Great Films and Filmmakers

[Jasper109]

Great to see King of Comedy and Sexy Beast mentioned. Two of my all time favorite films, that IMO don't get the praise they deserve.

[CharlieDontSurf]

BHC is a fish out of water comedy first n then a buddy cop comedy. True Lies is a action film with lots of comedy elements..in large part because of Arnold's presence.

Kubrick
FMJ--i like the second half as much as the 1st
2001
The Killing
Eyes Wide Shut
Clockwork Orange
Strangelove

Cameron
Terminator
Aliens

Fincher
Seven
Fight Club
Zodiac
F Coppola
Apocolypse Now Redux
Godfather 1/2
The Conversation

Leone
All his spageghtti westerns

Coen Brothers
To many to list...Big Lewbowski fav

Speilberg..mainly his early works
JAWS JAWS JAWS
Close Encounters
Indy
SPR first 1/2 hour
Schindlers

T Malick
Thin Red Line

Tarantino
Pulp Fiction
KB1

RD is way overrated, Jackie is meh..KB2 was terrible fluff

Ridley Scott
Alien
Matchstick Men
Blackhawk Down
Bladerunner

Oliver Stone
Salvador
Platoon

I really like Chris Nolan but none of his films are blow yr mind by any means

[Potvaliant]

Surprised no one has mentioned Jim Jarmusch yet :

Dead Man
Night on Earth
and either Down By Law or Mystery Train

How about Mel Brooks?

The Producers
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles

And - despite more bad/mediocre movies than most mentioned, I think Rob Reiner might deserve a spot :

This is Spinal Tap
The Princess Bride
Stand By Me / A Few Good Men / Misery / When Harry Met Sally (one of these depending on taste or lack thereof)

[Jeff W]

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True Lies is a really *great* film for its specific genre.

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That doesn't make it a great film.

Pearl Harbor and Gigli may vy for best in the genre "complete [censored]" but that doesn't mean they're great films.

Soderbergh, Cameron(although Aliens is a great film), Stone, Forman and Gilliam are dwarfed by the other directors on the list.

Some directors I'll add who haven't been mentioned(A lot of the greats have been covered along with some mediocrities and a couple downright execrable directors):

DW Griffith - Birth of a Nation, Intolerance

Griffith's films haven't aged well, but he is the most influential film director ever.

Victor Fleming - Gone with the Wind and Wizard of Oz.

Vittorio De Sica - The Bicycle Thief, Umberto D

Fritz Lang - M, Metropolis

There are lots of others whom I'm not a big fan of, but who should prob. be considered greats(aside from Griffith) - Eisenstein, Fellini, Buster Keaton, Chaplin, Ingmar Bergman, Renoir, Truffaut.

[tyler_cracker]

John Hughes:
- Breakfast Club
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Sixteen Candles

(there are lots of other movies he has written that i would put above these, but few that he directed)

[dw2006]

Woody Allen:

Annie Hall
Manhattan
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Hannah and Her Sisters
Crimes and Misdemeanors

[xenthebrain]

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Sidney Lumet:

Dog Day Afternoon
Murder on the Orient Express
Serpico
Network
The Verdict
Running on Empty

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not mentioning 12 angry men?

[frankster]

Andrei Tarkovsky

- Stalker
- Solyaris

Might be more, but these are the only ones I've seen so far of him.

[Leaky Eye]

Alienboy this was a good idea for a thread. Then you had to ruin it by being a nit.

[diebitter]

David Lynch

-Elephant Man
-Blue Velvet
-Mulholland Drive


Michael Powell
- A Matter of Life and Death
- Black Narcissus
- Peeping Tom

Herzog
- Aguirre
- Fitzcarraldo
- Nosferatu