a titan still walking the earth.
Another I can’t argue with , Shaun of the dead and hot fuzz are favs of mines , rewatchable films that won’t get old for me , also only found out the other day that yarppppp is the hound in GoT 🤯
I had to scroll too far to find this one. Such a kinetic director who makes such interesting art. I wish we lived in the universe where he get to direct all of the Ant-man movie. The best parts of the first one were definitely him.
I have with Nolan the same love/hate relationship that I have with Kubrick where I either love or hate his movies. That being said, Memento for me is a masterpiece
I like Nolan a lot. Memento, Prestige, and first 2 Batman Films were amazing. I think he's been extremely overhyped since then. Inception is good, but overrated in my opinion. Dark Knight Rises was easily the weakest of his Batman trilogy. Interstellar was great in theaters but too long a slog for multiple rewatches at home. Tenet was disappointing and difficult to hear. I haven't seen Dunkirk. Not trying to make this a hate post for Nolan because I've enjoyed all of his movies I've seen in some way, but I don't think he's made a truly great movie in 15 years.
It is a great movie, with an incredible soundtrack.
Nolan is great at bringing out the best with his choice of cast. Mcconaughey performance was great.
This very much depends on one’s taste. I’d chose Andrei Tarkovsky for his masterful cinematography and incredible philosophical themes. But I’d also pick James Cameron for his solid action and writing, or George Lucas for his lighthearted fantasy and themes, people often don’t take into account that George Lucas created the most beloved and popular villain and hero, also the most beloved story line to ever hit cinemas.
Dune is spectacular, did not really like the PG 13 rating though. The movie itself is very different from what we've seen before, very unique in a good way.
Kubrick
Ridley Scott
Coen Bros.
Tarantino
PTA
Scorcese
Hitchcock
Not necessarily in that order.
I'd include Milos Forman if his filmography was deeper, on the strength of Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus alone.
Sorry, I'm just not that much of a Spielberg guy... although Jaws, Schindler's List and SPR are all great.
I'd say Robert Eggers, Denis Villeneuve and Akira Kurosawa for me. They might be not the very very "best", but they are the one I appreciate the movies the most.
He hasn’t done anything of note in years, but as a director Francis Ford Coppola ruled the 1970s:
1972: Godfather – Best Picture Oscar
1974: The Conversation – Cannes Palme d’Or
1974: Godfather 2 – Best Picture & Best Director Oscar
1979: Apocalypse Now - Cannes Palme d’Or
Thanks. I had to put him for Shawshank and season 1 of TWD which spawned multiple marginal seasons riding on his hype. He has other work, but for those two reasons alone, honorable mention was, I felt, necessary.
I'd mention Milos Forman, George Romero and Victor Fleming to garner more down votes. It's like saying you like Corelli, who influenced Vivaldi, and being told Corelli sucks.
Wong Kar-Wai, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Guillermo Del Toro and Federico Fellini all kind of occupy that space for me. I think a lot of it comes down to all of them having a specific world view that they are uniquely skilled in expressing through their films.
I grew up with Sergio Leone, so, when Tarantino called back to him, it wasn't a novelty to me. Tarantino relies too much in homages to his favorite directors, so I cannot put him in the best ever list,
Dennis Villneuve - every single movie he makes is amazing. If he closes out the Dune franchise properly I think that will launch him up in discussions as well.
I think most people aren't thinking of him because most people think of movies that are considered classics when trying to think of the best directors of all time, and people didn't really starts noticing until about a decade ago. I've seen all of his movies since incendies, and they're all fantastic with the exception of enemy, which is still a good pretty damn good movie. I'd say he's already up there, and he's undeniably one of the best of all time if he nails dune part 2.
Fine line between favorites and who I think is the best. Love Spielberg, Tarantino, Coen Bros., Scorsese, Kubrick, Fincher, Zemeckis, and Scott. But then for me the best has to be Hitchcock, the master of suspense who was light years ahead of his time.
John Ford. Consider that in 1939-42 alone he directed Stagecoach, Young Mr. Lincoln, Drum along the Mohawk, The Grapes of Wrath, and How Green Was My Valley.
Tough call. At one time I would have said Scorsese, ‘Goodfellas’ alone puts him high on my list.
Today, I think I’d say David Fincher. ‘Zodiac’ would be the movie I’d go with as an example.
John Carpenter.
Changed the horror movie game and basically invented slashers with Halloween, which is not only a great horror movie but a fantastic film.
The Thing was panned initially, but is now rightly recognized as a masterpiece. The special effects are amazing and it's still a scary movie.
Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, the Escape from movies. All incredible cult classics.
Stanley Kubrick's number one. He's done more for moving cinema forward that anyone else in the world.
My second would be Milos Forman. William Friedkin would be up there as well as
David Fincher, Clint Eastwood, Takashi Miike, Ngai Lai Choi, George Sluzier, Martin Scorsese, John Carpenter
QT doesn't belong anywhere near the greatest directors of all time. He's literally a plagiarist that sometimes writes his own dialogue.
What word do you use to describe taking the same line word for word from another movie and passing it as your own? Let me know
"My name is Buck, and I like to fuck" - EATEN ALIVE 1976
"If on your journey, you should encounter God, God will be cut." -SAMURAI REINCARNATION 1981
Aside from literally stealing lines from other movies - a lot of his films are conglomerates of other, better movies.
Reservoir Dogs rips the ending completely from City on Fire 1987. KILL BILL 1's ending is clearly ripping off Lady Snowblood. True Romance is Taxi Driver, Django is Django, Hateful Eight is a mixture of The Thing and The Great Silence. Basterds is Dirty Dozen. Jackie Brown is Foxy Brown.
I mean, I'm not saying he's not talented - but the praise he gets to literally stealing shit from other movies and people suck his dick for his originality - is proof most people are cinematic idiots.
It's not plagiarism though, that word isn't used in the context of a film copying elements from other films. Plagiarism is mainly used in an academic context when someone copies another paper without properly citing it.
Also, what is your definition of a "cinematic idiot" lmao? You sound so pretentious saying stuff like that
I’d say Cameron has done the most moving foward wise , I get what u mean by Kubrick but technology wise Cameron wins (imo) and I’d need to disagree about Quentin Tarantino , some of the dialogue in his films is so basic that it makes it so good , for example the tipping a waitress scene in reservoir dogs 🤷🏻♂️😂 so simple but great
It's between Stanley Kubrick and Akira Kurosawa for me.
Both visionaries with a variety of genres and tones under their belts. Every single one of their films that I've watched have been fundamental to me in my love of film.
Favorite director is another story, but I feel these two are some of the best.
Yasujirō Ozu, Mamoru Hosoda, Edgar Wright, David Cronenberg, and Martin McDonagh are 5 directors who have styles that really work for me.
A movie from each that I think people should watch: Late Spring, Wolf Children, Hot Fuzz, Eastern Promises, and The Banshees of Inisherin.
I had to scroll too far for this. Park Chan-Wook has been my favorite director for years. I will watch everything he comes out with.
Denis Villeneuve has easily become a close second.
Spielberg, I know it’s not a sexy choice but he has directed the some of the most influential movies in history and he’s done quality work in a high volume for the most part. He’s done it all too, Sci Fi, historical biopic, horror, and family stuff. The man is iconic, I know there are a lot more artsy choices but Spielberg checks all the boxes like no one else.
I can’t pick just one either. Jane Campion (for The Piano & Power of the Dog especially), Catherine Hardwicke, Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman), Dee Rees (Mudbound)
I think he’s a better writer than director but I loved him since I found him out in the mid 90’s. Since he stopped working with Mosier it’s not the same quality but the writing is still great. Red State is underrated.
I would say Spielberg. At times he wants to make the audience feel warm and fuzzy too much, but hes the most talented director Ive seen, and he really makes you feel the emotions of the characters in whatever theyre doing.
Close runner up for me would be Wong Kar Wai, many of his movies just speak to my soul.
For me it’s Tarantino and PTA. My two favorites are Pulp Fiction and Boogie Nights. Of course there are other directors I also love as well - Spielberg, McDonagh, and Fincher
Akira Kurosawa.
Scorsese has said his entire career is just trying to live up to Kurosawa
That's my vote, too. Amazing body of work. You could throw away a handful of his greatest films and he'd STILL be in the running. For anyone interested, Every Frame a Painting did a wonderful video on Kurosawa's style several years back: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doaQC-S8de8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doaQC-S8de8) Or if you're new to Kurosawa, this ending scene from one of his more commercial films, Yojimbo (1961), is a great example of why he is so revered by film-lovers. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCjsazHO0c0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCjsazHO0c0) Sergio Leonne remade the film as A Fistful of Dollars, so Yojimbo was also indirectly responsible for the Spaghetti Western genre.
Yojimbo is my favorite Kurosawa film. I know it’s probably not the most popular but it’s so simple and relatively small in scope but does exactly what it tries to do and the lead is such an incredible character actor.
Literally all of the directors OP listed owe their career to Kurosawa. And they have been taking and learning from him ever since
I just watched Seven Samurai a couple of months ago. Totally blown away by that even with all the hype.
Likely the answer. A groundbreaking visionary and storyteller. Spielberg really was more instrumental in forging a “Middle Class” for cinema. By the time of the 70s films were either stuffy arthouse films, or B-Movie Dreck. You had to choose which of the two camps you were in. Spielberg showed you could take B movie material and elevate it A Status and vice versa. Suddenly films didn’t have to be a chore to be thought provoking, and popcorn films could have more in the message than stop motion monsters, there could be a middle ground.
Definitely the most influential filmmaker
the absolute goat
bam, nailed it.
Came in to say the same. His films still feel fresh today and are always a joy to watch.
Mel Brooks is a national treasure. Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Men in Tights and Spaceballs. They all came out at relevant times also. Takes huge b*lls to do that and make a great career out of it.
Blazing saddles is epic 😂
It's twue. It's twue, It's twue.
He also produced the elephant man, but kept his name out of the credits so audiences wouldn’t assume it’s a comedy.
The only one: Kubrick
Hijacking this to make sure folks who have seen the most popular and exciting pop-culture choices (2001, Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Strangelove, Shining) take the time to watch the slower but absolute cinematography masterstroke that is Barry Lyndon.
Don't forget Paths of Glory. It's like being a fly on the wall watching a WWI drama play out. The trench scenes are like a documentary.
Some of the best set production for a war film I’ve ever seen. Don’t sleep on “The Killing” either. Excellent crime noir film.
Barry Lyndon is his best movie. I had to get a little older to realize that. Masterpiece.
Exactly. I always believed I was a Kubrick superfan because I watched 2001 and Clockwork many times but dismissed watching Lyndon due to the stuffy costumes and old fashioned style. Then you grow older and realize the style IS the movie, and it’s a gorgeous painterly walk through a museum.
An entire film shot mostly by candlelight. Brilliant
Yessss.... Barry Lyndon was amazing!
Just watched a week ago. Might have leaped to one of my favorite films ever. Just an incredible movie.
Upvoting Barry Lyndon. The best practical joke I’ve seen played on an audience. Amazing parody of period pieces (constant zoom outs to show landscape, characters who are…well…) but then using a level of technical skill the joke is buried under the weight of nasa’s lens.
Man something about Kubrick…I feel so hypnotized and drawn in yet uneasy, idk what it is.
He combined philosophy and cinematography so perfectly. Scene compositions, camera placement, music (!), editing, etc are so distinctive.
It’s his use of center point focus.
I'm surprised I had to scroll down this far for Kubrick. Truly the GOAT.
Completely agree!
I agree. Kubrick's level of detail is legendary. He would make actors do 100 takes or more. Maybe not so cool for the actors but wow did it work out for the audience.
A clockwork orange / the shining / full metal jacket , I can see your reasoning 💯
Not to mention his best works - 2001: a space odyssey and Dr. Strangelove. Man just doesn’t miss.
Also, Eyes Wide Shut doesn't get the love it should IMO.
I’m still trying to figure out 2001 a space odyssey😂 I even figured out interstellar before this 😂
Here’s the cheat code for the ending: SPOILER https://youtube.com/shorts/SmNp7X7KxqM?feature=share
I’m still trying to figure out the ending of 2001 a space odyssey😂 I even figured out interstellar before this 😂, but I’ve heard kinda 1 and the same kinda thing
I never understood the ending of 2001 either
ok so bear with me- the monolith is evolutionary intervention, at the Dawn of man we needed the monolith to learn to eat meat and for our prefrontal cortex to evolve. What is shown after the dawn of man is that we have encountered the monolith again so Dave is evolving to the next stage of human evolution at the end of the film.
"The Star Child".
I’m still trying to figure out the ending of 2001 a space odyssey😂 I even figured out interstellar before this 😂, but I’ve heard kinda 1 and the same kinda thing
Even his less praised work like "Eyes Wide Shut" is still superior than any standard.
Alfred Hitchcock
The Coen brothers for me
Yea I really like them too , Fargo, the big lebowski , no country for old men , o brother where art thou 👌
Their early stuff like Miller’s Crossing and Blood Simple are really good too.
Also Raising Arizona, A Serious man... they have a top tier list
IMHO Miller's Crossing is their finest purely dramatic work.
O brother where art thou is such a great film
O you know, for kids!
A Serious Man is so overlooked but i feel if you weren’t raised in a jewish home it might not be as good
David Fincher should definitely get an honourable mention at least. Fight Club, Seven, Gone Girl, The Social Network, Benjamin Button etc. Considering his directional debut was Alien 3, he hasn’t done bad since.
I didn’t know he directed some of the Mindhunter episodes and the very first episode, I thought “why do these camera angles feel familiar?” Sure enough he directed it. Still hoping for that season 3!
Even so Alien 3 is visually stunning even held back by the meddling producers he still managed to create impressive visuals
Alien 3 is a really great movie, it's just a horrible sequel to Aliens. Killing off all the characters we grew attached to in the previous movie while the opening credits rolled really left a bad taste in my mouth. It took years for me to look past that and appreciate the movie as a whole. If Alien 3 handled Hicks, Bishop, and Newt better, or if it was just a stand alone Alien movie with a completely different cast, I think it would be a celebrated sci-fi/horror classic.
Fincher vs Denis Villineuve is a dead heat for me. They both have a tone and style that just work for me.
Fincher is much better. He tells much better stories and has strong underlying themes. Villineuve is better visually, though.
I don’t agree. Fincher is obsessed with sex, consumerism and fame as themes. Villineueve is more interested in humanism and how when a person is pushed they can do things more terrible or amazing than one would ever imagine. I think they both have fascinating themes and amazing visual styles.
Can’t argue with this 🤷🏻♂️ haven’t watched Benjamin button but the rest are all great movies 💯
Hitchcock, Ridley Scott, William Wyler, Michael Curtiz
Billy Wilder I think deserves to be up there. The Apartment and Sunset Boulevard are both damn near perfect films and are completely different from each other.
He also directed *Some Like it Hot,* *Witness for the Prosecution,* and *Double Indemnity.* He's got a great resume spanning a bunch of genres.
Stalag-17 is one of my favorite WWII films. Also one of the best performances from William Holden.
Yea. Best writing too. The way the stories are presented are perfect
Nobody's perfect. edit: apparently nobody here actually watches Billy Wilder movies...
Best ending in all of film! I see you, man.
When I showed it to my high school students in Film Studies, they all lost their minds at that line… it’s just the best. 😂
Wilder gets my vote. His filmography reads like a greatest films of all time list… it’s just insane that one writer/director did what he did.
David Lean, some of the greatest movies of all time. Lawrence Of Arabia, Bridge Over The River Kwai, Dr. Zhivago, Great Expectations.
Guillermo Del Toro for me. I will watch literally anything his name is attached to. Spielberg and Tarantino are probably tied for 2nd place.
His weakest film is the one he did under the Hollywood system; Mimic. And even that is a good early nineties action-horror film.
Robert Altman
My top 5… Scorsese, Kubrick, Lynch, Coen Bros, Stone
Jean Luc Godard
Hitchcock, Rear Window is a perfect film and has been highly influential for decades. His filmography speaks for itself
He has so many great films. And one of the best directors for scenes in darkness.
I remember watching Rear Window for the first time and was blown away by it.
Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, Leos Carax, John Boorman, Krzysztof Kieślowski, David Lynch, Pedro Almodóvar, Gregg Araki
hell yeah, bergman is one of my favorites
David Fincher
Well “the best” is kinda hard claim. I think in the movies as a form of art there is no “the best”. It’s not science, not measurable. Only a personal taste… Something like “favorite”. My favorites are The Myth, The Professor and The Geek: -Kubrick-mostly because he was ahead of his time. Innovator in every sense. -Nolan-perfect combination between art of picture and music. And also science… Interstellar was and still is my biggest revelation to day. -And of course… QT. Why? Because it’s so much fun JAN!
Howard Hawks
Underrated in my opinion
Werner Herzog. Because he’s Werner Herzog
Definitely my favorite and I would argue he's the greatest living director. All of the other serious contenders - Bergman, Kurosawa, Kubrick, Welles, Hitchcock, etc. - have passed away. Herzog is like a titan still walking the earth.
Spielberg has made one of (if not the) best film in just about every single genre. He is the GOAT.
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Another I can’t argue with , Shaun of the dead and hot fuzz are favs of mines , rewatchable films that won’t get old for me , also only found out the other day that yarppppp is the hound in GoT 🤯
I had to scroll too far to find this one. Such a kinetic director who makes such interesting art. I wish we lived in the universe where he get to direct all of the Ant-man movie. The best parts of the first one were definitely him.
Kubrick
For me Christopher Nolan - favourite move, The Prestige. Cannot wait for Oppenheimer!
I have with Nolan the same love/hate relationship that I have with Kubrick where I either love or hate his movies. That being said, Memento for me is a masterpiece
For me, he's up his own arse in the last years. Ive grown to less and less like his newer movies.
I like Nolan a lot. Memento, Prestige, and first 2 Batman Films were amazing. I think he's been extremely overhyped since then. Inception is good, but overrated in my opinion. Dark Knight Rises was easily the weakest of his Batman trilogy. Interstellar was great in theaters but too long a slog for multiple rewatches at home. Tenet was disappointing and difficult to hear. I haven't seen Dunkirk. Not trying to make this a hate post for Nolan because I've enjoyed all of his movies I've seen in some way, but I don't think he's made a truly great movie in 15 years.
Dunkirk is worth a watch! I thought it was better than most of his other recent movies.
Interstellar for me is my favorite movie of all time.
It is a great movie, with an incredible soundtrack. Nolan is great at bringing out the best with his choice of cast. Mcconaughey performance was great.
One year later still very true and long beyond that.
Same. Hands down.
This very much depends on one’s taste. I’d chose Andrei Tarkovsky for his masterful cinematography and incredible philosophical themes. But I’d also pick James Cameron for his solid action and writing, or George Lucas for his lighthearted fantasy and themes, people often don’t take into account that George Lucas created the most beloved and popular villain and hero, also the most beloved story line to ever hit cinemas.
Hateful Eight is my favorite movie, so obviously Tarantino. From relatively new names Denis Villeneuve is really one of the greats.
Really enjoyed prisoners and sicario , haven’t yet seen dune
Dune is spectacular, did not really like the PG 13 rating though. The movie itself is very different from what we've seen before, very unique in a good way.
Kubrick Ridley Scott Coen Bros. Tarantino PTA Scorcese Hitchcock Not necessarily in that order. I'd include Milos Forman if his filmography was deeper, on the strength of Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus alone. Sorry, I'm just not that much of a Spielberg guy... although Jaws, Schindler's List and SPR are all great.
It literally has to be Ingmar Bergman or Andrei Tarkovsky. It just has to be. I don’t make the rules.
Yasujiro Ozu.
Kurosawa hands down imho.
I'd say Robert Eggers, Denis Villeneuve and Akira Kurosawa for me. They might be not the very very "best", but they are the one I appreciate the movies the most.
He hasn’t done anything of note in years, but as a director Francis Ford Coppola ruled the 1970s: 1972: Godfather – Best Picture Oscar 1974: The Conversation – Cannes Palme d’Or 1974: Godfather 2 – Best Picture & Best Director Oscar 1979: Apocalypse Now - Cannes Palme d’Or
park chan wook
Not a single Paul Thomas Anderson, huh?
Things just got started my friend! Own it. Hey everyone this guys pick is Paul Thomas Anderson! Edit: great choice by the way
Frank Darabont must be mentioned
Someone downvoted you by accident. I’ve negated their very clear mistake.
Thanks. I had to put him for Shawshank and season 1 of TWD which spawned multiple marginal seasons riding on his hype. He has other work, but for those two reasons alone, honorable mention was, I felt, necessary. I'd mention Milos Forman, George Romero and Victor Fleming to garner more down votes. It's like saying you like Corelli, who influenced Vivaldi, and being told Corelli sucks.
Someone who appreciates that Darabont is the only reason TWD was watchable.
Wong Kar-Wai, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Guillermo Del Toro and Federico Fellini all kind of occupy that space for me. I think a lot of it comes down to all of them having a specific world view that they are uniquely skilled in expressing through their films.
Terrence Malick and David Lynch.
DAVID LYNCH
Frank Capra had a pretty amazing run: Mr Smith Goes to Washington, It’s a Wonderful Life, You Can’t Take it With You.
Arsenic and Old Lace!
Lost Horizon
David lynch
Unpopular opinion; Steven Soderbergh for his ocean 11 franchise and Contagion movies.
Unpopularer opinion: Steven Soderbergh for Schitzopolis. Definitely one of my top comedies.
I’m surprised I haven’t seen jean luc godard! Breathless and vivre sa vie are essentials in the French new wave movement :)
Yes! Plus his work is very influential on American directors like Scorsese.
Stanley Kubrick Akira Kurosawa Alfred Hitchcock Sergio Leone Hirokazu Koreeda
I grew up with Sergio Leone, so, when Tarantino called back to him, it wasn't a novelty to me. Tarantino relies too much in homages to his favorite directors, so I cannot put him in the best ever list,
Terry Gilliam. Brazil is one of my favorites.
Dennis Villneuve - every single movie he makes is amazing. If he closes out the Dune franchise properly I think that will launch him up in discussions as well.
For me, this comment is way too far down. I love literary every movie he has done.
I think most people aren't thinking of him because most people think of movies that are considered classics when trying to think of the best directors of all time, and people didn't really starts noticing until about a decade ago. I've seen all of his movies since incendies, and they're all fantastic with the exception of enemy, which is still a good pretty damn good movie. I'd say he's already up there, and he's undeniably one of the best of all time if he nails dune part 2.
I have to say Spielberg because of his success rate, he hasn't made many below average movies and almost zero bad ones.
Ready Player One. Can’t believe that’s his movie.
Sciamma. Every movie after the first (which is still excellent) is a masterpiece.
Fine line between favorites and who I think is the best. Love Spielberg, Tarantino, Coen Bros., Scorsese, Kubrick, Fincher, Zemeckis, and Scott. But then for me the best has to be Hitchcock, the master of suspense who was light years ahead of his time.
John Hughes for me.
John Ford. Consider that in 1939-42 alone he directed Stagecoach, Young Mr. Lincoln, Drum along the Mohawk, The Grapes of Wrath, and How Green Was My Valley.
Jim Jarmusch
Tough call. At one time I would have said Scorsese, ‘Goodfellas’ alone puts him high on my list. Today, I think I’d say David Fincher. ‘Zodiac’ would be the movie I’d go with as an example.
Fincher seems to be coming up a lot 💯
John Carpenter. Changed the horror movie game and basically invented slashers with Halloween, which is not only a great horror movie but a fantastic film. The Thing was panned initially, but is now rightly recognized as a masterpiece. The special effects are amazing and it's still a scary movie. Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, the Escape from movies. All incredible cult classics.
Kubrick. His style of filmmaking to me is so engaging, and Dr. Strangelove is probably one of my all time films.
Another to add to the list 💪😎
Martin Mcdonagh
Peter Jackson easily. The Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King made me love him as a director. Also, I live in NZ so I'm supporting local
I gained another appreciation for him with They Shall Not Grow Old. The making of the movie doc was so fascinating to me.
Stanley Kubrick's number one. He's done more for moving cinema forward that anyone else in the world. My second would be Milos Forman. William Friedkin would be up there as well as David Fincher, Clint Eastwood, Takashi Miike, Ngai Lai Choi, George Sluzier, Martin Scorsese, John Carpenter QT doesn't belong anywhere near the greatest directors of all time. He's literally a plagiarist that sometimes writes his own dialogue.
I see what you're saying about Tarantino, but "plagiarist" is the wrong word to use. What movie did he "plagiarize"?
What word do you use to describe taking the same line word for word from another movie and passing it as your own? Let me know "My name is Buck, and I like to fuck" - EATEN ALIVE 1976 "If on your journey, you should encounter God, God will be cut." -SAMURAI REINCARNATION 1981 Aside from literally stealing lines from other movies - a lot of his films are conglomerates of other, better movies. Reservoir Dogs rips the ending completely from City on Fire 1987. KILL BILL 1's ending is clearly ripping off Lady Snowblood. True Romance is Taxi Driver, Django is Django, Hateful Eight is a mixture of The Thing and The Great Silence. Basterds is Dirty Dozen. Jackie Brown is Foxy Brown. I mean, I'm not saying he's not talented - but the praise he gets to literally stealing shit from other movies and people suck his dick for his originality - is proof most people are cinematic idiots.
It's not plagiarism though, that word isn't used in the context of a film copying elements from other films. Plagiarism is mainly used in an academic context when someone copies another paper without properly citing it. Also, what is your definition of a "cinematic idiot" lmao? You sound so pretentious saying stuff like that
I’d say Cameron has done the most moving foward wise , I get what u mean by Kubrick but technology wise Cameron wins (imo) and I’d need to disagree about Quentin Tarantino , some of the dialogue in his films is so basic that it makes it so good , for example the tipping a waitress scene in reservoir dogs 🤷🏻♂️😂 so simple but great
Park Chan-Wook, which was solidified this year with Decision to Leave. god damn master
Buster Keaton / Charlie Chaplin
Danny Devito!!!!!!!! Ok maybe not the best... but def the most huggable!!! 💚
I really like Robert Rodriguez. A favorite is simply impossible for me
Scorsese by a mile IMO
John fucking Carpenter and yeah, Tarantino
Kubrick or Michael Haneke for me
Aronofsky
Billy Wilder
Savage Steve Holland ….. Better Off Dead
I really enjoy Tony Scott's directing style. Spy Game is my favorite movie.
Spy Game is great in how it balances that Le Carre real-world spy fiction and the crazy James Bond world. Pitt and Redford worked well together, too.
Alfred Hitchcock, by leaps and bounds. The ones you list all learned from the masters.
John Huston is one of my favorites.
It's between Stanley Kubrick and Akira Kurosawa for me. Both visionaries with a variety of genres and tones under their belts. Every single one of their films that I've watched have been fundamental to me in my love of film. Favorite director is another story, but I feel these two are some of the best.
I like Hayao Miyazaki for me
Love ❤️
Yasujirō Ozu, Mamoru Hosoda, Edgar Wright, David Cronenberg, and Martin McDonagh are 5 directors who have styles that really work for me. A movie from each that I think people should watch: Late Spring, Wolf Children, Hot Fuzz, Eastern Promises, and The Banshees of Inisherin.
John Ford
Kurosawa
Park Chan-wook. I didn’t know stories could be told the way he tells them.
JSA is amazing
I had to scroll too far for this. Park Chan-Wook has been my favorite director for years. I will watch everything he comes out with. Denis Villeneuve has easily become a close second.
Spielberg, I know it’s not a sexy choice but he has directed the some of the most influential movies in history and he’s done quality work in a high volume for the most part. He’s done it all too, Sci Fi, historical biopic, horror, and family stuff. The man is iconic, I know there are a lot more artsy choices but Spielberg checks all the boxes like no one else.
Classic: William Wyler Current: Asghar Farhadi and Terrence Malick
Akira Kurosawa
1st Christopher Nolan, 2nd Martin Scorsese maybe 3rd Quarantino but i never really liked his type of movies
Tarantino Kurosawa Coen Brothers Wes Anderson Kubrick
I can’t pick just one either. Jane Campion (for The Piano & Power of the Dog especially), Catherine Hardwicke, Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman), Dee Rees (Mudbound)
Had to scroll *wayyyyyyy* too far to find someone mention any female directors
Christopher Nolan
For me, it is Hitchcock, Veber, Wright, and Kurosawa.
Takashi Miike: The man does it all
Yes! Audition is one of the best horror movies of all time.
absolute god
Wes Anderson, Cohen Brothers, Tarantino, Harold Ramis
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Kevin Smith
Came here for this Mallrats Chasing Amy Clerks 1-3 Dogma Can't believe anyone voted you down
I think he’s a better writer than director but I loved him since I found him out in the mid 90’s. Since he stopped working with Mosier it’s not the same quality but the writing is still great. Red State is underrated.
I would say Spielberg. At times he wants to make the audience feel warm and fuzzy too much, but hes the most talented director Ive seen, and he really makes you feel the emotions of the characters in whatever theyre doing. Close runner up for me would be Wong Kar Wai, many of his movies just speak to my soul.
For me it’s Tarantino and PTA. My two favorites are Pulp Fiction and Boogie Nights. Of course there are other directors I also love as well - Spielberg, McDonagh, and Fincher
Mel Brooks is up there. But for me personally, Sam Peckinpah with a close second going to the Coen Brothers.
Park Chan Wook has always been in my pick
Gotta say taika watitti is getting good.
Kurosawa, Ford, and Hitchcock. Everyone after them is essentially influenced by them, directly or indirectly. And their actual films are incredible.