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Regardless of how you feel about them, having directed these 4 films alone puts them at at least an A tier (so you're pretty far off). These are among the best films ever made in cinema (legacy and impact) Ridley Scott- Gladiator, Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise & alien Roman Polanski- Chinatown, Rosemary baby, Repulsion, the pianist
Swap Tarantino with Bergman and you have a good list. Tarantino is incredibly overrated actually, i would bring him down to B as well. Pulp Fiction wasn't just his effort as he had another person that made most of the good work, and a lot of his other films weren't as good. He is a good writer, but he isn't that good of a director, putting him in SS above many icons and next to legends is laughable.
So you put Polanski on E category because he is a Jew? I cannot agree with you but I understand your pont of view. You cannot see clearly how good director he is.
50. Danny Boyle (Shallow Grave, Trainspotting 1/2, The Beach, 28 Days Later, Millions, Sunshine, Slumdog Millionare, 127 Hours, Steve Jobs, Yesterday) 49. James Gunn (Slither, Super, Movie 43, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Suicide Squad, Peacemaker, GOTG Holiday Special, Superman Legacy (Upcoming)) 48. Frank Darabont (Buried Alive, Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Majestic, The Shield, The Mist, Walking Dead) 47. Martin McDonagh (Six Shooter, In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths, Banshees of Inisheran, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri) 46. Jon Favreau (Made, Elf, Zathura, Iron Man 1/2, Cowboys & Aliens, Chef, Jungle Book, The Lion King, The Mandalorian) 45. S Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk, Brawl In Cell Block 99, Dragged Across Concrete, The Bookie and the Bruiser (Upcoming)) 44. Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man 3, The Nice Guys, The Predator, Play Dirty (Upcoming)) 43. James Wan (Saw, Dead Silence, Death Sentence, Insidious 1/2, The Conjuring 1/2, Furious 7, Aquaman 1/2) 42. John Hughes (Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Planes Trains and Automobiles, She’s Having A Baby, Uncle Buck, Curly Sue) 41. Rian Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom, Looper, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Knive’s Out, Glass Onion, Wake Up Dead Man (Upcoming)) 40. Guillermo Del Toro (Cronos, Mimic, Devil’s Backbone, Blade 2, Hellboy 1/2, Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim, Crimson Peak, Shape of Water, Nightmare Alley, Pinocchio) 39. John Carpenter 38. Yorgos Lanthimos (Kinetta, Dogtooth, Alps, The Lobster, Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Favourite, Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness) 37. George Lucas (THX-1138, American Graffiti, Star Wars Episode 4, 1, 2, 3, Red Tails) 36. Jordan Peele (Get Out, The Last OG, Us, Nope, Him (Upcoming)) 35. Sergio Leone (The Stole A Tram, The Colossus of Rhodes, The Dollars Trilogy, Once Upon A Time In the West, A Fistful of Dynamite, Once Upon A Time In America) 34. Brad Bird (The Simpsons, The Iron Giant, The Incredibles 1-3, Ratatouille, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Tomorrowland) 33. Mel Brooks (The Producers, The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, History of the World Part I, Spaceballs, Life Stinks, Robin Hood: Men In Tights, Dracula: Dead and Loving It) 32. Rob Reiner (This Is Spinal Tap, A Sure Thing, Stand By Me, Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men, The American President, etc.) 31. Francis Ford Coppola (The Rain People, The Godfather, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, Garden of Stone, Tucker, Dracula, The Rainmaker, Megalopolis) 30. The Coen Brothers (Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller’s Crossing, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading, True Grit, Inside Llewyn Davis, Hail Ceasar) 29. Matt Reeves (The Pallbearer, Cloverfield, Let Me In, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes/War for the Planet of the Apes, The Batman) 28. Richard Donner (The Omen, Superman 1/2, Inside Moves, Ladyhawke, The Goonies, Lethal Weapon 1-4, Scrooged, Maverick, Conspiracy Theory) 27. Greta Gerwig (Nights and Weekends, Lady Bird, Little Women, Barbie, Chronicles of Narnia (Upcoming)) 26. The Russo Brothers (You Me and Dupree, Welcome to Collinwood, Community, Captain America Winter Soldier/Civil War, Avengers 3-6, Cherry, The Gray Man) 25. John McTiernan (Nomads, Predator, Die Hard, Hunt for the Red October, Die Hard With A Vengeance, Medicine Man, Last Action Hero, The Thomas Crown Affair, The 13th Warrior, Basic) 24. Michael Mann (The Jericho Mile, Thief, The Keep, Mindhunter, Last of the Mohicans, Heat, The Insider, Ali, Collateral, Miami Vice, Public Enemies, Blackhat, Ferrari) 23. Richard Linklater (Slacker, Dazed and Confused, The Before Trilogy, The Newton Boys, Walking Life, Tape, School of Rock, Me and Orson Wells, Boyhood, Last Flag Flying, Apollo 10 1/2, Hitman) 22. Alejandro Gonzales Iñarritu (Amores perros, 21 Grams, Babel, Biutiful, Birdman, The Revenant, Bardo) 21. Alfonso Cúaron (Solo con tu pareja, A Little Princess, Great Expectations, Y tu mama tambien, Prisoner of Azkaban, Children of Men, Gravity, Roma) 20. Peter Jackson (Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, Braindead, Heavenly Creatures, The Frighteners, Lord of the Rings, King Kong, Lovely Bones, The Hobbit, They Shall Not Grow Old) 19. Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, Away We Go, Skyfall, Spectre, 1917, Empire of Light) 18. Taika Waititi (Eagle vs. Shark, Boy, What We Do In the Shadows, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Thor: Ragnarok, Jojo Rabbit, Thor: Love and Thunder, Next Goal Wins) 17. Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, Life Aquatic, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs, The French Dispatch, Asteroid City) 16. PTA (Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood, The Master, Inherent Vice, Phantom Thread, Licorice Pizza) 15. James Mangold (Heavy, Cop Land, Girl Interrupted, Kate & Leopold, Identity, Walk the Line, 3:10 To Yuma, Knight & Day, The Wolverine, Logan, Ford v. Ferrari, Indiana Jones 5) 14. Sam Raimi (Evil Dead 1-3, Crimewave, Darkman, The Quick and the Dead, A Simple Plan, The Gift, Spider-Man 1-3, Drag Me To Hell, Oz the Great and Powerful, Dr. Strange 2) 13. Ridley Scott (The Duelists, Alien, Blade Runner, Legend, Thelma & Louise, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Matchstick Men, Kingdom of Heaven, American Gangster, Body of Lies, All the Money In the World, The Last Duel) 12. Damien Chazelle (Guy and Madeline On A Park Bench, Whiplash, La La Land, First Man, Babylon) 11. David Fincher (Alien 3, Seven, The Game, Fight Club, Panic Room, Zodiac, Benjamin Button, Social Network, Girl w/ Dragon Tattoo, House of Cards, Gone Girl, Mindhunter, Mank, The Killer) 10. Robert Zemeckis (Used Cars, Romancing the Stone, Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Death Becomes Her, Forrest Gump, Castaway, Polar Express, Christmas Carol, Flight, The Walk) 9. Martin Scorsese (Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, King of Comedy, After Hours, The Color of Money, Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Cape Fear, Age of Innocence, Casino, Kundun, Bringing Out the Dead, Gangs of New York, Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, Hugo, Wolf of Wall Street, Silence, The Irishmen, Killers of the Flower Moon) 8. Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Death Proof, Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful 8, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood) 7. David Leitch (John Wick, Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2, Hobbs & Shaw, Bullet Train, The Fall Guy, With Love (Upcoming)) 6. James Cameron (Piranha 2: The Spawning, Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, T2: Judgement Day, True Lies, Titanic, Avatar 1-5) 5. Edgar Wright (Fistful of Fingers, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The World’s End, Baby Driver, Last Night In Soho) 4. Stanley Kubrick (Fear and Desire, Killer’s Kiss, The Killing, Paths of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut) 3. Denis Villenueve (August 32nd On Earth, Maelstrom, Polytechnique, Incendies, Ememy, Prisoners, Sicario, Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, Dune Part 1/2) 2. Steven Spielberg (Duel, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Indiana Jones 1-4, ET, The Color Purple, Empire of the Sun, Hook, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, AI, Catch Me If You Can, Minority Report, The Terminal, Munich, Adventures of TinTin, Lincoln, The Post, West Side Story, The Fablemans) 1. Christopher Nolan (Following, Memento, Insomnia, The Dark Knight Trilogy, The Prestige, Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk, Tenet, Oppenheimer)
Great video. Highlighted some directors and films that have fallen to the back of my mind. Also nice to see someone else call out movies like The Birds and The Thing, even if we are in the minority of disliking them
Some thoughts- firstly, solid review. I will say; the context of facism in this film is quite important, but there is a reason this film endures, is the excess, as you astutely observed. Its more than shocking, its haunting. I agree with your observation of detachment to the victims, which is epitomized in the ending with the four facists viewing from afar the destruction and violence they catalyzed. Referentially, 120 days of Sodom was written by Marquis de Sade, btw. From whom the term Sadism arises. It was a directorial decision to set this story in Facist Italy, a cutting commentary on elitism and power. Lastly, funny that you would mention Tarintino, as he unsurprisingly loves this film.
Kubrick, Lynch, Tarkovsky are top tier indeed, but Tarantino? no way, my 15 year old would place him as the best, but he never grew up from Pulp Fiction. The Coen Brothers or Scorsese are way better than him.
I’m disappointed by your view of Sergio Leone. The man has made some of the greatest and most well crafted westerns and films ever put together. Once Upon a Time in the West and The Good The Bad and The Ugly are SS tier alone
For me, essentially dismissing George Lucas because he’s mainly known for Star Wars is a bit like saying, “Yeah, Da Vinci did The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa, but he didn’t do much else that we’ve ever heard of. Not much of a painter, really… Low tier.” 😂 The comparison might seem strained, but original Star Wars is an apex achievement that competes with any film of its era. Pacing issues? This is a movie people go back and watch over and over… I think the pace is a reflection of the time the movie came out, but it’s exemplary nonetheless. Before that, Lucas was nominated for a Best Director Oscar for the second movie he ever made, American Graffiti. No one alive now has ever seen it… but it still hurts my soul to see my guy languishing down there next to JJ Abrams! I’m not saying he’s a great writer (the prequels definitively prove that he cannot write dialogue for humans), but his movie directing should be higher tier.
Arronofsky is a hack imo. Every movie is just about a big shock value near the end. Its cheap. Overly serious that it seems like parody. I’ll never understand people that like him
HIs movies look ugly and, like you said, so serious to the point of parody (whereas Douglas Sirk does melodrama and makes beautiful imagery, inspiring Fassbinder, Tarantino, etc.). That's how you know Aronofsky's a hack - no great director will draw inspiration from him because his cinematic grammar is cheesy and unsophisticated while insisting its deep. Only 'The Wrestler' is good in any way, the rest are trash. Then again, I just can't vibe with the uploader given Antonioni is SS tier (bro, just call it S tier, this isn't 1930s Germany) and that the greatest director, Dreyer, isn't even worth a ranking.
I think that you dismissed Almodóvar a little bit since you have only talked about the most recent movies of todays century leaving out some extraordinary work as women’s at the verge of a panic attack the law of desire what have I done to deserve this or talk to her . He is not only one of the most popular fílmales from Spain ( a country that has given us some directors like buñuel o eríce) he has also won two Oscar’s one of them against Martin scorcese
Hey, thanks for the comment. Unfortunately the only films I know Gore Verbinsky from are the Pirates Trilogy (which are very enjoyable action/adventure/family films, they fall off towards the end, but I appreciated them in my youth. His interpretation of The Ring is also great and very effective - I may have watched it several times as a teenager and not recently, but, having also watched Ringu, the two films are fairly comparable and I think Watt's performance in The Ring is very strong. James Wan - I love the Saw franchise, they're guilty pleasure films for me, teenage me got into horror as 1 and 2 were released and I loved the hype and build up for them (glad they are continuing after Saw X (I know this isn't Wan)). I remember seeing Dead Silence when I was younger, it has a killer soundtrack as was a fairly fun little horror. I honestly am not a fan of The Conjuring films though, I feel like they're not scary or tense, and fail in those aspects, the same with Insideous, which is a serviceable horror film, but didn't do much for me. I've not seen the Aquaman films... But, I do appreciate that he helped create the Saw franchise, and obviously loves working in horror.
Thanks! I'll be putting out some more reviews/essays over the coming weeks - I'm not locked into horror, but I've happend to create a few on that genre!
I've noticed the same on other videos, things I watched yesterday reappear today with a "released: 2 hours ago". Not sure if this is the same thing, but yeah.
Thank you! How so, are there any films I'm missing out on by not watching them? I do own some of his early work on Blu-ray, but admittedly I've not seen enough of it to place him higher.
My only pushback is your take on Polanski. He has made several films that rank among cinema’s best. You CAN separate the artist from his art! SS is almost spot on minus Tarantino and Von Trier.
I've not seen many of his films due to the thing he did, so I wouldn't be able to rank him fairly. But, are there any of his you recommend before he did did the thing? I would be happy to watch some of them.
like i really enjoyed The House That Jack Built, but i can’t overlook Lars Von Trier sympathizing with Adolf Hitler during a press conference for Melancholia
The fact that you totally overlooked ”Ed Wood” breaks my heart. I can understand not appreciating Tim Burton’s other films, but Ed Wood is a beautiful exception in his filmography: a true masterpiece. And if you haven’t seen it, watch it. It’s nothing like Burton’s other films.
I've not seen Ed Wood, which is why I've accidentally 'overlooked' it. One of the other comments has also recommended it to me, it's on my watchlist! Unfortunately I was introduced to Burton with Sleepy Hollow/Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which didn't exactly inspire me to work backwards. Batman and Batman Returns aren't bad either.
@@SamDavies94 Then you are in for a treat. Ed Wood is a film that is both funny and strangely moving. As a movie about moviemaking, it’s also more subdued than Burton’s more fantastical work. The b&w cinematography is beautiful, the performances and casting are flawless - Landau is phenomenal as Lugosi, and Depp arguably gives his career best performance as Wood. No crazy makeup or shenanigans, just a completely transformative performance. I find Burton’s filmography to be extremely uneven, with his best work being in his earlier films and his most dire being the later outings (anything since the 90s, really). But with Ed Wood, he truly made something special. It’s one of my favourite films of all time.
Since you like fellini and Martin scorsese then you will surely love Satyajit Ray's films. Pls watch all his films he is up there with fellini, scorsese, bergman, tarkovsky
Thank you for the recommendation! I have The Apu Trilogy and The Music Room in my collection which I really need to get around to! I've only heard good things!
@@SamDavies94The Dark Knight and Rises are pretty much tied for my favorite film of all time! I’ve watched them both 1,000,000 times. When I watch one, I watch the other
Tim Burton was my first favorite director. I've grown up since then and definitely agree he's highly overrated by the people that love him. He went from my favorite to maybe a C tops. Ed Wood is actually very good though. Burton works very well in black and white with a more subdued style. The performances are awesome too. Back when Depp's characters had their own identity and Landau is hilarious as an aging, cantankerous Bela Lugosi. Most Tim Burton, especially his later works, are garish trash; not even style over substance in a pleasant way.
I totally get you with Tim Burton. I love Batman but failed to like any other film of his and he seems to get much worse as time goes by. Dumbo is one of the worst disney remakes and something like Alice in Wonderland i find quite unwatchable
I don't know I'm afraid, it's really annoying, I know some people who didn't buy it purely because of the subtitle issue. You may be able to find a subtitle file online and then get it to work on VLC but that defeats the purpose of the blu ray.
Hey, boxset wise: The Human Condition Rohmer Fassbinder Dekalog Yoshida Single releases: The Apartment The Conformist Night of the Hunter The Bicycle Thieves One Eyed Jack's Closely Observed Trains I really enjoyed The Untamed and the Borowczyk films, but they are definitely not for everyone. The films above give a good range of international and classic cinema to check out!
