General Discussion : Notable missing directors

[FitFortDanga]

Knocked a few off my old list:

Out of the ones listed so far in the thread:

Gillian Armstrong
-- Alexander Kluge
-- Ettore Scola
-- Claude Autant-Lara
Lucio Fulci
Jesus Franco (except for his edit of Welles' Don Quixote)
Christoffer Boe
Bertrand Blier
Lina Wertmüller
Clarence Brown (saw The Yearling, but it was ages ago and I might not have seen the whole thing)
-- Alfred E. Green
Walter Lang
Cheh Chang


There are several others that I've only seen one film by, and probably not their best one.

The two Scola films I've seen are fantastic.

[Anomaly1]

Great idea for a thread, and relevant. In the last month I watched my first Weerasethakul, Ford, Renoir, and Kusturica, and before that knocked off Wyler, Kazan, Argento, and Carpenter. Despite that, as I looked through TSPDT's best directors lists, I realized it would probably be easier to list which directors I have seen rather than haven't, so here's a list of the filmmakers I haven't seen that I'm most looking forward to watching, which should still tell you about my interests:

Howard Hawks
Yasujiro Ozu
Robert Bresson
David Lean
Roberto Rossellini
John Huston
Satyajit Ray
Robert Altman
Bernardo Bertolucci
John Cassavetes
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Chantal Akerman
Hayao Miyazaki
Agnès Varda
Todd Haynes
Alexander Payne
Powell & Pressburger
Aki Kaurismäki
Kon Ichikawa
Ming-liang Tsai
Anh Hung Tran
Atom Egoyan

[paulofilmo]

Looking at the Priority Collection:
Chris Marker
Anh Hung Tran Norwegian Wood
Abbas Kiarostami
Alain Resnais
Ritwik Ghatak C-CS
David Gordon Green
Jane Campion Piano
Vittorio De Sica
Sergei Parajanov Poms, Shadows
Hiroshi Teshigahara

Just added A Brighter Summer Day - haven't seen anything by Edward Yang.

[andagh]

I've seen 0 by the following directors:
Wes Anderson
Hal Hartley
Nora Ephron
Claude Chabrol
Eric Rohmer
Jacques RIvette
André Techiné
Alejandro Iñárritu
Gregg Araki
Jane Campion
Charlie Chaplin
Theo Angelopoulos
Mario Bava
Lucio Fulci
Ernst Lubitsch
Mel Brooks
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Peter Greenaway
James Ivory
Oliver Stone
Jean Vigo
Satyajit Ray
Koji Wakamatsu
Shuji Terayama
Ida Lupino
D.W. Griffith

[Svengali]

Takashi Miike
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Jacques Rivette
Dardenne brothers
Anh Hung Tran
John Huston
Howard Hawks
Chantal Akerman
Lina Wertmüller
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Hsiao-hsien Hou

Those are the ones that comes to my mind thinking about it and looking at some directors in this topic, even though there are many I don't recognize in this topic.

[tomelce]

Here are 50 pretty shameful blind spots. Hopefully in a year's time I'll be able to come back to this thread and cross most of these names out.

Yasujiro Ozu
Mikio Naruse
Jean Vigo
Kenji Mizoguchi
Satyajit Ray
Jean Renoir
Jean Cocteau
Leo McCarey
Raoul Walsh
Vittorio De Sica
Luchino Visconti
Jacques Tourneur
Max Ophuls
Anthony Mann
Jules Dassin
Douglas Sirk
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Elia Kazan
Vincente Minnelli
Jerry Lewis
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Samuel Fuller
Shohei Imamura
Ingmar Bergman
Peter Bogdanovich
Kon Ichikawa
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Russ Meyer
Elaine May
Frederick Wiseman
Andrei Konchalovsky
Emir Kusturica
Terence Davies
Bela Tarr
Ira Sachs
Edward Yang
Tsai Ming-liang
Claire Denis
Manoel de Oliveira
Aleksandr Sokurov
Catherine Breillat
Lou Ye
Joachim Trier
Marco Tullio Giordana
James Gray
Raoul Ruiz
Fred Niblo
Erich von Stroheim
Jean Epstein
Lewis Milestone