Akira Kurosawa
Woody Allen
Terrence Malick
Ingmar Bergman
Ang Lee
Charlie Chaplin
Francis Ford Coppola
Federico Fellini
David Lean
Jean Cocteau
Roman Polanski
Martin Scorsese
Stanley Kubrick
Luis Bunuel (all but 2)
Alfred Hitchcock (all USA ; plus all UK sound films)
Robert Bresson
Andrei Tarkovsky
Stanley Kubrick
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Edward Yang
Tsai Ming-liang
Hirokazu Koreeda
Shunji Iwai
Víctor Erice
Wong Kar-wai
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Jean Vigo
Joel/Ethan Coen
Steven Soderbergh
Terrence Malick
Wes Anderson
Woody Allen
Stanley Kubrick
Sam Raimi
David Croenenberg
Roman Polanski
Martin Scorsese
Jim Jarmusch
Sadly, not that many. Wes Anderson, Darren Aronofsky, Quentin Tarantino, and…well, that might be it. Actually, so far, I’ve seen all of Robert Rodriguez, except for Road Racers (which was a TV movie). So, I guess I’ve seen a few directors, although clearly not as many as I’d like…
Savvy
Yasujiro Ozu (of course all surviving films)
Terrence Malick (excerpt his short film)
all features by Aparna Sen
all features by Ritwik Ghatak
Kohei Oguri
I’m a completist:
Quentin Tarantino
Darren Aronofsky
Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu
Wes Anderson
Pedro Almodovar (will see Broken Embraces as soon as it comes out)
David Lynch
Woody Allen (seriously, I love the guy and will see anything he does)
Robert Bresson
Coen Bros. (I think)
Charles Laughton of course
Isabel Coixet
Atom Egoyan (like Almodovar I’ll see Chloe when it comes out here)
Michel Gondry
Jim Jarmusch
Kieslowski (with the exception of two Dekalog episodes, I have to get on that!)
Stanley Kubrick (finished his filmography in March)
Christopher Nolan
maybe Francois Ozon (whenever Le refuge and Ricky are released here I’ll see them)
I think I’m done with Eric Rohmer, except for a short entitled Nadja a Paris.
Pretty close to being done with Rivette as well.
David O. Russell, I’m sure.
Francois Truffaut (except Tire-au-flanc 62 which apparently isn’t available at all, in any form anywhere)
and I have seen every Luis bunuel film except one. Darn!
I think I’m getting pretty close to finishing Polanski’s filmography.
I’m extremely close to finishing off Scorsese’s filmography. I think I only have the film American Boy or whatever that film is called.
I’m pretty close to finishing Billy Wilder. a couple of his last films are on the list to see.
I’m sure there’s others, but I’ll have to think about this. ;)
Very good Topic:
Tim Burton
Darren Aronofsky
Francis Ford Coppola
Woody Allen
David Cronenberg
Pedro Almodovar
well then, youre not quite the completist, are you? (haha! just kidding with you!)
Lance Hammer
brian de palma and peter weir are the only directors with a substantial filmography i’ve seen every film of. newer directors: pt anderson, wes anderson, david fincher, spike jonze and charlie kaufman (lawlz). i’ve seen all but one or two from kubrick, scorsese, tati, burton (haven’t bothered with anything since the willy wonka abortion), jarmusch and peckinpah. working on fassbinder too, but there’s a lot more ground to cover.
From all these directors I have seen the features still missing some of their shorts and documentaries:
Sam Peckinpah
Federico Fellini
Ingmar Bergman
Orson Welles
Tsai Ming Liang
Theo Angelpoulos
Francois Truffaut
Andrei Tarkovsky
Luchino Visconti
Robert Bresson
Jim Jarmusch
Derek Jarman
Aki Kaurismaki
Sergio Leone
David Lynch
Chan Wook Park
Pier Pasolini
Pedro Almodovar
Lindsay Anderson
Terence Malick
P T Anderson
Wes Anderson
Shane Meadows
Am only one or two off with Zhang Yimou, Nic Roeg, Ang Lee, John Cassavetes, Krystolf Kieslowski, Joel Coen, Rainer Fassbinder, Woody Allen, Robert Altman (post 1965), Akira Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Michael Haneke, Lars Von Trier, Paolo Taviani, Eric Rohmer and prob some more. Gosh I never realised I was such a movie geek until I did this list!!
Welles
Kubrick
Cassavetes
Peckinpah
Tarkovsky
Carpenter
Von Trier
Melville
Weir
De Palma
Woo
Leone
Polanski
Tarr
Herzog
Coen Bros.
Jarmusch
Lynch
Anderson
Malick
Rodriguez
Allen
Burton
Bergman
Antonioni
Cronenberg
Greenaway
Scorsese
Kar-Wai
Tarantino
That’s all I can think of off the top of my head. I’m really close to having watched all of Kurosawa’s catalog, but I still have yet to see Dodesukaden, Madadayo, Rhapsody in August, and Sanshiro Sugata.
And I still need to see a couple more Fellini’s. Fassbinder’s another one I’m anxious to watch all of (I’ve only watched about 10 or so of his). Godard and Miike are also rather high on the list, as well as Resnais.
Sam Mendes.
I’m glad you mentiones Fosse: now I have 1. And here I thought I would surely have a few. Bunuel, almost, though I haven’t seen a few of his Mexican films. Fassbinder, nearly, but there are a few TV things not on DVD that I haven’t seen.
Wait—Altman. There you go. Even “That Cold Day in the Park.”
Darren Aronofsky, PT Anderson, Chris Nolan, Edgar Wright (not difficult with him lol) and I’m very close with Spielberg, Scorcese, Kubrick, Coens, Gondry, and Burton.
Hmm, interesting idea.
But I think I have’t seen all films (including shorts, commercials, etc.) by any single director.
Considering only feature films, I think it looks the same.
David Lynch
Stanley Kubrick (except Fear and Desire)
John Waters
The Coens
Sofia Coppola
Asia Argento
Bob Fosse
Wes Anderson
Clive Barker
David Cronenberg (except Fast Company)
Charles Laughton
Almost all by Woody Allen
Gaspar Noé (all except Enter the Void)
All I can think of right now, might be some others.
Getting there:
Abel Ferrara (all except Dangerous Game and China Girl)
Dario Argento
John Cassavetes
Paul Verhoeven
Roman Polanski
Stanley Kubrick
Coen Brothers
Darren Aronofsky
PT Anderson
Quentin Tarantino
Charles Laughton, too, yes.
Rian Johnson
Wes Anderson
Spike Jonze
Ed Wood, yes.
Edgar Wright, good point.
I do not count Fear and Desire because Kubrick does not count Fear and Desire. I do not count movies that no longer exist because that’s not fair and depressing, so things like London after Midnight are out.
Nobody here mentioned Mishima, I’ven’t seen Patriotism but I’d figured many here have.
I know I’m missing a lot of directors but they’re probably directors that I don’t know I’ve seen everything of theirs because they don’t stick out for me.
I actually at one point could have included Uwe Boll on this list, but I’ven’t seen Tunnel Rats and I’m done with his movies after the combined effect of Seed and Postal. I used to watch his movies because he’d get just ever-so-slightly better with each one and I really wanted to tally how long it took before he got to an accountably decent movie, but then Postal showed he had a sense of humor and Seed showed that he really is a mean spirited fucker, and I decided he’s not so interesting anymore.
There are, of course, many in which I’ve missed one or two, but for the most part there’s a reason I missed the one or two.
Yes, my list is United States-centric.
I’m not much of a completionist, really. I got over that once I owned all Kubrick and Coen Bros. movies on DVD and then couldn’t get around to doing it with Lynch (at the time, we’re talking five six years ago) because I hated Wild at Heart, and at that point the idea of completionism sort of fell through.
But what I AM trying to do is beat Takashi Miike at his own game. 23 movies of his seen and counting! So far over a quarter of his non-pornographic films (which I do not count), but if I wait a year that percentile can change so I have to keep on my toes!
—PolarisDiB
Kubrick
Anderson (wes)
Jarmusch
Coppola (Francis and Sofia)
Baumbach
Scorsese
Hitchcock
Terrence Malick
Akira Kurosawa
Chan-wook Park
PT Anderson
Quentin Tarantino
Roman Polanski
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Stanley Kubrick
Wes Anderson
Sergio Leone (1 short – The Colossus of Rhodes)
Michael Haneke (1 short – The Seventh Continent)
Werner Herzog (2 short – Where the Green Ants Dream & Signs of Life)
Now that this has been brought to my attention, I am very close on completing Herzogs filmography, which would be a nice accomplishment. I’ll try to watch the 2 over the weekend.
(Excluding directors who’ve made around 4 or fewer)
Quentin Tarantino
Michel Gondry
Wes Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson
One away: Stanley Kubrick
Two away: Jim Jarmusch, Tim Burton, Wong Kar-Wai
I’m not really a completist yet but I’m becoming one.
Rene Castillo
His entire work is about 20 minutes long.
I’m one away from being a Weerasethakul completist… but it’s not like it’s easy to find The Adventures of Iron Pussy just lying around, you know?
Savvy
The Adventures Of Iron Pussy?
:O
Quentin Tarantino, Sofia Coppola, and Todd Field. I need to watch more movies.
A better question might be: how many directors are worth seeing every feature?
Mostly from these directors:
Hawks
Hitchcock
Ford
Huston
Wyler
Coppola
Antonioni
Wilder
Scorsese
Steven Spielberg
Michael Bay
Martin Scorsese
Quentin Tarantino
Charlie Kauffman
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Tarsem
David Fincher
Oliver Stone
Just an update…
-Paul Thomas Anderson
-Wes Anderson
-Darren Aronofsky
-Charlie Chaplin
-Joel and Ethan Coen
-Michael Haneke
-Stanley Kubrick
-Terrence Malick
-Martin Scorsese
-Quentin Tarantino
-Orson Welles
I have not seen Anderson or the Coen’s latest, but I will sometime in the next month when they are released on DVD. I have 3 more for Lynch, 9 more for Coppola, 11 more for Kazan, 12 more for Woody Allen, and 24 more for Godard. :P
McBean
Woody Allen
Stanley Kubrick
Martin Scorsese
P.T. Anderson
The Coen Brothers
David Lynch
David Cronenberg
Quentin Tarantino