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Re: Filmspotters Top 100 Directors 2011 : FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #30 on: November 16, 2011, 12:37:47 PM »
Enjoy.

I like the "most anticipated" addition.

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« Reply #31 on: November 16, 2011, 03:38:16 PM »
Did Hitch go up quite a bit from last year MT?
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Re: Filmspotters Top 100 Directors 2011 : FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #32 on: November 16, 2011, 03:42:52 PM »
Did Hitch go up quite a bit from last year MT?

Nope, he was #3 on last year's list.

Except for minor reshuffling of the order, the only change in my top 10 is Kieslowski in (up from #15), Mizoguchi out (down to #12).

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« Reply #33 on: November 17, 2011, 04:22:50 PM »
I'll be submitting a list.  A hint: all my past avatars can be found in the top 15.
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« Reply #34 on: November 18, 2011, 02:13:02 AM »
This is a harder than usual list to make, because there's so many ways to measure a director's career.  I decided to only include directors from whom I've seen three films, thinking that that was the minimum necessary to get a handle on a director's style and quality.  Unfortunately, I've only seen two films from: Ida Lupino, Chantal Ackerman, Agnes Varda, Jane Campion and Kathryn Bigelow, all of whom have something in common with each other but not with anyone else on my list.

I've included the years when the directors were active (with some arbitrariness around a lot of the start dates, given shorts and TV and student films) because i think it's interesting to compare career lengths (did you know Martin Scorsese has had a career almost as long as Hitchcock and Kurosawa?).  Also included are my three favorite films from each director.


1. Alfred Hitchcock (1925-1976)

Vertigo, Rear Window, North By Northwest

2. Howard Hawks (1926-1970)

Bringing Up Baby, Rio Bravo, The Big Sleep

3. Michael Powell (1931-1978)

The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, A Canterbury Tale

4. Yasujiro Ozu (1927-1962)

Late Spring, Tokyo Story, Early Summer

5. John Ford (1917-1966)

The Searchers, Stagecoach, The Quiet Man

6. Orson Welles (1941-1978)

Touch of Evil, Chimes at Midnight, Citizen Kane

7. FW Murnau (1919-1931)

Sunrise, Tabu, Nosferatu

8. Akira Kurosawa (1943-1993)

Seven Samurai, Ran, Rashomon

9. Wong Kar-wai (1988-present)

Chungking Express, 2046, Fallen Angels

10. Terrence Malick (1973-present)

Days of Heaven, The New World, The Thin Red Line

11. Eric Rohmer (1962-2007)

The Green Ray, My Night at Maud's, Pauline at the Beach

12. Roberto Rossellini (1942-1977)

Voyage to Italy, Rome, Open City, The Age of the Medici

13. Josef von Sternberg (1925-1957)

The Docks of New York, Morocco, Shanghai Express

14. Charles Chaplin (1914-1967)

City Lights, The Gold Rush, Modern Times

15. Jean-Luc Godard (1960-present)

Pierrot le fou, A Woman is a Woman, Contempt

16. Jacques Tati (1949-1974)

Playtime, M. Hulot's Holiday, Mon Oncle

17. Jean Renoir (1925-1970)

The Rules of the Game, The River, The Grand Illusion

18. Buster Keaton (1920-1965)

The General, Sherlock Jr, Steamboat Bill Jr

19. Hou Hsiao-hsien (1980-present)

Millenium Mambo, Three Times, The Puppetmaster

20. Nicholas Ray (1949-1980)

Johnny Guitar, In a Lonely Place, Bitter Victory

21. Vincente Minnelli (1943-1976)

The Band Wagon, An American in Paris, The Pirate

22. Wes Anderson (1996-present)

Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic

23. Samuel Fuller (1949-1989)

The Steel Helmet, The Big Red One, Park Row

24. Ernst Lubitsch (1914-1948)

The Shop Around the Corner, Trouble in Paradise, Ninotchka

25. Alain Resnais (1948-present)

Last Year at Marienbad, Hiroshima mon amour, Wild Grass

26. Jim Jarmusch (1980-present)

Dead Man, Stranger than Paradise, Ghost Dog

27. Anthony Mann (1939-1968)

Winchester '73, The Black Book, The Naked Spur

28. Frank Borzage (1913-1959)

No Greater Glory, Moonrise, Seventh Heaven

29. Martin Scorsese (1967-present)

Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, The Last Temptation of Christ

30. Carl Theodor Dreyer (1919-1964)

Day of Wrath, Vampyr, Ordet

31. Joel & Ethan Coen (1984-present)

The Big Lebowski, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink

32. Fritz Lang (1919-1960)

The Big Heat, M, Scarlet Street

33. Krzysztof Kieslowski (1966-1994)

Three Colors, The Double Life of Veronique, The Decalogue

34. Stanley Kubrick (1955-1999)

2001, Eyes Wide Shut, The Shining

35. Michelangelo Antonioni (1950-2004)

L'Eclisse, Blow Up, L'Avventura

36. Quentin Tarantino (1992-present)

Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds

37. Jacques Demy (1961-1988)

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Lola, The Young Girls of Rochefort

38. Woody Allen (1966-present)

Annie Hall, Manhattan, The Purple Rose of Cairo

39. John Woo (1974-present)

Hard-Boiled, The Killer, Last Hurrah for Chivalry

40. Douglas Sirk (1935-1959)

Written on the Wind, There's Always Tomorrow, All That Heaven Allows

41. Luis Buńuel (1929-1977)

The Exterminating Angel, Un chien andalou, Simon of the Desert

42. Otto Preminger (1931-1979)

Anatomy of a Murder, Laura, Advise & Consent

43. Johnnie To (1980-present)

PTU, Exiled, The Mission

44. Leo McCarey (1921-1962)

The Awful Truth, Make Way for Tomorrow, The Bells of St. Mary's

45. Raoul Walsh (1913-1964)

The Strawberry Blonde, Regeneration, High Sierra

46. Robert Bresson (1943-1983)

Au hasard Balthazar, Pickpocket, Diary of a Country Priest

47. DW Griffith (1908-1931)

Intolerance, The Musketeers of Pig Alley, True Heart Susie

48. King Vidor (1913-1959)

Street Scene, Our Daily Bread, The Big Parade

49. Michael Curtiz (1912-1961)

Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Sea Hawk

50. George Cukor (1930-1981)

The Philadelphia Story, A Star is Born, It Should Happen To You

51. Satyajit Ray (1955-1991)

The Music Room, Charulata, Mahanagar

52. Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2000-present)

Tropical Malady, Blissfully Yours, Uncle Boonmee Who Can recall His Past Lives

53. Kenji Mizoguchi (1923-1956)

Ugetsu, Sansho the Bailiff, Story of the Late Chrysanthemums

54. Sergei Eisenstein (1923-1948)

Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible, Battleship Potemkin

55. Jacques Tourneur (1931-1966)

Out of the Past, Cat People, Stars in My Crown

56. William Wyler (1925-1970)

The Letter, Dodsworth, The Best Years of Our Lives

57. Preston Sturges (1940-1955)

The Lady Eve, Unfaithfully Yours, Sullivan's Travels

58. Frank Capra (1922-1961)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It's a Wonderful Life, It Happened One Night

59. Hiroshi Shimizu (1924-1959)

Japanese Girls at the Harbor, Mr. Thank You, Ornamental Hairpin

60. Sergio Leone (1961-1984)

Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good The Bad & The Ugly, For a Few Dollars More

61. Hayao Miyazaki (1979-present)

Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea

62. Hong Sangsoo (1996-present)

Oki's Movie, Hahaha, Like You Know it All

63. Max Ophuls (1931-1955)

Madame de. . ., Letter from an Unknown Woman, Lola Montes

64. Richard Linklater (1988-present)

Dazed and Confused, Slacker, Before Sunrise

65. Steven Spielberg (1971-present)

Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Empire of the Sun

66. Jia Zhangke (1995-present)

The World, Platform, Still Life

67. David Fincher (1992-present)

Fight Club, The Social Network, Se7en

68. Billy Wilder (1942-1981)

Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like it Hot

69. Tsai Ming-liang (1991-present)

What Time is it There?, Goodbye Dragon Inn, I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

70. Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1946-1972)

All About Eve, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, The Barefoot Contessa

71. Abbas Kiarostami (1973-present)

Certified Copy, Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us

72. Werner Herzog (1968-present)

Fitzcarraldo, Aguirre the Wrath of God, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

73. Victor Sjostrom (1912-1937)

The Wind, He Who Gets Slapped, The Phantom Carriage

74. Michael Mann (1981-present)

Miami Vice, Last of the Mohicans, Heat

75. Jean-Pierre Melville (1949-1972)

Le Samourai, Army of Shadows, Bob le flambeur

76. Olivier Assayas (1986-present)

Irma Vep, Carlos, Summer Hours

77. Bob Fosse (1969-1983)

All that Jazz, Cabaret, Lenny

78. Peter Watkins (1956-present)

La Commune (Paris 1971), Culloden, The War Game

79. Stanley Donen (1949-1984)

Singin' in the Rain, Charade, Give a Girl a Break

80. Guy Maddin (1986-present)

Archangel, My Winnipeg, Heart of the World

81. David Lean (1942-1984)

Lawrence of Arabia, Brief Encounter, Doctor Zhivago

82. Clint Eastwood (1971-present)

Unforgiven, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Flags of Our Fathers

83. James Whale (1930-1941)

Frankenstein, Show Boat, The Invisible Man

84. Andrei Tarkovsky (1962-1986)

Andrei Rublev, Stalker, Solaris

85. Whit Stillman (1990-present)

Metropolitan, The Last Days of Disco, Barcelona

86. Lau Kar-leung (1973-present)

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, 8 Diagram Pole Fighter, Drunken Master II

87. David Lynch (1977-present)

Mulholland Dr., Lost Highway, Inland Empire

88. Paul Thomas Anderson (1996-present)

There Will Be Blood, Punch-Drunk Love, Boogie Nights

89. Francis Ford Coppola (1963-present)

Apocalypse Now, The Godfather Part II, Bram Stoker's Dracula

90. George Stevens (1930-1970)

Swing Time, Gunga Din, Giant

91. Robert Altman (1957-2006)

The Long Goodbye, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Popeye

92. Federico Fellini (1950-1990)

8 1/2, Nights of Cabiria, La dolce vita

93. Zhang Yimou (1987-present)

House of Flying Daggers, Hero, The Road Home

94. Joe Dante (1976-present)

Matinee, Gremlins, The Burbs

95. Danny Boyle (1994-present)

Trainspotting, 127 Hours, A Life Less Ordinary

96. Abel Ferrara (1979-present)

New Rose Hotel, The Addiction, Bad Lieutenant

97. Cecil B. DeMille (1914-1956)

The Sign of the Cross, The Ten Commandments, The Cheat

98. Ang Lee (1992-present)

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Sense and Sensibility, Eat Drink Man Woman

99. Sam Peckinpah (1962-1983)

The Wild Bunch, Ride the High Country, Pat Garret & Billy the Kid

100. William Friedkin (1967-present)

The French Connection, To Live and Die in LA, Blue Chips
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Re: Filmspotters Top 100 Directors 2011 : FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #35 on: November 18, 2011, 02:34:35 AM »
How many of these films have you written reviews for, Sean?
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« Reply #36 on: November 18, 2011, 02:55:47 AM »
The lack of women on those lists is saddening. I don't think you have anything particluar against female directors. They're just rare spawns, and they've often not done all that many films. It reflects the situation in the film industry with an overwhelming male dominance. But still.

I think there were a couple of people (OAD?) who previously talked earlier losely about running some kind of female-director-marathon here in the forum, to activly look for the female directors in order give them some more attention.  Perhaps it's time to make reality of it?
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« Reply #37 on: November 18, 2011, 03:14:51 AM »
How many of these films have you written reviews for, Sean?

Not many that I would call proper reviews.  I've written at least a little about almost all of them.
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« Reply #38 on: November 18, 2011, 03:21:08 AM »
The lack of women on those lists is saddening. I don't think you have anything particluar against female directors. They're just rare spawns, and they've often not done all that many films. It reflects the situation in the film industry with an overwhelming male dominance. But still.

I think there were a couple of people (OAD?) who previously talked earlier losely about running some kind of female-director-marathon here in the forum, to activly look for the female directors in order give them some more attention.  Perhaps it's time to make reality of it?

There's really no way to win.  Maybe in another 100 years.  The women I listed have a decent shot at making my list if I see (and like) more of their movies (Elaine May too, I forgot her. Still only seen 2 of hers though).  But that'd still only be 6 out of 100.  More women need to make more great movies.
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« Reply #39 on: November 18, 2011, 08:03:58 AM »
Sean, who on your list is female? I'm assuming a couple of the Asian directors (Tsai? their names are not obviously gendered to Western eyes). Still, I'm certain you had none in your top-50. This is the problem with liking classics, women weren't making films nearly as much back in the "classic" era. I mean, I think your point stands, I only have 6 in my top 65. There are plenty of women who could be included (Varda, Bigelow) if I liked their films more than I do or liked what I had seen enough to explore the rest of their filmography.

Lobby: This thread would be a good place to start looking.

 

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