Who’s your top, or top few, that even if you haven’t heard anything other than this person is in, or made this movie, (or show) who do you feel hits the right notes, enough to justify you know it’s worth giving it a shot, without knowing anything else, and why are they great?
I see a lot of people saying, this director is awful, and consensus, but I had no idea they were awful! But rather than ask for worst, who’s great, and what do you love about what they do?
Park Chan-wook. I’ve enjoyed every film I’ve seen from him, over quite a large filmography. His films always have well developed arcs with great endings, whether they are darkly comic tragedies or revenge thrillers. His style of direction is always creative and playful too, lots of interesting zoom shots and angles.
Some guys that I’ll also watch blind, but expect less from are Na Hong-jin, Woo Min-ho and Bong Joon Ho. Na has been consistent over a limited filmography, whilst Woo and Bong have larger filmographies with some of my favourites but also miss the mark from time to time.
I wasn’t really thinking about animations before another comment here, but of course I will always watch a Hayao Miyazaki film.