Stanley <span title="Kubrick...?????????????????">Kubrick...???????????????...</span>

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Is this dude amazing or what?? Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Sparticus, Jack Lyndon... Truly a visionary director.

My question to you is... Who Do You Think Is The Kubrick Of Our Generation??? (Scorsese and Tarantino are already legends, so they dont count)

Answer 1

What about Paul Thomas Anderson (&#039;There Will Be Blood&#039;, &#039;Magnolia&#039;, &#039;Boogie Nights&#039;, &#039;Punch Drunk Love&#039;)? His films are very complex story and character development wise but also enthralling and dynamic, and the performances of the actors are extremely rich. Anderson also has a way of putting together the greatest camera placements and moves I&#039;ve seen in recent years.

For those reasons alone I would put him int that league, along with David Fincher. Fincher was once considered the new Kubrick when his film &#039;The Game&#039; came out in 1997. It was the apparent coldness and precision with which the story unfolded in it that was very much like Kubrick&#039;s own style. Also Fincher approaches daring and provocative subject matters in films such as &#039;Fight Club&#039; or &#039;Seven&#039;, and doesn&#039;t spare us from the darkest tones and the violence in those films. Finally, he too has a brilliant eye as far as the camera is concerned, and came up with very innovative camera work in &quot;Panic Room&#039;.  

I hope this helps you.

Answer 2

Well I think I&#039;ll go with Tim Burton just because he has a very unique style just like Kubrick did.

Answer 3

Chan-wook Park is great (doubtfully &quot;our&quot; generation though).

Answer 4

Hayao Miyazaki

He just creates writes &amp; directs animated films instead. The best ones: Princess Mononoke, Howl&#039;s Moving Castle, &amp; Spirited Away. His animated films are as interesting &amp; complex as the ones you also mentioned.

Answer 5

You also left out Eyes Wide Shut, which was a strange sort of &quot;Art House from h**l&quot; kind movie.  I kind of liked it for the darkness and mystery but it really wasn&#039;t that good.

Stanley Kubrick proved himself to be able to make movies of all types, war, mystery, adventure, historical, thrillers, etc.

There could be someone that mimics Kubrick.  Roman Polanski is also a great dynamic director (albeit a strange person in real life).  I wouldn&#039;t call him a next Kubrick though.

Peter Jackson is another dynamic directory and if you were looking for a next, then he would be somewhere at the top of my list.  

Although Tarantino is a legend, I would not put him in the same league as the other big directors, including Kubrick.  Tarantino follows a few basic formulas all leading up to a fun movie.  He either has a few movies that are deep in story or hollow in story but they all have large amounts of violence and he epitomizes &quot;adult content.&quot;  Don&#039;t get me wrong, just about every movie he has made, I have thoroughly enjoyed.

Client Eastwood has directed some pretty good movies:  Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, Letters from Iwo Jima, Flags of our Fathers, Unforgiven, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, just to name a few.

My pick for next Kubrick though would probably be Peter Jackson.  If he keeps it up and does not go over the top, he&#039;ll do just fine.

Answer 6

By &quot;our generation&quot; are you referring to under 40?  Under 30?  It&#039;s hard to pick a young director who has created a trio of films as ground breaking and outstanding as Strangelove, 2001, and Clockwork (BTW the film is called &quot;Barry Lyndon&quot;).  Those films weren&#039;t just great, but they were really challenging with new ideas.

The only name that comes to mind that pushes the envelope with new ideas like Kubrick did is Darren Aronofsky, director of &quot;Pi&quot;, &quot;Requiem for a Dream&quot; and &quot;The Fountain&quot;... if I think of any others I&#039;ll edit this answer.

Answer 7

It&#039;s Barry Lyndon.  And you left out 2001, among his other great ones.

I don&#039;t think Kubrick has an equal these days.

Innaritu is brilliant.  I&#039;ve always loved Alan Parker, but he&#039;s disappeared off the face of the earth.  He didn&#039;t die and nobody told me, did he?  Aronofsky is awesome.

Completely different vein from Kubrick, but Joel and Ethan Cohen are probably about the best in the business these days--they&#039;ve proven themselves to be quite versatile.