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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #30 on: September 12, 2010, 10:57:05 PM »
I know Guy Maddin will be high on my list, when is this happening?
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #31 on: September 12, 2010, 11:16:49 PM »
I know Guy Maddin will be high on my list, when is this happening?

My rule is that I need to have seen at least two film for a director to be on my list.
What do you suggest after My Winnipeg?

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #32 on: September 13, 2010, 12:53:57 AM »
What do you suggest after My Winnipeg?
The Heart of the World is a great short.
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #33 on: September 13, 2010, 01:14:08 AM »
What do you suggest after My Winnipeg?
The Heart of the World is a great short.

Careful and The Saddest Music in the World.
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #34 on: September 13, 2010, 03:11:52 PM »
What do you suggest after My Winnipeg?
The Heart of the World is a great short.

Careful and The Saddest Music in the World.

I would also pick The Saddest Music in the World

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #35 on: September 21, 2010, 01:43:56 PM »
gone through my database of seen films up to the letter "P" in director last names. List is at 63 right now, and it would hurt to axe anyone. Havent even got to some of my favorites yet.  :P

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #36 on: September 21, 2010, 05:31:06 PM »
1. Ingmar Bergman
2. Satyajit Ray
3. Alfred Hitchcock
4. Akira Kurosawa
5. Werner Herzog
6. Woody Allen
7. Luis Bunuel
8. Kenji Mizoguchi
9. Ming-liang Tsai
10. Francois Truffaut
11. Bela Tarr
12. Ritwik Ghatak
13. Aki Kaurismaki
14. Emir Kusturica
15. Krzysztof Kieslowski
16. Robert Bresson
17. Peter Greenaway
18. Pedro Almodovar
19. Wes Anderson
20. David Lynch
21. Terrence Malick
22. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
23. Roy Andersson
24. Anh Hung Tran
25. Orson Welles
26. Jacques Tati
27. Alain Resnais
28. Federico Fellini
29. Kon Ichikawa
30. Ermanno Olmi
31. Michael Powell (and Emeric Pressburger)
32. James Lee
33. Yasujiro Ozu
34. John Cassavetes
35. Wen Jiang
36. Mikhail Kalatozov
37. Douglas Sirk
38. Yimou Zhang
39. Stanley Kubrick
40. Stan Brakhage
41. Nobuhiko Obayashi
42. Martin Scorsese
43. Hiroshi Teshigahara
44. Anthony Mann
45. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
46. Abbas Kiarostami
47. Howard Hawks
48. Victor Erice
49. David Lean
50. Mikio Naruse
51. Michael Winterbottom
52. Masaki Kobayashi
53. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
54. John Brahm
55. Hayao Miyazaki
56. Anthony Asquith
57. Quentin Tarantino
58. Roman Polanski
59. Michelangelo Antonioni
60. Jacques Demy
61. Max Ophuls
62. Elia Kazan
63. Joel & Ethan Coen
64. Michael Haneke
65. Milos Forman
66. Frank Capra
67. Shohei Imamura
68. Buster Keaton
69. Louis Malle
70. Phil Karlson
71. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
72. Carl Theodor Dreyer
73. Steven Soderbergh
74. Nicholas Ray
75. Agnes Varda
76. Fritz Lang
77. Sergio Leone
78. Francis Ford Coppola
79. Michael Curtiz
80. Otto Preminger
81. Carol Reed
82. Jean-Pierre Melville
83. Jacques Tourneur
84. Jules Dassin
85. Billy Wilder
86. Henry Hathaway
87. Robert Wise
88. Kar-Wai Wong
89. William Wyler
90. Takeshi Kitano
91. Jane Campion
92. Shunji Iwai
93. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
94. Andrei Tarkovsky
95. Jean Renoir
96. Leo McCarey
97. John Huston
98. George Cukor
99. Sergei Parajanov
100. Eric Rohmer



Notes:

* This was a difficult list.  Top 2 are set in stone, 3-5 are fairly easy, as were 6-25.  Out of the remaining names on the list, I picked 15 who I have a deep fondness for and put them at 26-40.  41-50 was some tough cherry-picking.  For the other 50, I simply sorted by my average Criticker scores.  This is a double-whammy, because it doesn't account for really good directors who I've seen a couple of stinkers by (Rohmer, for instance) or directors with a much larger body of work than the few favorites I've seen (Brahm).  But after #50 I figured there wasn't much point in getting too fussy about it.

* Number of women: 2.  Shame on me.  Aparna Sen would have made it if her last film wasn't so terrible.

* Number of African-Americans: 0.  Double shame on me.  Spike Lee has directed two films I love (Do the Right Thing, Crooklyn) and a bunch that left me cold.  If I discounted his shorts, Charles Burnett would be a good pick, but I don't feel that enthusiastic about him.

* The Dardennes might make this list after I see La Promesse.
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #37 on: October 03, 2010, 03:20:39 PM »
1.Stanley Kubrick
2.Coen Brothers
3.David Lynch
4.Sydney Lumet
5.Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
6.Norman McLaren
7.Billy Wilder
8.Sergio Leone
9.Terry Zwigoff
10.David Cronenberg
11.Jan Svankmayer
12.Kevin Smith
13.Wes Anderson
14.PTA
15.Quentin Tarantino
16.Michel Gondry
17.James Cameron
18.Robert Altman
19.Terrence Malick
20.John Carpenter
21.Hayao Miyazaki
22.Peter Jackson
23.Adam Elliot
24.Martin Scorcese
25.Christopher Nolan
26.John Lasseter
27.Spike Jonze
28.Richard Linklater
29.Nick Park
30.Ron Clements & John Musker
31.Guillermo Del Toro
32.Akira Kurosawa
33.David Fincher
34.Edgar Wright
35.Chuck Jones
36.Stephen Spielberg
37.Jason Reitman
38.Paul Verhoeven
39.Rob Reiner
40.Milos Forman
41.Frank Darabont
42.Werner Herzog
43.Cameron Crowe
44.Gus Van Sant
45.Stephen Soderberg
46.Terry Gilliam
47.Ramin Bahrani
48.Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden
49.John Hughes
50.Robert Zemeckis

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #38 on: October 07, 2010, 10:42:05 PM »

20. Robert Bresson

A Man Escaped
The Devil Probably
Lancelot du Lac
Au Hasard Balthazar
Diary of a Country Priest
Pickpocket
Mouchette
L'Argent



19. Jerry Lewis

The Ladies Man
The Nutty Professor
The Patsy
The Errand Boy
The Bellboy
Cracking Up
The Family Jewels



18. Sammo Hung

The Magnificent Butcher
Winners and Sinners
Pedicab Driver
Eastern Condors
The Prodigal Son
Wheels on Meals
Carry On Pickpocket
The Victim
Warriors Two
Dragons Forever
Encounters of a Spooky Kind
My Lucky Stars



17. Michael Mann

Miami Vice
Heat
Thief
Manhunter
Collateral
Public Enemies
The Insider
Last of the Mohicans



16. Frank Borzage

The Mortal Storm
Little Man, What Now?
Lucky Star
Three Comrades
Man's Castle
Street Angel
Seventh Heaven
Liliom



15. Pedro Almodovar

All About My Mother
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Talk to Her
Law of Desire
Volver
Live Flesh
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Matador
The Flower of My Secret
Bad Education



14. Dardenne Bros

Rosetta
La Promesse
L'Enfant
Le Fils
Lorna's Silence



13. Frank Tashlin

Rock-a-Bye Baby
Artists and Models
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Cinderfella
Hollywood or Bust
Susan Slept Here
The Disorderly Orderly
The Geisha Boy
Have You Got Any Castles?
It's Only Money
The Girl Can't Help It
You're An Education
The Glass Bottom Boat
Bachelor Flat



12. Jean-Luc Godard

Pierrot le fou
A Married Woman
Hail Mary
Band of Outsiders
Prenom Carmen
Masculin Feminin
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
A Woman is a Woman
Week End
Contempt
My Life to Live
Breathless
Slow Motion
Made in U.S.A.
Detective
La Chinoise
Alphaville
Passion
Keep Your Right Up
Le Petit Soldat
Les Carabiniers
Tout va Bien




11. Hayao Miyazaki

My Neighbor Totoro
Kiki's Delivery Service
Porco Rosso
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
Castle in the Sky
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Howl's Moving Castle



10. Nicholas Ray

In a Lonely Place
Bitter Victory
They Live By Night
Johnny Guitar
On Dangerous Ground
Bigger Than Life
Rebel Without a Cause
The Lusty Men
Party Girl



09. Wes Anderson

The Royal Tenenbaums
Rushmore
The Darjeeling Limited
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
Bottle Rocket
Hotel Chevalier



08. Claire Denis

Friday Night
Trouble Every Day
35 Rhums
Beau Travail
Nenette et Boni
L'Intrus



07. Vincente Minnelli

Some Came Running
The Pirate
Cabin in the Sky
The Band Wagon
An American in Paris
Yolanda and the Thief
The Clock
The Bad and the Beautiful
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Father of the Bride
Madame Bovary
Bells Are Ringing
Meet Me in St. Louis



06. Hal Hartley

The Unbelievable Truth
Amateur
Simple Men
Henry Fool
The Book of Life
Trust
Surviving Desire
Flirt
Fay Grim



05. Maurice Pialat

We Won't Grow Old Together
The Mouth Agape
Loulou
Police
A Nos Amours
Graduate First
Van Gogh
Naked Childhood



04. Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Millennium Mambo
The Boys of Fengkuei
Dust in the Wind
Three Times
Flight of the Red Balloon
A Time to Live and a Time to Die
A Summer at Grandpa's
Flowers of Shanghai
Cafe Lumiere



03. John Ford

My Darling Clementine
Young Mr. Lincoln
The Searchers
How Green Was My Valley
The Quiet Man
Judge Priest
The Sun Shines Bright
The Grapes of Wrath
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Stagecoach
Steamboat Round the Bend
Doctor Bull
The Informer
Drums Along the Mohawk



02. Wong Kar-Wai

Happy Together
Fallen Angels
Days of Being Wild
Chungking Express
2046
In the Mood for Love
My Blueberry Nights
As Tears Go By



01. Howard Hawks

Only Angels Have Wings
His Girl Friday
Rio Bravo
Ceiling Zero
Red River
To Have and Have Not
Bringing Up Baby
The Big Sleep
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
I Was a Male War Bride
Sergeant York
Scarface

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #39 on: October 07, 2010, 11:32:17 PM »
Lovely list, roujin. Not much disagreement from me, except for putting Meet Me in St Louis last. Come to think of it, that undermines the entirety of your list.  :(