Top Three Film Directors?

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Tenofovir said:
Krzysztof Kieslowski (probably the best director ever) (Poland)
Stanley Kubrick (USA)
Akira Kurosawa (Japan)

Probably just as good: (in no particular order)
Cary Fukunaga for True Detective. (USA)
John Casavettes for many titles (USA)
Frederico Fellini - especially for La Dolce Vita (Italy)
Aleksei Balabanov - for most of his films, especially The Stoker (Russia)
Aleksander Tarkvosky - especially for Solaris (Soviet Union)
Isao Takahata for Grave of the Fireflies (Japan)
Roman Polanski for the Pianist (Poland/France)
Elem Klimov for Come and See (USSR)
Shinji Aoyama especially for the movie Eureka (Japan)
Shunji Iwai especially for the film All About Lili chou-chou (Japan)
Olivier Marchal for French TV series Braquo and other French cop thrillers (France)
Quentin Tarantino for Pulp Fiction (USA)
Hiroshi Teshigahara especially for Rikyu (Japan)
Bartosz Warwas for Caged Swallow (Poland)
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How did I forget Kurosawa??? :doh2: I especially liked “Ikuru”, I guess because I was a bureaucrat myself at one time…
 
Three is too few.

My favorites are

Alfred Hitchcock

Stephen Spielberg

Peter Jackson

George Lucas

Stanley Kubrick

Least favorite

Tim Burton

JJ Abrams
 
In addition to the many great directors already mentioned, I need to add Howard Hawks. Director of many classic films with actors such as Cary Grant (Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday) and John Wayne (Red River, Rio Bravo, El Dorado).
 
meltzerboy said:
Stanley Kubrick, of course! “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “A Clockwork Orange” are both unique films.
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Unique is the right word. I remember watching 2001:ASO for my English/film class in high school for which I was writing a review on - I chose it without knowing what I was getting myself into, let alone being ignorant of who Kubrick was as a director - and the first 10 or so minutes bored the heck out of me. In my review I basically tore into it and my teacher said something like “Yep, I totally understand where you’re coming from.” As years past I have softened on the film, but I still think the beginning is a bunch of horse manure.
 
Michael Curtiz for a wide range of films from “The Adventures of Robin Hood” to “Casablanca” to “White Christmas.”
 
I like:

Fellini (favorites are, The White Sheik, I Vitelloni, La Strada, and Le Notti di Cabiria)

Then Vittorio De Sica (favorites are The Bicycle Thief, Umberto D, Two Women, Marriage Italian Style, and Yesterday Today and Tomorrow)

And Giuseppe Tornatore: (Favorites are, Cinema Paradiso, Stanno Tutti Bene, and The Star Maker)
 
An impossible post but I’ll try three plus three:
John Ford
Howard Hawkes
Clint Eastwood

plus Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola, Mel Brooks

Anyone not from France want to nominate Jerry Lewis?
 
Midwest88 said:
Unique is the right word. I remember watching 2001:ASO for my English/film class in high school for which I was writing a review on - I chose it without knowing what I was getting myself into, let alone being ignorant of who Kubrick was as a director - and the first 10 or so minutes bored the heck out of me. In my review I basically tore into it and my teacher said something like “Yep, I totally understand where you’re coming from.” As years past I have softened on the film, but I still think the beginning is a bunch of horse manure.
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My favorite film. In my case, I wrote an essay in 1969 as part of my graduation and it was very well received by my teacher…
If you did not see it in Cinerama, you saw only half the film…
 
Della said:
I had forgotten to list Alfred Hitchcock. His style and ability to draw the audience into the characters and story was positively brilliant.
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And White Christmas directed by Curtiz is a much watch Christmas movie for me the last 30 years!
 
PoliSciProf said:
An impossible post but I’ll try three plus three:
John Ford
Howard Hawkes
Clint Eastwood

plus Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola, Mel Brooks

Anyone not from France want to nominate Jerry Lewis?
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I’ll pass.

Didn’t know he did any directing though.
 
KevinAK said:
I’ll pass.

Didn’t know he did any directing though.
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Wikipedia says Jerry Lewis directed:
The Bellboy
The Ladies Man
The Errand Boy
The Patsy
The Nutty Professor
The Family Jewels
Hardly Working
The Day the Clown Died (not released)
He also taught a course on directing at USC which was taken by Spielberg and Lucas.
 
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