Your 5 Favourite Directors

Quentin Tarantino
Paul Thomas Anderson
Jim Jarmusch
David Lynch
Coen Brothers

i guess that’s not a very exotic list, but i love em, and they hit all corners. i’d see anything any of them put out before anything else.

Gaspar Noe
Lars von Trier
Michael Haneke
Philippe Grandrieux
Reha Erdem

Fassbinder
Kieslowski
Wilder
Akin
Medem

Jean-Pierre Melville
Eric Rohmer
Sam Peckinpah
Antonioni
Coen brothers

Chaplin
Paradjanov
Tarkovsky
Bergman
Brakhage

Jean Luc Godard
Jim Jarmusch
MIchaelangelo Antonioni
Takashi Miike
Wim Wenders

In alphabetical order I’d have to go with:

Werner Herzog
Jia Zhangke
Terrence Malick
Yasijuro Ozu
Martin Scorsese

And only one of ’em is dead. Maybe I should be ashamed of this fact? I dunno.

1) Jean-Luc Godard
2) Abbas Kiarostami
3) Bernardo Bertolucci
4) Carl Theodor Dreyer
5) Yoshishige Yoshida

And if I may,

6) Michael Mann
7) Claire Denis
8) Brian De Palma
9) Robert Altman
10) Jacques Rivette

Wow, this is tough and subject to change. Such is the nature of our transient universe, although my opinion on the truthfulness of that statement is also subject to change.

1. Yasujiro Ozu
2. Kenji Mizoguchi
3. Andrei Tarkovsky
4. Akira Kurosawa
5. Hayao Miyazaki

Ugh, and Kieslowski, Herzog, Tournier, Jeunet, Fellini, Bresson, Kubrick…

1. Michelangelo Antonioni
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. Michael Mann
4. Christopher Nolan
5. Quentin Tarantino

Here’s my five with my favorite film of theirs:

1. Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill)
2. Lars Von Trier (Dancer in the Dark)
3. Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey)
4. Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window)
5. David Fincher (The Social Network)

1. Michael Haneke
2. Paul Thomas Anderson
3. Christopher Nolan
4. Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu
5. Stanley Kubrick

At the present moment:

1. Paul Schrader (Light Sleeper; Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters)
2. Michael Haneke (The White Ribbon; Funny Games & Funny Games U.S.)
3. Andrei Tarkovsky (The Mirror; The Sacrifice)
4. Kenji Mizoguchi (Sansho the Bailiff; The Life of Oharu)
5. Lars von Trier (Antichrist; Europa)

1. Tarkovsky
2. Bergman
3. Mallick
4. Paradjanov
5. Kubrick

My top five with my favorite of their films:

1. Brian De Palma (Carrie)
2. David Cronenberg (Videodrome)
3. Dario Argento (Tenebre)
4. John Cassavetes (Gloria)
5. Woody Allen (Interiors)

Stanley Kubrick
Jean Luc Godard
Francis Ford Coppola
Orson Welles
Woody Allen

Orson Welles
Sergei Paradjanov
Seijun Suzuki
Russ Meyer
Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger

Update:

1. Jean-Luc Godard
2. Michael Robinson
3. Stan Brakhage
4. Carl Theodor Dreyer

5.

Jacques Rivette
Martin Arnold
Peter Kubelka
Ken Jacobs
Philippe Grandrieux
Ben Rivers
Vincent Gallo
Harmony Korine
Michael Snow
Andy Warhol

Being honest.

1. Wong Kar Wai

2. Jean Luc Goddard

3. David Lynch

4. Ingmar Bergman

5. Krzysztof Kieslowski

This is based on my dvd collection… hahahaha….

My top five with my favorite of their films:

1. Stanley Kubrick (Eyes Wide Shut, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Barry Lyndon)
2. Michael Haneke (The Piano Teacher, The White Ribbon, The Seventh Continent, Funny Games)
3. David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire, Blue Velvet)
4. Michelangelo Antonioni (Zabriskie Point, L’Eclisse, L’Avventura)
5. Ingmar Bergman (Persona, The Virgin Spring, The Seventh Seal, Through A Glass Darkly)

6. Jean Luc Godard (Pierrot Le Fou, Alphaville, A Bout De Souffle, Une Femme Est Une Femme)
7. David Cronenberg (Videodrome, Crash, The Brood)
8. Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem For A Dream, Black Swan, The Wrestler)
9. Jim Jarmusch (Down By Law, Coffee and Cigarettes, Stranger Than Paradise)
10. Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas) and Andrzej Zulawski (Possession)

1. Stanley Kubrick (Clockwork Orange, 2001)
2. Roman Polanski (The tenant, The death and the maiden)
3. Sergio Leone (Once upon a time in America, Once upon in the west)
4. Zhang Yimou (Not one less, The road home)
5. Michael Haneke (The piano teacher, Cache)
6. David Lynch (Mulholland Dr., The elephant man)
7. Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Goodfellas)

Alfred Hitchcock
Terry Gilliam
Sergei Eisenstein
Stanley Kubrick
Edgar Wright

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Stanley Kubrick
Federico Fellini
Francois Truffaut
Martin Scorsese
Luis Bunuel

1)Atıf Yılmaz
1)Zeki Demirkubuz
1)Reha Erdem
2)Park Chan-wook
2)Peter Greenaway
2)Marina de Van
2)Pedro Almodóvar
3)Kim Ki- Duk
3)Gaspar Noé
4)Michel Gondry
5)Léos Carax

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5 Current Obsessions
-Vincente Minnelli
-Claire Denis
-John McTiernan
-Wong Kar-wai
-Hou Hsiao-hsien

- Jacques Rivette
- Fritz Lang
- Jean Renoir
- John Huston

Wild Card:
- Buster Keaton

Stanley Kubrick (just read this month American cinematographer Dante Spinotti thoughts on him)

Luis Bunuel (just read “sculpting in time” for Tarkosvky thoughts on him)

Andrey Tarkosvky (ask Roger Deakins which film he considers that approach perfection more easily)

Terrence Malick ("where were you…?)

Ingmar Bergman (just hear Roger Corman on the “sharktopus” commentary

wild card: Hideakki Anno.

1. Stanley Kubrick

2. Martin Scorsese

3. Woody Allen

4. Paul Thomas Anderson

5. Wes Anderson