I love your description of Stanley Kubrick as an alien observing human beings. I think he gets the reputation for being cold and distant, when all he's really doing is depicting people with a certain indifference. perhaps we're not as cute and cuddly as we think we are.
Kubrick being cold and distant is definitely something he grew into. But I maintain, some of his early work is full of emotion. The bar scene at the end of Paths of Glory is one of the most powerful and empathetic moments I’ve ever seen in a motion picture.
That indifference was especially effective in The Shining because it made Stephen King look like a monster. Jack Torrence was originally written as an idealised version of King himself. Not a Gary Stu because King still made him a deeply flawed man but a tragic hero instead of the raving beast that Kubrick and Jack Nicholson brought to the screen. It's no wonder King hated it. Kubrick used The Shining to prod at the deepest insecurities he has about himself.
Yeah, for me it's between There Will Be Blood and The Master are my favorites. Although I was really surprised by Adam Sandler's acting ability in Punch-Drunk Love. I really didn't care for him before I saw that movie.
My fave director is Wong Kar Wai. From Days of Being Wild to In The Mood for Love...what a stretch of fantastic movies. The Maggie Cheung scene in Ashes of Time makes me cry every time.
I’m gonna shout out my boys Paul Thomas Anderson and Park Chan Wook, my top two favourite directors. They inject so much personality and professionalism into their films. Each one feels unique and almost like a different experience from the other.
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is one of the most unnerving movies I have ever seen. The way he made every situation go from worse to the nightmares levels of haywire shit. The ending as well, he leaves you dirty and in that water, as a viewer. As disturbing as Old Boy.
She's the best, especially because she asks more of her viewers than most. She expects us to take the time to think as deeply about films as she does. She chose an appropriate name. She is deep..
Jonathan Rosenbaum is quite good also, he has an 'alternative list' from the American Film Institute top 100 films. Very interesting suggestions on movies not given as much coverage.
Pauline Kael reincarnated goddamn! I've seen so many swingin dicks out there reviewing films, their verbal rhythms are so off. Shes got it, the best one I've seen. Its just a coincidence that she's gorgeous. I wish she had a more professional set up, but i don't care.
Bergman's body of work is very extensive, and although not all his works are that great, he's the only director that I have seen who managed to make so many masterpieces, mantaining such a high level of quality even in his minor works. Summer with Monika, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona, Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage, and Fanny and Alexander are five stars out of five for me. But apart from those, Bergman also gave us Autumn Sonata, Hour of the Wolf, The Virgin Spring, Shame, Saraband, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence, From the Life of the Marionettes, The Passion of Anna, Smiles of a Summer Night, etcetera. All excelent, way above average films that most people could only dream of making. I once read that creativity tends to lean more towards either quality or quantity, but Bergman managed to do both, because unlike other filmmakers with extensive filmographies, I would definetely say that a vast majority of his ouvre is remarkable. On the other hand, Tarkovsky only made seven films...But for me, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror, and Stalker, are at the same level of Bergman's greatest achievements. Ivan's Childhood is a remarkable opera prima, but I think it's not as great as his other works. And, although Nostalghia and The Sacrifice are absolutely flawless, I feel like, as Geoff Dyer would say, Tarkovsky was doing "self-karaoke" with these two films. However, he was definetely one of the greatest and most talented and visionary artists in cinema history. So Bergman and Tarkovsky are my absolute favorites, but I also feel great admiration towards Stanley Kubrick, Federico Fellini, David Lynch, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Yasujirō Ozu, Sergei Parajanov, Béla Tarr, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Terrence Malick, Chantal Akerman, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Haneke, etcetera.
Woody Allen also has a large filmography with many great films. His later years have had some misses, but still a few nice gems among them. The guy could have another 10 films or so in him.
It’s just truly amazing the amount that Bergman was capable of putting out while remaining consistent and at the highest caliber. Even his films that are not his best are better than most peoples lol it’s quite astonishing. As for Tarkovsky I completely agree with you on almost everything, except I would switch out Solaris for Ivan’s Childhood. Solaris is great but I don’t get the same emotional reaction that I do with his other films of that time. Maybe I need to rewatch, it’s the one of his films I’ve seen the least. Still brilliant but doesn’t hit me the same. Where as Ivan’s Childhood I had a similar reaction the first time I watched it, I enjoyed it, but it didn’t make soul sing or something or the sort, because it is much more traditional, when Tarkovsky was still finding his own unique voice. But in rewatches I found it really quite brilliant his capability of working within a traditional frame but at the same letting those moments of transcendental emotion (if that’s what you could call it lol) come pouring through. It’s clearly a personal story since during WWII he was about the same age that Ivan would have been, I dunno I think it’s just one on rewatches it really shines and hits home. His examination of childhood really effected me. It’s definitely a different period in his career but the visuals are also just as breathtaking, just in a different way, much more reminiscent of Bergman, but on Bergman’s dreamy side but taking it further.
Listening to you talk about Tarkovsky was amazing. You express so much of how I feel about him, in a such an eloquent and articulate way. Best reviewer out there.
I’ll have to join the chorus of people requesting that you review Tarkovsky 🙂. “Stalker” is a punishing masterpiece but “The Mirror” is my personal favorite. He changed the way I see the world.
Charlie Kaufman is undoubtedly my favorite filmmaker, although most people see him as more of a screenwriter than a director. As for people that are mainly recognized as directors it would be Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman and David Lynch for me.
Holy shit, Synechdoche is a fukin masterpiece, ive never seen such a depressing movie be so funny "I wont settle for anyhing less but the brutal truth.... brutal... brutal". " ..to delve into the merky cowardly depths of my lonely fucked up being, and he'll get notes too and those notes will correspond to the ones I truly receive everyday from my god" ......fuckin hillarious
@@skateboard446 If it had just been called by its original title The Wages Of Fear it might have faired better. Great soundtrack. Great first half hour introducing the characters. ☝
@@davidellis5141 Absolutely. Such "realism" in everything he does...just brilliant, amazing director. Like you say, cinematography, music, and perfect casting choices.
John Cassavettes. He might not be the most cinematic, definitely far from being one of the best, but his style, so minimalistic, that focuses on those so complex characters, it feels so personal, so intimate. It can’t be theatrical because of that very same thing, because how close and intense characters and situations connect with one as a viewer. Also it has that low budget vibe to his films that communicate the love for film. Don’t know, I love that man, he’s so passionate.
My favourite directors 1. Alfred Hitchcock 2. Stanley Kubrick 3. Martin Scorsese 4. Ridley Scott 5. Sergio Leone 6. Akira Kurosawa 7. Stanley Kramer 8. Orson Welles 9. David Lean 10. Steven Spielberg
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Really great channel, just discovered it recently! I agree with most of your reviews. Some of my favourite "classic" directors/filmmakers, in no particular order: Paul Morrissey, Sergei Parajanov, Claude Lanzmann, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Stan Brakhage, Andrzej Żuławski, Elem Klimov, Chris Marker, Ousmane Sembène, Jonas Mekas...
My favourite director top 10, but obviously, except for the top 3 can change at any time ;): 10) Coen brothers: They are fantastic story tellers with often pretty extreme characters and still very identifiable which is amazing 9) Tim Burton: I like the fairytale quality in his work and like the Coen's very quirky charcacters who never seem to fit in but we fall over every single time 8) Akira Kurosawa: the great master from Japan that always makes great stories, sometimes on a very small (Ikiru, my favourite film of his), sometimes on a grand scale (Ran), sometimes very modern in topic , sometimes very traditional, always completely engrossing 7) Stanley Kubrick: Up until A Clockwork Orange, after that I found his movies uninteresting, but up to that movie just amazing with personally to me 2001, A Space Odyssey as his unrivalled masterpiece 6) Takeshi Kitano: Very dear to me, mostly because the stories mostly are quite simple, but what happens internally with the characters is far from simple, Hana-Bi (Fireworks) is my favourite movie of his again on a deceivingly simple story but so beautifully written and played, not least by the iconic director himself with amazing cinematography as well 5) Julio Medem: My favourite director when I'm in a poetic mood and want to hear great tragic moving stories in beautiful Spanish language and characters 4) Jean Pierre Jeunet / Marc Caro: the great French duo that I still think did their best work together, so imaginitive storywise and how their movies were shot. Hard to pick a favourite, I've seen most of them many times and it's a tie between The City of Lost Children, Delicatessen and Amelie 3) Alfred Hitchcock: The master of suspense, period. I have all his movies, including from the silent era and always revisit and enjoy. Vertigo is my favourite and very close breathing in its neck Psycho. Only one I dislike which is Frenzy. 2) Andrei Tarkovsky: There's film makers and then you have Tarkovsky, I have all his movies and treasure each one, though The Sacrifice the least, too much dialogue in that one, not his strong suit, felt too much like some lost Bergmann movie and not just because of the Swedish language and having Nyqvist, Bergmann's cinematographer, shoot the movie. Weird thing is, though it actually dealt with the possible end of the world, paradoxically it felt like much less at stake than in his Russian movies. 1) David Lynch: What can I say, I feel his movies in my soul, every single time it connects on such a deep level.
That was fun. It's hard to pick favourites when there are so many to choose from but I would say, Ingmar Bergman, RW Fassbinder, Michelangelo Antonioni, Peter Greenaway would be on my list, and also Dario Argento, Shinya Tsukamoto and David Cronenberg. There are others too but the list might go on forever.
Dude when you do these, are these your first takes? These are you first reactions, right? No scripting? If so, hell, even if not, you should be a professional communicator.
Thanks. I select the questions ahead of time. But I don't really do preparation for topic videos. I just kinda respond with my impulsive reaction to make it more interesting. Maybe I'm just lazy. That's probably the real answer.
Not sure how I subscribed to you over two years ago then let you fall off my radar, I'm not going to make that mistake this time, you really know your films.
My favorite director is Clint Eastwood. Good range of movies, from fun & entertaining to deep, intense examination. And I really respect that he runs his productions with care & respect. I've never heard of anyone who had a bad experience working on an Eastwood movie.
Eastwood has one of the most baffling resumes in film history. He’s capable of powerful, timeless films like Unforgiven and Outlaw Josey Wales, and total crap like Space Cowboys. His “one take and move on’ philosophy is admirable, and also occasionally disastrous. I love and hate him.
What I like about Eastwood is that there is ZERO pretension in anything he does, he’s just telling the story. Even in “sappier” movies like Richard Jewell, he shows how tough the situation is while demonstrating why the police are suspicious in a believable way.
@@Mr.Goodkat that’s weird to me. Those are the only truly great films he has directed, my opinion of him as a director would be quite different if he hadn’t made them. I wouldn’t call myself a fan, what of his films make you a fan? I’m curious.
These topical videos would be great as an ongoing series, "Favourite Film Directors Part IV" "Most overrated...PIII" etc, there's endless potential there.
My top 10 in alpha order: Robert Altman Paul Thomas Anderson John Boorman Francis Ford Coppola Stanley Kubrick Akira Kurosawa David Lynch Julian Schnabel Martin Scorsese Wong Kar-wai
I agree. But every now and then he gives us something great like Bridge of Spies which is a great movie that nobody talks about. Some other great filmmakers I like are PTA, the Coen brothers, Fellini, David Fincher and David Lean זהב
For me, I would say Ozu. His pillow shots and poetic minimalism really say more about the about the human condition than any other fimmaker, in my mind. I especially love the scene in Tokyo Story when Tomi wonders if she'll see her grandson as a doctor. The child's indifference and the wide shot of her following the child conveys much more than a sentimental movie line could.
During my formative years, Steven Spielberg was making films with exactly the qualities I was looking for. While I tend to like films rather than directors, the ten year period which included Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. -- The Extra-Terrestrial, and The Color Purple (along with the still underrated Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) was one of the most remarkable runs in cinema history... even with the clunker 1941 thrown in :).
@@ZodsSnappedNeck ah thats cool! Tbh I didn't enjoy it at all. But I forced myself through it somehow. The bad quality turned be off too much and the rest wasn't good (for me) either. I loved the few minutes in the beginning so much when it was black and white but then it got unwatchable sadly :/
Ang Lee. The Icestorm was for me the first time I understood how impersonal inter family relationships could be. It left me so lonely and cold. His sensitivity is so unapologetic and takes loving care of his characters. Betty Von Vilma as an example in Taking Woodstock was a character who showed that a little bit of kindness could change how people can perceive you and your intentions. His characters always show his willingness to show there humanity and grace.
Hi Maggie and Everyone: Unless I missed something I don't think I saw these two mentioned in the comments: Lars Von Trier; Wes Anderson. The reason for the omission, I believe, is that neither fit into any of these three categories: 1. The Classics; 2. Hot-Right-Now; 3. Fan Magnet. Had this question been asked 8-10 years ago, I have no doubt they would each get plenty of mentions. LVT was actually not on my initial list of ten but probably should have been. Wes Anderson would undoubtedly been incl if I decided to expand my list from 10 to 20.
For me it is probably Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Powell & Pressburger (while I love Michael Powell as a director, he was never better than when he was together with Pressburger).
The Archers don't get nearly enough credit for just how much they helped advance the cinematic medium. The stuff they were doing in the _1940's_ is unbelievable. They have at least 3 or 4 films that are at least a decade or two ahead of their time. And 3 of those films came in back-to-back-to-back years, which is even _more_ insane.
On Kubrick (who is my own favorite): to me, his style, his identifiable "Kubrick-ness", came into being with _Dr. Strangelove._ His films before that are still meticulously crafted and contain many of his thematic preoccupations, but that hard-to-identify visual language that was uniquely his own was still nascent. He was experimenting, I think, doing things that he would not repeat after he settled in to his personal style. I'm thinking of things like the theatrical lighting and the camera passing through walls _(Lolita),_ didactic dialogue _(Paths of Glory, Spartacus),_ reliance on genre tropes _(The Killing)._ All of them either went away or became more subtle, striking a balance between realism and stylization. The visual compositions locked in, too. There is no mistaking a Kubrick shot - even in isolation - for anyone else's, starting with _Strangelove._ I miss him.
Leni Riefenstahl worked for a brutal dictator, but her works had a remarkable vision and artistry that remained influential in the ensuing decades. When she died, even the Oscars mentioned her in the "In Memoriam" segment, though she remained a controversial figure even to this day. The me-too era has brought to attention many notable female directors of the past, such as Chantal Ackerman, Maya Deren, Agnas Varda, etc. -- a group that is unlikely to include Riefenstahl any time soon.
Kar Wai Wong is the director that speaks to me the most. The running themes in all his movies of an alienation caused by crushing urbanization and people's longing for connection to the point of obsessive romance and his style with the camera is poetry in cinema.
Errol Morris's first 3 films are masterpieces...if I had to pick only one it might be him. But I don't so...Fellini (8 1/2) and Kubrick (2001) made the greatest works of cinema art imo (I haven't seen as much Bergman but he's probably on that same level). David Lynch. Eisenstein (I would love to see what that guy could do with today's technology...or even fifty years ago's technology). Kazan. Roman Polanski...Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby are both way up there for me. Alan J Pakula. Mike Leigh. I really hope Tomas Alfresdson recovers from that God-awful "Snowman"...Tinker Tailor is brilliant. Richard Linklater. Milos Forman. I've already said Polanski so I might has well say Woody Allen too...the category is favorite directors, not favorite humans.
I loved the video where you talked about bad guilty-pleasure movies that you like. So on the subject of favorite directors, do you have any favorite bad directors?
I wish Hideaki Anno and Mamoru Oshii were more recognized outside of Japan. They are mostly know for their animated works, so they are rarely discussed outside of anime communities. Also, their live action movies are hard to find; especially Anno, his only live action movie licensed outside of Jqpan is Shin Godzilla.
@@Bigfrank88 It's "favourite" directors though and truth is he's maybe my number 1 I don't think Tarantino, Hitchcock or Spielberg have ever made anything as good as some of the stuff Brest has done.
Someone like him seriously needed to move to France or somewhere in continental Europe where he would've blended into the art scene and be taken seriously by everybody. He was otherwise "just a Chinese guy" to the average Anglo-American viewer.
Fincher is my favorite. A dark horse for me is Jeff Nichols. I really dig all his movies: Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter (maybe the best movie I've seen about mental illness), Mud, Loving, Midnight Special, and The Bikeriders. He's got a great eye and sensibilities. I'll watch anything he makes.
As a thought exercise I like to list at least one per continent, e.g: Guillermo Del Toro (Americas) Andrei Tarkovsky (Europe) Takeshi Kitano (Asia) George Miller (Oceania) Jahmil X.T Quebeka (Africa). Of course summing down continents to a single guy is reductive (and it depends how you define continents as of itself, e.g the americas) but it's an interesting exercise to see what you can come up with for each one as an encouragement to go look for more.
It would be difficult to pick 10 directors, let alone one. The Sight and Sound poll asked film professionals and journalists to name their favorite directors one year, and the results were: 1. Orson Welles, 2. Alfred Hitchcock, 3. Jean-Luc Godard, 4. Jean Renoir, 5. Akira Kurosawa, 6. Stanley Kubrick, 7. Federico Fellini, 8. John Ford, 9. Sergei Eisenstein, 10. Francis Ford Coppola & Yasujiro Ozu (tie). But of course, this list omits many greats such as Chaplin, Truffaut, Keaton, Lang, Pabst, Antonioni, Bergman, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman, Allen, Tarkovsky, Lean, etc. etc. In surveys like this, the list of people who are NOT named is often a better list than the list of people who are.
Hey! Not in line with this topic, but could you please do a review at some point of 'In this Our Life'? Such a wonderful film. Just saw again on TCM. Both De Havilland and Bette Davis are superb, and would love to know your thoughts as it's a very timely film that delves party into racial issues, and the fact that De Havilland just passed away. Their acting is superb, almost a 'light method acting' if you ask me. Love to hear from you! Thanks for all the reviews and commentaries!
A person's choice of favorite anything tells you more about the person making that choice than anything. That person's upbringing, education, nature, leanings, preferences, etc., no doubt all play a part in his or her choices. But unfortunately, the person is usually not aware of that, nor the effects they have. So there is really no cogent discussion to be had as to why those choices are made. No films can please everyone, and only certain people like certain films. Only certain viewers love "Parasite," for instance, though a great film that it is. And in the post-me-too era, I suspect films like "Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" (1975) will become more and more prominent and admired. 30 years ago, 8 out of 10 Americans (I'm making this up, but I'm not far off) said "Gone with the Wind" was their favorite film. That certainly has changed. And that tells us more about our society today than it does about the films.
Thats why you cant trust modern critics, or modern acclaimed arthouse movies Too skewed by current socialsphere, not classic, will not last (Except terrence malick)
1. Terry Gilliam 2. Stanley Kubrick 3. Ingmar Bergman 4. Roman Polanski 5. Alfred Hitchcock 6. Coen Brothers 7. Edgar Wright 8. David Lynch 9. Billy Wilder 10. Elia Kazan
My favourite director has to be Sion Sono! He may not be a Kubrick or a Tarkovsky, but he’s definitely one of those directors who are able to set themselves apart from the rest. He is a “shock poet of the cinema”, as you would call em, and I wish more people were familiar with his work.
@@aaronshouting588 wow thank you. i think i wrote off sono after tokyo tribe. what a fool i was. lucky someone uploaded the whole 4 hours of love exposure to yt. i have strange circus on dvd - it holds up better than suicide club but sc will always hold a special place in my memory & heart
For some reason Michelangelo Antonioni always spoke to me: il Grido, L'Avventura, La Notte, L'Eclisse, Red Desert, Blow Up, The Passenger ... or maybe it's Monica Vitti, his muse. lol
Almost a meme answer but Nolan for me. No one out there is stretching the modern blockbuster like him and no one out there can make you go to the cinema at the risk of your own life so surely and wholeheartedly.
I’ve been nervous about exploring Noe. I’ve heard... rumors, shall we say, of the content and it all sounds very overwhelming. Where would be a good place to start with Noe, a toe dipper if you will?
1. Kim Ki-duk 2. Vincent Gallo 3. Naoko Yamada 4. Andrei Tarkovsky 5. Jim Jarmusch 6. Abbas Kiarostami 7. Clint Eastwood 8. S. Craig Zahler 9. Park Chan-wook 10. Edgar Wright More directors I need to watch: Wong Kar-Wai, Gus Van Sant, John Ford, Federico Fellini, Jean Luc-Godard, Paul Verhoeven, Tobe Hooper, Masaaki Yuasa, Paul Schrader, Charles Burnett, Lars Von Trier, Robert Bresson
When it comes to film polls on important cateogories such as favorite films or directors, I trust only the Sight and Sound poll that is held every 10 years (next one is in early 2022). Most online film polls I've seen are A JOKE. Rotten Tomatoes' all-time great films contain many films made in the last few years! And IMDb's top film list heavily favors 90s films, because the IMDb site was created in the 90s. The Sight and Sound poll is done "by invitation" only. Voters are selected by Sight and Sound, at random, across the world, and across different demographics. That eliminates "fan-voting" or anything that would skew the results. And the results would correctly reveal a cross section of opinions at the time.
Mine are Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick Terry Gilliam Tim Burton Martin Scorsese Francis Coppola David Fincher Spike Lee Gordan Parks and Steven Spielberg.
Some of my favorites: Hitchcock, Ozu, Ray, Romero, Kubrick, Leone, Wilder, Wyler, Bob Rafelson, Robert Siodmak, Rudolph Mate, Roger Corman Jacques Tourneur, Shirley Clarke, Barbara Loden, Ida Lupino...I'll stop now. I'm a Taurus and we tend to ramble on.
Great to see that someone mentioned Robert Siodmak and the giant director William Wyler. This man made one classic after another and was unfairly dismissed by french pseudo critics in the 50s and 60s. Wyler and Fred Zinnemann, Richard Brooks, George Stevens, Elia Kazan, John Huston and Stanley Kramer count to the best american directors ever. They made intelligent films without pseudo art attitude.
A director I found consistently fascinating was Ken Russell, even though so much of his work is just crap. Sometimes, even in an atrocious film, there was a moment or moments of genius, Mahler, for example.
Who are some directors that make stylish movies kinda like Edgar Wright does? I’m still kinda new to films and stuff so Idk much about the lowkey stuff
Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton need to be on the favorites list as they are the innovators that laid the groundwork. Im surprised not have seen Sergio Leone listed. Mel Brooks, anyone?
My top ten: 1) Alfred Hitchcock 2) John Ford 3) Billy Wilder 4) Fritz Lang 5) Sergei Eisenstein 6) F W Murnau 7) Ingmar Bergman 8) Federico Fellini 9) Roberto Rosselini 10) Jean Renoir Remember cinema have more than 100 years, the great masters of cinema are dead, the golden age of american cinema are the 30s 40s and 50s decades, nowadays hollywood cinema is thrash, the last 20 years no masterpieces coming out from hollywood cinema
You are so right. Many of the great Hollywood directors from the past seems now forgotten. My Top 25 directors are: 1. Alfred Hitchcock 2. Billy Wilder 3. John Ford 4. William Wyler 5. Ingmar Bergman 6. John Huston 7. Charles Chaplin 8. Fred Zinnemann 9. Richard Brooks 10. Robert Aldrich 11. Elia Kazan 12. Howard Hawks 13. George Stevens 14. Robert Wise 15. Sidney Lumet 16. Anthony Mann 17. Henry Hathaway 18. Sergio Leone 19. David Lean 20. Steven Spielberg 21. Michael Curtiz 22. John Sturges 23. Zhang Yimou 24. Fritz Lang 25. Sydney Pollack
"Favorite directors," or any distinction given to directors, would apply more to those who can be called "auteurs" - directors who largely "do their own things" and create unique visions that are rarely duplicated. But not all can be called that. Many films are collaborative. Many films, even great ones, like "Casablanca," are made by directors who are more utilitarian than innovative (not many would call Michael Curtiz their favorite, though he would probably deserve it). Many films are by directors who homage, copy, emulate, and/or are influenced by other directors. E.g. even though Carol Reed was great in his own right, The Third Man would be impossible without Orson Welles and his films and the influence they must have had on Reed. True auteurs are directors who usually did it first, did it best, and are rarely bested -- people like (just to name a few in the modern era) Terrence Malick, Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, David Lynch, etc., and in documentaries, guys like Errol Morris and Michael Moore. Genres that are deemed less "elevated" by the mainstream have their auteurs too, such as giallo directors Mario Bava and Dario Argento, and controversial directors like Pier Paolo Pasolini and Walerian Borowczyk who have made films about taboo subjects in their own inimitable styles.
My favorite director is without a doubt Paul Thomas Anderson, every single film he has made (not including Inherent Vice or Hard Eight) is perfect imo. Close second would be David Lynch.
I found this interesting as I do not have allegiances or preferences by director. I love the individual films. I DO have a director I hate. I shall never see another film by Yorgos Lanthimos. I should have walked out on the The Favourite.
I liked the Favourite. I look at Lanthimos as though Kubrick and Wes Anderson had a child and had some kind of trauma that made dark (almost black) humor the only coping mechanism.
