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boechsner · 09-15-2003, 01:16 AM

What are your favorite movie directors?

My top 10 are:

1. Brian DePalma (Sister, Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Femme Fatale)
2. Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho, Rear Window, North by Northwest)
3. John Carpenter (Halloween, The Fog, Christine)
4. Stanley Kubrick (The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, A Clockwork Orange)
5. David Cronenberg (Scanners, The Brood, The Dead Zone)
6. Steven Spielberg (E.T., Jaws, Duel, Raiders of the Lost Ark)
7. Roman Polanski (Rosemary's Baby, Repulsion, Chinatown)
8. Oliver Stone (Platoon, JFK, Natural Born Killers)
9. Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocolypse Now)
10. David Fincher (Fight Club, Panic Room, Seven)

Josh9125 · 09-15-2003, 01:33 AM

my top 2 is probably Baz Luhrman & Penny Marshall.

phoebe7165 · 09-15-2003, 02:03 AM

1.Martin Scorcese
2.Steven Spielberg
3.Rob Reiner
4.Woody Allen
5.Ron Howard
6.Penny Marshall
7.Sydney Pollack
8.Robert Zemeckis
9.John Landis
10.John Hughes(only because he made alot of movies that I grew up with!)

Also, I didn't know if I had to put some of the movies they did like you did. I figure their names would already be familiar enough.

BrandonS · 09-15-2003, 03:51 AM

Maybe I'll add to my list later, but the ones that occur to me are:

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. James Cameron
3. Sergio Leone
4. Frank Capra
5. Quentin Tarantino
6. Woody Allen
7. Stanley Kubrick

*ShortCake* · 09-15-2003, 11:02 AM

1. George Cukor
2. Baz Lurhman
3. Ron Howard
4. Frank Capra
5. Alfred Hitchcock
6. James Cameron
7. David Selznick ( Gone With The Wind)
8. Woody Allen
9. Steven Speildberg
10. Stanley Kubrick.

Penny Lane · 09-15-2003, 12:09 PM

In the order that come to mind;

Joel and Ethan Coen
John Hughes
Lawrence Kasden
Penny Marshall
Frank Capra
Steven Spielberg
Brian De Palma
John Huston
David Lynch
Ron Howard

DianeChambers87 · 09-15-2003, 04:39 PM

Danny DeVito
Steven Spielberg
Woody Allen
Ron Howard
Francis Ford Coppola
Oliver Stone

dr frasier crane · 09-15-2003, 06:47 PM

1. Steven Spielberg
2. Robert Zemeckis
3. George Lucas
4. Ron Howard
5. John Hughes
6. James Cameron
7. Alfred Hitchcock
8. Frank Darabont (The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption)
9. Clint Eastwood
10. Francis Ford Coppola

Georgia's on my Mind · 09-15-2003, 07:40 PM

Alfred Hitchcock
David O. Selznick
George Cukor
Sam Wood
Victor Fleming
Rob Marshall

Brian Damage · 09-15-2003, 07:49 PM

Quentin Tarantino
Martin Scorsese
Robert Rodriguez
Francis Ford Coppola
George Lucas

09-15-2003, 01:16 AM	#1
boechsner Member Senior Member Join Date: Oct 18, 2000 Location: Green Bay, WI Posts: 2,212	Top 10 Favorite Directors What are your favorite movie directors? My top 10 are: 1. Brian DePalma (Sister, Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Femme Fatale) 2. Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho, Rear Window, North by Northwest) 3. John Carpenter (Halloween, The Fog, Christine) 4. Stanley Kubrick (The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, A Clockwork Orange) 5. David Cronenberg (Scanners, The Brood, The Dead Zone) 6. Steven Spielberg (E.T., Jaws, Duel, Raiders of the Lost Ark) 7. Roman Polanski (Rosemary's Baby, Repulsion, Chinatown) 8. Oliver Stone (Platoon, JFK, Natural Born Killers) 9. Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocolypse Now) 10. David Fincher (Fight Club, Panic Room, Seven)

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BrandonS Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Aug 18, 2002 Posts: 8,824	Maybe I'll add to my list later, but the ones that occur to me are: 1. Alfred Hitchcock 2. James Cameron 3. Sergio Leone 4. Frank Capra 5. Quentin Tarantino 6. Woody Allen 7. Stanley Kubrick
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Penny Lane Butter Pie Forum Icon Join Date: Jul 03, 2001 Location: Beneath the blue suburban skies Posts: 51,248	In the order that come to mind; Joel and Ethan Coen John Hughes Lawrence Kasden Penny Marshall Frank Capra Steven Spielberg Brian De Palma John Huston David Lynch Ron Howard
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09-15-2003, 07:40 PM	#9
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