Favorite Directors - check out their stuff.
Submitted by jenhowel on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 09:14
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- Peter Greenaway - "The Pillow Book", "The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover", etc.
- John Sayles - "Lonestar", "Limbo", "Passion Fish", etc.
- Francis Ford Coppola - well, duh.
- David Fincher - "Seven" "The Game" "Fight Club"
- Philip Kaufman - "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", "Henry and June", "Quills" After seeing "Quills" I realized that my cinematic life would be much less without this director's work. His main contribution, in my view, is to make films about sexual subjects which are suffused with eroticism and intelligence. A deadly combination!
- Baz Luhrman - With the arrival of "Moulin Rouge" this past year, completing the Red Curtain trilogy, Luhrman has vaulted into my director hall of fame. His films always have humor, romance, and great production design. And very very cool music.
- Peter Jackson - Sure, "Lord of the Rings" was great, but far greater are "Heavenly Creatures" and "Dead Alive". Mainly, I'm adding Jackson because this past year has shown his versatility. Not only can he produce a lavish blockbuster cult film, he has also produced puppet porn "Meet the Feebles". A multi-faceted, always skilled man.
The Game also belongs on your "Underrated Movies" list, if you don't mind me saying so. It fared even more poorly than Fight Club critically and monetarily (I think).
You know Jen, another moderatly new director I'm beginning to really like is Christopher Nolan. He is good. Memento is deserving of about 312 academy award nominations.