SCFZ's Favourite Directors
SCFZ's Favourite Directors
Apparently it's been three years since we've done this, and it's pretty easy to tally, so let's go!!
RULES:
- list your favourite directors
- you can list up to 25 directors
- you can leave your list unranked, or break it into exactly five tiers
- if you leave your list unranked, you can vote for any number of directors from 1 to 25
- if you put your list in five tiers, each tier must be equal in size (in other words, your list will include either 5, 10, 15, 20 or 25 directors, depending on the size of your tiers)
DEADLINE:
- at the earliest, I will tally this on January 1, 2021
RULES:
- list your favourite directors
- you can list up to 25 directors
- you can leave your list unranked, or break it into exactly five tiers
- if you leave your list unranked, you can vote for any number of directors from 1 to 25
- if you put your list in five tiers, each tier must be equal in size (in other words, your list will include either 5, 10, 15, 20 or 25 directors, depending on the size of your tiers)
DEADLINE:
- at the earliest, I will tally this on January 1, 2021
lol i literally just pm'ed flip about his point distros for the polls he runs; i'm assuming if tiered, it's a 5/4/3/2/1 pt distro; and if not tiered, it's 3 pts across the board for all dirs listed...?
This is gonna be hard...
Here's the preious poll from the old forum:
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/the_aut ... -t200.html
Here's the preious poll from the old forum:
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/the_aut ... -t200.html
Top 25
Coen brothers
Jia Zhangke
Woody Allen
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Sidney Lumet
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Paul Thomas Anderson
Paolo Sorrentino
Billy Wilder
Sergio Leone
Steven Soderbergh
William Wyler
Alfred Hitchcock
David Lean
Paul Schrader
Francis Ford Coppola
Michael Mann
Yorgos Lanthimos
Stanley Kubrick
Pedro Almodovar
Bennett Miller
Zack Snyder
Sam Mendes
Olivier Assayas
Fred Zinnemann
Coen brothers
Jia Zhangke
Woody Allen
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Sidney Lumet
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Paul Thomas Anderson
Paolo Sorrentino
Billy Wilder
Sergio Leone
Steven Soderbergh
William Wyler
Alfred Hitchcock
David Lean
Paul Schrader
Francis Ford Coppola
Michael Mann
Yorgos Lanthimos
Stanley Kubrick
Pedro Almodovar
Bennett Miller
Zack Snyder
Sam Mendes
Olivier Assayas
Fred Zinnemann
jean epstein
ritwik ghatak
joao cesar monteiro
pier paolo pasolini
jacques rivette
peter greenaway
mani kaul
sergei parajanov
hiroshi shimizu
andrzej zulawski
luis bunuel
king hu
buster keaton
agnes varda
yoshishige yoshida
germaine dulac
leonardo favio
jean gremillon
fritz lang
erich von stroheim
gabor body
frank borzage
marcel l'herbier
joe may
josef von sternberg
ritwik ghatak
joao cesar monteiro
pier paolo pasolini
jacques rivette
peter greenaway
mani kaul
sergei parajanov
hiroshi shimizu
andrzej zulawski
luis bunuel
king hu
buster keaton
agnes varda
yoshishige yoshida
germaine dulac
leonardo favio
jean gremillon
fritz lang
erich von stroheim
gabor body
frank borzage
marcel l'herbier
joe may
josef von sternberg
Last edited by brian d on Mon Dec 21, 2020 4:46 am, edited 1 time in total.
"Most esteemed biographer of Peter Barrington Hutton"
doing it a bit different this time, including some directors by whom I've seen few movies, and some directors whose movies I sometimes hate, if I sufficiently adore a couple of their works
Eric Rohmer
Nicholas Ray
Wim Wenders
Akira Kurosawa
Jonas Mekas
Aki Kaurismaki
Kurt Kren
Chantal Akerman
Xavier Dolan
Richard Linklater
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Joachim Trier
Masaki Kobayashi
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Monte Hellman
Jacques Demy
Ingmar Bergman
Federico Fellini
Werner Herzog
Yasujiro Ozu
Buster Keaton
Celine Sciamma
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Francois Truffaut
Jean-Luc Godard
Eric Rohmer
Nicholas Ray
Wim Wenders
Akira Kurosawa
Jonas Mekas
Aki Kaurismaki
Kurt Kren
Chantal Akerman
Xavier Dolan
Richard Linklater
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Joachim Trier
Masaki Kobayashi
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Monte Hellman
Jacques Demy
Ingmar Bergman
Federico Fellini
Werner Herzog
Yasujiro Ozu
Buster Keaton
Celine Sciamma
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Francois Truffaut
Jean-Luc Godard
we have 3 ballots so far... and 75 different directors 0____o
this place rules
this place rules
how do people have ballots already? have they been waiting for this...?
i used python to calculate, based on my lboxd stats, how i should set up my ouija board, and then the spirits told me my fav directors
I'm kinda sorry to break the streak, but it was probably inevitable on the 4th ballot.SAD_SCROOGE wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 2:36 am we have 3 ballots so far... and 75 different directors 0____o
this place rules
Michelangelo Antonioni
Alfred Hitchcock
Andrei Tarkovsky
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Marguerite Duras
Jean-Luc Godard
Ingmar Bergman
Stanley Kubrick
Werner Herzog
Lars von Trier
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Ridley Scott
Claude Chabrol
Raúl Ruiz
Peter Greenaway
Jean-Jacques Beineix
David Lynch
Jean Cocteau
Kenji Mizoguchi
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Yasujiro Ozu
Robert Bresson
Alain Resnais
Charles Chaplin
Satyajit Ray
My list includes 7 living directors, and only 2 directors we haven't polled so far (Beineix and Cocteau).
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SAD_SCROOGE wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 2:36 am we have 3 ballots so far... and 75 different directors 0____o
this place rules
That's incredible.
Adding mine shortly, but will be overlaps, unfortunately.
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My fairly ordinary list (ranked, not tiered):
1. Jean-Luc Godard
2. Luis Buñuel
3. Pier Paolo Pasolini
4. Akira Kurosawa
5. Ingmar Bergman
6. Agnès Varda
7. Yoshishige Yoshida
8. Michael Haneke
9. Andrei Tarkovsky
10. Martin Scorsese
11. Guy Maddin
12. F.W. Murnau
13. Robert Bresson
14. Fritz Lang
15. Orson Welles
16. Kihachi Okamoto
17. Jean-Pierre Melville
18. Ming-liang Tsai
19. Alain Resnais
20. Lars von Trier
21. Robert Altman
22. Eric Rohmer
23. Terrence Malick
24. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
25. Alain Robbe-Grillet
Just missed out:
Elia Kazan
Federico Fellini
William Wyler
Wong Kar-Wai
1. Jean-Luc Godard
2. Luis Buñuel
3. Pier Paolo Pasolini
4. Akira Kurosawa
5. Ingmar Bergman
6. Agnès Varda
7. Yoshishige Yoshida
8. Michael Haneke
9. Andrei Tarkovsky
10. Martin Scorsese
11. Guy Maddin
12. F.W. Murnau
13. Robert Bresson
14. Fritz Lang
15. Orson Welles
16. Kihachi Okamoto
17. Jean-Pierre Melville
18. Ming-liang Tsai
19. Alain Resnais
20. Lars von Trier
21. Robert Altman
22. Eric Rohmer
23. Terrence Malick
24. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
25. Alain Robbe-Grillet
Just missed out:
Elia Kazan
Federico Fellini
William Wyler
Wong Kar-Wai
I'll tier it later.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Aki Kaurismäki
Eric Rohmer
João César Monteiro
Hong Sang-soo
Jean Rollin
Jean Epstein
Mikio Naruse
Yasujirô Ozu
Raul Ruiz
Ken Russell
Kenneth Anger
Abel Ferrara
Guy Gilles
Teuvo Tulio
Lino Brocka
Harun Farocki
Franco Piavoli
Claire Denis
Chantal Akerman
Howard Hawks
Mike Leigh
John Waters
Werner Schroeter
Margaret Tait
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Aki Kaurismäki
Eric Rohmer
João César Monteiro
Hong Sang-soo
Jean Rollin
Jean Epstein
Mikio Naruse
Yasujirô Ozu
Raul Ruiz
Ken Russell
Kenneth Anger
Abel Ferrara
Guy Gilles
Teuvo Tulio
Lino Brocka
Harun Farocki
Franco Piavoli
Claire Denis
Chantal Akerman
Howard Hawks
Mike Leigh
John Waters
Werner Schroeter
Margaret Tait
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Tentative tiers.
1. Alain Resnais
2. Tsai Ming-Liang
3. Chantal Akerman
4. David Lynch
5. Agnes Varda
6. Hong Sang-Soo
7. Ingmar Bergman
8. Marguerite Duras
9. Luis Bunuel
10. Andrzej Zulawski
11. Sergei Parajanov
12. Eric Rohmer
13. Orson Welles
14. Marco Ferreri
15. Jacques Tati
16. Elaine May
17. Bela Tarr
18. Buster Keaton
19. Nicolas Roeg
20. Mikhail Kalatozov
21. Paul Schrader
22. David Fincher
23. Maya Deren
24. Coen Bros
25. Neil Jordan
1. Alain Resnais
2. Tsai Ming-Liang
3. Chantal Akerman
4. David Lynch
5. Agnes Varda
6. Hong Sang-Soo
7. Ingmar Bergman
8. Marguerite Duras
9. Luis Bunuel
10. Andrzej Zulawski
11. Sergei Parajanov
12. Eric Rohmer
13. Orson Welles
14. Marco Ferreri
15. Jacques Tati
16. Elaine May
17. Bela Tarr
18. Buster Keaton
19. Nicolas Roeg
20. Mikhail Kalatozov
21. Paul Schrader
22. David Fincher
23. Maya Deren
24. Coen Bros
25. Neil Jordan
Sergei Parajanov
Bahram Beizai
Buster Keaton
Robert Parrish
Robert Bresson
Parviz Kimiavi
Russell Rouse
Zoltan Fabri
Petr Zelenka
Elio Petri
Bela Tarr
William Wyler
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Sydney Pollack
Artavazd Peleshyan
James Benning
Robert Siodmak
Shohei Imamura
Tenghiz Abuladze
Jerzy Skolimowski
Henry King
Josef von Sternberg
Jafar Panahi
Roy Andersson
Thom Eberhardt
Bahram Beizai
Buster Keaton
Robert Parrish
Robert Bresson
Parviz Kimiavi
Russell Rouse
Zoltan Fabri
Petr Zelenka
Elio Petri
Bela Tarr
William Wyler
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Sydney Pollack
Artavazd Peleshyan
James Benning
Robert Siodmak
Shohei Imamura
Tenghiz Abuladze
Jerzy Skolimowski
Henry King
Josef von Sternberg
Jafar Panahi
Roy Andersson
Thom Eberhardt
I do a ranked Top 100 of my favorite filmmakers every few years (I have currently about 250 favorite filmmakers whom I love and want to see each scrap of film they ever made), so listing my Top 25 isn't that hard.Unholymanm wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 2:41 am how do people have ballots already? have they been waiting for this...?
"I too am a child burned by future experiences, fallen back on myself and already suspecting the certainty that in the end only those will prove benevolent who believe in nothing." – Marran Gosov
ranked and with my 3 favorite films by each of them
01. Mamoru Oshii
The Sky Crawlers (2008), The Red Spectacles (1987), Ghost in the Shell (1995)
02. Ko Nakahira
Flora on the Sand (1964), That Guy and I (1961), Mud Spattered Purity (1963)
03. Yasuzo Masumura
Kisses (1957), Blue Sky Maiden (1957), Seisaku's Wife (1965)
04. Seijun Suzuki
Love Letter (1958), Carmen from Kawachi (1965), Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon (1985)
05. Susumu Hani
Nanami: Inferno of First Love (1968), She and He (1963), Aido (1969)
06. Jacques Doillon
The Pirate (1984), Touched in the Head (1974), The Little Gangster (1990)
07. Joe D’Amato
Top Model (1988), Afternoon (1989), Forbidden Affairs (1990)
08. Alfred Hitchcock
Vertigo (1958), The Manxman (1929), Under Capricorn (1949)
09. Walerian Borowczyk
The Story of Sin (1975), Goto, Island of Love (1968), Blanche (1971)
10. Helmut Käutner
The Girl from Flanders (1956), Monpti (1957), Portrait of an Unknown Woman (1954)
11. Dominik Graf
The Second Face (1982), The Invincibles (1994), The Scorpion (1997)
12. Dario Argento
Phenomena (1985), Inferno(1979), Tenebre (1982)
13. Hayao Miyazaki
The Wind Rises (2013), Kiki's Delivery Service (1989), Princess Mononoke (1997)
14. Charles Chaplin
City Lights (1931), Monsieur Verdoux (1948), The Gold Rush (1925)
15. Ernst Hofbauer
Holiday in St. Tropez (1964), Maria – Nur die Nacht war Zeuge (1979), Heisses Pflaster Köln (1967)
16. Sogo Ishii
Shuffle (1981), The Master of Shiatsu (1989), Labyrinth of Dreams (1997)
17. George Moorse
in side out (1964), The Griller (1968), Burns (1982)
18. Marran Gosov
Wonnekloß (1972), Sugar Bread and Whip (1968), Gloria Savoy (1972)
19. Masahiro Makino
Lady Sen and Hideyori (1962), Street of Ronin (1957), The Ruffian (1958)
20. Andrzej Zulawski
Possession (1981), The Most Important Thing: Love (1974), The Public Woman (1984)
21. Veit Harlan
The Golden City (1942), Covered Tracks (1938), The Great King (1942)
22. Peter Hyams
Narrow Margin (1990), Sudden Death (1995), Outland (1981)
23. James Gray
We Own the Night (2007), Two Lovers (2008), Little Odessa (1994)
24. Michael Curtiz
Casablanca (1942), The Unsuspected (1947), Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
25. Rudolf Jugert
The River Line (1964), Illusion in a Minor Key (1952), Satan Tempts with Love(1960)
01. Mamoru Oshii
The Sky Crawlers (2008), The Red Spectacles (1987), Ghost in the Shell (1995)
02. Ko Nakahira
Flora on the Sand (1964), That Guy and I (1961), Mud Spattered Purity (1963)
03. Yasuzo Masumura
Kisses (1957), Blue Sky Maiden (1957), Seisaku's Wife (1965)
04. Seijun Suzuki
Love Letter (1958), Carmen from Kawachi (1965), Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon (1985)
05. Susumu Hani
Nanami: Inferno of First Love (1968), She and He (1963), Aido (1969)
06. Jacques Doillon
The Pirate (1984), Touched in the Head (1974), The Little Gangster (1990)
07. Joe D’Amato
Top Model (1988), Afternoon (1989), Forbidden Affairs (1990)
08. Alfred Hitchcock
Vertigo (1958), The Manxman (1929), Under Capricorn (1949)
09. Walerian Borowczyk
The Story of Sin (1975), Goto, Island of Love (1968), Blanche (1971)
10. Helmut Käutner
The Girl from Flanders (1956), Monpti (1957), Portrait of an Unknown Woman (1954)
11. Dominik Graf
The Second Face (1982), The Invincibles (1994), The Scorpion (1997)
12. Dario Argento
Phenomena (1985), Inferno(1979), Tenebre (1982)
13. Hayao Miyazaki
The Wind Rises (2013), Kiki's Delivery Service (1989), Princess Mononoke (1997)
14. Charles Chaplin
City Lights (1931), Monsieur Verdoux (1948), The Gold Rush (1925)
15. Ernst Hofbauer
Holiday in St. Tropez (1964), Maria – Nur die Nacht war Zeuge (1979), Heisses Pflaster Köln (1967)
16. Sogo Ishii
Shuffle (1981), The Master of Shiatsu (1989), Labyrinth of Dreams (1997)
17. George Moorse
in side out (1964), The Griller (1968), Burns (1982)
18. Marran Gosov
Wonnekloß (1972), Sugar Bread and Whip (1968), Gloria Savoy (1972)
19. Masahiro Makino
Lady Sen and Hideyori (1962), Street of Ronin (1957), The Ruffian (1958)
20. Andrzej Zulawski
Possession (1981), The Most Important Thing: Love (1974), The Public Woman (1984)
21. Veit Harlan
The Golden City (1942), Covered Tracks (1938), The Great King (1942)
22. Peter Hyams
Narrow Margin (1990), Sudden Death (1995), Outland (1981)
23. James Gray
We Own the Night (2007), Two Lovers (2008), Little Odessa (1994)
24. Michael Curtiz
Casablanca (1942), The Unsuspected (1947), Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
25. Rudolf Jugert
The River Line (1964), Illusion in a Minor Key (1952), Satan Tempts with Love(1960)
Last edited by wba on Wed Dec 16, 2020 2:20 pm, edited 9 times in total.
"I too am a child burned by future experiences, fallen back on myself and already suspecting the certainty that in the end only those will prove benevolent who believe in nothing." – Marran Gosov
jsyik wba, you can select 25 this time instead of just 20!
Buster Keaton
Alfred Hitchcock
Akira Kurosawa
Federico Fellini
Charles M. Jones
Stanley Kubrick
Orson Welles
Fritz Lang
Francis Coppola
Frank Capra
Ernst Lubitsch
Bill Forsyth
Terry Gilliam
Tim Burton
Guy Maddin
Erich von Stroheim
F.W. Murnau
S. Eisenstein
A. Tarkovsky
Alfonso Cuaron
Roy Andersson
Paul Thomas Anderson
William Wyler
Luis Bunuel
Martin Scorsese
Alfred Hitchcock
Akira Kurosawa
Federico Fellini
Charles M. Jones
Stanley Kubrick
Orson Welles
Fritz Lang
Francis Coppola
Frank Capra
Ernst Lubitsch
Bill Forsyth
Terry Gilliam
Tim Burton
Guy Maddin
Erich von Stroheim
F.W. Murnau
S. Eisenstein
A. Tarkovsky
Alfonso Cuaron
Roy Andersson
Paul Thomas Anderson
William Wyler
Luis Bunuel
Martin Scorsese
Last edited by Roscoe on Tue Dec 15, 2020 9:21 pm, edited 2 times in total.
These matters are best disposed of from a great height. Over water.
Unranked:
Louis Feuillade
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Josef von Sternberg
Howard Hawks
Luis Buñuel
John Ford
Ernst Lubitsch
Jacques Tourneur
Max Ophüls
Nicholas Ray
Sam Fuller
Mikio Naruse
John Cassavetes
Douglas Sirk
Kenji Mizoguchi
Alfred Hitchcock
Robert Bresson
Jacques Tati
Maurice Pialat
Jacques Rivette
Chantal Akerman
Eric Rohmer
Abbas Kiarostami
James Benning
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Louis Feuillade
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Josef von Sternberg
Howard Hawks
Luis Buñuel
John Ford
Ernst Lubitsch
Jacques Tourneur
Max Ophüls
Nicholas Ray
Sam Fuller
Mikio Naruse
John Cassavetes
Douglas Sirk
Kenji Mizoguchi
Alfred Hitchcock
Robert Bresson
Jacques Tati
Maurice Pialat
Jacques Rivette
Chantal Akerman
Eric Rohmer
Abbas Kiarostami
James Benning
Hou Hsiao-hsien
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I have a ranked top 100 with runner ups on IMDB. I also have top 10s on Letterboxd, and everything rating 8 or higher (per year) on word. So I am well prepared for most basic scenarios.
Great!SAD_SCROOGE wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 6:40 pm jsyik wba, you can select 25 this time instead of just 20!
"I too am a child burned by future experiences, fallen back on myself and already suspecting the certainty that in the end only those will prove benevolent who believe in nothing." – Marran Gosov
Unranked, for now, maybe I'll summon some decisiveness later. I'll probably remember some major directors I've forgotten as well, had to do this off the top of my head.
François Truffaut
Sergio Leone
Éric Rohmer
Coen Brothers
David Fincher
Hal Hartley
Whit Stillman
Noah Baumbach
Fyodor Khitruk
Dario Argento
Woody Allen
Michelangelo Antonioni
Wong Kar Wai
Billy Wilder
Preston Sturges
Orson Welles
Don Hertzfeldt
Douglas Sirk
Buster Keaton
Akira Kurosawa
Alfred Hitchcock
Anthony Mann
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Aki Kaurismaki
Roy Andersson
François Truffaut
Sergio Leone
Éric Rohmer
Coen Brothers
David Fincher
Hal Hartley
Whit Stillman
Noah Baumbach
Fyodor Khitruk
Dario Argento
Woody Allen
Michelangelo Antonioni
Wong Kar Wai
Billy Wilder
Preston Sturges
Orson Welles
Don Hertzfeldt
Douglas Sirk
Buster Keaton
Akira Kurosawa
Alfred Hitchcock
Anthony Mann
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Aki Kaurismaki
Roy Andersson
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Close enough that I can post it, but I may fiddle with it some (esp tiering) before closing.
Raul Ruiz
Jacques Rivette
Edgar Ulmer
Julio Bracho
Frank Borzage
Louis Feuillade
Alexander Dovzhenko
Josef Von Sternberg
Arturo Ripstein
Mamoru Ishii
Rene Cardona Jr
David Cronenberg
Howard Hawks
Orson Welles
Atom Egoyan
Fritz Lang
King Vidor
Jesus Franco
Alice Guy
Yuri Ilyenko
Alfred Hitchcock
Werner Herzog
R W Fassbinder
Luis Bunuel
Emilio Fernandez
Raul Ruiz
Jacques Rivette
Edgar Ulmer
Julio Bracho
Frank Borzage
Louis Feuillade
Alexander Dovzhenko
Josef Von Sternberg
Arturo Ripstein
Mamoru Ishii
Rene Cardona Jr
David Cronenberg
Howard Hawks
Orson Welles
Atom Egoyan
Fritz Lang
King Vidor
Jesus Franco
Alice Guy
Yuri Ilyenko
Alfred Hitchcock
Werner Herzog
R W Fassbinder
Luis Bunuel
Emilio Fernandez
The opposite of 'reify' is... ?
joão césar monteiro
hiroshi shimizu
ritwik ghatak
govindan aravindan
hou hsiao-hsien
mani kaul
king hu
edward yang
abbas kiarostami
peter hutton
kenji mizoguchi
yasujiro ozu
alain resnais
luis buñuel
johnnie to
jacques tourneur
liu chia-liang
buster keaton
pier paolo pasolini
nagisa oshima
sai paranjpye
saeed akhtar mirza
hong sang-soo
djibril diop mambéty
leonardo favio
hiroshi shimizu
ritwik ghatak
govindan aravindan
hou hsiao-hsien
mani kaul
king hu
edward yang
abbas kiarostami
peter hutton
kenji mizoguchi
yasujiro ozu
alain resnais
luis buñuel
johnnie to
jacques tourneur
liu chia-liang
buster keaton
pier paolo pasolini
nagisa oshima
sai paranjpye
saeed akhtar mirza
hong sang-soo
djibril diop mambéty
leonardo favio
It occurred to me that I've never seen Rohmer interviewed so I looked up this interview and unsurprisingly enough...he's just as talkative as a character in a Rohmer film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrmFEzBKvLU
Nobody beats Kaurismäki though in being like a character from his films.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9tp8rAaTsE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrmFEzBKvLU
Nobody beats Kaurismäki though in being like a character from his films.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9tp8rAaTsE
i have a list on imdb already since 2016
john ford
jacques tourneur
roberto rossellini
jean renoir
fritz lang
yasujiro ozu
mikio naruse
josef von sternberg
douglas sirk
joao cesar monteiro
robert bresson
raoul ruiz
sam fuller
heinosuke gosho
james benning
frederick wiseman
peter watkins
maurice pialat
chantal akerman
jacques becker
edgar g ulmer
otar iosseliani
edward yang
sergei parajanov
jean epstein
will make updates and tier later. needs more hong kong
john ford
jacques tourneur
roberto rossellini
jean renoir
fritz lang
yasujiro ozu
mikio naruse
josef von sternberg
douglas sirk
joao cesar monteiro
robert bresson
raoul ruiz
sam fuller
heinosuke gosho
james benning
frederick wiseman
peter watkins
maurice pialat
chantal akerman
jacques becker
edgar g ulmer
otar iosseliani
edward yang
sergei parajanov
jean epstein
will make updates and tier later. needs more hong kong
i'll be tallying this on Jan 1 unless someone requests an extension!
so hard to choose;( exclude director who have seen too little or can't remember that much
unranked :
Agnès Varda
Akira Kurosawa
Alain Resnais
Alfred Hitchcock
Buster Keaton
Chantal Akerman
Charlie Chaplin
David Lynch
Éric Rohmer
Ernst Lubitsch
Frederick Wiseman
Hou Hsiao-hsien
John Cassavetes
John Ford
Johnnie To
Jonas Mekas
Kelly Reichardt
Manoel de Oliveira
Martin Scorsese
Mikio Naruse
Pedro Costa
Steven Spielberg
Tsai Ming-liang
Wang Bing
Yasujirō Ozu
unranked :
Agnès Varda
Akira Kurosawa
Alain Resnais
Alfred Hitchcock
Buster Keaton
Chantal Akerman
Charlie Chaplin
David Lynch
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Ernst Lubitsch
Frederick Wiseman
Hou Hsiao-hsien
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John Ford
Johnnie To
Jonas Mekas
Kelly Reichardt
Manoel de Oliveira
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Mikio Naruse
Pedro Costa
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Tsai Ming-liang
Wang Bing
Yasujirō Ozu