TOP TEN KILLER DIRECTORS
Anyone who reads through my movie ramblings is going to notice there are certain directors who I compare just about everything to. Names that pop up, movies, styles...so I figured it was about time I lay out some of my ground work. And so, I give you the badasses behind the badass movies; my top ten killer directors:
10. Steven Spielberg.
"I dream for a living."
Why we love him: his extensive imagination, his timeless characters, his elaborate worlds.
Classics: Indiana Jones (1981-89), Jussassic Park (1993), Schindler's List (1993).
9. Christopher Nolan.
"I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up."
Why we love him: his mindfucks.
Classics: Memento (2000), The Dark Knight (2008), Inception (2010).
8. Francis Ford Coppola.
"My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam."
Why we love him: his epics, his movies we can't refuse.
Classics: The Godfather (1972), Apocalypse Now (1979).
7. The Wachowski Brothers.
"One of the things we had talked about...was an idea that I believe philosophy and religion and mathematics all try to answer. Which is a reconciling between a natural world and another world that is perceived by our intellect."
Why we love them: the way they have us leaving the theater wondering what the fuck just happened.
Classics: Bound (1996), The Matrix (1999).
6. Martin Scorsese.
"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out."
Why we love him: his command of suspense, the powerful way he wields silence.
Classics: Taxi Driver (1976), Goodfellas (1990), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010).
5. The Coen Brothers.
"He does most of the typing." "Yeah, I usually type, because I type better. It's incredibly informal. I mean, us writing is basically just us sitting around in a room, moping for hours."
Why we love them: their black humor, their lovable characters, their absurd sense of reality.
Classics: Blood Simple (1984), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998).
4. Stanley Kubrick.
"A film is--or should be--more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings."
Why we love him: his twisted imagination, his ability to make us cringe at humanity.
Why we love him: his twisted imagination, his ability to make us cringe at humanity.
Classics: Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964), 2001: Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971).
