Top Directors: Master List
Submitted by Kza on Wed, 04/27/2005 - 10:40
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- Woody Allen: Interiors [72], Manhattan [69]
- Robert Altman: Thieves Like Us [90], Buffalo Bill and the Indians or, Sitting Bull's History Lesson [89], California Split [78], Images [68], The Company [63]
- Dario Argento: Suspiria [88], Phenomena [65], Two Evil Eyes: The Black Cat [62], The Bird with the Crystal Plumage [57], Opera [49]
- Jack Arnold: The Incredible Shrinking Man [87], It Came From Outer Space [59]
- Olivier Assayas: Cold Water [92], demonlover [64]
- Mario Bava: Hatchet for the Honeymoon [69], A Bay of Blood a.k.a. Twitch of the Death Nerve [46]
- Lucas Belvaux: The Trilogy: On the Run [78], The Trilogy: After Life [76], The Trilogy: An Amazing Couple [70]
- Robert Benton: Kramer vs. Kramer [70], The Late Show [22]
- Peter Berg: The Rundown [59], Friday Night Lights [33]
- Ingmar Bergman: Through A Glass, Darkly [89], Fanny & Alexander [76], Wild Strawberries [69], Cries and Whispers [63]
- Budd Boetticher: The Tall T [79], Decision at Sundown [73], Buchanan Rides Alone [61], Ride Lonesome [59], Comanche Station [48]
- Mel Brooks: Young Frankenstein [64], High Anxiety [39]
- Luis Buñuel: The Exterminating Angel [79], Viridiana [65], Simon of the Desert [60], Nazarín [58]
- John Cassavetes: Husbands [79], Shadows [77], Faces [75]
- Stephen Chow: Kung Fu Hustle [83], Shaolin Soccer (Dubbed Miramax cut) [44]
- Larry Cohen: Q [80], It's Alive [52]
- Francis Ford Coppola: The Conversation [87], Dementia 13 [46]
- Roger Corman: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre [70], Masque of the Red Death [57], The Tomb of Ligeia [56], The Pit and the Pendulum [25]
- Kenneth G. Crane: Monster From Green Hell [30], The Manster [25]
- David Cronenberg: Videodrome [95], The Brood [90], A History of Violence [84], Scanners [48], Spider [23]
- George Cukor: The Women [65], Pat and Mike [35]
- Michael Curtiz: The Walking Dead [61], Mystery of the Wax Museum [58]
- Guillermo Del Toro: Hellboy [73], Blade II [72]
- Brian De Palma: Dressed to Kill [80], Sisters [77], Phantom of the Paradise [73], The Fury [19]
- Clint Eastwood: Million Dollar Baby [72], Mystic River [40]
- Federico Fellini: 8 1/2 [90], La Dolce Vita [55]
- John Ford: Stagecoach [93], Two Rode Together [54]
- John Frankenheimer: 99 and 44/100% Dead [27], Prophecy [22]
- William Friedkin: The Exorcist [59], The Hunted [20]
- Lucio Fulci: The Beyond [58], The House by the Cemetery [28]
- Samuel Fuller: Pickup on South Street [85], Run of the Arrow [82], Fixed Bayonets [80], The Big Red One [65], House of Bamboo [48]
- Howard Hawks: His Girl Friday [85], Air Force [68], To Have and Have Not [55]
- Alfred Hitchcock: Notorious [83], Shadow of a Doubt [81], Rope [63], Saboteur [62], The Birds [60]
- Mike Hodges: The Terminal Man [65], Flash Gordon [62]
- Peter Jackson: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King [87], Heavenly Creatures [84]
- Bob Kelljan: Count Yorga, Vampire [45], Scream, Blacula, Scream [43]
- Kim Ki-Duk: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring [86], 3-Iron [61]
- Satoshi Kon: Tokyo Godfathers [60], Perfect Blue [34]
- Fritz Lang: Rancho Notorious [57], Ministry of Fear [51]
- Richard Lester: Juggernaut [93], Cuba [74]
- Guy Maddin: Cowards Bend The Knee [83], The Saddest Music in the World [80], Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary [60]
- David Mamet: Spartan [85], The Winslow Boy [72]
- James Mangold: Walk the Line [33], Identity [19]
- Anthony Mann: The Naked Spur [76], The Far Country [75], Desperate [61], The Last Frontier [45], Thunder Bay [42]
- Vincente Minnelli: An American in Paris [79], Meet Me in St. Louis [48], The Band Wagon [45]
- Hayao Miyazaki: My Neighbor Totoro [100], Princess Mononoke [79], Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind [73]
- Sam Peckinpah: Junior Bonner [74], Ride the High Country [70], Bring Me the Head of Alfred Garcia [55]
- Michael Powell: A Matter of Life and Death [98], Peeping Tom [81], The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp [79], 49th Parallel [77], The Red Shoes [76], The Thief of Bagdad [76], I Know Where I'm Going! [73], The Small Back Room [62], Black Narcissus [59]
- Nicholas Ray: In A Lonely Place [77], On Dangerous Ground [69], Bigger Than Life [59]
- George A. Romero: Dawn of the Dead [98], Night of the Living Dead [72], George A. Romero's Land of the Dead [69], Two Evil Eyes: The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar [42], Day of the Dead [41]
- Stuart Rosenberg: The Laughing Policeman [38], The Amityville Horror (1979) [20]
- Martin Scorsese: The King of Comedy [70], Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore [68], New York, New York [52], The Aviator [50]
- Douglas Sirk: The Tarnished Angels [84], Magnificent Obsession [61], Imitation of Life [41]
- Steven Spielberg: Jaws [100], War of the Worlds [79], Close Encounters of the Third Kind [70], The Sugarland Express [69], The Terminal [30]
- Quentin Tarantino: Kill Bill Vol. 1 [93], Kill Bill Vol. 2 [80]
- Jacques Tourneur: Out of the Past [92], Cat People [85], The Leopard man [68], I Walked With A Zombie [48]
- Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour [83], Bluebeard [60], The Black Cat [56], Strange Illusion [49]
- Gus Van Sant: Gerry [94], Elephant [40]
- Lars von Trier: Dogville [92], The Five Obstructions [67], The Element of Crime [40]
- The Wachowski Brothers: The Matrix Revolutions [57], The Matrix Reloaded [52]
- Mark Waters: Mean Girls [54], Freaky Friday [35]
- Orson Welles: The Magnificent Ambersons [86], The Stranger [69], Confidential Report/Mr. Arkadin [46]
- Billy Wilder: One, Two, Three [88], Irma La Douce [34]
- Robert Wise: The Curse of the Cat People [90], The Haunting [82], The Day the Earth Stood Still [57]
- William Wyler: The Best Years of Our Lives [90], The Big Country [55], Mrs. Miniver [39]
- Rob Zombie: The Devil's Rejects [74], House of 1000 Corpses [38]
Author Comments:
This is kind of an index to my Top Directors: By Points and Top Directors: By Average lists, indicating what movies compose each list. Actually, some of these directors have never been on either list, but, having at least 2 rated movies, they at least qualify.
Ideally, this list will continually updated as see more films (and get around to rating the stuff I've already seen).
Director Name: Title [1-100 rating]
100-97 = All-time favorite
96-90 = Fantastic; best of the year
89-80 = Remarkable
79-70 = Very Good
69-60 = Good
59-50 = Okay
49-40 = Mediocre
39-30 = Bad
29-20 = Horrible
19-10 = Torture
9-0 = Would end a war if dropped on opposing countr
Kent, keep this list up as it is really excellent.
P.S.: And a full 100 points for Jaws? Wow!
Second P.S.: May I CONSIDER making a clone of this list one day?
Third P.S.: Is there any specific rating system you apply?
Thanks!
P.S.: Yeah, Jaws is my #1 favorite movie of all-time. I've always said that you could learn everything you need to know about Hollywood-style narrative films by watching it. (Don't know if that's exactly true, but it sounds good.)
Second P.S.: Clone away! It would certainly wouldn't be any weirder than the time that someone cloned an iTunes list of mine, even keeping the name: Kza's Super Playlist.
Third P.S.: It's basically just a measurement of how strongly I feel about a movie, but it does take into consideration how "good" or "well-made" I think it is as well. (The only possible exception to this are the 97-100s; I'm crazy enough about these films that I don't give a damn about their faults.)
On Third P.S.: I think I should try the 100-points-scale again. I feel not very comfortable about a scale of only 10 points. It is just not accurate enough.
98 for Dawn of the Dead? Then you must have enjoyed this film quite a lot.
I hope to see it someday, and like it more than Night of the Living Dead, which let me down.
I honestly think it's one of the best movies ever made, zombie or otherwise, and I definitely recommend it if you've only seen Night. Dawn is very different; broader in scope, better production values, and incorporates action elements into the horror story. It's top notch.
More proof that James Mangold needs to be beaten with a sock full of quarters. Awesome.
Copland might break the 50s; haven't seen Girl, Interrupted but maybe I will one day, if only because Angelina Jolie won some sort of prize for it. I'd rather eat toxic waste than watch Kate & Leopold.
Have you seen what's next from our favorite auteur?
So, at last, one movie equals the high Jaws-rating?
Yeah, Totoro's pretty much perfect.