The Holy Trinity of American Cinema >Scorsese >Coppola

kubrick, tarantino, lucas

Griffith
Kubrick
Altman

Fuking plebs

>>80152172
Replace Coppola with Lynch, and you've got yourself a deal

>>80152317
All dead. How the fuck does Robert Altman make your top 3 if you're counting every American filmmaker who ever lived?

>>80152172
>Scorsese
Literally just a high-brow Tarantino.

>>80152653
They are most "european" of american directors. I don't include here Wilder, Capra, Houston... Cause they're do not represent much artistic value. Just pure hollywood entertainment.
I have a problem with Elia Kazan though...
Also Welles. Go rosebud yourselves.
Living directors?
Malick is a hack so fuck him.
For sure Scorsese. He's great.
I am not sure about PTA. Its just good production design and cinematography.

Is Welles worth including for the sole reason he created the greatest American film ever made? I am not familiar with the totality of his portfolio

>>80153319
>I am not sure about PTA. Its just good production design and cinematography.
I'm not sure about him either. I'm not a scholar of film but if a movie looks god damn amazing and makes you think a little bit, hasn't it succeeded entirely? I personally like a lot of the themes he tackles and I think he does a good job of tackling them.

>>80152172
Ford
Fuller
(American Hitchcock)

Snyder
Anderson
Fincher

>>80153351
His other output goes toe to toe with any other director (American or not) as far as pretentious kino is concerned.

Lynch
Kubrick
Scorsese

>>80152172
>Zack Snyder
>Michael Bay
>Tyler Perry

Simply the best there ever will be

>>80154284
Dont forget snyder made ga hoole owls

Donner
Cameron
McTiernan

Replace Thomas with Wesley

Mann
Lynch
Malick

>>80152200
>>80153041

quentin pls go

>>80152172

Verhovan
Besson (pre 2000)

>>80154099
perfect

>>80153380

He also writes his own screenplays, has tackled a bunch of genres, and has gotten some of the best career performances out of Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John C Reilly, Melora Walters, Adam Sandler, Daniel Day Lewis, Paul Dano, Amy Adams, and Josh Brolin.

>>80152172
>JJ Abrams
>Tarantino
>Wes Anderson

you pleb

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>>80152172
fixed the pic. also Casino is Scorsese's masterpiece

>>80152172
>Lucas
>Malick
>Snyder