Alfred Hitchcock
Mike Leigh
Ingmar Bergman

Love the Merchant Ivory team and David Lean

Michael Powell - I love many of his films, but my favourite is one of his lesser known films A Canterbury Tale.

Many many years ago when I was a child, I was on a bus somewhere in the Cotswolds. The bus stopped in the middle of nowhere and these 2 men got on. For some reason, the taller one made a very strong impression on me. After a mile or so, they got off, not having spoken. But I remembered them.

A few years later I was watching a film documentary on television and suddenly there was the man I had seen on the bus - Michael Powell. I thought I must be wrong, what would someone like Michael Powell be doing in the middle of nowhere. Years later I found that he lived in Avening and worked out that the bus must have been going from Stroud to Tetbury which goes past Avening.

Who was the other man? I'll never know, but it would be nice to think that it was his long-term collaborator Emeric Pressburger.

stephen spielberg

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Originally posted by Well-Wisher:
Who are your favourite film directors?

Woody Allen is my favourite director. I've loved his movies since I was a child. My
favourite Woody Allen film is Love and Death
but I also like Manhattan,Annie Hall,Crimes and Misdemeanours,Zelig and Bullets over Broadway.

I love those films. Sweet and Lowdown is another fav of mine that he directed.

Hitchcock, Varda, Truffaut, Kieslowski, Fellini,Aki Kaurismaki, Paul Thomas Anderson, Scorcese, Tarantino,, Jim Jarmusch, Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Pierre Jeunet,Guillermo Del Toro,Pedro Almodóvar....lots more..