The three directors you just couldn't live without

[Cujo108]

Also known as your favorite three directors. Who are your cinematic gods, so to speak? Here are mine, and if you ask me, no director even comes close to rivaling these three's overall bodies of work:

David Cronenberg
David Lynch
John Carpenter

[Grim]

Romero, Raimi, Jackson

Havent seen enough Lynch yet so it might change.

Oh and for honorable mention: Lloyd Kaufman, even though many think his films are crap you gotta give the guy mad props, he is the only true independent director.

[SaviniFan]

Takashi Miike

John Carpenter

David Cronenberg

[hell ya!]

Argento
Romero
Tarantino

[John]

I think it's safe to assume that we aren't talking horror.

Wes Anderson
Stanley Kubrick
Paul Thomas Anderson

I know two of these guys are still extremely early in their careers, but I have LOVED what they have shown me thus far. If Spike Jonze keeps up his track record, he could easily make my top three list.

[Jason25]

1)Lucio Fulci

2)Dario Argento

3)Tie - Umberto Lenzi / Sergio Martino / David Cronenberg

[Eddie Quist]

Wow... this is fucking hard, man... But here they are, in no real order...

David Cronenberg
Todd Solondz
Martin Scorsese


Much love, though, to David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Cameron Crowe, David Fincher, George Romero, Todd Haynes, John Carpenter, Michael Mann, Sam Raimi and whoever shot the Bud Dwyer footage ;)

[MapleBob]

My three used to be the same as your three, Cujo, but the last thing I liked from Carpenter was Escape from L.A.

I guess I would have to put Shyamalan in to replace Carpenter, even though I can barely pronounce his name.

So, not in any order:

Lynch
Cronenburg
Shyamalan

[DeathDealer]

Argento
Tarantino
Miike

[nlogax]

cronenberg
lynch
carpenter

[Evil Disco Guy]

Miike
Kaufman
Argento

[DefJeff]

ruggero deodato
dario argento
john woo

[Rainbowthief]

Alejandro Jodorowsky
David Lynch
David Cronenberg

I'd love to have Peter Jackson in there, but I don't know who to remove!

[dlundh]

Bava
Argento
Jodorowsky

...americans make movies?! :D

[onebyone]

Raimi
Romero
Lynch, although I would LOVE to do without him. I just can't seem too.

[Vasilis]

Lucio Fulci
Roman Polanski
Dario Argento

[Funktion]

Wong Kar-Wai
Mario Bava
Dario Argento

[thrashard76]

Carpenter
Romero
Raimi
:evil: :evil: :evil:

[the.wicked.one]

Argento
Fulci
Mattei

[Nilbog]

Lucas
Cameron
Scorsese

In no particular order!

[The Chaostar]

I could live without Carpenter making movies ANYMORE.

[The Chaostar]

My favorite directors would be

Scorsese (still the most important living director in the US today)
Coppola (his MEGALOPOLIS is the most awaited movie in years for me!)
Argento (first love dies hard)

[wago70]

Mario Bava
Dario Argento
Ishiro Honda

[rhett]

Non-Horror:
Stanley Kubrick
Michael Mann
Martin Scorsese

Horror:
John Carpenter
George A. Romero
Lucio Fulci

[Alan Smithee]

John Carpenter
John Carpenter
John Carpenter

[KillerCannabis]

Horror:

- John Carpenter
- David Cronenberg
- George Romero

Non-horror:

- David Lynch
- Quentin Tarantino
- Tim Burton

[legnadibrom]

Originally posted by The Chaostar
Scorsese (still the most important living director in the US today)
i dont understand your statement

tarantino
carpenter
argento

[Urotsukidoji]

Kevin Smith
John Woo (older stuff)
Clint Eastwood

[y2doublet]

Tough choice, I'd say hadn't these three directors made the movies they have I wouldn't be into films at all: Alfred Hitchcock, John Carpenter, David Cronenberg.

[Derrick Howes]

Dario Argento
John Carpenter
Antonio Margheriti

I would like to mention the following for not making it into my top 3, but are still up there with best of them...

Mario Bava
Francis Ford Coppola
Sergio Corbucci
George P.Cosmatos
Ruggero Deodato
John Ford
John Frankenheimer
Umberto Lenzi
Sergio Leone
Ridley Scott
Sergio Sollima
Tonino Valerii

[puddytay]

Bob Zemekis I cant belive no one mentioned him
Dario Argento
Wes Craven

[PhoneStud]

1.Dario Argento
2.Carpenter
3.Lucio Fulci

[life_o_petey]

the Coen Brothers
David Lynch
Wes Anderson

[ScarredGod]

David Lynch (far ahead of everyone)
Dario Argento (in the horror category)
Paul Thomas Anderson (i just want to see more and more from him)

honorable mention to todd solondz, takashi miike and phillip ridley (wish i could see more from him)

[marioscido]

Originally posted by The Chaostar
I could live without Carpenter making movies ANYMORE.

You took the words right out of my mouth!

Non-horror (what ever that means):
P. P. Pasolini
M. Scorsese
A. Tarkovsky

Horror:
M. Bava
G. A. Romero
J. Tourneur

Special mentions:
C. T. Dreyer
A. Hitchcock
F.W. Murnau

[aoiookami]

1. Miike
2.Jackson
3.Barker

[mcchrist]

John Carpenter
John Waters
H.G. Lewis

[The Chaostar]

That's true, WHERE IS PHILIP RIDLEY?????
And the same goes for Lodge Kerrigan of CLEAN SHAVEN and CLAIRE DOLAN. Where are those guys?????:mad: