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Re: FYC: Best Director (based on body of work)
« Reply #100 on: April 26, 2010, 10:39:49 PM »
My 10 (no more pictures, I have parenting to do):

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
James Gray
Wong Kar-wai
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Jia Zhang Ke
Hayao Miyazaki
Bong Joon-ho
Gus Van Sant
Claire Denis
Michael Mann

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Re: FYC: Best Director (based on body of work)
« Reply #101 on: April 26, 2010, 10:59:15 PM »
(no more pictures, I have parenting to do):
Pft, and I thought you were cool. :)
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Re: FYC: Best Director (based on body of work)
« Reply #102 on: April 26, 2010, 11:00:23 PM »
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Re: FYC: Best Director (based on body of work)
« Reply #103 on: April 28, 2010, 05:26:33 PM »
These are my 10, as of right now,

Adam McKay
-- Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (Unrated, 2004), Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby (2006), Step Brothers (2008)
Chan-wook Park
-- Boksuneun Naui Geot (Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, 2002), Oldboy (2003), Chinjeolhan Geumjassi (Lady Vengeance, 2005)
Clint Eastwood
--Mystic River, (2003), Letters From Iwo Jima (2006), Gran Torino (2008)
Coen Brothers
--O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001), No Country For Old Men (2007)
Guillermo del Toro
-- El Espinazo Del Diablo (The Devil’s Backbone, 2001), Hellboy (Director’s Cut, 2004), Laberinto Del Fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth, 2006), Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
Gus Van Sant
--Gerry (2002), Elephant (2003), Last Days (2005), Paranoid Park (2007)
Hayao Miyazaki
-- Sen To Chihiro No Kamikakushi (Spirited Away, 2001), Hauru No Ugoku Shiro (Howl’s Moving Castle, 2004), Gake No Ue No Ponyo (Ponyo, 2008)
Kelly Reichardt
--Old Joy (2006), Wendy And Lucy (2008)
Marc Forster
--Monster’s Ball (2001), Finding Neverland (2004), Stranger Than Fiction (2006), The Kite Runner (2007)
Richard Linklater
--Waking Life (2001), Before Sunset (2004), Fast Food Nation (2006), A Scanner Darkly (2006)

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Re: FYC: Best Director (based on body of work)
« Reply #104 on: April 29, 2010, 02:45:02 PM »
lol

it's the next step on the evolutionary chain. Duder has moved on from Homo sapiens to Homo superior! Whilst us saps are left using mundane words...........I wish I could jaunt to work........  :(

A Tomorrow People reference, nice  :)

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Re: FYC: Best Director (based on body of work)
« Reply #105 on: April 29, 2010, 02:48:04 PM »
Here is my top 10, in alphabetical order:

Chan-wook Park
Christopher Nolan
Clint Eastwood
Danny Boyle
David Cronenberg
Guillermo del Toro
Hayao Miyazaki
Lars Von Trier
Michael Haneke
Peter Jackson

Honourable mentions:
Pedro Almodovar, Ridley Scott, Steven Soderbergh, Steven Spielberg

I should have seen more of his films (other than all those above):
Werner Herzog

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Re: FYC: Best Director (based on body of work)
« Reply #106 on: May 04, 2010, 11:47:20 AM »
1.Steven Soderbergh
2. David Cronenberg
3.Michel Gondry
4.Steven Spielberg
5.Ridley Scott
6.Johnnie To
7. Paul Greengrass
8.Ming-Liang Tsai
9.Gus Van Sant
10.Zhang-Ke Jia
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Re: FYC: Best Director (based on body of work)
« Reply #107 on: May 04, 2010, 12:06:57 PM »

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Re: FYC: Best Director (based on body of work)
« Reply #108 on: May 04, 2010, 01:00:32 PM »
My 10 (no more pictures, I have parenting to do):

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
James Gray
Wong Kar-wai
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Jia Zhang Ke
Hayao Miyazaki
Bong Joon-ho
Gus Van Sant
Claire Denis
Michael Mann

What happened to Ken Loach?  :'(

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Re: FYC: Best Director (based on body of work)
« Reply #109 on: May 04, 2010, 04:48:06 PM »
My 10 (no more pictures, I have parenting to do):

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
James Gray
Wong Kar-wai
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Jia Zhang Ke
Hayao Miyazaki
Bong Joon-ho
Gus Van Sant
Claire Denis
Michael Mann

What happened to Ken Loach?  :'(

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9 or 10 for me.  :( (Land and Freedom would have clinched a spot for him...)