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If we're talking top 10 directors, we'd probably see even more of the same answers

 

furthermore, music and film are extremely different mediums. so...

 

Of course. A lot of people will call Seven Samurai one of their favorites, but you are not going to see too many Americans cite any 1950's Japanese music. The costs involved in film and the people required to finish a project are significantly different than music, which significantly alters the output as compared to music.

 

Exactly. Film is 100s of years newer. Pop film has the burden of thematics of characters of visuals of production value.

 

Top 10 Directors would be a fun one for sure! I'm sure everyone would have Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Quentin Tarantino. I'd probably be alone in saying that Zack Snyder and Matthew Vaughn lol.

 

I think Spike Jonze would come up too. I've already seen a few of his movies mentioned here, and he's probably the most consistent director I can think of

 

I could see popping up on here for sure, every seems to like that movie Her a lot. I only like a few of his movies though.

 

1. Jean-Luc Godard
2. Terrence Malick
3. Orson Welles
4. Federico Fellini
5. Woody Allen
6. Yasujiro Ozu
7. Stanley Kubrick
8. Ingmar Bergman
9. Sergio Leone
10. Andrei Tarkovsky

 

Besides Allen and Kurbrick, who? *ducks and hides away from lack of film knowledge*

Edit: Oh, I know Welles did Citizen Kane, duh. I've also seen Thin Red Line by Malick but that's it from him.

 

James Cameron IMO doesn't have a real miss in his whole discography, always innovating effects and did two of my favorite action movies (T2 and True Lies) so I feel like he'd be in my top 10.

 

Malick
Scorsese
Spike Lee
Linklater
Kurosawa
Kazan
Coens
Kubrick
Tarantino
Lumet

That's a not thinking about it too much top ten. Others I love who would flirt with the list or are younger and haven't built a comparable body of work:
Satyajit Ray
PTA
Spielberg
Reichardt
Todd Haynes
Godard
Truffaut
Verhoeven
Huston
Wilder
Wes Anderson
Yang
Sodebergh
Sofia Coppola
F. Ford Coppola
Ryan Coogler
Phil Lord & Chris Miller
Cuaron
Jonez
Wright
Korine
Fincher
Ang Lee
Lynch
Del Toro

 

Directors is hard

Linklater
Tarantino
PTA
Malick
Scorcese
Godard
Korine
Kubrick
Coens
???????? Mann? Lynch? idk Rob Zombie???

My foreign film knowledge remains ignorant.

 

Woody Allen
Noah Baumbach
Wes Anderson
Sofia Coppola
Cameron Crowe
David Fincher
Spike Jonze
Christopher Nolan
Quentin Tarantino
Lars von Trier

I limited it to only directors I've seen three or more films of, so Wong Kar-Wai, Chan-wook Park, Jeff Nichols, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Edgar Wright are out.

Ten years ago, I probably would've also said Tim Burton.

I could probably make one for animated films, but it would include a lot of anime directors.

 

They are all pretty well known. I thought it was too tied to the canon but I could not justify anyone else.

 

PTA
Scorsese
W. Anderson
Ozu
Godard
Kurosawa
Leone
Malick
Coen Bros.
Kubrick

Off the top of my head and in no particular order. Haven't seen enough Welles, Felini, Linklater, or Bergman.

 

I watched Barry Lyndon again last night

holy fuck the composition

 

animated films

5 Centimeters Per Second
Akira
Big Hero 6
Inside Out
The Lion King
Lilo and Stitch
Millenium Actress
Moana
Spirited Away
Wolf Children

and directors

Hideaki Anno
Ron Clements and John Musker
Pete Docter
Don Hall
Mamoru Hosoda
John Lasseter
Satoshi Kon
Hayao Miyazaki
Henry Selick
Makoto Shinkai

For those Disney/Pixar people, I legit didn't know the names of four of them five minutes ago, but yeah

 

1. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
2. Donnie Darko
3. Martyrs
4. Peter Pan
5. Rent
6. No Country For Old Men
7. Eurotrip
8. Funny Games U.S.
9. Weird Science
10. Frozen

Number 1 is really the only one that is in order, the rest are fairly interchangeable.

 

Other than the first two, these aren't in order:

2001: A Space Odyssey
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Young Frankenstein
Zodiac
Adaptation
Her
Arrival
Sunshine
The Imposter
Walk Hard: A Dewey Cox Story

 

Never really ranked my fav directors before, here we go. No particular order except the top 3.

Fincher
PTA
Villeneuve
Scorsese
Boyle
Nolan
Tarantino
Rian Johnson
Spielberg
Aronofsky

 

Off the top,

Nolan
Kubrick
Miyazaki
Fincher
Wes Anderson
Tarantino
Coen Brothers
Danny Boyle
Villeneuve
Scorcese

Maybe Lord/Miller if they keep the hot streak going. Woody Allen, Aronofsky, and Jonze are others I like but haven't seen enough of their work yet. Spielberg seems like an obvious choice, but he's become a little hit-or-miss over the years.

EDIT: CARPENTER! Ahh how could I forget.

 

Johnson could def be up there for me later, but I need to see more from him. Love Brick and Looper though.

 

Spielberg's body of work is completely ridiculous. No one else like that.

 

Looking down the list of director credits, you're right. I guess it's just some of his most recent stuff I haven't been very enthusiastic about. Hook forever a classic, though.

 

Yeah hes directed or been attached to lots and lots of projects that dilute his filmography. I've felt that way. The way hes been commissioned by pop studios over the decades makes him sorta like the Michaelangelo of film. His result are all across the board though.