100 Greatest Film Directors - by Moses

Directors

1.     Stanley Kubrick – Dr. Strangelove, 2001, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut

       2.      Steven Spielberg – Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s List
3.      Martin Scorsese – Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, After Hours, Good Fellas, The Irishman

       4.      Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather 1 and 11, Apocalypse Now, The Rainmaker

       5.      John Singleton – Boyz in the Hood, Shaft, Rosewood 

       6.      Barry Levinson – The Natural, Diner, Good Morning Vietnam, Bugsy

       7.      John Landis – Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Coming to America, Trading Places, Beverly Hills Part 3, An American Werewolf in London

       8.      George Lucas – American Graffiti, Star Wars 1, 11, 111, 1V, V, V1, V11, V111, 1X

       9.      Quentin Tarantino - Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jango Unchained

       10.    Ron Howard – Nightshift, Apollo 13, De Vinci Code

       11.    Peter Jackson – Lord of the Rings (Trilogy), King Kong

       12.    Norman Jewison – Fiddler on the Roof, Moonstruck, Rollerball, The Hurricane, The Thomas Crown Affair, In the Heat of the Night

       13.    James Cameron – The Titanic, Aliens, Avatar (Trilogy), Terminator (Trilogy), Rambo (First Blood Part 2)
14.    Oliver Stone – Platoon, Wall Street, JFK, Salvador, Born on the 4rth of July, The Doors

       15.    Tim Burton – Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlegeuse, Nightmare Before Christmas

       16.    Alfred Hitchcock – The Birds, Rear Window, Psycho, Vertigo, North by Northwest, the Man Who Knew Too Much, Rope

       17.    Rob Reiner – The Princess Bride, Sleepless in Seattle, Stand By Me, When Harry Met Sally, This is Spinal Tap, A Few Good Men, Misery

       18.    David Fincher – The Fight Club, Zodiac, Seven, The Social Network

       19.    Richard Attenborough – Gandhi, Greystroke–The Legend of Tarzan, Jurassic Park, The Great Escape, Chaplin

       20.    Spike Lee – Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, He Got Game, Jungle Fever, Mo Better Blues, Crooklyn, Kobe Doin' Work 

       21.    Tommy Chong – Still Smokin’, Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie, (co-screenwriter for 'Up In Smoke')

       22.    Phil Alden Robinson (writer/director) - Field of Dreams, Freedom Song, The Sum of All Fears

       23.    Alan Parker – The Wall, Midnight Express, Mississippi Burning

       24.    Walter Hill – 48 Hours, The Warriors, Johnny Handsome

       25.    John Huston – Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Chinatown, Prizzi's Honor, Annie, The Unforgiven (the original), The Hobbit 

       26.    Robert Redford – A River Runs Through it, Ordinary People, The Horse Whisperer

       27.    David Lynch – The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Sleep, (directed the T.V show Twin Peaks)

       28.    George Roy Hill – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, Slapshot, The World According to Garp

       29.    Brian De Palma - Scarface, Carrie, The Untouchables, Mission Impossible, Wiseguys                        
30.    Ben Affleck  – Gone Baby Gone, Argo, (Good Will Hunting - co-screenwriter alongside Matt Damon)

       31.    Laurence and Andrew Wolchowski (writers/directors) – The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolution, 

       32.    Harold Ramis – Caddyshack, Groundhog Day, Analyze This, Analyze That, (co-wrote Ghostbusters and Stripes)

       33.    Peter Weir – Dead Poet Society, The Year of Living Dangerously, Witness, Mosquito Coast, The Truman Show

       34.    Richard Cronenberg - The Fly, Videodrome, Scanners, Shivers, Naked Lunch

       35.    Robert DeNiro (actor/director) - Bronx Tale, The Good Shephard.  (leading roles in; Taxi Driver and The Godfather 2)

       36.    Abel Ferrara - The Bad Lieutenant, King of New York, Body Snatchers

       37.    John Hughes – The Breakfast Club; Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

       38.    Jonathan Demme - Philadelphia, Silence of the Lambs, Innerspace                  
39.    Robert Zemeckis – Back to the Future (Trilogy), Romancing the Stone, Forrest Gump

       40.    Jonathan Lynn – My Cousin Vinny, The Distinguished Gentleman, Clue

       41.    John Carpenter – The Thing, The Fog, Halloween, Christine, Escape From New York

       42.    James L. Brooks – Terms of Endearment, As Good As it Gets, Broadcast News

       43.    Roland Emmerich – Stargate, Independence Day, Godzilla, 2012

       44.    John Glen – For Your Eyes Only, Licence to Kill, The Living Daylights

       45.    Guy Hamilton – The Man With the Golden Gun, Diamonds are Forever, Live and Let Die, Goldfinger

       46.    Barbara Streisand – Yentl, The Way We Were, Nuts

       47.    Adrian Lyne – Fatal Attraction, Jacob’s Ladder, 9 1/2 Weeks, Flashdance, Indecent Proposal
48.   Mary Lambert - Pet Sematary, Pet Sematary 2, The Attic
49.   Ridley Scott - Alien, Bladerunner, Gladiator, Robin Hood, American Gangster
50.   Cecile B. DeMille  – The Ten Commandments (Two versions), Samson and Delilah, Cleopatra, Adam's Rib
51.   Robert Benton - Kramer versus Kramer, (also wrote the screenplays for 'Bonnie and Clyde' and 'Superman')
52.   Arthur Penn - Bonnie and Clyde, Alice's Restaurant
53.   Frank Darabont - The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, (was script doctor of 'Saving Private Ryan')
54.   Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter, Year of the Dragon, The Sicilian
55.   Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven, Heartbreak Ridge, Sudden Impact, Invictus, J. Edgar
56.   Roland Joffe - The Killing Fields, The Mission, City of Joy, Super Mario Brothers,
57.   Leonard Nimoy - Star Trek 3 (The Search For Spock), Star Trek 4 (The Voyage Home), Three Men and a Baby
58.   Sam Raimi - Spiderman, Spiderman 2, Spiderman 3
59.   Sam Mendez - American Beauty, Skyfall (James Bond) Spectre (James Bond), 1917
60.   Justin Lin - Fast and Furious, Fast Five, Fast and Furious 6, Star Trek Beyond   

       61.   Wolfgang Petersen – Das Boot, Outbreak, NeverEnding Story, Poseidon

       62.   Michael Moore – Roger and Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, Fahrenheit 11/9, Canadian Bacon, Bowling for Columbine

       63.   Tom Hooper – Les Miserables, The King’s Speech, Cats, The Danish Girl

       64.   David Anspaugh – Hoosiers, Rudy, Fresh Horses, Swing Vote

       65.   Jim Sheridan – My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, The Boxer

       66.   Ivan Reitman – Meatballs, Stripes, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters 2, Twins

       67.   Mel Gibson – Passion of the Christ, Braveheart, The Man Without a Face

       68.   John G. Avildsen – Rocky, The Karate Kid (Trilogy), Lean on Me

       69.   Sylvester Stallone – Rocky 2, Rocky 3, Rocky 4, Rocky Balboa, Rambo; Last Blood, The Expendables   

       70.   Luis Llosa Urquidi – The Specialist, Anaconda, Sniper

       71.   Steve Gordon – Arthur, (directed T.V shows Chico and the Man, and, Barney Miller)

       72.   Blake Edwards – The Pink Panther (including all sequels), The Party, Victor Victoria, Gunn, Peter Gunn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 10

       73.   Bob Fosse – Cabaret, Lenny, All That Jazz, (won countless Tony Awards as a playwright director)

       74.   Gus Van Sant – Drugstore Cowboy, Good Will Hunting, Psycho (remake)

       75.   Sean S. Cunningham – Friday the 13^th, A Stranger is Watching, Spring Break

       76.   Ted Kotcheff – The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, First Blood, Joshua Then and Now, Weekend at Birnie’s 

       77.   Steven Soderbergh – Sex, Lies, and Videotape; Erin Brockovich, Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s Twelve, Ocean’s Thirteen

       78.   George Seaton – Miracle on 34rth Street, Diamond Horseshoe

       79.   Warren Beatty – Heaven Can Wait, Reds, Dick Tracy, Bulworth

       80.   Robert Aldrich – Sodom and Gomorrah, The Dirty Dozen, The Longest Yard, The Frisco Kid

       81.   Roman Polanski - Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Frantic, The Pianist, The Ghost Writer, Oliver Twist

       82.   Elia Kazan – Gentlemen’s Agreement, On the Waterfront, East of Eden, A Streetcar Named Desire, Baby Doll, America America

       83.   James Frawley – The Muppet Movie, (directed many T.V shows including ‘Magnum P.I’, ‘Cagney and Lacey’, ‘Law and Order’, ‘Chicago Hope’, ‘Ally McBeal’)

       84.   John McTiernan Jr. – Predator, Die Hard, The Hunt For Red October, Remakes of; The Thomas Crown Affair, and Rollerball

       85.   Peter Bogdanovich – Mask, To Sir with Love 2

       86.   Mike Nichols – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Graduate, Silkwood

       87.   Jim Sharman – Rocky Horror Picture Show, Shock Treatment

       88.   Sidney Poitier - Stir Crazy, Ghost Dad, (played lead role in 'To Sir, With Love')

       89.   Michael Ritchie – The Bad News Bears, The Candidate

       90.   Penny Marshall – Awakenings, A League of Their Own, Big

       91.   Mark Rydell – On Golden Pond

       92.   Andrew Davis – The Fugitive, Under Siege, Above the Law

       93.   Phillip Noyce – Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, The Bone Collector

       94.   Richard Donner – Superman, Superman 2, Lethal Weapon (1-1V), Scrooged

       95.   Sydney Pollack – Tootsie, Absence of Malice, Out of Africa, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Firm, Sabrina

       96.   Carl Reiner – The Jerk, Summer School, Oh God!, All of Me

       97.   John Badham – War Games, Saturday Night Fever

       98.   Joel Schumacher – Cousins, The Lost Boys, Flatliners, The Client, A Time to Kill, Batman Forever, Phantom of the Opera

       99.   Ron Shelton – Bull Durham, White Men Can’t Jump, Cobb

       100. Mel Brooks – The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, History of the World Part One, Spaceballs    

                                               

Film Directors - by Moses (a.k.a Stacey Marc Goldman)

Directors

               1.     Stanley Kubrick – Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, 2001, The                   Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut

2.      Steven Spielberg – Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s List, Jurassic Park

3.      Martin Scorsese – Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, After Hours, Good Fellas, The Irishman

4.      Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather 1 and 11, Apocalypse Now

5.      John Singleton – Boyz in the Hood, Shaft, Rosewood

6.      Barry Levinson – The Natural, Diner, Good Morning Vietnam, Tootsie

7.      John Landis – Animal House, The Blues Brothers

8.      George Lucas – American Graffiti, Star Wars 1, 11, 111, 1V, V, V1,V11,V111

9.      Quentin Tarantino - Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jango Unchained

10.    Ron Howard – Nightshift, Apollo 13, De Vinci Code

11.    Peter Jackson – Lord of the Rings (Trilogy), King Kong

12.    Norman Jewison – Fiddler on the Roof, Moonstruck

13.    James Cameron – The Titanic, Aliens, Avatar (Trilogy), Terminator (Trilogy), Rambo (First Blood Part 2)

14.    Oliver Stone – Platoon, Wall Street, JFK, Salvador, Born on the 4rth of July, the Doors

15.    Tim Burton – Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlegeuse, Nightmare Before Christmas

16.    Alfred Hitchcock – The Birds, Rear Window, Psycho

17.    Rob Reiner – The Princess Bride, Sleepless in Seattle, Stand By Me

18.    David Fincher – The Fight Club, Zodiac Seven, The Social Network

19.    Richard Attenborough – Gandhi, Greystroke–The Legend of Tarzan

20.    Spike Lee – Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, Jungle Fever, He Got Game, Mo Better Blues 

21.    Tommy Chong – Still Smokin’, and Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie

22.    Phil Alden Robinson (writer/director) - Field of Dreams, Freedom Song, The Sum of All Fears

23.    Alan Parker – The Wall, Midnight Express, Mississippi Burning

24.    Walter Hill – 48 Hours, The Warriors, Johnny Handsome

25.    John Huston – Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon

26.    Robert Redford – A River Runs Through it, Ordinary People, The Horse Whisperer

27.    David Lynch – Blue Velvet, Sleep

28.    George Roy Hill – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting

29.    Brian De Palma - Scarface, Carrie, The Untouchables, Mission Impossible, Wiseguys

30.    Matt Damon and Ben Affleck (writers and lead actors) – Good Will Hunting

31.    The Wolchowski Brothers  (writers) – The Matrix

32.    Harold Ramis – Stripes, Ghostbusters

33.    Peter Weir – Dead Poet Society, The Year of Living Dangerously, Witness, Mosquito Coast, The Truman Show

34.    Richard Cronenberg - The Fly, Videodrome

35.    Robert DeNiro (actor/director) - Bronx Tale, The Good Shephard.  (Leading roles in; Taxi Driver and The Godfather 2)

36.    Abel Ferrara - The Bad Lieutenant, King of New York, Body Snatchers

37.    John Hughes – The Breakfast Club, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

38.    Jonathan Demme - Philadelphia, Silence of the Lambs, Innerspace                  

39.    Robert Zemeckis – Back to the Future (Trilogy), Romancing the Stone, Forrest Gump

40.    Jonathan Lynn – My Cousin Vinny, The Distinguished Gentleman, Clue

41.    John Carpenter – The Thing, The Fog, Halloween, Christine, Escape From New York

42.    James L. Brooks – Terms of Endearment, As Good As it Gets, Broadcast News

43.    Roland Emmerich – Stargate, Independence Day, Godzilla, 2012

44.    John Glen – For Your Eyes Only, Licence to Kill, The Living Daylights

45.    Guy Hamilton – The Man With the Golden Gun, Diamonds are Forever, Live and Let Die, Goldfinger

46.    Barbara Streisand – Yentl, The Way We Were, Nuts

47.    Adrian Lyne – Fatal Attraction, Jacob’s Ladder, 9 1/2 Weeks, Flashdance, Indecent Proposal

48.   Mary Lambert - Pet Sematary, Pet Sematary 2, The Attic

49.   Ridley Scott - Alien, Bladerunner, Gladiator, Robin Hood, American Gangster 

50.   Cecile B. DeMille  – The Ten Commandments (Two versions), Samson and Delilah, Cleopatra, Adam's Rib 

51.   Robert Benton - Kramer versus Kramer (also wrote the screenplays for 'Bonnie and Clyde' and 'Superman')

52.   Arthur Penn - Bonnie and Clyde, Alice's Restaurant

53.   Frank Darabont - The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile (was script doctor of 'Saving Private Ryan')

54.   Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter, Year of the Dragon, The Sicilian

55.   Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven, Heartbreak Ridge, Sudden Impact, Invictus, J. Edgar

56.   Roland Joffe - The Killing Fields, The Mission

57.   Leonard Nimoy - Star Trek 3 (The Search For Spock), Star Trek 4 (The Voyage Home), Three Men and a Baby

58.   Sam Raimi - Spiderman, Spiderman 2, Spiderman 3

59.   Sam Mendez - American Beauty, Skyfall (James Bond) Spectre (James Bond), 1917 

60.    Justin Lin - Fast and Furious, Fast Five, Fast and Furious 6, Star Trek Beyond   

The 2017 Houston Astros Debacle - by Moses

      It is now known that the 2017 Houston Astros used camera footage to relay signs against the grain of the game of baseball, leading them to a World Series Title in 2017.  In fact, in the A.L Championship Series against the Yankees, Jose Altuve hit the game winning Home-run in Game 7, using the technology of having a wire on him (pulsing to indicate he would see a breaking ball that he took out of the yard), and when he rounded the bases was caught saying 'don't rip off my jersey!!!' to hide the wiretap from the media.

  In baseball circles there is much talk about how Major Leaguers are going to treat the guilty party.  There has been talk of Jose Altuve being targeted for the start of the 2020 campaign.  Personally, I wouldn't exact the infractions with payback, however, many Big Leaguers see the infractions as being offensive to the game of baseball.  This could lead to a few players from that 2017 Astros Team getting drilled by an inside fastball.  At this point I ask a simple question;  What would former Dodger great Don Newcombe say about it?  Would he challenge one of these ballplayers with an inside fastball?  I think so.  Most pitchers in the game will pitch inside on their manager's, catcher's, and their own personal whims, within the etiquette of the game of baseball itself.

  Should the Owner's, and Commissioner of the game of MLB have the right to dole out suspensions on a pitcher's whims to pitch inside, if he misses and drills the player in the head?  An important question to ask if we're supposed to believe in a utopian society where conflict doesn't exist.  When Ray Chapman was killed by a pitch to the head there was no action taken against the pitcher who threw the ball, one Carl Mays.  It was accepted that pitching inside was a part of the game and within the etiquette of the sport.  I don't anticipate a pitcher knowingly trying to drill a batter in the head, and even if he were to state after the game that he did it would be hard pressed to pass guilt on the action of pitching a high and hard one.  Let's have some level of tolerance here people, the reality is that we don't have sports with zero levels of accountability.  It's really just a means' of justifying man made cluster fucks.

U.S.A Health Care Reform - by Moses

     Funding into Health Care versus funding into Television sitcoms. Should the U.S Congress pass Health Care Reform across America, the Federal Communications Commission will essentially be broadcasting Health Issues with greater frequency, as opposed to Family sitcoms in such frequency (as we see today). What is to be said of people that are bi-Polar, Paranoid Szchizophrenic, Obsessive Compulsive, Depressive, Obese, or suffering from Cerebral Pulsy?

Today, in America, Dr. Phil, Dr. Drew, and Oprah Winfrey, are three legitimate sources of F.C.C therapy, as their shows are syndicated and broadcast to the masses. What would be said of another 10 shows, bringing to light the aforementioned Mental and Physical Health Care Issues. This funding would mean that the average American would have a form of Medical Education that could be used in practicality within the home. This would raise the standards as to how to deal with these issues that have become epidemic.
Should 40% of Health Care in the U.S.A be in the Public Sector/domain, the lower class income earners' would be left with viable treatments. Say you weigh 450lbs and have an income of $10,000/year, where are you supposed to go to treat this Health Issue? In Canada, these cases are treated by a 'Special Diet Allowance' and any Family Practitioner can lobby for this privelage. Would the U.S.A benefit from less stigmae towards people with Cerebral Pulsy?
What would a five year old boy think, if they saw a number of people that suffer from Cerebral Pulsy on a Medical Health Show? Wouldn't that end the stigmae that was there before? It wasn't even as far back as 1975 when Geraldo Rivera broke the story of Willowbrook. At that time, children with Cerebral Pulsy were called retards in the Home of Willowbrook Clinic, and also made to eat their own feces when the staff thought they were being 'bad'.
Wouldn't a show of obese clients of the Health Care System within the U.S.A be an excellent educator as to how to lose weight? Sometimes, bringing touchy subjects to air in a bold manner creates therapy that didn't exist before. For example, Robin Williams, Jane Paulie, and Quincy Carter are bi-Polar. A show dedicated to this Mental Health issue would break down barriers that otherwise would have remained, and manifested into greater incidence.
Say, for example, 40% of the U.S.A Health Care System became Public Health Care. How many people would benefit? Would publically funded Naturopathic Medicine benefit the physically obese? What about having a dedicated weekly one hour show of smokers' that quit, on a National spotlight, as opposed to 100 - 30second commercials that air for this purpose? Maybe less infommercials, sitcoms, and daily soaps would be a good thing. These forms of gentrification and commercialization are somewhat obtuse.