shut up, nghtvsn.

I was considering Kirk Wise/Gary Trousdale and Wolfgang Reitherman (60's, 70's Disney), but The Little Mermaid is still my favorite film and I consider Aladdin on par or better than any film by those three guys. I also think Treasure Planet is underrated (as is Atlantis from Wise and Trousdale, too).

With time, I think Woody Allen and Terry Gilliam will make my list.

I don't know how anyone could pick Oliver Stone as one of their favourite directors. But I am glad that Donner made more than just one list.

They're your favorite directors and yet you can't be bothered to watch their work?

Richard Linklater
1 – Before Sunset
2 – Waking Life
3 – Dazed and Confused

Christopher Nolan
1 – Memento
2 – The Prestige
3 – The Dark Knight

Wachowskis
1 – The Matrix
2 – Cloud Atlas
3 – Speed Racer

Darren Aronofsky
1 – The Fountain
2 – Pi
3 – Black Swan

Wes Anderson
1 – The Grand Budapest Hotel
2 – Fantastic Mr. Fox
3 – The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Ang Lee
1 – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2 – Life of Pi
3 – Taking Woodstock

Hayao Miyazaki
1 – Spirited Away
2 – Princess Mononoke
3 – My Neighbor Totoro

David Fincher
1 – The Social Network
2 – Fight Club
3 – Gone Girl

Steven Spielberg
1 – Minority Report
2 – Jurassic Park
3 – Raiders of the Lost Ark

Joel and Ethan Coen
1 – A Serious Man
2 – Burn After Reading
3 – O Brother, Where Art Thou?

James Cameron
1 – Titanic
2 – Terminator 2: Judgement Day
3 – Avatar

Quentin Tarantino
1 – Kill Bill
2 – Jackie Brown
3 – Pulp Fiction

Paul Thomas Anderson
1 – Magnolia
2 – There Will Be Blood
3 – Boogie Nights

Danny Boyle
1 – Sunshine
2 – 28 Days Later
3 – Trainspotting


Zemeckis, Shyamalan both have 3 films that deserve to be here (Contact, Back to the Future, What Lies Beneath; Unbreakable, Lady in the Water, The Sixth Sense) but their subsequent descent retroactively disqualifies them.

I think he is saying that since there is a thread for favourite directors, he made a list, but he has no conviction in really saying they are his best due to the dearth of films in general that he has seen. Even people that have seen a hundred films ever can have favourite directors.