Seen of "They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?"'s Top 100 Directors

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  1. 1. Orson Welles

  2. 1. Citizen Kane (1941)
  3. 2. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
  4. 3. The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
  5. 4. Mr. Arkadin (1955)
  6. 5. Touch of Evil (1958)
  7. 6. The Trial (1962)
  8. 7. F for Fake (1974)
  9. 2. Alfred Hitchcock

  10. 1. The Lodger (1927)
  11. 2. 39 Steps (1935)
  12. 3. Saboteur (1942)
  13. 4. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
  14. 5. Spellbound (1945)
  15. 6. Notorious (1946)
  16. 7. Rope (1948)
  17. 8. Strangers on a Train (1951)
  18. 9. Rear Window (1954)
  19. 10. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
  20. 11. Vertigo (1958)
  21. 12. North by Northwest (1959)
  22. 13. Psycho (1960)
  23. 14. The Birds (1963)
  24. 15. Marnie (1964)
  25. 3. Stanley Kubrick

  26. 1. The Killing (1956)
  27. 2. Paths of Glory (1957)
  28. 3. Lolita (1962)
  29. 4. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
  30. 5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  31. 6. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  32. 7. Barry Lyndon (1975)
  33. 8. The Shining (1980)
  34. 9. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  35. 10. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
  36. 4. Federico Fellini

  37. 1. La Strada (1954)
  38. 2. La Dolce Vita (1960)
  39. 3. 8 ½ (1963)
  40. 4. Amarcord (1974)
  41. 5. Akira Kurosawa

  42. 1. Rashomon (1950)
  43. 2. Ikiru (1952)
  44. 3. The Seven Samurai (1954)
  45. 4. Throne of Blood (1957)
  46. 5. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
  47. 6. Yojimbo (1961)
  48. 7. Sanjuro (1962)
  49. 8. High and Low (1963)
  50. 9. Dersu Uzala (1975)
  51. 10. Kagemusha (1980)
  52. 11. Ran (1985)
  53. 12. Rhapsody in August (1991)
  54. 6. Jean Renoir

  55. 1. Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
  56. 2. La Grande Illusion (1937)
  57. 3. Bete Humaine (1938)
  58. 4. Rules of the Game (1939)
  59. 5. The River (1951)
  60. 7. Ingmar Bergman

  61. 1. The Seventh Seal (1957)
  62. 2. Wild Strawberries (1957)
  63. 3. The Virgin Spring (1960)
  64. 4. Persona (1966)
  65. 5. Cries and Whispers (1972)
  66. 6. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
  67. 8. John Ford

  68. 1. Stagecoach (1939)
  69. 2. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
  70. 3. Grapes of Wrath (1940)
  71. 4. My Darling Clementine (1946)
  72. 5. The Searchers (1956)
  73. 6. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
  74. 9. Jean-Luc Godard

  75. 1. Breathless (1960)
  76. 2. My Life to Live (1962)
  77. 3. Contempt (1963)
  78. 4. Weekend (1967)
  79. 10. Francis Ford Coppola

  80. 1. The Godfather (1972)
  81. 2. The Conversation (1974)
  82. 3. The Godfather part II (1974)
  83. 4. Apocalypse Now (1979)
  84. 5. Cotton Club (1984)
  85. 6. Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
  86. 7. The Godfather part III (1990)
  87. 8. Jack (1996)
  88. 11. Charles Chaplin

  89. 1. The Gold Rush (1925)
  90. 2. City Lights (1931)
  91. 3. Modern Times (1936)
  92. 4. The Great Dictator (1940)
  93. 5. Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
  94. 6. Limelight (1952)
  95. 12. Martin Scorsese

  96. 1. Mean Streets (1973)
  97. 2. Taxi Driver (1976)
  98. 3. Raging Bull (1980)
  99. 4. Goodfellas (1990)
  100. 5. Gangs of New York (2002)
  101. 6. The Departed (2006)
  102. 13. Carl Dreyer

  103. 1. Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
  104. 2. Vampyr (1932)
  105. 3. Day of Wrath (1943)
  106. 4. Ordet (1955)
  107. 5. Gertrude (1964)
  108. 14. Luis Bunuel

  109. 1. Un Chien Andalou (1929)
  110. 2. L’Age D’Or (1930)
  111. 3. Viridiana (1961)
  112. 4. The Exterminating Angel (1962)
  113. 5. Belle de Jour (1967)
  114. 6. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
  115. 7. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
  116. 15. Billy Wilder

  117. 1. Double Indemnity (1944)
  118. 2. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
  119. 3. Stalag 17 (1953)
  120. 4. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
  121. 5. Some Like It Hot (1959)
  122. 6. The Apartment (1960)
  123. 16. Robert Bresson

  124. 1. A Man Escaped (1956)
  125. 2. Pickpocket (1959)
  126. 3. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
  127. 4. Lancelot du Lac (1974)
  128. 17. FW Murnau

  129. 1. Nosferatu (1922)
  130. 2. The Last Laugh (1924)
  131. 3. Faust (1926)
  132. 4. Sunrise (1927)
  133. 5. Tabu (1931)
  134. 18. Sergei Eisenstein

  135. 1. The Battleship Potempkin (1925)
  136. 2. Alexander Nevsky (1938)
  137. 3. Ivan the Terrible (1944-1946)
  138. 19. Yasujiro Ozu

  139. 1. Late Spring (1949)
  140. 2. Early Summer (1951)
  141. 3. Tokyo Story (1953)
  142. 4. Floating Weeds (1959)
  143. 20. Howard Hawks

  144. 1. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
  145. 2. Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
  146. 3. His Girl Friday (1940)
  147. 4. Sergeant York (1941)
  148. 5. The Big Sleep (1946)
  149. 6. Red River (1948)
  150. 7. Rio Bravo (1959)
  151. 21. Andrei Tarkovsky

  152. 1. Andrei Rublev (1969)
  153. 2. Solaris (1972)
  154. 3. The Mirror (1975)
  155. 4. Stalker (1979)
  156. 5. Sacrifice (1986)
  157. 22. Buster Keaton

  158. 1. Our Hospitality (1923)
  159. 2. Sherlock Jr (1924)
  160. 3. The Navigator (1924)
  161. 4. The General (1927)
  162. 5. Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)
  163. 6. The Cameraman (1928)
  164. 23. Kenji Mizoguchi

  165. 1. Sisters of the Gion (1936)
  166. 2. Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)
  167. 3. Life of Oharu (1952)
  168. 4. Ugetsu (1953)
  169. 5. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
  170. 6. Street of Shame (1956)
  171. 24. Michelangelo Antonioni

  172. 1. L’Avventura (1960)
  173. 2. Blow Up (1966)
  174. 25. Francois Truffaut

  175. 1. The 400 Blows (1959)
  176. 2. Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
  177. 3. Jules et Jim (1962)
  178. 26. David Lean

  179. 1. Brief Encounter (1945)
  180. 2. Great Expectations (1946)
  181. 3. The Bridge Over the River Kwai (1957)
  182. 4. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  183. 5. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
  184. 27. Fritz Lang

  185. 1. Metropolis (1927)
  186. 2. M (1931)
  187. 3. The Last Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
  188. 4. Scarlet Street (1945)
  189. 5. The Big Heat (1953)
  190. 6. While the City Sleeps (1956)
  191. 7. Tiger of Eschnapur (1958)
  192. 8. Indian Tomb (1959)
  193. 28. DW Griffith

  194. 1. Birth of a Nation (1915)
  195. 2. Intolerance (1916)
  196. 3. Broken Blossoms (1919)
  197. 4. Way Down East (1920)
  198. 29. Vittorio De Sica

  199. 1. Bicycle Thief (1948)
  200. 2. Miracle in Milan (1951)
  201. 3. Umberto D. (1952)
  202. 30. Roberto Rossellini

  203. 1.Voyage in Italy (1954)
  204. 31. Satyajit Ray

  205. 1. Pather Panchali (1955)
  206. 2. Aparajito (1956)
  207. 3. World of Apu (1959)
  208. 32. Max Ophuls

  209. 1. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
  210. 2. Earrings of Madame De… (1953)
  211. 33. Jean Vigo

  212. 1. L’Atalante (1934)
  213. 34. Steven Spielberg

  214. 1. Jaws (1975)
  215. 2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
  216. 3. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  217. 4. E.T.-the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
  218. 5. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
  219. 6. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
  220. 7. Hook (1991)
  221. 8. Schindler’s List (1993)
  222. 9. Jurassic Park (1993)
  223. 10. Jurassic Part II: the Lost World (1997)
  224. 11. Amistad (1997)
  225. 12. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  226. 13. A.I-Artificial Intelligence (2001)
  227. 14. Minority Report (2002)
  228. 15. The Terminal (2004)
  229. 16. The War of the Worlds (2005)
  230. 35. Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly

  231. 1. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
  232. 2. Charade (1963)
  233. 36. Roman Polanski

  234. 1. Repulsion (1965)
  235. 2. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
  236. 3. Chinatown (1974)
  237. 4. The Tenant (1976)
  238. 5. The Pianist (2002)
  239. 37. Robert Altman

  240. 1. MASH (1970)
  241. 2. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
  242. 3. Nashville (1975)
  243. 4. Short Cuts (1993)
  244. 5. Gosford Park (2001)
  245. 38. Luchino Visconti

  246. 1. The Leopard (1963)
  247. 39. John Huston

  248. 1. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  249. 2. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  250. 3. The African Queen (1950)
  251. 40. Woody Allen

  252. 1. Take the Money and Run (1969)
  253. 2. Annie Hall (1977)
  254. 3. Manhattan (1979)
  255. 4. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
  256. 5. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
  257. 6. Might Aphrodite (1995)
  258. 41. Alain Resnais

  259. 1. Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959)
  260. 2. Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
  261. 42. Ernst Lubitsch

  262. 1. Trouble in Paradise (1932)
  263. 2. Ninotchka (1939)
  264. 3. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
  265. 4. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
  266. 43. Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger

  267. 1. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
  268. 2. A Canterbury Tale (1944)
  269. 3. A Matter of Life and Death/Stairway to Heaven (1946)
  270. 4. Black Narcissus (1947)
  271. 5. The Red Shoes (1948)
  272. 6. Peeping Tom (1960) (solo Powell)
  273. 44. Frank Capra

  274. 1. It Happened One Night (1936)
  275. 2. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  276. 3. Meet John Doe (1941)
  277. 4. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
  278. 45. Sergio Leone

  279. 1. Fistful of Dollars (1964)
  280. 2. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
  281. 3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
  282. 4. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
  283. 5. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
  284. 46. Carol Reed

  285. 1. Odd Man Out (1947)
  286. 2. The Third Man (1949)
  287. 47. Bernardo Bertolucci

  288. 1. The Conformist (1970)
  289. 2. Last Tango in Paris (1972)
  290. 3. Little Buddha (1994)
  291. 48. Marcel Carne

  292. 1. Children of Paradise (1945)
  293. 49. Sam Peckinpah

  294. 1. The Wild Bunch (1969)
  295. 2. Straw Dogs (1971)
  296. 3. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
  297. 50. John Cassavetes

  298. 1. Faces (1968)
  299. 2. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
  300. 3. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
  301. 51. Michael Curtiz

  302. 1. Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
  303. 2. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
  304. 3. Casablanca (1942)
  305. 52. Preston Sturges

  306. 1. Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
  307. 2. The Lady Eve (1941)
  308. 3. The Palm Beach Story (1942)
  309. 53. Victor Fleming

  310. 1. Gone with the Wind (1939)
  311. 2. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  312. 54. David Lynch

  313. 1. Eraserhead (1977)
  314. 2. Blue Velvet (1986)
  315. 3. Lost Highway (1997)
  316. 4. Mulhollad Dr. (2001)
  317. 55. Krzysztof Kieslowski

  318. 1. The Decalogue (1988)
  319. 2. A Short Film About Killing (1988)
  320. 3. The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
  321. 4. Bleu (1993)
  322. 5. Blanc (1994)
  323. 6. Rouge (1994)
  324. 56. Werner Herzog

  325. 1. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
  326. 2. Stroszek (1977)
  327. 3. Fitzcarraldo (1982)
  328. 4. Rescue Dawn (2006)
  329. 57. Abbas Kiarostami

  330. 1. Close-Up (1990)
  331. 2. A Taste of Cherry (1997)
  332. 3. The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
  333. 58. George Cukor

  334. 1. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
  335. 59. RW Fassbinder

  336. 1. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
  337. 2. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
  338. 3. Veronika Voss (1982)
  339. 60. Pier Paolo Passolini

  340. 61. Jacques Tati

  341. 1. Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (1953)
  342. 2. Playtime (1967)
  343. 62. Douglas Sirk

  344. 1. All That Heaven Allows (1955)
  345. 2. Written on the Wind (1956)
  346. 3. Imitation of Life (1959)
  347. 63. Leo McCarey

  348. 1. Duck Soup (1933)
  349. 64. Vincente Minnelli

  350. 65. Elia Kazan

  351. 1. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  352. 2. On the Waterfront (1954)
  353. 3. Splendor in the Grass (1961)
  354. 66. Joseph von Sternberg

  355. 1. The Blue Angel (1930)
  356. 2. Morocco (1930)
  357. 3. The Scarlet Empress (1932)
  358. 4. The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
  359. 67. Ridley Scott

  360. 1. Alien (1979)
  361. 2. Blade Runner (1982)
  362. 3. Gladiator (2000)
  363. 4. Black Hawk Down (2001)
  364. 5. Hannibal (2001)
  365. 6. Matchstick Men (2003)
  366. 7. American Gangster (2007)
  367. 68. Eric von Stroheim

  368. 1. Foolish Wives (1922)
  369. 2. Greed (1924)
  370. 3. Queen Kelly (1929)
  371. 69. Nicholas Ray

  372. 1. In a Lonely Place (1950)
  373. 2. Rebel without a Cause (1955)
  374. 3. Bitter Victory (1957)
  375. 70. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  376. 1. All About Eve (1950)
  377. 71. Jacques Rivette

  378. 1. Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
  379. 72. Jacques Tourneur

  380. 1. Cat People (1942)
  381. 2. I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
  382. 3. Out of the Past (1947)
  383. 4. Night of the Demon (1957)
  384. 73. William Wyler

  385. 1. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  386. 2. Roman Holiday (1953)
  387. 3. Ben-Hur (1959)
  388. 74. Quentin Tarantino

  389. 1. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
  390. 2. Pulp Fiction (1994)
  391. 3. Jackie Brown (1997)
  392. 4. Kill Bill vol. 1 (2003)
  393. 5. Kill Bill vol. 2 (2004)
  394. 6. Grindhouse (2007) (with Rodriguez, et al)
  395. 75. Wim Wenders

  396. 1. Paris, Texas (1984)
  397. 76. Chris Marker

  398. 77. Hou Hsiao-Hsien

  399. 1. The Puppetmaster (1993)
  400. 78. Milos Forman

  401. 1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
  402. 2. Amadeus (1984)
  403. 79. Wong Kar-Wai

  404. 1. Days of Being Wild (1991)
  405. 2. Chungking Express (1994)
  406. 3. Ashes of Time (1994)
  407. 4. Happy Together (1997)
  408. 5. In the Mood for Love (2000)
  409. 80. Terrence Malick

  410. 1. Badlands (1972)
  411. 2. Days of Heaven (1978)
  412. 3. The Thin Red Line (1998)
  413. 4. The New World (2005)
  414. 81. Alexander Dovzhenko

  415. 1. Earth (1930)
  416. 82. King Vidor

  417. 1. The Crowd (1928)
  418. 83. David Cronenberg

  419. 1. Videodrome (1983)
  420. 2. A History of Violence (2005)
  421. 3. Eastern Promises (2007)
  422. 84. Stan Brakhage

  423. 1. The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981)
  424. 2. Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse (1991)
  425. 3. Water for Maya (2000)
  426. 85. Jacques Demy

  427. 1. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
  428. 86. Eric Rohmer

  429. 87. Joel Coen

  430. 1. Miller’s Crossing (1990)
  431. 2. Barton Fink (1991)
  432. 3. Fargo (1996)
  433. 4. The Big Lebowski (1998)
  434. 5. O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000)
  435. 6. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
  436. 7. Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
  437. 8. The Ladykillers (2004)
  438. 9. No Country for Old Men (2007)
  439. 88. Jean Cocteau

  440. 1. Blood of the Poet (1930)
  441. 2. Belle et la Bete (1946)
  442. 3. Orpheus (1950)
  443. 89. Sidney Lumet

  444. 1. Network (1976)
  445. 90. Robert Flaherty

  446. 91. James Whale

  447. 1. Frankenstein (1931)
  448. 2. The Bride of Frankenstien (1935)
  449. 92. Otto Preminger

  450. 1. Laura (1944)
  451. 93. Theo Angelopoulos

  452. 1. Landscape in the Mist (1988)
  453. 2. Eternity and a Day (1998)
  454. 94. George Lucas

  455. 1. American Graffiti (1973)
  456. 2. Star Wars (1977)
  457. 3. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)
  458. 4. Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)
  459. 5. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
  460. 95. Nicolas Roeg

  461. 1. Walkabout (1971)
  462. 96. George Stevens

  463. 1. Shane (1953)
  464. 97. George Romero

  465. 1. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
  466. 98. Brian De Palma

  467. 1. Dressed to Kill (1980)
  468. 2. Scarface (1983)
  469. 3. Body Double (1984)
  470. 4. The Untouchables (1987)
  471. 5. Mission Impossible (1996)
  472. 6. Mission to Mars (2000)
  473. 99. James Cameron

  474. 1. The Terminator (1984)
  475. 2. Aliens (1986)
  476. 3. The Abyss (1989)
  477. 4. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
  478. 5. True Lies (1994)
  479. 6. Titanic (1997)
  480. 100. Glauber Rocha

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