Search found 7 matches: Buster Keaton

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

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.

Updating after a year and a half plus:

1. Akira Kurosawa - 92.33 (6)
2. Stanley Kubrick - 91.89 (9)
3. Francis Ford Coppola - 90.80 (5)
4. Buster Keaton - 88.33 (6)
5. Joel and Ethan Coen - 87.00 (11)
6. Alfred Hitchcock - 86.43 (14)
7. Terry Gilliam - 85.20 (5)
8. Ingmar Bergman - 84.64 (11)
9. Martin Scorsese - 84.44 (9)
10. Luis Buñuel - 84.40 (5)

Some major changes since last time. Expect more.

I will post some averages, then I get 5 of them to the TOP.
Stanley Kubrick - 79.29 [7 movies]
Ingmar Bergman - 88.57 [7 movies]
Jean-Luc Godard - 81.65 [Hail Mary got the averages down.] [3 movies]
Billy Wilder - 86.67 [6 movies]
Kon Ichikawa - 90 [2 movies]
Nicholas Ray - 87.65 [2 movies]
David Lynch - 81.25 [4 movies]
Howard Hawks - 85 [2 movies]
Orson Welles - 90 [2 movies]
Alfred Hitchcock - 79.23 [13 movies]
Milos Forman - 80 [3 movies]
Paul Thomas Anderson - 80 [4 movies]
David Lean - 90 [2 movies]
Lars Von Trier - 80 [I removed from the count Nocturne, because it's a short one] [5 movies]
Dario Argento - 79 [5 movies]
Charles Chaplin - 79.25 [7 movies]
Sam Peckinpah - 87.25 [2 movies]
Akira Kurosawa - 85 [5 movies]

I put above all the directors who had at least one movie above 90 [a masterpiece] AND that I saw at least 2 movies.
Another directors that have good averages [75-100]:
Mario Bava - 82.5 [2 movies]
Michale Haneke - 81.25 [4 movies]
Samuel Fuller - 78.33 [3 movies]
Buster Keaton - 81.25 [4 movies]
F. F. Coppola - 83.33 [3 movies]
Sergio Leone - 76.25 [4 movies]
John Ford - 82.5 [2 movies]
Woody Allen - 76.88 [8 movies]
Alain Resnais - 81.25 [4 movies]
So, my TOP Average Directors, counting only the directors which I saw 3 movies or more, are:
1 – Ingmar Bergman
2 – Billy Wilder
3 – Akira Kurosawa
4 – Francis Ford Coppola
5 – Jean-Luc Godard
6 – Resnais, Keaton, Lynch and Haneke
7 – Lars Von Trier and Milos Forman
8 – Stanley Kubrick
9 – Charles Chaplin
10 – Alfred Hitchcock

My TOP Directors are:
1 – Ingmar Bergman
2 – Billy Wilder
3 – Akira Kurosawa
4 – Alfred Hitchcock
5 – Stanley Kubrick
6 – Dario Argento
7 – Jean-Luc Godard
8 – Michael Haneke
9 – David Lynch
10 – Charles Chaplin

I'm surpirised with Coppola, that appeared in fourth on the first list, bur I don't like him so mcuh.

Making the cut off 5 films.

So two of my favorites won't make it.

Buster Keaton (4) - 96.5 Still finding more of his films. 3 are already in the top of my favorites.
Terrence Malick (4) - 95 Has only made 4 films thus far with a fifth on the way.

Sergio Leone (5) - 94.6
Stanley Kubrick (11) - 92.64
Alfred Hitchcock (6) - 91
Quentin Tarantino (9) - 89.67 Though that include both Grindhouse/Death Proof and Sin City
Werner Herzog (14) - 89.43
Martin Scorsese (11) - 85.55
David Lynch (7) - 84
James Cameron (6) - 83.17
Coen Brothers (10) - 80.7
Peter Jackson (8) - 80.63
Charles Chaplin (5) - 80.2
Woody Allen (8) - 79.13
Terry Gilliam (8) - 78.13
Sam Raimi (9) - 77.33
Steven Spielberg (19) - 77
David Fincher (6) - 76.83
Michael Mann (7) - 73.14
Ridley Scott (12) - 71.75
Rob Reiner (5) - 60.6
Robert Rodriguez (12) - 57 His 5 family movies have wrecked his average
Michael Bay (7) - 21.43

Sort of interesting. Definitely need to see more movies by some. Still need to see more Tarkovsky and Bergman.

Herzog, Kubrick, Malick and Keaton are my actual favorites.

Of those directors with at least one tier 10 film and at least four films seen in total, these are the highest averages:

Akira Kurosawa 92.95 (4 films)
Stanley Kubrick 90.43 (7)
Michael Haneke 87 (4)
Ingmar Bergman 85.85 (13)
Andrei Tarkovsky 85.67 (6)
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Billy Wilder 84.4 (5)
Lars von Trier 83.5 (4)
Francis Ford Coppola 82.8 (5)
Buster Keaton 82.8 (5)
Orson Welles 82.71 (7)
Howard Hawks 81.4 (5)
Werner Herzog 79.8 (5)
Joel & Ethan Coen 79.2 (10ish)
Alfred Hitchcock 77.85 (13)
Martin Scorsese 74.71 (7)
Jean-Luc Godard 73.27 (11)
David Lynch 61.38 (13)

Shorts have obviously had a big effect on these rankings, and there are a lot of directors waiting for me to watch a fourth film. So this is a definite '...to be continued'