Gar Veteran Member Posts:1676  
| 6/3/2005 4:18 PM |
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In the latest issue of Empire Magazine, Steven Spielberg won the 'Greatest Movie Director Of All Time' prize. Is this justified?
Here's The Top 20:
1) Steven Spielberg
2) Alfred Hitchcock
3) Martin Scorsese
4) Stanley Kubrick
5) Ridley Scott
6) Akira Kurosawa
7) Peter Jackson
8) Quentin Tarantino
9) Orson Welles
10) Woody Allen
11) Clint Eastwood
12) David Lean
13) Coen Bros
14) James Cameron
15) Francis Ford Coppola
16) Oliver Stone
17) Sergio Leone
18) John Ford
19) Billy Wilder
20) Sam Peckinpah
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Eoin Basic Member Posts:174
| 6/3/2005 4:30 PM |
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personally my top 3 would be...
1) Alfred Hitchcock
2) Sergio Leone
3) Billy Wilder
I wouldnt have Spielberg in the top 10 myself
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
| 6/3/2005 4:35 PM |
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I'm not a big Spielberg fan, I love the indy movies but I'm sick of seeing him work through his "issues" from his parents divorce. He's just too schmaltzy.
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mickBasic Member Posts:411
| 6/3/2005 4:41 PM |
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6) Akira Kurosawa
legend.
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ishrinkBasic Member Posts:195
| 6/3/2005 4:53 PM |
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Peter Jackson? Fuck off.
David Lynch, Darren Aronofsky, Jean Pierre Jeunet,
Sidney Lumet, Frank Capra....
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GarVeteran Member Posts:1676
| 6/3/2005 5:01 PM |
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The next 20 on the list are:
21) Howard Hawks
22) Robert Zemeckis
23) Michael Mann
24) David Lynch
25) Spike Lee
26) Francois Truffaut
27) Brian De Palma
28) Tony Scott
29) Fritz Lang
30) Tim Burton
31) George Lucas
32) Anthony Minghella
33) Ron Howard
34) Sam Raimi
35) Charlie Chaplin
36) Ingmar Bergman
37) M. Night Shyamalan
38) Peter Weir
39) Terry Gilliam
40) Robert Altman
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GarVeteran Member Posts:1676
| 6/3/2005 5:44 PM |
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No sign of John McTiernan, Francois Ozon, Roman Polanski, Robert Rodriguez or Luc Besson.
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Rev JulesVeteran Member Posts:1041
| 6/4/2005 11:01 AM |
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No Katheryn Bigelow - 'Point Break' ?
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aidan Advanced Member Posts:638
| 6/4/2005 11:26 AM |
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.... and no fellini or jean-luc godard or kiezlowski or pedro almodovar. sick of all these 'list' issues of magazines.
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Rev JulesVeteran Member Posts:1041
| 6/4/2005 12:02 PM |
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Originally posted by aidan
.... and no fellini or jean-luc godard or kiezlowski or pedro almodovar. sick of all these 'list' issues of magazines.
...or Julio Medem ! |
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roseanne barrs armpit New Member Posts:40
| 6/4/2005 4:54 PM |
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man that list is a load of cockpuss. no mention of greenaway, loach, von trier, leigh, herzog, cassevettes and a s**t loade of other directors i forget. i shall compose the definitve list soon enough. take heed
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