Who is your favorite film director of all time?

[tee_eff_em]

How can I omit Alfred Hitchcock?

How could I forget: Quentin Tarantino!?

what happened?

no one has mentioned Otto Preminger either - unless I missed it.

The only one I’m familiar with* is Anatomy of a Murder, but I’ve enjoyed it every time I’ve seen it.

(* Okay: Also as Mr Freeze on Batman)


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[Path_Finder]

Daryl Zanuck

Mel Gibson

Zefirelli

Oliver Stone

 

[7_Sorrows]

Daryl Zanuck

Mel Gibson

Zefirelli

Oliver Stone

did Daryl Zanuck direct? I thought he was a producer.

I like the other 3. I did like the movie JFK!

 

[Procla]

Fred Zinneman
David Lean

 

[MrZoom]

did Daryl Zanuck direct? I thought he was a producer.

I like the other 3. I did like the movie JFK!

Darryl Zanuck was a producer, and also a screenwriter.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryl_F._Zanuck

 

[Exiled_Child]

Andrei Tarkovsky (Andrei Rublev); Louis Malle (Au revoir, les enfants)

Awesome, I think we have the same taste in films! Have you ever see Army of Shadows, by Jean-Pierre Melville? It’s a really wild film about the French Resistance; entirely fictional, but cool nonetheless. It’s extremely lively and fast-paced and fun to watch. I’m guessing if you dig Louis Malle, you’re already familiar with it?

 

[Exiled_Child]

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.”)

That’s very gracious of you, meltzerboy, thanks.

Here’s a free screening of the Tarkovsky film that prompted me to even start this thread. I should probably say first, though, that this definitely isn’t for everyone. But for those who have a taste for surrealism and weird, weird films, this is the movie for you:

openculture.com/2014/11/watch-andrei-tarkovskys-mind-bending-masterpiece-stalker-free-online.html

 

[BartholomewB]

Another outstanding director who no one has mentioned yet: Norman Jewison.
The Russians Are Coming, In the Heat of the Night, Jesus Christ Superstar …

 

[Exiled_Child]

Another outstanding director who no one has mentioned yet: Norman Jewison.
The Russians Are Coming, In the Heat of the Night, Jesus Christ Superstar …

He’s worth watching, then? I’ve never seen a single one of those films.

 

[7_Sorrows]

He’s worth watching, then? I’ve never seen a single one of those films.

In the Heat of the Night is really good. Definitely recommend it.

 

[7_Sorrows]

Darryl Zanuck was a producer, and also a screenwriter.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryl_F._Zanuck

but was he a director? His studio produced some great films.
Was he the screenwriter for Gone with the Wind?

 

[BartholomewB]

In the Heat of the Night is really good. Definitely recommend it.

Yes! And the other two are even better!

 

[MrZoom]

but was he a director? His studio produced some great films.
Was he the screenwriter for Gone with the Wind?

IMDB lists him primarily as a producer and writer. However, he is also listed as an uncredited director on 3 films: Noah’s Ark, The Longest Day, and Cleopatra.

He does not seem to have been involved with GWTW at all; and I wouldn’t expect him to be, since it was at a different studio. GWTW was produced by Selznick International (with the modern home video rights held by Warner Bros.), while Zanuck was at 20th Century Fox.

 

[MrZoom]

Sidney Howard was the screenwriter for Gone With The Wind, for which he won an Oscar. The award was posthumous, as he died in August, 1939 and the ceremony was in early 1940.

 

[Sunbreak]

Alfred Hitchcock
Akira Kurosawa for Japanese films
Majid Majidi for Iranian films (Children of Heaven and The Color of Paradise, both won best film at Montreal International Film Festival and the first film was a nominee for best foreign film in the Academy Awards)

 

[meltzerboy]

I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned Stanley Kubrick.

You’re so right. Stanley Kubrick’s films are among the most innovative ever. I just saw (finally) his 1975 Barry Lyndon, starring Ryan O’Neal and Marisa Berenson. Apart from the exceptional beauty of the cinematography, the film is superb with respect to script, acting, and authentic details of the period. And look at some of Kubrick’s other films: 2001, A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Paths of Glory, Lolita: all triumphs in their own way.

 

[7_Sorrows]

Sidney Howard was the screenwriter for Gone With The Wind, for which he won an Oscar. The award was posthumous, as he died in August, 1939 and the ceremony was in early 1940.

Oh I got Zanuck and Selznick confused. Yiu sre right!!
ii wonder if Sidney wasany relation to Leslie Howard. I never cared for Leslie Howard as Ashley. I don’t know who would have been better suited for that role. I just found Ashley so boring compared to Rhett. I read that Leslie wanted to hurry and finish filming as England was about to be at war with Germany and he wanted to return to England

 

[meltzerboy]

Oh I got Zanuck and Selznick confused. Yiu sre right!!
ii wonder if Sidney wasany relation to Leslie Howard. I never cared for Leslie Howard as Ashley. I don’t know who would have been better suited for that role. I just found Ashley so boring compared to Rhett. I read that Leslie wanted to hurry and finish filming as England was about to be at war with Germany and he wanted to return to England

What an insane year 1939 was: the start of WW II and, at the same time, the release of all those great films on the silver screen.

 

[Exiled_Child]

In the Heat of the Night is really good. Definitely recommend it.

Thanks, friend! It’s now on my list.

 

[7_Sorrows]

What an insane year 1939 was: the start of WW II and, at the same time, the release of all those great films on the silver screen.

I know. I think of that a lot when I watch movies from 1939 or before.
Do you think we will ever see great movies like that again?