Best Filmmakers Ever

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according to this thread, the best filmmakers are all americans...

because they set the trends that everyone follow

hmm!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hollywood

one story can be depicted in many ways and it seems that american filmmakers always got the right recipe.. they know how to create a masterpiece
can u imagine The Godfather directed by some japanese guy with japanese actors? well it is possible.. but im pretty sure that it wouldnt be considered as a classic movie..

[Matty]

according to this thread, the best filmmakers are all americans...

because they set the trends that everyone follow

hmm!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hollywood

one story can be depicted in many ways and it seems that american filmmakers always got the right recipe.. they know how to create a masterpiece
can u imagine The Godfather directed by some japanese guy with japanese actors? well it is possible.. but im pretty sure that it wouldnt be considered as a classic movie..

yeah i guess im just trying to point out that most of the directors mentioned had a lot of different influences from around the world. its always gonna be subjective and from the point of view of films we might enjoy cause we culturally understand them, then american films would win.

but being objective more in the scheme of things, the most meaningful directors in cinema history are not all american.

[Doggystylin]

James Cameron is Canadian
Peter Jackson is a New Zealander
Hitchcock is British
Jean Luc Godard is French

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& Serigo Leone is Italian.

[Javier]

What are these "failed" movies that Scorsese has directed?  The lowest graded movie for me is probably The Age of Innocence, which I give a C-.  Other than that, pretty much every movie ranges from C+ to A+ and most of them are closer to the A side. 

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What are these "failed" movies that Scorsese has directed?  The lowest graded movie for me is probably The Age of Innocence, which I give a C-.  Other than that, pretty much every movie ranges from C+ to A+ and most of them are closer to the A side. 

not even that, i would say that MOST directors, even some named in this thread have a few flops & "wtf was that?" movies in them.

Spielberg is a God, but i thought War of The Worlds sucked; but it's not like i would say he failed as a filmmaker because of one movie lol.

but back to the point, if you said Spielberg, Coppola & Lucas are "the top 3", Scorsese is a close 4th; easily a top moviemaker of all time.

[Episcop Cruel Cvrle]

King of all kings:
Alejandro Jodorowsky

then in no order:

 
Alfred Hitchcock
Billy Wilder
David Lynch
Aki Kaurismaki
Emir Kusturica
Lukas Moodyson
Ingmar Bergman
Terrance Mallick
Andrei Tarkowski
Francis Ford Coppola
Milos Forman
Jean Pierre Jeunet
Frank Darabont
Ridley Scott
David Cronenberg
Akira Kurosawa
Gaspar Noe
Pedro Almodovar
Alejandro González Iñárritu   
Guillermo del Toro
Jonathan Demme
Woody Allen
Tim Burton
Jean Luc Godard
Ron Howard
Alejandro Amenabar
Francois Ozon
Charlie Chaplin
Lars Von Trier
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Luis Bunuel
Takeshi Miike
Hayao Miyazaki
Clint Eastwood
Paul Thomas Anderson
Frank Capra
Federico Fellini
Sam Peckinpah
Martin Scorsese
Fritz Lang
Stanley Kubrick
Steven Spielberg
Sergio Leone
Orson Wells
Roman Polanski
Francois Truffaut
Terry Gilliam
Cristopher Nolan
John Huston
Coen Brothers
Darren Aronofsky
James Cameron
Neil Jordan
Abel Ferrara
Brian De Palma
George Lucas
Quentin Tarantino


and many more i cant remember right now..

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^Clint makes some dope movies, forgot about him.

[Michael]

King of all kings:
Alejandro Jodorowsky

aww Episcop ive lost all respect for u now lol (j/k)

i HATE Jodorowsky, our Film Studies teacher has a man crush on him, and made us watch El Topo about 100 times. Awful film lol

[Episcop Cruel Cvrle]

King of all kings:
Alejandro Jodorowsky

aww Episcop ive lost all respect for u now lol (j/k)

i HATE Jodorowsky, our Film Studies teacher has a man crush on him, and made us watch El Topo about 100 times. Awful film lol

Not a huge fan of El Topo either.

Santa Sangre and La Montana Sagrada are my shit, waiting for King Shot now...should be great!

[Cali Climate]

Scorcese has had a lot of FAILS so therefore he FAILS.

You're a fucking idiot.



Let's see....a few of my faves

Coen brothers
Martin Scorcese
Alfred Hitchcock
Sergio Leone
Francis Ford Coppola
Stephen Spielberg
John Carpenter

[Job starring as King Of Zamunda]

spike lee. people can hate but all his movies are good and classics

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spike lee. people can hate but all his movies are good and classics

good one.

[Cali Climate]

spike lee. people can hate but all his movies are good and classics

Yeah i second that, with the exception of Miracle at Santa Anna or whatever. That wasn't mindblowing like his others.

[Episcop Cruel Cvrle]

spike lee. people can hate but all his movies are good and classics

oh yea ! +1, spike lee is great, who can forget Son Of Sam, 25th Hour,Inside Man, Malcolm X, He Got Game and a classic like Do The Right Thing!