Directors we need to see more of

[PSYLENTGuardian]

Spike Jonze, Duncan Jones, and Neill Blomkamp. And I'll throw in James Cameron to my list because I want to see him pump out great stories instead of spending too much time in Pandora.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Nancy Oliver (Lars and the Real Girl)
Tamara Jenkins (The Savages)
Scott Frank (The Lookout)
Garth Jennings (Hithchhiker's Guide, Son of Rambow)
Courtney Hunt (Frozen River)

agreed with the bold, I've read Hitchhiker's guide to galaxy, and while this movie seems to follow its own plot (that seems to have elements from the other books beyond the first) I really enjoyed it, I thought it was a great original sci fi flick with terrific creature and make-up effects (by rick baker I think?) and a terrific cast. Alan Rickman as Marvin the paranoid android has to be some of the most brilliant casting ever.

 

[CConn]

Alfonso Cauron. I lurvs him.

 

[nite-owl]

Jeff Nichols
Lynne Ramsay
Bennett Miller
Andrew Dominik

 

[Gianakin_]

Proyas and Cuarron.

 

[Project862006]

Peter Weir(Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,The Truman Show,Witness,The Way Back)

dude has made only 3 films in past 14 years

 

[DarkSovereignty]

I haven't seen the other three but I loved the Truman show.

 

[enquencle]

I'd say Cuarón, Neill Blomkamp, Duncan Jones and i cant wait to see what Josh Trank does next.
I also like to see some Del Toro films more often, and Alex Proyas is a good call too.

 

[Matt Mortem]

I want to see Justin Lin do another smaller picture and let the Fast franchise rest. I love the Fast franchise, but Lin's indie flick Better Luck Tomorrow was absolutely fantastic and shows he has range beyond the big blockbusters he's been doing.

 

[moviedoors]

Jeff Nichols (Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter) I haven't watched Shotgun Stories yet (but I will very soon), but Take Shelter was one the most remarkable movies I have ever seen. I can tell you why it's a great movie, but I can't explain exactly why it reduced me to a sobbing mess who fell to his knees whilst clutching at his wife's waist. I cried so hard, for so long, that my wife was actually worried about me. This movie shook something loose. It was a most singular experience and I can't wait to see what Nichols does next. He made a film about apocalyptic visions and fears that never once falls back on Hollywood cliches or spectacle. It's a film about characters above all else. It never plays too big or tips its hand. It's a film for grownups who don't mind having to actually chew on something before digesting it.

Shane Carruth (Primer). He's finally ending his 8 year hiatus in a manner of speaking: he was special effects supervisor for the time travel sequences in the upcoming Looper, but his $6,000 Primer is one of the most remarkable science fiction films ever made and one of the best films of this century. Here's a film for a very specific, mature audience. It's not for everyone and it doesn't pretend to be. It absolutely demands that you pay attention. It expects you to think as hard as its characters do. It's made completely on its own terms, and tells exactly the story it wants to tell, and it doesn't ever hold your hand to make it easier. You're on your own. I admire the balls it takes to make a film that can't ever have mainstream cross over appeal. It's too esoteric, too mind bending. He has yet to make another movie. I finally tracked down his 200+ page screenplay for A Topiary, which was supposed to be his follow up, but apparently the funding never came together. Since it's hit the back burner, I feel comfortable in giving it a read. He has a new project in the works, Upstream Color, which at least seems to have made it to preproduction. However he makes it happen, this man needs to make more movies. His voice as a filmmaker is too smart, too unique, too passionate, to just vanish into the ether.

 

[Project862006]

^nichols next film is called Mud starring matthew mcconaughey

 

[moviedoors]

^nichols next film is called Mud starring matthew mcconaughey

I'm there.

 

[moviedoors]

Evan Glodell (Bellflower) Just on a technical level, this guy is fascinating. He built flame throwers, cars that shoot fire, cars with security cameras and smoke screens, cars with whiskey dispensers in the dashboard, even the insane digital Frankenstein camera the film was shot on. But he's more that just a tinkering wunderkind. The seams and the DIY nature of the film just make it seem more dangerous and unpredictable. Bellflower is a strange, one of a kind film made with confidence and a unique vision. It gives you a taste of what it might feel like to really go mad without ever pushing too hard. I'm not even sure that's what the film is about, but it's insidious the way it conveys that feeling in your gut. It's somehow excruciatingly personal and defiantly oblique at the same time. He's also a hell of an actor with an understated realism to everything he does, even when he seems to be turning into Satan himself. That it's also a giant love letter to The Road Warrior just makes it all the more insane and endearing.

 

[Project862006]

Brian Helgeland - directed a knight's tale,payback,the order and is a great writer too since he wrote la confidential and mystic river

 

[moviedoors]

Greg McLean (Wolf Creek, Rogue) Wolf Creek is a well made film that makes me feel kind of icky. I'm not a fan. But Rogue? I couldn't believe how much I loved it. It's just a giant crocodile movie, but I'm amazed at how assured his command of tone and suspense was in this flick. He conveys so much with so little, creates actual characters, and scares the **** out you too. I love, love, love the way he handled his giant croc. It's not a monster. There's not one moment where this creature acts like a malevolent demon. It's just an animal, a force of nature, doing what it does, and that just makes it all the more frightening. It's the best big-ass-animal-in-the-water movie since Jaws. The way the release of this movie was handled was shameful. It deserved so much more.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

I've wanted to see Rogue for a long time, I'll have to find it on amazon. And Bellflower sounds really interesting also. I know at this point it's a shame to say this, but I honestly wish to see a better movie from Stephen Sommers. I enjoyed the first mummy film tbh. I feel that was the last universal film that still had that "classic universal " feel to it like Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, ect. also, Frank Oz. Little shop of horrors is one of my all time favorite films, and dirty rotten scoundrels is hilarious. sure his stepford wives wasn't great but the guy has delivered some great films. Plus, it's f***ing Yoda.

 

[DyeLorean]

Robert Zemeckis, in live action films.

 

[Homer J. Fong]

^Have you seen the trailer for Flight, his return to live action? Looks pretty good.

 

[DyeLorean]

^Have you seen the trailer for Flight, his return to live action? Looks pretty good.

Yeah, yeah. It looks different from the rest of the movies we've seen this couple of years. That's what Zemeckis usually brings to the table, and that's the kind of things I like from him.
He's finally out of that mo-cap crap.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

yeah I can't wait for Flight, the trailer gives me chills honestly, it's good to have the real zemeckis back.

 

[PWN3R]

Rian Johnson.

This was posted over two years ago. Still holds true today. I can't ****ing wait for Looper.

 

[Jordacar]

Kevin Reynolds

I've enjoyed just about everything he's put out to some degree ever since Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. He knows how to make fun movies with teeth. Glad to see "Hatfields & McCoys" was such a hit.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

I'd like to see Bill Lawrence try directing a film, he's created some of the best sitcoms in the past decade and a half.

 

[craigdbfan]

Paul Verhoeven.

 

[Thedudehimself]

Paul Verhoeven.

No thanks. Dudes long over his edge. Just like Carpenter and Romero. Sometimes directors should just retire. Pull a Lucas, so to say.