all the greats are greats and cannot be compared to each other. they even borrow off of each others style, this is how they become so damn good, there is a polanksi flick that is just as good as a scorsese film, there is a spielberg movie as great as a cameron or Kubrick, ounce you break through all the bullshit, you have a circle of directors that have just as much vision and talent as the other, but produces it in there own way. so i really dont think you can single out just one of the top dogs because there all great, but the ass-hole who made babies day out should defaintly be drug out into the street and wrapped in barbaed wire while someone takes a grinder to his skull
Originally posted by WindDancer
For me is a tie between Fritz Lang and Akira Kurosawa.
Thankyou for making this thread less of a circle jerk shitfest. I despair of people who spew up the same old names with no indication of why they think so-and-so is worth our time.
People like Tarantino, Cameron and Rami are fine entertaining directors but saying they are the "best of all time" (a nonsensical claim in any case) is beyond ludicrous. Those of you who can't think beyond the latest hot-ticket mainstream "cool" list might bear it mind It's the equivalent of Saying Britnee Spears makes the worlds "best ever" music. It's a populist approach, and makes you look like sheep. Baaaahhhh!
Federico Felini
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Billy Wilder
Robert Bresson
Ingmar Bergman
James Whale
Roman Polanski
None of these are the "greatest", but compared to most of the people mentioned so far on this page they are geniuses. Film is an art - I love popular popcorn cinema, but don't go confusing your knowledge of mass audience pleasing fare with the true giant talents of the film medium.