100 DIRECTORS' ESSENTIAL FILMS

IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER – LARGELY OBJECTIVE, WITH SOME PERSONAL TOUCHES.

THE 100
Akerman, Almodovar, Altman, Anderson (P.T), Anderson (Wes), Angelopoulos, Antonioni, Bergman, Bong, Bresson, Bunuel, Capra, Cassavetes, Ceylan, Chaplin, Coen brothers, Coppola, Cronenberg, Denis, De Sica, Diaz, Dreyer, Eisenstein, Erice, Farhadi, Fassbinder, Fellini, Ford, Godard, Hamaguchi, Haneke, Haroun, Hawks, Herzog, Hitchcock, Hou, Jarmusch, Kaurismaki, Keaton, Kiarostami, Kieslowski, Kobayashi, Koreeda, Kubrick, Kurosawa, Lang, Lean, Lee (Spike), Leone, Loach, Lubitsch, Lynch, Malick, Malle, Marker, Martel, Melville, Miyazaki, Mizoguchi,...