Directors: Who gets you out of your living room and into the movie theater (films, Blu-ray)

[Brookside]

It takes a slam dunk movie to get me out of my living room and into an expensive, crowded, noisy and often filthy multiplex these days.

But there are a few directors out there whom I know to be superior artists of their craft, and if any one of them actually gets a movie made and into the theater -- I'm there.

My very small list includes:

David Fincher - Se7ven, Social Network. Girl W/ GRagon Tatoo looks awfully good.

Christopher Nolan - Memento, Inception, Dark Knight

Woody Allen - Too many to list. Yes, he's put out some less than stellar efforts lately, although Midnight in Paris was lovely. I would still rather see one of his movies than 99% of the other directors out there.

Ethan and Joel Cohen -Again, too many to list.

Steven Soderbergh - Always interesting.

Lisa Cholodenko - High Art, Laurel Canyon, The Kids are All Right. Her films are a bit uneven, but always interesting.

Let's hear yours!

[ronyusa]

The Coen Brothers top the list for me. Others include

- Steven Spielberg
- James Cameron
- Jerry Bruckheimer (producer)
- Ron Howard
- M. Knight Shyamalan (he is a hit or miss, some of his movies suck real bad while some are awesome, so got to read the user reviews first on various sites before heading out, although I end up watching the bad ones on Netflix/Redbox anyway).

I am sure there are others but these are the ones whose names are popping up in my mind atm.

Edit: Martin Scorcese, can't believe I forgot to mention him initially !! Thanks Mark S., system won't let me send rep as I sent some already your way.

[Mark S.]

To me, the story matters over the director.

I LOVE Martin Scorsese, but I don't remember the last time I saw one of his movies in the theater. I'm content to wait for the DVD.

For me to fess up the cash to go to the theater, it needs to be a story worthy of seeing on the big screen.

[toosie]

Of those already mentioned I'll second:
David Fincher
Christopher Nolan
Joel Coen
Steven Spielberg
Ron Howard
Martin Scorsese

And I'll add, in no particular order:
Quentin Tarantino
Francis Ford Coppola
Clint Eastwood
Oliver Stone
Mike Nichols
Michael Moore & Errol Morris for their 'documentaries'
Tim Burton (maybe)

[Visvaldis]

I'll be the oddball.
French directors: Claude Chabrol and Francois Truffaut.

[ronyusa]

Check out his Hugo 3D that's in the theaters right now when it comes out in DVD/Blu-Ray... fantastic movie, very different from usual Martin Scorsese action-types though, its like very slow story-telling, but the visuals, the plot acting are all fantastic. I am sure this one will garner a few Oscar nods and most likely win some too !

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970179/

Originally Posted by Mark S.

To me, the story matters over the director.

I LOVE Martin Scorsese, but I don't remember the last time I saw one of his movies in the theater. I'm content to wait for the DVD.

[toosie]

Originally Posted by Visvaldis

I'll be the oddball.
French directors: Claude Chabrol and Francois Truffaut.

They're both dead, though. I was thinking the OP was looking for living directors who would get people into theaters today? If not, my list would grow exponentially!

[Brookside]

Originally Posted by toosie

They're both dead, though. I was thinking the OP was looking for living directors who would get people into theaters today? If not, my list would grow exponentially!

True -- I meant *living* directors!

[Vejadu]

Quentin Tarantino
David Fincher
Hayao Miyazaki
Sam Raimi
Robert Rodriguez
Guillermo Del Toro
Kevin Smith (minus Red State)
Ridley Scott

[skel1977]

Sam Raimi
Peter Jackson
Chris Nolan
zack snyder
ridley scott
Q Tarantino