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No.1 Director of all time

Goodshape · 2001-10-07 21:26:34

IMO, based on talent rather than box office recipts, this has to go to Stanley Kubrick. Anyone who has the (almost) compleat box-set of his films would have to agree that there isint a bad one amongst them. Speaking as someone interested in directing, its plain to see the man was a genious. ....and if anyone suggests…

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#32 11-10-2001 5:57pm
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I can't believe you've left out Akira Kurosawa.

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#33 11-10-2001 6:19pm
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Id have to say James Cameron, Aliens is my fave movie of all time and T2 was pure class.

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#34 13-10-2001 2:10pm
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Originally posted by AngelWhore

And I really did forget good old David Lynch...
Se7en was another modern classic.

Did you mean David Fincher??
He directed se7en

David Lynch (also most notable) is famous for The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and The Straight Story among others:)

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#35 13-10-2001 7:01pm
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Originally posted by 80project

David Lynch (also most notable) is famous for The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and The Straight Story among others:)

Don't forget Eraserhead (it's Jay Sherman's favourite ("Skull cracked. Brains leaking out. Can't wait to see new Chevy Chase movie...") - also my brother's but then he's an art snob who told me last week I was being influenced by culture rather than vice versa)

Some great suggestions above - can't really disagree with many of them.

Adding Frank Capra, Billy Wilder and Sidney Lumet though

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#36 13-10-2001 8:14pm
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Originally posted by 80project

Did you mean David Fincher??
He directed se7en

David Lynch (also most notable) is famous for The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and The Straight Story among others:)

Ah yes... Totaly confused there...
I sometimes get names mixed up, thanks...

And lets not forget Fincher for Fight Club now...

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#37 13-10-2001 9:10pm
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kevin smith is alright too, clerks and mallrats were good
dogma was excellent

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#38 21-10-2001 11:51am
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1) Quentin Tarantino
Jackie Brown (1997) Four Rooms (1995) Pulp Fiction (1994) Reservoir Dogs (1992)

2) Steven Spielberg
Jurassic Park Trilogy (2001) The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) Jurassic Park (1993) Saving Private Ryan (1998) A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)

3) Ridley Scott
Alien (1979) Blade Runner (1982) Hannibal (2001) Gladiator (2000) G.I. Jane (1997)

4) Alfred Hitchcock
Psycho (1960) Dial M for Murder (1999) Frenzy (1972) The Birds (1963) Vertigo (1958)

5) Paul Verhoeven
Basic Instinct (1992) Total Recall (1990) Starship Troopers (1997) Hollow Man (2000)

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#39 21-10-2001 6:23pm
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Didn't we just have one of these?

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#40 22-10-2001 12:20am
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its even on the 1st page of threads it so recent

located here...
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32891

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#41 23-10-2001 2:28pm
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We had two of these in the last 3 weeks already.

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#42 23-10-2001 4:33pm
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Merged the two threads

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#43 23-10-2001 4:42pm
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For me it would be a tie between Francis Ford Coppola and James Cameron.

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#44 24-10-2001 12:43am
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Maybe...
Francis Ford Coppola because of 'Apocalypse Now' and the 'Godfather trilogy'

He gave Al Pacino his big break, and managed to have legends like Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro appear as the same person.

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#45 24-10-2001 6:58pm
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If we're talking influence , then Roger Corman
Of Connamara would have to be numero uno,
without him the film industry since 1960 would have been
utterly different.

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