Robert Bresson
Jim Jarmusch
Bela Tarr
Philippe Garrel
Roman Polanski
Bernardo Bertolucci
Liliana Cavani
Werner Herzog
Marty Scorsese
Jacques Rivette
billy wilder.
john cassavetes.
harmony korine.
alfred hitchcock.
duplass brothers.
stanley kubrick.
mark romanek.
tarsem.
wong kar wai.
jean-luc godard.
yes i love my japanese film
I can’t believe nobody’s even mentioned Michael Powell!
He’s my number one.
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Louis Feuillade
Howard Hawks
Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick
Fritz Lang
Kenji Mizoguchi
F.W. Murnau
Yasujiro Ozu
Orson Welles
This list is ever-evolving, but here are my 10 favorites in no order:
Raul Ruiz
Wong Kar-Wai
Jean-luc Godard
Jacques Rivette
Edward Yang
Eric Rohmer
Werner Herzog
Jean Epstein
Charles Laughton (he counts dammit!)
FW Murnau
Pretty much the best list there is:
1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Terrence Malick
4. Werner Herzog
5. Abbas Kiarostami
6. Jean-Pierre Melville
7. Paul Thomas Anderson
8. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
9. Jean-Luc Godard
10. Wong Kar-Wai
1. Quentin Tarantino
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. Wes Anderson
4. Terry Gilliam
5. Alfred Hitchcock
6. Joel & Ethan Coen
7. Jean-Luc Godard
8. Francis Ford Coppola
9. David Lynch
10. Akira Kurosawa
not really in any particular order, i love them all. also Martin Scorsese, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Ridley Scott, Kevin Smith, David Cronenburg, Woody Allen, Danny Boyle, Steven Spielburg, John Hughes, Ingmar Bergman, ect.
i love alot of directors for alot of different reasons. it might confuse someone why i would like Akira Kurosawa and Kevin Smith on the same level. but to me it’s just a matter of if i could sit locked in a room and watch all these directors movies over and over and over for the rest of my life.
Well, I’ve decided to change my list a bit:
10. Syberberg
9. Rivette
8. Lang
7. Bunuel
6. Antonioni
5. Fellini
4. Bresson
3. Mizoguchi
2. Rocha
1. Godard
(Alphabetical order)
Ingmar Bergman
John Ford
Alfred Hitchcock
Jean-Pierre Melville
Kenji Mizoguchi
Jean Renoir
Martin Scorsese
Luchino Visconti
Orson Welles
Billy Wilder
Mizoguchi is a bit of a dubious one as a “favourite”, as it’s been many many years since I saw all but a handful of his films, but I just know in my heart he’s one of the greatest of all directors.
(Alphabetical order)
Ingmar Bergman
John Ford
Alfred Hitchcock
Jean-Pierre Melville
Kenji Mizoguchi
Jean Renoir
Martin Scorsese
Luchino Visconti
Orson Welles
Billy Wilder
Mizoguchi is a bit of a dubious one as a “favourite”, as it’s been many many years since I saw all but a handful of his films, but I just know in my heart he’s one of the greatest of all directors.
1) Ingmar Bergman
2) Alfred Hitchcock
3) Guy Maddin
4) Robert Wise
5) Yasujiro Ozu
6) Kenji Mizoguchi
7) Akira Kurosawa
8) Fritz Lang
9) Luchino Visconti
10) Michael Curtiz
in alphabetical order
PT Anderson
Bergman
Bunuel
Cassavetes
Chaplin
Fellini
Huston
Lynch
Welles
Wilder
1) George Melies
2) Philippe Garrel
Federico Fellini
Charles Chaplin
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Jean-Luc Godard
Jacques Rivette
Andy Warhol
Jim Jarmusch
Jim Sheridan
In alphabetical order:
Robert Altman
John Cassavetes
Coen Brothers
Francis Ford Coppola
Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick
Sidney Lumet
Roman Polanski
Martin Scorsese
Billy Wilder
In alphabetical (by surname):
Michelangelo Antonioni
Ingmar Bergman
John Cassavetes
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Akira Kurosawa
Gaspar Noe
Yasujiro Ozu
Jacques Rivette
Bela Tarr
Tsai Ming-liang
I believe a list of Top 10 Directors should reflect not just those who are critically respected but those that touch the viewer on a constant basis. For me this list is more personal than just a list of world renown. Here’s the list:
1. Hitchcock
2. Leone
3. Hawks
4. Antonioni
5. Truffaut
6. Ozu
7. Tarantino
8. Wes Anderson
9. Paul Thomas Anderson
10. Michael Powell
Based on the work that they did…
10. Rohmers…the very first conversation in ‘La Collectionneuse" is facinating.
9. Truffaut…those pauses on Jeanne Moreau as she laughs are breathless.
8. Alain Resnais…after you do Hiroshima Mon Amour you should be in every top ten
7. Francis Ford Coppola…uhm, the guy who directed Apocalypse Now.
6. Woody Allen…Yes. He’s my personal favorite. Master shots as you where!
5. Goddard…for his sayings. His jumpcuts…his cool films. For being the most influencial Director since W.C Fields, i say.
Remember guys…
Only a girl and a gun.
4. Martin Scorsese…oh come on, like he’s not going make it in my list. Are you talking to me?
3.Luis Buñuel…Just try to sit down and eat.
2. Stanley Kubrick…No other dircetor can do what he did or could’ve done. The hot windows, the steady cam following the child. The close ups…sorry, THE STARES. Technically, he is the best. but…
1. Spike Lee…after you make a film like ‘Do the right thing’ to me you are GOD!
no particualr order (except Kubrcik at top)
Kubrick
Tarkovsky
Scorsese
Nolan
Both Andersons
Burton
Boyle
Miyazaki
Bergman
Peckinpah
Speilberg is a very obvious chocie but he deserves recognition
1 Tian 2 Kurosawa 3 Paradjanov 4 Hitchcock 5 Ford 6 Mizoguchi 7 Welles 8 Tarkovsky 9 Ozu 10 Godard 11 Bergman
Very tough call but I chose mine for their solid and seminal body of work. No applicable order.
1. Yasujiro Ozu
2. Werner Herzog
3. Ingmar Bergman
4. Edward Yang (Only few seem to like him :( )
5. Hiroshi Teshigahara (Only few seem to like him :( )
6. Federico Fellini
7. Satyajit Ray (Only few seem to like him :( )
8. Pier Paolo Pasolini (Only few seem to like him :( )
9. Maya Deren (She’s one of best!)
10. Takashi Miike (Miike! No one mentioned Miike?)
Others I tried to fit in: Alfred Hitchcock, Kenneth Anger (He definitely deserves to be on the list), Lars von Trier, Michael Haneke and Shinya Tsukamoto.
not enough scorsese
In alphabetical order:
Micelangelo Antonioni
Ingmar Bergman
Robert Bresson
Vittoria De Sica
Federico Fellini
Michael Haneke
Abbas Kiarostami
Aleksandr Sokurov
Andrei Tarkovsky
Agnès Varda
Others who have only missed out because of the limit but could have made the list on a different day: Tarr, Truffaut, Wong, Renoir, Resnais, Chabrol, Wilder, Hou, Visconti, Ozu, Sturges, Chaplin, Welles, Buñuel and Dardennes.
I need to see more from Lubistch, Marker, Hawks, Preston Sturges, Ford, etc.
Fernando Solanas is, in my opinion, as good as they come.
Jarmusch and Buster K. should be here, but someone had to go. Only 10 per orgy.
Andrei Tarkovsky
Woody Allen
Charles Chaplin
David Lynch
Federico Fellini
Fernando Solanas
Ingmar Bergman
Louis Malle
Pedro Almodóvar
Werner Herzog
In order:
1. Andrei Tarkovsky
2. Carl Th. Dreyer
3. Orson Welles
4. Robert Bresson
5. Stanley Kubrick
6. Alfred Hitchcock
7. Akira Kurosawa
8. Ingmar Bergman
9. F.W. Murnau
10. Werner Herzog
I’m going to do the ole bump and update:
In alphabetical order:
Robert Altman
John Cassavetes
Francis Ford Coppola
Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick
Sidney Lumet
Jean-Pierre Melville
Roman Polanski
Martin Scorsese
Billy Wilder
Hitchcock
Busby Berkeley
von Sternberg
Lang
Welles
Godard
Fassbinder
Altman
Fuller
Roeg
dp
In no order: Ingmar Bergman, Hayao Miyazaki, Mike Leigh, Werner Herzog, Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Billy Wilder, Peter Weir, Yasujiro Ozu.
Jack Lehtonen
1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Akira Kurosawa
3. Ingmar Bergman
4. Jean-Luc Godard
5. Alfred Hitchcock
6. Orson Welles
7. Federico Fellini
8. Yasujiro Ozu
9. F.W. Murnau
10. Martin Scorsese