Not listed in any particular order. Feel free to add or subtract from the list. I should have listed their good movies after their names, but making the list took up enough time as it was. Feel free to add movies to the list if you wish. I’m obviously favoring Hollywood here, and I don’t know much about foreign films, so I’m obviously shorting those guys. There’s also an emphasis on the modern, so I probably gave short shrift to directors of the earlier era.
Anyone who made at least one damn good, and I mean damn good, movie, in any country, during any era, is on the list. That’s all it takes.
Feel free to discuss…You can add Youtube video clips in the comments if you wish to make your points.
- Oliver Stone
- Stanley Kubrick
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Orson Welles
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Wes Craven
- George A. Romero
- John Malkovich
- Spike Jonze
- Frank Darabont
- Sam Mendes
- David Fincher
- Miloš Forman
- Paul Newman
- George Roy Hill
- Anthony Harvey
- Franklin Schaffner
- Mike Nichols
- Paul Schrader
- Sidney Lumet
- Brian De Palma
- David O. Selznick
- Victor Fleming
- Nicholas Ray
- William Friedkin
- Billy Wilder
- Dennis Hopper
- Alan Parker
- David Lynch
- Stuart Rosenberg
- Ron Howard
- Mel Brooks
- Woody Allen
- Alan Arkin
- Hal Ashby
- Roman Polanski
- Sidney Pollack
- Alan J. Pakula
- Carl Reiner
- Rob Reiner
- The Coen Brothers
- Fritz Lang
- Mike Nichols
- Warren Beatty
- Robert Aldrich
- Elia Kazan
- László Benedek
- James Brooks
- William Wyler
- Barry Levinson
- Ridley Scott
- Quentin Tarantino
- Arthur Penn
- Sean S. Cunningham
- Martin Scorsese
- Peter Weir
- Robert Altman
- Hal Ashby
- Tim Burton
- Peter Bogdanovich
- George Lucas
- William Friedkin
- Neal Israel
- Michael Cimino
- Frank Capra
- Gus Van Sant
- Robinson Devor
- Werner Herzog
- Terrence Malick
- Don Siegel
- Steven Soderbergh
- Jonathan Demme
- Roland Joffé
- Neil Jordan
- Alan Parker
- Amy Heckerling
- Tim Hunter
- Robert Zemeckis
- Wim Wenders
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- John Hughes
- Peter Shaffer
- Volker Schlöndorff
- Bill Duke
- Ingmar Bergman
- Sam Wood
- Michael Curtiz
- Steven Spielberg
- Luc Jacquet
- Alexander Payne
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Andy Wachowski
- Larry Wachowski
- James Cameron
- Kevin Reynolds
- Michael Mann
- Blake Edwards
- Jon Favreau
- John Lasseter
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Mel Gibson
- Vicky Jenson
- Andrew Adamson
- Danny Boyle
- Roberto Benigni
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Aaron Schneider
- Ben Affleck
- Alex Cox
- Bud Townsend
- Gerard Damiano
- Radley Metzger
- Sam Peckinpah
- Samuel Fuller
- Jim Jarmusch
- Jean-Luc Godard
- François Truffaut
- Jacques Demy
- Agnès Varda
- Alain Resnais
- Jacques Rivette
- Claude Chabrol
- Éric Rohmer
- John Schlesinger
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Alexander Kluge
- Margarethe von Trotta
- Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
- Ken Loach
- Peter Yates
- Peter Watkins
- Ken Russell
- Tony Richardson
- Nicholas Roeg
- Karel Reisz
- Joseph Losey
- Richard Lester
- Bryan Forbes
- Clive Donner
- Basil Dearden
- Jack Clayton
- John Boorman
- Jiří Menzel
- Ján Kadár
- Satyajit Ray
- Mani Ratnam
- Ritwik Ghatak
- Guru Dutt
- Akira Kurosawa
- Vittorio De Sica
- Jean Renoir
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Peter Jackson
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Sergio Leone
- Stanley Donen
- Buster Keaton
- Andrew Stanton
- Nagisa Oshima
- Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Seijun Suzuki
- Shohei Imamura
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Susumu Hani
- Federico Fellini
- Roberto Rossellini
- Cesare Zavattini
- Luchino Visconti
- Giuseppe De Santis
- Suso Cecchi d’Amico
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Otto Preminger
- Gregg Araki
- Luis Buñuel
- Salvador Dalí
- Guy Debord
- Michael Haneke
- Georges Franju
- Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Andrzej Zulawski
- Jean Eustache
- Man Ray
- Jean Cocteau
- Tex Avery
- Robert Clampett
- Kenneth Anger
- Ralph Bakshi
- Terry Gilliam
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- René Clair
- Just Jaeckin
- Wakefield Poole
- Artie Mitchell
- Jim Mitchell
- Jim Clark
- Jerry Gerard
- Herschell Gordon Lewis
- Sam Raimi
- Meir Zarchi
- Eduardo Sánchez
- Daniel Myrick
- Eli Roth
- James Wan
- Takashi Miike
- Rob Zombie
- Greg McLean
- Robert Rodriguez
- Tobe Hooper
- John Carpenter
- Robert Houston
- Terence Fisher
- Tod Browning
- David Cronenberg
- Oren Peli
- Richard Donner
- Tom Holland
- Jack Arnold
- Howard Hawks
- Val Lewton
- Rouben Mamoulian
- George Waggner
- James Whale
- Gaston Leroux
- Paul Wegener
- Robert Wiene
- F. W. Murnau
- Paul Leni
- Wallace Worsley
- Roland West
- Alice Guy
- Georges Méliès
- J. Searle Dawley
- Sylvester Stallone
- Michael Wadleigh
- John Landis
- Joe Dante
- Gene Fowler Jr.
- Richard Brooks
- Kevin Connor
- Joel M. Reed
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Charles Laughton
- Douglas Hickox
- Jonathan Demme
- John McNaughton
- Armand Mastroianni
- Robert Moore
- Jim Sharman
- John Jordon
- John De Bello
- Leo McCarey
- Alfred E. Green
- George Cukor
- Marcel Carné
- Wong Kar Wai
- Charles Chaplin
- Kátia Lund
- Fernando Meirelles
- King Vidor
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Edgar G. Ulmer
- Chia-Liang Liu
- Jackie Chan
- Kaige Chen
- Lee Unkrich
- Norman Z. McLeod
- Mohsen Makmalbaf
- Robert Hamer
- Merian C. Cooper
- Ernest B. Schoedsack
- Preston Sturges
- Josef von Sternberg
- David Lean
- Jean-Claude Lauzon
- Dziga Vertov
- John Frankenheimer
- Vincente Minelli
- Robert Bresson
- Jacques Tourneur
- Hamilton Luske
- Ben Sharpsteen
- Robert Pulcini
- Shari Springer Berman
- John Ford
- Gene Kelly
- Jon Amiel
- Alexander Mackendrick
- George Stevens
- Pedro Almodóvar
- King Hu
- Theo Angelopoulos
- Clint Eastwood
- Raoul Walsh
- Raj Kapoor
- Harold Ramis
- Tsui Hark
- Paul Gerber
- Peter Farrelly
- Roy Rowland
- Joseph H. Lewis
- John Patrick Shanley
- Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
- Philippe De Broca
- Bryan Singer
- Frank Darabont
- Terry Jones
- Robert Wise
- Franklin J. Schaffner
- Irvin Kershner
- Arthur Hiller
- Richard Fleischer
- Fred Zinnemann
- Robert Mulligan
- Jamie Uys
- Louis Malle
- Walter Hill
- Hiroshi Inagaki
- Norman Jewison
- Albert Hughes
- Allen Hughes
- Delmer Daves
- Michael Gordon
- Sydney Pollack
- Charlie Chaplin
- John D. Hancock
- Rob Minkoff
- Roger Allers
- Kevin Costner
- Byron Haskin
- Christopher Nolan
- Darren Aronofsky
- Bill Forsyth
- Philippe Parreno
- Douglas Gordon
- Stephen Chow
- Paul Crowder
- John Dower
- Gurinder Chadha
- Jafar Panahi
- Tom Hooper
- John Huston
- Robert Riger
- David Evans
- Ang Lee
- Baz Luhrmann
- Kathryn Bigelow
- Michael Moore
- D.A. Pennebaker
- Prince
- Charlotte Zwerin
- Albert Maysles
- David Maysles
- Adam Yauch
- Michael John Warren
- Nick Cassavetes
- John Cassavetes
- Stephen Frears
- Sofia Coppola
- Richard Linklater
- Jean-Jacques Beineix
- Scott Hicks
- Ed Harris
- Jodie Foster
- Todd Holland
- Wes Anderson
- Robert Altman
- Joel Schumacher
- Zalman King
- Robert Riskin
- Alan J. Pakula
- Michael Winterbottom
- Cecil B. De Mille
- David Greene
- Robert Elfstrom
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Victor Nuñez
- Alan Rudolph
- Barbet Schroeder
- Michael Cimino
- Stephen Daldry
- Isabel Coixet
- Richard Attenborough
- Mike Leigh
- Mabrouk El Mechri
- Gina Prince-Bythewood
- Oscar Micheaux
- John M. Stahl
- William Nolte
- Spencer Williams, Jr.
- Pierre Chenal
- Stanley Kramer
- Melvin Van Peebles
- Sidney J. Furie
- Mark Robson
- Russ Meyer
- Bill Condon
- Michael Schultz
- Charles Burnett
- Jeff Margolis
- Joe Layton
- John Singleton
- Kasi Lemmons
- John Boorman
- Adrian Lyne
- Jean Vigo
- D. W. Griffith
- Chantal Akerman
- Max Ophüls
- Erich von Stroheim
- Carol Reed
- Charles Reisner
- George Kuchar
- Kon Ichikawa
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Chris Marker
- Donald Cammell
- Claude Lanzmann
- Philippe Garrel
- Louis Feuillade
- Douglas Sirk
- Michael Snow
- Andrzej Wajda
- Marco Bellocchio
- Einar Hansen
- Alessandro Blasetti
- Marcel L’Herbier
- Clyde Bruckman
- W. C. Fields
- Alexander Hammid
- Maya Deren
- Abel Gance
- Leonid Trauberg
- Grigori Kozintsev
- Franco Zeffirelli
- Michael Powell
- Vsevolod Pudovkin
- Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- Joseph Cornell
- Todd Haynes
- Sam Taylor
- Fred C. Newmeyer
- Béla Tarr
- Terry Zwigoff
- Frank Oz
- Roger Corman
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Frank Pierson
- Ken Jacobs
- Yuan Muzhi
- Frank Borzage
- Glauber Rocha
- Ousmane Sembène
- Kinji Fukasaku
- Hollis Frampton
- Larisa Shepitko
- Katsuhiro Otomo
- John Mackenzie
- Paul Bartel
- George Miller
- Tim Kincaid
- Robert Drew
- Joshua Logan
- David Mamet
- Freddie Francis
- William Wellman
- Ken Annakin
- Toshio Masuda
- Kinji Fukasaku
- Richard Fleischer
- Silvio Narizzano
- Slatan Dudow
- Jane Campion
- Bong Joon-Ho
- Mehboob Khan
- Zhang Yimou
- Sanjay Leela Bhansali
- Rolf de Heer
- Peter Djigirr
- John Woo
- Hideo Nakata
- George Sluizer
- Jacques Audiard
- Claude Berri
- Edgar Reitz
- Marjane Satrapi
- Vincent Paronnaud
- Walter Salles
- Ashutosh Gowariker
- Thomas Vinterberg
- Djibril Diop Mambéty
- Jiri Menzel
- Jacques Tati
- Oliver Hirschbiegel
- Jean-Paul Rappeneau
- Wong Kar-wai
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Ari Folman
- Mathieu Kassovitz
- Ishiro Honda
- Lau Wai-keung
- Giuseppe Tornatore
- Michael Radford
- Wolfgang Petersen
- Elem Klimov
- Victor Erice
- Alfonso Cuarón
- Lewis John Carlino
- Park Chan-wook
- Tomas Alfredson
- Gillo Pontecorvo
- Guillermo del Toro
- Timur Bekmambetov
- Yuen Woo-ping
- Chen Kaige
- Marc Caro
- Bruce Lee
- Souleymane Cisse
- Paul Verhoeven
- Mamoru Oshii
- Wolfgang Becker
- Jules Dassin
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Tom Tykwer
- Christophe Gans
- Kim Ki-duk
- Juan Antonio Bayona
- Patrice Chéreau
- Susanne Bier
- Ben Sombogaart
- Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
- Gaspar Noé
- Rémy Belvaux
- Bimal Roy
- Bille August
- Jacques Becker
- Masaki Kobayashi
- Luc Besson
- Sylvain Chomet
- John Carney
- Vincent Cassel
- André Génovès
- Julian Schnabel
- Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Matteo Garrone
- Alejandro González Iñárritu
- James Marsh
- Auguste Lumière
- Louis Lumière
- Jack Gold
- Aleksandr Dovzhenko
- Maurice Pialat
- Jean Rouch
- Edgar Morin
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
- Geoff Murphy
- Barry Peak
- Cameron Crowe
- Philip Kaufman
- René Laloux
- David Elfick
- Christopher Guest
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Ivo Caprino
- Sergio Corbucci
- Kevin Smith
- Wong Fei Huing
- Steve James
- George Hickenlooper
- Fax Bahr
- Louise Pepe
- Keith Fulton
- Neal Israel
- Alfred Cheung
- Jake Kasdan
- Roland Joffe
- Jim Abrahams
- Jerry Zucker
- David Zucker
- Giulio Questi
- Kevin Macdonald
- Mike Judge
- Bob Balaban
- George Roy Hill
- Trey Parker
- James Mangold
- Ted Kotcheff
- Blake Edwards
- Bud Yorkin
- Takeshi Kitano
- J. Lee Thompson
- Carroll Ballard
- Gene Saks
- Mike Hodges
- Robert Harmon
- Edgar Wright
- Liu Chia-Liang
- Ivan Reitman
- Joe Carnahan
- Franklin J. Schaffner
- Rob Reiner
- David Miller
- Fred Schepisi
- Robert Frank
- Ringo Lam
- Joseph Sargent
- Les Blank
- Jeremiah Chechik
- Ermanno Olmi
- Edward Norton
- Peter Griffin
- Mark Waters
- Michael Lehmann
- Donald Petrie
- Ted Kotcheff
- Javier Fesser
- Jimmy Murakami
- Paolo Sorrentino
- Sergio Garrone
- Haskell Wexler
- Peter Watkins
- Wolfgang Reitherman
- Rudolph Mate
- John Farrow
- Benjamin Christensen
- G. W. Pabst
- Marco Ferreri
- Peter Greenaway
- Bigas Luna
- Juzo Itami
- Tinto Brass
- Ed Wood
- David Worth
- Stewart Raffill
- John Badham
- Stan Dragoti
- Frederick Wiseman
- Jim Muro
- Guy Hamilton
- Val Guest
- Ken Hughes
- Joseph McGrath
- Robert Parrish
- Peter R. Hunt
- Alberto De Martino
- Garson Kanin
- Emeric Pressburger
- Albert Lamorisse
- Alberto Cavalcanti
- Frank Launder
- Sidney Gilliat
- Bob Rafelson
- Edward Dmytryk
- George W. Hill
- Ramon Menendez
- Edward James Olmos
- William Castle
- Harold S. Bucquet
- Ben Holmes
- William Nigh
- Sean Penn
- Robert Flaherty
- Jason Reitman
- Allison Anders
- Lindsay Anderson
- R. G. Springsteen
- Kaneto Shindo
- Martin Ritt
- Robert Rossen
- Fred Coe
- Charles M. Jones
- Zoltan Korda
- Don Weis
- Henry Koster
- Edward Yang
- Atom Egoyan
- Lodge Kerrigan
- Aleksei Balabanov
- Pen-ek Ratanaruang
- Lars von Trier
- Shinya Tsukamoto
- Ron Fricke
- George Sidney
- Charles Walters
- Busby Berkeley
- David Butler
- W.S. Van Dyke II
- Edward Buzzell
- Edwin L. Marin
- Mark Sandrich
- Gregory La Cava
- David Leland
- Sidney Lanfield
- William A. Seiter
- Dick Richards
- Ivan Passer
- John Dahl
- Matthew Vaughn
- William Cameron Menzies
- William Dieterle
- Otto Brower
- Robert Z. Leonard
- Roy Del Ruth
- Edgar Selwyn
- Gregory LaCava
- Edward Sedgwick
- Arthur Dreifuss
- Vincent Gallo
- Nancy Savoca
- Henry King
- R.G. Springsteen
- André de Toth
- Louis King
- Kurt Neumann
- Jack Starrett
- John C. Champion
- Edward Ludwig
- Irving Reis
- H.C. Potter
- Norman Foster
- Mark Rydell
- Paolo Sorrentino
- Howard Deutch
- Mitchell Leisen
- Nicolas Philibert
- Alexander Korda
- George Fitzmaurice
- Victor Saville
- Ian Dalrymple
- David Hand
- Pete Docter
- Lee Unkrich
- David Silverman
- William Keighley
- John Busker
- Ron Clements
- Lewis Milestone
- Chris Smith
- Anatole Litvak
- Guy Green
- John Cromwell
- Clarence Brown
- Jacques Feyder
- Robert Florey
- Leo McCarey
- Gabriel Axel
- Frank Marshall
- Ginette Leclerc
- Charles Moulin
- Fernand Charpin
- Robert Vattier
- Diane Wood
- Jasmin Dizdar
- Eric Rohmer
- Edward F. Cline
- Milcho Manchevski
- Nic Gaster
- Kirk Wise
- Gary Trousdale
- Mario Monicelli
- Lawrence Kasdan
- Martin Brest
- Yakima Canutt
- Andrew Marton
- Marcel Camus
- Campbell Scott
- Stanley Tucci
- Paul Mazursky
- Paul Greengrass
- Bruce Beresford
- Luigi Comencini
- Kimberly Peirce
- Steve Rash
- Joe Berlinger
- Bruce Sinofsky
- Kristoffer Nyholm
- Carlos Diegues
- Ron Shelton
- Eugene Corr
- Bob Fosse
- Fernando Trueba
- Herbert Ross
- Hugh Hudson
- Wayne Wang
- Frank Lloyd
- Lasse Hallström
- Claire Denis
- Nick Park
- Peter Lord
- Rob Marshall
- George Lowe
- Daniel Mann
- Michael Apted
- Bertrand Tavernier
- Mikhail Kalatozov
- George Seaton
- Rowland V. Lee
- Edmund Goulding
- Nikita Mikhalkov
- Mike Newell
- George Abbott
- Tim Robbins
- Phillip Noyce
- Vincent Monton
- Jacob Brackman
- Jim McBride
- George Marshall
- Susan Seidelman
- Jerzy Skolimowski
- Laslo Benedek
- Charles Crichton
- Beau Marks
- John McTiernan
- Roy Rossotti
- Pietro Germi
- Erick Zonca
- William Hobbs
- Agnieszka Holland
- Diane Kurys
- Peter Markham
- Anthony Minghella
- Zacharias Kunuk
- Yoshimitsu Morita
- Nick Abdo
- Garry Marshall
- Rene Clement
- Abraham Polonsky
- Peter Cattaneo
- Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Frank Tashlin
- Bertrand Blier
- Henry Cornelius
- Agnes Varda
- Valerio Zurlini
- Jose Ferrer
- Joseph Reidy
- Sidney Franklin
- Gustav Machaty
- Barbara Kopple
- Todd Solondz
- Alan Oxman
- Michael Almereyda
- Laurence Olivier
- Gerald Cotts
- James Ivory
- Eleanor Coppola
- Richard Pearce
- Elaine May
- Hal Hartley
- Kenneth Branagh
- Vic Armstrong
- Lisa Cholodenko
- Jean Negulesco
- Marcel Ophuls
- Michael Dryhurst
- Peter Hall
- Ken Burns
- Todd Field
- John Boulting
- Mike Figgis
- Alan Crosland
- Richard Thorpe
- Frank Kowalski
- Yang Fengliang
- Robert Siodmak
- Robert Benton
- Hector Babenco
- Peter Brook
- Walter Lang
- Lamont Johnson
- Gianni Amelio
- Curtis Hanson
- Noel Howard
- Andre Smagghe
- Roger Vadim
- Penny Marshall
- Mervyn LeRoy
- Alfonso Arau
- Henry Hathaway
- Tom DiCillo
- Gillian Armstrong
- Mark Lewis
- Vassili Pitchul
- Philip Leacock
- Ray Ashley
- Morris Engel
- Ruth Orkin
- Dennis Stock
- Albert Brooks
- Karoly Makk
- Bernhard Wicki
- Delbert Mann
- Nicole Holofcener
- Patrick Carey
- Nicholas Hytner
- Tariq Anwar
- Gabriel Pascal
- Aki Kaurismaki
- Robert Stevenson
- Harry Horner
- Whit Stillman
- Evelyn Purcell
- Constantin Costa-Gavras
- Richard Boleslawski
- Ann Petrie
- James Flood
- Elliott Nugent
- Ildiko Enyedi
- Jim Sheridan
- Roy Ward Baker
- Gary McLarty
- Conrad Palmisano
- Sam Zebba
- Ettore Scola
- Irving Rapper
- Larry Peerce
- Carl Franklin
- Victor Schertzinger
- Harry Watt
- Robert Redford
- Donald Roos
- Michael Anderson
- Daryl Duke
- Roger Michell
- Bill Roberts
- Colin Englert
- Tay Garnett
- Jacques Doillon
- Leslie Howard
- Anthony Asquith
- Peter Glenville
- Stuart Gordon
- Michael Tolkin
- Michael D. Moore
- Franc Roddam
- Craig R. Baxley
- Paul Brickman
- Robert Ellis Miller
- Daniel Vigne
- Peter Medak
- Mira Nair
- Charles MacArthur
- Ben Hecht
- Roy Boulting
- Lina Wertmuller
- John Madden
- Gordon Parks
- Jonathan Glazer
- Alan Bridges
- Ross McElwee
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- Elmar Klos
- Arthur Wooster
- Perce Pearce
- Larry Morey
- Michael Ritchie
- Roger Donaldson
- Lloyd Bacon
- Joe Alves
- Nicholas Meyer
- Robert Enders
- Lew Ayres
- Janet Gaynor
- Ulu Grosbard
- Mariangela Melato
- Giancarlo Giannini
- Alexander Mackendrick
- Serge Bourguignon
- Bobby Bass
- Hercules Bellville
- Gary Capo
- Tim Whelan
- Ludwig Berger
- François Girard
- Herbert Coleman
- Peter Masterson
- Ronald Neame
- Danny DeVito
- Herman Shumlin
- Bob Ziembicki
- Michael Steinberg
- Ian Sharp
- Neal Jimenez
- Jerome Robbins
- Marcel Pagnol
- Andre Techine
- Kenneth Lonergan
- Chen Huai-En
- George Dunning
- Alfonso Cuaron
- James Young Deer
- Lois Weber
- Phillips Smalley
- Chuck Jones
- Elaine Bass
- Saul Bass
- John Emerson
- Victor Sjöström
- George Pal
- Joseph Kane
- Charles Lamont
- Pat O’Neill
- G. W. Bitzer
- Dave Tatsuno
- George Loane Tucker
- Gregory Bateson
- Margaret Mead
- William C. Jersey
- Denis Sanders
- Jim Freeman
- Greg MacGillivray
- Theodore Case
- Harold L. Muller
- Christian Nyby
- George Ingmire
- Mike Todd, Jr.
- Robert L. Bendick
- Burt Gillett
- Budd Boetticher
- Cedric Gibbons
- Jack Conway
- Ted Parmelee
- Edwin S. Porter
- Maurice Schwartz
- Steve Binder
- Karl Brown
- Walt Disney
- Andrew L. Stone
- Miriam Bennett
- Dudley Murphy
- Dave Fleischer
- Wilfred Jackson
- William Cottrell
- Perce Pearce
- F.S. Armitage
- Julien Bryan
- Lynn Reynolds
- Helen Hill
- Ernie Gehr
- Thomas Chalmers
- Lowell Sherman
- Charles Bryant
- Herbert J. Biberman
- Pare Lorentz
- Daniel Petrie
- Janie Geiser
- Jonas Mekas
- Alfred Leslie
- Lou Breslow
- Robert F. McGowan
- Sally Cruikshank
- J. Stuart Blackton
- Chuck Workman
- Ray Eames
- Charles Eames
- Thomas Edison
- Arthur P. Jacobs
- David Hand
- Norman Ferguson
- T. Hee
- Jack Kinney
- Herbert Brenon
- Randal Kleiser
- Wallace Kelly
- Fred Guiol
- Emilio Fernández
- Mitchell Block
- Lionel Rogosin
- Scott Bartlett
- Jerry Lewis
- Michael Roemer
- Anthony Mann
- James Parrott
- Morton DaCosta
- James Frawley
- Benjamin Doniger
- William Beaudine
- Oskar Fischinger
- Bruce Conner
- Sid Laverents
- Alice Guy-Blaché
- Joseph Santley
- James Blue
- George B. Seitz
- Alexander Hall
- Mabel Normand
- James Algar
- Fred M. Wilcox
- Sidney Peterson
- Connie Field
- Slavko Vorkapich
- H. Lee Waters
- William Heise
- Godfrey Reggio
- Reginald Barker
- Harold M. Shaw
- Bert Stern
- Gjon Mili
- Edward S. Curtis
- Helen Levitt
- James Agee
- Janice Loeb
- Clarence G. Badger
- Robert Gardner
- John Marshall
- Martin Brest
- Ida Lupino
- Ralph Steiner
- William S. Hart
- Charles Swickard
- Clifford Smith
- Marie Menken
- Sidney Olcott
- Alfred Ames
- Winsor McCay
- Robert Cannon
- Robert Breer
- Frank Mouris
- Marvin Breckinridge Patterson
- Rex Ingram
- Len Lye
- Lawrence Marston
- Edwin Thanhouser
- Fatty Arbuckle
- Jerome Hill
- Ray Taylor
- Frederick Stephani
- Gregory Nava
- Bruce Brown
- Robert Clouse
- Anthony Rizzo
- Harry Smith
- William Dickson
- Meg Barstow
- Robbins Barstow
- Leonard Kamerling
- Sarah Elder
- Dorothy Arzner
- Marion Wong
- Kent MacKenzie
- Melvin Frank
- Norman Panama
- Leopold Wharton
- Louis J. Gasnier
- Melville Webber
- James Sibley Watson
- Julie Dash
- Shirley Clarke
- Bruce Baillie
- Lewis H. Moomaw
- Jay Leyda
- Mimi Pickering
- James W. Horne
- Albert Parker
- Charles Brabin
- Fred Niblo
- Robert M. Fresco
- Thomas H. Ince
- Raymond B. West
- Raymond Dowidat
- Esther Dowidat
- Judy Collins
- Jill Godmilow
- George C. Stoney
- Charles Barton
- Nathan H. Juran
- Ruggero Deodato
- Isao Takahata
Rob, what do you think of Wonder Years and All in the Family with Archie Bunker?
Good.
Ingmar Bergman
There is only one man that deserves to be on that list, and it is Sylvester Stallone.
He made Rocky, man.
Your opinion, probably posted elsewhere, of James Dean?
Now, the chief supposed imitator of James Dean
was early Michael Parks.
“Bus Riley’s Back In Town” with Ann-Margret.
http://www.blockbuster.com/browse/catalog/movieDetails/53194
“The Idol” with Jennifer Jones.
“Wild Seed.”
(in this regard Parks’ Adam in the Bible would be superfluous.)
“Then Came Bronson” 1969, was the premiere natural-realist shot-on-location soul-searching introspective wanderer TV show, Parks playing the lead. Never since attempted let alone duplicated.
I don’t love James Dean at all. I *am* James Dean, now, before and forever after!
You only had to make one good, kickass movie at any time in any place to be on the list.
Menace 2 Society is staying on, because it’s damn good. Singleton was just added. You’re right, boys in the hood was great.
Are you a film buff, Silver?
One thing I know nothing about is Australian cinema. Other than Peter Weir, maybe you could help me out.
Not just one good movie, but one damn good, I mean damn good, movie. At any time in any place. I’m being generous here, but the truth is that in over 100 years, obviously there have been hundreds of fine directors.
Rob, watch this clip and tell me what kind of message this is supposed to send.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFDG9zpMMCc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFDG9zpMMCc
I see what you mean. 🙁
That chick seems badass. Look how strong she is with the knife. Bet she gives a mean handjob.
Considering that they own Hollywood, you still think I shouldn’t blame the filthy rat kikes for this kind of shit?
Edward Yang deserves a place for Yi Yi.
Atom Egoyan for Chloe. I haven’t seen his other stuff.
Lodge Kerrigan for Clean, Shaven.
Aleksei Balabanov for Brat, Morfiy, Cargo 200 and maybe others.
Pen-ek Ratanaruang.
Lars von Trier. Antichrist was amazing. Dancer in the Dark, The Five Obstructions, and Riget were good. I’m not too big on the strict Dogme stuff like Dogville.
Shinya Tsukamoto for Tetsuo: the Iron Man and Tokyo Fist.
Ron Fricke for Baraka.
European cinema is very under-represented in the list, in particular the directors of France, Germany, Russia/the USSR, Spain, Italy, Poland and Hungary. All this nations have made world class films.
Very solid list.
I see you’ve got Eisenstein, Vertov, Bakshi, Passolini, Jimmy Murakami, Hal Ashby, Jimmy Murakami, and Luis Buñuel (I was literally checking to see if you missed any of them; just looking for a reason to comment).
I think Isao Takahata should be in here for ‘Grave of the Fireflies’, though.