a single movie and/or director that got you thinking about movies

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for me, it was stanley kubrick who showed me what filmmaking and movemaking was all about. i think it was largely because he loved to experiment and was more than willing to experiment. also the way he used current technology to make interesting films that made you think... why wasn't this done before (i'm thinking of the zeiss lenses in barry lyndon that allowed him to shoot scenes using just candlelight and the use of the steadicam in the shining). very interesting guy indeed.

angela woolard's response
Tim Burton. His movies have a certain characteristic style to them that I really like. "Edward Scissorhands" and "Nightmare Before Christmas" are classic Tim Burton. But he's also got the ability to do different things- consider the hilarious biography of Ed Wood that he presents (in the movie of the same name). Or consider "Big Fish," which inside of all of it's zany twists and imaginative happenings, contains a serious statement about life and our place in it. I think what I love about Tim Burton is that he has a way of taking the world and bringing out its quirks, of showing how life can be creative, poetic, unpredictable, and extraordinary.

alaina harmon's response
Tsai Ming-liang. He films primarily in actual time. If somebody cries, you generally get to watch them cry for quite a good while. His films tend to be conceptually interesting and at least a bit off-the-wall. They tend to focus on human misery/urban isolation, though...

courtney craig's response
Kubrick has Begley eyes or
Begley has Kubrick eyes

= hott

p.s. its definitely Lynch for me freakish and beautiful