Filmmakers : Which directors have you seen all their features?

[djross]

For the purposes of this list, short films don't count, nor do documentaries (unless the director is specifically a documentary-maker, e.g., Errol Morris, Adam Curtis, and so on). There is no easy way to figure this out, and for the alphabetical list below I only looked through my rankings for tiers 8 to 10:

Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson (excluding Moonrise Kingdom, which is yet to open where I live)
Darren Aronofsky
Larry Bishop (two films)
Adam Curtis (documentaries)
Andrew Dominik (excluding Killing Them Softly, which has only had a Cannes screening thus far)
David Fincher
Spike Jonze
Charlie Kaufman (only directed one film thus far)
Charles Laughton (only directed one film)
David Lynch
Terrence Malick
Elaine May
David Michôd (only directed one feature and one feature-length documentary thus far)
Jeff Nichols (excluding Mud, which has only had a Cannes screening thus far)
Christopher Nolan (excluding The Dark Knight Rises, which hasn't opened yet)
Gaspar Noé
José Padilha
Martin Scorsese (just missing a few documentaries, such as the recent one on George Harrison)
Quentin Tarantino (excluding a couple of portmanteau movies to which he contributed)
Andrei Tarkovsky
Lars von Trier

Bertrand Bonello will be added to this list in the next couple of days (having this morning received my copy of the DVD of House of Tolerance from Amazon).

Directors with quite a few movies where I am getting close to having seen their entire oeuvre are: Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Coen brothers (haven't been able to bring myself to watch Intolerable Cruelty or The Ladykillers), Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Eric Rohmer.

[TheDenizen]

Looking through my ratings....it seems like Quentin Tarantino is the only director who fits the criteria for me, the only thing of his I haven't seen is an early short. I'm only missing two features from Sergio Leone, his two earliest. A lot of the directors I've seen a high number of films from have a huge output, though (Spielberg, Miike, John Woo, Yuen Woo-Ping, etc).

I am on a personal quest to see all of Jesus Franco's films, though I despair I'll never find them all. 36 down, 101 to go.

[djross]

Jesus Franco. 36 down, 101 to go.

And for me that makes 137 to go.

[movieboy]

Rather difficult to find this data.
Christopher Nolan - haven't seen Dark Knight Rises (which hasn't been released, I think) and a short Doodlebug.
Marc Lawrence - have seen all 3 movies of his.
Richard Curtis - seen both movies directed by him.

Guy Ritchie is close - have seen everything except his 2nd Sherlock Holmes movie - which I guess I will see sometime this year. So is Tarantino - have seen everything except "Four Rooms".

[edkrak]

Stephen Chow
Richard Kelly (except for Visceral Matter which is nearly impossible to find)
John Gulager

I am on a personal quest to see all of Jesus Franco's films, though I despair I'll never find them all. 36 down, 101 to go.

194 films according to imdb - you need to suffer more!

[TheDenizen]

Jesus Franco. 36 down, 101 to go.

And for me that makes 137 to go.

So you're taking the Franco plunge then? Let's go on a journey of Eurosmut discovery...together!

Hm, that sounded a lot less like a sexual proposition before I typed it.

194 films according to imdb - you need to suffer more!

Yeah. Putting a definitive number on Franco's output seems pretty much impossible, given that several of his films were re-edited together by others and re-released under multiple titles over the years. I don't expect that I'll ever see them all, but it gives me something to aim for

[edkrak]

It always fascinates me why those Eurosmut are so addictive even if they are often awful. I don't really dig Franco, I'm more of a D'Amato guy, but I get the feeling. I just can't stop even when I know that at least half of his flicks suck. Although I have no intention to see all his flicks - only all the genre flicks, early softcore and porno-horrors.

[TheDenizen]

It always fascinates me why those Eurosmut are so addictive even if they are often awful. I don't really dig Franco, I'm more of a D'Amato guy, but I get the feeling. I just can't stop even when I know that at least half of his flicks suck. Although I have no intention to see all his flicks - only all the genre flicks, early softcore and porno-horrors.

yeah D'Amato has his moments, too....I'm mostly into Franco films because I am madly in lust with Lina Romay, his longtime partner/muse. She appears in most of his films from around 1972. It doesn't matter if a film is a total piece of shit...if Romay is in it, I want to see it.

Still, I'd rather hunt down and watch every Franco sleazefest than suffer through the entire body of work of a lot of the more celebrated filmmakers out there. Guys like Woody Allen or Wes Anderson just don't appeal to me at all, no matter how highly regarded they are by cineastes and critics.

Regardless, that's a discussion for another topic.

[3dRevelation]

I've seen all the films from:
PT Anderson
Darren Aronofsky
Christopher Nolan
Terrence Malick (however this will most likely change as I don't really have the desire to see any of his upcoming films)
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Richard Kelly
Judd Apatow

I think that is it, but as far as directors that I am close for go:
Coen Brothers- Need just to see The Ladykillers and Intolerable Cruelty
David Fincher- Haven't seen Zodiac or Alien 3

[stuie299]

I need to watch more films by specific directors. My list is pretty slim.

Wes Anderson
Christopher Nolan
George Clooney
Lee Unkrich
Adam McKay