General Discussion : Which director have you seen the most films by?

[auhasarderik]

First post here.
Min. 10 films

32 Allen, Woody 58.4
29 Hitchcock 65.9
26 Spielberg 64.6
18 Buñuel 63.1
18 Bergman 71.9
16 Ford 65.6
16 De Palma 52.2
16 Coen 63.8
15 Eastwood 61.7
14 Burton, Tim 52.1
13 Scorsese 67.3
13 Van Sant 58.1
13 Craven 48.5
12 Zemeckis 58.3
12 Howard, Ron 50.0
12 Scott, Ridley 52.5
12 Coppola, Francis 55.0
12 Chaplin 61.7
11 Reiner, Rob 50.4
11 Kurosawa 75.0
11 Kubrick 73.2
10 Almodóvar 64.5
10 Columbus 44.0
10 Polanski 63.0
10 Fellini 70.0
10 Altman 63.5
10 Godard 58.0
10 Haneke 67.5

With 9:
Lynch (65.0), Demme (61.7), Yimou (63.3), Lasseter (54.4), Lean (75.6), Miyazaki (69.4), Cukor (71.7), Wilder (68.3), Cameron (55.0)

[P. Lemgruber]

Updating...

28- Jan Svankmajer
22- Woody Allen
17- Stan Brakhage
15- Martin Scorsese
13- Stanley Kubrick
11- Andrei Tarkovsky
10- François Truffaut
9- Ingmar Bergman
9- Joel & Ethan Coen
9- Tim Burton
8- Howard Hawks
8- David Cronenberg
8- Steven Spielberg
7- Paul Thomas Anderson
7- Roman Polanski
7- Quentin Tarantino
7- Don Hertzfeldt

[TheDenizen]

Since my last update in April, the only number at the top that's changed by more than one is the number of Jess Franco films I've seen, which currently sits at 35, meaning I've watched 13 Franco films in the last 6 months.

That probably makes me the resident Franco "expert", despite the fact that 35 films represents less than 20% of his directorial output.



If anyone needs to know anything about obscure Eurosmut, I'm your guy.

[FitFortDanga]

Update since April:

Stan Brakhage - 112
Ingmar Bergman - 49
Norman McLaren - 41
Werner Herzog - 40 (+1)
Woody Allen - 39
Satyajit Ray - 37 (+1)
Alfred Hitchcock - 37 (+1)
Luis Bunuel - 30 (+1)
Akira Kurosawa - 30
Fritz Lang - 28 (+3)
Jean-Luc Godard - 28
Francois Truffaut - 24
Peter Greenaway - 22 (+4)
Agnes Varda - 21 (previously less than 12)
Martin Scorsese - 20 (+1)
Jean Painleve - 20
Steven Spielberg - 19 (+1)
Kenji Mizoguchi - 19 (+1)
Krzysztof Kieslowski - 19 (+1)
Aki Kaurismaki - 19
Yasujiro Ozu - 18 (+1)
John Ford - 17
Louis Malle - 16 (previously less than 12)
Anthony Mann - 16 (+3)
Steven Soderbergh - 16 (+1)
Michael Powell - 16 (+1)
Jan Svankmajer - 16
Jean Renoir - 15 (+2)
Joel/Ethan Coen - 15 (+1)
Billy Wilder - 15 (+1)
Howard Hawks - 15 (+1)
David Lynch - 15
Yimou Zhang - 14 (+2)
Federico Fellini - 14
Robert Bresson - 14
Orson Welles - 13 (+1)
Stanley Kubrick - 13 (+1)
John Huston - 13 (+1)
Robert Altman - 13
Eric Rohmer - 13
Robert Wise - 12 (previously less than 12)
Mikio Naruse - 12 (previously less than 12)
Kon Ichikawa - 12 (previously less than 12)
William Wyler - 12 (previously less than 12)
Spike Lee - 12 (previously less than 12)
Roy William Neill - 12
Seijun Suzuki - 12
Josef von Sternberg - 12

Big jumps for Varda and Malle.

[edkrak]

Stan Brakhage - 112

After reading Denizen's post about Franco I wanted to say that he's the biggest masochist on this forum, but now I can see that this title belongs to you.

[TheDenizen]

Definitely. At least Franco movies have a lot of tits.

[mwgerb]

Update:

George Melies - 16
Steven Spielberg - 15
Stanley Kubrick - 10
Chuck Jones - 9
Alfred Hitchcock - 9
Robert Zemeckis - 8
Ron Howard - 7
James Cameron - 7
Christopher Nolan - 7
Tim Burton - 7

[monclivie]

Woody Allen - 41
Steven Spielberg - 22
Clint Eastwood - 16
Coen Brothers - 15
Tim Burton - 14
Terry Gilliam - 14
Alfred Hitchcock - 14
Robet Zemeckis - 12
Martin Scorsese - 12
Quentin Tarantino - 11
Ron Howard - 11
F. F. Coppola - 10
Ridley Scott - 10
Tony Scott - 10
Robert Rodriguez - 10
Roman Polanski - 10
Sam Raimi - 10

[Scottathon]

I've become more obsessive about my logging, so here are my most-seen directors by total duration of the films seen. In the case of films with multiple directors, the duration is divided evenly between the directors, so the numbers aren't perfect because of GONE WITH THE WIND and such.

Woody Allen (45 films, 4021 mins)
Eric Rohmer (28, 2557)
Alfred Hitchcock (23, 2511)
Billy Wilder (21, 2477)
Martin Scorsese (17, 2069)
François Truffaut (22, 2053)
Steven Spielberg (13, 1677)
Howard Hawks (17, 1562)
William Wyler (13, 1493)
John Ford (14, 1483)
Stanley Kubrick (12, 1462)
Robert Altman (11, 1391)
Steven Soderbergh (13, 1349)
Jean-Luc Godard (17, 1255)
Werner Herzog (13, 1200)
George Cukor (11, 1151)
Krzysztof Kieslowski (7, 1139)
Akira Kurosawa (8, 1018)

[ShogunRua]

List

Heh, you can make some amusing observations based on the average length of their pictures. Allen, Rohmer, Godard and Herzog are crisp, breezy, and fast-paced. (An attribute I generally like)

Kieslowski makes ridiculously long pictures.