Favorite Directors?

hmm...that's a hard one...
I have always liked the early work or John Carpenter, Wes Craven,

Tod Browning(silent film and early Monster movies such as Dracula(1931), F.W.Murnau(another silent film director who gave us Nosferatu from 1922),and other German silent film directors such as Paul Wegener(The Golem (1915) and Robert Wiene(The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari(1920)

during the 30s and 40s, Universal did a lot of horror movies such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf-Man...various directors worked on those,so I can't specify one other than the ones mentioned before Tod Browning...

Roger Corman directed a lot of films with Vicent Price that I really like, and Jack Hill is another horror director that I like

Terence Fisher directed a lot of good B horror movies from the 40s to the 70s I believe...

though not considered a horror director in the gore and monster sense, Hitchcock was a great director of psycological terror...

George Romero and his zombie films... William Friedkin(The Exorcist),Tobe Hooper(Poltergeist,Texas Chain Saw Massacre), Clive Barker(Hellraiser),Stanley Kubrick(The Shinning), David Cronenberg(The Fly,Scanners),Camern(Alien),Rob Zombie(Devil's Rejects),Neil Marshall(The Descent),

italian filmakers such s Mario Bava, Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci, and Spanish filmmakers like Jacinto Molina (aka Paul Naschy)

sometimes I just films and plenty of directors out there make them, then they move on to something else, so I have left out a ton of directors simply because I could name one or two films by them only...

Stanley Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick, and Stanley Kubrick!!!
and then comes Emir Kusturica,
and then the others...

hmm, now that I've talked about my horror passion..;D...here are other directors I like:
Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppolla, Coen Brothers, Mel Brooks, Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Quentin Tarantino,Tim Burton, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Billy Wilder,George Cukor,Pedro Almodovar,Wes Anderson,Lars von Trier...

i like many directors.and they have so different ways of making films.for example:Hanake and Kieslowski,Jarmusch,Bergman,Kusturica,Fellini,Tony Gatlif(who,by the way,is not at all a copy of Kusturica!),Almodovar,etc...but,i would like to tell that after what i saw Tarkovski's "Offret",i could't say a word for half an hour,or somethinhg like that.i just could not speak!so,for that,and for other moments when that happened,i think that my trio is :Tarkovski-Kieslowski-Kusturica.
i also like Jodorovsky.

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Here's my top 5 of all time directors:

1.-David Lynch

2.-Alejandro Jodorowsky

3.-Staley Kubrick

4.-Jan Bucquoy

5.-Roger Corman

In horror films: 1.-Coffin Joe, 2.-Dario Argento, 3.-Lucio Fulci, 4.-Takashi Miike, 5.-Todd Browning.

EVERYBODY AGREE?

I looove classics!

First of all...Dziga Vertov! The Man With The Movie Camera is fantastic!..It's the editing..the speed, the rythm, the working machines, the working-machine people, the muuusic..well, a reference.

And then..our Revolutionary Eisenstein!

And what about our fantastic Andrei Tarkovsky?

Or the fiction player Orson Welles and his "F Of Fake??

And our Stanley Kubrick??..No words for this him =D

And our humanistic-like Pollansky's films?

I've got plenty of film directors to talk about...

Cinema is life.

I agree with you selecting Andrei Tarkovsky. I've seen "Stalker" and "Solaris", they're great films. He was a total genius...

By the way, does somebody had seen Anton Corbijn's "Control"? Did you like it? impressions? I havent seen it, I would love to hear advices cause i'm planning to watch it in these days...

I'm glad to find fans of Dziga Vertov and Tod Browning!!!

Have you ever seen "The Unknown", with the great Lon Chaney?

And well, I have MANY favorites, like...

Charles Chaplin
Akira Kurosawa
John Ford
Luis Buñuel
Alfred Hitchcock
Jean Renoir
Buster Keaton
F.W. Murnau
Martin Scorsese
Federico Fellini
Stanley Kubrick
Jacques Tati
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Orson Welles
Fernando De Fuentes
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Andrei Tarkovsky
Howard Hawks
Ingmar Bergman
Emilio Fernandez
Vittorio De Sica
Chuck Jones
Tex Avery
Georges Melies
Victor Sjostrom
Fritz Lang
Roberto Rossellini
Steven Spielberg
Arturo Ripstein
David Lynch
David Cronenberg
David Lean
Luchino Visconti
Jean-Luc Godard
John Waters
Roberto Gavaldon
Frank Capra
Francois Truffaut
Wim Wenders
James Whale
Billy Wilder

And many others.