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Monday, August 18, 2008

Yesterday's Hits

Titanic (James Cameron)
Love Story (Arthur Hiller)
The Blair Witch Project (Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick)
Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
Smokey and the Bandit (Hal Needham)
The Bells of St. Mary's (Leo McCarey)
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Stanley Kramer)
Every Which Way But Loose (James Fargo)
9 to 5 (Colin Higgins)
Billy Jack (T.C. Frank)
The Towering Inferno (John Guillermin)
Fatal Attraction (Adrian Lyne)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg)
The Way We Were (Sydney Pollack)
The Robe (Henry Koster)
The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan)
Top Gun (Tony Scott)
Independence Day (Roland Emmerich)
Summer of '42 (Robert Mulligan)
Crocodile Dundee (Peter Faiman)
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
Around the World in 80 Days (Michael Anderson)
Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli)
The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland)
The Passion of the Christ (Mel Gibson)
The Longest Day (Ken Annakin/Andrew Marton/Bernard Wicki)
Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton)
City Slickers (Ron Underwood)
The Carpetbaggers (Edward Dmytryk)
Exodus (Otto Preminger)
The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Kevin Reynolds)
Duel in the Sun (King Vidor)
The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
Thunderball AND Moonraker (Terence Young/Lewis Gilbert)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (Irving Reis)
The Santa Clause (John Pasquin)
Home Alone (Chris Columbus)

When Good Directors Go Bad

Ready to Wear (Robert Altman)
Exorcist II: The Heretic (John Boorman) [written by Faisal A. Qureshi]
1941 (Steven Spielberg)
The Serpent's Egg (Ingmar Bergman)
Art School Confidential (Terry Zwigoff)
New York, New York (Martin Scorsese)
The Cotton Club (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Doors (Oliver Stone)
Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Exterminating Angels (Jean-Claude Brisseau)
Stardust Memories (Woody Allen) [not what you'd think]
I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock)
Dreamcatcher (Lawrence Kasdan)
The Wicker Man (Neil LaBute)
The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel Coen) [?]
1492: Conquest of Paradise (Ridley Scott)
Regarding Henry (Mike Nichols)
Ishtar (Elaine May)
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (Joe Berlinger)
The Brothers Grimm (Terry Gilliam)
She Hate Me (Spike Lee)
Texasville (Peter Bogdanovich)
The Dark Wind (Errol Morris)
Year of the Horse (Jim Jarmusch)
For Love of the Game (Sam Raimi)
The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
Rising Sun (Philip Kaufman)
Elizabethtown (Cameron Crowe) [?]
Hulk (Ang Lee)
The Frighteners (Peter Jackson) [?]
Goya's Ghosts (Milos Forman)
Ryan's Daughter (David Lean)
Planet of the Apes (Tim Burton)
Death Becomes Her (Robert Zemeckis)
Insomnia (Christopher Nolan) [?]
The Road Home (Zhang Yimou)
Cruising (William Friedkin)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Clint Eastwood)
Great Expectations (Alfonso Cuaron) [?]
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Brian DePalma)
Waterloo (Sergei Bondarchuk)
A Life Less Ordinary (Danny Boyle)

Reviews By Request

Baxter (Jerome Boivin)
Zulu (Cy Endfield)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (Kenji Misumi)
The New Kids (Sean S. Cunningham)
Faithless (Liv Ullmann)
3 on a Meathook (William Girdler)
The Atomic Cafe (Pierce Rafferty, Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty)
Camera Buff (Krzystzof Kieslowski)
The Hot Rock (Peter Yates)
Knightriders (George A. Romero)
The Wizard of Gore (Herschell Gordon Lewis)
War of the Gargantuas (Ishiro Honda)
Cockfighter (Monte Hellman)
Tenebrae (Dario Argento)
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (Jorge Grau)
Chelsea Girls (Andy Warhol)
The Times of Harvey Milk (Rob Epstein)
Mister Lonely (Harmony Korine)
Bigger Stronger Faster* (Chris Bell)
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (Lloyd Kaufman)
Sukiyaki Western Django (Takashi Miike)
The Foot Fist Way (Jody Hill)
Double Feature Review: Reprise (Joachim Trier) and Son of Rambow (Garth Jennings)
Shotgun Stories (Jeff Nichols)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (Michael Curtiz)
How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)

Movie Moment Posts

The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi)
8 Women (Francois Ozon)
A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton)
Nashville (Robert Altman)
Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel)
Bus 174 (Jose Padilha)
Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
Phantom of the Paradise (Brian DePalma)
La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette)
Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller)
Gilles' Wife (Frederic Fonteyne)
The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
Freaks (Tod Browning)
To Live and Die in L.A. (William Friedkin)
Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Son (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
Duck, You Sucker (Sergio Leone)
Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
Father and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov)
Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black)
Films by Buster Keaton- Neighbors, The Scarecrow, The High Sign, and Our Hospitality
La Jetée (Chris Marker)
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent)
Audition (Takashi Miike)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges)
Notable Moments of 2007: Part 1 and Part 2 (various)
High School (Frederick Wiseman)
The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
Make Way For Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
My Favorite Movie Moments of 2008 (Various)

Screengrab Lists

Top 10: The Best Nude Scenes of 2006
Top 10: The Most Dangerous Films of All Time
Top 14: The Kinkiest Films Ever Made
Top 10: The Worst Accents in Movie History
Top 10: The Most Important Nude Scenes of All Time
Top 10: Chicks With Guns
Top 10: Cinema's Great No-Sex Sex Scenes
Top 10: The Most Historically Inaccurate Films Ever Made
Top 10: Nude Scenes We Really Could Have Done Without
Top 10: The Greatest Remakes
Top 10: The Worst Mothers in Movie History
Top 10: Cinema's Greatest Offscreen Feuds
Top 20: The Greatest Death Scenes of All Time
Top 10: Great Fight Scenes
Top 10: The Greatest Twists of All Time
Top 10: The Most Unnecessary Sequels of All Time
Top 10: The Greatest Disses in Cinema History
Top 10: Songs That Were Redefined by Movies
Top 10: The Grossest Onscreen Kisses
Top 10: The Greatest Running Scenes in Movie History
Top 10: The Most Notable Product Placements in Movie History
Top 15: Great Cameos in Film History
Top 15: Worst Literary Adaptations
Top 20: Revisionist Westerns
Top 16: Cinema's Worst Musical Misfires
Top 15: The All Time Worst Athletes Turned Actors
Top 11: Worst Scenes in Great Movies
Top 22: The Most Evil Corporations in Movie History
Top 10: Instances of Religious Propaganda Where We Least Expected It
Top 13: Greatest Fictional Movie Presidents
Top 12: Bodily Transformations on Film
Top 10: Greatest Prosthetics in Movie History
Top 13: Greatest Long-Ass Movies of All Time
Top 10: Worst Cinematic Hairdos
Top 10: Worst Cinematic Medical Breakthroughs
Top 10: Greatest Cinematic Psychiatrists
Top 12: Great Opening Credits
Top 10: Best Murderous Duos
Top 10: Great Cinematic Mentors
Top 10: Baseball Movie All-Stars
Top 10: Sexiest Big-Screen Guy Geeks
Top 5: Hits of Summer 2008
Top 5: Bombs of Summer 2008
Top 12: Great Movies Based on TV Shows
Top 16: Films That Make Us Nervous
Top 10: Great Final Films
Top 10: Great Scenes From Not So Great Movies
Top 15: Films That (Almost) Could've Been Directed by Someone Else
The World’s Greatest Animated Shorts
A Screengrab Salute to Movie Trailers
Top 25: War Movies
Top 10: Paul Newman movies
Greatest Leading Men
Greatest Leading Ladies
Greatest Horror movies
Most Memorable Cinematic Utopias and Dystopias
Best and Worst Bond Movies
Top Biopics

Friday, October 19, 2007

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Directors ranked by average rating

The number in parentheses is the number of films I've seen from the corresponding director. I've only included directors here by whom I've seen five or more films. The list of directors I've only seen four films by can be found right here.

Buster Keaton [3.9167 / 6]
Carl Th. Dreyer [3.8 / 5]
Terrence Malick [3.8 / 5]
Howard Hawks [3.75 / 11]
Jean-Pierre Melville [3.75 / 6]
Robert Bresson [3.7308 / 12]
Fritz Lang [3.7 / 5]
Ernst Lubitsch [3.7 / 5]
F.W. Murnau [3.7 / 5]
Peter Watkins [3.667 / 5]

Michael Powell [3.65 / 9]
Charlie Chaplin [3.6429 / 6]
Krzystzof Kieslowski [3.6429 / 6]
Andrei Tarkovsky [3.6429 / 6]
Orson Welles [3.6363 / 10]
Luis Bunuel [3.625 / 11]
Preston Sturges [3.611 / 9]
Paul Thomas Anderson [3.6 / 5]
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne [3.6 / 5]
Josef von Sternberg [3.6 / 5]

Henri-Georges Clouzot [3.5833 / 6]
Jacques Demy [3.5833 / 6]
Sergio Leone [3.5833 / 6]
Jean Renoir [3.5833 / 6]
Stanley Kubrick [3.5769 / 13]
Yasujiro Ozu [3.5714 / 7]
John Cassavetes [3.556 / 9]
Jean-Luc Godard [3.5417 / 12]
Jacques Rivette [3.5417 / 12]
Akira Kurosawa [3.5 / 16]

Billy Wilder [3.5 / 14]
John Ford [3.5 / 11]
Nicholas Ray [3.5 / 8]
Quentin Tarantino [3.5 / 7]
Todd Haynes [3.5 / 6]
Hirokazu Kore-eda [3.5 / 5]
Jacques Tati [3.5 / 5]
Nicolas Roeg [3.44 / 9]
Ingmar Bergman [3.4286 / 21]
Kenji Mizoguchi [3.4286 / 7]

Sam Peckinpah [3.4286 / 7]
Apichatpong Weerasethakul [3.4 / 5]
Peter Jackson [3.3889 / 9]
Alfred Hitchcock [3.3810 / 21]
Eric Rohmer [3.3571 / 14]
Francois Truffaut [3.33 / 18]
Wes Anderson [3.33 / 6]
Sam Fuller [3.33 / 6]
Abbas Kiarostami [3.33 / 6]
Christopher Nolan [3.33 / 6]

Roman Polanski [3.3214 / 14]
Stanley Donen [3.33 / 10]
Federico Fellini [3.33 / 10]
Michael Curtiz [3.3 / 5]
David O. Russell [3.3 / 5]
Don Siegel [3.3 / 5]
Terence Young [3.3 / 5]
David Cronenberg [3.2857 / 14]
Michelangelo Antonioni [3.2857 / 7]
Arnaud Desplechin [3.2857 / 7]

Elia Kazan [3.2778 / 9]
Vincente Minnelli [3.2778 / 9]
Alain Resnais [3.3125 / 8]
David Lynch [3.25 / 10]
Hal Ashby [3.25 / 6]
Shohei Imamura [3.25 / 6]
Russ Meyer [3.25 / 6]
Martin Scorsese [3.2292 / 24]
Mike Leigh [3.22 / 9]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder [3.2803 / 12]

John Huston [3.2059 / 17]
Terence Davies [3.2 / 5]
Bob Fosse [3.2 / 5]
Leo McCarey [3.2 / 5]
Arthur Penn [3.2 / 5]
Claire Denis [3.1923 / 13]
Patrice Leconte [3.1875 / 8]
Otto Preminger [3.1875 / 8]
Richard Linklater [3.1876 / 14]
Joel Coen [3.1667 / 15]

Errol Morris [3.1667 / 9]
Agnes Varda [3.1667 / 6]
Werner Herzog [3.1579 / 19]
Brian DePalma [3.1364 / 22]
Claude Chabrol [3.133 / 15]
Hayao Miyazaki [3.125 / 8]
Michael Haneke [3.11 / 9]
Maurice Pialat [3.11 / 9]
William Wyler [3.11 / 9]
Richard Lester [3.1 / 10]

Louis Malle [3.1 / 10]
Robert Aldrich [3.1 / 5]
Darren Aronofsky [3.1 / 5]
Bertrand Tavernier [3.1 / 5]
Hong Sang-soo [3.0833 / 6]
Franklin J. Schaffner [3.0833 / 6]
Robert Altman [3.08 / 25]
Lars Von Trier [3.0714 / 14]
George Miller [3.0714 / 7]
Fred Zinnermann [3.0714 / 7]

George Cukor [3.0625 / 8]
David Lean [3.0625 / 8]
Jim Jarmusch [3.0455 / 11]
Olivier Assayas [3 / 12]
Robert Wise [3 / 11]
Martin Ritt [3 / 9]
David Fincher [3 / 8]
James Cameron [3 / 7]
Joseph L. Mankiewicz [3 / 7]
Dario Argento [3 / 6]

Alfonso Cuaron [3 / 5]
David Gordon Green [3 / 5]
Spike Lee [2.9783 / 23]
Woody Allen [2.9739 / 38]
Jonathan Demme [2.9615 / 13]
Aki Kaurismaki [2.9583 / 12]
Michael Mann [2.95 / 10]
Terry Gilliam [2.944 / 9]
Philip Kaufman [2.9375 / 8]
Hou Hsiao-hsien [2.9286 / 7]

Tsai Ming-liang [2.9286 / 7]
Albert Brooks [2.9167 / 6]
Ethan Coen [2.9167 / 6]
Curtis Hanson [2.9167 / 6]
Andre Techine [2.9167 / 6]
George A. Romero [2.9 / 10]
John Lasseter [2.9 / 5]
Ken Loach [2.9 / 5]
George Stevens [2.9 / 5]
Terry Zwigoff [2.9 / 5]

Bernardo Bertolucci [2.889 / 9]
David Mamet [2.889 / 9]
Paul Verhoeven [2.875 / 8]
Wong Kar-Wai [2.875 / 8]
John Frankeheimer [2.8636 / 11]
Guy Maddin [2.8571 / 7]
Alan J. Pakula [2.8571 / 7]
Peter Yates [2.8571 / 7]
Milos Forman [2.833 / 12]
Wim Wenders [2.833 / 9]

James L. Brooks [2.833 / 6]
Peter Weir [2.8182 / 11]
Francis Coppola [2.8 / 15]
Peter Bogdanovich [2.8 / 10]
Richard Brooks [2.8 / 5]
Bill Forsyth [2.8 / 5]
Christopher Guest [2.8 / 5]
Jean-Pierre Jeunet [2.8 / 5]
Seijun Suzuki [2.8 / 5]
Takeshi Kitano [2.7857 / 7]

Rob Reiner [2.778 / 9]
Pedro Almodovar [2.7727 / 11]
Steven Soderbergh [2.7632 / 19]
Tim Burton [2.75 / 14]
Alan Rudolph [2.75 / 6]
John Sayles [2.7308 / 13]
John Boorman [2.7272 / 11]
Sidney Lumet [2.725 / 20]
Clint Eastwood [2.7143 / 21]
Robert Zemeckis [2.7143 / 14]

Stanley Kramer [2.7143 / 7]
Steven Spielberg [2.7083 / 24]
Atom Egoyan [2.7 / 10]
Paul Greengrass [2.7 / 5]
John Schlesinger [2.667 / 12]
Kathryn Bigelow [2.667 / 6]
Cameron Crowe [2.667 / 6]
Guy Hamilton [2.667 / 6]
David Zucker [2.667 / 6]
Joe Dante [2.65 / 10]

Francois Ozon [2.65 / 10]
Robert Benton [2.6429 / 7]
Guillermo Del Toro [2.6429 / 7]
Takashi Miike [2.6429 / 7]
Michael Moore [2.6429 / 7]
Tony Richardson [2.6429 / 7]
Sam Raimi [2.6364 / 11]
Paul Schrader [2.6364 / 11]
Stephen Frears [2.6 / 15]
Brad Anderson [2.6 / 5]

Gillian Armstrong [2.6 / 5]
Richard Fleischer [2.6 / 5]
Walter Hill [2.5909 / 11]
Herbert Ross [2.5833 / 12]
Harold Becker [2.5833 / 6]
Mike Nichols [2.5790 / 19]
Kenneth Branagh [2.5714 / 7]
Peter and Bobby Farelly [2.5714 / 7]
Bob Rafaelson [2.5714 / 7]
Zhang Yimou [2.5714 / 7]

Ang Lee [2.55 / 10]
Sydney Pollack [2.5417 / 12]
John Carpenter [2.5 / 16]
John Hughes [2.5 / 8]
Joe Berlinger [2.5 / 5]
Lewis Gilbert [2.5 / 5]
Jim Sheridan [2.5 / 5]
Istvan Szabo [2.5 / 5]
Tom Tykwer [2.5 / 5]
Gus Van Sant [2.4615 / 13]

William Friedkin [2.4583 / 12]
Neil Jordan [2.4583 / 12]
Michael Winterbottom [2.4546 / 11]
Michael Ritchie [2.45 / 10]
Fred Schepisi [2.45 / 10]
Ridley Scott [2.4375 / 16]
Norman Jewison [2.433 / 15]
Michael Apted [2.4286 / 14]
John Dahl [2.4167 / 6]
Hal Hartley [2.4167 / 6]

Jean-Pierre Jeunet [2.4167 / 6]
Roger Michell [2.4167 / 6]
Anthony Minghella [2.4167 / 6]
Harold Ramis [2.4167 / 6]
Alan Parker [2.4 / 15]
Richard Donner [2.4 / 10]
Martin Campbell [2.4 / 5]
Constantin Costa-Gavras [2.4 / 5]
Carl Franklin [2.4 / 5]
George Lucas [2.4 / 5]

Lee Tamahori [2.4 / 5]
Taylor Hackford [2.375 / 8]
Lasse Hallstrom [2.375 / 8]
Mel Brooks [2.3637 / 11]
Bob Clark [2.3571 / 7]
Carl Reiner [2.3571 / 7]
Ron Shelton [2.3571 / 7]
Gore Verbinski [2.3571 / 7]
Lawrence Kasdan [2.35 / 10]
Danny Boyle [2.33 / 9]

Jane Campion [2.33 / 6]
James Foley [2.33 / 6]
Michel Gondry [2.33 / 6]
Bryan Singer [2.33 / 6]
Mike Newell [2.3125 / 8]
Barbet Schroeder [2.3125 / 8]
John Waters [2.3125 / 8]
Oliver Stone [2.3 / 15]
John Woo [2.3 / 10]
Jon Amiel [2.3 / 5]

Bille August [2.3 / 5]
Ron Clements [2.3 / 5]
Jon Favreau [2.3 / 5]
F. Gary Gray [2.3 / 5]
Michael Lehmann [2.3 / 5]
Jerome Musker [2.3 / 5]
Robert Redford [2.3 / 5]
Volker Schlondorff [2.3 / 5]
Ron Underwood [2.3 / 5]
James Ivory [2.25 / 10]

Jim Abrahams [2.25 / 8]
Mike Figgis [2.25 / 8]
Wolfgang Petersen [2.25 / 8]
Franco Zeffirelli [2.25 / 8]
Neil LaBute [2.25 / 6]
John Landis [2.2273 / 11]
Paul Mazursky [2.22 / 9]
Andrew Davis [2.2143 / 7]
Tony Scott [2.2083 / 12]
Agnieszka Holland [2.2 / 5]

Sam Mendes [2.2 / 5]
Wayne Wang [2.2 / 5]
Blake Edwards [2.1944 / 18]
Luc Besson [2.1667 / 6]
Wes Craven [2.15 / 10]
John McTiernan [2.15 / 10]
Richard Attenborough [2.1429 / 7]
Michael Caton-Jones [2.1429 / 7]
Mira Nair [2.1429 / 7]
Frank Oz [2.1364 / 11]

Ivan Reitman [2.1 / 10]
Peter Berg [2.1 / 5]
Peter Chelsom [2.1 / 5]
Tobe Hooper [2.1 / 5]
Nicholas Hytner [2.1 / 5]
Larry and Andy Wachowski [2.1 / 5]
Robert Rodriguez [2.0909 / 11]
Marc Forster [2.0833 / 6]
Renny Harlin [2.0833 / 6]
M. Night Shyamalan [2.0833 / 6]

Ron Howard [2.0588 / 17]
Bruce Beresford [2 / 10]
John G. Avildsen [2 / 8]
John Badham [2 / 8]
Adrian Lyne [2 / 7]
Jean-Jacques Annaud [2 / 6]
Kevin Smith [2 / 6]
Amy Heckerling [2 / 5]
Roland Joffé [2 / 5]
Penny Marshall [2 / 5]

Barry Levinson [1.9722 / 18]
Roger Donaldson [1.95 / 10]
Joe Johnston [1.9286 / 7]
James Mangold [1.9286 / 7]
Philip Noyce [1.9286 / 7]
Danny DeVito [1.9167 / 6]
Jerry Zucker [1.9167 / 6]
Antoine Fuqua [1.9 / 5]
Kevin Reynolds [1.9 / 5]
Todd Solondz [1.9 / 5]

Sylvester Stallone [1.9 / 5]
Charles Shyer [1.833 / 6]
Michael Hoffman [1.8 / 5]
Jay Roach [1.8 / 5]
Barry Sonnenfeld [1.7857 / 7]
Chris Columbus [1.75 / 8]
Edward Zwick [1.75 / 6]
Roger Spottiswoode [1.7143 / 7]
Roland Emmerich [1.667 / 6]
Brett Ratner [1.667 / 6]

Joel Schumacher [1.6471 / 17]
Luis Mandoki [1.6 / 5]
Stephen Sommers [1.6 / 5]
Jonathan Lynn [1.5833 / 6]
Peter Segal [1.5833 / 6]
Michael Bay [1.5714 / 7]
Jon Turteltaub [1.5625 / 8]
Richard Benjamin [1.5 / 9]
Stephen Hopkins [1.5 / 6]
Donald Petrie [1.5 / 6]

Jeremiah Chechik [1.5 / 5]
Nora Ephron [1.5 / 5]
Rob Cohen [1.4167 / 6]
Irwin Winkler [1.4167 / 6]
Simon Wincer [1.4 / 5]
Peter Hyams [1.375 / 8]
Paul W.S. Anderson [1.3 / 5]
Reginald Hudlin [1.3 / 5]
Tom Shadyac [1.3 / 5]
Sam Weisman [1.3 / 5]

Garry Marshall [1.25 / 10]
Stephen Herek [1.22 / 9]
Dennis Dugan [1.2 / 5]

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

Sunday, April 15, 2007

My favorite filmmakers (comments to come, maybe)

My top 25:
Robert Altman
Ingmar Bergman
Robert Bresson
Luis Bunuel
John Cassavetes
Jean Cocteau
Jacques Demy
Brian DePalma
Jean-Luc Godard
Alfred Hitchcock
Buster Keaton
Krzystzof Kieslowski
Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
Sergio Leone
David Lynch
Terrence Malick
F.W. Murnau
Michael Powell
Jacques Rivette
Martin Scorsese
Andrei Tarkovsky
Jacques Tati
Peter Watkins
Orson Welles

Saturday, February 17, 2007