Search found 10 matches: Francis Ford Coppola

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.

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/

Quentin Tarantino 88.25 8
Roman Polanski 86.67 3
Hayao Miyazaki 86.57 7
Sergio Leone 86.50 6
Sam Mendes 86.33 3
Christopher Nolan 86.17 6
Alfred Hitchcock 85.31 16
Francis Ford Coppola 85.25 4
Sidney Lumet 85.00 4
Alfonso Cuarón 85.00 4


I'm a young movi fan, but from what I've seen now that's it. I love Kubrick, but I hate 2 of his movies so he's not there

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.

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)

Minimum 20 films:
Ingmar Bergman (32 films - 7.78)
Martin Scorsese (20 films - 7.5)
Eric Rohmer (23 films - 7.17)
Woody Allen (38 films - 7.11)
Werner Herzog (41 films - 7.07)

Minimum 10 films:
Stanley Kubrick (11 films - 8.73)
Orson Welles (11 films - 7.9)
Ingmar Bergman (32 films - 7.78)
Joel/Ethan Coen (14 films - 7.64)
David Lean (10 films - 7.6)

Minimum 5 films:
Stanley Kubrick (11 films - 8.73)
Francis Ford Coppola (5 films - 8.6)
Carl Theodor Dreyer (8 films - 8.5)
Michaelangelo Antonioni (8 films - 8.13)
Wes Anderson (6 films - 8) / Max Ophuls (5 films - 8)

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.

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.

My top 5 from what I can gather is:

Robert Altman (5 films) - 91.75 average
Terrence Malick (4 films) - 91 average
Sidney Lumet (5 films) - 88 average
Joel & Ethan Coen (12 films) - 83.25 average
Francois Truffaut (11 films) - 82.91 average
I agree with the last 1, just haven't seen enough from the top 3 to weed them out (or keep them).

Others:

Paul Thomas Anderson (10 films) - 78.5 average
Jim Jarmusch (9 films) - 78.33 average
Wes Anderson (8 films) - 76.63 average
Martin Scorsese (19 films) - 75.26 average
Quentin Tarantino (10 films) - 74.7 average
Francis Ford Coppola (12 films) - 72.58 average
Woody Allen (42 films) - 70.76 average
David Lean (11 films) - 70.36 average
Jean-Luc Godard (14 films) - 69.86 average

Sad that we are still waiting for this feature 2+ years after the OP though

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'