Your favorite movie director(s)? And, which film of theirs did you like best?

Christopher Guest- Best In Show

Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather

Steven Spielberg – Jaws

Ridley Scott. Gladiator and Aliens.

Kevin Smith—Mallrats

Stuart Rosenberg—Cool Hand Luke

Rob Reiner—This Is Spinal Tap & The Princess Bride

The Coen Brothers (Joel Coen)- Fargo.

Stanley Kubrick – everything
Wong Kar Wai – In The Mood For Love, Chungking Express

Martin Scorsese – Goodfellas barely beats Mean Streets for me.

Jim Jarmoush, particularly “Night On Earth”
I loved “Burn After Reading” but also anything by the Cohens
I liked the earlier Verhoeven films but then he went to Hollywood
Woody Allen of course
plenty more

@queenzboulevard…I still list Taxi Driver as my number one Scorsese.

I love Green Street Hooligans (director: Lexi Alexander), I hope to see more great things from her over time.
I also love Michael Bay: Transformers, Pearl Harbor, Armageddon.
And I think my all-time favorite is most likely Tim Burton for pretty much everything he’s ever written, directed or produced.

Tim Burton: Vincent
Guillermo del Toro: The Devil’s Backbone or Pan’s Labyrinth
Peter Jackson: Return of the King
Mike Leigh: Naked
Mel Brooks: Young Frankenstein
Alfred Hitchcock: Psycho or Vertigo
James Whale: The Old Dark House

ooh @MacBean that is such an awesome list! I can’t believe I forgot Guillermo del Toro or Peter Jackson!

@adreamofautumn I couldn’t believe nobody else mentioned them first! I could’ve cried.

Steven Spielberg

- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
– The original 3 Indiana Jones movies
– The Color Purple
– Empire of the Sun
– Schindler’s List
– Saving Private Ryan
– Catch Me If You Can
– Munich

Tim Burton but I really cannot chose a favourite.

For comedies it’s Barry Sonnenfeld: Get Shorty & Big Trouble
They move fast, have great background music, and really make bad guys and mean people look really stupid. It helps that he is attracted to good scripts based on books by great fiction writers like Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard. How anyone can screw up a good Hiaasen story is beyond me, but Andrew Bergman managed to do that with Striptease in 1996. What a disaster.