best Film directors
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- nb0
Yeah. Kids are stupid and lack the ability to judge movies. Through life we learn to appreciate and get better and judging. I doubt anyone is ever perfect at it, but kids are especially bad.
I loved "The Wizard" and "Rad" as a kid, but there's no defending those movies in an adult context. Years later, I loved movies like Fight Club and The Sixth Sense but I'm now realizing they are mediocre works.
- version30
as a child i always thought that my favorites would be favorites for life, cartoons, movies, some tv shows, etc, however upon maturing (for lack of a better word) i can't stay with them, i note the "cheesiness" now, wonder about the dialogue etc. i by no means mean to speak ill of your childhood and opinions but i see where you're coming from, and myself personally have nothign i hold dear as i did as a child. maybe i'm just jealous ;)
- quamb0
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Some films that I loved as a kid, sure, are actually not that great, but at least took my imagination away.
But others, definitely still hold up to amaze. The classics become classics for a reason. Regardless of what genre they are, or from what country they come from. The folks who can't see that = cynical.
- version30
Adam Glasser
- janne760
jacques tati (for those into this sort of films)
- version30
William A. Wellman
Edmund Goulding
George Marshall
John Ford
Zoltan Korda
Victor Fleming, George Cukor, and Sam Wood
Sam Wood
George Stevens
William Dieterle
Leo McCarey
Frank Capra
Ernst Lubitsch
Lewis Milestone
Howard Hawks
Raoul Walsh
Jean Renoir
- version30
these movies were/are not that good, it was the time in your life and the intersection between them that means so much to you
- janne760
Wong Kar-Wai
- you know kung fu?typist
- nojanne76
- only saw one older movie of him which was stunningjanne76
- YESrandommail
- quamb0
Park Chan-wook is up there.
Miyazaki Hayao/// Guillermo del Toro --- his movies really aren't that great. His personal films, maybe, but the guy is far from genius.
- janne760
i just can't help but laugh all the time i hear Werner Herzog's voiceover in his movies/docu's though...
- janne760
for the rest, most of the excellent ones are already mentioned..
did anyone mention Wim Wenders already?
- jaylarson0
Werner Herzog and I second David Lynch
- janne760
Did noone mention Tom Tykwer yet? http://www.imdb.com/name/nm08787…
- version30
cohen bros
- Andrew_D0
- well, I like watching Michael Gondry's movies because they're creative and he's creative. But I'm not sure ...randommail
- version30
warhol
- version30
polanski
- randommail0
So I got to say Kubrick, Lynch, and Aronofsky are my top 3.
But I see Mann, Nolan, and Tarantino mentioned here. They've each done interesting and entertaining movies, but definitely (IMO) do not belong on a top list.
- creez0
- Freidkin was cool as fuck in 70'sbabaganush
- *Friedkin*babaganush
- solidcreez