who is yr favourite director of the most popular ones from the best films list that morbs posted?

Kubrick

hmmmmm......lang vs ophuls vs bresson

Hitchcock. Most of these directors weren't popular.

lubitsch v. ophuls v. ford v. bunuel v. bresson v....

Ozu.

Welles, Hitchcock, Bresson, and Tarkovsky are close. (and i wish Antonioni was on this list.)

Buñuel, Renoir, Hitchcock, and Welles, in that order.

Godard. But I a lot of that comes down to familiarity. Seen more films by Godard than I have of any other director and a lot of the ones here I'm hardly acquainted with.

5-way tie: Spielberg, Hitchcock, Welles, Kubrick, Truffaut.

Have we had a Truffaut vs. Godard poll?

Most of these directors weren't popular.

wtf yes they were.

Although honestly I could stan for about half of these . . . Kurosawa, Wilder, Altman . . .

They're almost all great every now and again, but Buñuel, Altman, Bresson, von Sternberg and, at least for their '00s work, Lynch and Spielberg get next-level love.

think im going powell and pressburger, even sans 'peeping tom'. keeping the anglo-hungarian end up.

ozu

then hitchcock, then powell & pressburger, then tarkovsky

Altman by a country mile, followed most likely by Lynch and Allen. Polanski would've probably been second had he been on the list. Mind you, I'm no cinephile and I'm really not all that wowed by technical prowess or mise en scène or cinematography for their own sake. I'm going simply by the directors with whose styles I'm most simpatico and who've made the most movies that I've really enjoyed.

Cassavettes is my LEAST favorite director on this list and it's not even close.

Ooh, we're playing that one? My least favorite is probably John Huston, but I haven't seen enough to know for sure. So, Kurosawa.

Have we had a Truffaut vs. Godard poll?

I think godard would crush truffaut in a poll here.

moi, I love truffaut (might even vote for him just so he gets a vote) and find godard movies really pointless.

My LEAST favorite is Cassavetes.

woody allen & spielberg are the weaklings imo, but even they have some good ones

to all cassavetes haters:
did you see Love Streams?
you might change youre mind if you didnt.
his last movie is his best.
the last 30 minutes in particular are awesome - closest to expressionism he ever got.

it seems the producers limitations end up as an advantage :no hand held camera,much less improvisations,more solid structure and calculated shooting style.

This won't win me many friends, but I like John Huston best.

He made impeccably crafted movies. His adaptations of books were always faithful to whatever quality made the book excellent. His actors generally gave him better-than-their-usual performances. He aimed to entertain, and did it about as well as a director could.

It was just about a toss-up with Kurosawa, but Huston's variety of material just works better for me.

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pretty much all my favorite directors are on here so uh

hmmm

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