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Dorkovsky
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Re: 5 or more?

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You've ranked at least 5 films from 480 directors

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Re: 5 or more?

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Well, since I first posted in this topic 3.5 years ago, my number has grown from 64 to 73. (Although Coen and Farrely brothers are double-counted) 9 new ones are (alphabetically);

Robert Clampett 5 (all cartoons)
Don Hertzfeld 8 (all cartoons, most shitty)
Peter Hyams 5 (a lot of lousy movies on his ledger, but I saw his best work, Stay Tuned in those 3.5 years)
Peter Jackson 5 (I accomplished this by seeing Heavenly Creatures and The Frighteners, not the two Hobbit films!)
Sergio Leone 5 (My Name is Nobody, which he only directed a few scenes of, but is a phenomenal Western, pushed me up to the critical number)
Nick Park 5 (I love Wallace and Gromit, of which I additionally watched The Wrong Trousers, as well as Park's funny Creature Comforts)
Jan Svankmajer 5 (Hadn't seen any of his films when making my first post. Makes bizarre, surrealist shorts)
Johnnie To 5 (One of my favorite directors ever, and both Election and Election 2 didn't disappoint)
Hugh Wilson 5 (Fuck this asshole hack; watched the dreadful garbage First Wives' Club on the insistence of my girlfriend)

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Re: 5 or more?

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42

Scorsese is the highest of them, Wilfred Jackson is the lowest (just not big on the disney flicks)

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Up to 141 Now.

New Directors:

Robert Altman - Bumped up with viewings of the decent Thieves Like Us and the laughless O.C. and Stiggs.

Mario Bava - A director of excellent gothic thrillers, although they aren't the most memorable despite their virtues. SUre to benefit from rewatches.

William Beaudine - A director whose speciality is disposable trash. Made perhaps the worst of the Charlie Chan features.

Darren Lynn Bousman - Saw II wasn't up to much but Bousman has still devolved impressively. His most recent film, The Devil's Carnival, is TV-terrible garbage of the most garish variety.

Larry Cohen - One of my favourite directors, whose films almost always transcend their basic themes. Pick Me Up was one of the most enjoyable Masters of Horror episodes and The Ambulance was a surprising success even with Cohen as the director. It's a shame he prefers to play the role of writer over directing nowadays.

Don Coscarelli - A director of decent horror movies and one masterpiece (Phantasm), but I'm not in that much of a rush to see his remaining movies.

Blake Edwards - Enjoyed the Sellers/Edwards Pink Panther movies. Edwards is unusual among contemporary comedy directors in that the visual aspects of his films seem more important to him than scripts and dialogue.

Abel Ferrara - Elite among the American indie directors, he's made a number of excellent movies with gritty, violent themes, and that's just among the five films of his that I've seen. That he has many more credits to his name is very promising.

John Ford - Six films in and already leaning towards agreeing with the consensus that has Ford as one of the greatest of all directors. The Searchers is both beautiful and complex in a way that westerns seldom are, Stagecoach is a splendidly directed hoot and films like The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance essentially speak for themselves. Obviously I'm trying to put Judge Priest to the back of my mind right now.

Michel Gondry - Can't make too many judgments since I've only seen three of his features and two fairly dreadful shorts, but I loved what he did with The Science of Sleep and The Green Hornet.

Stuart Gordon - An inconsistent director but also a very stylish one. Re-Animator was delightfully deranged and likely his finest achievement.

Amy Heckerling - Made one great comedy and a couple of decent ones. Alas, she gravitates towards crap and her sense of humour appears to have dilapidated over time.

Stephen Herek - I like Bill and Ted but the rest blows.

John Huston - Dunno what to make of him. With the exception of The African Queen (an ok movie), I haven't seen his most heralded films

Neil Jordan - Another uneven filmography, but The Butcher Boy is one of the more frightening films I've seen. The Company of Wolves is pretty abysmal despite its reputation.

Takeshi Kitano - His films tend to blend together but I enjoy them while they last.

John Landis - He's made some of the most hilarious movies I've seen. Love his work.

Abe Levitow - All five are cartoons, none of them bad.

Richard Linklater - Made one of the seminal teen movies with Dazed and Confused. Again, I've missed out on some of his more praised films.

Les Mayfield - I thought Miracle on 34th Street was pleasant enough but the rest of Mayfield's stuff has been truly repellent, especially The Man.

Adam McKay - A Ferrell collaborator with at least one good comedy (Step Brothers) to his name. The rest isn't so appealing.

Jean-Pierre Melville - A noir specialist if the consensus is to be believed and as much as I liked three of those noirs that I've seen, my favorite Melville is Leon Morin, Priest, which has a grace and humanism that Melville's noirs seem to have lacked.

Roy William Neill - Directed dozens of films but the eight I've seen are all Sherlock Holmes films of varying quality. Didn't have much of a visual style.

Todd Phillips - A director who never moves out of his comfort zone of raucous comedies.

Michael Powell - Peeping Tom and A Matter of Life and Death are among the more adventurous British films of their times and feature some excellent acting performances to boot.

Nicholas Ray - Will likely become one of my favourite directors if his other films are in the same league as four out of the five I've seen (didn't care for Rebel Without a Cause, though). Bigger Than Life and In a Lonely Place are both masterpieces.

Eric Rohmer - Can barely say anything since I've only really seen one of his features (I think we can discount the TV documentary about Louis Lumiere, however excellent it is).

Ridley Scott - His recent films aren't up to much but Alien and Blade Runner bump his rating up a bit.

Steven Soderbergh - Makes some of the coldest movies out there but sprung a surprise with Side Effects, a cleverly plotted and directed drama-thriller that veers off into unexpected territory again and again.

Lee Tamahori - With the exception of Along Came a Spider, he makes completely forgettable films.

Jeff Tremaine - Love Jackass, loved Bad Grandpa.

Agnes Varda - Seen five but only one full-fledged feature in Kung-fu Master!, a poetic but depthless drama. Obviously, I've seen none of her most championed films.

Adam Wingard - Was really hopeful for him after discovering his short films a few years ago. Alas, his ventures into feature filmmaking have been somewhat unsuccessful, although I'm stoked to see You're Next soon.

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Re: 5 or more?

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212 (counting the Coens as one, I was too lazy to see if there were any other siblings). Interestingly enough, by quick count I have 90 directors of which I have seen 4 of their films, so that number could significantly increase. Not that I am looking to pad my stats or anything ;).

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