What Directors work make up the bulk of your DVD collection?

The Denouncer

I was thinking about this last night..what Directors work takes up most of the DVD collection. I think I have 11 Spielberg movies and 8 Coens, 7 Raimis, 6 Zemeckis', 6 Camerons, 5 Peter Jacksons, 5 Del Toros, 5 Verhoevens, 5 Scorceses, 5 Burtons, 5 Coppolas..that's all I can think of right now

Parrish_Crooks

Aside from the list of one hit unknown directors I have in my collection, there's Scorsese, David Lynch, Tarantino, Coppola, Tim Burton, James Cameron, De palma, Spike Lee, De Niro. That's all I can think of now.

Ay Cee

The usual suspects:
Kevin Smith, Scorsese, Stone, Tarantino, Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Mann, Nolan & Fincher

Galvasean

I don't really subscribe to directors par sé. Although I suppose I have a few Spielberg and Jackson films.

Otis Driftwood

Fred Vogel,Martin Scorsese,Quentin Tarantino,John Carpenter,Takashi Miike,The Pang Brothers,Chan Wook Park,Wes Craven,Brian Yuzna,George A Romero,John Woo,David Fincher,David Cronenberg,Kenji Misumi.

SuperGrover

Coens, David Lynch, Takashi Miike, Park Chan-wook, Kim Ki-duk.

Sad Professor

I haven't updated it in ages but according to my Listal profile my top directors on dvd are: Scorsese, Kubrick, Michael Mann, Oliver Stone, David Lynch, Hitchcock and Ridley Scott.

Karl Hungus

11 Akira Kurosawa
10 Takashi Miike
9 Hayao Miyazaki
9 Coen Brothers
8 Takeshi Kitano
8 David Lynch
6 Sergio Leone
6 Martin Scorcese

Nolanger

Preston Sturges - got the 8-DVD box set.

johnny_ultimate

14 Ingmar Bergman is my highest, six or seven by the Coens and Woody Allen, five by Mayasaki, and three by a couple (Michel Gondry, David Lynch, Juenet).

Running Bing

Probably Herzog seeing as I have two of his box sets.

I recently bought an 8 film Claude Chabrol box set so he'd be up there as well


Loads of Hitchcock and most of Carpenters stuff (all his good stuff anyway). Aside from that all the usuals...although the only Spielberg I own is jaws and I own no Jackson post Braindead.:D No desire to either;)

Running Bing

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

14 Ingmar Bergman is my highest, six or seven by the Coens and Woody Allen, five by Mayasaki, and three by a couple (Michel Gondry, David Lynch, Juenet).

Wow you must be a barrel of laughs;)

Anything in particular you'd recommend outside the obvious (Virgin Spring, Persona, sevent seal, wild strawberries, smiles of summer night, Hour of the wolf)

johnny_ultimate

Babybing wrote: »

Wow you must be a barrel of laughs;)

Anything in particular you'd recommend outside the obvious (Virgin Spring, Persona, sevent seal, wild strawberries, smiles of summer night, Hour of the wolf)

Most of the stuff I've seen has been really good (if hardly light viewing ), but apart from those above (have yet to see The Virgin Spring though - top of my list at the moment) Cries & Whispers, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, Shame, Autumn Sonata and Scenes from a Marriage are particularly good.

Running Bing

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Most of the stuff I've seen has been really good (if hardly light viewing ), but apart from those above (have yet to see The Virgin Spring though - top of my list at the moment) Cries & Whispers, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, Shame, Autumn Sonata and Scenes from a Marriage are particularly good.

Oh yes I've heard good things about through a glass darkly must have a look for that one.


The Magician is another one I forgot to mention, definitely worth a watch.


Oh and Virgin Spring is superb, definitely right up there with my favourite Bergmans.

johnny_ultimate

Babybing wrote: »

Oh yes I've heard good things about through a glass darkly must have a look for that one.

Yeah it really is a spectacular and quite disturbing film. The whole 'faith' trilogy is excellent, but Through A Glass Darkly is the highpoint.

The Magician is another one I forgot to mention, definitely worth a watch.

Oh and Virgin Spring is superb, definitely right up there with my favourite Bergmans.

Definitely have to check the two of them out.

eagle eye

Ay Cee wrote: »

The usual suspects:
Kevin Smith, Scorsese, Stone, Tarantino, Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Mann, Nolan & Fincher

Add the Coen brothers to this and you have mine.

bluto63

Kubrick is the biggest in my collection. Hitchcock would be next then Coen Brothers

Wacker

I actually have 20 Hitchcock films, so he's at the top by a country mile. I went through a phase of intense curiosity about his work up until about a year ago. There are still plenty of his that I want to see. I know that Spielberg is next, but I couldn't tell you how many I have. I have a spreadsheet of the whole lot at work, so I can check tomorrow.

That_Guy

Same. I've got a big box set of Hitchcock so he'd be top of my list.

humanji

Guy Hamilton is at the top of my list because he directed a load of James Bond films and Agatha Christie films, so he wins as a result of box sets I've be given as presents.

After that, I don't really know. Probably Robert Rodriguez, (again, from box sets). I don't go for particular directs, I just buy random films.

bnt

Dunno if I'd say that any director dominates, but Peter Jackson and Francis Ford Coppola have three each - no prizes for guessing which three. Several by Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove, 2001, Eyes Wide Shut), the Coen brothers, Tarantino, Altman, Woody Allen, Kurosawa. Jonathan Demme is well-represented, with Stop Making Sense and Silence of the Lambs as is Takeshi Kitano (Hana-Bi, Zatoichi, plus as an actor in Gohatto and the first two Battle Royale films.)

I was surprised to find I have three by Steven Soderbergh, if you include Erin Brockovich, Traffic, and Yes 9012Live (his directorial debut, a music video). Even more surprising: only one Scorsese, and it's the one you'd least expect: The Age Of Innocence. :cool:

kraggy

Mike Leigh, Coen brothers mainly.

Also Jeunet, Gondry.

Rest are a wide spread of independent and "arthouse" though I hate that phrase because it makes such films out to be the ones that are different when in actual fact they are more relevant to film making than most mainstream works.

SuperGrover

kraggy wrote: »

Mike Leigh, Coen brothers mainly.

Also Jeunet, Gondry.

Rest are a wide spread of independent and "arthouse" though I hate that phrase because it makes such films out to be the ones that are different when in actual fact they are more relevant to film making than most mainstream works.

Jeunet... one of my favourite films ever is The City of Lost Children. There was even a video game of it one time.

Sounds like my collection might be similar to yours... wanna do loaning some time?

I having been thinking lately about setting up[ a swap club of sorts for people with similar tastes but can't figure out how to do it.

kraggy

Nah sorry man.

Don't loan anymore. Not even to family. My collection would be so much bigger had I not loaned in the past.

Good idea like, but not for me.

SuperGrover

Yeah, kraggy, I know what you mean. Books and CDs the same. I'd need a small warehouse if I was to get them all back from over the years.

But I still enjoy borrowing, loaning films and tend to give people DVDs to watch, even without being asked. They sometimes go unwatched, unliked, loved and sometimes not at all, as you say.

Shame, really, that it's not do-able, as I have some great films and I'm sure plenty of other people have stuff I would enjoy.

spurious

No complete collections.
Largest numbers would be from Andrzej Wajda, Ridley Scott, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Mike Leigh, Hal Ashby, Zhang Yimou, Patricia Rozema.

Zaph

The Coens and Kevin Smith are probably the only ones that I have multiple films by.

ThOnda

Terry Gilliam. It was surprise even to me, however that's true. (Disclaimer: I am talking about bought DVDs and not DVDs given to me by my friends.)

Gonzovision

Just off the top of my head without checking it would be Sergio Leone.

kraggy

spurious wrote: »

No complete collections.
Largest numbers would be from Andrzej Wajda, Ridley Scott, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Mike Leigh, Hal Ashby, Zhang Yimou, Patricia Rozema.

Ooh I do like the look of that.

delly

The only director I would go out of my way to have on my shelf is Luc Besson, with quiet a few in my collection.