Great Veteran Directors Still Alive (And Their Best Film)

By: Danny Bailey

Richard Lester (The Knack and How to Get It)
Woody Allen (Hannah and her Sisters)
Henning Carlsen (Hunger)
Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist)
James Ivory (A Room With a View)
John Boorman (Hell in the Pacific)
Arthur Hiller (The Hospital)
Mike Nichols (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf)
Mike Leigh (Secrets and Lies)
Frederic Back (The Man Who Planted Trees)
Peter Medak (The Ruling Class)
Istvan Szabo (Mephisto)
Paul Mazursky (An Unmarried Woman)
Dick Clement (A Severed Head)
Tinto Brass (Caligula)
Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer)
Norman Jewison (Fiddler on the Roof)
Alain Resnais (Mon Oncle D’Amerique)
Lewis Gilbert (Educating Rita)
Michael Anderson (Logan’s Run)
Jack Gold (The Naked Civil Servant)
Franco Zefferelli (Romeo and Juliet)
Ted Kotcheff (Joshua Then and Now)
Ridley Scott (Alien)
Jerzy Skolimowski (Deep End)
Stanley Donen (Bedazzled)
Bertrand Tavernier (Round Midnight)
Fred Schepisi (Last Orders)
Richard Attenborough (Shadowlands)
Mel Brooks (Blazing Saddles)
Milos Forman (Amadeus)
Ken Loach (Kes)
Jiri Menzel (Closely Watched Trains)
Ridley Scott (Alien)
Michael Lindsay-Hogg (Let it Be)
Peter Greenaway (The Draughtmans Contract)
Peter Bogdonavich (Paper Moon)
Brian de Palma (Carrie)
Jan Svankmajer (Picnic with Weissmann)
Jacques Rivette (L’Amour Fou)
Roman Polanski (Chinatown)
Gene Saks (The Odd Couple)
Kenneth Anger (Mouse Heaven)
William Friedkin (The French Connection)
Terry Jones (Monty Python’s Life of Brian)
Terry Gilliam (Brazil)
Francesco Rosi (Christ Stopped at Eboli)
Robert Redford (Ordinary People)
Peter Whitehead (Charlie is My Darling)
Stephen Frears (Gumshoe)
Joseph Sargent (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three)
Claude Lelouch (A Man and a Woman)
Peter Brook (Marat/Sade)
Peter Hall (The Homecoming)
Nicolas Roeg (Don’t Look Now)
Alain Cavalier (Le Combat dans l’ile)
Jean-Luc Godard (Vivre Sa Vie)
Pierre Etaix (Happy Anniversary)
Costa-Gravas (Z)
Ralph Bakshi (Fritz the Cat)
Liliana Cavani (The Night Porter)

• 01
  The Knack ...and How to Get It
  Richard Lester
• 02
  Hannah and Her Sisters
  Woody Allen
• 03
  Hunger
  Henning Carlsen
• 04
  The Conformist
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 05
  A Room with a View
  James Ivory
• 06
  Hell in the Pacific
  John Boorman
• 07
  The Hospital
  Arthur Hiller
• 08
  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  Mike Nichols
• 09
  The Man Who Planted Trees
  Frédéric Back
• 10
  Secrets & Lies
  Mike Leigh
• 11
  The Ruling Class
  Peter Medak
• 12
  Mephisto
  István Szabó
• 13
  An Unmarried Woman
  Paul Mazursky
• 14
  A Severed Head
  Dick Clement
• 15
  Caligula
  Tinto Brass
• 16
  Kramer vs. Kramer
  Robert Benton
• 17
  Fiddler on the Roof
  Norman Jewison
• 18
  Mon oncle d'Amérique
  Alain Resnais
• 19
  Educating Rita
  Lewis Gilbert
• 20
  Logan's Run
  Michael Anderson
• 21
  The Naked Civil Servant
  Jack Gold
• 22
  Breathless
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 23
  Romeo and Juliet
  Franco Zeffirelli
• 24
  Joshua Then and Now
  Ted Kotcheff
• 25
  Bedazzled
  Stanley Donen
• 26
  Deep End
  Jerzy Skolimowski
• 27
  'Round Midnight
  Bertrand Tavernier
• 28
  Last Orders
  Fred Schepisi
• 29
  Shadowlands
  Richard Attenborough
• 30
  Blazing Saddles
  Mel Brooks
• 31
  Amadeus
  Miloš Forman
• 32
  Kes
  Ken Loach
• 33
  Closely Watched Trains
  Jiří Menzel
• 34
  Alien
  Ridley Scott
• 35
  Let It Be
  Michael Lindsay-Hogg
• 36
  The Draughtsman's Contract
  Peter Greenaway
• 37
  Paper Moon
  Peter Bogdanovich
• 38
  Carrie
  Brian De Palma
• 39
  Picnic with Weissmann
  Jan Švankmajer
• 40
  L'amour fou
  Jacques Rivette
• 41
  Chinatown
  Roman Polanski
• 42
  The Odd Couple
  Gene Saks
• 43
  Mouse Heaven
  Kenneth Anger
• 44
  The French Connection
  William Friedkin
• 45
  Monty Python's Life of Brian
  Terry Jones
• 46
  Brazil
  Terry Gilliam
• 47
  Christ Stopped at Eboli
  Francesco Rosi
• 48
  Ordinary People
  Robert Redford
• 49
  Charlie Is My Darling
  Peter Whitehead
• 50
  Gumshoe
  Stephen Frears
• 51
  The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
  Joseph Sargent
• 52
  A Man and a Woman
  Claude Lelouch
• 53
  Marat/Sade
  Peter Brook
• 54
  The Homecoming
  Peter Hall
• 55
  Don't Look Now
  Nicolas Roeg
• 56
  Le combat dans l'île
  Alain Cavalier
• 57
  Vivre sa vie
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 58
  Happy Anniversary
  Pierre Étaix
• 59
  Z
  Costa-Gavras
• 60
  Fritz the Cat
  Ralph Bakshi
• 61
  The Night Porter
  Liliana Cavani