Any director who you love every film they have done???

I thought Micmacs was and is pretty great. I love Danny Boon in this and in My Best Friend which was the first film I saw him in.

Full features?
Miyazaki, Terry Zwigoff, John Frankenheimer, Teshigahara (excluding ones made for Japanese TV), Bill Forsyth, Eric Rohmer, Bunuel, Truffaut, Peckinpah

I’m not familiar with many directors’ entire filmographies, but of the ones I am familiar with, Terrence Malick and P.T. Anderson have perfect records in my eyes. I’m only halfway through Weerasethakul’s portfolio but I’m gonna go ahead and name him too.

Tree of Life should be amazing; and after five stellar films, I’m wetting my pants to see what P.T. does next which – at the moment – is apparently an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s “Inherent Vice”. That’s it — I’m completely incontinent now.

PTA would have made it if not for Hard Eight (Sydney) or Punch-Drunk Love which are both good, but not great

Yeah, I’d go with Greenaway, Melville, Welles, and Fassbinder. Bergman’s close, Carpenter’s close (if not for that damn Invisible Man film), and Teshigahara’s pretty close.

Of course, I realize no filmmaker’s entire filmography is full of masterpieces and wouldn’t claim so, but I just love their approach and their style.

^^you ‘loved’ Ghosts Of Mars Deckard? really? ;-)

I’d say: Pialat, Eustache (although I haven’t gotten my hands on everything yet), and Oshima.

@Joks: I must admit, I did. Ha! Guilty pleasure.

^sure, it’s a guilty pleasure, but damn, wouldn’t say i loved it :-)

You can’t like Village Of The Damned though, surely!!!!?!?!?!?

“That’s kind of an interesting question in itself: How many films do you have to see to proclaim a director’s greatness? Is it imperative to see the bad ones as well as the good ones? Do the bad ones somehow cancel out the good ones, or does it matter?”

I would say its imperative to see them all to know which if any are the bad ones. Bonfire of the Vanities and Eyes Wide Shut have their share of fans for instance.

Funny my favorite Carpenter was Invisible Man (that or Dark Star). Chase had not been that charming since the first Fletch and the romance in it is, romantic. Plus the effects were top notch at the time and there is a fair amount of suspense.

Well, OK Village of the Damned too, but I only said Carpenter was close. So yeah, VOTD and MOIM are the weak links.

@Den: I love Dark Star, wonderful film.

David Lynch

Sam Peckinpah

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Werner Herzog

Stanley Kubrick

John Cassavetes, but havent seen The Big Trouble (does it count?)

Akira Kurosawa.
Wes Anderson.
P.T. Anderson.
Jean Pierre Melliville.
Masaki Kobayashi

It’s a pretty hard question actually. A lot of directors I like alot have films I didn’t care for. I love Kubrick but ain’t crazy about The Killing or 2001. I like Kar-Wai but kind of hated 2046. I love John Woo but he’s got alot of decent/below decent films.

Edward Yang
Michael Haneke
Jia Zhangke
Tsai Ming-liang
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Hong Sang-soo

Love is a strong word:

Terrence Mallick
Claudia Llosa

Kim Ki-duk is the only director who is very close of that…

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stanley Kubrick

Aki Kaurismaki

Jim Jarmusch

Park Chan-wook

I’m with RUS on Whit Stillman. Of the moderns, I’ll add Todd Field for In the Bedroom and Little Children, which both impressed me greatly. I hear his next project is Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, which, in his hands, should be quite interesting.

And, with maybe one … one-and-a-half? … exception(s), I will be eternally loyal to my inspiration, Louis Malle. His films more than anyone else’s made me want to do what I do, and to continue to do so. Then, yes, Melville, Truffaut, DeSica, much of Kurosawa (I havent seen everything he did, so I can’t include him totally) … and so much of Wilder and Eastwood.

“John Cassavetes, but havent seen The Big Trouble (does it count?)”

well Cassavetes is a director you can be selective about, as there are Cassavettes style films, and ones like A Child Is Waiting, Gloria that are kind of different. But i rate those films very highly myself, and out of the more typical Cassavetes ones, i’m not crazy about M+M either. or even Shadows.

But hey, each to their own.

Andrei Tarkovsky
Frank Henenlotter
Carl Dreyer
Hayao Miyazaki
Ida Lupino
Jean-Pierre Melville
Lynne Ramsay
Bill Douglas
Jean Vigo

THE IMMACULATE (receive one “free pass”, has never made more than one film I’ve ranked lower than a 6/10, and have multiple 8+ films)

Hayao Miyazaki (I even adore Lupin)

David Lynch (free pass on DUNE lol?)

Terrence Malick

Alejandro Inarritu

P.T.A.

Stanley Kubrick (Even though I find Killer’s Kiss to be whatevs)

Mike Leigh (Gets a bye on Career Girls)

Luc Besson ( I have not seen The Last Combat yet)

PRETTY DAG GONE CONSISTENT (Maybe a few underwhelmers, but generally the same as the above)

Joel and Ethan Coen (Ladykillers, Intolerable, Burn After Reading are all meh, too bad a meh coens film is like, better than most other films.)

Wes Anderson

Alfred Hitchcock

Quentin Tarantino

Lars Von Trier (self proclaimed greatest all time filmmaker in da house)

Wong Kar-Wai (Still havn’t seen Ashes of Time and As Tears Go By)

Spike Jonze

True consistency is a hard thing, it takes a lot of people time to “rev up” and work into their art.

I think the only director who fits this topic is Ed Wood. Who cannot love ALL his films?

Wes Anderson
John Waters
The Farrelly Bros.

Fellini!

peter greenaway, michael haneke, todd haynes (i don’t LOVE “i’m not there,” but i do think it’s really good – i am just not a dylanhead), david lynch (i think we can forgive dune. it’s not like it was really “his” project anyway, and it was basically just a contract thing so he could make BV. also, maybe his cut was amazing? who knows).

Charles Laughton

Otherwise, I don’t think there’s a director who I have seen every film they’ve done.

For people I’ve seen many films by, it depends where you place the cutoff for “Love”. Pretty much everyone at least has one film I only like. Directors I’ve seen many films by and I have not seen one that I do not at least like: Bergman, Fellini, Tarkovsky, Almodovar, Wong, Kaurismaki, Bresson, Bartas, Malick

Tarkovsky is the only one that I can truly say that about, though there are plenty that I like everything from.

Terrence Malick, Charles Laughton, and Bob Fosse.

Can’t really answer. There are almost no directors who I have seen every single film of theirs. Tarantino is the only one off the top of my head and he has a couple of misfires to my way of thinking.