MY Favorite Directors
the truth is, I dont have ONE particular favorite director.
Hence, the TOP 10 on this list is a TIE... all of them are number ONE for me....
fell free to comment!
Hence, the TOP 10 on this list is a TIE... all of them are number ONE for me....
fell free to comment!
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1.
David Lean
Director, Lawrence of Arabia
David Lean was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor, best remembered for big-screen epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago. He is also known for the Dickens adaptations of Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, as well as the romantic drama Brief Encounter...
“ The Bridge on the River Kwai
Lawrence of Arabia
Doctor Zhivago
and many more. ” - linkinem41
Lawrence of Arabia
Doctor Zhivago
and many more. ” - linkinem41
2.
Sergio Leone
Writer, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Sergio Leone was virtually born into the cinema - he was the son of Roberto Roberti (A.K.A. Vincenzo Leone), one of Italy's cinema pioneers, and actress Bice Valerian. Leone entered films in his late teens, working as an assistant director to both Italian directors and U.S. directors working in Italy (usually making Biblical and Roman epics...
“ The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
Once Upon a Time in America
3 of my Ultimate favorite movies. ” - linkinem41
Once Upon a Time in the West
Once Upon a Time in America
3 of my Ultimate favorite movies. ” - linkinem41
3.
Quentin Tarantino
Writer, Pulp Fiction
Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance, California, when he was four years old. In January of 1992...
“ I am not even going to list his movies because I LOVE just about each and everyone of his movies.
Its high time he wins an OSCAR. ” - linkinem41
Its high time he wins an OSCAR. ” - linkinem41
4.
Lars von Trier
Writer, Melancholia
Probably the most ambitious and visually distinctive filmmaker to emerge from Denmark since Carl Theodor Dreyer over 60 years earlier, Lars von Trier studied film at the Danish Film School and attracted international attention with his very first feature, The Element of Crime. A highly distinctive blend of film noir and German Expressionism with stylistic nods to Dreyer...
“ he had me since DANCER IN THE DARK.
only a mastermind can direct such work.
DOGVILLE
ANTI-CHRIST ” - linkinem41
only a mastermind can direct such work.
DOGVILLE
ANTI-CHRIST ” - linkinem41
5.
Stanley Kubrick
Director, The Shining
Stanley Kubrick was born in Manhattan, New York City, to Sadie Gertrude (Perveler) and Jacob Leonard Kubrick, a physician. His family were Jewish immigrants (from Austria, Romania, and Russia). Stanley was considered intelligent, despite poor grades at school. Hoping that a change of scenery would produce better academic performance...
“ I have a LOVE/HATE relationship with this GUY. ” - linkinem41
6.
Darren Aronofsky
Director, Requiem for a Dream
Darren Aronofsky was born February 12, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up, Darren was always artistic: he loved classic movies and, as a teenager, he even spent time doing graffiti art. After high school, Darren went to Harvard University to study film (both live-action and animation). He won several film awards after completing his senior thesis film...
“ so far an ACE career.. ” - linkinem41
7.
Sidney Lumet
Director, 12 Angry Men
Sidney Lumet was a master of cinema, best known for his technical knowledge and his skill at getting first-rate performances from his actors -- and for shooting most of his films in his beloved New York. He made over 40 movies, often complex and emotional, but seldom overly sentimental. Although his politics were somewhat left-leaning and he often treated socially relevant themes in his films...
“ Dog Day Afternoon
12 Angry Men
Network
3 of my ULTIMATE favorite movies.... ” - linkinem41
12 Angry Men
Network
3 of my ULTIMATE favorite movies.... ” - linkinem41
8.
Christopher Nolan
Writer, The Dark Knight
Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear story-telling, acclaimed writer-director Christopher Nolan was born on July 30, 1970 in London, England. Over the course of 15 years of film-making, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the biggest blockbusters ever made. At 7 years old...
“ you are my only INCEPTION..
my only INCEPTION........ ” - linkinem41
my only INCEPTION........ ” - linkinem41
9.
Akira Kurosawa
Writer, Yojimbo
After training as a painter (he storyboards his films as full-scale paintings), Kurosawa entered the film industry in 1936 as an assistant director, eventually making his directorial debut with Sanshiro Sugata. Within a few years, Kurosawa had achieved sufficient stature to allow him greater creative freedom...
“ he is ASIAN.. thats the only reason.
LOL!
check out his RESUME for Christ sake! ” - linkinem41
LOL!
check out his RESUME for Christ sake! ” - linkinem41
10.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Writer, Three Colors: Red
Krzysztof Kieslowski graduated from Lódz Film School in 1969, and became a documentary, TV and feature film director and scriptwriter. Before making his first film for TV, Pedestrian Subway (The Underground Passage), he made a number of short documentaries. His next TV title, Personnel (The Staff)...
“ the THREE COLOR trilogy. ” - linkinem41
11.
Stephen Daldry
Director, The Reader
In 1989, Stephen Daldry worked as a freelance reader of unsolicited manuscripts for Literary Manager Nicholas Wright in the Scripts Department at the Royal National Theatre. In July of that year, he directed a Dadaist/expressionist production of "Judgement Day," a play by Odon von Horvath, at the Old Red Lion in London.
“ The Hours, the Reader........ and most of all BILLY ELLIOT. ” - linkinem41
12.
Pedro Almodóvar
Writer, La piel que habito
The most internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker since Luis Buñuel was born in a small town (Calzada de Calatrava) in the impoverished Spanish region of La Mancha. He arrived in Madrid in 1968, and survived by selling used items in the flea-market called El Rastro. Almodóvar couldn't study filmmaking because he didn't have the money to afford it...
“ i think he is a better screenwriter....
but only HE himself can do his SCRIPT justice...
TALK TO HER
BROKEN EMBRACES
ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER ” - linkinem41
but only HE himself can do his SCRIPT justice...
TALK TO HER
BROKEN EMBRACES
ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER ” - linkinem41
13.
David Fincher
Director, Fight Club
David Fincher was born in 1962 in Denver, Colorado, and was raised in Marin County, California. When he was 18 years old he went to work for John Korty at Korty Films in Mill Valley. He subsequently worked at ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) from 1981-1983. Fincher left ILM to direct TV commercials and music videos after signing with N...
“ FIGHT CLUB, SEVEN, SOCIAL NETWORK............ ” - linkinem41
14.
Alejandro Amenábar
Writer, The Others
Amenábar was born in Santiago Chile, on the eve of Pinochet's 1973 coup-de-état, such that his mother, who had already gone through the Spanish Civil War, uprooted the whole family and fled back to Spain. He grew up in Madrid and entered the Sciences Information Faculty at Madrid's Complutense University...
“ OPEN YOUR EYES
THE OTHERS
THE SEA INSIDE
hand him the OSCAR already! ” - linkinem41
THE OTHERS
THE SEA INSIDE
hand him the OSCAR already! ” - linkinem41
15.
Paul Thomas Anderson
Director, There Will Be Blood
Anderson was born in 1970. He was one of the first of the "video store" generation of film-makers. His father was the first man on his block to own a V.C.R., and from a very early age Anderson had an infinite number of titles available to him. While film-makers like Spielberg cut their teeth making 8 mm films, Anderson cut his teeth shooting films on video and editing them from V.C.R. to V.C.R...
“ only a MASTERMIND can make a movie like MAGNOLIA.
BOOGIE NIGHTS. ” - linkinem41
BOOGIE NIGHTS. ” - linkinem41
16.
Alfred Hitchcock
Director, Psycho
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. He was the son of Emma Jane (Whelan; 1863 - 1942) and East End greengrocer William Hitchcock (1862 - 1914). His parents were both of half English and half Irish ancestry. He had two older siblings, William Hitchcock (born 1890) and Eileen Hitchcock (born 1892)...
“ PSHYCO
VERTIGO
REBECCA
the list goes on and on.. ” - linkinem41
VERTIGO
REBECCA
the list goes on and on.. ” - linkinem41
17.
Frank Capra
Director, It's a Wonderful Life
One of seven children, Frank Capra was born on May 18, 1897, in Bisacquino, Sicily. On May 10, 1903, his family left for America aboard the ship Germania, arriving in New York on May 23rd. "There's no ventilation, and it stinks like hell. They're all miserable. It's the most degrading place you could ever be," Capra said about his Atlantic passage...
“ It's a wonderful life
it happened one night ” - linkinem41
it happened one night ” - linkinem41
18.
Terry Gilliam
Writer, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Terry Gilliam was born in Minnesota near Medicine Lake. When he was 12 his family moved to Los Angeles where he became a fan of Mad magazine. In his early 20's he was often stopped by the police who often suspected him of being a drug addict and Gilliam had to explain that he worked in advertising....
“ Brazil
12 monkeys
Monty Python ” - linkinem41
12 monkeys
Monty Python ” - linkinem41
19.
Martin Scorsese
Producer, The Wolf of Wall Street
Martin Charles Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York City, to Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and Charles Scorsese, who both worked in Manhattan's garment district, and whose families both came from Palermo, Sicily. He was raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy, which later provided the inspiration for several of his films...
“ Martin WHO???
NEXT! ” - linkinem41
NEXT! ” - linkinem41
20.
Ang Lee
Director, Life of Pi
Born in 1954 in Pingtung, Taiwan, Ang Lee has become one of today's greatest contemporary filmmakers. Ang graduated from the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 and then came to the U.S. to receive a B.F.A. Degree in Theatre/Theater Direction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Masters Degree in Film Production at New York University...
“ Brokeback Mountain
Sense and Sensibility
and tht Chinese movie tht i shall not name... ” - linkinem41
Sense and Sensibility
and tht Chinese movie tht i shall not name... ” - linkinem41
21.
Clint Eastwood
Actor, Million Dollar Baby
Perhaps the icon of macho movie stars, and a living legend, Clint Eastwood has become a standard in international cinema. Born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, the elder of two children in a middle-class family, Eastwood stayed in high school until the comparatively late age of nineteen and worked menial jobs over a period of several years before enrolling at Los Angeles City College...
“ he's not just a pretty face.
who knew the man with no name could make such SENTIMENTAL Emotionally charging movies like
Million Dollar Baby
Bridges on Madison County
Letters from Iwo Jima
Unforgiven
Mystic river ” - linkinem41
who knew the man with no name could make such SENTIMENTAL Emotionally charging movies like
Million Dollar Baby
Bridges on Madison County
Letters from Iwo Jima
Unforgiven
Mystic river ” - linkinem41
22.
Woody Allen
Writer, Annie Hall
Woody Allen was born Allan Stewart Konigsberg on December 1, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York, to Nettie (Cherrie), a bookkeeper, and Martin Konigsberg, a waiter and jewellery engraver. His father was of Russian Jewish descent, and his maternal grandparents were Austrian Jewish immigrants. As a young boy...
“ i love his movies......... theres nothing more to say. ” - linkinem41
23.
Billy Wilder
Writer, Some Like It Hot
The second of two sons, his father ran a chain of railway station cafes. As a youth he was obsessed with everything American. encouraged by his mother he enrolled as a law student at the University of Vienna but quit after 3 months to be a writer on a magazine which although poorly paid it gave him a great amount of experience interviewing such as Richard Strauss and Sigmund Freud...
“ i love his OLD STYLE movie making....
SHAME they dont make movies like his anymore... ” - linkinem41
SHAME they dont make movies like his anymore... ” - linkinem41
24.
Fritz Lang
Director, M
He studied at the College of Technical Sciences of Vienna's Academy of Graphic Arts but unhappy with the career path chosen for him by his parents, he ran away to study art in Munich and Paris. He then spent many years travelling the world including Asia. In 1913, he returned to Paris to paint. When World War I began...
“ M ” - linkinem41
25.
Roman Polanski
Director, The Pianist
Roman Polanski is a Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few truly international filmmakers. Roman Polanski was born in Paris in 1933. His parents returned to Poland from France in 1936, three years before World War II began...
“ no comments! ” - linkinem41
26.
Paul Greengrass
Director, The Bourne Ultimatum
Paul Greengrass started his filmmaking career with a super 8 camera he found in his art room in secondary school. Those short movies were animation horror films he made using old dolls, artist dummies, and the general art room clutter. After studying in Cambridge University he got into Granada Television...
“ ummm the BOURNE movies...
he really took it to a WHOLE NEW LEVEL of GREATNESS!!!
also United 93 ” - linkinem41
he really took it to a WHOLE NEW LEVEL of GREATNESS!!!
also United 93 ” - linkinem41
27.
Steven Spielberg
Producer, Saving Private Ryan
Undoubtedly one of the most influential film personalities in the history of film, Steven Spielberg is perhaps Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. Spielberg has countless big-grossing, critically acclaimed credits to his name, as producer, director and writer...
30.
Frank Darabont
Writer, The Shawshank Redemption
Three-time Oscar nominee Frank Darabont was born in a refugee camp in 1959 in Montbeliard, France, the son of Hungarian parents who had fled Budapest during the failed 1956 Hungarian revolution. Brought to America as an infant, he settled with his family in Los Angeles and attended Hollywood High School...
31.
David Lynch
Writer, Mulholland Dr.
Born in 1946 in Missoula, Montana, David Lynch was raised in small-town America. After high school, he went to Boston to attend the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Shortly after that, he planned a three-year trip to Europe to work on his art, but didn't take to it and left after 15 days. In 1977...
33.
Spike Jonze
Producer, Her
Spike Jonze made up one-third (along with Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman) of the triumvirate of genius minds behind Dirt Magazine, the brother publication of the much lamented ground-breaking Sassy Magazine. These three uncommon characters were all editors for Grand Royal Magazine as well, under...
34.
Milos Forman
Director, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Milos Forman was born Jan Tomas Forman in Caslav, Czechoslovakia, to Anna (Svabova), who ran a summer hotel, and Rudolf Forman, a professor. During World War II, his parents were taken away by the Nazis, after being accused of participating in the underground resistance. His father died in Buchenwald and his mother died in Auschwitz...
35.
Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson was born as an only child in a small coast-side town in New Zealand in 1961. When a friend of his parents bought him a super 8 movie camera (because she saw how much he enjoyed taking photos), the then eight-year-old Peter instantly grabbed the thing to start recording his own movies, which he made with his friends...