The Great Movie Director Anagram Game

For those who haven’t seen the original in Total Film magazine. Each phrase spells out the name of a famous movie director. Here’s the first dozen.

  1. Dirty closet
  2. Snotty cot
  3. Short Polish cucumber
  4. Sir Lanky Bucket
  5. Eel nag
  6. Cinema or stress?
  7. Cor! Jam enemas!
  8. Wor! Hard on!
  9. Live to snore
  10. Rottin’ bum
  11. Serene igloo
  12. Plebian drama
  1. Ridley Scott
  2. Tony Scott
  3. Stanley Kubrick
  4. Ang Lee
  5. Martin Scorsese
  6. James Cameron
  7. Ron Howard
  8. Oliver Stone
  9. Tim Burton
  10. Sergio Leone
  11. Brian DePalma

#3 will not come to me and I know I’m going to kick myself!

OK. I’m going to assume #3 is Christopher Columbus (of Home Alone and the new Harry Potter fame) even though I have never seen him go by “Christopher”, only “Chris”.

Evilbeth: You’re good! Here’s more…

  1. Mr Anal Sink-Poo
  2. Likes Pee
  3. Weak Bladders
  4. Seven pet gerbils
  5. Banjo dent
  6. A belch, may I?
  7. Mend a mess
  8. Epic ham spank
  9. Unicorn shat
  10. Nose clubs
  11. Terror anvils
  12. And lo! Anus metaphors!

For some reason, these seem harder for me. But this is what I got so far

14)Spike Lee
16)Steven Spielberg
18)Michael Bay
19)Sam Mendes
24)Paul Thomas Anderson

17)Jan de Bont

Okay, the thread title said “great” movie directors–what the hell is Jan de Bont doing in there? Some of the others are questionable but Jan de Bont? That’s quite a stretch.

13 : Roman Polanski

#20 : Sam Peckinpah

15)Blake Edwards

#22 Luc Besson

Yes, Jan De Bont may be a bit of a stretch but tis a great game no less eh? A few more:

  1. Wail in fried milk
  2. Child arrester
  3. Skull sneer
  4. Gore! More gore!
  5. Card bending over
  6. Novel upheaver

Do you want the answers to 21 and 23 or do you want to keep guessing?

  1. Lars Von Trier
  2. I think this was supposed to be “Curtis Hanson” except there’s one “s” missing. Maybe “Unicorn’s Hats” is better…

While I’m figuring out the rest, here are a few more truly great directors:

31)His Blunt Crest
32)East End Nylon
33)Lulu Be in U.S.
34)Frozen Ark Bag
35)Old Sugar Ski
36)Fantastic Four Fur
37)An Ant Hymn? No!
38)See Strong Spurt
39)Chime Error
40)I Am into Onion Challenge

  1. William Friedkin
  2. Richard Lester
  3. Ken Russell
  4. George Romero
  5. David Cronenberg
  6. Paul Verhoeven