Favorite Directors (without special qualifications)
Submitted by Matalo on Mon, 02/25/2008 - 11:55
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- Sergio Leone (Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America)
- Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssee, A Clockwork Orange)
- Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs)
- Mario Bava (Danger: Diabolik; Kill, Baby... Kill!)
- Wong Kar-Wai (In the Mood for Love, 2046)
- Michelangelo Antonioni (The Red Desert, The Passenger)
- David Lynch (Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet)
- Brian De Palma (Scarface, Sisters)
- Jean Rollin (Rose of Iron, The Shiver of the Vampires)
- Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window, Vertigo)
- Dario Argento (Suspiria, Inferno)
- Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Before Sunset)
- Andrzej Zulawski (The Most Important Thing: Love, Possession)
- Takeshi Kitano (Fireworks, Kikujiro)
- Alejandro Jodorowsky (The Holy Mountain, El Topo)
- Michael Mann (Heat, Miami Vice)
- Paul Verhoeven (Starship Troopers, Turkish Delight)
- Terrence Malick (Badlands, The New World)
- David Cronenberg (Crash, Videodrome)
- Radley Metzger (The Opening of Misty Beethoven, The Image)
- Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Goodfellas)
- Howard Hawks (Rio Bravo, His Girl Friday)
- Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven, Breezy)
- Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill, Death Proof)
- Lucio Fulci (A Lizard in a Woman's Skin, Seven Notes in Black)
- Michael Cimino (Heaven's Gate, The Deer Hunter)
- John Carpenter (Halloween, Assault on Precinct 13)
- Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon)
- Charles Chaplin (City Lights, The Great Dictator)
- John Huston (Asphalt Jungle, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
- Sergio Sollima (Revolver, Face to Face)
- John Ford (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Searchers)
- George A. Romero (Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead)
- Jess Franco (Venus in Furs, Eugenie... the Story of Her Journey into Perversion)
- Sergio Corbucci (The Great Silence, The Mercenary)
- Ulrich Seidl (Animal Love, Dog Days)
- Walter Hill (The Warriors, Southern Comfort)
- Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon, The Seven Samurai)
- Gaspar Noé (I Stand Alone, Irréversible)
- Richard Lester (Petulia, The Knack... and How to Get It)
- Anthony Mann (The Naked Spur, The Tin Star)
- Damiano Damiani (Confessions of a Police Captain, A Man on His Knees)
- Dennis Hopper (Out of the Blue, Easy Rider)
- Paul Thomas Anderson (Punch-Drunk Love, Hard Eight)
- Roman Polanski (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown)
- Eckhart Schmidt (Loft, Alpha City)
- Joel Coen (Blood Simple, Miller's Crossing)
- Sergio Martino (The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh, Suspected Death of a Minor)
- Catherine Breillat (For My Sister, Romance)
- Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, The Bird People in China)
- Enzo G. Castellari (Keoma, High Crime)
- Vincent Gallo (The Brown Bunny)
- Henri Verneuil (The Sicilian Clan, Fear Over the City)
- Chang Cheh (New One-Armed Swordsman, Invincible Shaolin)
- John Sturges (The Great Escape, The Law and Jake Wade)
- Alfred Vohrer (Seven Days Grace, Dead Eyes of London)
- John Woo (The Killer, Hard-Boiled)
- Louis Malle (Elevator to the Gallows, The Lovers)
- Russ Meyer (Supervixens, Vixen!)
- Pier Paolo Pasolini (Theorem; Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom)
- David Fincher (Zodiac, Se7en)
- Jean-Luc Godard (Vivre sa vie, Pierrot le fou)
- Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now Redux, The Godfather)
- Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show; What's Up, Doc?)
- Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard, Ace in the Hole)
- Walerian Borowczyk (The Beast)
- Ingmar Bergman (Cries and Whispers, Wild Strawberries)
- Klaus Lemke (48 Hours to Acapulco, Negresco)
- Kinji Fukasaku (Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Graveyard of Honor)
- Bruno Dumont (Humanité, The Life of Jesus)
- Rudolf Thome (Red Sun, The Visible and the Invisible)
- Andrei Tarkovsky (Stalker, Solaris)
- Jörg Buttgereit (Nekromantik, Nekromantik 2)
- Robert Aldrich (Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte; The Dirty Dozen)
- Orson Welles (Touch of Evil, Citizen Kane)
- Massimo Dallamano (What Have They Done to Your Daughters?, What Have They Done to Solange?)
- Lars von Trier (Dogville, Breaking the Waves)
- Edward Dmytryk (Warlock; Murder, My Sweet)
- Fernando Di Leo (Manhunt, The Boss)
- William Wyler (Ben-Hur, Roman Holiday)
- John Cassavetes (Opening Night, Faces)
- Constantin Costa-Gavras (Z, The Confession)
- Ernst Lubitsch (To Be or Not to Be, Ninotchka)
- Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris, The Dreamers)
- Fritz Lang (M, The Big Heat)
- Shohei Imamura (Vengeance Is Mine, The Eel)
- Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde, Night Moves)
- Egon Günther (Farewell, Die Schlüssel)
- Duccio Tessari (The Bloodstained Butterfly, Death Took Place Last Night)
- Nicholas Ray (In a Lonely Place, Rebel Without a Cause)
- Richard Brooks (The Professionals, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie, Delicatessen)
- Don Siegel (Dirty Harry, Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
- Wang Yu (Master of the Flying Guillotine, One Armed Boxer)
- Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Alien)
- Tony Scott (True Romance, The Last Boy Scout)
- Peter Weir (Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli)
- Luis Buñuel (The Golden Age, Susana)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (Nosferatu, Tabu)
- John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Mad Dog and Glory)
- Seijun Suzuki (Tokyo Drifter, Branded to Kill)
- Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude, Being There)
- Lukas Moodysson (Fucking Amal, Lilja 4-ever)
- Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys)
- Jacques Tourneur (Out of the Past, Cat People)
- John Frankenheimer (Seconds, The Manchurian Candidate)
- Shunya Ito (Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41, Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion)
- Alexander Payne (Sideways, Election)
- Jerzy Skolimowski (Deep End)
- Shinya Tsukamoto (A Snake of June; Tetsuo, the Iron Man)
- Aldo Lado (Short Night of the Glass Dolls, Night Train Murders)
- John Milius (Dillinger, Big Wednesday)
- Park Chan-Wook (Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance)
- Monte Hellman (Two-Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter)
- Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant, King of New York)
- Wakamatsu Koji (Go, Go Second Time Virgin; United Red Army)
- Larry Clark (Ken Park, Kids)
- Giulio Questi (Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!)
- Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep)
- Jim Jarmusch (Dead Man, Stranger Than Paradise)
- Hans Steinbichler (Winter Journey, Hierankl)
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Chinese Roulette, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul)
- Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation.)
- Woody Allen (Manhattan, Annie Hall)
- Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso, The Legend of 1900)
- François Truffaut (Jules and Jim, The Bride Wore Black)
- Douglas Sirk (Magnificent Obsession, A Time to Love and a Time to Die)
- Michael Winterbottom (The Claim, Code 46)
- Jürgen Roland (Battle of the Godfathers, Angels of the Street)
- Otto Preminger (Laura, River of No Return)
- Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away)
- John Hughes (The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
- Werner Herzog (Lessons of Darkness; Aguirre, Wrath of God)
- Oliver Stone (U Turn, Platoon)
- Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood)
- William Friedkin (Bug, The French Connection)
- Sean Penn (The Indian Runner, The Pledge)
Qualification is that I like a certain director's approach to film and his personal style & expression, and would love to see more of his or her work - regardless of how many films I've seen of that filmmaker up to now.
The order is only very vaguely by preference, I wasn't able to make a serious order by preference.
The two films (with international english titles) in brackets - or only one, if I haven't seen more of the director, which happened in a few cases - are my favorite films of that filmmaker.
Note: the list is not complete and will hopefully be completed and updated in the future.