What the Hell?
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goldeye39 — 20 years ago(March 02, 2006 06:50 AM)
they put peter jackson at #7. ingmar bergman was #38. ly5b4nch was at #20. thats not a very good list although the top four are pretty good. only i like kubrick more than spielberg and scorsese.
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Svennisnoken — 20 years ago(April 08, 2006 04:37 AM)
If Carpa is not there, what the h3ll is M Night Shyamalan and Quentin Tarantino doing there??
Don't get me wrong, I love their movies.. but I would consider Carpa as a better movie maker.
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movies_is_cool — 19 years ago(May 18, 2006 09:42 AM)
The reason Capra is one of the top filmmakers on my list is because his movies are sentimental, sappy and uplifting. I like to watch a film that makes me feel warm and optimistic. Capra was also very talented and inovative.
That list looks more like the "top 40 super popular box office smash neato cool directors". A lot of good Directors on it but a lot that aren't and the order is a little messed up. Why is Tim Burton on the list? I really like his movies but one of the top 40 directors? Terry Gilliam? Again I like his films, but are they really that great? Mainly just weird. George Lucus? Come on silly list-makers! -
HellFurby — 19 years ago(May 18, 2006 11:48 AM)
Good to see Lynch made a pretty decent place on the list. As much as I'm gradually warming up to Tarantino, I definitely don't think he's higher than Francis Ford Coppola and a few others. I have another question
Where the HELL are Billy Wilder and Federico Fellini?
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masterofmydomain78 — 19 years ago(July 04, 2006 12:28 PM)
This is one of the crappiest lists ever made
I'm sorry, but in a top 40 of the greatest directors EVER, there's no room for Quentin Tarantino, Sam Raimi, Peter Weir, Brian De Palma, James Cameron, Robert Zemeckis, Peter Jackson, Clint Eastwood, Joel Coen, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, George Lucas, Michael Mann, Tim Burton, Oliver Stone, Terry Gilliam, Ron Howard, Spike Lee and Anthony Minghella.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE 40 BEST DIRECTORS EVER
M. Night Shyamalan?, PLEASE!
What about Satyajit Ray, Luis Buuel, Jean-Luc Godard, Preston Sturges, Jean Renoir, F.W. Murnau, Buster Keaton, Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Ernst Lubitsch, Vincente Minnelli, Roberto Rossellini, Jacques Tati, Carl Dreyer, Sergei Eisenstein, D.W. Griffith, Wim Wenders, Roman Polanski, William Wyler, Luchino Visconti, Pedro Almodovar, Abel Gance, Robert Bresson, John Cassavetes, Michelangelo Antonioni, Yasujiro Ozu, Sam Fuller, Andrei Tarkovsky, Carlos Saura, Erich Von Stroheim, Pier Paolo Pasolini, George Cukor, Jean Vigo, Georges Melies, Rene Clair, Elia Kazan and the good Frank Capra?
The cinema of Sam Raimi, Peter Jackson, Tony Scott, Michael Mann, Anthony Minghella and M. Night Shyamalan is better?
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Undead_Master — 19 years ago(October 06, 2006 06:24 AM)
That might be the worst list of this type i've ever seen.
It's been summed up pretty well here by other posters, but there are several names that are just astonishing, especially when you consider some of the people that were excluded.
Sam Raimi? i love his some of his movies, but he hasn't built up that kind of career yet.. He may never end up being worthy of this kind of list. Tony Scott?. Tony scott is really puzzling as a choice for this list. Ron Howard? he's a solid director, and he's made some great movies, but there are probably 100 directors (maybe even 200) that are more important. Anthony Minghella?
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crispy_comments — 19 years ago(January 12, 2007 03:19 PM)
What a joke. There would BE no Joel Coen without Preston Sturges! And I think he'd be the first to admit that, since he's always acknowledged Sturges' influence.
It's sad that the film community/media today is more interested in kissing the butts of currently trendy filmmakers - than in honestly assessing and paying tribute to the TRULY INFLUENTIAL INNOVATORS in movie history.
Frank Capra is #1 in my book, and I love this quote from his IMDb bio:Capra was proud to be "Mr. Up-beat" rather than belong to "the 'ashcan' school" whose "films depict life as an alley of cats clawing lids off garbage cans, and man as less noble than a hyena. The 'ash-canners,' in turn, call us Pollyannas, mawkish sentimentalists, and corny happy-enders."
5b4There are too many filmmakers today who roll around in the filth, exposing (and in my opinion, perpetuating) all the ugliest aspects of human nature and our world. Frank Capra acknowledged & dealt with the negative side of life, but ultimately he was trying to make the world a better place and inspire people, through his films. And that's a far more admirable goal than trying to be "edgy" and "dark", for the sake of being dark.and in order to win accolades/awards/ass-kissing from other pretentious filmmakers & critics.
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