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    Quote Originally Posted by JKL2000 View Post
    For me:

    David Cronenberg
    He's made some damned fine horror films: Shivers aka They Came From Within (his first), Rabid (with the late Marilyn Chambers), Scanners, The Dead Zone, The Fly.

    He's made some stinkers, too. Like eXistenZ. It was worse than bad — it was boring.

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    Michael Powell, who made A Matter of Life and Death, A Canterbury Tale, The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, Peeping Tom and many others.
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    Kubrick is my fave, with "Eyes Wide Shut" really being the only one I didnt care for

    almost everybody else I pay attention to is hit-n-miss with me, some of which include John Carpenter, James Wan, Darren Aronofsky, Tarantino, and several others

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    I like a bunch of movies directed by the late Michael Winner:

    Chato's Land, The Mechanic, The Stone Killer, Death Wish, The Sentinel, Death Wish II... (Yes, Charles Bronson's the lead in all but one of those, too.)
    He made Scorpio with Lancaster and Delon. It's a solid spy thriller. He directed a lot of films in the second half of the 60's and first half of the 70's. The Lawman with Lancaster and Ryan. Also The Nightcomers with Brando but I haven't seen it.

    If he has one strength, his films have their own identity. Especially those 70's flicks.

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    Antonioni, by far, from an era when the directors came into their own as artists in their own right. And he made three movies that should be essential for rock music fans, Blowup -Herbie Hancock score, plus The Page'Beck Yardbirds playing live in a club-, Zabriskie Point with Pink Floyd and others in the soundtrack, and Identification of a Woman, with a soundtrack by John Foxx.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dropforge View Post
    He's made some damned fine horror films: Shivers aka They Came From Within (his first), Rabid (with the late Marilyn Chambers), Scanners, The Dead Zone, The Fly.

    He's made some stinkers, too. Like eXistenZ. It was worse than bad — it was boring.
    "The Fly" was a horrible remake of a 1958 movie of the same name which was way better.

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    Most of my favourites have already been mentioned, I'll add:

    Terry Gilliam for Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, Monty Python & The Holy Grail, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Time Bandits, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, & The Fisher King

    John Boorman for Excalibur, Deliverance, Point Blank, & The Emerald Forest

    Francis Ford Coppola, for Godfather I & II, The Conversation and Apocalypse Now only.

    Terence Fisher for a load of great Hammer films: Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Revenge of Frankenstein, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, The Devil Rides Out, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Curse of the Werewolf, The Brides of Dracula, Dracula Prince of Darkness

    Peter Jackson for Bad Taste, Braindead, & The Lord of the Rings/Hobbit trilogies

    James Cameron for Terminator/T2, Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies & Avatar

    Christopher Nolan for the Dark Night trilogy, Memento & Inception

    Collectively, Pete Docter, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich, and Brad Bird for the Toy Story trilogy, Up, Inside Out, Wall-E, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc, & Ratatouille

    Walter Hill, for his first seven films: Hard Times, The Driver, The Warriors, The Long Riders, Southern Comfort, 48 Hours, Streets of Fire

    Brian De Palma for Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Body Double, Scarface, The Untouchables, Carlito's Way & Casualties of War
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    Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Good Fellas, Cape Fear, Casino, Gangs of New York, The Departed
    Sir David Lean - Pygmalion, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Bridge Over the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Dr, Zhivago
    Francis Ford Coppola - Patton (screenplay), The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather II, Apocalypse Now,
    John Ford - The Informer, Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, My Darling Clementine, Fort Apache, The Quiet Man, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
    Terry Gilliam - Monty Python & The Holy Grail (co-directed), Brazil, Time Bandits, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Fisher King
    Ridley Scott - The Duellists, Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Kingdom of Heaven
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    Quote Originally Posted by BaldFriede View Post
    "The Fly" was a horrible remake of a 1958 movie of the same name which was way better.
    It's a bit of a stretch to call Cronenberg's The Fly a remake of the earlier film. The screenplay is 99% different I'd say and is only very loosely based on the original short story. I think it's a great movie, and is more about loss of control of one's body due to disease and aging than it is about a scientist crossed with a fly (though that's a framework). I do like the original movie too. As I mentioned earlier, both Cronenberg's parents died from degenerative diseases, and it affected him greatly.

    In a similar way Cronenberg's film "The Naked Lunch" is much more that a film of Burrough's novel. IMO he is probably even more important as a screenwriter than as a director.
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    Cronenberg's The Fly is as much a "remake" of that earlier film as Carpenter's The Thing is to its predecessor.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dropforge View Post
    Cronenberg's The Fly is as much a "remake" of that earlier film as Carpenter's The Thing is to its predecessor.
    Both of which are fantastic atmospheric movies that I still love to watch often.

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    George A Romero - Knightriders and a few other flicks whose titles escape me
    Russ Meyer - whole body of work is top notch
    Joe D'Amato - a few choice ones out there

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    Quote Originally Posted by progholio View Post
    George A Romero - Knightriders and a few other flicks whose titles escape me
    Russ Meyer - whole body of work is top notch
    Joe D'Amato - a few choice ones out there
    I was psyched about Knightriders, though in reality I thought it was pretty boring.

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    There are usually at least two good reasons to like a Russ Meyer film, (Supervixens was my favorite...Charles Napier was ***^$#@! great).
    John Waters put out some great moments. Same w/ Sam Peckinpah. Not sure if Vincent Gallo has a large enough body of work to fit in this thread, but Buffalo 66 was excellent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paul View Post
    John Boorman for Excalibur, Deliverance, Point Blank, & The Emerald Forest
    My favorite John Boorman movie is "Zardoz".

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    Quote Originally Posted by JKL2000 View Post
    I was psyched about Knightriders, though in reality I thought it was pretty boring.
    180 degrees over here! I think there's nothing else out there quite like it.


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    Quote Originally Posted by JKL2000 View Post
    I was psyched about Knightriders, though in reality I thought it was pretty boring.
    Quote Originally Posted by dropforge View Post
    180 degrees over here! I think there's nothing else out there quite like it.

    To be fair I haven't seen it in like 30 years, so I should try it again.

    That was the first thing I saw Ed Harris in, and I remember Savini in it too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JKL2000 View Post
    I was psyched about Knightriders, though in reality I thought it was pretty boring.
    Quote Originally Posted by Bake 1 View Post
    There are usually at least two good reasons to like a Russ Meyer film, (Supervixens was my favorite...Charles Napier was ***^$#@! great).
    John Waters put out some great moments. Same w/ Sam Peckinpah. Not sure if Vincent Gallo has a large enough body of work to fit in this thread, but Buffalo 66 was excellent.
    Saw a couple of Russ Meyer films - did not care for them. Kind of like John Waters, who I also don't enjoy.

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    Alan Pakula - for his thriller trilogy in the 70's. I haven't seen any of his drama films but there was more potential in him than the mediocre thrillers he made in the 90's.
    James Bridges - wrote Colossus The Forbin Project which had a great first half but a poor second one. I like him rather for The Paper Chase and The China Syndrome. He also made a bunch of interesting films in the 80's which I've yet to see.
    Andrew Davis - Almost everything he made between 1983 and 1996 was at least watchable. I guess his crowning achievment is The Fugitive.
    Michael Crichton - The Andromeda Strain (as a writer), Pursuit, Westworld, Coma. And Looker and Runaway up there too.
    Peter Hyams - mainly for Capricorn One, Outland and 2010. There are some other watchable ones he's made.


    Also (maybe) Walter Hill. I don't think he made anything as good after The Warriors but The Driver and Southern Comfort are fairly good films. I think The Warriors is the real gem, a standout not only in his filmography but one of the better action/crime pics that there is.
    There was a rumor that he and Carpenter were planning to make a movie together about some zombie soldiers (back in the day). Shame it never happened. The same with Scott and Cameron coming up with Alien 5 and the studio instead chosing to go ahead with AVP.

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    Walter Hill did The Long Riders, one of my favorite 80s westerns. It has a great Ry Cooder soundtrack.
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    Frank Darabont - Not sure what else he directed but Shawshank Redemption is one of my all time favourite movies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mozo-pg View Post
    Frank Darabont - Not sure what else he directed but Shawshank Redemption is one of my all time favourite movies.
    He also directed The Mist, which I liked a lot. He crafted a new ending, to which Stephen King remarked "wish I'd thought of that."

    The Mist stars Thomas Jane, and some familiar faces who then showed up in the first season of The Walking Dead: Laurie Holden (Andrea), Jeffrey DeMunn (Dale), Melissa McBride (Carol), and Juan Gabriel Pareja (Morales).

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    Quote Originally Posted by dropforge View Post
    He also directed The Mist.
    Thanks - I'll have to check it out.

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    Darabont also directed The Green Mile and Buried Alive. In 1990 there were two films with this title - one with Pleasence and Vaughn and another with Matheson, Leigh and Atherton. He made this second one. Saw it a long time ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JKL2000 View Post
    Saw a couple of Russ Meyer films - did not care for them. Kind of like John Waters, who I also don't enjoy.
    I can only imagine how Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls was received back in it's day because it's still freaky as hell to watch.

    Same goes for Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble.

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