Following on from the lists of actors and actresses we like, here is the Directors list .... its bigger than I imagined !
Michelangelo Antonioni (right)
Alfred Hitchcock
Howard Hawks
Ingmar Bergman
David Lean
Michael Powell
Martin Scorsese
David Lean
Michael Powell
Martin Scorsese
John Huston
William Wyler
Billy Wilder
Joe Mankiewicz
George Cukor
Vincente Minnelli
Josef Von Sternberg
Josef Von Sternberg
Orson Welles
THE REST OF THE PANTHEON:
Frank Borzage, Preston Sturges, John Ford, Frank Capra, Michael Curtiz, George Stevens, Fred Zinnemann, Alan J Pakula, Sidney Lumet, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, Robert Altman, Michael Mann,
Terrence Malick, Charles Walters.
OF THEIR TIME ('50s/'60s):
Elia Kazan, Stanley Kramer, Douglas Sirk, Frank Tashlin, Otto Preminger, Nicholas Ray, Anthony Mann,
Robert Rossen, Martin Ritt, Stanley Donen, John Frankenheimer,
Richard Brooks, Jean Negulesco, John Sturges, Blake Edwards, Richard Quine,
George Roy Hill, Robert Wise, Robert Mulligan, Richard Fleisher.
CURRENT DIRECTORS:
Mike Leigh, Francois Ozon, Pedro Almodovar, Nicholas Winding Refn, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, Quentin Tarantino, Todd Haynes, Bill Condon, Ang Lee, Paul Schrader.
BRITISH:
John Schlesinger, Joseph Losey*, Richard
Lester*, John Boorman, Nicholas Roeg, Ridley Scott, Carol Reed, Clive Donner, Desmond
Davis, Tony Richardson, Basil Dearden, J. Lee Thompson, Philip Leacock, Alexander McKendrick, Lewis Gilbert, Ronald
Neame [* honorary Brits] Right: Losey directs MODESTY BLAISE.
EUROPEAN (after Antonioni):
Federico Fellini, Vittorio de Sica, Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Jacques
Demy, Agnes Varda, Louis Malle, Jean-Pierre Melville, Mauro Bolognini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Max
Ophuls, Luis Bunuel, Wim Wenders, Francois Truffaut, Rene Clement, Rainer
Werner Fassbinder, Claude Lelouch, Roger Vadim, Claude Sautet, Julian Duviver, Robert Hossein, Henri Verneuil.Left and right: Agnes Varda and Jacques Demy.
WORLD CINEMA:
Ozu, Mizoguchi, Ray, Kurosawa, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, Wong Kar-wai, Apichatpong Weerasethakul. |
| Hitch & Cary |
I thought this would be tougher to come up with a top 25 as opposed the actresses/actors but once I started I found they came to me easily...and then I had a surfeit! Looking at your list I've missed some directors I like but my top 25 would remain unchanged if I add them.
ReplyDeleteI know Ang Lee and Spielberg are more contemporary but I love both of their work and since directors tend to have longer feature careers than performers with many of them spanning multiple decades it seemed like they would have more leeway.
Alfred Hitchcock
Michael Curtiz
Douglas Sirk
Fritz Lang
Ang Lee
Mitchell Leisen
Preston Sturges
Vincente Minnelli
Alan J. Pakula
Nicholas Ray
George Cukor
Cecil B. De Mille
Billy Wilder
John Ford
William Wyler
Howard Hawks
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Robert Siodmak
Ida Lupino
John Frankenheimer
John Schlesinger
Raoul Walsh
Frank Borgaze
Steven Spielberg
Fred Zinnemann
Just below-King Vidor, Michael Powell, Peter Weir, James Whale, Charles Chaplin, David Lean, Jean Negulesco and Francois Truffaut
Erratic but almost always interesting: Peter Bogdanavich, Woody Allen, Joel & Ethan Coen, John Cassavetes, Stanley Kubrick, Mike Nichols, Arthur Penn, Otto Preminger, Ken Russell, John Sayles, Todd Haynes, Steven Soderbergh and Ronald Neame
Terrific list once again, its surprising how many directors one likes and needs to include on any list.
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