Hey. Here are my picks for the directors whose films make people squirm.
In No Particular Order
Takashi Miike
Michael Haneke
Todd Solondz
Harmony Korine
David Cronenberg
David Lynch
John Waters(the early films)
Peter Greenaway
Gaspar Noe
Larry Clark
Ken Russell
Lars Von Trier
There are many more and some deserve to be on this list for just one film or many films.
What are your picks?
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It's a helluva list, nick - I can't think of who to add. Still, it's got me thinking and so I'll try and come up with a few names.
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Luis Buñuel and Jean-Luc Godard have had their moments.
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I would add, tough there would be probably more than ten in the end:
Marco Ferreri
Nagisa Oshima
Tinto Brass
Pier Paolo Pasolini
( oddly or not) Kubrick- at least Clockwork Orange
Francois Ozon
Pedro Almodovar
Oskar Roehler
and i have to think about a few more. But i totally agree about Ken Russell, Larry Clark, Peter Greenaway and Lars von Trier
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Simple, i included Ozon becuase he explores sex, psychological trauma, interhuman relationships at degees so twisted few other directors would have the guts to do. He seems to draw his inspiration from everyone's deepest and best-guarded nightmares and depths of the subconscious.
shareThis thread is like a who's-who if my favorite directors. I'm surprised no one has mentioned Catherine Breillat yet, she's awesome!
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George Lucas
shareQuentin Tarantino
shareI dont think harmony Korine is that twisted.
I mean, he made Gummo, which can be considered kind of strange, but I dont know about twisted. Plus his other movies, to me, are far from twisted.
Other than that though, I agree with your list completely. Nice touch on the "early films" for John Waters, His latest movie is garbage, and not in the good way.
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My Top Ten:
Alejandro Jodorowrosky
Walerian Borowczyk
Guy Maddin
Peter Greenaway
Dusan Makavejev
Ken Russell
Fernando Arrabal
Lars Von Trier
David Lynch
Julie Taymor
Honorable mentions would go to: Herschell Gordon Lewis, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Werner Herzog (the early years).
Hitchcock - Vertigo(even though I don't like the film, has some deeply misogynistic moments in it), Psycho(for its shock moments) and Frenzy(Hitchcock unbound by the censors!).