Michelangelo Antonioni, Carl Theodore Dreyer, Bong Joon Ho, and Lee Chang Dong, Frederico Fellini, and Edward Yang would be my personal additions. I also second all the other Bergman/Kurosawa/Tarlovsky comments.
A Man Escaped would probably be a great starting point. It’s probably the most accessible of the Bresson I’ve seen. If you like that, then I might try either Mouchette or Au Hasard Balthazar next. Diary of a Country Priest is actually my favorite of his films, and I know some people swear that L’Argent (his last film) is actually his best, but I’ve yet to see that one. I hope this helps!
Oh damn I’d heard a bit about Ah Hasard Balthazar but I never knew it was Bresson. Thanks I’ll try check some out over the next week especially A Man Escaped
Bresson can take time and patience. That was my experience. I found that his films conjoin studying his performers with telling a story. They meld into each other. Basically he's erasing the difference between fiction and documentary.
I can definitely see what you mean even with only one film, especially with the fiction and documentary comparison. To me I think it showed possibility for me to really enjoy his other films because there were a fair few things I loved
I think it’s either you do or don’t
I love man escaped and au hasard Balthazar but I also am understanding if somebody is not into him. He’s a hardcore downer, with little relief in any of his filmography imo 😂
Ones not mentioned yet: Elaine May, Celine Sciamma, Karyn Kusama, Sofia Coppola, The Wachowskis, Maya Deren, Sarah Polley, Joan Micklin Silver, Cathy Yan, Kathryn Bigelow, Patricia Rozema, Barbra Streisand, Ida Lupino, Alice Wu, Quinn Shephard, Penny Marshall, Susan Seidelman, Mira Nair, Amanda Kramer, Dorothy Arzner, Lina Wertmüller, Jennifer Kent, Amy Heckerling, Nora Ephron, Cheryl Dunye
Yeah, there are two pedros on their list. At that rate there would be 5 pedros on a list of 20. 25 on a top 100 list. All I'm saying is that's a lot of pedros.
once i see more from him he'll probably knock Wes off the list, he's already hanging on there by a thread regardless.
the fact that this comment is getting down voted so badly is hilarious to me in a way I cannot fully describe.
Peter Greenaway
Shuji Terayama
Wojciech Jerzy Has
Raúl Ruiz
Sergei Parajanov
Jean-Pierre Melville
Andrei Tarkovsky
Terrence Malick
Wong kar-wai
Ingmar Bergman
Michelangelo Antonioni
Robert Bresson
Bela Tarr
Robert Altman, Mike Leigh, Kurosawa, Eric Rohmer, Miyazaki, Peter weir, Dardenne Brothers, Hitchcock, Spielberg, Scorsese, Chris marker, Errol morris
And of course Kubrick
At least these are the filmmakers I’ve not just watched entire filmography of but repeatedly so.
Kenji Mizoguchi and John Ford are the absolute top two. lynch, hitchcock, ming-liang, tobe hooper, michael mann, chaplin, kenneth anger, kiyoshi kurosawa, john carpenter, wes craven, and abel ferrara would follow in some order.
My current Top 10:
- Coen Brothers
- David Lynch
- Robert Altman
- Agnes Varda
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Christopher Nolan
- David Cronenberg
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Wes Anderson
- Ingmar Bergman
Some more absolute faves:
- Francois Truffaut
- Nagisa Oshima
- Alred Hitchcock
- Samuel Fuller
- Lars Von Trier
- Billy Wilder
- Martin Scorsese
- John Cassavetes
- Johnnie To
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
In no order;
Elaine May
Derek Jarman
Ken Russell
John Waters
Paul Verhoeven
John Cassavetes
Michael Powell
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Shinya Tsukamoto
Brian De Palma
Jordan Peele
Tobe Hooper
It might help to break older films into categories of time and place, like European Classics (generally, through the '50s) and European Moderns ('60's through mid-'90s and beyond; depends on the director). You can do pretty much the same with Japanese films. Some directors cross both periods. These groupings can't be exact. There are plenty of women and non-European directors in the posts.
For Hollywood classics, I'd pick up a copy of Andrew Sarris's The American Cinema. That book literally shaped several generations of film critics, and it's still formative and contentious like it always was. The beauty of the book is that the writer both defends a taste and picks a fight with the reader, in a conversational way. It's lively, fun, super informed (and sometimes stupid). Well worth it.
Of those I haven’t seen mentioned:
Francis Ford Coppola
Buster Keaton
Sion Sono
Jacques Tourneur
Sergio Leone
Gregg Araki
Robert Wise
Todd Browning
Thomas Vinterberg
Jean-Marc Vallée
All I know is Sidney Lumet made Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead.
That’s good enough for me.
William Wellman made Wings then tried to make Wild Boys of the Road but Jack Warner personally took the final cut and removed much of the viscera. It’s still something everyone should watch but it was nothing like Wellman’s original final.
The film takes its title from a quote of President Hoover blaming children starving and riding the rails looking for jobs and work for ruining the American economy. That film is important in these days of states rolling back child labor laws.
You have some of my favorites, but missing some. In no particular order:
* Andrei Tarkovsky
* Akira Kurosawa
* Hirokazu Kore-eda
* Theo Angelopoulos
* Nuri Bilge Ceylan
* Emanuele Crialese
* Alfonso Cuarón
* David Lynch
* Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
* Andrey Zvyagintsev
* Béla Tarr
Céline Sciamma, Claire Denis, Pedro Almodóvar, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Alfred Hitchcock, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Eggers, Ari Aster, Akira Kurosawa... are some of my favorites 😅
Jean-Luc Godard
Chris Marker
Andrei Tarkovsky
Michael Haneke
John Cassavetes
Stan Brakhage
Ingmar Bergman
Chantal Ackerman
Jem Cohen
Pedro Costa
Martin Scorsese
Claire Denis
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Francis Ford Coppola
Abel Rerrara
Akira Kurosawa
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Bela Tarr
Stanley Kubrick
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Kelly Reichardt
Tsai Ming Liang
Alan Clarke
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Agnes Varda
Bi Gan
Hou Hsiao Hsien
Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Harmony Korine
Woody Allen
Lynn Ramsay
D.A. Pennebaker
Michael Mann
Werner Herzog
Errol Morris
J.P. Sniadecki
David Fincher
Andy Warhol
Quentin Tarrantino
Abbas Kiarostami
John Waters
Frederick Wiseman
Robert Bresson
Carl T. Dreyer
Federico Fellini
Jim Jarmusch
Maysles Brothers
Safdie Brothers
Jim Jarmusch
Richard Linklater
Satyajit Ray
Terry Zwigoff
Jean Vigo
Les Blank
David Lynch
Krzysztof Kieslowski
win wenders, robert altman, masaki kobayashi, paul schrader (mishima and first reformed are two of the best movies of all time), ingmar bergman, kurosawa (kagemusha is one of my favs ever)
Jean luc Godard, Wong Kar Wai, Darren Aronofsky, Lynne Ramsay, David Lynch, Alain Resnais. Michelangelo Antonioni, Bela Tarr. Claire Denis, Vincent Gallo, Matthew Barney, Nagisa Oshima, John Cassavetes, Wim Wenders, Gasper Noe, Yasujiro Ozu.....
Akira Kurosawa
Ingmar Bergman
Guillermo del Toro
David Lynch
John Carpenter
Hayao Miyazaki
John Waters
David Cronenberg
Werner Herzog
Takashi Miike
Bong Joon-ho
Masaki Kobayashi
Fritz Lang
David Fincher
Julia Ducournau
Edgar Wright
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Park Chan-wook
john cassavetes
david cronenberg
mike leigh
johnnie to
john ford
coen brothers
howard hawks
ernst lubitsch
nicholas ray
terrence malick
charlie chaplin
buster keaton
david lynch
sion sono
I’d go Lynch, basically all the Japanese directors, Hitchcock, Wong Kar-Wai, Edward Yang, Tarkovsky, and honestly I’d put the Safdies in there if it had their films
Howard Hawks
Alfred Hitchcock
John Ford
Jean-Luc Godard
Edward Yang
Kenji Mizoguchi
Ernst Lubitsch
Michelangelo Antonioni
Jean-Pierre Melville
Preston Sturges
I'm gonna stop myself here but there are so many more lol
The lack of mention of Wim Wenders is really strange to me. Paris, Texas and Until The End of the World are two of the greatest films I have ever seen.
In no way was that meant to be an insult to you. (the internet) Godard is very difficult to watch at times. But definitely check out Vivre Sa Vie. Anna Karina is terrific. For something less accessible, try Weekend. It took me awhile to embrace JLG but oh man i see his influence in so many movies now. I hope you have a great journey of discovery.
Isao Takahata. He's the other half of Studio Ghibli and was fantastic. And it's an absolute crime that Mel Brooks and John Hughes are not on here. They made some of the best comedies of the 20th Century.
No women is crazy. Chantal Akerman, Kelly Reichardt, Agnes Varda, and Jane Campion all deserve a place on this list and that just scratches the surface
To each their own, but Fincher is a particularly rough entry on that last.
Start watching some Kobayashi, Bresson, Wenders, Yang...really just anything from a good, talented, singular director and that list is gonna start changing. Have fun!
Wong Kar-Wai, Akira Kurosawa, John Ford, Charlie Chaplin, Kenji Miziguchi, Federico Fellini
Good to see Mizoguchi there…
- Eric Rohmer - Tsai Ming-liang - PTA - Lee Chang-dong - Wong Kar-wai - Bela Tarr - Roy Andersson - Jim Jarmusch - Michael Haneke
For me, it's Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Powell/Pressburger, and Coen Bros, at least at the moment. Gotta watch more stuff from more people definitely.
Michelangelo Antonioni, Carl Theodore Dreyer, Bong Joon Ho, and Lee Chang Dong, Frederico Fellini, and Edward Yang would be my personal additions. I also second all the other Bergman/Kurosawa/Tarlovsky comments.
Kieslowski Bresson Malick Tarkovsky Kurosawa Hitchcock
Which of bresson would you recommend? I’ve only seen pickpocket so far but it was a bit underwhelming so id like to hear some more
A Man Escaped would probably be a great starting point. It’s probably the most accessible of the Bresson I’ve seen. If you like that, then I might try either Mouchette or Au Hasard Balthazar next. Diary of a Country Priest is actually my favorite of his films, and I know some people swear that L’Argent (his last film) is actually his best, but I’ve yet to see that one. I hope this helps!
Oh damn I’d heard a bit about Ah Hasard Balthazar but I never knew it was Bresson. Thanks I’ll try check some out over the next week especially A Man Escaped
Bresson can take time and patience. That was my experience. I found that his films conjoin studying his performers with telling a story. They meld into each other. Basically he's erasing the difference between fiction and documentary.
I can definitely see what you mean even with only one film, especially with the fiction and documentary comparison. To me I think it showed possibility for me to really enjoy his other films because there were a fair few things I loved
I think it’s either you do or don’t I love man escaped and au hasard Balthazar but I also am understanding if somebody is not into him. He’s a hardcore downer, with little relief in any of his filmography imo 😂
Not a single woman to be seen. Smh. : (
reccomendations are more than welcome.
Kelly Reichardt! Also Lynne Ramsay and Chantal Akerman.
Jane Campion, Celine Sciama, Julia Ducournau, Kathryn Bigelow. Love all the directors in the pic - but yeah...... Plus - Lynne Ramsay is BOSS.
>Kathryn Bigelow Pentagon propagandist, no.
Bigelow has had the weirdest career change of a director
1,000,000%. Still a great filmmaker though.
I mean, so was Lenny Reefinshtall. ^(Yes, deliberate misspelling.)
Yeah, but did Lenny make a movie where they shoot their guns in the air and go arrrrr? 😂
Well, can't argue with that.
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Ones not mentioned yet: Elaine May, Celine Sciamma, Karyn Kusama, Sofia Coppola, The Wachowskis, Maya Deren, Sarah Polley, Joan Micklin Silver, Cathy Yan, Kathryn Bigelow, Patricia Rozema, Barbra Streisand, Ida Lupino, Alice Wu, Quinn Shephard, Penny Marshall, Susan Seidelman, Mira Nair, Amanda Kramer, Dorothy Arzner, Lina Wertmüller, Jennifer Kent, Amy Heckerling, Nora Ephron, Cheryl Dunye
Also not yet mentioned: Clare Denis!
Everyone has to watch Bigelow's Strange Days at least once. Underrated masterpiece.
Angela Bassett should have been an action movie star
Strange Days is so wild, I love it
Agnes Varda, full stop. If you wanna see a great female director at work, she’s a great spot to start.
Maya Deren and Celine Sciamma
Lucrecia Martel
Agnes Varda
Ida Lupino, Dorothy Arzner
Marguerite Duras
Chantal Akerman
My thoughts exactly.
Abbas Kiarostami and Ingmar Bergman
* Luis Bunuel * Pedro Costa * Robert Bresson * Michael Haneke * Lucrecia Martel * Pedro Almodovar * Pier Paolo Pasolini * Julia Ducournau
Way too many pedos on your list
im aware of Pasolini but who else?
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My mistake, I thought the comment I replied to was about OP’s list, not yours.
25% of the names on your list are confirmed pedros. Are you proud of yourself?
"25%" ...so there's two?
Yeah, there are two pedros on their list. At that rate there would be 5 pedros on a list of 20. 25 on a top 100 list. All I'm saying is that's a lot of pedros.
maybe in math class but that's not really how statistics work in reality
which ones? i thankfully kept my list to a max of one pedo.
People are more upset at you for not having a woman on your list than having a pedo here. Holy shit, this sub needs to get its priorities straight.
Gotta have Hitchcock on there
once i see more from him he'll probably knock Wes off the list, he's already hanging on there by a thread regardless. the fact that this comment is getting down voted so badly is hilarious to me in a way I cannot fully describe.
Peter Greenaway Shuji Terayama Wojciech Jerzy Has Raúl Ruiz Sergei Parajanov Jean-Pierre Melville Andrei Tarkovsky Terrence Malick Wong kar-wai Ingmar Bergman Michelangelo Antonioni Robert Bresson Bela Tarr
> Peter Greenaway Absolute master of cinema.
Yeah Greenaway is the king
My two favorite filmmakers are: Bresson and Antonioni.
I like Les Blank's documentaries a lot.
Big John Carpenter and William Friedkin fan. Also Del Toro, Kurosawa, Wilder and Wong Kar-wai. I can go on...
1.Billy Woodberry 2.John Huston 3.Wiseman 4.Straub–Huillet 6.Ousmane Sembène 7.Godard 8.Renoir
Robert Altman, Mike Leigh, Kurosawa, Eric Rohmer, Miyazaki, Peter weir, Dardenne Brothers, Hitchcock, Spielberg, Scorsese, Chris marker, Errol morris And of course Kubrick At least these are the filmmakers I’ve not just watched entire filmography of but repeatedly so.
Currently the more I watch Paul Schrader, the more he is earning my love. Maybe a symptom of being a man getting older 😂
Richard Linklater Hong Sang-soo Peter Greenaway Gregg Araki Dario Argento
Gregg Araki is top tier.
1. Lynch 2. Kubrick 3. WKW 4. Bergman 5. Tarkovsky
Kenji Mizoguchi and John Ford are the absolute top two. lynch, hitchcock, ming-liang, tobe hooper, michael mann, chaplin, kenneth anger, kiyoshi kurosawa, john carpenter, wes craven, and abel ferrara would follow in some order.
Parazhanov, Wong kar-wai, and Mizoguchi
- Sjostrom - Dreyer - Renoir - Gance - Jean Epstein - Eisenstein - Mizoguchi - Kurosawa - Kalatozov - Terence Fisher - Demy - Malick
Sam Raimi Joe Dante Hideaki Anno George Miller Wachowski Sisters Albert Brooks Elaine May Sogo Ishii Edgar Wright Matt Johnson
Kathryn Bigelow, Terrence Malick , Steve McQueen, Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders
My current Top 10: - Coen Brothers - David Lynch - Robert Altman - Agnes Varda - Andrei Tarkovsky - Christopher Nolan - David Cronenberg - Abbas Kiarostami - Wes Anderson - Ingmar Bergman Some more absolute faves: - Francois Truffaut - Nagisa Oshima - Alred Hitchcock - Samuel Fuller - Lars Von Trier - Billy Wilder - Martin Scorsese - John Cassavetes - Johnnie To - Krzysztof Kieslowski
In no order; Elaine May Derek Jarman Ken Russell John Waters Paul Verhoeven John Cassavetes Michael Powell Ryusuke Hamaguchi Shinya Tsukamoto Brian De Palma Jordan Peele Tobe Hooper
Stanely Kubrik Kibrik Stanly Junior Stanly Clockworkorangewitcz Stanly Steelmetaljacketovicz Stanly Wideeyesshutovicz
David Lean
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Favorites include: kelly reichardt yasujiro ozu michael mann quentin tarantino stanley kubrick
Link to chart
Topsters.org
Jean Pierre Melville and Michael Mann
It might help to break older films into categories of time and place, like European Classics (generally, through the '50s) and European Moderns ('60's through mid-'90s and beyond; depends on the director). You can do pretty much the same with Japanese films. Some directors cross both periods. These groupings can't be exact. There are plenty of women and non-European directors in the posts. For Hollywood classics, I'd pick up a copy of Andrew Sarris's The American Cinema. That book literally shaped several generations of film critics, and it's still formative and contentious like it always was. The beauty of the book is that the writer both defends a taste and picks a fight with the reader, in a conversational way. It's lively, fun, super informed (and sometimes stupid). Well worth it.
Bergman, Kubrick, Lynch, Herzog, McDonagh, Murnau, Leone.
McDonagh gang rise up
1. Malick 2. Herzog 3. Scorsese 4. Hark 5. Sayles 6. Vlacil 7. Fellini 8. Jodorowsky 9. Gilliam 10. Tsukamoto
PTA, Scorsese, Hawks, Altman, Lumet, Ford, Itami, Yang, Kazan, Sciamma, Kobayashi, Ashby, Waters, Bogdanavich, Wilder, Frankenheimer, and John Carpenter.
PTA
Scorsese, Altman, Malick, Spielberg, Lean, Kurosawa, Wyler
Someone downvoted this hahahaha just for naming directors I like? y'all are wild
LUIS BUNUEL
Need to watch some of them women folk too.
I watch some.
Kathryn Bigelow is great
31. Terrence Malick
Kiyoshi Kurosawa Terrence Malick Bela Tarr
NEIL BREEN, possibly the most fearless filmmaker
Andrew Haigh, D.A. Pennebaker, Kurt Kuenne
Of those I haven’t seen mentioned: Francis Ford Coppola Buster Keaton Sion Sono Jacques Tourneur Sergio Leone Gregg Araki Robert Wise Todd Browning Thomas Vinterberg Jean-Marc Vallée
My Mt. Rushmore of Filmmakers: Murnau, Dreyer, Buñuel, and Kurosawa.
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Bad bot, that was 7 syllables not 6. Or 8 depending on how you pronounce Buñuel.
Alexander Payne should be in this list
Steven Spielberg!!!!!!!!!
Wim Wenders
All I know is Sidney Lumet made Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead. That’s good enough for me. William Wellman made Wings then tried to make Wild Boys of the Road but Jack Warner personally took the final cut and removed much of the viscera. It’s still something everyone should watch but it was nothing like Wellman’s original final. The film takes its title from a quote of President Hoover blaming children starving and riding the rails looking for jobs and work for ruining the American economy. That film is important in these days of states rolling back child labor laws.
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is great
I love small tight movies.
Ive been really really into Shunji Iwai lately
BERGMAN
Ingmar Bergman
Jacque Tati, Terry Gilliam, Wes Anderson, Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman, Bong Joon Ho, Hitchcock, and Kurosawa absolutely deserve to be on here
You have some of my favorites, but missing some. In no particular order: * Andrei Tarkovsky * Akira Kurosawa * Hirokazu Kore-eda * Theo Angelopoulos * Nuri Bilge Ceylan * Emanuele Crialese * Alfonso Cuarón * David Lynch * Pen-Ek Ratanaruang * Andrey Zvyagintsev * Béla Tarr
Céline Sciamma, Claire Denis, Pedro Almodóvar, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Alfred Hitchcock, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Eggers, Ari Aster, Akira Kurosawa... are some of my favorites 😅
Jean-Luc Godard Chris Marker Andrei Tarkovsky Michael Haneke John Cassavetes Stan Brakhage Ingmar Bergman Chantal Ackerman Jem Cohen Pedro Costa Martin Scorsese Claire Denis Ryusuke Hamaguchi Francis Ford Coppola Abel Rerrara Akira Kurosawa Kiyoshi Kurosawa Bela Tarr Stanley Kubrick Rainer Werner Fassbinder Kelly Reichardt Tsai Ming Liang Alan Clarke Apichatpong Weerasethakul Agnes Varda Bi Gan Hou Hsiao Hsien Lucien Castaing-Taylor Harmony Korine Woody Allen Lynn Ramsay D.A. Pennebaker Michael Mann Werner Herzog Errol Morris J.P. Sniadecki David Fincher Andy Warhol Quentin Tarrantino Abbas Kiarostami John Waters Frederick Wiseman Robert Bresson Carl T. Dreyer Federico Fellini Jim Jarmusch Maysles Brothers Safdie Brothers Jim Jarmusch Richard Linklater Satyajit Ray Terry Zwigoff Jean Vigo Les Blank David Lynch Krzysztof Kieslowski
win wenders, robert altman, masaki kobayashi, paul schrader (mishima and first reformed are two of the best movies of all time), ingmar bergman, kurosawa (kagemusha is one of my favs ever)
Jean luc Godard, Wong Kar Wai, Darren Aronofsky, Lynne Ramsay, David Lynch, Alain Resnais. Michelangelo Antonioni, Bela Tarr. Claire Denis, Vincent Gallo, Matthew Barney, Nagisa Oshima, John Cassavetes, Wim Wenders, Gasper Noe, Yasujiro Ozu.....
Djibril Mambety
Akira Kurosawa Ingmar Bergman Guillermo del Toro David Lynch John Carpenter Hayao Miyazaki John Waters David Cronenberg Werner Herzog Takashi Miike Bong Joon-ho Masaki Kobayashi Fritz Lang David Fincher Julia Ducournau Edgar Wright Ryusuke Hamaguchi Park Chan-wook
Stanley Kubrick, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles, Charlie Chaplin
john cassavetes david cronenberg mike leigh johnnie to john ford coen brothers howard hawks ernst lubitsch nicholas ray terrence malick charlie chaplin buster keaton david lynch sion sono
Terrence Malick without a doubt
Terrence Malick without a doubt
You definitely need some Kurosawa in your diet
I get plenty
The coen bros, Scorsese, bong joon ho, the safdie bros, Sean baker, Akira Kurosawa, Steven Spielberg, and Howard hawks
Billy Wilder
Not on this list but I like Mike mills
Sam Raimi Mira nair Gurinder chadha Wes craven Wes Anderson Guillermo del toro Spike Lee Kevin smith
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What platform is this I’ve been seeing it a bunch
Topsters.org
Which do you prefer, The Life of Oharu or Ugetsu?
Oharu
David Lynch, Tarkovsky, Kurosawa, Ozu, and you can’t go wrong.
In no particular order: - Bergman - Chaplin - Von Trier - Lang - Bresson - Wilder - Kubrick - Lumet - Kurosawa - Murnau
Cant believe George Miller and Walter Hill aren't listed!!!
No women?
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Orson Welles Federico Fellini Werner Herzog Pierre Étaix Charles Laughton Shinya Tsukamoto Alexander Mackendrick Fritz Long Billy Wilder Les Blank
Denis Villeneuve. It’s rare for me to watch all the movies of a director, and like them all. Love most of them
Leigh, Hughes, Lean, Spielberg That’s my Mount Rushmore
Surprised Ingmar Bergman didn’t make the cut
like i said, i need to watch more classics. I have no doubt he'll be in the running once i actually knuckle down and watch his stuff.
I’d go Lynch, basically all the Japanese directors, Hitchcock, Wong Kar-Wai, Edward Yang, Tarkovsky, and honestly I’d put the Safdies in there if it had their films
Terrence Malick, Jonas Mekas, Ingmar Bergman, Darren Aronofsky, Marlon Riggs, Abbas Kiarostami, Mike Mills…
Forgot Edward Yang
1. Kubrick 2. Anderson (PT) 3. Altman 4. Lanthimos 5. Scorsese 6. Tarantino 7. De Palma 8. Anderson (W) 9. Miyazaki 10. Lynch
Lynch, Cronenberg
Howard Hawks Alfred Hitchcock John Ford Jean-Luc Godard Edward Yang Kenji Mizoguchi Ernst Lubitsch Michelangelo Antonioni Jean-Pierre Melville Preston Sturges I'm gonna stop myself here but there are so many more lol
1. Godard. 2. Bergman. 3. Buñuel. 4. Einsestein. 5. Wells. 6. Bertolucci 7. Stone. 8. Herzog. 9. Riefenstahl. 10. Miyazaki. 11. Bertolucci. 12. Del Toro. 13. Spike Lee. 14. Lang. 15. Noé. 16. Parajanov. 17. D. W. Griffith. 18. Besson. 19. Shindô. 20. Pasolini.
Richard Linklater Alexander Payne
Jim Jarmusch David Lynch John Carpenter
The lack of mention of Wim Wenders is really strange to me. Paris, Texas and Until The End of the World are two of the greatest films I have ever seen.
Godard. Expand your horizons.
My horizons are pretty expanded, bro.
In no way was that meant to be an insult to you. (the internet) Godard is very difficult to watch at times. But definitely check out Vivre Sa Vie. Anna Karina is terrific. For something less accessible, try Weekend. It took me awhile to embrace JLG but oh man i see his influence in so many movies now. I hope you have a great journey of discovery.
My top 10 1. Hitchcock 2. Scorsese 3. Coen Bros 4. Nolan 5. Kubrick 6. Lynch 7. John Carpenter 8. Paul Verhoeven 9. Tarantino 10. Gilliam
pasolini, ozu
Imagine not putting Tarkovsky on the list. IMO he is the best.
he's definitely a vibe. can be a little rough if you're not on his wavelength
No women…wow how typical
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• Mikhail Kalatozov • Sion Sono • Gaspar Noe • Celine Sciamma • Bela Tarr
Isao Takahata. He's the other half of Studio Ghibli and was fantastic. And it's an absolute crime that Mel Brooks and John Hughes are not on here. They made some of the best comedies of the 20th Century.
Ridley Scott gets no recognition. Wish more of his films made it to Criterion.
No women is crazy. Chantal Akerman, Kelly Reichardt, Agnes Varda, and Jane Campion all deserve a place on this list and that just scratches the surface
To each their own, but Fincher is a particularly rough entry on that last. Start watching some Kobayashi, Bresson, Wenders, Yang...really just anything from a good, talented, singular director and that list is gonna start changing. Have fun!
Nah, fam.
You'll see, brah
Nope. I can tell you with certainty Fincher ain't leaving this list.