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100 Favorite Directors.

posted 8 years ago by Paranoid-Roegian
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1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Andy Warhol / Paul Morrissey
3. Nicolas Roeg
4. Louis Malle
5. David Lynch
6. Jean-Luc Godard
7. Charles Chaplin
8. Dario Argento
9. Hayao Miyazaki
10. Robert Altman

11. Ralph Bakshi
12. Kenneth Anger
13. Gus Van Sant
14. Robert Bresson
15. Kaneto Shindô
16. Éric Rohmer
17. Pier Paolo Pasolini
18. Orson Welles
19. Akira Kurosawa
20. Michelangelo Antonioni

21. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
22. Terrence Malick
23. Jane Campion
24. Martin Scorsese
25. F.W. Murnau
26. Mike Leigh
27. Ingmar Bergman
28. Aki Kaurismäki
29. Alfred Hitchcock
30. Catherine Breillat

31. Jonathan Demme
32. Don Hertzfeldt
33. Jean Cocteau
34. Chantal Akerman
35. Vincente Minnelli
36. John Cassavetes
37. Bob Rafelson
38. Maurice Pialat
39. Tsai Miang-ling
40. Alain Resnais

41. Francis Ford Coppola
42. Charles Burnett
43. Werner Herzog
44. Wong Kar-wai
45. Mario Bava
46. Harmony Korine
47. Agnès Varda
48. Ridley Scott
49. Joel and Ethan Coen
50. Fritz Lang

51. John Carpenter
52. Michael Haneke
53. Woody Allen
54. Chris Marker
55. Jim Jarmusch
56. Steven Spielberg
57. John Waters
58. Krzysztof Kieslowski
59. Carl Theodor Dreyer
60. Spike Lee

61. Raúl Ruiz
62. Roman Polanski
63. Todd Haynes
64. René Clement
65. Douglas Sirk
66. Jacques Tourneur
67. Jacques Rivette
68. Sofia Coppola
69. Frank Perry
70. John Boorman

71. Andrei Tarkovsky
72. Mike Nichols
73. Claude Chabrol
74. Alan Clarke
75. Jean-Pierre Melville
76. Xavier Dolan
77. Billy Wilder
78. Jean Rollin
79. Brian De Palma
80. Alejandro Jodorowsky

81. Tod Browning
82. Nina Menkes
83. Steven Soderbergh
84. Samuel Fuller
85. Alain Robbe-Grillet
86. Paul Schrader
87. Kenneth Lonergan
88. Jafar Panahi
89. Peter Greenaway
90. Michael Mann

91. Luis Buñuel
92. Ida Lupino
93. Leo McCarey
94. Radley Metzger
95. Satoshi Kon
96. Wim Wenders
97. Gregg Araki
98. Frank Tashlin
99. David Lean
100. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

100 Favorite Films
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[–] Mattsby 8 years ago

Great list. Love that Malle and Altman are in your Top 10. 

Only filmmakers from my Top 30 not in your list are:

Lumet
Bertolucci
Chan-wook Park
Yimou Zhang
Blier
Olmi
PTA

[–] Taran_of_Prydain 8 years ago

Glorious list! 

[–] Feminism_LOL 8 years ago

Great list, but Tarkovsky at 71? And what about Béla Tarr? And Kenji Mizoguchi?

[–] Paranoid-Roegian 8 years ago

Ranking is kind of moot - if a bit accurate. I'm really not as huge on Tarkovsky as a lot of those above him, to be honest. He's still a favorite, though.

100 Favorite Films
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[–] Romy_Ozu 8 years ago

Great to see mentions of Panahi and Tashlin! Favourite film from each?

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[–] Paranoid-Roegian 8 years ago

The White Balloon, and Son of Paleface. 

100 Favorite Films
https://vimeo.com/188384425

[–] Tyler_Huppert 8 years ago

A very fine list indeed, but no mention of Almodóvar? 

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[–] Paranoid-Roegian 8 years ago

I like him, but I don't frequently love his work. Made some of my favorite films, though.

100 Favorite Films
https://vimeo.com/188384425