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 December 3, 2025 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. 😁

[bertrand]

On 12/3/2025 at 3:15 PM, Andrea said:

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)

Yes, 10/10 for McCabe.

[jlhoots]

39 minutes ago, bertrand said:

Yes, 10/10 for McCabe.

Leonard Cohen soundtrack!!

[Jason Bivins]

Some great choices so far. I'd add Wenders.

[gmonahan]

Del Toro, Scorsese. I've enjoyed the recent run of movies by Yorgos Lanthimos. I also think Chloe Zhao does some good work (well, except for "The Eternals." Didn't think much of that one.)

[Andrea]

43 minutes ago, gmonahan said:

Del Toro, Scorsese. I've enjoyed the recent run of movies by Yorgos Lanthimos. I also think Chloe Zhao does some good work (well, except for "The Eternals." Didn't think much of that one.)

 

I'm guessing you saw "Dogtooth".. Have you seen the Spanish movie "The Castle of Purity" (1971)?

[Brad]

What, no Kubrick?

[Andrea]

7 minutes ago, Brad said:

What, no Kubrick?

He was my favorite at 17, but I only knew a handful back then and discovered many, many more since. 

[jlhoots]

I don't "get" most of Lanthimos films. Just me, I suppose.

[gmonahan]

On 12/5/2025 at 1:43 PM, Andrea said:

 

I'm guessing you saw "Dogtooth".. Have you seen the Spanish movie "The Castle of Purity" (1971)?

Neither one. I'll have to explore those, and I can certainly understand having a bit of difficulty with Lanthimos films.  I liked "Poor Things" and "Bugonia," "The Lobster" and "Kinds of Kindness" less, but like him or not, he certainly makes interesting and original movies.

 

[JSngry]

Watching relative buttload of 1930-1932 Cagney movies on TCM streaming and have become a bit impressed by the tight effectiveness of Roy Del Ruth. If "modern" movies are multi-CD concept albums, these films are 78s, a lot gets done without wasting time.

Del Ruth slumped for a while and occasionally came back, but these are some good movies.

[Simon8]

Fellini, Godard, Herzog... the Coens, Aki Kaurismaki, Roy Andersson, a soft spot, for different reasons, for David Fincher's, Spike Jonze's and Alexander Payne's films as well.

[Andrea]

I love 50s Fellini

"La Strada" is my 2nd favorite movie.

[Milestones]

Hitchcock--suspense, humor, romance, and some very deep (and dark) currents from time to time.  The man had full mastery of shots and editing.

I'm a fan in general of classic cinema, so add Frank Capra, William Wyler, Fred Zinnemann, John Ford, and Billy Wilder.