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| GHcool |
Posted - 02/25/2014 : 20:21:42
I'm unemployed and bored in San Francisco, so in the spirit of this thread, I've compiled a list of my 100 (or so) favorite filmmakers. Rather than ranking them individually, I've placed them in tiers: I like the Tier 1 filmmakers more than the Tier 2 filmmakers, etc. So without further ado:
Tier 1
Woody Allen
Charlie Chaplin
Walt Disney
Peter Jackson
Chuck Jones
Stanley Kubrick
Martin Scorsese
Steven Spielberg
Billy Wilder
Robert Zemeckis
Tier 2
Darren Aronofsky
Timur Bekmambetov
Danny Boyle
James Cameron
Francis Ford Coppola
Michael Curtiz
Buster Keaton
George Lucas
Christopher Nolan
Orson Welles
Tier 3
Frank Capra
Alfonso Cuaron
Paul Greengrass
Alfred Hitchcock
Steve James
John Lasseter
David Lean
Harold Lloyd (and his director Fred C. Newmeyer)
Hayao Miyazaki
Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale
Tier 4
Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker
Tim Burton
Cameron Crowe
Spike Lee
Alexander Payne
Nick Park
Roman Polanski
Alex Proyas
Henry Selick
Quentin Tarantino
Tier 5
William Castle
George Cukor
Brad Bird
Frank Darabont
Stanley Donen
Sam Fell
Fritz Lang
F.W. Murnau
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Don Siegel
Tier 6
John G. Avildsen
Kathryn Bigelow
Stephen Daldry
Roger Donaldson
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Richard Lester
Sidney Lumet
James Whale
Robert Wise
Tier 7
James L. Brooks
Peter Bogdanovich
Ron Clements and John Musker
Joe Dante
Terry Jones
Sam Mendes
Jason Reitman
Gary Ross
Paul Verhoeven
Peter Weir
Tier 8
Michael Apted
Tex Avery
Bill Condon
Andrew Davis
Richard Fleischer
Ron Howard
John Landis
Michael Moore
Vincente Minnelli
Robert Stevenson
Tier 9
Ben Affleck
David Attenborough
Stephen Chow
Dave and Max Fleischer
Kore-Eda Hirokazu
Ub Iwerks
Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave, not The Great Escape)
Georges Melies
Andrew Stanton
William Wyler |
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| Airbolt |
Posted - 08/03/2014 : 11:12:48
quote:
Originally posted by BaftaBabe
What if they all contributed to one of those compilation films, and you assigned each one a topic for a one-minute film. Maybe an overall theme. Or not. I'm thinking RoGoPag type thing.  
ROsselini, BOorman and COPpola?  |
| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 07/23/2014 : 09:04:06
What if they all contributed to one of those compilation films, and you assigned each one a topic for a one-minute film. Maybe an overall theme. Or not. I'm thinking RoGoPag type thing.
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| GHcool |
Posted - 07/23/2014 : 08:11:58
quote:
Originally posted by demonic
Now what happens? Do they fight? 
I hadn't thought that far ahead. |
| demonic |
Posted - 07/22/2014 : 23:13:53
Now what happens? Do they fight? |
| lemmycaution |
Posted - 07/22/2014 : 22:45:51
Most certainly a wide-ranging list! |
