As He Was Scrubbing the Toilet Vigorously, the Custodian Saw 50 Nuggets of Gold: My Current All-time Top 50
By: Blue K, Custodian of the Cinema
To make it interesting, I limited myself to one film per director. And yes, these are ranked in order of preference, but it’s hardly an exact science. And my preferences change daily, but these are the top 50 for this very moment.
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01Andrei Tarkovsky
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02Sergei Parajanov
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03Carl Theodor Dreyer
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04Chris Marker
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05Vittorio De Sica
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06Abbas Kiarostami
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07Satyajit Ray
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08Bae Yong-Kyun
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09Kenji Mizoguchi
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10Glauber Rocha
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11Béla Tarr
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12Yasujirô Ozu
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13Buster Keaton
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14Jean Renoir
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15Forugh Farrokhzad
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16Robert Bresson
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17Jean-Luc Godard
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18Aleksandr Sokurov
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19Ingmar Bergman
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20Hirokazu Kore-eda
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21Terrence Malick
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22Lav Diaz
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23Maya Deren
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24Theodoros Angelopoulos
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25Dziga Vertov
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26Stanley Kubrick
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27Nagisa Ôshima
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28Ritwik Ghatak
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29Jan Němec
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30Michelangelo Antonioni
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31Werner Herzog
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32Charles Burnett
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33Kim Ki-young
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34Max Ophüls
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35Andrzej Wajda
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36Djibril Diop Mambéty
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37Đặng Nhật Minh
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38Hong Sang-soo
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39Pier Paolo Pasolini
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40Wong Kar-wai
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41Nacer Khemir
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42Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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43Mrinal Sen
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44Liviu Ciulei
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45Gaspar Noé
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46Wang Bing
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47Edward Yang
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48Michael Haneke
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49Jonas Mekas
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50Apichatpong Weerasethakul