Cassavetes
Altman
Polanski
Haneke
Van Sant
Lynch
Kubrick
Scorsese
Van Sant
Cronenberg
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Francis Ford Coppola
4. Stanley Kubrick
5. Quentin Tarantino
1 Ruiz 2 Tarkovsky 3 Godard 4 Paradjanov 5 John Ford 6 Mizoguchi I really can’t limit it to 5 or even six! How do you like them apples?
Currently.
The Archers
Nicolas Ray
John Ford
Luis Bunuel
Buster Keaton
Not sure at the moment, but these four are currently on my mind:
Robert Bresson
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Tsai Ming-liang
Michael Haneke
The Archers
Orson Welles
Martin Scorsese
Steven Spielberg
Woody Allen
(no order)
Alfred Hitchcock
Billy Wilder
Steven Spielberg
Stanley Kubrick
Paul Thomas Anderson
I really want to include Ingmar Bergman, but the topic asked for 5.
Cassavetes
Parajanov
Wiseman
Tarkovsky
These are the four I am currently enjoying.
Paul Schrader
Michael Haneke
Andrei Tarkovsky
Yasujiro Ozu
Robert Bresson
Park Chan-wook
David Cronenberg
Hayao Miyazaki
The Coen Brothers
Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson
Martin Scorsese
Woody Allen
Ingmar Bergman
and right now, Terrence Malick
That was tough!
David Lynch
Shion Sono
Michelangelo Antonioni
Woody Allen
Stanley Kubrick
Jean Eustache
Jean-Luc Godard
Nagisa Oshima
Maurice Pialat
Eagle Pennell
In no order:
Sergei Paradjanov
Preston Sturges
Andrei Tarkovsky
Robert Siodmak
Bela Tarr
hmmm….right now it’s
godard
ozu
manoel de oliveira
andrzej munk
lubitsch
with bunuel, eugene green, pavel juracek and rohmer all fighting it out for 6th.
1. Robert Bresson
2. Jean-Luc Godard
Always.
And then in no order:
Andrei Tarkovsky, Jacques Tati, David Lynch, Nicholas Ray.
I really haven’t seen all that much…
- Robert Bresson
Joris Ivens
Fritz Lang
Tsai Ming-liang
Buster Keaton/Jean Renoir
[I’m getting worse and worse with these things.]
(in no particular order)
Godard
Pialat
Pennell
Eustache
Ferreri
It’s difficult to narrow it down to five, but…
Luis Buñuel
Werner Herzog
Akira Kurosawa
Sergio Leone
Billy Wilder
Those are definitely among my very favorites.
It’s hard for me to pick favorite directors. I watch movies from everyone. Here are my top five favorites, though, and the ones I consistently keep up with.
1. Kevin Smith.
2. Martin Scorsese.
3. John Waters.
4. John Hughes.
5. Rob Reiner.
Pasolini
Bresson
Fassbinder
Tarkovsky
Antonioni
1 Jean-Luc Godard
2 Andrei Tarkovsky
3 Alain Resnais
4 David Lynch
5 Terrence Malick
I can’t do it in 5
Altman
DePalma
Hitchcock
Kurosawa
S. Ray
Welles
Akira Kurosawa
Stanley Kubrick
Fritz Lang
Wes Anderson
Woody Allen
In my very limited and capricious way:
1. Robert Bresson
2. Andrei Tarkovsky
3. Ingmar Bergman
on the other side of the art/entertainment continuum:
4. Martin Scorcese
5. Steven Spielberg
(and honorary mention goes to 6. Christopher Nolan)
1. andrzej zulawski
2. bresson
3. alain resnais
4. wong kar-wai
5. bela tarr
PT Anderson made two great movies, Magnolia and There Will Be Blood, but I can’t rank him into my list of favorites until I’ve seen more of his output.
Only five?! I’ll try… in no real order…
Buñuel, Ozu, Truffaut, Mizoguchi and Hitchcock.
Christopher Small
Godard, among others.