Filmmakers You Admire?

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@Gamine
You no fine but your mama still like u abi!
Na so we gas support these Nolly directors, their movies no tap, but we got to support the few good ones.
 
@D reloaded
Frank Rodriguez directed Sin city but Quentin in an advisory role, u know Rodriguez and Quentin a very good friends, they share creative ideas, infact they both did a movie GRINDHOUSE together.

@ Combrazor
I mentioned in my post that i wasn't even a fan of the Nollywood movies, in fact i feel that 90% of Nollywood movies out there are crap, but then there is that 10% that we need to encourage that is all.

Although the script of Amazing was totally crappy, lacked depth and they should hav done better. It was a BIG movie, which was really planned out and shot pretty nicely, not like the hurriedly done movies, which are characteristic of Nollywood. Directors in Nollywood need to handle movie making in a more professional manner, adequate planning, and all those other hallmarks that come with professional film making.

Besides the film no get PART 2.

@ Lady T--

big ups! the Hitch is the god of all directors! i wanted to include him in my list, but i felt it went without saying--just about every director working today owes him a massive debt!

@ hahaha

it's one thing to want to support and encourage Nollywood directors as best we can (which i do), but if in your heart, you don't admire them, you can't force it.

yes, they are trying; yes, we encourage them to get better--but seriously, which Nollywood director am i going to name in the same breath that i'm talking about Joel & Ethan Coen, Wong Kar-Wai or Kinji Fukasaku? seriously?

it doesn't make any sense. the only way to encourage Nollywood is to be realistic about its shortcomings, not re-defining standards to accommodate inferior work.

also, hahaha, you are wrong about Sin City. Robert Rodriguez co-directed it not with Quentin Tarantino, but with Frank Miller--the writer/artist who created the Sin City comic. Quentin *did* step in to guest direct a single scene in the movie, but i don't think he was even credited for that.


that's interesting: i didn't think Amazing Grace was well-shot at all. while much was made about the fact that it was the first Nollywood movie shot on celluloid, a lot of the actual lighting and shot composition was pretty much the same as the run-of-the-mill Nollywood home video. the costumes, sets and general art direction were a bit on the shoddy side, too. while it was a BIG movie, it seems a lot of the budget was poured into shooting on 35mm, which i think was an ill-advised decision.

while i highly commend the ambition Jeta showed with that movie, i think a lot of it was a bit wrong-headed in execution. it seems more time was spent thinking about the impressiveness of the medium rather than the actual content.

I'm quite aware of Quentin's one scene in Sin City but that still doesnt make it HIS movie. Same way Hostel and such arent his movies even though his name is on it. Anyway can't wait til "Inglorious Bastards" next year.

Alfred Hitchcock is a given . I'd also add Stanley Kubrick for Clockwork Orange & The Shining, Orson Welles for Third Man, Akira Kurosawa for Ran & Rashomon  and Martin Scorcese for Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Departed and the two movies I can watch over and over agaion, Casino & GoodFellas.

I think Citizen Kane is a tad overrated 

I havent seen Touch Of Evil though.

i admire Mike Bamiloye a lot. he has so many films and they all have a message. his films are good. u must learn something from each and everyone of them and his productions are really really good.

Both Kilani of Saworoide fame and Tade Ogidan. They are my 'kind of people'.

Well Well Well,Here is mine:these 2 little senior Brats, AKI AND PAWPAW, 

Apart from the 'father of blockbuster' - Steven Spielberg, who is in a class all by himself, i think i admire Ridley Scott, Martin Scorcese, Clint Eastwood, Micheal Moore and a few others.

love ridley scott for his unique cinematography and ability to make the audience feel what is going on in the movie - e.g black hawk down, the gladiator and american gangster.

1. M. Night Bit stale now, but used to make awesome films.

2. Scorsese Been around for a very long time and still makes great movies. Good Fellas is ONE GREAT MOVIE. Can watch it forever

3. Judd Apatow Currently makes the funniest movies around: 40 year old Virgin, Knocked up,

4. Frank Darabont Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile

5. John Woo Face Off, Windtalkers, MI2. I like action

6. David Fincher Just because he gave the world Fight Club. Hasn't done any other useful thing.

Don't particularly like Nigerian films. I saw Amazing Grace. The story was flat, but it has BY FAR the best Cinematography I have seen in a Nigerian Film. It was very well done by Nigerian standards. We need to put money in Nigerian films to make them work.