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Orson Welles-" Citzen Kane" 1st film and one of the greatest ever.
Quentin Tarantino-"Pulp Fiction"
Martin Scorsese-"Goodfellas"
Kevin Smith-"Dogma"
John Ford-"The Searchers"
Alfred Hitchcock-"Psycho"
Robert Rodriguez-"From Dusk Till Dawn"
Sam Peckinpah-"Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia"
Oliver Stone-"JFK"
Billy Wilder-"The Lost Weekend"

Very hard to pick just 10 but these guys are the movie rockers to me.
Late,
Jake

Otter, Just curious as to your thoughts on Welles's other films as a director. I found him to be mixed. The Stranger is okay, the Lady from Shanghai is pretty bad, but then there's the Trial and Touch of Evil, which to me are amazing.

Paul Thomas Anderson "Boogie Nights"
Robert Zemeckis "Back to the Future"
Wes Anderson "Rushmore"
Tim Burton "Ed Wood"
Christopher Guest "Best in Show"
Todd Solondz "Happiness"
Brad Bird "The Incredibles"
Steven Spielberg "Jurassic Park"
Quentin Tarantino "Kill Bill: Volume One"
Trey Parker "South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut"

Fernando Merielles
Cameron Crowe
Quentin Tarrentino

i dare someone to post a list with out quentin

I already did.

Not that I don't like Quentin, Pulp Fiction was astounding, and I don't like martial arts movies but loved Kill Bill, so the guy has something. I wonder who on this site hates Tarantino. Any takers?

Waouh, I did I not see this thread sooner.
Ok... here's an attempt. So I'll mention directors that have made at least 2 or 3 films I loved, beucase you can't really judge a director's talent with 1 film. And my list is long sorry...

So here we go, in no particular order :

- Bong Joon-ho- "The Host" & Memories of Murder" (i can't pick out of these two !!!)
- Kenneth Branagh- "Hamlet", long version
- Frank Capra - "Arsenic and old laces"
- Coen Bros - "The big Lebowski"
- George Cukor - "The Philadelphia Story"
- Brian De Palma - "The Untouchables" & "Carlito's Way"
- Clint Eastwood - "A Perfect World" & "The Bridges of madison Cuonty"
- David Fincher - "Zodiac"
- James Gray - "Little Odessa"
- Howard Hawks - "Rio Bravo"
- Hitchcock - "North by Northwest"
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet - "Amélie"
- Kubrick - "Doctor Strangelove" & "Eyes Wide Shut"
- Sergio Leone - "Once upon a time in America"
- David lynch - "Lost Highway"
- Terrrence Malick - "The Thin Red line"
- Jean-Pierre Melville - "Army of Shadows"
- Hayao Miyazaki - "Howl's moving castle"
- Park Chan-Wook - "Oldboy"
- Claude Sautet - "César et Rosalie"
- Spielberg - "Saving private Ryan"
- Gus Van sant - "Elephant"
- Peter Weir - "The Truman Show"
- Billy Wilder - "Some Like it hot"
- Wong Kar Wai - "In the mood for love"

Numbersix_99,
I agree Welles had very mixed bag at the directing helm."Citizen Zane" still stands the test of time as being a true masterpiece.His first & best work and "The Magnificent Andersons" as well as "Touch of Evil" I would rank as the rest of his best works.Orson Welles the actor a must see is 1949's "The Third Man" directed by a very underated Englishman Carol Reed.
Late,
Jake

The Third Man is one of my 10 favourite movies. They say Orson wrote and directed the scene where he does the whole cuckoo clock speech. It's undeniably one of the best scenes in cinema history.

I wouldn't put the Third Man in my all time Top, but it definitly features one of my favorite shots of all time. Orson Welle's first appearance onscreen. In this little street, at night. Cotten feels a presence, take a look in that dark corner. You see the shape of a man, slowly coming to the light, a genius theme starts to play, and BAM ! Orson's face appears in the light. This shot is a masterpiece in itself.

1. Hitchcock - Vertigo
2. Welles - Citizen Kane
3. Kurosawa - Seven Samurai
4. Tarantino - Kill Bill 1 & 2
5. Ridley Scott - Alien

Wow, what a great topic. Please notice the absence of the man who's name I shalln't mention, the director of "Pulp Fiction" for which should not be on this list.

- Peter Weir : PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK, DEAD POETS SOCIETY, THE TRUMAN SHOW, MASTER AND COMMANDER

- Wong Kar-wai : IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, CHUNGKING EXPRESS, HAPPY TOGETHER, DAYS OF BEING WILD

- Terrence Malick : THE THIN RED LINE, BADLANDS, THE NEW WORLD, DAYS OF HEAVEN

- Ernst Lubitsch : LOVE PARADE, TROUBLE IN PARADISE, NINOTCHKA

- Billy Wilder : THE APARTMENT, SUNSET BOULEVARD, SOME LIKE IT HOT

- Howard Hawks : HIS GIRL FRIDAY, BRINGING UP BABY, RED RIVER, RIO BRAVO, THE BIG SLEEP

- William Wyler : THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, BEN-HUR, FUNNY GIRL, THE BIG COUNTRY, JEZEBEL, MRS. MINIVER, WUTHERING HEIGHTS

- George Stevens : A PLACE IN THE SUN, GIANT, SHANE, THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK

- Darren Aronofsky : PI, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, THE FOUNTAIN

- Lynne Ramsay : RATCATCHER, MORVERN CALLAR

- David Fincher : SEVEN, FIGHT CLUB, THE GAME, ZODIAC

- Jean-Pierre Jeunet : DELICATESSAN, THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN, AMELIE

- F.W. MURNAU : SUNRISE, FAUST, THE LAST LAUGH, NOSFERATU

- Andrei Tarkovsky: SOLARIS, THE SACRIFICE, ANDREI RUBLEV

Weir, Wong Kar Wai, Malick, Lubitsch, Wilder, Hawks, Fincher, Jeunet...
Nice list frisky. You're a man of excellent taste

Bless you Michael Bay. Armageddon is a masterpiece.

It's good to see that there's Tarkovsky fans still out there. Not so sure about Ramsay, I thought Movern Callar was a piece of pretentious crap. But I'll forgive you

My Director preferred will be that do me The saga of DragonballZ of P.M.

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