Favourite Film-Makers

[koosie]

Originally Posted by Ditchy McAbandonpants

Koosie: Hmm, that's got me scratching my trivia-filled head. I'm going to go with jj's guesses on George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Quentin Tarantino, and I'm also going to put forward Martin Scorsese for MS, Sergei Eisenstein for SE, and David Cronenberg for DC, as well as expressing my hope that the other SS is not Stephen Sommers, of Van Helsing "fame".

Additionally, since I can't come up with actual guesses for the other ones, I'm going to suggest that ML is the hateful, eminently slappable football pundit Mark Lawrenson, JB is late TV prankster Jeremy Beadle, and KL is Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia.

Do I win the prize?

PS - Excellent topic, jj. I wouldn't mind posting my own list when I have a bit of free time to think about it...

PPS - Ah! Wait! ML is Mike Leigh, and KL is Ken Loach, surely? Or were my other guesses right?

PPPS - SS #2 is Steven Soderbergh! It must be! Damnit, just that JB to get, now...I hope you realise that obsessing over this is keeping me from my studies, koosie.

Sorry to have kept you from your studies but really I'm no more to blame than the ballpoint-pen and ruler you make the improvised aeroplane with. OK you guys did very well with 8/10 but really it should be 9 as, looking again at Steven Soderbergh's resume, it's clear he should have been in there, maybe with about 10 others I've thought of since.

No, the other SS was Sergio Sollima who made the brilliant Faccia a faccia but I couldn't have expected anyone to get that.

JB was John Boorman from the 'Kitchen-Sink' school of film-making. His version of the King Arthur myth, Excaliber was one of my big movies growing up. Zardoz is pretty out there too.

Funnily enough Soderbergh was involved with the third part of the Koyanisqatsi trilogy which is a great fav of mine, though mostly for the brilliant music which is also why I like some of the movies of Peter Greenaway, whose old arch-enemy Alan Parker I quite like too.

No it wasn't a complete list, I didn't think it through. Where was Terry Gilliam and the other Pythons?

Who made American Werewolf in London?

Why was there only men on this list?