# Favorite Directors? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [October 20, 2019, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-directors/842053 "2019-10-20T22:04:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-directors/842053/21 "2019-10-21T15:39:37Z")
Hal Ashby was a favorite of mine I left out. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-directors/842053/22 "2019-10-21T15:58:17Z")
Coen Brothers, Tarantino, Zemeckis, Burton, Scorsese, David Fincher. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-directors/842053/23 "2019-10-21T16:00:28Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Ok, I said I would only name my two favorites, but you named the next ones on my list, Lang, Murnau, Lubitsch, Jarmusch and Hitchcock. But you missed Kubrick ;). > > ETA: and Aki Kaurismäki. Kubrick blows hot and cold for me. I can watch his pre- **Space Odyssey** movies over and over, but I have completely finished with his post- **Strangelove** work. Except for **The Shining,** maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-directors/842053/24 "2019-10-21T16:02:31Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > That would be John. Thanks, that was a weird mistake on my part. (I needed to look up Dieterle to get the spelling right. Maybe my brain locked on his first name somehow) ---
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-directors/842053/25 "2019-10-21T16:10:33Z")
Not really in order: Krzysztof Kieslowski Oliver Stone Robert Altman Robert Bresson Darren Aronofsky Jessica Yu Olivier Assayas ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-directors/842053/26 "2019-10-21T16:54:59Z")
Hmm, no love for Wes Anderson? Too twee? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-directors/842053/27 "2019-10-21T17:06:59Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > Hmm, no love for Wes Anderson? Too twee? I enjoyed **Isle of Dogs, Grand Budapest Hotel,** and **Fantastic Mr. Fox,** but I think that’s all I know of his stuff. Not good enough for me to put on a par with Buster Keaton or **The Passion of Joan of Arc.** No Ingmar Bergman either, unless I missed him. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-directors/842053/28 "2019-10-21T17:16:16Z")
Many of mine have been mentioned so I’ll add Brad Anderson Roman Polanski I also think we’ll be seeing a lot of good things from Ari Aster (\*Hereditary \*and _Midsommar_) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-directors/842053/29 "2019-10-21T19:20:59Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > Hmm, no love for Wes Anderson? Too twee? One of my least favorites, actually. Yes, too twee. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-directors/842053/30 "2019-10-21T19:21:28Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > Coen Brothers, Tarantino, Zemeckis, Burton, Scorsese, David Fincher. How could I forget David Fincher? He goes in the top category (but all those you mention are great ones) ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-directors/842053/31 "2019-10-21T21:25:19Z")
Coen Brothers David Lean Alfred Hitchcock Billy Wilder John Ford Ridley Scott Stanley Kubrick ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-directors/842053/32 "2019-10-21T21:36:25Z")
Most of my favorites have been mentioned…I’ll add Werner Herzog to the list. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-directors/842053/33 "2019-10-21T23:06:00Z")
Two of my other favorites that have not been mentioned yet (unlike dozens of others) are Wim Wenders and Francois Truffaut, I think the first mention of a French director, which is kind of surprising. ETA: Sergio Leone was also missing. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-directors/842053/34 "2019-10-21T23:28:35Z")
In no particular order, but these are directors I’ll actively seek out… Quentin Tarantino Guillermo del Toro Akira Kurosawa And a special runner up, since I’ve only seen a couple, but was consistently impressed and intend to track down more: Taika Waititi I consistently enjoy Rob Zombie’s flicks, but then forget about them about 5 minutes after they finish, so…his name being attached is a draw, but wouldn’t count him as a favourite. (I’m not entirely sure I actually followed Lords of Salem even when I was watching it, but I know I enjoyed it.) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-directors/842053/35 "2019-10-22T00:46:48Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > One of my least favorites, actually. Yes, too twee. 🙂 Twee is FUNNY. Charlie Chaplin is twee. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-directors/842053/36 "2019-10-22T00:58:46Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Twee is FUNNY. Charlie Chaplin is twee. But in a perverse kind of twee[sup]\*[/sup]. Some of “The Gold Rush” and “The Kid” i. e. is rather edgy. \*: that’s the right kind of twee. Like my favorite band Belle And Sebastian. ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-directors/842053/37 "2019-10-22T11:14:24Z")
Adding George Cukor ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-directors/842053/38 "2019-10-22T11:41:36Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Twee is FUNNY. Charlie Chaplin is twee. Yeah, but he wasn’t “I want my movies to look like _New Yorker_ cartoons, but with more face-on and profile shots” twee. ---
**Author:** ![Grither](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grither/32/425_2.png) [@Grither](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grither)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-directors/842053/39 "2019-10-22T14:11:32Z")
All of mine have been mentioned other than (of all people) Bobcat Goldthwait. Yeah, the screaming goofball from Police Academy 2. Seriously. World’s Greatest Dad is my absolute favorite piece of cinema, hands-down. I’ve never not at least been fascinated by something he’s directed. ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-directors/842053/40 "2019-10-22T16:44:31Z")
Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count on Me; Margaret; Manchester by the Sea). He captures, like no one else, the bittersweetness of dysfunctional family relationships. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-directors/842053.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-directors/842053.md?page=3)