Who is your favourite director, and what order would you rank their movies?

[Mikasa Ackerman]

Saw this topic on reddit and I figured I'd steal it here, curious to see how this forum skews.

 

While it's hard to choose between directors whose filmography I love (Nolan, Fincher, Wright just missed out), my all time favourite is Richard Linklater.

 

1. Dazed And Confused
2. Before Sunset
3. Before Sunrise
4. A Scanner Darkly
5. Before Midnight
6. Waking Life
7. School Of Rock
8. Everybody Wants Some!!
9. Slacker
10. Bernie
11. Me And Orson Welles
12. Boyhood
13. Fast Food Nation
14. Bad News Bears
15. The Newton Boys

 

Still haven't seen SubUrbia or Tape, so this order might change when I get round to it.

[peludo]

The first really hard choice is to choose the director... there are so many. I would say that among my favorites are Hitchcock, John Ford, Scorsese or Spielberg. But if I have to choose today, I would pick Billy Wilder. He gave us masterpieces in every genre he touched. My list:

 

1. The Apartment (my third favorite film ever)

2. One, two, three

3. Witness for the prosecution

4. Irma la Douce

5. Double Indemnity

6. Some like it hot

7. Sunset Boulevard

8. The private life of Sherlock Holmes

9. Sabrina

10. Love in the afternoon

11. Kiss me, stupid

 

I would have to think about it, but it is safe to say that 4 or 5 would be in my top 100.

Edited March 8, 2017 by peludo

[Tower]

Christopher Nolan:

 

1. The Dark Knight

2. Inception

3. Batman Begins

4. Memento

5. The Dark Knight Rises

6. Interstellar

7. The Prestige

Edited March 7, 2017 by Tower

[RandomCat]

Alfred Hitchcock:

1. The Trouble with Harry
2. Rear Window
3. Dial M for Murder
4. Suspicion
5. Rope
6. Mr. & Mrs. Smith
7. Vertigo
8. Psycho
9. North by Northwest
10. The Man Who Knew Too Much
11. Marnie
12. The Birds
13. Topaz
14. Saboteur

[aabattery]

Taika Waititi:

 

1 ~ Hunt for the Wilderpeople    

2 ~ Boy                                    

3 ~ What We Do in the Shadows

 

4 ~ Eagle vs Shark                    

Edited March 7, 2017 by AABATTERY

[IronJimbo]

lol

 

Spoiler

1. T2

2. Aliens

3. Titanic

4. Avatar

5. True Lies

6. The Terminator

7. The Abyss

 

Edited March 7, 2017 by IronJimbo

[aabattery]

3 minutes ago, IronJimbo said:

lol

 

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1. T2

2. Aliens

3. Titanic

4. Avatar

5. True Lies

6. The Terminator

7. The Abyss

 

 

Which director is this?

[IronJimbo]

Just now, AABATTERY said:

 

Which director is this?

Some unknown art-house director you would have never have heard of, no point of even naming him.

[RandomCat]

7 minutes ago, AABATTERY said:

 

Which director is this?

 

Forgot Piranha 2.

[IronJimbo]

1 hour ago, RandomJC said:

 

Forgot Piranha 2.

you sure know how to TRIGGER me

[Mikasa Ackerman]

1 hour ago, AABATTERY said:

Taika Waititi:

 

1 ~ Hunt for the Wilderpeople    

2 ~ Boy                                    

3 ~ What We Do in the Shadows

 

4 ~ Eagle vs Shark                    

 

How do you think this list will look after Thor 3?

[aabattery]

Just now, Mikasa Ackerman said:

 

How do you think this list will look after Thor 3?

 

I have no idea. I'll be happy if it's above What We Do in the Shadows, but I'm feeling insanely optimistic and gonna say it's going to be on top .

[Mikasa Ackerman]

6 hours ago, Tower said:

Christopher Nolan:

 

1. The Dark Knight

2. Inception

3. Batman Begins

4. Memento

5. The Dark Knight Rises

6. Interstellar

7. The Prestige

 

My Nolan list:

 

1. Interstellar
2. The Prestige
3. The Dark Knight
4. Memento
5. Inception
6. The Dark Knight Rises
7. Batman Begins
8. Insomnia

 

One of these days I'll check out Following.

[Kalo]

Terrence Malick, though his post Tree of Life Stuff is a little too far out there.

 

1. The Thin Red Line
2. The Tree of Life 
3. Badlands
4. Days of Heaven 
5. The New World (I need to rewatch it though)

Still need to finish Knight of Cups and haven't seen To the Wonder

 

Francis Ford Coppola is amazing too though, although Peggy Sue Got Married and Jack are not good.

1. Apocalypse Now 
2. The Godfather
3. The Godfather Part II
4. The Rainmaker
5. Peggy Sue Got Married 
6. Jack 

I've only seen 3 Sidney Lumet films But I loved every one of them

1. 12 Angry Men
2. Dog Day Afternoon
3. Serpico 

Edited March 8, 2017 by Kalo

[Mikasa Ackerman]

5 hours ago, Kalo said:

Terrence Malick, though his post Tree of Life Stuff is a little too far out there.

 

1. The Thin Red Line
2. The Tree of Life 
3. Badlands
4. Days of Heaven 
5. The New World (I need to rewatch it though)

Still need to finish Knight of Cups and haven't seen To the Wonder

 

I'd swap Tree Of Life and Badlands, and put To The Wonder in before The New World. Haven't seen Knight Of Cups either.

[mldardy]

Hate to turn this into a Nolan thread but:

 

1. Memento

2. Inception

3. Batman Begins

4. The Dark Knight

5. The Prestige

6. Interstellar

7. The Dark Knight Rises

8. Following

[The Stingray]

The Mann

 

1. Manhunter
2. Heat
3. The Insider
4. Thief
5. The Last of the Mohicans
6. Miami Vice
7. Collateral
8. Ali
9. The Keep
10. Public Enemies

[aabattery]

14 minutes ago, The Stingray said:

The Mann

 

1. Manhunter
2. Heat
3. The Insider
4. Thief
5. The Last of the Mohicans
6. Miami Vice
7. Collateral
8. Ali
9. The Keep
10. Public Enemies

 

What about his Untitled Cyber Thriller?

 

 

[The Stingray]

13 minutes ago, AABATTERY said:

 

What about his Untitled Cyber Thriller?

 

 

 

Blackhat? Haven't seen that one.

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Steven

10. Crystal Skull

9. Catch Me if You Can

8. Temple of Doom

7. Last Crusade

6. Jaws

5. ET

4. Saving Private Ryan

3. War of the Worlds

2. Jurassic Park The Lost World

1. Jurassic Park

 

i need to see Raiders again, and I have yet to see List and Munich.