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The second name I thought of.
The first was John Huston.
Also, you have John Ford, Frank Capra, William Wyler, Orson Welles, Howard Hawkes . . . etc.
This list is a joke because it does not have John Huston, John Ford or Howard Hawks on it...
No John Huston? Pathetic MavFan...you sir are in dire need of a steeeeeeeeenking badge!
The second name I thought of.
The first was John Huston.
Also, you have John Ford, Frank Capra, William Wyler, Orson Welles, Howard Hawkes . . . etc.
Ah, Wyler and Capra weren't born in the US.
Stephen Soderbergh, while being a bit on the pop experimental side, is probably the top American director to come up in the last 15 years.
sorry, i tend to forget some of the pioneers.
maybe it's cuz i grew up in the VHS generation, and it's probably a shame i'm even saying this, but the majority of American cinema pre-60's to me are alot like old school leather helmet football games - it paved the way but it's just seems old and boring.
it wasn't until after the French New Wave that American films really started to pick up steam, IMO.
Austin's own Richard Linklater deserves mention.
No George Lucas = Bull Thread
He directed one classic (Star Wars), two decent films (american graffiti, thx-1138), and three absolute turds. Other ppl directed Empire and Return. As much money as his films have made, he is a TY director.
I would say he's more a great visionary than great director.
Went with Scorsese as, I think, the obvious great of the list. But there are others on this list that would be on my list of faves (Tarantino, Coen Bros., Altman).
Also agree with the Lynch and Soderbergh mentions. Keeping this to contemporary directors, however (list just becomes WAY too overwhelming when I start looking at the classics), my very favorite director is Jim Jarmusch.
THX is much better than decent, and Graffiti is a great classic.
You speak heresy and I will have you shot if you continue with your blasphemy.
I went with Scorsese too. But, Kubrick was a very, very close second.
Paul Greengrass and Christopher Nolan come to mind as current greats.
Is Nolan American??
I could be wrong, but I thought he was English.
You may be right, I didn't look it up.
Greengrass did a fantastic job on United 93.
I saw the movie a couple of months ago. I never did want to see it because I thought it was going to be all hammed up with patriotism, but it was actually pretty damn good.
But, I'm not sure I'd put him up there with the "Greats".
Plus, he's also English.
If you're going to put Lucas in a poll question like that, you absolutely have to include Orson Welles.
Say what you will, but Citizen Kane is absolute brilliance IMO.
I have to agree with you there.
Wells was a genius.
I don't know why I assumed so many of these guys were American.
Next you'll tell me Akira Kurosawa was a foreign film maker.
Seven Samurai kicks all sorts of ass!!!!!!!
Citizen Kane is great, but it's all about Touch of Evil. Any film good enough to make you not care that Charlton Heston is playing a Mexican has GOT to be awesome.
He also made the films Watch This And Get Motion Sickness From All The Shaky Cam! Parts One and Two....released in America as The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum
Both English.
And Greengrass made both of the Bourne sequels almost impossible to watch.
The poll would also have been better served if Terrence Malick's name was there.
How the can you have e Lee up there and not Lucas or Malick???
didn't want anyone calling me racist.
that noise!!
It just doesn't make sense how you put him above Lucas or Malick.
It's just wrong.
It's wrong!!!
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