Kubrick
Fassbinder
Herzog
Haneke
Imamura
Konstantin Lopushansky
Andrzej Żuławski
Forugh Farrokhzad
Ivan Zulueta
Elem Klimov
Truffaut
Rohmer
Kiarostami
Bergman
Hitchcock
Bunuel , Ford, and Rossellini are my eternal triumvirate (at least for the past few years). I’m on a huge Tourneur kick right now, so I’ll put him fourth. As for fifth, if I don’t put Alonso, I’m anti-contemporary; if I don’t put Godard, I’m ant-modernist; If I don’t put McCarey, I’m anti-cinema, and if I don’t put Bresson, I’m an idiot. So I give up.
@Jerry — I think you care too much. :)
Akira Kurosawa
Michael Powell (& Emeric Pressburger)
Sam Peckinpah
Preston Sturges
Orson Welles
Jerry Johnson,
I’ve barely seen any Rossellini. Why do you pick him over Pasolini and De Sica? I was under the impression that Rossellini was “stuck” in Italian neorealism for his whole career. What other kinds of movies did he make?
This always changes.
Jean-Luc Godard
Alfred Hitchcock
Yasujiro Ozu
Michael Mann
Takashi Miike (current obsession slot)
Alternate Five:
John Carpenter
Claire Denis
Wong Kar-wai
Paul Verhoeven
Abel Ferrara
herzog
lynch
fellini
mizoguchi
tarkovsky
Michael- Rossellini only made three neo-realism films. The majority of his films were costume dramas. He also almost singlehandedly invented the modern art film with his Ingrid Bergman cycle.
Zulawski
Kieślowski
Kiarostami
Noe
Korine
also ♥
Tarantino
Kubrick
Jarmusch
Jarman
Denis
Morris
Lynch
Stanley Kubrick
Alfred Hitchcock
The Coen Brothers
Paul Thomas Anderson
Werner Herzog
1. Joe Swanberg
2. James Hausler
3. Todd Solondz
4. Bruce McDonald
5. Guy Maddin
Honorable Mentions:
Aaron Katz
Todd Rohal
Miranda July
Lars Von Trier
Andrew Bujalski
Harmony Korine
Gaspar Noe
but it changes constantly!
right now, in no order:
Straub-Huillet
Harun Farocki
Jon Jost
Philippe Garrel
Joris Ivens
Mizoguchi
Bergman
Bresson
Antonioni
Tarkovsky
Lynch
Hartley
Jarmusch
Kurosawa
Fellini
Herzog
Wenders
Saura
Bunuel
Kobayashi
Teshigahara
Don Hertzfeldt
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Tsai Ming-liang
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Sharunas Bartas
Only 5 is a crime, but this is my choice whatsoever (not ranked).
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Ingmar Bergman
Jiří Menzel
Karel Zeman
Luchino Visconti
wenders dreyer kurosawa kobayashi truffaut
Naruse, Pialat, Mizoguchi, Hou, Ozu
Naruse, Pialat, Mizoguchi, Hou, Ozu
The new permutation:
Jean-Luc Godard
Vincente Minnelli
Michael Mann
Yasujiro Ozu
Nicholas Ray
So far, my top 5 favorites are…
Stanley Kubrick
John Cassavetes
Paul Thomas Anderson
David Lynch
Vincent Gallo
Kubrick, Polanski, Haneke, Leone, Scorsese
Jacques Rivette
Fritz Lang
John Huston
Jean Renoir
1. Terrence Malick
2. Ingmar Bergman
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Hayao Miyazaki
Éric Rohmer
Jean Vigo
right now, but arguably unchangeable
Bresson
Krolikiewicz
German
Loznitsa
Olmi
or
Pita
Pintilie
Schorm
Erdem
Mettler / Woodworth and Brossens
no, i can’t make up my mind. top 5 is so unfair. the smaller the number, the more arbitrary the choice.
INGMAR BERGMAN (1)
MARTIN SCORSESE (2)
JOEL COEN/ ETHAN COEN (3)
STANLEY KUBRICK (4)
PEDRO ALMODOVAR (5)
ALTERNATES:
WERNER HERZOG (6)
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI (7)
WES ANDERSON (8)
WOODY ALLEN (9)
MICHAEL POWELL (10)
1.Krzysztof Kieslowski
2.Alfred Hitchcock
3.Akira Kurosawa
4.Jacques Tati
5.Yasujiro Ozu
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
STANLEY KUBRICK
ALAIN RESNAIS
ORSON WELLES
KAR-WAI WONG
orli
Takashi Miike.