movie directors

[professor puke]

if i can find a director i like, i can usually get a good string of movies that i like. so please name some good mainstream directors, friends

my own favorites are kubrick and the coen bros and tim burton

also have you people been to www.rottentomatoes.com ? that's a good site for movie info

[imported_shiola]

That site looks pretty good.

Don't know any directors really. Which made me think of how I choose films to watch. I think I look at who wrote it or the story of a film, then maybe which actors/actresses are in it. If a movie is on a theme I like then I'll watch it.

I use Netflix all the time now so if there's a good film I just click on the 'Other Films By This Person' button and then choose a few others.

I've watched quite a few films from France and South America recently. Some are good and some are not....it just makes a change from watching American and British films. All the good films I see I post on here. The French ones are really good usually......they have no need for explosions, soppy love scenes, shoot-outs and other cheesy stuff.

So in conclusion, I don't know of any directors and I'm a complete waste of space in this discussion.

I thank you.

[Anonymous]

If you are looking at directors, then look no further than Akira Kurosawa or Martin Scorcese (in his early films) :wink:

[STARLADEAR]

i agree with scorcese (sp?) and kurosawa. david lynch.

foreign films (my favorite - once you get past the fact you have to read the entire movie, they rule!)):
jean pierre jeunet, french guy with strange stuff.
pedro almodovar, spanish - typical spanish foreign strangeness.
tom tykwer - the guy who did run lola run.
godard - old french guy - lots of black and white, interesting movies.
hayao miyazaki - japanese animation

others:
roman polanski. john sayles. john carpenter (horror). david cronenberg. sophia coppola.

as always, these people have made crappy films too. it's hit and miss. sometimes.

[poop skid]

I'm sure you're already above and beyond this point, but you'd probably like the guy that did Requiem for a dream, name escapes me at the moment.

also the director of 3.14(umm... well, Pi) is the same guy...darren sterrenofsky or something like that I believe. Also, the director of Memento (name escapes me as well)

[Anonymous]

You've probably already seen plenty by these directors but try David Fincher, Stephen Frears, Guillermo Del Toro, and Alejandro Gonzalez Inniaritu.

You can look them all up on IMDB.com or rottentomatoes.com.