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Strategyking92 on 27 June 2008

My favorite film director would have to be Tim Burton.

 

YearTitleOscar nominationsOscar win
1982 Vincent    
1984 Frankenweenie    
1985 Pee-wee's Big Adventure    
1988 Beetlejuice 1 1
1989 Batman 1 1
1990 Edward Scissorhands 1  
1992 Batman Returns 2  
1994 Ed Wood 2 2
1996 Mars Attacks!    
1999 Sleepy Hollow 3 1
2001 Planet of the Apes    
2003 Big Fish 1  
2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1  
Corpse Bride 1  
2007 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 3 1

From: wikipedia.com

 

His recent stuff always seems to turn out good in my opinion (especially Big Fish) And He has a noticeable style in his movies that is memorable.  He is very consistent with the movies he directs.

Who is your favorite film director?



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Nintendo Fan Girl on 27 June 2008

Quentin Tarantino hes awesome!



super_etecoon on 27 June 2008

Either Jean-Pierre Jeunet or Darren Aronofsky....

But then there's David Fincher...and Danny Boyle, Christopher Nolan....argh.....who can pick a favorite.



The Ghost of RubangB on 27 June 2008

I've seen all those Burton films except for Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish, Corpse Bride, and Sweeney Todd. I prefer his earlier work, everything up through Mars Attacks! basically.

If you think Tim Burton has an original visual style, watch The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and you'll see where he stole his entire visual style. It's just good old German Expressionism.

Here are some screenshots:





Sorry. I'm a film major and it's ruined my life.

I'm not saying he's not a good director. I'm just saying that the reason most people love him is for his unique visual style, and it's not unique. I think Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands are some of the best films ever made. And he made Ed Wood, a movie about one of my favorite directors of all time, so he scored major points with me right there.



Hell yeah etecoon, Jeunet kicks ass.


I can't really pick a favorite, but for now I'll pick "Beat" Takeshi Kitano.







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hsrob on 27 June 2008

^Nice taste in directors, you covered all of mine. Oh and my mate Hammo, he's going to be big one day;)



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Strategyking92 on 27 June 2008

Why does every like edward scissorhands? I thought it was probably his worst movie I saw. Well, I know other directors have probably made films in the same style as his, but he still makes them. There is two burtons you could say, the early burton (dark and unusual) and the burton now (the one that makes the visuals department his bitch) Technology is how hes changed in directing.

Seriously, big fish is his greatest movie, last month I caught the ending on TV and I was freaking crying.

BTW that movie looks f-ing weird rubang.



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11ht11 on 27 June 2008

some people will really disagree with me
but i like paul ws andersons work



Dogs Rule on 27 June 2008

Because of the sheer amount of actors and extras, the scenic beauty and intricacy of his sets, I'll go with Zhang Yimou. (Heros, House of Flying Daggers and Curse of the golden flower.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yimou_Zhang



Strategyking92 on 27 June 2008

suprised no one mentioned steven spielberg.(wrong spelling probably)



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okr on 27 June 2008

Hitchcock? Allen? Almodóvar? Tarantino? Wyler? Fassbinder? Kurosawa? Lee? Chaplin?
Coppola? Fellini? Truffaut? Zinnemann? Lang? Welles? Miyazaki? Minnelli? Leone? Bergman?
Jarmush? Keaton? Cukor? Lumet? Wilder? Lubitsch? Hawks? Murnau? Pollack? Kubrick? Huston?
Lean? Peckinpah? Cassavetes? Scorsese? Coen? Kazan? Malle? Visconti? Kaurismäki?

No way, I can't decide.

R.I.P. Sydney Pollack, btw. He died on May 26th.

Here are the movies directed by Mr. Pollack (*my favorite ones):
1965 The Slender Thread
1966 This Property Is Condemned
1968 The Scalphunters, The Swimmer
1969 Castle Keep, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
1972 Jeremiah Johnson*
1973 The Way We Were*
1975 The Yakuza, Three Days of the Condor*
1977 Bobby Deerfield
1979 The Electric Horseman*
1981 Absence of Malice
1982 Tootsie*
1985 Out of Africa*
1990 Havana
1993 The Firm
1995 Sabrina
1999 Random Hearts
2005 Sketches of Frank Gehry, The Interpreter