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by jal90
Sun Jun 28, 2015 1:28 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Notable missing directors
Replies: 51
Views: 77196

Re: Notable missing directors

Quite a list. I'm specially terrible when it comes to French directors. From the TSPDT top 250:

Jean Renoir (I only watched A day in the country)
Dziga Vertov
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Jacques Tati
Bernardo Bertolucci
Marcel Carné
Preston Sturges
Wim Wenders
Erich von Stroheim
Douglas Sirk
Claude Lanzmann
Chantal Akerman
Jean-Pierre Melville
Gillo Pontecorvo
Elia Kazan
Jacques Rivette
William Wyler (!!!!!)
Jean Eustache
Claire Denis
Robert Flaherty
King Vidor
Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
Jean Cocteau
Glauber Rocha
Abel Gance
Fei Mu
Jane Campion
Michael Cimino
Andrzej Wajda
Raoul Walsh
Mike Leigh
Frederick Wiseman
Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack (the directors of King Kong, apparently)
Maurice Pialat
Ousmame Sembene
Robert Wise
Louis Malle
G.W. Pabst
King Hu
Humphrey Jennings
Jia Zhangke
Djibril Drop Mambéty
George Stevens
Jean Rouch
Shohei Imamura
Joseph Losey
Peter Watkins
Bob Fosse
John Woo
Peter Bogdanovich
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Lindsay Anderson
Leni Riefenstahl
Frank Borzage
Ken Russell
Charles Burnett
Albert Maysles, David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin
Oliver Stone
John Schlesinger
Guru Dutt
Mel Brooks
Peter Greenaway
Jonas Mekas
Pedro Costa
D.A. Pennebaker
Louis Feuillade
Jonathan Demme
Francesco Rosi
John Hughes
John Frankenheimer
Bob Rafelson
Jerry Lewis
Alan J. Pakula
Philip Kaufman
Rouben Mamoulian

Adding Baz Luhrmann, Olivier Assayas, Leo Carax, François Ozon, Jacques Feyder, Bertrand Bonnello, Nanni Moretti, Paolo Sorrentino, Sergio Corbucci, Mario Monicelli, Franco Zeffirelli, Mario Bava, Lucio Fulci, Gabriele Salvatores, Gianni Amelio, Xavier Dolan, Denis Villenueve, Naomi Kawase, Yoshihige Yoshida, Kaneto Shindo, Sion Sono, Seijun Suzuki, Juzo Itami, Heinosuke Gosho, Hong Sang-soo, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlöndorf, Raúl Ruiz, Dennis Hopper, Barbet Schroeder, Michael Bay (for some reason I have always avoided him. Not sure if it's a good or bad decision), Cecil B. DeMille, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Lisandro Alonso; Andrzej Zulawski, István Szabó, Zoltán Fábri, Rithy Panh, Andrei Konchalovsky, Amos Gitai, Tran Anh Hung, Karel Kachyna, Otakar Vávra...
by karamazov.
Mon Jun 16, 2014 8:54 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Notable missing directors
Replies: 51
Views: 77196

re: Notable missing directors

Spoiler!
Some currently outstanding holes that come to mind:

Aki Kaurismäki.*
Aleksandr Sokurov.
Andrzej Zulawski.
Bernardo Bertolucci.
Bertrand Bonello.*
Catherine Breillat.*
Cecil B. DeMille.
Chantal Akerman.*
Charles Burnett.*
Charlie Kaufman.*
Claire Denis.*
the Dardennes.*
Dario Argento.*
Edward Yang.*
Emir Kusturica.
Eric Rohmer.*
Erich von Stroheim.
Ernst Lubitsch.*
Georg Wilhelm Pabst.
Haile Gerima.
Harold Lloyd.
Herschell Gordon Lewis.*
Hollis Frampton.*
Jacques Demy.*
Jacques Rivette.*
Jacques Tati.
James Benning.
James Cameron.
James Gray.*
Jan Švankmajer.*
Jean Cocteau.
Jean Epstein.
Jean-Pierre Gorin.
Jean-Pierre Melville.
Jean Vigo.
Jesús Franco.*
Jia Zhangke.*
Jonas Mekas.*
John Woo.*
Joris Ivens.*
Josef von Sternberg.*
Jules Dassin.*
Julie Dash.
Kelly Reichardt.*
Kenji Mizoguchi.*
Kim Ki-duk.
Kôji Wakamatsu.*
Krzysztof Kieslowski [seen a few items from "Dekalog"].
Leos Carax.*
Leslie Thornton.*
Lina Wertmüller.*
Lucio Fulci.
Lucrecia Martel.
Lynne Ramsay.*
Manoel de Oliveira.*
Marguerite Duras.
Mark Rappaport.*
Masaki Kobayashi.
Maya Deren.*
Michael Cimino [seen long excerpts].
Michael Haneke.*
Michael Mann.*
Michelangelo Antonioni.
Mike Leigh.*
Mikio Naruse.
Nagisa Oshima.*
Nicolas Roeg.*
Noribumi Suzuki.
Pedro Almodóvar [seen long excerpts].
Pedro Costa.
Radley Metzger.*
Sam Fuller.
Sergei Parajanov.*
Sidney Lumet.
Spike Lee.*
Stan Brakhage.*
Tinto Brass.*
Todd Haynes.*
Tsai Ming-liang.
Walerian Borowczyk.*


Not looking forward to all equally.

{edit: adding an * as I cross off items on the list, in lieu of a strikethrough].
[edit: the filmmaker I'm most interested in seeing whose first feature was after I made this list, is Bi Gan].