Nowadays…
Tsai Ming-Liang
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Chan-wook Park
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Brillante Mendoza
1. Martin Scorsese (up to Casino)
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. Shane Meadows
4. Paul thomas anderson
5. nicolas winding refn
1. Martin Scorsese
2. Terrence Malick
3. Akira Kurosawa
4. Andrei Tarkovsky
5. Christopher Nolan
1. David Fincher
2. Coen Brothers
3. Charlie Chaplin
4. Alfred Hitchcock
5. Martin Scorsese
Today:
Pedro Costa
Ingmar Bergman
Andrei Tarkovsky
Manoel de Oliveira
Jean-Luc Godard
1. Jean-Luc Godard
2. Michelangelo Antonioni
3. Jim Jarmusch
4. Terrence Malick
5: Jean-Pierre Melville
6: Stanley Kubrick (Sorry, I had to put 6)
1. Jean-Luc Godard
2. Michelangelo Antonioni
3. Jim Jarmusch
4. Terrence Malick
5: Jean-Pierre Melville
6: Stanley Kubrick (Sorry, I had to put 6)
5. Kubrick
4. Kubrick
3. Kubrick
2. Kubrick
1. Citizen Kane
1. Carl Dreyer
2. Kenji Mizoguchi
3. Jean Renoir
4. FW Murnau
5. Fritz Lang
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Billy Wilder
3. Martin Scorsese
4. Preston Sturges
5. Terrence Malick
My five favorites:
1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Ingmar Bergman
3. Akira Kurosawa
4. Martin Scorsese
5. Nicolas Winding Refn
1. Kubrick
2. Mizuguchi
3. Yang
4. Bergman
5. Kiarostami
Also like (though nowhere near the top 5)
-Tsai
-Tarkovsky
-Welles
-Ruiz
-Tsui Hark
-Miyazaki
-Almodovar
-Bunuel
-Bong Joon-ho
-Kurosawa
1. Woody Allen
2. Coen brothers
3. Steven Spielberg
4. Sam Mendes
5. Martin Scorsese
1. Coens
2. P.T. Anderson
3. Scorsese
4. Tarantino
5. Almodóvar
1. Bergman
2. Bresson
3. Kurosawa
4. Chaplin
5. Scorsese
Simple
1. Martin Scorsese
2. Francis Ford Coppola
3. Joel and Ethan Coen
4. Robert Altman
5. Woody Allen
Very close:
Oliver Stone
Spike Lee
Michael Mann
Clint Eastwood
Steven Spielberg
Sidney Lumet
From what I have seen, here’s a list:
1) Andrei Tarkovsky – all his seven movies, esp. Mirror and Stalker
2) Robert Bresson – Mouchette, Proces de Jeane de Arc, Pickpocket
3) Ingmar Bergman- Persona, Winter Light
4) Bunuel- L’age D’or, Un Chien Andalou
5) Sergei Parajanov: The Colour of Pomegranates
6) Hiroshi Teshigahara: Woman in the Dunes
7) Fellini: 81/2 (yet to see more of his films)
8) Godard: A Bout de Souffle, Alphaville, Pierot Le Fou ( I am yet to see Weekend and I want to)
9) Kieslowski: Dekalog, Colour Trilogy
10) David Lynch: Mulholland Drive
I am really interested in, Bela Tarr. I have seen half of Satantango and it’s breath-taking!
1. Eagle Pennell
2. Bernardo Bertolucci
3. John Ford
4. Jean-Luc Godard
5. Alain Resnais
Richard Linklater (my favorite director of all time)
Brian De Palma
Quentin Tarantino
Steven Spielberg
Jean-Pierre Melville
John Woo
1. Robert Bresson – The Devil Probably, Mouchette, A Man Escaped
2. Jean-Luc Godard – Masculin Féminin, Hélas Pour Moi, JLG/JLG – Autoportrait de Décembre
It’s hard to rank Godard’s films by their importance to me. I take all of it as one, fleshing it out each time I see a new one.
After that, I’ve only got some directors I really like without having seen many of their films.
Andrei Tarkovsky – Andrei Rublyov, Solaris
Eric Rohmer – The Six Moral Tales, particularly La Collectionneuse and Claire’s Knee (Béatrice Romand!)
Jacques Tati – M. Hulot’s Holiday, Mon Oncle. Saw Playtime on TV… so it doesn’t count.
David Lynch – Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr. and Twin Peaks if I can count it. Maybe my first real ‘Favorite Director’.
I always have a tough time figuring out number five. It’s generally whoever strikes my fancy at the moment, while the others are (for the time being) set in stone.
1. Alfred Hitchcock- Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, Rope, The Birds
2. Martin Scorsese- Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Casino, Cape Fear, The Departed
3. Stanley Kubrick- 2001, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket
4. Francis Ford Coppola- The Godfather Trilogy, Apocalypse Now
5. David Lynch- Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks (seen the first half of the show and I love it)
1.Martin Scorsese
2. Paul Thomas Anderson
3. Alfred Hitchcock
4. The Coen Bros.
Others I admire:
Clint Eastwood
Stanley Kubrick
Wes Anderson
Quentin Tarantino
David Fincher
Before I discovered the greatness all over this site… -——- After Discovering this blessed site…
Kubrick——- Glauber Rocha!!!
Bergman———- Andrzej Zulawski
Kurosawa————- Victor Erice
Tarkovsky——— Edward Yang
Dreyer——- Jia Zhangke
Close runner ups on this side: -—— Close Runner ups on this side:
Fellini -———— Eugene Green
Herzog————- Tsai Ming Liang
Kiarostami——————— Bela Tarr
Ozu———— Hou Hsiao Hsien
Bunuel——— Hans Jurgen Syberberg
Melville—————- Joao Cesar Monteiro
@david grillo: LOL you cheater…
Right..
ohh it does work I’d like to see more users before and afters for films and directors it’d be scary if you did looks people have been on this site for years some of them must live underground by now lol..
David Lynch, Terrence Malick, Michael Mann, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg
Tarkovsky, Mizoguchu, Bergman, Ozu, Godard. But Michael Bay narrowly misses out. _
Fuzzbucket
Akira Kurosawa
Martin Scorsese
Stanley Kubrick
John Cassavetes
Alfred Hitchcock