Your fave 3 directors and 3 favourite films of theirs....

[Mandon Knight]

Who are your 3 top fave and the films that they have made....

 

[childeroland]

Edward Yang - A Brighter Summer Day, Yi Yi, Mahjong
Terrence Malick - Days of Heaven, The Tree of Life, The New World
Hou Hsiao-Hsien - Millennium Mambo, Three Times, Daughter of the Nile

 

[Boom]

Steven Spielberg - Jurassic Park, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark
Joel and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men, True Grit, The Big Lebowski
Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight, Inception, Memento

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I'll do five directors:

Martin Scorsese: Goodfellas, Raging Bull, The Wolf of Wall Street

Akira Kurosawa: Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Yojimbo

Edgar Wright: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Hot Fuzz, The World's End

Joel and Ethan Coen: Raising Arizona, No Country for Old Men, The Big Lebowski

Steven Spielberg: Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Jurassic Park

 

[hitmanyr2k]

James Cameron - Aliens, The Terminator, T2
Michael Mann - Heat, The Insider, Collateral
Brian De Palma - Untouchables, Scarface, Carlito's Way

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Steven Spielberg - Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Lincoln
David Lean - Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago
Mel Brooks - Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Spaceballs

Honorable Mentions: Sergio Leone, Martin Scorcese, Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan

 

[David H.]

Martin Scorsese

1. Taxi Driver
2. The Last Temptation of Christ
3. Goodfellas

Paul Thomas Anderson

1. Magnolia
2. There Will Be Blood
3. The Master

Jim Jarmusch

1. Night on Earth
2. Dead Man
3. Down by Law

After that would be Kubrick, Nolan, David Fincher, maybe Aronofsky, Kurosawa and I think The Coens...

Or maybe Tarkovsky. Or Cuaron. Man, this is harder than I thought.

 

[Xrated48]

I make a list of my top 5
Scorsese - Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Wolf of Wall Street
Spielberg- Raiders of The Lost Ark, Schindler's List, Jurassic Park or Jaws
Nolan- The Dark Knight, Inception, Memento
Kubrick- A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, 2001 A Space Odyssey
Tarantino- Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Inglorious B******* or Django Unchained

 

[Sawyer]

David Lynch - Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks pilot

 

[dude stannis]

King Ridley:

Alien. Blade Runner. Kingdom of Heaven: DC

John McTiernan:

Die Hard, Die Hard 3, Predator.

James Cameron pre-castration.

The Terminator, Aliens, Terminator 2.

 

[OutOfBoose]

I can't name people like Ridley Scott, Francis Ford Coppola, Tim Burton, The Wachowskis and other, because I love less than 3 movies from them.

Paul Verhoeven: Robocop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct.
James Cameron: The Terminator, Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
David Lynch: Inland Empire, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway.

 

[redhawk23]

This is actually somewhat hard for me to choose.

But I'd be the last to deny Spielberg on his birthday.

My personal 3 favorites?: ET, Jurassic Park and Jaws. I'll go to bat for A.I. though.

Kubrick: 2001 A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Paths of Glory.

Carpenter: The Thing, Halloween, Escape from New York

Sidenote, Aronofsky is never one that I ever really think about when thinking about my favorite directors but then one day I noticed that I own all of his movies on DVD. It was like "Oh, I guess I really like this guy."

I'd be remiss to not mention Cronenberg and Guillermo del Toro.

 

[redhawk23]

David Lynch - Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks pilot

Have you seen Fire Walk With Me?

 

[Sawyer]

Have you seen Fire Walk With Me?

Not to completion. Saw probably the first 40 minutes awhile back, but never got around to finishing. Wasn't really feeling it, but that's probably just because it took them awhile to get into Laura's story. Even if I end up loving it, though, I'll probably still rank the pilot higher. I f***ing love that thing.

 

[redhawk23]

Frankly I'm just excited that we are getting 17 hours of new Lynch directed material this year.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Tarantino- Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Inglorious B******* or Django Unchained

John McTiernan:

Die Hard, Die Hard 3, Predator.
.

I agree with these and I'll add:

Carpenter- They Live, Big Trouble In Little China, The Thing

 

[dude stannis]

Hell yeah on Carpenter.

 

[scarlet-witch]

Martin Scorcese: The Departed
Christopher Nolan: The Dark Knight
Sam Mendes: American Beauty

 

[Mandon Knight]

My fave director of all time -

Hitchcock

Vertigo

Psycho

The Birds

Carpenter

The Thing

Halloween

Starman

Spielberg (just edges it over Burton)

E.T.

Jaws

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

 

[Victarion]

James Cameron - Avatar, Terminator 2, Aliens

Christopher Nolan - TDKR, The Prestige, Batman Begins

Guilermo Del Toro - Hellboy, Hellboy II, Pan's Labyrinth

Honorable mentions:

George Miller - The Road Warrior, Mad Max: Fury Road, Mad Max

Blithering Idiot - Watchmen, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

John Carpenter - The Thing, At the Mouth of Madness, Big Trouble in Little China

Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven

 

[Mandon Knight]

Gonna have to add Powell & Pressburger to my list, which I know, makes mine list now 4...

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Red Shoes
A Matter of Life and Death

 

[Kuwolski]

Love Powell & Pressburger

Fassbinder:

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Berlin Alexanderplatz
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

Pedro Almodovar:

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
All About My Mother
Volver

Buster Keaton:

The General
The Cameraman
Steamboat Bill, Jr

 

[antonydelfini]

Hitchcock - Vertigo, Psycho, Notorious

Quentin - Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Inglourious Basterds

Kubrick - The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon

 

[Spider-Fan]

I flip flop on several of these all the time, but here are the first 3 that come to mind:

Stanley Kubrick: A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Barry Lyndon

Martin Scorsese: The Last Temptation of Christ, Raging Bull, Goodfellas

Ridley Scott: Blade Runner, Gladiator, Alien

 

[PhasedPlasma101]

PT Anderson: The Master, There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights

David Fincher: Gone Girl, Seven, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Quentin Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds, Kill Bill Vol. 2

James Cameron: Terminator, T2, Aliens (easy one)

Ridley Scott: Gladiator, Alien, American Gangster

Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver, The Departed, Goodfellas

John Carpenter: Halloween, The Thing, They Live!

Christopher Nolan, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Interstellar