Directors bests....

[Cyrusbales]

Basically, just type a directors name and what you think is his/her best movie or your fav from their work, I'll get things started.

Hitchcock: Vertigo
Kubrik: Barry Lyndon
Kar Wai Won: Chunking Express

let's go!

 

[Prognosticator]

^ HAHAHA... surely you were joking about Kubrick!??!?

Barry Lyndon is likely his poorest movie ever.

 

[Cyrusbales]

^ HAHAHA... surely you were joking about Kubrick!??!?

Barry Lyndon is likely his poorest movie ever.

And how exactly do you figure that? It's his most revolutionary film in terms of technique, it's a fantastic story, marvelous acting, multi award winning sets, costumes and art direction. And it's one of the few period drama's that is fabulously good.

So yeah, that's clearly worse than eyes wide shut, I think you should consider carefully what you type before typing it...

 

[Ronny Shade]

Burton - Planet of the Apes

 

[Ben Urich]

Wes Anderson - Bottle Rocket

Tim Burton - Batman Returns

Kevin Smith - Chasing Amy

Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction

 

[TheSaintofKillers]

Basically, just type a directors name and what you think is his/her best movie or your fav from their work, I'll get things started.

Hitchcock: Vertigo
Kubrik: Barry Lyndon
Kar Wai Won: Chunking Express

let's go!

Hey, while I don't agree, I do like the originality of these titles. Most people will say Pyscho for Hitchcock and either 2001, shining or Clockwork for Kubrick. And of course In the mood for love for Wong.

Here's a list of my fave, and what I think is their best (which aren't always the same, and it's a shame most people equal their fave with the best so often)

Spielberg: Fave: Jaws, Best: Jaws
Kurosawa: Fave: Seven Samurai, Best: Ran
Kubrick: Fave: Shining, Best: Shining
Miyazaki: Fave: Mononoke-Hime, Best: Totoro
Takahata: Fave: Only Yesterday, Best: Grave of the fireflies
Mamoru Oshii: Fave: Ghost in the shell, Best: Angel's egg
Satoshi Kon: Fave: Millenium Actress, Best:Millenium Actress
Don bluth: Fave: Land before time, Best: Land before time
Miike: Fave: Ichi the killer, Best: Audition
John Woo: Fave: The killer, Best: A better tomorrow
Tsui Hark: Fave: Zu the magic montain (?), Best: Once upon a time in China
Jackie Chan (yes, he did direct most of his movies): Fave: Project A, Best: Police story
Stephen Chow: Fave: Shaolin soccer, Best: King of comedy
Ishiro Honda: Fave: Destroy all monsters, Best: Gojira
Burton: Fave: Beetlejuice, Best: Beetlejucie
Jim Henson: Fave: Dark Crystal, Best: Dark Crystal
Romero: Fave: Dawn of the dead, Best: Night of the living dead
Carpenter: Fave: The thing, Best: The thing

 

[SolidSnakeMGS]

Barry Lyndon is ****ing BRILLIANT, but I'd say Clockwork Orange is his masterpiece, with 2001 and Dr Stangelove pretty close behind.

Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window, followed very closely by Vertigo and Psycho.

Steven Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark, followed very closely by Jaws and Close Encounters.

Akira Kurosawa - Seven Samurai and Hidden Fortress.

Michael Bay - LOL

Coen Bros. - Miller's Crossing.

Richard Donner - Superman The Movie.

Michael Mann - Heat, followed by The Insider and Last of the Mohicans.

Sergio Leone - The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly.

Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas with Taxi Driver very close behind.

John Ford - The Searchers and The Quiet Man.

Howard Hawks - Red River.

Francis Ford Coppola - Godfather, with Apocalypse Now close behind.

Yimou Yhang - Raise the Red Lantern and Hero.

Chanwook Park - Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.

 

[TheSaintofKillers]

Barry Lyndon is ****ing BRILLIANT, but I'd say Clockwork Orange is his masterpiece, with 2001 and Dr Stangelove pretty close behind.

Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window, followed very closely by Vertigo and Psycho.

Steven Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark, followed very closely by Jaws and Close Encounters.

Akira Kurosawa - Seven Samurai and Hidden Fortress.

Michael Bay - LOL

Coen Bros. - Miller's Crossing.

Richard Donner - Superman The Movie.

Michael Mann - Heat, followed by The Insider and Last of the Mohicans.

Sergio Leone - The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly.

Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas with Taxi Driver very close behind.

John Ford - The Searchers and The Quiet Man.

Howard Hawks - Red River.

Francis Ford Coppola - Godfather, with Apocalypse Now close behind.

Yimou Yhang - Raise the Red Lantern and Hero.

Chanwook Park - Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.

It is quite funny that you would put half of a director's resume (Wook Park) in the best category, heh. He does only have 4 movies under his belt (though, a very weird 5th one is coming out soon)

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Sergio Leone - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
John Huston - The Man who would be King
Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas
Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
Robert Zemeckis - Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Terry Gilliam - Twelve Monkeys
Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
Tim Burton- Edward Scissorhands

 

[Cyrusbales]

Gilliam-Brazil/fear and loathing
Park Chan Wook - JSA
John Huston - Maltese Falcon
Almodovar - Talk to her

 

[Cyrusbales]

Hey, while I don't agree, I do like the originality of these titles. Most people will say Pyscho for Hitchcock and either 2001, shining or Clockwork for Kubrick. And of course In the mood for love for Wong.

Here's a list of my fave, and what I think is their best (which aren't always the same, and it's a shame most people equal their fave with the best so often)

The general consensus is actually of Chunking Express as his magnus opus, a lot of people in the western world think it's mood for love+2046, although this is just because of a superior marketing scheme, the general international critic opinion is for chunking express, sorry, just thought I'd add that.

 

[SolidSnakeMGS]

It is quite funny that you would put half of a director's resume (Wook Park) in the best category, heh. He does only have 4 movies under his belt (though, a very weird 5th one is coming out soon)

He's a good director, and has a very bright future. I actually like all of his feature lengths, incl. Mr Vengeance and JSA.

 

[TheSaintofKillers]

He's a good director, and has a very bright future. I actually like all of his feature lengths, incl. Mr Vengeance and JSA.

Oh, so do I. I wasn't saying anything bad. Korean cinema has been incredible for the last 5 years, and Wook Park is a leading exemple of that. I just though funny that he would be put in a "best director category" when he only had 4 movies made.

Then again, I did the same thing with Satoshi kon, who only has 4 movies also, heh.

 

[Cyrusbales]

He's a good director, and has a very bright future. I actually like all of his feature lengths, incl. Mr Vengeance and JSA.

I like all his vengeance trilogy equally, I think oldboy might be my least favourite of his work actually . But his vengeance trilogy are all amazing!!!! But JSA has to top my list for his work, one of my alltime fav movies.

 

[Cyrusbales]

Oh, so do I. I wasn't saying anything bad. Korean cinema has been incredible for the last 5 years, and Wook Park is a leading exemple of that. I just though funny that he would be put in a "best director category" when he only had 4 movies made.

Then again, I did the same thing with Satoshi kon, who only has 4 movies also, heh.

It's directors bests, not best directors. so all directors are welcomed (within reason, lol)

 

[TheSaintofKillers]

The general consensus is actually of Chunking Express as his magnus opus, a lot of people in the western world think it's mood for love+2046, although this is just because of a superior marketing scheme, the general international critic opinion is for chunking express, sorry, just thought I'd add that.

Oh, I am very well aware of Chunking's well received critics all around the world. It's the movie that propelled him internationally back then. But, if I go by most people's critic NOW, In the mood for love is, from what I now see, the most well received one.

Or maybe i'm just being influenced by where I went to school. My teachers, most of them expert in world cinema, all prefered In the mood for love over the other ones, and it seemed to be a near complete consensus there.

 

[Apollo]

Burton - Planet of the Apes

I LOL'd

 

[TheSaintofKillers]

I LOL'd

Hey, at least he's original. I'm sure he's got great reasons of his own, and personally i'd like to know them.

 

[raybia]

Basically, just type a directors name and what you think is his/her best movie or your fav from their work, I'll get things started.

Hitchcock: Vertigo
Kubrik: Barry Lyndon
Kar Wai Won: Chunking Express

let's go!

I wholeheartedly agree with your choice for Hitchcock's best. A true masterpiece.

 

[raybia]

Cameron - Aliens

 

[Cyrusbales]

Oh, I am very well aware of Chunking's well received critics all around the world. It's the movie that propelled him internationally back then. But, if I go by most people's critic NOW, In the mood for love is, from what I now see, the most well received one.

Or maybe i'm just being influenced by where I went to school. My teachers, most of them expert in world cinema, all prefered In the mood for love over the other ones, and it seemed to be a near complete consensus there.

In the circles I move in, Chungking express is regarded as the highest, due to it's revolutionary techniques. It's on the film studies sylabus I believe? I do LOVE in the mood for love(that sounded weird, lol) but I prefer Chungking express, and as a fillmmaker myself, I find it a superior piece of cinema. But hey, subjectivity, what sorta circles you move in anyways? (or squares? parrallellagrams? rhombiods? and I'll stop, lol)

 

[Cyrusbales]

I wholeheartedly agree with your choice for Hitchcock's best. A true masterpiece.

It's weird to think it was shunned when first released, now is considered one of, if not the, finest piece of his work. I love it, it's fantastic, and there it goes, *grabs tissue*

 

[TheSaintofKillers]

In the circles I move in, Chungking express is regarded as the highest, due to it's revolutionary techniques. It's on the film studies sylabus I believe? I do LOVE in the mood for love(that sounded weird, lol) but I prefer Chungking express, and as a fillmmaker myself, I find it a superior piece of cinema. But hey, subjectivity, what sorta circles you move in anyways? (or squares? parrallellagrams? rhombiods? and I'll stop, lol)

Well, I've yet to see Chungking express, so I'm not really commenting on which one I think is the best. I think you have to have seen every movie of a director to be able to pick it's best one. That's what I did. Every director I've listed, i've seen every movie they have made. Same reason I didn't name Wook Park, because I haven't seen his JSA.

But unfortunatly, i'm sure many people choose director they hadn't explored entirely yet.

 

[Cyrusbales]

Well, I've yet to see Chungking express, so I'm not really commenting on which one I think is the best. I think you have to have seen every movie of a director to be able to pick it's best one. That's what I did. Every director I've listed, i've seen every movie they have made. Same reason I didn't name Wook Park, because I haven't seen his JSA.

But unfortunatly, i'm sure many people choose director they hadn't explored entirely yet.

A word of advice: WATCH JSA!!!!!! Not as good as chungking express though(which is probably my fav film, or maybe equal fav), but JSA is one of the best films I have ever seen, so watch them both, you will not be disapointed if you are into your cinema!

 

[TheSaintofKillers]

A word of advice: WATCH JSA!!!!!! Not as good as chungking express though(which is probably my fav film, or maybe equal fav), but JSA is one of the best films I have ever seen, so watch them both, you will not be disapointed if you are into your cinema!

Oh, I plan to, believe me. Both are made by very skillful directors. But i'm having difficulties these days watching as many movies with university. I hope to reckon that around christmas. That, and I want to go back to Zang Yimou and discover most of his earlier stuff. I've seen bits of Raise, and of course Hero, House and his most recent work, Thousand something (which was brilliant, btw).

But I do consider myself well educated in the asian cinema overall, though. These movies will be mine soon.