Ingmar Bergman
Andrei Tarkovskiy
Michelangelo Antonioni
Federico Fellini
Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
Christopher Nolan
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Because I am bored . . .
- Robert Bresson
- Fritz Lang
- Jean Renoir
- Joe Swanberg
- Tsai Ming-liang
1.Zemeckis
2.Kubrick
3.Nolan
4.FIncher
5.Ritchie
1) Tarkovsky
2) Bresson
3) Parajanov
4) Bunuel
5) Antonioni
Every director has their own unique vision that they bring to the medium. To rank them would be unfair. But, if I were to select 5 directors who influence me as a filmmaker the most, they would be:
David Lynch
Stanley Kubrick
James Cameron
Federico Fellini
Terrence Malick
Alfred Hitchcock
Martin Scorsese
Stanley Kubrick
Robert Altman
David Lynch
1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Ken Russell
3. David Lynch
4. Harmony Korine
5. Edward Yang/Steve McQueen (I know, I cheated here)
1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Ken Russell
3. David Lynch
4. Harmony Korine
5. Edward Yang/Steve McQueen (I know, I cheated here)
Bunuel
Fellini
Lynch
Haneke
Antonioni
Orson Welles
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Ingmar Bergman
Andrey Tarkovskiy
Jean-Luc Godard
John Ford
Billy Wilder
Sergio Leone
Woody Allen
Wes Anderson
Quentin Tarantino
As of right now:
Alfred Hitchcock
David Lynch
Stanley Kubrick
Ingmar Bergman
Martin Scorsese
(+ PTA and De Palma)
“I didn’t have favorite directors when i was teenager, the first directors i use to like are some of the ones i still like and they will always be in my top10 directors of all time.”
Wtf are you talking about moron?
Roman Polanski
David Cronenberg
Brian de Palma
Akira Kurosawa
Louis Malle
(A sixth place: John Huston)
Roughly in order:
Orson Welles
Jean Renoir
Alfred Hitchcock
Fritz Lang
Yasujiro Ozu
David Lean
Michelangelo Antonioni
John Ford
Federico Fellini
Kenji Mizoguchi
Howard Hawks
D. W. Griffith
Alexander Payne
Paul Thomas Anderson
Martin Scorsese
Stanley Kubrick
Jacques Tati
Sergei Eisenstein
Alexander Dovzhenko
Here’s my top 5 Director:
1. Stanley Kubrick. (A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr.Strangelove.)
2. David Lynch. (Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks,, Lost Highway, Mulholland Dr.)
3. Paul Thomas Anderson. (There Will Be Blood, Punch-Drunk Love.)
4. Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Vol.1, Kill Bill Vol.2, Death Proof.)
5. Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future, Romancing The Stone.)
1. Martin Scorsese
=2. Francis Ford Coppola
=2. Sergio Leone
4. Stanley Kubrick
5. Bernardo Bertolucci
These days:
-Roberto Rossellini
-John Ford
-Jean Renoir
-Vincente Minnelli
-Jean-Luc Godard
close:
-Kenji Mizoguchi
-Yasujiro Ozu
-Michael Cimino
-Johnnie To
Pretty much in order, for now, at least….
- Jean-Luc Godard
- João César Monteiro
- Jacques Rivette
- Neil Jordan
- Michelangelo Antonioni
As of now:
1. Roberto Rossellini
2. John Ford
3. Jean-Marie Straub & Danielle Huillet
4. Jean-Luc Godard
5. Kenji Mizoguchi
Close:
Abbas Kiarostami
Jean Renoir
Abel Ferrara
King Vidor
Josef Von Sternberg
Edward Yang
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Charles Chaplin
Jacques Rivette
Nicholas Ray
Philippe Garrel
Mikio
Tsai
Farhadi
Lubitsch
Trinh
1 – Hitchcock
2 – Chaplin
3 – Leone
4 – Capra
5 – Kubrick
runner ups;
Tarantino
Lynch
Hawks
Wilder
Stevens
Powell
Huston
Wyler
Miyazaki
Jewison
Zwigoff
Stillman
Crowe
Veber
Hitchcock
Bergman
Altman
Lynch
Kubrick
I’ll play yet again, but this time, to be different, five current fascinations/explorations:
-Andre De Toth
-Robert Aldrich
-Joseph H. Lewis
-David Mackenzie
-Takashi Miike
Dead:
Angelopoulos
Antonioni
Bergman
Fellini
Tarkovsky
Alive:
Andersson
Ceylan
Costa
Kiarostami
Sokurov
1. Paul Thomas Anderson (Even if ‘The Master’ was his weakest link, he’s still leading the pack of contemporary American filmmakers in my opinion)
2. Stanley Kubrick (for teaching me quality visuals)
3. Woody Allen (for teaching me quality comedy)
4. Billy Wilder/The Coens (for teaching me quality storytelling)
5. Alfred Hitchcock (for teaching me quality suspense, naturally)
Anthony Mann
William A. Wellman
Basil Dearden
Karel Zeman
Yasuharu Hasebe
HM:
Toshio Masuda
William Witney
André De Toth
Lam Ngai Kai
Eloy de la Iglesia
Dwan, etc.
David Cronenberg
Louis Malle
Roman Polanski
Brian de Palma
Alfred Hitchcock
Alex
I didn’t have favorite directors when i was teenager, the first directors i use to like are some of the ones i still like and they will always be in my top10 directors of all time.