Who is your favorite film director of all time?

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I almost feel like I should apologize to meltzerboy, for trampling on his turf. My apologies, man.:o

But I’ll start off, my favorite film director is hands down Andrei Tarkovsky. I actually consider him as much a poet as I do a film maker.

Please forgive me if this topic has already come up… It seems like maybe it must have, but I couldn’t find a thread when I searched…
 
John Ford, Howard Hawks and Billy Wilder are 3 I can think of right now.
I am sure there are a few more.
 
Exiled_Child said:
I almost feel like I should apologize to meltzerboy, for trampling on his turf. My apologies, man.:o

But I’ll start off, my favorite film director is hands down Andrei Tarkovsky. I actually consider him as much a poet as I do a film maker.

Please forgive me if this topic has already come up… It seems like maybe it must have, but I couldn’t find a thread when I searched…
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No need to apologize even if I had the same thread! The topic is well worth a second go-around.

I have two favorite film directors and just can’t decide between them. They are, in alphabetical order, Woody Allen for comedy and William Wyler for drama, both supreme masters of their craft. (Something about the letter “W.”)
 
Billy Wilder in the glory days of Hollywood and Spielberg Now.
 
Classic - John Ford, Howard Hawks and William Wyler

Modern - Clint Eastwood, Terrence Malick, Steven Spielberg
 
A few more who haven’t been mentioned yet:

Alfred Hitchcock
Francis Ford Coppola
George Roy Hill (for The Sting)
Sergio Leone
Charles Laughton (for The Night of the Hunter)
John Landis (for The Blues Brothers)
John Hughes (for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off)
 
In no particular order, despite the numeration

  • *]Alfred Hitchcock
    *]Billy Wilder
    *]Frank Capra
    *]Francis Ford Coppala
    *]Clint Eastwood
    *]Ron Howard
    *]Joss Whedon
    *]Rob Reiner
    *]Tex Avery
    *]Bob Clampett
    *]Friz Freleng
    *]Bob McKimson
    *](Chuck Jones – Not so much)
    *]probably others…

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Andrei Tarkovsky (Andrei Rublev); Louis Malle (Au revoir, les enfants)
 
So Michael Bay’s not in the running?🙂 I liked The Island-- prolife though maybe it didn’t intend to be.

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tee_eff_em said:
In no particular order, despite the numeration

  • *]Alfred Hitchcock
    *]Billy Wilder
    *]Frank Capra
    *]Francis Ford Coppala
    *]Clint Eastwood
    *]Ron Howard
    *]Joss Whedon
    *]Rob Reiner
    *]Tex Avery
    *]Bob Clampett
    *]Friz Freleng
    *]Bob McKimson
    *](Chuck Jones – Not so much)
    *]probably others…

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  • How can I omit Alfred Hitchcock? So it’s Woody Allen, William Wyler, and Alfred Hitchcock for me.
 
Hitchcock and Allen, my favs.

One other that deserves mention is Leo McCarey, 3 time Oscar winner. From Wikipedia:

“…McCarey was a devout Roman Catholic and deeply concerned with social issues. During the 1940s, his work became more serious and his politics more conservative. In 1944 he directed Going My Way, a story about an enterprising priest, the youthful Father Chuck O’Malley, played by Bing Crosby, for which he won his second Best Director Oscar and Crosby won a Best Actor Oscar. His share in the profits of this smash hit gave McCarey the highest reported income in the U.S. for 1944, and its follow-up, The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945), which paired Crosby with Ingrid Bergman and made by McCarey’s newly formed production company, was similarly successful. According to Paul Harrit in Great Directors, McCarey acknowledged that the film is largely based on his aunt, Sister Mary Benedict, who died of typhoid.[2] McCarey testified as a friendly witness early on in the hearings of the Un-American Activities Committee in Congress, which was concerned about supposed Communist activity in Hollywood…”

Carey was big at a time when Catholic influence in Hollywood was so strong, he and others were nicknamed “the Catholic Mafia”. But the quality of his work was deeply admired by non Catholics too. At a time when Catholics need to reclaim the culture, a look back at what succeeded in the past is not a bad idea.
 
Hitchcock, hands down. I have more films by him in my DVD collection than by any other director.
 
BartholomewB said:
A few more who haven’t been mentioned yet:

Alfred Hitchcock
Francis Ford Coppola
George Roy Hill (for The Sting)
Sergio Leone
Charles Laughton (for The Night of the Hunter)
John Landis (for The Blues Brothers)
John Hughes (for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off)
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Interesting that you mentioned Laughton. He had such a bad experience with Hunter he never directed again.
 
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