tmoney
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10/21/2006 9:07 AM
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NEW Group, Top 5 current directors.
I've been wanting to start this group for quite some time! There are so many possibilities. Favorite films, genres, comedies, directors, child actors, EVERYTHING!!! WOOOHOOO!
I'll start this off with a discussion of TOP 5 current directors. (By current, I mean still making films.)
In no particular order:
1. Wes Anderson (Royal Tenenbaums, Life Aquatic)
2. David Gordon Green (All the Real Girls, George Washington)
3. Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine, Science of Sleep)
4. Alejandro González Iñárritu (Ammores Perros, 21 Grams)
5. Errol Morris (Thin Blue Line, Fog of War)
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pippin06
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10/21/2006 9:54 AM
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Re: NEW Group, Top 5 current directors.
I like lists. They order the addled mind.
Top 5 *current* directors for me represent those directors that are draws for me - I hear their names, and I run to see their movies. No particular order.
1. Christopher Nolan (Memento, Batman Begins)
2. M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs...though I hear the latest one was awful, and I was scared away and didn't see it, so he may fall off the list, at least of the top 5).
3. Stephen Spielberg (He may be cliche, but I don't think there's a single movie of his I haven't seen other than Munich. And Sugarland Express).
4. Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, X-Men 1&2)
5. Ang Lee (The Ice Storm, Crouching Tiger)
Three honorable mentionable directors that could also make my top 5 include Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Erin Brockovich), Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition) and Ron Howard (Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind). It was a hard choice.
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Moose
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10/22/2006 5:45 PM
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Re: NEW Group, Top 5 current directors.
no order
Eastwood
Scorsese (sorry Tmoney)
Wes Anderson
Spike Lee
Almodovar
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tmoney
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10/22/2006 5:54 PM
posted awhile ago
Re: NEW Group, Top 5 current directors.
yeah but wouldn't you say that spike lee is a hit or miss? I've only seen his so called "hits" but I havent heard good things about lots of his films. (including the infamous She Hate Me). And I saw the departed, Moose, and it was entertaining at best.
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Moose
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10/22/2006 6:18 PM
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Re: NEW Group, Top 5 current directors.
I guess that's fair. I suppose I composed my list more on the collection of their greatest accomplishments versus their average successes. I tend not to watch movies that I don't expect to be good. Just imagine it says Jonze instead of Lee if you prefer.
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Prestolock
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10/22/2006 8:05 PM
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Re: NEW Group, Top 5 current directors.
I'll go with:
P.T. Anderson
Tom Tykwer (although his new one looks really strange)
Michel Gondry
Wes Anderson
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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tmoney
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10/22/2006 8:37 PM
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Re: NEW Group, Top 5 current directors.
yes to P.T. Anderson. he is very much due for a new film.
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SkyPilot
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10/22/2006 8:46 PM
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Re: NEW Group, Top 5 current directors.
1. Martin Scorsese (The Departed is his latest film that will remain in the canon for at least as long as Western world crime film is watched)
2. Roman Polanski (at least three of his films have a primal power: Chinatown, Macbeth, The Pianist)
3. Christopher Nolan (finally someone got Batman right. And let's not forget Memento or Insomnia, which I maintain is superior to the original version.)
4. Quentin Tarantino (stupendous taste in actors, and unmatched flair for getting good performances out of consistently disappointing performers; I just wish he'd work more!)
5. George Clooney (I think he's developing into a very distinctive presence behind the camera; this choice is part wishful thinking. )
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wonga
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10/23/2006 8:38 AM
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Re: NEW Group, Top 5 current directors.
my 2 cents and 5 directors...
- alexander payne
- joel and ethan coen
- wes anderson
- tim burton
- sofia coppola
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Puhnner
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10/23/2006 9:38 AM
posted awhile ago
Re: NEW Group, Top 5 current directors.
I see these having a particular, specific, and recognizable vision that incorporates their own culture and understanding of it.
Takashi Miike; Audition, Gozu, Sabu
Guillermo del Toro; Hellboy The Devil's Backbone
Park Chan-wook; Old Boy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Wong Kar Wai; 2046, Fallen Angels
Jim Jarmusch; Dead Man, Down by Law, Broken Flowers
Terrence Malick; The Thin Red Line, The New World, Badlands
I would like to add Steven Soderbergh if only for Schizopolis and the Limey, but then there is the remake of Solaris (??? WTF! why?) and Traffic ( ??? WTF! why?) and Ocean's Eleven (??? why?)
I think there are plenty more, but these are some not mentioned
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