Directors Greatest directors. (1 Viewer)

[john davies]

1.Mizoguchi
2.Renoir
3.Hitchcock
4.Tarkovsky
5.Kubrick

(not forgetting Kurosawa, Dreyer, Eisenstein, Ophuls, Welles, Bergman, Godard, Scorsese, Spielberg, Ford, Kiarostami, Fellini, Bunuel, Hawks, Ozu, Bresson, Powell, Rohmer, Lean, Truffaut, Lynch, Chaplin, Griffith, Von Sternberg...)

 

[Brook K]

Akira Kurosawa
Stanley Kubrick
Ingmar Bergman
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
F.W. Murnau
Luis Bunuel
Carl Th. Dreyer
Eric Rohmer
Alfred Hitchcock
Jean-Luc Godard

I think it changes every day

 

[MartinTeller]

Current favorites are:

Anh Hung Tran
Akira Kurosawa
Ingmar Bergman
Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick
Terry Gilliam
Werner Herzog
David Lynch
Wes Anderson
Ming-liang Tsai
Woody Allen
Martin Scorsese

It's worth noting that the only ones on this list who I've seen every movie by are Tran and Anderson, and they only have 3 each. For Bergman and Herzog I've less seen than half of their work, but I've really loved what I've seen.

As I see more of their work, I strongly suspect Cocteau, Mizoguchi, Ozu and Bunuel will be considered among my favorites.

 

[john davies]

Good to see Tran Anh-Hung on your list. I greatly enjoyed all 3 of his films i've seen. The Scent of Green Papaya is elegant, contemplative and beautiful, Cyclo (delicate, deadly, delirious) shows great cinematic flair, and At the Height of Summer is a lovely gentle drama, with gorgeous colours. I've managed to persuade our film society to screen it. I look forward to much more by him.

 

[Nick Sievers]

Don't know about greatest but the following are my personal favorites:

Coen Brothers
Steven Soderbergh
Quentin Tarantino
Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
Martin Scorsese
John Carpeneter (earlier work)

 

[ErikG]

John Carpenter
Steven Spielberg
John Hughes
James Cameron
Paul Verhoeven
Wes Craven
Richard Donner
David Cronenberg
Ridley Scott
Robert Zemeckis

 

[Steve Christou]

No.1 - Alfred Hitchcock
No.2 - David Lean

and the rest in no particular order...

Stanley Kubrick
Steven Spielberg
Martin Scorsese
John Ford
Howard Hawks
Michael Curtiz
William Wyler
Peter Jackson

 

[Rob Tomlin]

Akira Kurosawa (my new favorite passing Scorsese)
Marty Scorsese
David Lean
Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick

other favs:

Coen Brothers
Jim Jarmusch
Werner Herzog
Quentin Tarantino

 

[Cary T]

These are my favorites:

Alfred Hitchcock
Wong Kar-Wai
Akira Kurosawa
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Hiyao Miyazaki
Cameron Crowe
Woody Allen
Ingmar Bergman
Lynne Ramsay
Pedro Almodovar

 

[Angelo.M]

kurosawa
hitchcock
zhang yimou
gilliam
wong kar wai
coen brothers
fellini
woody allen
scorsese
kieslowski
miyazaki
tarantino
spielberg
david mamet
sergio leone
david fincher

 

[Angelo.M]

kurosawa
hitchcock
zhang yimou
gilliam
wong kar wai
coen brothers
fellini
woody allen
scorsese
kieslowski
miyazaki
tarantino
spielberg
david mamet
sergio leone
david fincher
cameron crowe

 

[JonZ]

Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
Francis Ford Coppolla (Has 3 films in my all-time Top 10,2 in my top5)
Alfred Hitchcock
Steven Speilberg (gotta give it to him Jaws,SPR,SL,CEOFTK,ROTL)
Martin Scorcese
Segio Leone
Oliver Stone
Hiyao Miyazaki
Joel Coen

 

[Lew Crippen]

Unordered and changeable:

·Kubrick
·Hitchcock
·Dreyer
·Buñuel
·Godard
·Wong Kar-Wai
·Kurosawa
·Wilder
·Sturges
·Fellini

And many, many more.

 

[Simon_Lepine]

Asl me in 5 minutess and I'll probably give you a totally different list, but here are my 10 favorites, not what I consider the 10 best:

- Hitchcock
- Dreyer
- Truffaut
- Carpenter
- Bresson
- Wilder
- Carne
- Welles
- Kurosawa
- Scorsese

 

[Jan H]

My ten favorites (as of today):


1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Billy Wilder
3. Woody Allen
4. Steven Spielberg
5. Akira Kurosawa
6. Martin Scorsese
7. Alfred Hitchcock
8. Ingmar Bergman
9. Howard Hawks
10. John Ford

 

[Arman]

No love for antonioni? :frowning:

In order!
1. lean
2. truffaut
3. bunuel
4. hitchcock
5. welles
6. antonioni
7. fellini
8. kubrick
9. kurosawa
10. renoir
11. de sica
12. bresson
13. bergman
14. wong kar-wai
15. godard
16. kieslowski
17. lang
18. chaplin
19. dreyer
20. rohmer
21. wilder
22. lynch
23. francis ford coppola
24. tarkovsky
25. tarantino
26. kiarostami
27. ozu
28. almodovar
29. yang zimou
30. ivory
31. spielberg
32. miyazaki
33. crowe
34. ming-liang Tsai
35. ray
36. lubitsch
37. berri
38. sturges
39. scorsese
40. carne
41. reed
42. polanski
43. yimou zhang
44. griffith
45. allen
46. frears
47. ang lee
48. daldry
49. ford
50. hanson
51. sofia coppola
52. powell
53. jonze
54. cukor
55. minghella
56. nolan
57. dardenne & dardenne
58. kusturica
59. clair
60. jackson

yet to see films directed by marnau, cockteau, ophuls, mizoguchi, tran, herzog ...

 

[john davies]

Only 1 other vote for Renoir, and none for Mizoguchi (so far)!!!

 

[Tanja]

1. capra
2. lubitsch
3. wilder
4. hitchcock
5. hawks
6. crowe
7. spielberg
8. stevens
9. Lang
10.ford

 

[Scott_MacD]

Alfred Hitchcock
Steven Spielberg
Akira Kurosawa
Fritz Lang
Billy Wilder
John Huston
Oliver Stone
Martin Scorsese
Ken Loach
Federico Fellini

 

[Christ Reynolds]

coen brothers
kubrick
hitchcock
pt anderson

CJ