A Good Thriller discussion

Here is a good one, can you pick your favourite directors.

Here is a few I like

Alfred Hitchock
John Ford
Howard Hawks
Billy Wilder
Martin Scorsese
Quentin Tarantino
David Lean
Frank Capra
The Coen Brothers
Sidney Lumet
Steven Spielberg
William Wyler
Michael Curtis
John Huston
Clint Eastwood
John Sturges

Excellent, all brilliant directors everyone are on my list as well but I would add in Sam Peckinpah and Stanly Kubrick.

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Stanley Kubrick
John Huston
Francis Ford Coppola
Akira Kurosawa
Hal Ashby
John Carpenter
Alexander Mackendrick
Vittorio De Sica

Yes

Sam Peckinpah.

Most of those you guys have mentioned are among my favorites, but I would add:

Frank Darabont
Darren Aronofsky

Some great mentions above. I'd also add Terrence Malick and Michael Cimino they've made a few movies I never tire of watching.

Henry Hathaway as well

Yes,I loved the Desert Fox,directed by Henry Hathaway.Also,liked his westerns.Will watch more of his work.

And,of course,Hitchcock will always be right up there.Never tire of watching his movies,no matter how many times I've watched them.

Stanley Kubrick,love most of his work.However,he did make some rather twisted films as well,particularly A Clockwork Orange.And his last movie,Eyes Wide Shut,was controversial but interesting nevertheless.And Lolita.
Particularly enjoyed Paths of Glory,Dr.Strangelove and Full Metal Jacket.The Shining wasn't bad,either.

John Ford,my favorite movie of his is,They were Expendable.

And David Lean,who could make spectacular films :
Lawrence of Arabia
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Dr.Zhivago
And the one I enjoyed most,A Passage to India.

Woody Allen,the quality of his later films is fairly uneven,but I love many of those early films :
Bananas
Sleeper
Annie Hall
Love and Death
And many more.

Sadly I never liked his films, although did get actors in his films

To each his own,Sean.
Then,there are some directors who have made one film each that I've enjoyed a great deal :
Francis Ford Coppola,Apocalypse Now.
His daughter,Sofia Coppola,Lost in Translation.
Sam Mendes,American Beauty.

Sean wrote: "Here is a good one, can you pick your favourite directors.

Here is a few I like

Alfred Hitchock
John Ford
Howard Hawks
Billy Wilder
Martin Scorsese
Quentin Tarantino
David Lean
Frank Capra
The Co..."

Like most of them and I note they are your favorites.
Personally I would replace Eastwood, Sturges, Curtiz, the Coens (who all have great movies to their credit) and Tarantino with:

George Stevens
Fred Zinnemann
Douglas Sirk (for his 1950's Universal films)
Francis Ford Coppola (for his works in the '70s)
Stanley Kubrick

But like all of us, directors have their ups and downs.
And no doubt I've missed a few in my list.
I think for sheer consistency of making excellent films, you've got to take your hat off to the likes of Wyler, Ford, Hitchcock and Zinnemann.

I love Christopher Nolan as a director. He's brilliant. The concepts he's able to bring to film, and to do on screen with no CGI or greenscreen, are extraordinary. Whether creating one of the most iconic movie trilogies surrounding an existing character ever, or building entire worlds around concepts most of us could never even begin to dream of, his work is stunning. He gets incredible performances out of his actors and crew every single time as well. The fact that he's only just 50 is so exciting - there's a lot more to come from him and I'm ready for all of it.

My top ten:
Sidney Lumet
Billy Wilder
Stanley Kubrick
Martin Scorsese
Frank Capra
Francis Ford Coppola (his 70s work is the best decade a director ever had)
Stephen Spielberg (for his epics not his blockbusters)
Elia Kazan
Chris Nolan (greatest director of genre movies but like Coppola he had an extraordinary decade rather than a great career)
Milos Foreman

Underrated:
Darren Aronofsky, Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Brooks, Frank Darabont, Stanley Kramer, Mike Nichols, Martin Ritt

I'll add William Wyler to my list.Loved Roman Holiday and enjoyed Friendly Persuasion.May have seen more of his films,but didn't pay attention to the name earlier.

Ang Lee has created a great portfolio in different genres. His best movie is LIfe of Pi, which has extraordinary scenes of a young guy trying to coexist in a lifeboat with a tiger. Very moving in an amazing way. Also would single out "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Sense and Sensibility" (perhaps the best of the Austen movies) and "The Ice Storm."

Jeffrey wrote: "Ang Lee has created a great portfolio in different genres. His best movie is LIfe of Pi, which has extraordinary scenes of a young guy trying to coexist in a lifeboat with a tiger. Very moving in a..."

I love Lee! His movies are so diverse, and yet even with a superhero movie (Hulk) he makes it visually stunning.