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

[PeaceAnarchy]

Kieslowski makes ridiculously long pictures.

Sometimes it's a single outlier, like here. His films are actually rather short, but the Decalogue is a 10 episode miniseries which ups the average.

[green man]

Stan Brakhage 37 (79.51)
Alfred Hitchcock 24 (70.79)
Woody Allen 14 (76.29)
Louis Lumière 14 (51.64)
Nicholas Ray 13 (89.23)
Billy Wilder 10 (69.90)
Stanley Kubrick 9 (86.00)
Jan Svankmajer 9 (80.11)
John Ford 9 (79.56)
Wim Wenders 8 (82.88)
Ingmar Bergman 7 (90.86)
Jean-Luc Godard 7 (90.57)
Guy Maddin 7 (88.71)
Júlio Bressane 7 (81.71)
John Huston 7 (80.14)
Buster Keaton 6 (90.83)
Charles Chaplin 6 (80.00)
Martin Scorsese 6 (74.67)
Georges Méliès 6 (69.83)
Karim Ainouz 5 (91.80)
Jim Jarmusch 5 (85.00)
Fritz Lang 5 (83.60)
Orson Welles 5 (81.80)
Sidney Lumet 5 (81.20)
Quentin Tarantino 5 (79.20)
Lars von Trier 5 (76.60)
Howard Hawks 5 (75.80)
Coen bros. 5 (66.80)
Maya Deren 5 (55.80) i think i've underrated her work. need to rewatch some of it soon
Steven Spielberg 5 (45.60)

yay movies

[Jehan]

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[nauru]

Update:

Spike Lee 18
Steven Spielberg 13
Ridley Scott 11

Ron Howard 9
Michael Bay 8
Tim Burton 8
John Woo 8
Robert Zemeckis 8

Oliver Stone 6
Kevin Smith 6
Michael Moore 6
Sam Raimi 6
John Landis 6
Tony Scott 6
Coen Bros. 6
Michael Mann 6
Clint Eastwood 6

[DavidJohnson]

Scorsese with 17.

[Gregzilla]

Since I've done this the previous 2 years, Here's an Update


Ishirô Honda - 26 (+1)
Herschell Gordon Lewis - 17 (+3)
Jesus Franco - 13 (+2)
Roger Corman - 12 (+2)
Doris Wishman - 10 (+2)
Russ Meyer - 9 (+2)
Martin Scorsese - 8 (+3)
Joel+Ethan Coen - 7
Noriaki Yuasa - 7
Jun Fukuda - 7
Terence Fisher - 7
Kinji Fukasaku - 7 (+1)
Fritz Lang - 6
Andy Milligan - 6
Francis Ford Coppola - 6
John Landis - 6 (+1)
William castle - 6 (previously less than 5)
Bert I. Gordon - 6 (+1)
Dario Argento - 6 (previously less than 5)
Antonio Margheriti - 6 (+1)
John Carpenter - 5
Michael Findlay - 5
Chan-wook Park - 5
Yimou Zhang - 5
Steven Spielberg - 5 (previously less than 5)
Charles Chaplin - 5 (previously less than 5)
Ridley Scott - 5 (previously less than 5)
William Witney - 5 (previously less than 5)
Jack Hill - 5 (-1)? Not sure what happened there

That's +19 for the directors already on the list with 6 directors previoulsy not on the list.

[FitFortDanga]

Update since October:

Stan Brakhage - 114 (+4)
Werner Herzog - 48 (+8)
Woody Allen - 40 (+1)
Jean-Luc Godard - 29 (+1)
Peter Greenaway - 24 (+2)
Jean Painleve - 23 (+3)
Krzysztof Kieslowski - 22 (+3)
Aki Kaurismaki - 21 (+2)
Martin Scorsese - 21 (+1)
Steven Spielberg - 20 (+1)
Kenji Mizoguchi - 20 (+1)
Yasujiro Ozu - 19 (+1)
John Ford - 18 (+1)
Steven Soderbergh - 18 (+2)
Louis Malle - 17 (+1)
Anthony Mann - 17 (+1)
David Lynch - 17 (+2)
Billy Wilder - 16 (+1)
Federico Fellini - 15 (+1)
Robert Altman - 14 (+1)
Nicholas Ray - 14 (previously less than 12)
Pedro Almodovar - 14 (previously less than 12)
Eric Rohmer - 14 (+1)
Robert Wise - 13 (+1)
Josef von Sternberg - 13 (+1)
Spike Lee - 13 (+1)
Mikio Naruse - 13 (+1)
Kon Ichikawa - 13 (+1)
Abbas Kiarostami - 12 (previously less than 12)
Sidney Lumet - 12 (previously less than 12)
Ernst Lubitsch - 12 (previously less than 12)
Hsiao-hsien Hou - 12 (previously less than 12)
Bela Tarr - 12 (previously less than 12)
Ming-liang Tsai - 12 (previously less than 12)

All others remained at the same count

[TheDenizen]

Update since October:

How come you're still FitFortDanga on the forums, but your profile is called Martin Teller?

I'm easily confused.

[martryn]

Only four directors that I've seen more than 10 films:

Speilberg, 15 films, 68.07 avg
Burton, 13 films, 72.15 avg
Zemeckis, 10 films, 75.6 avg
John McTiernan, 10 films, 66.2 avg

I've got five more sitting at 9.

[FitFortDanga]

Update since October:

How come you're still FitFortDanga on the forums, but your profile is called Martin Teller?

I'm easily confused.

Forum registration is different from the main site registration.