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by MacSwell
Thu Jan 05, 2017 3:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Notable missing directors
Replies: 51
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Re: Notable missing directors

Am going to try to watch at least one film by each of these directors:

/ John Cassavetes
/ George A. Romero
/ Michael Cimino
Dennis Hopper
Darren Aronofsky
/ Ralph Bakshi
/ Hal Hartley
/ John Sayles
/ Harmony Korine
/ Whit Stillman
/ Monte Hellman
Andy Warhol
Robert Downey Sr.
/ William Dieterle
/ Edward Dmytryk
/ Nicholas Ray
/ Mike Leigh
/ Ken Loach
/ Joseph Losey
Tony Richardson
/ Lindsay Anderson
/ Bernardo Bertolucci
/ Pier Paolo Pasolini
Luchino Visconti
Roberto Rossellini
Michelangelo Antonioni
Lucio Fulci
/ Mario Bava
/ Sergio Sollima
/ Yasujiro Ozu
/ Takashi Miike
/ Seijun Suzuki
Sion Sono
Mikio Naruse
Johnnie To
/ Wong Kar-Wai
/ Cheh Chang
/ Yuen Woo Ping
/ Jean Renoir
/ Jean Cocteau
/ Jacques Demy
/ Jacques Becker
/ René Clair
/ Eric Rohmer
/ Henri-Georges Clouzot
/ Alain Resnais
/ Leos Carax
/ Agnes Varda
/ Louis Malle
/ Marcel Carné
Gaspar Noé
Xavier Dolan
/ Denis Villeneuve
Guy Maddin
G.W. Pabst
Erich von Stroheim
/ Josef von Sternberg
/ Rainer Werner Fassbinder
/ Max Ophuls
/ Jan Svankmajer
/ Satyajit Ray
/ Lars von Trier
Abbas Kiarostami
/ Costa-Gavras
/ Michael Haneke
/ Andrzej Wajda
/ Pedro Almodovar
/ Victor Sjostrom
/ Ousmane Sembene
/ Djibril Diop Mambety
Jesus Franco
Russ Meyer :D
by ShogunRua
Mon Jun 16, 2014 3:22 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Notable missing directors
Replies: 51
Views: 77193

Re: Notable missing directors

ShogunRua wrote:Off the top of my head, I have not ranked anything significant directed by

Lucio Fulci
Mario Bava
Yasujiro Ozu
Federico Fellini (ugh...)
Billy Wilder (segment of "Casino Royale" doesn't count)
Francois Truffaut
Sam Peckinpah (I have watched part of "Convoy", but I don't think that really counts)
Cecil B. DeMille (don't feel too bad about this one)
Carl Theodore Dreyer (since he was the initial inspiration for my favorite director, Sidney Lumet)
John Ford
John Huston (segment of "Casino Royale" doesn't count)
Bernardo Bertolucci
Abel Ferrera
John Cassavetes


Well, it's been almost 4 years!

I have now seen

Billy Wilder (3 movies, ranging from very good to high masterpiece. Added to my list of Favorite Directors already)

Fellini (2 movies, both all-time great. One more outstanding one and he gets added to the list of Favorite Directors)

John Ford (2 movies, both horrible. Haven't seen his Westerns yet, but not impressed in the slightest so far)

Abel Ferrera (2 movies, one good, China Girl, and one poor, Bad Lieutenant)

The others remain unwatched, and there are some news to add to the list of those I haven't seen, so it's now

Lucio Fulci
Mario Bava
Yasujiro Ozu
Francois Truffaut
Sam Peckinpah (I have watched part of "Convoy", but I don't think that really counts)
Cecil B. DeMille (don't feel too bad about this one)
Carl Theodore Dreyer (since he was the initial inspiration for my favorite director, Sidney Lumet)
John Huston (segment of "Casino Royale" doesn't count)
Bernardo Bertolucci
John Cassavetes
Elia Kazan
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alfonso Cuarón
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Andrei Tarkovsky
Ernst Lubitsch
Jean Renoir
by Anomaly
Sat Nov 26, 2011 8:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Notable missing directors
Replies: 51
Views: 77193

Re: Notable missing directors

Great idea for a thread, and relevant. In the last month I watched my first Weerasethakul, Ford, Renoir, and Kusturica, and before that knocked off Wyler, Kazan, Argento, and Carpenter. Despite that, as I looked through TSPDT's best directors lists, I realized it would probably be easier to list which directors I have seen rather than haven't, so here's a list of the filmmakers I haven't seen that I'm most looking forward to watching, which should still tell you about my interests:

Howard Hawks
Yasujiro Ozu
Robert Bresson
David Lean
Roberto Rossellini
John Huston
Satyajit Ray
Robert Altman
Bernardo Bertolucci
John Cassavetes
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Chantal Akerman
Hayao Miyazaki
Agnès Varda
Todd Haynes
Alexander Payne
Powell & Pressburger
Aki Kaurismäki
Kon Ichikawa
Ming-liang Tsai
Anh Hung Tran
Atom Egoyan
by edkrak
Sat Nov 12, 2011 6:56 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Notable missing directors
Replies: 51
Views: 77193

Re: Notable missing directors

So, how your lists look today after ~1year?
I still have 32 left on the list:
Rivette, Imamura, Hideo Gosha, Jancsó, Tarr, Cavani, Malle, Russ Meyer, Cocteau, Corman, Jean Renoir, Hawks, Tati, Powell & Pressburger, Lina Wertmüller, Tony Richardson, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Schlesinger, Ray, Rossellini, Ophuls, Lubitsch, Naruse, Bogdanovich, Mankiewicz, Kazan, Walsh, Otto Preminger, Carne, Buster Keaton, Victor Sjöström, Eisenstein

I wasn't really focusing on clearing this list so only 13 directors got crossed from mine:
T10
1. Welles - Citizen Kane (95)
2. Blier - Calmos (90)
Altman - 3 Women (90)
T9
4.Kaneto Shindo - Onibaba (85)
T8
5. Malick - Tree of Life (80)
David Gordon Green - Pineapple Express (80)
7. Chabrol - Alice ou la dernière fugue (75)
Kihachi Okamoto - The Sword of Doom (75)
T7
9. Cassavetes - Woman Under the Influence (70)
Ichikawa - Burmese Harp (70)
T6
11. Lindsay Anderson - If.... (65)
T4
12. Seijun Suzuki - Tokyo Drifter (55)
T2
13. John Ford - The Searchers (25)

Generally I'm satisfied with my choices - 13 films and 10 at least good, 2 little dissapointments and 1 really shitty. I guess I should focus more on completing my list.
by prowler
Tue Oct 26, 2010 8:20 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Notable missing directors
Replies: 51
Views: 77193

Re: Notable missing directors

a bit disappointed to see my two favourites, dreyer and cassavetes, in so many lists.

then again i have plenty of omissions as well, most notably:

ozu, s. ray (may fix that tomorrow actually), peckinpah, john ford, sirk, bogdanovich, bela tarr and more. i won't even mention the more obscure ones, such as all of FFD's list :)
by ShogunRua
Tue Oct 26, 2010 7:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Notable missing directors
Replies: 51
Views: 77193

Re: Notable missing directors

Off the top of my head, I have not ranked anything significant directed by

Lucio Fulci
Mario Bava
Yasujiro Ozu
Federico Fellini (ugh...)
Billy Wilder (segment of "Casino Royale" doesn't count)
Francois Truffaut
Sam Peckinpah (I have watched part of "Convoy", but I don't think that really counts)
Cecil B. DeMille (don't feel too bad about this one)
Carl Theodore Dreyer (since he was the initial inspiration for my favorite director, Sidney Lumet)
John Ford
John Huston (segment of "Casino Royale" doesn't count)
Bernardo Bertolucci
Abel Ferrera
John Cassavetes
by edkrak
Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:38 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Notable missing directors
Replies: 51
Views: 77193

Re: Notable missing directors

Just a few days ago I made similar list for myself and now I'm trying to watch at least 1 film by every one of them:
Welles (done: Citizen Kane)
Chabrol (done: Alice ou la dernière fugue + more DVDs on the way)
Altman
Rivette
Seijun Suzuki
Ichikawa
Cassavetes
Malick
Imamura
Okamoto
Hideo Gosha
Kaneto Shindô
Jancsó
Tarr
Blier
Cavani
Malle
Cocteau
Corman
Jean Renoir
Hawks
John Ford
Tati
Powell & Pressburger
Ray
Rossellini
Ophuls
Lubitsch
Naruse
Bogdanovich
Mankiewicz
Kazan
Walsh
Carne
Buster Keaton

djross wrote:Gillian Armstrong

Who's that? Never heard of her and PSIs are not very impressive.

PeaceAnarchy wrote:Lina Wertmüller
Kiyoshi Kurosawa

paulofilmo wrote:David Gordon Green

astrakhan wrote:Lindsay Anderson
Tony Richardson

Forgot about them, have to add to my list.
by astrakhan
Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:28 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Notable missing directors
Replies: 51
Views: 77193

Re: Notable missing directors

I've been quite lucky/prolific in seeing one from almost all the big names, but there are still a lot outstanding:

(in order of priority)
Robert Bresson
John Cassavetes
Bela Tarr
Hou Hsiao Hsien
Chen Kaige
Lindsay Anderson
Tony Richardson
James Whale
Otto Preminger
Carl T. Dreyer
Joseph Losey
Alejandro Jodorowsky
André Techiné
Marcel Carné
Brothers Quay
Christoffer Boe
Lina Wertmüller
Max Ophuls
Josef von Sternberg
Glauber Rocha
Laurence Olivier
Bille August
Lodge Kerrigan
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Chantal Akerman
Derek Jarman

PS: if anybody hasn't seen a Rolf de Heer they need to add him to their list, stat!
by PeaceAnarchy
Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:16 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Notable missing directors
Replies: 51
Views: 77193

Re: Notable missing directors

djross wrote:John Cassavetes
Sergio Leone
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Victor Sjöström
Béla Tarr
Josef von Sternberg
Yimou Zhang

You need to fix this.

My incomplete list:

Olivier Assayas
Catherine Breillat
Gillian Armstrong
Alexander Kluge
Lina Wertmüller
Ettore Scola
Jacques Feyder
Claude Autant-Lara
Pedro Costa
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Manoel de Oliveira
Masahiro Shinoda
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Hideo Gosha
Jerzy Skolimowski
Aleksandr Sokurov

Prolific golden era studio men:
Allan Dwan
Clarence Brown
Alfred E. Green
Norman Taurog
Jean Negulesco
André De Toth
Archie Mayo
Richard Quine
Herbert Ross
Walter Lang
John Cromwell

B-movie titans:
Cheh Chang
Lucio Fulci
Jesus Franco
Roger Corman
Tinto Brass
by theficionado
Mon Oct 25, 2010 9:50 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Notable missing directors
Replies: 51
Views: 77193

Re: Notable missing directors

Off the top of my head, I've never seen any Antonioni, Ozu, Renoir, Kiarostami, Rohmer, Ophuls, Kusturica, Dreyer, Fuller, Chaplin, Keaton, Argento, John Ford, Tarvoksky, Mizoguchi, Teshigahara, Powell (or Powell/Pressburger), Bela Tarr, or Cassavetes.

But I love me some Kim Ki-duk and Weerasethakul.