Who is the best living director?

Who is the best living director?

Werner Herzog

Scorsese, without a doubt.

Nolan is yet to make a dud, so him.

In terms of what they've made or what they're making now?

Jim Jarmusch

David Fincher

Zack Kinogod Snyder

Scorsese even if he hasn't made a good movie in a while

also Herzog, Coens

Denis

It's Verhoeven, but the only one in that picture who's even in the conversation is Scorsese.

>Insomnia
>The Dark Knight Rises

Lynch, even at his worst.

Snyder for blockbuster trash

He's actually yet to make a legitimately good film.

What they've made.

villekino. his arthouse film (incendiary) was better than nolans (memento) and his blockbuster (blade runner) will be better than nolans (dark knight or dunkino).

*blocks your path*

*incendies
I am phonefagging

I didn't care for Insomnia but I was a teenager, I might like it now

*Ahem*

>Incendies
>Memento
>"arthouse"

Don't use terms you don't understand please

Villenveue
Tarantino
Bay
Cameron

Death Proof was fucking terrible. The car scenes were great but the 45 minutes of who gives a fuck dialogue had me falling asleep.

me

It's just a shitty remake of a good Norwegian film, no reason to like the Nolan version.

Cameron is shit

me

>following
Great movie!

Ridley Scott, when he can be arsed

he meant indie, faggot, and you understood

I'll check it out again tomorrow but you're probably right, the majority of films I've revisited I still didn't like

>Cameron is shit
Agreed, except that True Lies is awesome and essential Arnoldcore.

malick
every film after badlands is a 10/10

the obvious answer

If we're talking on a complete scale, like throughout time, Scorsese. But if we're talking best at the moment, Nolan.

Don't bully low cine-iq Sup Forumsedditors that think they're out of imdb phase

memento was not an indie film

interstellar is utter shit though

Tarantino has the best batting average

>best at the moment, Nolan
Even Silence is better than anything Nolan has ever done.

pfffff yeah right
he's definitely better than anything in the OP though

Scorsese's worst movie is infinitely more valuable than Nolan's best.

Also,
>Even Silence
>implying Silence isn't one of Marty's best

Kubrick
>dig deeper

How would you define arthouse and tell me why incendies and memento don't fit that definition. they are both non-commercial films aimed at a particular type of audience rather than the general public, and films where the direct retained control as opposed to the producer

Coen Brothers
Martin Scorsese
Paolo Sorrentino
F.F. Coppola
J.L. Godard
Wes Anderson
P.T. Anderson
Woody Allen

It's probably my favorite film of his, just had a brain fart there.

>Alive

No it isn't

peak reddit taste

>r/movies

How so? The plot is completely stupid and falls apart the more you think about it, and it's not like the film has anything else going for it.

strong argument there

Wong Kar Wai, Herzog, Wenders, Koreada, Tarr and Edward Yang are better choices than those in OP

Woody Allen
assuming by living you actually mean living and not working

Nolan is actually shit, why do people like him?

Whoever the one that's currently fucking Jlaw

Insomnia is his best work yet, you utter pleb.

>Edward Yang
Edward Yang is dead

you just included wes anderson and woody allen in a discussion about best directors

Wes Anderson has done nothing but two-dimensional fluff with some nice visuals.

>
Blocks path

All his movies are decent

Unless you are a pretentious prick or some retard who spects too much from films, he's a solid director

>hating on West Anderson
All his films are +6 points and have great image, what else do you want?

best living director can't have made a shit film. Allen, Scorsese, Coen brothers, Wes Anderson have made shit films before.

>His best work is an inferior remake

>All his movies are decent
>MOS

Nice bait

Name 1 shit movie by any of these directors

Idris Elba

So how are we defining best in this case? Is it the quality of their worst film? Average quality, with an exception that any film below decent disqualifies? Quality of best movie?

...

why do americans think that only americans are the best directors? do they not realise that french cinema is superior?

He didn't direct man of steel...

>what else do you want?
Great writing and three-dimensional characters would be a good start.

why do french people think that only frenchs are the best directors? do they not realise that italian cinema is superior?

multiple non-Americans on that list, boyo.

>obsessed

>muh writing
>muh dimensions
See? You don't like films, you like plots

Stick to reading novels or checking the plot on wikipedia, you don't understand the whole concept of cinema

The same reason they praise villeneuve and fincher. They're completely underexposed to real film

Wong Kar-Wai

From the list I have to pick Fincher.

>you don't understand the whole concept of cinema
Well explain it to me then, since you seem to be an expert.

Steven Spielberg, and the fact nobody mentioned him is appalling.

Why the fuck is Fincher so beloved? At this point he's more overrated than fucking Nolan but this goes unnoticed because of how nondescript he is

LMAO

>this thread again
>after badlands
Are you implying Badlands isn't one of his best?

Silence (Scorsese), Crisis in Six ascends (Allen), The Darjeeling Ltd (Anderson).

For me it's every film has to be oustanding, different subject matter and a mastery of different film techniques

i think its a 9/10 while everything else is perfect

I don't care about plot, I care about story. Also, a film is a sum of its parts. Wes Anderson can't even get the visuals right.
>muh symmetry

Its fucking Denis, he hasnt made anything less than kino yet

>Silence (Scorsese)
opinion discarded

Shoots and cinematography are way more relevant than character development
Pace and music are more important than the plot

>Silence
Literally one of his best films.

That's why Sup Forums pretends to hate him. They can't handle the fact that he's never made a bad movie

wait, are some of these replies unironic or not?

otherwise I had no idea that Sup Forums is peak fedoracore.

Lmao sorry man that was a poor film (for Scorsese standards)

>Silence (Scorsese), Crisis in Six ascends (Allen), The Darjeeling Ltd (Anderson).
lmao, Silence is pretty great and Darjeeling is decent at the very last

I asked for shit films

But Badlands and Days of Heaven are his most worthwhile films.

Pace is inherently connected with the plot, you fucking mouth breather.

back to your capeshit friendo

Mallick is a hack.
There was a flick with bale and farell. New world or someshit.
It was horrible. Not sure If I've seen anything else from him. I tried watching Tree of life but turned it off after 5 minutes.

guess we just have different views /:
i respect your opinion :)

I may get lost in translation here, maybe the word I was looking for is "story" and not "plot"

Andy Sedaris