My 30 Favourite Directors

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My 30 Favourite Directors May 14, 2022 2:24:37 GMT

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Post by Joaquim on May 14, 2022 2:24:37 GMT

1. Christopher Nolan
2. Jean-Luc Godard
3. Martin Scorsese
4. Stanley Kubrick
5. Quentin Tarantino
6. Alfred Hitchcock
7. Ingmar Bergman
8. David Fincher
9. Ridley Scott
10. Zack Snyder

11. Steven Spielberg
12. Francis Ford Coppola
13. David Lynch
14. Sergio Leone
15. Michael Mann
16. Carl Theodor Dreyer
17. Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu
18. Coens
19. John Hughes
20. Fritz Lang

21. Billy Wilder
22. Victor Sjostrom
23. Douglas Sirk
24. Nicholas Ray
25. Dario Argento
26. Charlie Chaplin
27. Akira Kurosawa
28. Federico Fellini
29. Robert Altman
30. Jean Renoir

Not an easy list to put together after the first 6, maybe 7. Lots of the ones lower on the list could be higher, lots of the higher ones could be lower. Others that I didn’t list could’ve made it. So yea a lot of it is pretty interchangeable but the more I think about that top 15/16 probably would be the top 15/16 but the order could change. Top 6 for sure is definitive, maybe 7 (only one that’s kinda interchangeable is Scorsese/Kubrick). Some of the ones who are lower like Fellini and Renoir I can def see climbing up the list as I watch more of their films

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My 30 Favourite Directors May 14, 2022 9:42:01 GMT

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Post by DaleCooper on May 14, 2022 9:42:01 GMT

I will do a top 25. The first 10 is my favorites, then the 15 next is more or less interchangeable.

01. David Lynch
02. Coen Brothers
03. Sergio Leone
04. Alfred Hitchcock
05. Andrei Tarkovski
06. Ingmar Bergman
07. Martin Scorsese
08. James Cameron
09. Michael Mann
10. Billy Wilder

Wong Kar-wai
Christopher Nolan
Matt Reeves
Sidney Lumet
David Fincher
Steven Spielberg
Bela Tarr
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Richard Linklater
Quentin Tarantino
Xavier Dolan
Joachim Trier
Paul Thomas Anderson
Edward Yang
Sofia Coppola

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My 30 Favourite Directors May 14, 2022 11:16:24 GMT

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Post by tep on May 14, 2022 11:16:24 GMT

My working top 50...

01. David Lynch
02. Stanley Kubrick
03. Werner Herzog
04. Takashi Miike
05. Ingmar Bergman
06. Dario Argento
07. Martin Scorsese
08. Alejandro Jodorowsky
09. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
10. Abel Ferrara

11. Krzysztof Kieslowski
12. Mario Bava
13. Akira Kurosawa
14. Sion Sono
15. Roger Corman
16. Andrei Tarkovsky
17. John Carpenter
18. Park Chan-wook
19. Jean-Pierre Melville
20. Jim Jarmusch

21. Paul Thomas Anderson
22. John Waters
23. Don Hertzfeldt
24. Harmony Korine
25. Michael Haneke
26. Jean-Luc Godard
27. Kelly Reichardt
28. Woody Allen
29. Alfred Hitchcock
30. The Coen Brothers

31. Robert Bresson
32. Lynne Ramsay
33. Jack Hill
34. Pier Paolo Pasolini
35. George Romero
36. Kim Jee-woon
37. Francis Ford Coppola
38. Federico Fellini
39. Orson Welles
40. David Cronenberg

41. Luis Buñuel
42. Gaspar Noé
43. Brian De Palma
44. Billy Wilder
45. Wes Craven
46. Lucio Fulci
47. Bong Joon-ho
48. Charles Chaplin
49. Quentin Tarantino
50. Williem Friedkin

There's a decent number I'd like to include, but don't think I've seen enough from (Fritz Lang, Claude Chabrol, William Castle, Yasujiro Ozu, etc.)

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My 30 Favourite Directors May 14, 2022 17:17:18 GMT

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Post by jimmalone on May 14, 2022 17:17:18 GMT

I'm working on a top 50 for quite a time already, but as so often with lists regardless of which order I choose I'm not content, at least from around 20 downwards. It's always difficult to compare directors, who made 7-8 films to some, who made 30 and on top of it and of course of some directors you've seen less than of others.
The first about 16 or 17 are pretty fix at the moment I'd say. From there you could mix it up a bit and then also throw in one of the names in the HMs.

However that is probably my Top 30 as of now:
1. Akira Kurosawa
2. Sergio Leone
3. Howard Hawks
4. Christopher Nolan
5. Steven Spielberg
6. Alfred Hitchcock
7. Sidney Lumet
8. Billy Wilder
9. David Lean
10. Jean-Pierre Melville
11. Sam Mendes
12. Michael Mann
13. Peter Weir
14. Wong Kar Wai
15. Clint Eastwood
16. Yasujiro Ozu
17. Francis Ford Coppola
18. John Frankenheimer
19. Frank Capra
20. William Wyler
21. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
22. Henri-Georges Clouzot
23. Fred Zinnemann
24. Marcel Carne (only seen 6 movies)
25. Ingmar Bergman

26. John Huston

27. Alfonso Cuaron

28. Denis Villeneuve

29. Sydney Pollack

30. David Fincher

HM: Masaki Kobayashi, Jim Sheridan, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Hayao Miyazaki, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Aldrich, Martin Scorsese, Julien Duvivier, Don Siegel, Pedro Almodovar, Francois Truffaut, Takeshi Kitano, Jacques Audiard, Fritz Lang, Bertrand Tavernier, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Henri Verneuil

Need to see more: Yoji Yamada, Kon Ichikawa

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