On that we are agreed on.

These are all great in their own right... to pick one over the other almost isn't fair

thats true, i like them all apart from ritchie who can go back to being mr madonna.

I liked lock stock, and snatch... he did Swept Away too though, right? Yeah, he can burn in hell for that; no amount of quality movies should be able to redeem him.

my favorite of those 2 are jarmusch & david lynch

i would pick woody allen but he belongs to another generation really.

it is unfair to compare such great people. almost an insult.

where is thread #1 anyway? i bet a lot of people were left out, think

**the coen brothers**
francois ozon
sofia coppola
wes anderson
richard linklater
robert rodriguez
vincent gallo
& more & more & more & more...

don't foget Albert and Charles Band, directors of the great "Prehysteria!"

Tim Burton for personal reasons.....childhood memories and all that.

Wes Anderson

Chris Nolan, Kubrik, Aronofsky, and Tarantino are my favorite directors.

People who whine about how unoriginal Tarantino is are the same people that look for similarities in music. If you blatantly rip off relatively unknown brilliance and bring it into pop-culture, you are unorignal. But you're an unoriginal genius. However, the main reason I like him is because I've never seen an interview or behind-the-scenes footage of him that wasn't embarassingly hilarious or inspiring. Or both. How can you not like a guy who said he kissed a muppet because he forgot they were fake?

Where's Scorcese? Where's Milos Foreman?! (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, Man on the Moon, People Vs. Larry Flynt)

In response to the lack of directors: they are on the other poll (anderson, coppola, kubrick, forman etc..) and these directors that were originally left off the old poll. In response to Guy Ritchie being up there: well I saw lock, stock the other day for the 20th time and it must have mustered up some nostalgia for an unknown emotion. Looking back at his other work, I can see why so many have a avid hatred for him.

On a personal note I picked Jarmusch. What can I say, the man makes my type of film. The silence during the scenes, the great dialoque, the actors, the everything. I love his style. Burton, Lynch are also great and I wasn't comparing them against each other, I was trying to see who you folks dug more. Everyone has a favorite something.

oh i didn't know the other poll. i remember it but i dont know who was in it.

anyway yeah burton made planet of the apes and that is a great stain working against him so i'd pick jarmusch as well. but what coppola was in that poll? sofia or francis? or roman? anyway...

i just watched WATTSTAX again last night-- fuck-- great, great little film

WATTSTAX! I cream, literally cream my pants the moment the Bar Kays shout
I AM THE SON OF A BAAAAAD......


Jarmusch is a great director.I read a story once where Jim Jarmusch was hanging out with Roberto Begnini in Italia, and everywhere they went the people would be "Roberto! Roberto!" and adoring him and asking him to take pictures and just praising the actor, and that noone recognized Jim Jarmusch, and Roberto Begninin (a hilarious motherfucker) said "Jeeeem, Jeeeem, let me take you somewhere." and they walked out fairly late at night to an old plaza where a bunch of kids were doing their skatepunk thing, skating and blasting black flag and they saw Roberto and Jim come by and mobbed Jim Jarmusch and Roberto begnini said "Jeeem, see? seee? These are your people!"


I find great joy in that story.



My favorite directors are

Clint Eastwood
(Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby are fucking masterpieces, FUCKING MASTERPIECES)
Spike Lee
(Do The Right Thing is my all time fave movie, and I love all his other stuff I have seen. I ahve not seen Jungle Fever though and Crooklyn was a bit slow. bamboozled was great, Clockers was great, malcolm X was fantastic, get on the bus was great.)
Joel or Ethan Coen (whichever directs)
(lebowski, Fargo, raising arizona, blood simple, Barton Fink, MILLERS CROSSING, all amazing rich films.)
Wes Anderson
(all his movies are so personally stylized and dense. I love them)

hahahaha, seriously, i remember when everyone was giving her so much credit for the acting job she did in that movie. I bet she had to reach real hard to the depths of her soul to pull out the junkie in her.

more movies! less suckdom! post your movie love...

i just watched visconti's 'le notti bianche" (white nights)

okay, visconti is not a contemporary director but oooh.... maestro!