30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 10

[trinityvixen]

One third of the way there!

Day 10 - Your favorite director
Uh...I don't generally notice direction. I mean, I notice it if it's bad, or particularly flashy, but even after all these years of watching movies and even after a few courses in schoool, I'm still really shaky on this "direction" stuff. I know directors whose movies I've generally liked--

Comments

[ecmyers]

Pretty much every director makes some bad movies, or at least less-good ones, once in a while. I'm still generally willing to give some of them the benefit of the doubt and get excited when they have a new movie. But true directors, in the sense of the old auteurs, are not very common these days. Directors like Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson are fairly consistent, in their style and content. Maybe Guillermo del Toro, too. I think my favorite director is Hayao Miyazaki though.

[trinityvixen]

I know I like some of the style of del Toro's work, and Raimi's, but I get confused as to how much of that is interest/enchantment with the stories, which each man, often, contributes to. I mean, Raimi's "style" is, in many ways, supported by the plot underneath, as is del Toro's. I have no idea what kind of director Peter Jackson is at all, since my favorite works of his were adapted--by him, no less.

[gryphonrose]

I think I have to go with the Coen brothers. They're probably the only directors where I'll say "oh, wait, they have a new movie coming out? I'll need to check it out." Plenty of directors whose movies I've liked, including most of the ones you and ecmyers mentioned, but that doesn't mean I'm guaranteed to like every movie they do. With the Coen bros I always know I'm getting quality, and usually I like their choices.