Director's Choice (My own top 20 directors)
by jry_corchete | created - 23 Feb 2011 | updated - 23 Feb 2011 | Public20 names i cant forget when i think about good filming, feel free to comment
1. Michelangelo Antonioni
Writer | Blow-Up
Together with Fellini, Bergman and Kurosawa, Michelangelo Antonioni is credited with defining the modern art film. And yet Antonioni's cinema is also recognized today for defying any easy categorization, with his films ultimately seeming to belong to their own distinctive genre. Indeed, the ...
If u have ever seen the scrollings he did u understand that there is a way to change words for images to make poetry
2. Alfred Hitchcock
Director | Psycho
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. He was the son of Emma Jane (Whelan; 1863 - 1942) and East End greengrocer William Hitchcock (1862 - 1914). His parents were both of half English and half Irish ancestry. He had two older siblings, William Hitchcock (born 1890) and ...
This is THE DIRECTOR, no one like him have understood so much of the multiple dimensions of the film, from music to color, speach, horizon, composition,............
3. Sergio Leone
Writer | Once Upon a Time in America
Sergio Leone was virtually born into the cinema - he was the son of Roberto Roberti (A.K.A. Vincenzo Leone), one of Italy's cinema pioneers, and actress Bice Valerian. Leone entered films in his late teens, working as an assistant director to both Italian directors and U.S. directors working in ...
Once upon a time in films.........
4. Stanley Kubrick
Director | 2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick was born in Manhattan, New York City, to Sadie Gertrude (Perveler) and Jacob Leonard Kubrick, a physician. His family were Jewish immigrants (from Austria, Romania, and Russia). Stanley was considered intelligent, despite poor grades at school. Hoping that a change of scenery would ...
Every time i watch some of his movies i think what in hell had this man in his brain to made things so differents like "Spartacus" or "2001: An space odissey", maybe some special breakfast
5. John Ford
Director | The Quiet Man
John Ford came to Hollywood following one of his brothers, an actor. Asked what brought him to Hollywood, he replied "the train". He became one of the most respected directors in the business, in spite of being known for his westerns, which were not considered "serious" film. He won six Oscars, ...
Maybe most of u would place him up, but i still watch something in their movies that is aggresive, like if u cant leave the room without some perfectly worked idea in the brain. I dont know, maybe its my perception.
6. David Lynch
Writer | Twin Peaks
Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting relocated. He attended various art schools, married Peggy Lynch and then fathered future ...
Not sure of this position, but for sure one of the 10 best
7. Orson Welles
Actor | Citizen Kane
His father, Richard Head Welles, was a well-to-do inventor, his mother, Beatrice (Ives) Welles, a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died in 1924 (when he was nine) he traveled the world with his father. He was ...
I like this crazy man and his crazy movies.
8. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Writer | Il Decameron
Pier Paolo Pasolini achieved fame and notoriety long before he entered the film industry. A published poet at 19, he had already written numerous novels and essays before his first screenplay in 1954. His first film Accattone (1961) was based on his own novel and its violent depiction of the life ...
I like this one, most of u can blame for the position, but i think that he was a key in the later films in Europe and America. His figure transcended his films anyways, a pity cause all them are good films.
9. Billy Wilder
Writer | The Apartment
Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the city's largest tabloid. He broke into films as a screenwriter in 1929 and wrote scripts for many ...
No comments, just an apologize because he is probably in your best 5 list.
10. Pedro Almodóvar
Writer | Hable con ella
The most internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker since Luis Buñuel was born in a small town (Calzada de Calatrava) in the impoverished Spanish region of La Mancha. He arrived in Madrid in 1968, and survived by selling used items in the flea-market called El Rastro. Almodóvar couldn't study ...
The story is the image, the image is the mind, the mind is the truth. I really cant understand still how he make me believe things i know are false, but he can.
11. Elia Kazan
Director | On the Waterfront
Known for his creative stage direction, Elia Kazan was born Elias Kazantzoglou on September 7, 1909 in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey). Noted for drawing out the best dramatic performances from his actors, he directed 21 actors to Oscar nominations, resulting in nine wins. He ...
i trully believe that he is one of the forgottens, paired with Buñuel, Visconti and that lovely generation. I never understood why their stars crashed and they became no more than a little note in the down list, but this is my little tribute to their magic, cause they were genious and they took the film from the fairy tale to the real world.
12. Martin Scorsese
Producer | Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Charles Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York City, to Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and Charles Scorsese, who both worked in Manhattan's garment district, and whose families both came from Palermo, Sicily. He was raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy, which later ...
Why this man only have one Oscar?
13. Sydney Pollack
Director | Tootsie
Sydney Pollack was an Academy Award-winning director, producer, actor, writer and public figure, who directed and produced over 40 films.
Sydney Irwin Pollack was born July 1, 1934 in Lafayette, Indiana, USA, to Rebecca (Miller), a homemaker, and David Pollack, a professional boxer turned pharmacist...
Tootsie, Out of Africa. Just that about him, all are images, i cant use words to express nothing in his films.
14. Quentin Tarantino
Writer | Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance, California, when he was four years old.
In January of...
We all like the gore way he use to tell us why he is doing movies, that its the marvellous story that lies back his films. Moreover, i would like to go out a night with him, must be funny
15. Francis Ford Coppola
Producer | Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola was born in 1939 in Detroit, Michigan, but grew up in a New York suburb in a creative, supportive Italian-American family. His father, Carmine Coppola, was a composer and musician. His mother, Italia Coppola (née Pennino), had been an actress. Francis Ford Coppola graduated ...
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16. Tim Burton
Producer | Edward Scissorhands
Timothy Walter Burton was born in Burbank, California, to Jean Rae (Erickson), who owned a cat-themed gift shop, and William Reed Burton, who worked for the Burbank Park and Recreation Department. He spent most of his childhood as a recluse, drawing cartoons, and watching old movies (he was ...
Maybe u dont like the colours of his movies, maybe u dont like Johnny Depp, maybe u hate the lonely star of his intimate sequences, but u cant hate a man that makes dark stories come to the light.
17. Bobby Farrelly
Producer | There's Something About Mary
Bobby Farrelly was born on June 17, 1958 in Cumberland, Rhode Island, USA. He is a producer and director, known for There's Something About Mary (1998), Osmosis Jones (2001) and Me, Myself & Irene (2000). He has been married to Nancy Farrelly since 1990. They have two children.
Its so hard to make a person laugh till breatheless and they were able to make me laugh till nearly death three times, i love them.
18. Richard Attenborough
Actor | Jurassic Park
Richard Attenborough, Baron Attenborough of Richmond-upon-Thames, was born in Cambridge, England, the son of Mary (née Clegg), a founding member of the Marriage Guidance Council, and Frederick Levi Attenborough, a scholar and academic administrator who was a don at Emmanuel College and wrote a ...
I know this name gonna make my reply list longer, but, what can i do, this man its a living part of the history of cinema, from actor to director, and i must confess that i really like his work.
19. John Woo
Director | Ying hung boon sik
Born in southern China, John Woo grew up in Hong Kong, where he began his film career as an assistant director in 1969, working for Shaw Brothers Studios. He directed his first feature in 1973 and has been a prolific director ever since, working in a wide variety of genres before A Better Tomorrow ...
If u give this man a camera he can make a list of unwritten words. His movies are violent and fast, but they are good too, the rymth and the scroll being essential part of the way he try to make u feel different from what u are for two hours. I enjoy his movies.
20. George Lucas
Writer | Star Wars
George Walton Lucas, Jr. was raised on a walnut ranch in Modesto, California. His father was a stationery store owner and he had three siblings. During his late teen years, he went to Thomas Downey High School and was very much interested in drag racing. He planned to become a professional racecar ...
This position can be for Spielberg too. And why are they here? Because they allways had some way to discover what people want to see and they offer it. They are mass entertaiments, the best ones, and that was the original idea back the motion picture
21. Spike Lee
Director | Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee was born Shelton Jackson Lee on March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York. Lee came from artistic, education-grounded background; his father was a jazz musician, and his mother, a schoolteacher. He attended ...
AND THIS IS THE PLACE FOR THE EXCLUDED. THOSE SO RACISTS (........), MONODIMENSIONALS (Amenabar, try to find a story to make the movie first, please) OR SIMPLY BRUTALIST (Emmerich). NOTHING PERSONAL, I JUST HOPED THAT YOUR IDEAS ABOUT WORLD AND MOVIES NEVER HAD THE CHANCE TO MAKE PEOPLE CHANGE, BUT ITS TOO LATE FOR THAT.
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