Search found 36 matches: Akira Kurosawa

Minimum 5

1 - Federico Fellini - 76.8
1/2 - Billy Wilder - 76.8
3 - Robert Bresson - 76.3
4 - Akira Kurosawa - 75.6
5 - John Ford - 75.3

Minimum 10

1 - Akira Kurosawa - 75.6
2 - Stanley Kubrick - 74.2
2/3 - Alfred Hitchcock - 74.2
4 - Satyajit Ray - 73.9
5 - Werner Herzog - 73.7

Minimum 15

1 - Akira Kurosawa - 75.6
2 - Ken Russell - 70.2
3 - Martin Scorsese - 69.2
4 - David Lynch - 68.8
5 - David Cronenberg - 68.4

My top 5 (minimum 4 films):

• 1. Ang Lee (6 films - 92.2) - Brokeback Mountain - Have not seen Lust, Caution
  2. Danny Boyle (4 films - 91.5) - 28 Days Later - Have not seen Frankenstein
  3. Akira Kurosawa (7 films - 90) - Yojimbo - Have not seen Red Beard
  4. Billy Wilder (4 films - 89.5) - Sunset Boulevard - Have not seen Ace in the Hole
  5. Terry Gilliam (7 films - 89.1) - Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Have not seen Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

I only have 78 directors that meet the 4 film criterion. Median of the averages is 78.75, which is where Pedro Almodovar, Harold Ramis, and Martin Scorsese sit.

ETA: Favorites and next film I would probably see. Agnieszka Holland, to my disappointment, is the only woman to actually make it into this list.

1.Frank Capra
2.Luchino Visconti
3.George Cukor
4.Billy Wilder
5.Akira Kurosawa

Minimum 5 films:
Akira Kurosawa (90.00) 5 films
Billy Wilder (89.38) 8 films
Ingmar Bergman (85.63) 8 films
David Lynch (83.57) 7 films
Charles Chaplin (83.13) 8 films

Minimum 10 films:
Alfred Hitchcock (80.00) 14 films
Martin Scorsese (77.73) 11 films
Coen Brothers (77.00) 15 films
Woody Allen (73.24) 17 films
Buster Keaton (72.50) 12 films

AFlickering wrote:I'm only including directors by whom I've seen 2 or more films, though I might do another list with a 3 minimum when I can be bothered. People who've seen a lot more movies than me might want a higher minimum, or alternatively not waste their time on this thread.

Mine:
1. Andrei Tarkovsky 95.33 (3 films)
2. Wong Kar-Wai 93.5 (2 films)
3. Satoshi Kon 93 (2 films)
4. Akira Kurosawa 92.67 (6 films)
5. Milos Forman 91.5 (2 films)

Interesting that Forman sneaked onto the list, bet he'll drop pretty quickly when I see some of his less known works. Also interesting but not really surprising that my favourite director Herzog isn't up there - the score was dragged down by Nosferatu and Even Dwarfes Started Small even though they're still good.

8 years on, upping this to 4 minimum:
1. Paul Thomas Anderson 89.93 (6 films)
2. Robert Altman 89.20 (5 films)
3. Wes Anderson 88.80 (5 films)
4. David Lynch 87.00 (10 films)
5. John Cassavetes 86.88 (8 films)
6. Paul Verhoeven 85.25 (4 films)
7. Terence Malick 85.17 (6 films)
8. Sion Sono 82.67 (6 films)
9. Charlie Chaplin 81.67 (9 films)
10. Mike Leigh 81.20 (5 films)

for the record, my average ratings for those on my previous list now:
Andrei Tarkovsky 90.00 (2 films) - i've deleted two that i don't remember well enough.
Wong Kar-Wai 69.50 (4 films) - 3 deleted.
Satoshi Kon 85.33 (3 films)
Akira Kurosawa 72.40 (5 films) - 1 deleted.
Milos Forman 80.5 (2 films)

Updated top ten. Five film minimum

Michael Powell (13) – 8.46
Andrei Tarkovsky (5) – 8.40
Emeric Pressburger (9) – 8.33
Preston Sturges (6) – 8.33
Akira Kurosawa (10) – 8.10
Yasujiro Ozu (11) – 8.09
Elia Kazan (6) – 8.00
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne (5) – 8.00
Buster Keaton (6) – 7.83
Sam Wood (5) – 7.80

…and a top ten for living filmmakers.

Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne (5) – 8.00
Richard Linklater (8) – 7.63
Hirokazu Koreeda (7) – 7.57
Ang Lee (9) – 7.56
Peter Bogdanovich (5) – 7.40
Yimou Zhang (6) – 7.33
Mike Leigh (10) – 7.30
Pedro Almodovar (8) – 7.13
Hayao Miyazaki (11) – 7.00
Hsiao-hsien Hou (5) – 7.00

A few years and hundreds of reviews later...

1. Stanley Kubrick - 91.89 (9)
2. Sergio Leone - 91.75 (4)
3. Francis Ford Coppola - 90.80 (5)
4. Akira Kurosawa - 90.43 (7)
5. Béla Tarr - 90.25 (4)
6. Sidney Lumet - 89.75 (4)
7. Andrei Tarkovsky - 89.00 (4)
8. Terrence Malick - 88.25 (4)
9. Buster Keaton - 88.14 (7)
10. Joel and Ethan Coen - 86.75 (12)

Sounds pretty accurate. Coppola's probably gonna drop once I get around to his later films.
Upping the limit to five films, after the Coens we have:

7. Charles Chaplin - 86.60 (5)
8. Alfred Hitchcock - 86.43 (14)
9. Terry Gilliam - 85.20 (5)
10. Ingmar Bergman - 84.64 (11)

Also pretty accurate, though I thought Bergman would be higher.

lisa wrote:83.81 ingmar bergman (16)
81.25 lars von trier (16)
79.00 terrence malick (5)
78.25 stanley kubrick (12)
77.40 andrei tarkovsky (5)
77.30 werner herzog (10)
77.00 akira kurosawa (8)
75.00 abbas kiarostami (8)
74.86 federico fellini (7)
73.20 ethan & joel coen (10)

nearly a year later, still with 5 film minimum...

83.31 ingmar bergman (16)
81.20 terrence malick (5)
80.80 alejandro jodorosky (5)
78.67 robert bresson (6)
78.50 andrei tarkovsky (6)
78.40 robert altman (5)
76.50 akira kurosawa (12)
76.20 alain resnais (5)
75.73 jacques rivette (11)
75.68 lars von trier (22)

and with a 10 film minimum...

83.31 ingmar bergman (16)
76.50 akira kurosawa (12)
75.73 jacques rivette (11)
75.68 lars von trier (22)
75.00 abbas kiarostami (11)
74.08 stanley kubrick (13)
73.00 ethan & joel coen (10)
69.70 louis malle (10)
69.29 werner herzog (24)
65.54 eric rohmer (13)

lisagirl wrote:over the course of (nearly) 3 months and (nearly) 150 films, this has changed...a lot.

93.00 lars von trier (6)
87.00 akira kurosawa (3)
85.27 ingmar bergman (11)
83.89 stanley kubrick (9)
83.50 federico fellini (4)
83.25 roman polanski (4)
81.67 david cronenberg (3)
81.67 sidney lumet (3)
81.60 david lynch (5)
80.00 kyrzysztof kieslowski (3)

another (nearly) 3 months and this time somewhere in the range of 320 films later (!) it's changed a lot again:

83.81 ingmar bergman (16)
83.00 robert altman (3)
82.50 francis ford coppola (4)
81.25 lars von trier (16)
80.00 sidney lumet (3)
79.00 terrence malick (5)
78.33 errol morris (3)
78.25 stanley kubrick (12)
77.40 andrei tarkovsky (5)
77.30 werner herzog (10)

but i can do a minimum of 5 now:

83.81 ingmar bergman (16)
81.25 lars von trier (16)
79.00 terrence malick (5)
78.25 stanley kubrick (12)
77.40 andrei tarkovsky (5)
77.30 werner herzog (10)
77.00 akira kurosawa (8)
75.00 abbas kiarostami (8)
74.86 federico fellini (7)
73.20 ethan & joel coen (10)

this is very similar to my personal list of top ten directors, but i'd substitute tarkovsky & fellini for lynch & polanski.

http://www.imdb.com/list/gvUw6xKrWLU/

lisagirl wrote:i'll have to go with 3 minimum at this stage of my film watching career

92.7 david lynch (3)
92.0 lars von trier (4)
86.0 federico fellini (3)
86.3 roman polanski (4)
83.7 stanley kubrick (9)
77.0 joel & ethan coen (4)
73.7 terrence malick (3)
73.3 david fincher (6)
73.3 christopher nolan (6)
68.8 david yates (4)

it gets into my tier 7 at the bottom, so...

over the course of (nearly) 3 months and (nearly) 150 films, this has changed...a lot.

93.00 lars von trier (6)
87.00 akira kurosawa (3)
85.27 ingmar bergman (11)
83.89 stanley kubrick (9)
83.50 federico fellini (4)
83.25 roman polanski (4)
81.67 david cronenberg (3)
81.67 sidney lumet (3)
81.60 david lynch (5)
80.00 kyrzysztof kieslowski (3)