Battle of the Directors Vol. 2

[criterionmaster]

Okay, anyone who was on the forum when the original battle was going on will remember. I just wanted to start this thread in order to get some directors for the battle. Now I want everyone to put down some directors you can think of, especially some that aren't as obvious. Now this time there will be no Bergman since he won last time.

RULES:

- In order to vote you must have seen at least one of each of the directors films.
- Thoughts are no required but are appreciated.
- And that is basically it unless I forgot something.

[captainofbeef]

Top ten for now.
Leone
Eastwood
Kurosawa
Jarmusch
Polanski
Forman
Tarantino
Godard
Altman
Tarkovsky

[misterbalco]

These arent all favorites, but directors that deserve to be here definatly!

Chaplin
Kubrick
Herzog
MALICK
Allen
Bresson (overrated, but belongs in the competition)
Bunuel
Fellini
Brakhage
Ozu
Lynch
Coen Brothers
Cassavetes
Scorcese
John Ford
Renoir
Van Sant (?)
Tati
P.T. Anderson
Rohmer
Wes Anderson
DARDENNE BROS.
Linklater
Leigh
Fincher
Kiarostami
Welles
Mizoguchi
Bela Tarr
Tsai Ming-Liang

Im sure there are more.

[ie]

Additional directors include:

Eastwood, Clint
Jodorowsky, Alejandro
Kobayashi, Masaki
Miyazaki, Hayao
Park, Chan-wook
Peckinpah, Sam
Romero, George A.
Siegel, Don
Soderbergh, Steven
Trier, Lars von
Uys, Jamie

And, I set up the family name first, given name last... for a change of pace.

[Clark Nova]

...coppola, anyone?

francis, that is.

[blackmoses]

Larry Clark
Hitchcock
Cronenberg
Spike Lee
Truffant
Spielberg

[misterbalco]

Theo Angelopoulos
Antonioni
Fassbinder
Heneke
Kieslowski
Malle

[Clark Nova]

oh my...I am shocked that blackmoses was the first to mention spielberg and The Master of Suspense...or as The Anti-Snob likes to call him, The Cock perhaps the 2 most influential american filmmakers, and they slipped our minds.

[ie]

Perhaps with good reason. Not to knock the Cock or the Berg, but really, why be so conventional? Don't we always watch obscure movies only about 5% of the general American population have even heard of, ya'know what I mean?

[Clark Nova]

...not all of us.

and even if that were the case, there's absolutely no denying the influence that "mainstream" filmmakers like coppola, spielberg, and hitchcock have had on the film industry and popular culture in general.

and just how many people your age do you know who actually watch hitchcock movies for their own enjoyment, anyway?

[agentknight]

ok...

* Claire Denis
* Frederico Fellini
* Andrei Tarkovsky
* Jim Jarmusch
* Vincent Gallo
* Takeshi Kitano
* David Lynch
* Wim Wenders
* Terrence Malick
* Wong Kar-Wai
* Martin Scorcese
* Woody Allen
* Nicholas Roeg
* Sofia Copolla
* Darren Aronofsky

[Clark Nova]

some more to think about, with an example or 2 for each:

- Billy Wilder (Sunset Blvd., Double Indemnity)
- Kenji Mizoguchi (Ugetsu)
- David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia)
- Howard Hawks (The Big Sleep)
- John Huston (The Maltese Falcon)
- John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing)
- Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men, Network)
- Terry Gilliam (Brazil)
- Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardner)
- Tim Burton (Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands)
- James Cameron (Aliens, Terminator)
- Christopher Nolan (Memento, Batman Begins)
- Fritz Lang (Metropolis, M)
- Dario Argento (Suspiria)
- Oliver Stone (Platoon)

some of these I really like, others not so much, but they all deserve to compete at least IMO.

[Clark Nova]

1 more (and he's REALLY hit or miss for me, but he at least deserves a spot in the bracket):

- Ridley Scott

[eatawiiner]

People people people, what about Harmony Korine? Did we forget about Harmony Korine?
Here's my list of best directors for a battle

Cassavetes
Fellini
Bergman
Korine
Ozu
Altman
Lynch
Kurosawa
Tarkovsky
Dreyer
Kar-Wai
Truffaut
Mizoguchi
Shindo
Malick
Godard
Teshigahara
Matsumoto
Hitchcock
Murnau

[criterionmaster]

How could we forgot Korine!? I agree he is amazing, Gummo is slightly better of his two films in my opinion though.

[eatawiiner]

I've watched Gummo countless times when i've watch Julien only 3. I need to watch it more, it is just a very draining experience.

[criterionmaster]

Yeah, particularly because of Ewen Bremner's performance. That is one of the best. I have only seen each film twice but I think I have a much better chance of returning to Gummo, which I need to do soon. I wish the DVD wasn't over $15 everywhere I have seen it.

[eatawiiner]

Fucking christ fuck, I cant believe I forgot Gondry. Sumnabitch

[Clark Nova]

gummo is a pretentious and unbelievably stupid jumble of random gross-out images...and sometimes this might not be a bad thing, but this was just in completely bad taste...and i'm not one to criticize bad taste often, especially when it serves a purpose. It may very well be the case that i have never hated a movie more than i hated this one.

[criterionmaster]

Here are the directors list as of now, I took out all the ones people have said twice. (NOTE: Some of these won't be able to be in the battle if only one person has seen a film from them)

• Sergio Leone
  
• Clint Eastwood
  
• Akira Kurosawa
  
• Jim Jarmusch
  
• Roman Polanski
  
• Milos Forman
  
• Quentin Tarantino
  
• Jean-Luc Godard
  
• Robert Altman
  
• Andrei Tarkovsky
  
• Charles Chaplin
  
• Stanley Kubrick
  
• Werner Herzog
  
• Woody Allen
  
• Bresson
  
• Luis Bunuel
  
• Federico Fellini
  
• Stan Brakhage
  
• Ozu
  
• David Lynch
  
• Coen Brothers
  
• John Cassavetes
  
• Martin Scorcese
  
• John Ford
  
• Jean Renoir
  
• Gus Van Sant
  
• Tati
  
• P.T. Anderson
  
• Eric Rohmer
  
• Wes Anderson
  
• DARDENNE BROS.
  
• Richard Linklater
  
• Leigh
  
• David Fincher
  
• Kiarostami
  
• Orson Welles
  
• Miko Naruse
  
• Kenji Mizoguchi
  
• Bela Tarr
  
• Tsai Ming-Liang
  
• Alejandro Jodorowsky
  
• Masaki Kobayashi
  
• Hayao Miyazaki
  
• Chan-wook Park
  
• Sam Peckinpah
  
• George A. Romero
  
• Don Siegel
  
• Steven Soderbergh
  
• Lars Trier
  
• Jamie Uys
  
• Theo Angelopoulos
  
• Antonioni
  
• R.W. Fassbinder
  
• Heneke
  
• Kieslowski
  
• Malle
  
• Frances Coppola
  
• Larry Clark
  
• Alfred Hitchcock
  
• David Cronenberg
  
• Spike Lee
  
• Truffant
  
• Steven Spielberg
  
• Claire Denis
  
• Vincent Gallo
  
• Takeshi Kitano
  
• Wim Wenders
  
• Terrence Malick
  
• Nicholas Roeg
  
• Sofia Copolla
  
• Darren Aronofsky
  
• Billy Wilder
  
• David Lean
  
• Howard Hawks
  
• John Huston
  
• John Carpenter
  
• Sidney Lumet
  
• Terry Gilliam
  
• Fernando Meirelles
  
• Tim Burton
  
• James Cameron
  
• Christopher Nolan
  
• Fritz Lang
  
• Dario Argento
  
• Oliver Stone
  
• Ridley Scott
  
• Ingmar Bergman
  
• Harmony Korine
  
• Dreyer
  
• Wong Kar-Wai
  
• Truffaut
  
• Shindo
  
• Teshigahara
  
• Matsumoto
  
• Murnau
  
• michel gondry
  
• ermanno olmi
  
• chris marker
  
• alfonso cuaron
  
• ken loach
  
• lynne ramsay
  
• lindsay anderson
  
• spike jonze
  
• peter greenaway
  
• g.w. pabst
  
• david gordon green
  
• kim ki-duk
  
• andrew bujalski
  
• d.w. griffith
  
• Kevin Smith
  
• Sam Raimi
  

Probably got some of them twice. Feel free to post more that you think of, even directors that aren't fantastic but just are good.

[Clark Nova]

some more i just thought of:

- Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire)
- Tod Browning (Freaks, Dracula)
- James Whale (Frankenstein)
- Mel Brooks (Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles)
- Carol Reed (The Third Man)
- William Friedkin (The French Connection, The Exorcist)

[ie]

Four more relevant to your interests:

+ Neill Blomkamp (Tempbot, Alive in Joburg)
+ Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Kid's Story from the Animatrix)
+ Koji Morimoto (Beyond from the Animatrix, Noiseman Sound Insect)
+ Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers, Paranoia Agent)

[Clark Nova]

should animated films really count?

[eatawiiner]

police386 said:

gummo is a pretentious and unbelievably stupid jumble of random gross-out images...and sometimes this might not be a bad thing, but this was just in completely bad taste...and i'm not one to criticize bad taste often, especially when it serves a purpose. It may very well be the case that i have never hated a movie more than i hated this one.

Sorry to hear that you didn't like it. I'm not sure why you think it is in bad taste because you didn't state so, is it because you think he is making fun of these people?

[Clark Nova]

i saw it a long time ago, so i don't remember all of it, but from what i do remember, it just seemed like the movie was trying to be as out there as possible and be unbelievably weird just to make its presence felt...i don't always have a problem with slow pace or apparent lack of plot, but this movie's insistence on focusing on the most awkward and odd moments just infuriated me.

[PTAhole]

Of course animated films count. It takes just as much talent if not more to make an animated film.

[Clark Nova]

ptahole said:

Of course animated films count. It takes just as much talent if not more to make an animated film.

alrighty then, in that case:

- katsushiro otomo (Akira)
- Brad Bird (The Iron Giant, The Incredibles)

[eatawiiner]

police386 said:

i saw it a long time ago, so i don't remember all of it, but from what i do remember, it just seemed like the movie was trying to be as out there as possible and be unbelievably weird just to make its presence felt...i don't always have a problem with slow pace or apparent lack of plot, but this movie's insistence on focusing on the most awkward and odd moments just infuriated me.

I think its cool Korine could anger you so much by showing 'everyday life' in a poor redneck southern town. There are cetain times in the film when i'm not sure whats real and whats not.

There are thousands of films with linear plot lines that help the movie flow along, and I love this one because it doesn't need that to help scenes move from one to another so seamlessly. Thanks for the reply.

[Clark Nova]

yeah, so like, when's this gonna get underway?

[captainofbeef]

Probably when films is done.