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filmsRpriceless · Camera Operator Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 65

Actually, I prefer Cronenberg over Lynch also, if slightly. He, without a doubt, IS highly intellectual, he probes the pysche like no other, he knows pyschology, and his films are really about something. You can even see a statement in his body of work; he is a great example, as far as I am concerned, as an intelligent filmmaker who evolves from film to film, his themes expanding, and him truly maturing. It's great and e-ven his films that don't fully work for me are interesting in their own way. I hold Crash in the highest esteem, consider it one of my all time faves -- it, of course, follows his other masterpieces that are Videodrome, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, and last but not least, Spider. Forgive me for rambling... Here is my top five favorite directors for today, as of right now, in order:

-Michelangelo Antonioni

-Stanley Kubrick

-Stan Brakhage

-Abbas Kiarostami

-David Cronenberg (Why the hell not?)
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the night watchman · Posted: 09.27.2003 3:20 am Post subject:

I was actually disappointed with Crash the first time I watched it, basically figuring it was a soft-core porn -- albeit a beautifully-made, well-acted soft-core porn -- about a peculiar fetish I neither shared nor understood. I picked it up on DVD only to complete my Cronenberg collection, but decided to sit down and give it another go. This time I understood it from a completely different perspective; it really wasn't about sex at all. This it how I synopsized my take on it in a review I wrote recently: "Crash is the story of people so disconnected from their emotions only destructive events can penetrate their numbed psyches. Since car crashes scar bodies and warp metal, these events are perceived as transformative. In a changeless world, any kind of transformation is seen as redemptive."
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filmsRpriceless · Camera Operator Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 65

Dr Giggles · Camera Operator Joined: 09 Oct 2003 Posts: 84

Quentin Tarantino

David Lynch
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the night watchman · Posted: 10.14.2003 3:11 pm Post subject:

I think Tarantino can go on my list now. I just didn't want to include someone with only three movies under his belt; so unless Kill Bill: Vol. 2 reall sucks, he's on mine too.
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Kenji · Key Grip Joined: 11 Dec 2004 Posts: 29

Mizoguchi

Tarkovsky

Renoir

Hitchcock

Kubrick

Rohmer

(early) Wenders

Max Ophuls

Dreyer

Eisenstein

Ozu

Von Sternberg

Powell/Pressburger

Satyajit Ray

promising recent ones;

Kore-eda

Samira Makhmalbaf

beltmann · Posted: 03.07.2005 3:54 am Post subject:

juhsstin · Camera Operator Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 87

no one said Sam Raimi... Sad

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Jim Harper · Posted: 03.07.2005 9:01 pm Post subject:

Okay, probably not a list shared by too many people, but it's based on individuals whose films have given me the greatest pleasure over the years. So here goes, with favourite efforts:

John Carpenter (The Thing, Prince of Darkness, The Fog)

Larry Cohen (It's Alive, Q The Winged Serpent, The Stuff)

Hideo Nakata (Ring, Ring 2, Chaos)

Alejandro Amenabar (Abre Los Ojos, Tesis, The Others)

Terence Fisher (The Devil Rides Out, Night of the Big Heat, Dracula Prince of Darkness)

Dario Argento (Deep Red, Suspiria, Tenebre)

Don Coscarelli (Phantasm, Phantasm II, Bubba Ho-Tep)

Coscarelli's a cheat but who cares? He's done some great films.

the night watchman · Posted: 03.10.2005 9:05 pm Post subject:

I want to add Kiyoshi Kurosawa to my list, place Guy Maddin in the wings, and remove Orson Wells. While I very much like what I've seen of Wells's work, I really haven't seen enough of it to really embrace him. I'm afraid I must confess I was just putting on airs when I originally included him, and I just couldn't live with the guilt anymore.
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the night watchman · Posted: 03.10.2005 9:11 pm Post subject:

Fred C. Dobbs · Director Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 201 Location: New York

Akira Kurosawa

Martin Scorsese

Alfred Hitchcock

Spike Lee

Sergio Leone

David Cronenberg

Jean-Luc Godard

Billy Wilder

Ingmar Bergman

John Ford

Mario Bava

John Huston

Dario Argento

Tod Browning

Quentin Tarantino

James Whale

Charles Chaplin

Buster Keaton

These are directors who I have enjoyed the bulk of their work greatly. I too have omitted Orson Welles because even though Citizen Kane & Touch of Evil are among my favorite films of all-time, I've only seen three Welles films.
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