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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Film Directors: Your Lists
« Reply #90 on: November 24, 2008, 12:59:49 AM »
Thanks for all the kind words, skjerva! I do hope that the Dardennes will get more love on this thread soon :(.


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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Film Directors: Your Lists
« Reply #91 on: November 24, 2008, 07:31:08 AM »
Great list, worm.

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Film Directors: Your Lists
« Reply #92 on: November 24, 2008, 08:57:00 AM »
Mesa list,

1) Hayao Miyazaki
2) Alfred Hitchcock
3) Stanley Kubrick
4) Akira Kurosawa
5) Brad Bird
6) Guillermo del Toro
7) John Ford
8) Billy Wilder
9) Ridley Scott
10) David Fincher
11) Orson Welles
12) John Lasseter
13) Clint Eastwood
14) David Cronenberg
15) George Romero
16) Elia Kazan
17) Coen Brothers
18) Alfonso Cuaron
19) Steven Spielberg
20) Danny Boyle
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Film Directors: Your Lists
« Reply #93 on: November 24, 2008, 09:45:01 AM »
Nice to see Lasseter get some recognition. Seems like everyone has kinda forgotten about him with the emergence of Bird and Stanton.

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Film Directors: Your Lists
« Reply #94 on: November 24, 2008, 02:08:29 PM »
Nice to see Lasseter get some recognition. Seems like everyone has kinda forgotten about him with the emergence of Bird and Stanton.

I look at Lasseter as the Spielberg of animation. He is an incredible director in the field, who has been hugely influential, but because he is the standard by which everyone is compared he is unfairly marginalized. His first three films are masterpieces and even Cars is, in my opinion, a great film. But somehow he is forgotten in the light of Bird and Stanton, much like Spielberg is forgotten in the light of people like Fincher, or even Scott.
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Film Directors: Your Lists
« Reply #95 on: November 24, 2008, 02:25:20 PM »
Because Fincher is a carbon copy of Spielberg
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Film Directors: Your Lists
« Reply #96 on: November 24, 2008, 02:30:53 PM »
Because Fincher is a carbon copy of Spielberg

Except minus the sentimentalism and plus more needless/gratuitous special effects. If there is anything great about Spielberg its that he uses CG only when needed (Indy 4 not counted) and nearly always makes sure they do not call attention to themselves (again, Indy 4 not counted.)
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Film Directors: Your Lists
« Reply #97 on: November 24, 2008, 02:34:11 PM »
Doesn't appear that Miyazaki needs any more love, but I really couldn't see it being anyone else. :)

1. Hayao Miyazaki
2. Woody Allen
3. Darren Aronofsky
4. Milos Forman
5. Akira Kurosawa
6. Martin Scorsese
7. Robert Altman
8. Frank Capra
9. Brad Bird
10. Stanley Kubrick
11. Isao Takahata
12. Tim Burton
13. Michel Gondry
14. John Lasseter
15. The Coen Brothers
16. Andrew Stanton
17. Guillermo Del Toro
18. Billy Wilder
19. Danny Boyle
20. Satoshi Kon

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Film Directors: Your Lists
« Reply #98 on: November 24, 2008, 02:38:58 PM »
I'm not really a director fangirl, but here's my attempt at a list. The top 10 are the ones I really admire and love to watch.

1. Paul Thomas Anderson
2. The Coen Brothers
3. Woody Allen
4. Alfred Hitchcock
5. Pedro Almodovar
6. Orson Welles
7. Michel Gondry
8. David Fincher
9. Wes Craven
10. Alfonso Cuaron
11. Wong Kar-Wai
12. Stephen Spielberg
13. Judd Apatow
14. Michael Moore
15. Stanley Kubrick
16. Sofia Coppola
17. Edgar Wright
18. Alejandro González Iñárritu
19. Rob Reiner
20. Milos Forman
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Film Directors: Your Lists
« Reply #99 on: November 24, 2008, 02:40:40 PM »
Because Fincher is a carbon copy of Spielberg

Except minus the sentimentalism and plus more needless/gratuitous special effects. If there is anything great about Spielberg its that he uses CG only when needed (Indy 4 not counted) and nearly always makes sure they do not call attention to themselves (again, Indy 4 not counted.)

i was being sarcastic.

How is the director of fight club and seven even compare to the director of jaws and raiders fo the lost ark? Please tell me, i just can't see why.

also, wasn't war of the worlds very effects heavy, or did they actually create loads of giant walking tripods and put veins all over the earth?
I actually consider a lot of movies to be life-changing! I take them to my heart and they melt into my personality.