Thursday, May 24, 2007

The On-Deck Circle, only for, uh, directors

This is the list of all directors for whom I've seen four films. All I need to do is see one more and they'll be able to sit at the grown-ups' table. As you can see, there are some serious top 10 contenders near the top.

3.75
D.W. Griffith

3.625
Sergei Eisenstein
Max Ophüls

3.5
Lindsay Anderson

3.375
René Clair
Terry Jones
Claude Sautet
Luchino Visconti

3.25
Chantal Akerman
Aleksandr Sokurov

3.125
Warren Beatty
James Gray
Jafar Panahi
Alexander Payne
William Wellman

3
Victor Fleming
Barbara Kopple
Elaine May

2.875
Bruno Dumont
Mike Hodges
Dennis Hopper
Irvin Kershner

2.75
Hector Babenco
Noah Baumbach
Patrice Chereau
James Marsh
Lukas Moodysson
Henry Selick

2.625
Allison Anders
Chen Kaige
Sofia Coppola
Jia Zhang-ke
John MacNaughton
Manoel de Oliveira
Bernard Rose
Ken Russell
Julien Temple

2.5
Keith Gordon
Mike Judge
Jake Kasdan
Chan-wook Park
Ben Stiller
Tom Tykwer

2.375
Doug Liman
Mark and Michael Polish
Johnnie To
Giuseppe Tornatore

2.25
John Madden
Leonard Nimoy
Michael Radford
Walter Salles
Paul Weitz
David Yates

2.125
Gregg Araki
Catherine Breillat
Martin Brest
Andrew Fleming
Nicole Holofcener
Shekhar Kapur
Chuck Russell
John Singleton
Zack Snyder
Iain Softley
James Toback

2
Frank Darabont
Mel Gibson
Randal Kleiser
Paul McGuigan
Joseph Ruben
Brad Silberling

1.875
Gary Fleder
Boaz Yakin

1.75
Nick Cassavetes

1.625
Marleen Gorris
Rowdy Herrington

1.375
Brian Levant

1.25
Keenen Ivory Wayans

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