Seen of the work of They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?'s Top 100 Directors
Submitted by RosieCotton on Wed, 11/29/2006 - 02:59
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1. Orson Welles
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
- The Stranger (1946)
- The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
- Touch of Evil (1958)
- Chimes at Midnight (1965)
2. Alfred Hitchcock
- Blackmail (1929)
- Sabotage (1936)
- The Lady Vanishes (1938)
- Rebecca (1940)
- Saboteur (1942)
- Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
- Spellbound (1945)
- Notorious (1946)
- Strangers on a Train (1951)
- Dial M for Murder (1954)
- Rear Window (1954)
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
- Vertigo (1958)
- North by Northwest (1959)
- Psycho (1960)
- The Birds (1963)
- Marnie (1964)
- Torn Curtain (1966)
3. Federico Fellini
- La Strada (1954)
- Notti di Cabiria, Le (1957)
- Dolce vita, La (1960)
- 8½ (1963)
- Giulietta degli spiriti (1965)
- Fellini - Satyricon (1969)
- Amarcord (1973)
4. Akira Kurosawa
- Rashomon (1950)
- Ikiru (1952)
- Seven Samurai (1954)
- Yojimbo (1961)
- Dersu Uzala (1975)
- Ran (1985)
5. Jean Renoir
- Chienne, La (1931)
- Boudu sauvé des eaux (1932)
- Crime de Monsieur Lange, Le (1936)
- Partie de Campagne (1936)
- Grande illusion, La (1937)
- Règle du jeu, La (1939)
- This Land Is Mine (1943)
- The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)
- Carrosse d'or, Le (1953)
6. Jean-Luc Godard
- À bout de souffle (1960)
- Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux (1962)
- Mépris, Le (1963)
- Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965)
- Pierrot le fou (1965)
- Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis (1966)
- 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle (1967)
- Week End (1967)
7. John Ford
- Stagecoach (1939)
- My Darling Clementine (1946)
- The Searchers (1956)
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
8. Stanley Kubrick
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- Lolita (1962)
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Full Metal Jacket (1987)
9. Ingmar Bergman
- The Seventh Seal (1957)
- The Virgin Spring (1960)
- Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
- Winter Light (1962)
- Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
- Fanny and Alexander (1982)
10. Charles Chaplin
- Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
- The Great Dictator (1940)
- City Lights (1931)
- The Circus (1928)
- The Gold Rush (1925)
- The Kid (1921)
- The Immigrant (1917)
- Easy Street (1917)
- The Rink (1916)
- The Pawnshop (1916)
- One A.M. (1916)
- The Floorwalker (1916)
- Modern Times (1936)
11. Francis Ford Coppola
- The Godfather (1972)
- The Conversation (1974)
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Rumble Fish (1983)
- Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
12. Luis Bunuel
- Un chien andalou (1929)
- L’Âge d’or (1930)
- Los Olvidados (1950)
- Viridiana (1961)
- Belle de jour (1967)
- Tristana (1970)
- Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972)
13. Martin Scorsese
- Mean Streets (1973)
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- The King of Comedy (1983)
- The Color of Money (1986)
- Goodfellas (1990)
- The Aviator (2004)
14. Billy Wilder
- Double Indemnity (1944)
- Sunset Blvd. (1950)
- Ace in the Hole (1951)
- Some Like it Hot (1959)
- The Apartment (1960)
15. Robert Bresson
- Journal d'un curé de campagne (1951)
- Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956)
- Pickpocket (1959)
- Au hasard Balthazar (1966)
- Mouchette (1967)
- Argent, L' (1983)
16. Howard Hawks
- Bringing Up Baby (1938)
- Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
- His Girl Friday (1940)
- To Have and Have Not (1944)
- The Big Sleep (1946)
- Monkey Business (1952)
17 Fritz Lang
- Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (1922)
- Metropolis (1927)
- Scarlet Street (1945)
- The Big Heat (1953)
18. Sergei Eisenstein
- Stachka (1925)
- Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)
- Oktyabr (1928)
- Ivan Groznyy I (1944)
- Ivan Groznyy II: Boyarsky zagovor (1958)
19. Carl Dreyer
- La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1928)
- Vampyr - der Traum des Allan Grey (1932)
- Ordet (1955)
- Gertrud (1964)
20. Kenji Mizoguchi
- Zangiku monogatari (1939)
- The Loyal 47 Ronin [Genroku chushingura] (1941)
- Saikaku ichidai onna [Life of Oharu] (1952)
- Ugetsu monogatari (1953)
- Sanshô dayû (1954)
- Empress Yang Kwei Fei [Yôkihi] (1955)
21. François Truffaut
- Les Quatre cents coups (1959)
- Tirez sur le pianiste (1960)
- Jules et Jim (1962)
22. Yasujiro Ozu
- I Was Born, But... [Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo] (1932)
- Tokyo monogatari... aka Tokyo Story (1953)
- Floating Weeds [Ukigusa] (1959)
- An Autumn Afternoon [ Sanma no aji ] (1962)
23. F.W. Murnau
- Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
- Letzte Mann, Der (1924)
- Herr Tartüff (1926)
- Faust (1926)
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
- Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)
24. Buster Keaton
- One Week (1920)
- Cops (1922)
- Our Hospitality (1923)
- Sherlock Jr. (1924)
- The Navigator (1924)
- Seven Chances (1925)
- The General (1927)
25. Michelangelo Antonioni
- L’Avventura (1960)
- Notte, La (1961)
- Eclisse, L' (1962)
- Blowup (1966)
- Zabriskie Point (1970)
26. Andrei Tarkovsky
- Andrei Rublev (1969)
- Solyaris (1972)
- Zerkalo (1975)
- Stalker (1979)
27. David Lean
- Brief Encounter (1945)
- Doctor Zhivago (1965)
- A Passage to India (1984)
28. D.W. Griffith
- The Lonedale Operator (1911)
- The Miser's Heart (1911)
- The Mender of Nets (1912)
- One Is Business, the Other Crime (1912)
- An Unseen Enemy (1912)
- A Feud in the Kentucky Hills (1912)
- The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
- The New York Hat (1912)
- The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913)
- The Birth of a Nation (1915)
- Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
- Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)
- True Heart Susie (1919)
- Way Down East (1920)
- Orphans of the Storm (1921)
- Sally of the Sawdust (1925)
29. Satyajit Ray
- Pather Panchali (1955)
- Aparajito (1956)
- Jalsaghar (1958)
- Apur Sansar (1959)
30. Robert Altman
- MASH (1970)
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
- The Long Goodbye (1973)
- Nashville (1975)
- The Player (1992)
- Gosford Park (2001)
31. Roberto Rossellini
- Roma, città aperta (1945)
- Paisà (1946)
- Viaggio in Italia (1954)
32. Alain Resnais
- Nuit et brouillard (1955)
- Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
- Année dernière à Marienbad, L' (1961)
33. John Huston
- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
- Key Largo (1948)
- The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
- The African Queen (1951)
- Beat the Devil (1953)
- Fat City (1972)
- Prizzi’s Honor (1985)
- The Dead (1987)
34. Vittorio De Sica
- Ladri di biciclette (1948)
- Miracolo a Milano (1951)
- Umberto D. (1952)
- Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, Il (1970)
35. Luchino Visconti
- Ossessione (1943)
- Senso (1954)
- Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960)
- Gattopardo, Il (1963)
36. Steven Spielberg
- Jaws (1975)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- 1941 (1979)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
- The Color Purple (1985)
- Empire of the Sun (1987)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
- Jurassic Park (1993)
- Schindler’s List (1993)
- Catch Me If You Can (2002)
- War of the Worlds (2005)
- Munich (2005)
37. Ernst Lubitsch
- Trouble in Paradise (1932)
- Ninotchka (1939)
- To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
38. Max Ophüls
- Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
- Lola Montès (1955)
39. Woody Allen
- Sleeper (1973)
- Annie Hall (1977)
- Manhattan (1979)
- The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
- Radio Days (1987)
- Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
40. Bernardo Bertolucci
- Novecento (1976)
- The Last Emperor (1987)
41. R.W. Fassbinder
- Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant, Die (1972)
- Angst essen Seele auf ... aka Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
- Faustrecht der Freiheit ... aka Fox and His Friends (1975)
- The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
42. Frank Capra
- The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
- It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
43. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
- ‘I Know Where I’m Going!’ (1945)
- A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
- Black Narcissus (1947)
- The Red Shoes (1948)
- Peeping Tom (1960) *Powell
44. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
- On the Town (1949)
- Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
- Charade (1963) *Donen
45. Roman Polanski
- Repulsion (1965)
- Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
- Chinatown (1974)
- Tess (1979)
- The Pianist (2002)
46. Carol Reed
- Odd Man Out (1947)
- The Third Man (1949)
- Oliver! (1968)
47. Krszystof Kieslowski
- "Dekalog" (10 episodes, 1989-1990)
- Double vie de Véronique, La (1991)
48. George Cukor
- Little Women (1933)
- Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
- Camille (1936)
- The Women (1939)
- The Philadelphia Story (1940)
- Gaslight (1944)
- Adam's Rib (1949)
- Born Yesterday (1950)
- A Star Is Born (1954)
- My Fair Lady (1964)
49. Jean Vigo
- Atalante, L' (1934)
- Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège (1933)
50. Elia Kazan
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
- On the Waterfront (1954)
51. Michael Curtiz
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
- Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
- Casablanca (1942)
- Mildred Pierce (1945)
52. Josef Von Sternberg
- The Last Command (1928)
- The Docks of New York (1928)
- Blaue Engel, Der (1930)
- Dishonored (1931)
- Shanghai Express (1932)
- The Scarlet Empress (1934)
53. Vincente Minnelli
- Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
- Father of the Bride (1950)
- An American in Paris (1951)
- The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
- The Band Wagon (1953)
- Kismet (1955)
- Tea and Sympathy (1956)
- Gigi (1958)
54. Werner Herzog
- Fitzcarraldo (1982)
55. Marcel Carne
- Le Jour se lève (1939)
- Les Enfants du paradis (1945)
56. Sam Peckinpah
- The Wild Bunch (1969)
- Straw Dogs (1971)
- Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
- The Osterman Weekend (1983)
57. King Vidor
58. Preston Sturges
- Christmas in July (1940)
- The Lady Eve (1941)
- Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
- The Palm Beach Story (1942)
- The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)
59. Stan Brakhage
60. Leo McCarey
- Duck Soup (1933)
61. William Wyler
- Dead End (1937)
- Wuthering Heights (1939)
- Ben-Hur (1959)
62. John Cassavetes
63. Eric Rohmer
64. Pier Paolo Pasolini
65. David Lynch
- Eraserhead (1977)
- The Elephant Man (1980)
- Dune (1984)
- Blue Velvet (1986)
66. Nicholas Ray
- Johnny Guitar (1954)
67. Abbas Kiarostami
68. Otto Preminger
- Laura (1944)
- Angel Face (1952)
69. Raoul Walsh
- White Heat (1949)
70. Victor Fleming
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
71. Sidney Lumet
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- Serpico (1973)
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
- Network (1976)
- Deathtrap (1982)
72. Sergio Leone
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
73. David Cronenberg
- The Dead Zone (1983)
- The Fly (1986)
- Naked Lunch (1991)
74. Wim Wenders
- Paris, Texas (1984)
- Der Himmel über Berlin (1987)
75. Jacques Rivette
76. Douglas Sirk
77. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- All About Eve (1950)
- Guys and Dolls (1955)
- Sleuth (1972)
78. Ridley Scott
- Alien (1979)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Thelma and Louise (1991)
79. Jacques Tati
- Jour de fête (1949)
- Mon Oncle (1958)
80. Erich Von Stroheim
- Greed (1924)
81. John Boorman
- Point Blank (1967)
- Deliverance (1972)
- Excalibur (1981)
- Hope and Glory (1987)
82. Milos Forman
- Amadeus (1984)
83. Nicolas Roeg
- Performance (1970)
- Walkabout (1971)
- Don’t Look Now (1973)
- The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
84. Rene Clair
85. Brian De Palma
- Carrie (1976)
- Scarface (1983)
- The Untouchables (1987)
- Mission: Impossible (1996)
86. Theo Angelopoulos
87. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
88. Jacques Tourneur
- Cat People (1942)
- I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
89. Shohei Imamura
90. Joel Coen
- Raising Arizona (1987)
- Barton Fink (1991)
- The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
- Fargo (1996)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
91. Jean-Pierre Melville
- Le Samouraï (1967)
92. Louis Malle
- Atlantic City (1980)
- Au revoir, les enfants (1987)
93. Anthony Mann
- Winchester ‘73 (1950)
- Man of the West (1958)
94. Arthur Penn
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
- Little Big Man (1970)
95. George Stevens
- Shane (1953)
- Giant (1956)
96. H.G. Clouzot
- Le Salaire de la peur (1953)
- Les Diaboliques (1955)
97. Chris Marker
98. Jacques Demy
99. Don Siegel
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- The Killers (1964)
- Dirty Harry (1971)
100. G.W. Pabst
- Pandora’s Box (1929)
- Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)








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