Monday, April 18, 2016

Favorite Directors List



Can't fucking sleep. So this is what I am doing. Putting up a fucking list. Here goes my list of favorite directors and three favorite films of theirs.


  1. Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Eyes Wide Shut)
  2. Michael Haneke (The Seventh Continent, Funny Games, Code Unknown)
  3. Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski, No Country For Old Men, Blood Simple)
  4. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds, Reservoir Dogs)
  5. David Lynch (Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet)
  6. Wong Kar Wai (Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love, Happy Together)
  7. Frances Ford Coppola (The Godfather: Part 2, The Conversation, The Godfather)
  8. Michelangelo Antonioni (The Passenger, L'Avventura, Blow-Up)
  9. Werner Herzog (Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Encounters at the End of the World, Fitzcarraldo)
  10. Krzystof Kieslowski (The Decalogue, Three Colours: Red, Three Colours: Blue)
  11. Akira Kurosawa (Rashômon, Ran, Ikiru)
  12. Sergio Leone (The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in America, For a Few Dollars More)
  13. Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies & Videotapes, Traffic, Kafka)
  14. William Friedkin (The Exorcist, To Live and Die in L.A, Sorcerer)
  15. Luis Bunuel (Belle de Jour, The Exterminating Angel, Viridiana)
  16. Andrey Tarkovsky (Stalker, The Mirror, Solyaris)
  17. Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity, Ace in the Hole, The Apartment)
  18. Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window, Vertigo, Dial M for Murder)
  19. Sidney Lumet (Dog Day Afternoon, 12 Angry Men, Network)
  20. Richard Linklater (Boyhood, Before Sunset, A Scanner Darkly)
  21. Robert Altman (The Long Goodbye, The Player, Short Cuts)
  22. Jim Jarmusch (Only Lovers Left Alive, Dead Man, The Limits of Control)
  23. Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry, Certified Copy, Like Someone in Love)
  24. Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, The King of Comedy, Mean Streets)
  25. Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will be Blood, Punch-Drunk Love, Boogie Nights)
  26. Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Grand Budapest Hotel)
  27. Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon a time in Anatolia, Climates, Distant)
  28. Ruben Ostlund (Force Majeure, Play, Involuntary)
  29. Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty, The Consequences of Love, The Family Friend)
  30. Ingmar Bergman (Persona, Cries & Whispers, Wild Strawberries)
  31. Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita, 8&1/2, La Strada)
  32. Andrey Zvyaginstev (Leviathan, The Return, Elena)
  33. Michael Mann (Thief, The Insider, Heat)
  34. Jacques Audiard (The Beat that my Heart Skipped, Rust & Bone, Read My Lips)
  35. Nicolas Winding Refn (Only God Forgives, Drive, Valhalla Rising)
  36. Woody Allen (Annie Hall, Manhattan, Midnight in Paris)
  37. Xavier Dolan (Tom at the Farm, Mommy, Heartbeats)
  38. Andrew Dominik (Killing Them Softly, The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford, Chopper)
  39. Roman Polanski (Chinatown, Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby)
  40. Ridley Scott (Bladerunner, The Martian, The Counselor)
  41. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Birdman, Biutiful, Amores Perros)
  42. Kim Ki-duk (Filmography as a whole is great, pointless talking about individual films)
  43. Pedro Almodovar (Filmography as a whole is great, pointless talking about individual films)
  44. Takashi Miike (Filmography as a whole is great, pointless talking about individual films)
  45. David Cronenberg (Filmography as a whole is great, pointless talking about individual films)
  46. Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People, The Trip, The Killer Inside Me)
  47. David Fincher (Fight Club, Zodiac, The Social Network)
  48. Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World)
  49. Denis Villeneuve (Enemy, Sicario, Incendies)
  50. Majid Majidi (Filmography as a whole is great, pointless talking about individual films)
  51. Takeshi Kitano (Hana-Bi, Kukujiro, Violent Cop)
  52. Jean-Luc Godard (Contempt, Vivre Sa Vie, Bande a part)

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