Search found 9 matches: Federico Fellini

lisagirl wrote:probably

stanley kubrick
lars von trier
federico fellini
david lynch
roman polanski

but i'm pretty low on the movie count

okay...4 months later

1. lars von trier (10 films seen)
2. stanley kubrick (10)
3. david lynch (6)
4. ingmar bergman (11)
5. werner herzog (10)

a very solid top 5. below them, and with more uncertainty with less films seen...

6. akira kurosawa (4)
7. abbas kiarostami (3)
8. ethan & joel coen (8)
9. roman polanski (4)
10. jean-luc godard (13)

i keep a sort of running list here:

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

probably

stanley kubrick
lars von trier
federico fellini
david lynch
roman polanski

but i'm pretty low on the movie count

There are some really interesting and great mentions throughout this thread.

1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Louis Malle
3. Federico Fellini
4. Wes Anderson
5. Jean-Luc Godard

Honorable mentions: Michelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Charlie Chaplin, Jean-Pierre Melville, Clint Eastwood

Ordering them is impossible, but here's my favorite 6:

Federico Fellini
Jean-Pierre Melville
Jerzy Skolimowski
Robert Bresson
Jacques Rivette
Louis Malle

some other favorites:
Wocjiech Has
Eric Rohmer
Buñuel
Claude Chabrol
Juraj Jakubisko (though i haven't seen much)
Alain Resnais

1.Luis Buñuel
2.Stanley Kubrick
3.Alfred Hitchcock
4.Jim Jarmusch
5.David Lynch

The rest of top 10:
6.Martin Scorsese
7.Ethan/Joel Coen
8.Ingmar Bergman
9.Federico Fellini
10.Billy Wilder


next 10: Woody Allen, Jean-Luc Godard , Akira Kurosawa, Roman Polanski, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Quentin Tarantino, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Aki Kaurismäki (no order)

1. Béla Tarr
2. Ingmar Bergman
2. Jean-Luc Godard
2. Andrei Tarkovski
2. Federico Fellini
Picking my 5 all-time favorites is rather easy, even though it hurts to leave some people out who have done many great movies those 5 have done more great movies than my other favorites. Putting them in order is impossible, though, so they're even.

1. Federico Fellini
2. Ingmar Bergman
3. Luchino Visconti
4. Stanley Kubrick
5. Peter Greenaway

Akira Kurosawa, Lars von Trier, Wong-Kar-Wai, Wes Anderson, Jim Jarmusch, Bernardo Bertolucci,Woody Allen...and more others

It's totally impossible but I'll attempt it... if I had to rate them again tomorrow the order could be different.

1. Emir Kusturica
2. R. W. Fassbinder
3. Luchino Visconti
4. Lina Wertmüller
5. Sidney Lumet

6. Sam Peckinpah
7. Werner Herzog
8. Carl Theodor Dreyer
9. Nicolas Roeg
10. John Cassavetes

11. Woody Allen
12. Terry Gilliam
13. Satyajit Ray
14. Federico Fellini
15. Costa-Gavras

VERY honorable mentions (might as well be in there):
Michelangelo Antonioni, Alan Clarke, Roman Polanski, Douglas Sirk, Abbas Kiarostami, Ernst Lubitsch, Marcel Carné, Martin Scorsese, Claude Chabrol, Robert Bresson, Peter Weir, Sergio Leone, Ingmar Bergman...

1. Federico Fellini
2. Ingmar Bergman
3. Quentin Tarantino
4. David Fincher
5. Christopher Nolan

+ Martin Scorsese and Alejandro Amenabar