My favorite Directors (February 2008)
Submitted by WB on Fri, 02/22/2008 - 04:15
Tags:
- 1. (1.) Stanley Kubrick (Barry Lyndon, 2001 - A Space Odyssey)
- 2. (4.) Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo, Notorious)
- 3. (10.) Andrei Tarkovsky (Andrei Rublov, The Sacrifice)
- 4. (2.) Charles Chaplin (City Lights, The Gold Rush)
- 5. (9.) Theo Angelopoulos (The Weaping Meadow, Eternity and a Day)
- 6. (7.) Walerian Borowczyk (Goto: Island of Love, Story of a Sin)
- 7. (11.) Mamoru Oshii (Avalon, Angel's Egg)
- 8. (14.) David Lynch (Wild at Heart, Lost Highway)
- 9. (8.) Sharunas Bartas (Three Days, Few of Us)
- 10. (18.) Hayao Miyazaki (Kikis Delivery Service, Spirited Away)
- 11. (3.) Jean Eustache (The Mother and the Whore, Mes petites amoureuses)
- 12. (19.) Pier Paolo Pasolini (Edipo Re, Teorema)
- 13. (27.) Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line, The New World)
- 14. (22.) Chris Marker (La jetée, Sans soleil)
- 15. (21.) Sergei Paradjanov (Hagop Hovnatanian, The Color of Pomgranates)
- 16. (12.) Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future II)
- 17. (23.) Jean-Luc Godard (Contempt, Vivre sa vie)
- 18. (65.) Carl Theodor Dreyer (Ordet, Vampyr)
- 19. (6.) Jim Jarmusch (Dead Man, Stranger than Paradise)
- 20. (47.) Francois Truffaut (The 400 Blows, Antoine and Collette)
- 21. (13.) Jean-Marie Straub, Daniele Huillet (Class Relations, Othon)
- 22. (25.) Abbas Kiarostami (Close-Up, The Wind will carry us)
- 23. (15.) Hirokazu Kore'eda (After Life, Maboroshi)
- 24. (28.) Akira Kurosawa (Ran, Kagemusha)
- 25. (45.) Roman Polanski (Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby)
- 26. (5.) Michelangelo Antonioni (Zabriskie Point, Blowup)
- 27. (31.) Yasujiro Ozu (An Autumn Afternoon, Early Spring)
- 28. (new) Dario Argento (Suspiria, Inferno)
- 29. (16.) Leos Carax (Pola X, Bad Blood)
- 30. (17.) Emir Kusturica (Arizona Dream, Underground)
- 31. (36.) Buddhadev Dasgupta (Uttara, Charachar)
- 32. (new) King Hu (The Fate of Lee Khan, A Touch of Zen)
- 33. (38.) Jerzy Skolimowski (Moonlighting, Identification Marks: None)
- 34. (56.) Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde, The Missouri Breaks)
- 35. (87.) Vincent Gallo (The Brown Bunny, Buffalo 66)
- 36. (100.) Brian De Palma (Scarface, Carlito's Way)
- 37. (53.) Jacques Doillon (The Pirate, Fingers in the Head)
- 38. (59.) Shuji Terayama (Meikyu-tan, Kage no eiga - nito onna)
- 39. (37.) Wong Kar-Wai (Chungking Express, Days of Being Wild)
- 40. (49.) Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Marriage of the Blessed, A Moment of Innocence)
- 41. (60.) Bo Widerberg (Elvira Madigan, Love Lessons)
- 42. (29.) Jan Svankmajer (Dimensions of Dialogue, The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia)
- 43. (20.) Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou)
- 44. (24.) Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers)
- 45. (32.) Takeshi Kitano (Hana-bi, Dolls)
- 46. (35.) Woody Allen (Sweet and Lowdown, Celebrity)
- 47. (39.) Lars von Trier (The Idiots, Dogville)
- 48. (42.) Spike Jonze (Adaptation, Being John Malkovich)
- 49. (41.) Shohei Imamura (Warm Water under a Red Bridge, Dr. Akagi)
- 50. (43.) Satyajit Ray (Aparajito, Pather Panchali)
- 51. (63.) Takashi Miike (Graveyard of Honor, Big Bang Love, Juvenile A)
- 52. (57.) Luis Bunuel (An Andalusian Dog, L'âge d'or)
- 53. (new) Laurent Cantet (Ressources humaines, Vers le sud)
- 54. (58.) David Wark Griffith (Intolerance, The Birth of a Nation)
- 55. (40.) Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs)
- 56. (34.) Michael Haneke (Code: Unknown, The Piano Player)
- 57. (26.) Tim Burton (Batman, Edward Scissorhands)
- 58. (30.) Peter Weir (Fearless, Master and Commander)
- 59. (74.) Michael Mann (Heat, Manhunter)
- 60. (50.) Francois Ozon (Under the Sand, Sitcom)
- 61. (78.) Ernst Lubitsch (The Wildcat, Design for Living)
- 62. (75.) Peter Greenaway (The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover, The Draughtsman's Contract)
- 63. (83.) Hiroshi Teshigahara (Woman in the Dunes, Basara The Princess Go)
- 64. (64.) Rudolf Thome (Frau fährt, Mann schläft, Red Sun)
- 65. (new) Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill, Tokyo Drifter)
- 66. (new) Otar Iosseliani (Lived Once a Song-Thrush, Pastorali)
- 67. (67.) Patrice Chereau (His Brother, Intimacy)
- 68. (new) Sabu (Blessing Bell, Dangan Runner)
- 69. (66.) Fritz Lang (M, Metropolis)
- 70. (48.) Tsai Ming-liang (Goodbye Dragon Inn, Rebels of the Neon God)
- 71. (69.) Jean-Jacques Annaud (The Lover, Enemy at the Gates)
- 72. (52.) Luchino Visconti (The Innocent, Death in Venice)
- 73. (new) Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, The Holy Mountain)
- 74. (54.) Terry Gilliam (Twelve Monkeys, The Fisher King)
- 75. (61.) Howard Hawks (Bringing out Baby, Rio Bravo)
- 76. (44.) Tian Zhuangzhuang (Springtime in a small Town, The Blue Kite)
- 77. (68.) Ulrich Köhler (Bungalow, Windows on Monday)
- 78. (new) John Ford (The Searchers, Grapes of Wrath)
- 79. (76.) Milos Forman (One flew over the Cucoos Nest, Black Peter)
- 80. (new) Nagisa Oshima (The Man who left his Will on Film, Gohatto)
- 81. (77.) Jean-Jacques Beineix (Otaku, Diva)
- 82. (97.) Agnès Varda (Cleo from 5 to 7, Vagabond)
- 83. (99.) Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct, Robocop)
- 84. (79.) Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once upon a time in America)
- 85. (new) Bernardo Bertolucci (1900, Last Tango in Paris)
- 86. (new) Gianni Amelio (The Keys to the House, The Stolen Children)
- 87. (33.) Paul Thomas Anderson (Punch-Drunk Love, Magnolia)
- 88. (new) Steve Kloves (Flesh and Bone, The Fabulous Baker Boys)
- 89. (62.) Harun Farocki (Between Two Wars, Nicht ohne Risiko)
- 90. (new) Federico Fellini (La dolce vita, Juliet of the Spirits)
- 91. (55.) Julio Medem (Lovers of the Arctic Circle, Tierra)
- 92. (70.) David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club)
- 93. (new) Louis Malle (Lacombe Lucien, Damage)
- 94. (new) William Wyler (Ben-Hur, Roman Holiday)
- 95. (85.) Robert Bresson (Au hasard Balthazar, L'argent)
- 96. (81.) Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now, The Godfather)
- 97. (82.) Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard, Five Graves to Cairo)
- 98. (98.) Márta Mészáros (Adoption, The Girl)
- 99. (new) Otto Preminger (Angel Face, Where the Sidewalk Ends)
- 100. (new) Claire Denis (Friday Night, Chocolat)
- 101. (new) Vittorio de Sica (Umberto D, Bicycle Thieves)
- 102. (new) Ermanno Olmi (I Fidanzati, The Tree of Wooden Clogs)
- 103. (new) Don Bluth (The Land Before Time, An American Tail)
- 104. (new) Rainer Werner Fassbinder (The Merchant of Four Seasons, Fontane Effi Briest)
- 105. (96.) Marcel Carné (Children of Paradise, Le jour se lève)
- 106. (new) Mikio Naruse (Scattered Clouds, Floating Clouds)
- 107. (new) Georges Méliès (Barbe bleu, Le tripot clandestine)
- 108. (new) William Friedkin (To Live and Die in L.A., The Hunted)
- 109. (new) Julian Schnabel (Before Night Falls, Basquiat)
- 110. (89.) David Cronenberg (eXistenZ, Naked Lunch)
- 111. (95.) Eric Rohmer (The Lady and the Duke, The Green Ray)
- 112. (90.) Patrice Leconte (Monsieur Hire, The Girl on the Bridge)
- 113. (new) René Clair (Sous les toits de Paris, Le million)
- 114. (new) Kaneto Shindô (Kuroneko, Naked Island)
- 115. (new) Buster Keaton (Our Hospitality, Spite Marriage)
- 116. (new) Chang Cheh (New One-Armed Swordsman, Have Sword Will Travel)
- 117. (new) André Téchiné (Thieves, Barocco)
- 118. (new) Jean Cocteau (Beauty and the Beast, Orpheus)
- 119. (new) Olivier Assayas (Winter's Child, Irma Vep)
- 120. (new) Samira Makhmalbaf (The Apple, Blackboards)
- 121. (new) James Gray (We Own the Night, The Yards)
- 122. (new) Max Linder (Be My Wife, The Three Must-Get-Theres)
- 123. (new) Jess Franco (Nightmares come at Night, Miss Muerte)
- 124. (new) Glauber Rocha (Black God, White Devil, The Age of the Earth)
- 125. (new) Bill Plympton (I Married a Strange Person!, Eat)
- 126. (new) Douglas Sirk (Magnificent Obsession, Written on the Wind)
- 127. (new) Louis Lumière (La sortie des usines Lumières , Boat Leaving the Port)
- 128. (new) Edward Yang (Taipei Story, Yi yi)
kicked out of the list (for the time being):
46. Jean Renoir (The Human Beast, La Marseillaise)
51. Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas, The Million Dollar Hotel)
71. Martin Scorsese (Bringing out the Dead, The Last Temptation of Christ)
72. Carlos Saura (Raise Ravens, Carmen)
73. Alain Resnais (Love unto Death, Hiroshima mon Amour)
80. Aki Kaurismäki (I Hired a Contract Killer, The Man without a Past)
84. Masaki Kobayashi (Samurai Rebellion, Kwaidan)
86. Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons)
88. Tom Tykwer (Heaven, The Warrior and the Empress)
91. Paul Auster (Smoke, Lulu on the Bridge)
92. Philippe Garrel (Les ministres de l'art, Le Revelateur)
93. Neil Jordan (The Butcher Boy, Interview with the Vampire)
94. Jacques Tati (Playtime, M. Hulots Holidays)
And some possible contenders for the next list include: Pedro Almodóvar, Michael Cimino, Richard Donner, Sergey Eisenstein, Jean Epstein, Federico Fellini, Kinji Fukasaku, Dominik Graf, Monte Hellman, Miklos Jancso, Naomi Kawase, Jean-Pierre Limosin, Yasuzo Masumura, Russ Meyer, Kenji Mizoguchi, Maurice Pialat, Bob Rafelson, Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Jacques Rivette, Alexandr Sokurov, Fernando Solanas, Isao Takahata, Bela Tarr, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Andrzej Zulawski.