List your top ten directors
 

Title says it all. I couldn't get past 8.


1. Quentin Tarantino
2. Robert Rodriguez
3. Christopher Nolan
4. Tim Burton
5. Neil Marshall
6. Danny Boyle
7. Wes Craven
8. John Carpenter

Didn't we do this already?



Hitchcock
Kubrick
Scorcese
Coppola
John Ford
Roger Corman
Felini
Leone
Woody Allen
David Lynch

good list - i'd add Hawks, Huston, Romero, and of the more recent - Burton, Peter Jackson and Spike Jones

i dunno about ten but
argento
lynch
carpenter
cronenberg
tarantino

thats it for now. can't remember what i put last time.

rodriguez
romero
gibson
stone
chow
burton
carpenter
raimi
craven
roth

James Cameron
Martin Scorsese
Tim Burton
Guilermo Del Toro
Wes Craven
Quentin Tarintino
David Lynch
and Kevin Smith

copolla
Truffaut
kevin smith
tarantino
rodriguez
alan parker
sam raimi
wim wenders
Werner Herzog
roman polanski
paul Verhoeven


oops - thats 11

No order:

Alfred Hitchcock
Quentin Tarantino
Christopher Nolan
David Lynch
Tim Burton
John Carpenter
Martin Scorcesse
Guilermo Del Toro
Lucio Fulci
Ken Russell
Dario Argento
Sam Raimi

...yes, I know thats 12. Sue me.

Oh I forgot Del Toro. He's in my top as well.

My all time favorite is Frank Henenlotter really looking foward to seeing his new film Bad Biology. John Carpenter is up there for me too.

Others I dug...

Walter Hill
Jim Van Bebber
H.G Lewis
Jim Jarmusch
Jack Sholder
William Lustig
Joseph Zito
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Don Coscarelli

I almost put Jarmush. Stranger Than Paradise just blew me away the first time I saw it.

Great flick for sure... I really dig Down By Law too Tom Waits should act more!

Martin Scorsese
Akira Kurosawa
Stanley Kubrick
Alfred Hitchcock
Luis Bunuel
Orson Welles
Ingmar Bergman
Elia Kazan
Sidney Lumet
Fritz Lang



Modern directors list, since only two of my top ten directors are still working:
The Coen Brothers
Christopher Nolan
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
John Singleton
Spike Lee
Spike Jonze
David Chronenberg
Sofia Coppola
Michel Gondrey
David Fincher

1. Martin Scorsese
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Billy Wilder
4. Stanley Kubrick
5. Charles Chaplin
6. Sergio Leone
7. Frank Capra
8. Fritz Lang
9. Dario Argento
10. Francis Ford Coppola

(11.) F.W. Murnau

• Alfred Hitchcock
• Akira Kurosawa
• David Cronenberg
• Sergio Leone
• David Lynch
• Quentin Tarantino
• Clint Eastwood
• Martin Scorcese
• Paul Thomas Anderson
• Roman Polanski

Changed it 3 times just typing that out.

But that stays for now. In that order too.

No particular order...

Lucio Fulci
Jörg Buttgeriet
Brian Yuzna
Dario Argento
Mario Bava
Frtiz Lang
Peter Jackson
Sam Raimi
Ingmar Bergman
Bob Clark

I like his films too Dead Of Night and Black Christmas are amazing. I've got a really good article on him from Psychotronic I should scan and post

10)Quentin Tarantino.
9)Roman Polanski.
8)John Carpenter.
7)Guillmero Del Toro.
6)Sergio Leone.
5)Francis Ford Coppolla.
4)Alfred Hitchcock.
3)Martin Scorsese.
2)David Lynch.
1)Stanley Kubrick.

cool lists - i like the mix of new and old

though i'm still shocked that more of the 'classic movie' lists don't have howard hawks - the man was amazing! and innovated in every genre from horror (the original THING - which he 'really' directed) comedy (Bringing up Baby) westerns (Red River) gangster films (he directed the original 1932 version of Scarface)! come on people - some love for the hawk!

No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yesss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hawks is good- he'd be on my 20 list.

(Though I don;t care for the The Thing From Another World).