Currently and possibly for the last 30 years it has been Ridley Scott.
Starting with Bladerunner and moving backwards (The Duelists) before going forward, his movies have been mostly excellent to me.
Tony was great too.

We are all getting old. Wonder who's going to my goto guy from now on.

The only director in my black list is M. Night Whatever... Really can't stand his stuff.
Once I didn't check before going to the movie and when it ended i yelled«who made this turd?» right before his name came up on the screen...

My bad, should have payed attention.

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Stanley Kubrick. Start at the beginning and work your way up. Best film maker I have ever seen.

I look for movies from these directors (I keep a list lol):

Wes Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson
Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
David Michod
Jeff Nichols
Jim Jarmusch
Kelly Reichardt
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Corneliu Porumboiu
Jacques Audiard
Pawel Pawlikowski
Lukas Moodysson
Don Hertzfeldt
Todd Solondz
Park Chan-wook
Clint Eastwood

probably a few more i'm missing - and ^ these are from the still making movies list...

The Coen Brothers.
Taylor Sheridan.

My faves...


Ridley Scott
Christopher Nolan
Denis Villeneuve
David Ayer
Todd Phillips (still need to watch "Joker")
Kathryn Bigelow

I would like to see more movies directed by Taylor Sheriden. He currently directs the series “Yellowstone”.

He wrote the screenplays for “Hell or High Water” with Jeff Bridges and “Sicario”.

He was an actor in Sons of Anarchy.

He grew up on a ranch in Texas. Said if the family hadn’t lost the ranch, he’d still be there.

I think he has a great future if given the chance.

I don't miss anything from David Fincher. Sheridan is also really good.

Coen Brothers
Cary Jo Fukunaga (True Detective S1, Beasts of No Nation, No Time to Die)
Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall, Spectre, 1917)
Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu (Babel, The Revenant, Birdman)
Christopher Nolan
Todd Phillips (Joker)
Paul Thomas Anderson
Morten Tyldum (Imitation Game, Passengers)
Taylor Sheridan
Denis Villanueve (Sicario)

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Many good names, many i'm unfamiliar with.
Of course I like Kubrick but am afraid he's long gone and can't expect much more of him.

I was thinking the likes of Chris McQuairrie (Way of the gun, etc ). Nolan is fine, Berg is ok. Looking for the current and next gen.
Besson still a favorite but he's rehashing his old stuff constantly.

Thanks for the names. I watch toomany movies so i will look them up.

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now if you're talking not making movies anymore, well:

Yasujiro Ozu
Akira Kurosawa
Kore-eda Hirokazu
Andrei Tarkovsky
Kenji Mizoguchi
Michael Haneke
Samuel Fuller
Satyajit Ray
Robert Bresson

and a few additions to the still making'm list:

Aki Kaurismaki
Roy Andersson
Sean Baker
Athina Rachel Tsangari

I wonder no one mentioned Scorsese yet.

Throw a dart at any movie by Taika Waititi. Don't read about it--just watch it.

I enjoyed Waititi´s nazi parody.

Looking for younger directors. The ones with a lot of movies ahead of them, not the ones with a long filmography behind them like Scorsese, Mann, etc.

Thinking of the likes of Berg, Fuqua, etc. Fresh ideas, new interesting ways of doing movies. Even those I mentioned are not young anymore.

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