Michael Winterbottom is incredibly prolific: nine films in the last seven years…
Woody Allen is still doing it. True they’re not all ‘Annie Hall’, but …
I like John Waters a lot
may be not as great as kurosawa, but definitely David Fincher delivers consistently, frequently amazing movies, I love his movies
Malick.
Coen Brothers
David Fincher
Pedro Almodovar
clint eastwood.
Sorry but Terrence Malick has only produced about a film a decade for the last 40 years so that hardly puts him up there with Hitchock and Kurosawa in the proficiency department, even if they’re all awesome. And David Fincher? He’s got a long ways to go.
Takashi Miike
Manoel de Oliveira: Since 1986 he has directed more than 20 films. He was 78 by then (and has had is 100th birthday last week). He’s currently shooting another
Kim ki duk has also been highly “productive”
I agree with the Coen brothers and Almodovar, though they’re not quite on the same level as Hitchcock and Kurosawa. Spielberg is a nicely consistent hollywood director like McCarey, Walsh, or Curtiz.
Having directed almost 80 films in 17 years, Takeshi Miike is far and away the winner of the Most Productive award, possibly of all time. Although, roughly eight out of ten are pure garbage.
lol @ Bill H.
…I was joking.
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Michaels…… Haneke and Mann.
Martin Scorsese is up there.
lol back to ya Paul. I’m usually better at picking up on sarcasm. Oy Veh, what a putz am I.
i’m with rankin….. malick
Zhang Yimou – The same man makes Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern and Shanghai Triad and then goes on to make Hero, House of Flying Daggers and Curse of the Golden Flower. It’s not just the versatility and diversification, it’s the ability and stylistic prowess demonstrated in different genres.
Claude Chabrol seems to do a film a year, the last being “A Girl Cut in Two” this year, and he another in production. He’s now 79 years old. He started directing in 1958.
Jess Franco was quite prolific between the 1960s-80s, even if 95% of his output was abysmal.
And, of course, who could forget Jean-Luc Godard?
I really believe Paul Thomas Anderson only gets better with each film and is just starting to scratch the surface of what his legacy will be. Assuming he’ll have a long career and the films he’s already made will be considered his early work. I don’t know, I just think there’s potential there.
Yimou Zhang has put out a ton of films, so has Pedro Almodovar.
Christopher Nolan (the two Batman movies have been great but dont judge him just on that. The fact is that Memento changed the course of movie history, and The Prestige only shows hints of what this man will be able to do).
Almodovar, I look forward to a lot.
Coen Brothers for sure
As far as young guys are concerned – Wes Anderson, PT Anderson, Aronofsky, Fincher, Gondry, Jonze, ki-duk, Chan Wook, Nolan
Martin Scorsese.
Jim Jarmusch for sure!
Wait, Elmen, I’m curious, how did Memento change the course of movie history?
Anyway, Scorcese I guess is the closest in terms of high quality and high output and achievement.
Sidney Lumet. 50 films in 50 years. And still going strong.
Derick Kohler
Are there any modern directors who do as much or deliver as frequently as say Kurosawa or Hitchcock?