No idea what this thread is about but I’ll play. Here’s a movie that had a director: Ishtar - Elaine May
Nichols - Catch 22 Pakula - All the President's Men Ford - My Darling Clementine Hitchcock - North by Northwest Chaplin - Great Dictator Allen - Manhattan Truffaut - 400 Blows Costa Gravas - Z Hawks - His Girl Friday Loach - Sweet Sixteen Curtiz - Casablanca Powell and Pressburger - A Canterbury Tale Eastwood - Outlaw Josey Wales Spielberg - Jaws Peckinpah - The Wild Bunch Leone - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Coppola - Godfather 2 Welles - Citizen Kane Lang - M
Fassbinder - The Marriage of Maria Braun Herzog - Aguirre, The Wrath of God Wenders - Until The End of the World Minnelli - Meet Me In St. Louis Von Sternberg - Shanghai Express Lang - M (of the german films); The Big Heat (US) Mario Bava - Blood and Black Lace Dario Argento - Deep Red Sirk - La Habanera (Germany); Imitation of Life (US) Hitchcock - Vertigo Mackendrick - The Ladykillers Scorsese - Taxi Driver Welles - Citizen Kane Leone - The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Ford - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Martin Scorsese-Goodfellas Brian DePalma-Phantom Of The Paradise Francis Ford Coppola-The Godfather, Part II John Ford-The Searchers Raoul Walsh-White Heat Orson Welles-Touch Of Evil Billy Wilder-Double Indemnity Quentin Tarantino-Jackie Brown Clint Eastwood-Play Misty For Me James Whale-The Invisible Man Edgar G. Ulmer-Detour Toby Hooper-The Texas Chainsaw Massacre George A. Romero-Kinghtriders
Monte Hellman: Two-Lane Blacktop John Dahl : The Last Seduction Roger Donaldson: The World's Fastest Indian
Karl Freund-Mad Love Terence Fisher-The Revenge Of Frankenstein Peter Yates-The Friends Of Eddie Coyle Rob Reiner-This Is Spinal Tap Joe Dante-The Howling
Michael Crichton - Westworld Tom Ford - A Single Man William Peter Blatty - The Exorcist III Robert Redford - Ordinary People Sam Mendes - Revolutionary Road Charlie Kaufman - Synecdoche, New York Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
Good joke, great film! Here's my non-exhaustive, but probably exhausting , list in no particular order (I gather we're picking one favorite per director): Nicholas Roeg - Walkabout (1971) Mel Brooks - The Producers (1967) Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) John Milius - Conan the Barbarian (1982) Robert Wise - The Sound of Music (1965) Blake Edwards - A Shot in the Dark (1964) Joel Coen - The Big Lebowski (1998) Terry Gilliam - Time Bandits (1981) Hal Ashby - Harold and Maude (1971) John Boorman - Excalibur (1981) Alfred Hitchcock - North By Northwest (1959) Orson Welles - Citizen Kane (1941) Preston Sturges - The Palm Beach Story (1942) John Landis - The Blues Brothers (1980) William Friedkin - The French Connection (1971) James Cameron - The Terminator (1984) Steven Spielberg - Jaws (1975) John Ford - The Quiet Man (1952) Frank Capra - It's A Wonderful Life (1946) Howard Hawks - His Girl Friday (1940) Billy Wilder - Some Like It Hot (1959) Rob Reiner - This is Spinal Tap (1984) John Hughes - Sixteen Candles (1984) Akira Kurosawa - Yojimbo (1961) Fritz Lang - Metropolis (1927) John Waters - Pink Flamingos (1972) Ridley Scott - Blade Runner (1982) David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Fred Zinnemann - The Day of the Jackal (1973)
I guess I just assumed it was what one film most represented the director. The one he is most known for. The thread title is certainly is open to interpretation though.
Satyajit Ray, Pather Panchali Wes Anderson, The Darjeeling Limited David Lean, Lawrence Of Arabia Richard Attenborough, Gandhi Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey James Ivory, Shakespeare Wallah Jean-Luc Godard, Breathless Ridley Scott, Blade Runner Federico Fellini, 8-1/2 Richard Lester, A Hard Day's Night Michael Curtiz, Casablanca Michaelangelo Antonioni, Blow-Up David Lynch, Fire Walk With Me
