1) Bela Tarr
2) Anthony Mann
3) Jean-Luc Godard
4) David Lynch
5) Dardenne Brothers
To limit it to five is very difficult-a lot depends on what I’ve seen most recently so it can vary on any given day
1. Martin Scorcese
2. Sergio Leone
3. Federico Fellini
4. Sam Peckinpah
5. Coen Brothers
but i feel bad leaving off Bergman, Melville, Polanski, Truffaut and many others
1) Patrice Chereau
2) Jacques Rivette
3) Federico Fellini
4) Alain Resnais
5) Peter Watkins
Like Steve said, this varies from day to day, but for now:
1. Carl Theodor Dreyer
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. John Cassavetes
4. Ingmar Bergman
5. Patrice Leconte
I would include Charles Laughton, but he only directed one film unfortunately.
(no specific order)
Ingmar Bergamn
Francois Truffaut
Eric Rhomer
Godard
Bresson
Woody Allen (a very personal appeal)
(no specific order)
Ingmar Bergamn
Francois Truffaut
Eric Rhomer
Godard
Bresson
Woody Allen (a very personal appeal)
1. Robert Bresson
2. Werner Herzog
3. Bela Tarr
4. Louis Malle
5. (Tie) Krzysztof Kieslowski + Jean Cocteau
No, wait, I need to somehow fit in Kusturica and Cassavetes…and Errol Morris, and Rivette…and Maddin…
Ah, I guess it’s almost impossible
Stanley Kubrick
Ingmar Bergman
Robert Altman
Woody Allen
Martin Scorcese
Werner Herzog
I just can’t rank them.
Orson Welles
Stanley Kubrick
Jean Cocteau
Alfred Hitchcock
Jacques Demy
Jean-Pierre Melville
Michael Mann
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Guy Maddin
No fifth.
There are better directors than my favorites.
This is something I find even harder to list than favorite films, but here goes:
Wong Kar-Wai (largely for his work during the 90s which fills me with such joy and nostalgia; they are all like fond memories of a beautiful past)
Jean-luc Godard (a director who I feel remains as interesting and vital today as he was in the 60s for his continual experimentation with the medium)
Eric Rohmer (I love the poetry of the dialogue he puts into all his films)
Werner Herzog (his personality is supremely likable and ability to so seamlessly shift from making fictional films to documentaries is amazing)
David Cronenberg (who I find very interesting not only because of his subject matter, but also how successfully he has progressed over the course of his career)
Ones that could make it onto the list in the future: Raoul Ruiz, Jean Epstein, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Jacques Rivette
Fellini
Jarmusch
Bela Tarr
Kubrick
Wong Kar-Wai
…and many more.
in no particular order:
Sergio Leone
Jean-Pierre Melville
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Patrice Leconte
Mario Bava
at least today, tomorrow Alfred Hitchcock, Wong Kar-wai, Claude Chabrol, Olivier Assayas, and Preston Sturges.
Is it me or that kind of thread comes at least once a week. What is the purpose of making top 5 directors, it’s not imdb here.
Topics like Boundaries of Filmmaking and 05 project are much more interesting.
I know many people are on the edge of their seats just to know what is my top 5 directors, so here it is :
Tarkovsky
Kieslowski
Jutra
Brault
Godard
Seriously, I don’t have a top 5 director, it’s random.
John Cassavetes
Michelangelo Antonioni
Sam Peckinpah
Andrei Tarkovsky
Bernardo Bertolucci
Andrei Tarkovsky :)
Fassbinder
Godard
Murnau
Hawks
Warhol
I cant pick just five its like asking me which finger to cut off if i had to pick one. i love my fingers.
In alphabetical order…
Jim Jarmusch
Akira Kurosawa
David Lynch
Louis Malle
Wim Wenders
Bubbling under…
Wes Anderson
Werner Herzog
Stanley Kubrick
Hayao Miyazaki
François Truffaut
with apologies to Orson Welles
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir
John Ford
John Ford
Musycks,
What is your favorite film by Renoir?
1. David Lynch
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. Michael Haneke
4. Woody Allen
5. Luis Bunuel
1) Jean Renoir
2) Wes Anderson
3) John Ford
4) Preston Sturges
5) François Truffaut
5 seems too few, but 10 would seem too many; hard to think of another 5 I enjoy as much. Maybe 60’s Godard, Von Sternberg, Minnelli, Ozu, and Allen would bottom out to a top ten. But then, Powell & Pressburger, Lubitsch, Kieslowski, and Malle would be on the same level for me as those last five. But my top 5, definitely, always. After that? Fellini? Bergman? But my enjoyment of their movies is uneven.
personal favorites:
- werner herzog
- leos carax
- claire denis
- gus van sant
- terrence malick
not too far:
- françois truffaut
- paul thomas anderson
- stanley kubrick
1) Guy Maddin
2) Jean-Luc Godard
3) David Lynch
4) François Truffaut
5) Stanley Kubrick
6) Joel and Ethan Coen
7) David Cronenberg
8) Paul Thomas Anderson
9) Ingmar Bergman
10) Fellini
Matthew, what a question! Sophies choice….. hard to pick between Rules or Grand Illusion……. both incredible, but so many good ones… Lower Depths and Bete Humaine are remarkable…. and so it goes…..
1 Stanley Kubrick
2 Ingmar Bergman
3 Federico Fellini
4 Andrei Tarkovsky
5 Orson Welles
6 Alfred Hitchcock
I’m gonna chime in on favorite renoir:
THE RULES OF THE GAME
LA MARSEILLAISE
after that:
GRAND ILLUSION
BOUDU SAVED FROM DROWNING
LA BETE HUMAINE
FRENCH CAN-CAN
THE GOLDEN COACH
NANA
ELENA AND HER MEN
FILLE DE L’EAU
CHARLESTON
THE ELUSIVE CORPORAL
THE LOWER DEPTHS (don’t really enjoy this one all that much, actually (I can stand Kurosawa’s version even less)).
still haven’t seen
THE CRIME OF M. LANG
THE RIVER
THE SOUTHERNER
A DAY IN THE COUNTRY
TESTAMENT OF DR. CORDELIER
THE LITTLE THEATRE OF JEAN RENOIR
David Lynch
Andrei Tarkovski
Martin Scorsese
Ingmar Bergman
Stanley Kubrick
tough choices — lots left out of top five.
Buffalo
I don’t now if that topic exist, or is similar than other, so sorry.
1) Jim Jarmusch
2) Stanley Kubrick
3) John Waters
4) The Brother’s Coen
5) Vincent Gallo