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[andrewducker]

The guardian's top 40 directors.

They don't have Oliver Stone.

They don't have Terry Gilliam.

They rank David Fincher at 39.

They can go to hell.

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[heron61.livejournal.com]

I'm not certain why Oliver Stone would belong in that list - then again, the only one of his films that I found watchable was Natural Born Killers. OTOH, leaving out Terry Gilliam is wrong, as is leaving out Baz Luhrmann. Also, although all of Peter Weir's best work was done in Australia, he still likely belongs there.

[andrewducker]

Natural Born Killers is enough (for me) to guarantee someone a place on the list. The sheer artistic inventiveness of it still amazes me.

But JFK is also excellent (and anyone that can pull off a 45 minute talking court scene like he does is worthy of respect), and I seem to recall that Wall Street was good too.