Sometimes you don’t necessarily pay attention to the director of a movie, but there are some directors who have a habit of directing great movies — so you might want to know who they are. Each of these 10 directors has directed 4 masterpieces. There may be some off-by-one errors in my ratings for movies I saw many years ago, but this gives you a good idea of the movies I like.<\/p>\n
Anderson’s movies are all similarly quirky, and I love them. Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, and Owen Wilson tend to show up in these movies — and sometimes Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, and Anjelica Huston.<\/p>\n
Although Burton’s masterpieces are from the earlier part of his career, his most recent movie Big Eyes<\/strong> is close to a masterpiece. Although he didn’t actually direct The Nightmare Before Christmas<\/strong> (he was directing Batman Returns<\/strong> at the time), it is often thought of as a Burton movie — he was producer and writer. His short movies Frankenweenie<\/strong> and Vincent<\/strong> (narrated by Vincent Price) are on the Nightmare Before Christmas<\/strong> DVD.<\/p>\n Gilliam sadly often has trouble getting his movies made. Lost in La Mancha<\/strong> is a fascinating documentary about one movie that Gilliam tried to make but it fell apart. If you get the Criterion edition of the Brazil<\/strong> DVD you can watch the cut of that movie that the studio was going to release — it’s shockingly poor compared to Gilliam’s brilliant cut. His most recent movie The Zero Theorem<\/strong> isn’t quite a masterpiece but it’s more original than most movies you’ll see at the theatre.<\/p>\n Famous as a child (The Andy Griffith Show<\/strong>) and young man (Happy Days<\/strong>) for acting, Howard made an extremely successful transition to directing. He’s also the narrator for Arrested Development<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Jeunet is a French director whose first two movies were co-directed by Marc Caro. His biggest hit in the English-speaking world is probably Amelie<\/strong> but his other movies have the same quirky sense of humour. Alien Resurrection<\/strong> is worth watching for fans of the Alien<\/strong> series.<\/p>\n Nolan’s most recent movie Interstellar<\/strong> is almost a masterpiece but had some issues of motivation and kitchen sink-ness. He also helped write the story for Man of Steel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n His first four movies were brilliant, the fifth was mediocre, and the sixth was bad. I didn’t even see the seventh and eighth because they were widely regarded as terrible. However, he could still make another great movie.<\/p>\n Possibly the best known director, Spielberg still has the ability to pull out a winner — as long as George Lucas isn’t whispering in his ear. He’s been a producer on many movies and TV shows. He wrote the story for The Goonies<\/strong> and served as executive producer of Terra Nova<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Weir is an Australian director. His movies don’t seem to have anything in common, except that they’re brilliant. He hasn’t made a movie in 5 years, so it’s possible he’s retired.<\/p>\n The Back to the Future<\/strong> trilogy should be watched all at once to get the full effect. Everybody seems to like Who Framed Roger Rabbit<\/strong> but I didn’t find it funny at all.<\/p>\n Sometimes you don’t necessarily pay attention to the director of a movie, but there are some directors who have a habit of directing great movies — so you might want to know who they are. Each of these 10 directors has directed 4 masterpieces. There may be some off-by-one errors in my ratings for movies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[86,42,6],"class_list":["post-6632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-directors","tag-lists","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6632"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19743,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632\/revisions\/19743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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Terry Gilliam<\/h2>\n
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Ron Howard<\/h2>\n
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet<\/h2>\n
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Christopher Nolan<\/h2>\n
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M. Night Shyamalan<\/h2>\n
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Steven Spielberg<\/h2>\n
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Peter Weir<\/h2>\n
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Robert Zemeckis<\/h2>\n
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