Best Film Directors Ever

[rocketpig]

The Ghost of RubangB said:

akuma587 said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:
Hmm, right now: David Lynch, Luis Buñuel, Jean-Luc Godard, Terry Gilliam.

All good choices, though there are still quite a few David Lynch movies and Jean-Luc Godard movies I need to see before I consider myself well-versed in their work. 

Cet Obscur Objet Du Desir is one of my favorite French films.

If you don't have any Lynch films at hand, he's got a lot of short films and commercials floating around the YubeTubes that are amazing.  I highly recommend his animated series Dumbland.  He drew it himself and does every voice.  Every episode of Twin Peaks (except the damb pilot) are online too.  http://www.cbs.com/classics/twin_peaks/  The pilot is unimportant though, as long as you know that there was a murder and a body was found and an FBI agent arrived in town to start the investigation.  Shit really gets started in episode 2.

For Godard, good starting points are Breathless and Band of Outsiders, and a good ending point is my favorite Godard film, Week-End.  It's hard to describe, and is kind of about traffic jams, car crashes, and the collapse of capitalism in 1967 France.  Turns out my school's offering a Godard class for my last semester.  Great timing.  I think I have to take it.

You know, you're generally a useless bohemian pinko hippy bastard, but every once in while you prove yourself valuable.

Twin Peaks online... Now I know what I'm doing for the rest of the day.