my top 100
By: Curtis Francis
this list was last updated on JANUARY 27, 2012
mubi lacks:
#17 (betwixt TOKYO STORY and THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER)
MAN FOLLOWS BIRDS (ali khamraev, 1975)
#29 (betwixt SHADOWS IN PARADISE and STALKER)
HAVE DREAMS, WILL TRAVEL (brad isaacs, 2007)
directors whose movies appear on the list most frequently:
wim wenders, 5 movies (KINGS OF THE ROAD; PARIS, TEXAS; WINGS OF DESIRE; ALICE IN THE CITIES; THE AMERICAN FRIEND)
akira kurosawa, 5 movies (YOJIMBO; SEVEN SAMURAI; DREAMS; MADADAYO; STRAY DOG)
masaki kobayashi, 3 movies (KWAIDAN; HARAKIRI; SAMURAI REBELLION)
frank truffaut, 3 movies (SMALL CHANGE; JULES AND JIM; SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER)
frank capra, 3 movies (IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT; IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE; MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON)
michelangelo antonioni, 3 movies (LE AMICHE; L’ECLISSE; BLOW-UP)
hiroshi teshigahara, 3 movies (THE FACE OF ANOTHER; PITFALL; WOMAN IN THE DUNES)
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01Carl Theodor Dreyer
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02Henry Koster
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03Wim Wenders
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04Masaki Kobayashi
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05Wim Wenders
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06Stuart Rosenberg
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07François Truffaut
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08Ermanno Olmi
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09Tod Browning
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10Masaki Kobayashi
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11Nimród Antal
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12Frank Capra
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13Carl Theodor Dreyer
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14Richard Linklater
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15Akira Kurosawa
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16Yasujirô Ozu
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17Ernst Lubitsch
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18Monte Hellman
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19Kenji Mizoguchi
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20Ingmar Bergman
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21Edgar Wright
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22Akira Kurosawa
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23Marcel Carné
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24Robert Wiene
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25Wim Wenders
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26Jacques Tati
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27Aki Kaurismäki
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28Andrei Tarkovsky
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29Orson Welles
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30François Truffaut
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31Frank Capra
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32Stanley Kubrick
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33Michelangelo Antonioni
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34Martin Scorsese
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35Michelangelo Antonioni
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36Terrence Malick
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37Luchino Visconti
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38Masaki Kobayashi
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39Richard Linklater
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40Wong Kar-wai
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41David Gordon Green
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42Amy Heckerling
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43Wim Wenders
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44Federico Fellini
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45Stanley Kubrick
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46Alain Guiraudie
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47Nagisa Ôshima
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48Alfred Hitchcock
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49Jean-Luc Godard
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50Ted Demme
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51Sogo Ishii
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52Alan Clarke
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53Henri-Georges Clouzot
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54Hiroshi Teshigahara
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55Monte Hellman
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56Herbert Ponting
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57Kon Ichikawa
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58Michelangelo Antonioni
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59Andrei Tarkovsky
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60Katsuhiro Ôtomo
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61Charlie Kaufman
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62Jonas Bergergård
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63Akira Kurosawa
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64James Whale
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65Akira Kurosawa
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66Nicolas Winding Refn
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67Dennis Hopper
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68Henry Barakat
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69Billy Wilder
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70Gillo Pontecorvo
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71Alfred Hitchcock
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72Lionel Rogosin
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73Akira Kurosawa
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74Aki Kaurismäki
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75Anthony Mann
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76Hiroshi Teshigahara
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77Alex Proyas
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78Yilmaz Güney
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79Hiroshi Shimizu
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80Hiroshi Teshigahara
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81František Vláčil
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82Frank Capra
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83Donald Shebib
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84Éric Rohmer
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85Kevin Smith
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86Joshua Safdie
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87François Truffaut
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88Sam Taylor
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89František Vláčil
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90Walter Hill
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91Don Siegel
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92Wim Wenders
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93Nicholas Ray
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94Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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95Jean Vigo
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96John Carpenter
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97William Dieterle
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98Yasujirô Ozu
