Favorite Directors?

[Andrea]

(in order)

 

Vittorio De Sica

Luchino Visconti

John Cassavetes

Ingmar Bergman

John Huston

[ghost of miles]

Richard Linklater (absolute favorite--others in no particular order)

Greta Gerwig

Todd Haynes

Guillermo del Toro

Martin Scorsese

Christopher Nolan

Paul Thomas Anderson

Billy Wilder

Ryan Coogler

Wes Anderson

Chantal Ackerman

Joel Coen

 

.... lots of others, but I'll leave it at a baker's dozen.

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 07:52 PM by ghost of miles

[jlhoots]

Robert Altman

[Andrea]

8 minutes ago, jlhoots said:

Robert Altman

Huge fan! "Nashville" is in my Top 3, and I'd give "McCabe & Mrs. Miller"a 10/10 (and still think it's on YouTube for free)

[mikeweil]

Micheangelo Antonioni

Eric Rohmer

Jim Jarmush

John Huston

 

[ejp626]

Pedro Almodovar

Akira Kurosawa

Jacques Tati

Terry Gilliam

[clifford_thornton]

glad someone said Akerman!

Jarmusch is up there for me as well. 

 

I'll add:

Paul Schrader

Katherine Bigelow

Peter Greenaway

Abel Ferrara 

[JSngry]

Ordon Welles, flaws and all.

Among others ..

[mikeweil]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

Ordon Welles, flaws and all.

Oh yes. How could I forget him?

[Andrea]

I actually prefer Orson's interviews to his movies.

[T.D.]

My top 2 by a long shot are the unadventurous choices of Welles and Kurosawa. 😁