Greatest Movie Director

Mikio Naruse (When a Woman Ascends the Stairs)
Masaki Kobayashi (Hara-Kiri/The Human Condition Trilogy)
Andrei Tarkovsky (Andrei Rublev)
Larisa Shepitko (The Ascent)
Elem Klimov (Come and See)
Kore-Eda (Shoplifters)
Gillo Pontecorvo (Battle of Algiers)
Alexander Mackendrick (The Sweet Smell of Success)
Nic Roeg (Performance)
Jean Pierre-Melville (Le Samourai)
Grigori Kozintsev (Korol Lir aka King Lear)
Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives)
Lindsay Anderson (If….)
Mike Hodges (Get Carter)
Jafar Panahi (Crimson Gold, Offside)
Asghar Farhadi (A Separation)
Sadao Yamanaka (Humanity and Paper Balloons)
David Mamet (Homicide)
Michael Haneke (Hidden)
Werner Herzog (Aguirre - The Wrath of God)


The above is a pretty random selection.

I do like Kubrick, Lynch, Coppola, Scorsese, Nolan, and some of Ridley Scott’s output. But on this occasion thought I would mention some less well-known foreign directors, plus one or two earlier British ones with a suggested film in each case for those who might want to try something a bit different. For example, Crimson Gold is the Iranian equivalent of Taxi Driver.
 
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urban genie said:
near perfect
Raiders
Jaws
Shindlers list

great
close encounters
jurasic park

of all them I rewatch none (maybe raiders or jaws if thry are on)

2 nights ago I rewatched Escape from New York, I regularry watch the thing, Big trouble in little china, They live, Ghosts of mars, Halloween, the fog etc

he may have made great films but not film I want to revisit unlikenamny other directors

If I had a choice of ET or Con Air I Know which I would put on, the one that entertains everytime not necessarily the best film so Con Air by a distance
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Catch me if you can is a great film too.
 
Wim Wenders

Alice in the Cities
The Wrong Move
Kings of the Road
The American Friend
Paris Texas
Wings of Desire

Werner Herzog

Aguirre Wrath of God
The Enigma of Kasper Hauser
Stroszeck
Nosferatu the Vampyr
Fitzcarraldo
Grizzly Man
 
I think the problem with Nolan is that he's clearly a director interested in taking an idea — usually something to do with time, and the plasticity of time, contrary to common-sense appearances — and building a film around it. The more mind-bending the idea, the better, as far as he's concerned.
I think that works in the case of Inception and Interstellar. I was fascinated by both, although I can easily imagine other people having a low tolerance for them. But I recently rented the early one, Memento, and it was slowly driving me round the bend. He can easily box himself into a corner with his idea. So Memento has to keep explaining itself to the viewer as it goes along. Otherwise you wouldn't understand a bloody thing.
 
jimharri said:
Jaws is a fantastic film; I just hope that Hollywood is never tempted to do a reboot of it, complete with a CGI shark. The clunky mechanical one used back in 1975 has a certain charm to it. Plus, the film has one of the most iconic lines in the history of cinema.
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Apparently the mechanical over was very unreliable which meant they had to change the film so you didn't see it, which made it the classic it is.

The worst scenes are the ones with the shark, so if it had worked, it could have been very forgettable. I agree, I hope they never try and remake it, as the temptation will be to show lots of a shark to make it scarier, whereas it'll just make it pointless.
 
jimharri said:
Jaws is a fantastic film; I just hope that Hollywood is never tempted to do a reboot of it, complete with a CGI shark. The clunky mechanical one used back in 1975 has a certain charm to it. Plus, the film has one of the most iconic lines in the history of cinema.
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Pfft. It’s no Deep Blue Sea.
 
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