Search found 5 matches: Brian De Palma

January 2024 ratings at 5447 films rated. (^ signifies a director new to that division)

15+ films seen:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film
1 Federico Fellini - 80.4 (15) - La Strada
2 Satyajit Ray - 77.2 (15) - Charulata
3 Mario Monicelli - 75.6 (16) - Big Deal on Madonna Street
4 Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 74.5 (24) - In a Year of 13 Moons
5 Ingmar Bergman - 72.9 (24) - Autumn Sonata
6 Dino Risi - 72.1 (15) - A Difficult Life
7 Costa-Gavras - 71.9 (15) - Z ^
8 Frederick Wiseman - 71.3 (16) - Near Death
9 Werner Herzog - 71.0 (41) - Stroszek
10 Claude Chabrol - 70.9 (24) - The Girl Cut in Two
11 Douglas Sirk - 70.5 (15) - Interlude ^
12 Terry Gilliam - 70.4 (18) - Brazil
13 Aki Kaurismäki - 70.1 (16) - Drifting Clouds / The Man Without a Past
14 Ken Loach - 69.7 (16) - Kes
15 Woody Allen - 68.4 (33) - Annie Hall
16 Sidney Lumet - 66.3 (26) - 12 Angry Men
17 Martin Scorsese - 66.2 (24) - Raging Bull
18 Robert Altman - 65.1 (15) - 3 Women ^
19 Chia-Liang Liu - 64.7 (16) - The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter
20 Abbas Kiarostami - 64.2 (16) - Close-Up / A Taste of Cherry
Next spots: Polanski, Hitchcock, de Palma, Burton, Cronenberg, Lynch

10-14 films seen:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film
1 Maurice Pialat - 82.2 (10) - To Our Loves
2 Michelangelo Antonioni - 76.9 (11) - The Night
3 Antonio Pietrangeli - 76.7 (10) - The Visitor
4 Luchino Visconti - 76.6 (11) - Bellissima
5 Emir Kusturica - 76.1 (12) - Time of the Gypsies
6 Carl Theodor Dreyer - 76.1 (13) - Gertrude
7 John Cassavetes - 74.4 (10) - A Woman Under the Influence
8 Errol Morris - 73.7 (12) - The Thin Blue Line
9 Sam Peckinpah - 73.9 (11) - Straw Dogs
10 Jean Renoir - 73.6 (10) - A Day in the Country
11 Louis Malle - 73.4 (11) - My Dinner with Andre
12 Jafar Panahi - 72.3 (10) - Crimson Gold / Offside ^
13 Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne - 72.2 (10) - Two Days, One Night ^
14 Alan Clarke - 71.9 (10) - Rita, Sue and Bob Too
15 Ernst Lubitsch - 70.8 (12) - Design for Living
16 David Lean - 70.3 (11) - Hobson's Choice
17 Ettore Scola - 69.8 (10) - The Dinner
18 Charles Chaplin - 69.3 (12) - Modern Times / The Gold Rush
19 Peter Weir - 67.3 (12) - Gallipoli
20 Martin Ritt - 66.9 (10) - The Front ^
Next Spots: Masumura, Powell, Bresson, Friedkin, Zhang, Waters, Miyazaki, Wyler, Van Sant, Swanberg, Ferrara...

5-9 films seen:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film
1 Asghar Farhadi - 85.4 (8) - About Elly
2 Radu Jude - 84.3 (8) - Scarred Hearts
3 Jacques Rozier - 84.1 (7) - Near Orouet
4 Jan Troell - 80.7 (9) - The Emigrants
5 Nuri Bilge Ceylan - 79.8 (9) - Climates
6 Lynne Ramsay - 79.4 (8) - Morvern Callar
7 Matteo Garrone - 78.8 (5) - Io Capitano ^
8 Sergei Parajanov - 78.2 (6) - Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
9 Allan King - 78.0 (5) - A Married Couple
10 Andrei Zvyagintsev - 77.8 (6) - Elena
11= Ermanno Olmi - 76.6 (7) - The Tree of Wooden Clogs
11= Cristian Mungiu - 76.6 (7) - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
13 Lina Wertmuller - 76.3 (7) - Swept Away
14 Miklos Jancso - 75.3 (6) - The Red and the White
15= Catherine Breillat - 74.8 (6) - 36 fillette
15= Peter Yates - 74.8 (6) - John and Mary
15= Rithy Panh - 74.8 (6) - The Missing Picture
18 Terry Jones - 74.8 (5) - Life of Brian
19 Jacques Audiard - 74.5 (6) - A Prophet
20 Josh & Benny Safdie - 74.4 (5) - Good Time / Uncut Gems ^
Next Spots: Ophüls, Rosi, Widerberg, Clouzot, Mazursky, Asquith, Has, Kishon, Forman, Leone, Korine...

3 films:
Shunya Ito 100 (3) - Sasori trilogy
Quentin Tarantino 92.5 (10) - Kill Bill
Sergio Leone 90.5 (6) - The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Paul Thomas Anderson 90 (9) - Magnolia
Chan-Wook Park 89.11 (9) - Lady Vengeance
Trey Parker 85.67 (6) - Team America
Zach Braff 84.33 (3) - Garden State
Edgar Wright 84.14 (7) - Shaun of the Dead
Lilly & Lana Wachowski 83.00 (8) - The Matrix
William Wyler 82.88 (8) - Ben-Hur


10 films:
Quentin Tarantino 92.5 (10) - Kill Bill
Hayao Miyazaki 81.73 (11) - Princess Mononoke
Paul Verhoeven 80.55 (11) - Total Recall/Basic Instinct
Joel & Ethan Coen 80.44 (18) - No Country for Old Men
Brian de Palma 80.37 (27) - Mission: Impossible
Sergio Corubcci 79.25 (12) - Vamos a matar, Companeros
Jonathan Demme 77.33 (12) - The Silence of the Lambs/Something Wild
Michael Mann 76.18 (11) - The Last of the Mohicans
Takashi Miike 75.83 (36) - Visitor Q
Howard Hawks 75.55 (11) - Bringing Up Baby

Minimum 3 films:

1. Sam Wood 9.40 (5)
2. Abdellatif Kechiche 9.33 (3)
3. Mark Sandrich 9.00 (5)
4. Milos Forman 9.00 (4)
5. Tom Tykwer 9.00 (3)

Minimum 10 films:

1. Federico Fellini 8.58 (12)
2. Alfred Hitchcock 8.51 (41)
3. Robert Wise 8.40 (10)
4. David Lean 8.20 (10)
5. Billy Wilder 8.17 (18)
6. Stanley Kubrick 8.08 (12)
7. William Wyler 8.08 (13)
8. Brian De Palma 8.00 (12)
9. Pedro Almodóvar 7.94 (16)
10. Lars von Trier 7.82 (11)
= Ken Loach 7.82 (11)

Hitchock's average went down a little by seeing his lesser known films, so I think he's the real number 1.

Two years after my initial contribution:

1. Luis Bunuel (35.00, 5 films)
2. Stanley Kubrick (34.00, 5 films)
3. Jean-Luc Godard (33.33, 33 films)
4. Wes Anderson (32.50, 6 films)
5. Jonathan Demme (32.00, 5 films)
6. Francis Ford Coppola (31.88, 8 films)
7. Dario Argento (31.36, 11 films)
8. Brian De Palma (31.33, 15 films)
9. Krzysztof Kieslowski (30.83, 6 films)
10. Alfred Hitchcock (30.56, 18 films)

10s based on directors who I've seen 5+ films from...

Top 10:
1. Krzysztof Kieslowski - 9
2. Francis Ford Coppola - 8.86
3. Stanley Kubrick - 8.67
4. Tobe Hooper - 8.2
5. David Cronenberg - 8.14
6. Alfred Hitchcock - 8
°°. Martin Scorsese - 8
°°. Quentin Tarantino - 8
9. Jean-Luc Godard - 7.83
10. Trey Parker - 7.8
°°. Gus Van Sant - 7.8

Of those listed, I expect Godard's average will rise once I've taken in the remainder of his films, several of which I'll be seeing close together in the near future. I'm not too enthusiastic about those Tarantino blind spots, so he'll possibly drop off. Haven't seen Coppola films that are supposedly his weakest, same with Scorsese. Could have a substantially different list by this time next year, I guess.

Bottom 10:
1. Hawley Pratt - 2.71
2. Adam Shankman - 3.6
3. David Zucker - 4.2
4. Ron Howard - 4.33
°°. Thomas Edison - 4.33
6. Louis Lumiere - 4.5
7. Kunihiko Yuyama - 4.57
°°. Edwin S. Porter - 4.57
9. Jack King - 4.6
10. Barry Sonnenfeld - 4.83

I guess I subconsciously avoid seeing numerous films from the most terrible filmmakers I can think of (Boll, et al). Didn't recognise Hawley Pratt's name at first but now I see he's the director of many a Pink Panther short, which are frequently abysmal - so his average could become even worse than it already is.


Other notable directors:
Terrence Malick - 9.25 (only has 4 films on Criticker)
Dario Argento - 7.75
Brian De Palma - 7.73
Kevin Smith - 7.71
Steven Spielberg - 7.53
John Carpenter - 7.5
Guillermo Del Toro - 7.5
George A. Romero - 7.3
Joe Dante - 7.29
John Hughes - 7.25 (seen all of his films)
Maya Deren - 7
David Lynch - 7
Rob Zombie - 6.83
Robert Rodriguez - 6.78
Tim Burton - 6.73

I expect averages of De Palma, Spielberg, Dante and Deren to go north upon viewing their other films. Smith, Del Toro and Rodriguez seem most likely to descend once I catch the blind spots.