Apichatpong
Runners-up:
James Gray
Johnnie To
Bong Joon-Ho
Steven Spielberg
Jia Zhangke
Michael Mann
Tsai Ming-Liang
It pains me not to include Assayas, but Summer Hours aside he wasn’t the towering master those listed above were…
Tsai Ming-Liang
Gotta say I’m pretty close to Adam on this one; but you just gotta switch Jia and Apichatpong around there, Cook!
Adam’s got a really fantastic list. I like Eastwood, Scorsese, and Soderbergh’s output during the 2000s. Neveldine and Taylor are pretty awesome by me as well.
Sorry that was just a big old hollywood drop when this thing had such an international flavour to it.
I’ve been thinking about this and it seems like a good time taking the liberty of including the last two years with my selections.
1.Carlos Reygadas
2.Bela Tarr
3.Tsai Ming-Liang
4.Jia Zhangke
5.Lisandro Alonso
6.Bill Morrison
7.Sergei Loznitsa
8.Hong Sang Soo
9. Paul Thomas Anderson
10. Eugene Green
I still need to see more from Lav Diaz, Raya Martin, Joe Swanberg and Johnnie To but there work has been monumental so far.
Haneke reminds me of the well-known Longfellow poem:
And when she was good, she was very, very good, but when she was bad she was horrid.
Caché, The White Ribbon and The Piano Teacher (and likely Amour once I see it) are all fantastic. Funny Games U.S. is just awful.
One mistake (FG U.S), no big deal.
Andrew Mixon
Haneke just really doesn’t do it for me. I can’t get into that cold European stuff. I think Malick’s two 21st century movies absolutely put him near the top for me, but I might give it to Spielberg for doing his best film (A.I.) and a few other winners (Minority Report, Catch Me if You Can, War of the Worlds, Munich). I still need to check out Weerasethakul