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ShogunRua wrote:

mattorama12 wrote:

ShogunRua wrote:Considering I have seen a respectable number of films, is it strange that there are only 4 directors, excluding cartoons, that I have seen 10 or more films by, and none more than 17? (Spielberg, Landis, Coppola, and Woo)

I think it makes sense given the way you describe your decision on whether to watch a movie or not. I could be wrong, but I seem to recall noting that you did not include the director as a factor in your decision.

Actually, the director is one of the main things I look for in a film. Maybe the main one.

Hmm, I wonder why I was thinking that then. Well, then, to answer your original question, 4 isn't that few. You've ranked a lot of animation, which you excluded, and a lot of shorts, which (I'm guessing) don't tend to be by feature filmmakers. After those exclusions, I think we have a similar number of rankings. For me, there are 10 directors on my list, and they are all big name Hollywood types (Kubrick, Tarantino, Hitchcock, Spielberg, Coen bros, Zemeckis, Kevin Smith, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott). Other than Zemeckis, Smith, and Tony Scott, the rest of the list are directors for whom I'll watch anything they've made.

Update:

Spike Lee 18
Steven Spielberg 13
Ridley Scott 11

Ron Howard 9
Michael Bay 8
Tim Burton 8
John Woo 8
Robert Zemeckis 8

Oliver Stone 6
Kevin Smith 6
Michael Moore 6
Sam Raimi 6
John Landis 6
Tony Scott 6
Coen Bros. 6
Michael Mann 6
Clint Eastwood 6

Spike Lee: 16
Steven Spielberg: 13
Ridley Scott: 12
Frank Oz: 10
Ron Howard: 8

Tim Burton: 7
Robert Zemeckis: 7

Michael Bay: 6
Dennis Dugan: 6
John Woo: 6
Kevin Smith: 6
John Landis: 6
Michael Mann: 6
Steven Soderbergh: 6
Michael Moore: 6

Werner Herzog - 47 (8 shorts, 1 miniseries) - 4.70 / 7.30
Takashi Miike - 47 (1 short, 1 miniseries) - 3.06 / 3.94
Woody Allen - 44 (1 short) - 4.61 / 7.07
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 36 (2 shorts) - 4.50 / 6.86
Charles Chaplin - 36 (26 shorts) - 3.92 / 5.61
Ingmar Bergman - 35 - 5.09 / 7.83
Alfred Hitchcock - 35 - 4.66 / 7.09
Stan Brakhage - 30 - 3.30 / 4.47
Akira Kurosawa - 29 - 4.31 / 6.38
Yasujiro Ozu - 29 - 4.28
Steven Soderbergh - 26 - 4.08 / 5.7
Eric Rohmer - 25 (6 shorts) - 5.10 / 8.10 (including his short work, it drops to a low of 4.76)
Martin Scorsese - 24. (2 shorts) - 5.00 / 7.5
Fritz Lang - 24 - 3.79 / 5.21
Robert Altman - 23 - 4.39 / 6.70
John Huston - 23 - 4.30 / 6.48
Mike Leigh - 22 (2 shorts) - 4.41 / 6.64
Jean-Luc Godard - 22 (4 shorts) - 4.23 / 6.32
Claude Chabrol - 22 (1 short) - 4.14 / 6.05
Sidney Lumet - 21 - 4.90 / 7.67
Steven Spielberg - 21 - 4.10 / 5.95
John Ford - 21 - 3.90 / 5.57
Federico Fellini - 20 (2 shorts) - 4.70 / 7.45
Louis Malle - 20 (1 short) - 4.35 / 6.55
Anthony Mann - 20 - 5.8
Luis Buñuel - 19 - 4.63 / 7.21
Jean Painlevé - 19 - 4.21 / 6.16
Sion Sono - 19 - 4.8
Lars von Trier - 18 - 4.44 / 6.78
Nagisa Ôshima - 18 - 3.78 / 5.61
Mikio Naruse - 18 - 5.4
Alain Resnais - 17 - 4.47 / 6.94
Georges Méliès - 17 - 6.0
Masahiro Shinoda - 17 - 4.06 / 6.06
Seijun Suzuki - 17 - 5.4
Roman Polanski - 16 - 4.88 / 7.56
Jean Renoir - 16 (2 shorts) - 4.44 / 6.88
Shohei Imamura - 16 - 4.38 / 6.75
Samuel Fuller - 16 - 4.31 / 6.69
Brian De Palma - 16 - 5.7
Takeshi Kitano - 16 - 3.88 / 5.31
Terence Fisher - 16 - 3.69 / 4.94
Buster Keaton - 15 - 4.67 / 7.20
William Wyler - 15 - 4.53 / 6.93
Yimou Zhang - 15 - 4.47 / 6.80
Roberto Rossellini - 15 - 4.13 / 6.00
Coen brothers - 14 - 5.29 / 8.29
Ernst Lubitsch - 14 - 4.79 / 7.57
Michael Powell - 14 - 4.79 / 7.36
Luchino Visconti - 14 - 4.57 / 7.07
Satyajit Ray - 14 - 6.9
Terry Gilliam - 14 - 6.9
Tim Burton - 14 - 4.21 / 6.43
Howard Hawks - 14 - 4.14 / 6.29
David Cronenberg - 14 - 4.14 / 6.14
Clint Eastwood - 14 - 3.79 / 5.29
Kôji Wakamatsu - 14 - 3.36 / 4.29
George A. Romero - 14 - 3.07 / 4.14
David Lean - 13 - 4.84 /
David Lynch - 13 - 4.62 / 7.08 (4.80 /
Billy Wilder - 13 - 4.31 / 6.46
Francis Ford Coppola - 13 - 4.31 / 5.92
Otto Preminger - 13 - 4.23 / 6.23
Ki-duk Kim - 13 - 3.85 / 5.54
Ishirô Honda - 13 - 3.41 /
Kiyoshi Kurosawa - 13 - 4.7
Shuji Terayama - 13 - 3.38 / 4.54
Orson Welles - 12 - 5.08 /
Sam Peckinpah - 12 - 4.92 / 7.83
Ken Loach - 12 - 4.83 / 7.58
Guy Maddin - 12 - 4.33 / 6.50
Wim Wenders - 12 - 4.17 / 6.17
Robert Wise - 12 - 4.00 /
John Schlesinger - 12 - 3.83 / 5.58
Jan Svankmajer - 12 (10 shorts) - 3.83 / 5.50
James Ivory - 12 - 3.75 / 5.42
Ridley Scott - 12 - 5.1
Kevin Smith - 12 - 3.50 / 5.00
Cheh Chang - 12 - 3.41 /
Stanley Kubrick - 11 - 5.73 / 8.91
Michelangelo Antonioni - 11 - 5.45 / 8.73
Errol Morris - 12 (1 short, 2 miniseries) - 5.08
Robert Bresson - 10 - 4.91
Douglas Sirk - 11 - 4.91 / 7.73
Don Hertzfeldt - 11 - 4.72 /
Hayao Miyazaki - 11 - 4.55 / 7.00
Michael Haneke - 11 - 4.45 / 6.73
Kar Wai Wong - 11 - 4.36 / 6.64
François Truffaut - 11 - 4.36 / 6.55
William Friedkin - 11 - 4.36 / 6.36
Volker Schlöndorff - 10 - 4.27
Hark Tsui - 11 - 3.91 / 5.64
Josef von Sternberg - 11 - 5.5
Kon Ichikawa - 11 - 3.91 / 5.55
Edward Dmytryk - 11 - 3.64 / 5.27
Jacques Rivette - 11 - 51.1
Vincente Minnelli - 11 - 5.1
Quay Brothers - 11 (10 shorts) - 3.55 / 4.73
Johnnie To - 11 - 3.18 / 4.36
Tobe Hooper - 11 - 3.00 / 4.09
Abbas Kiarostami - 10 - 4.90 / 7.80
Peter Weir - 10 - 4.70 / 7.30
Ken Russell - 10 - 4.60 / 7.20
Pier Paolo Pasolini - 10 - 4.60 / 7.10
Jean-Pierre Melville - 10 - 4.40 / 6.30
Robert Aldrich - 10 - 4.30 / 6.60
Kinji Fukasaku - 10 - 4.20 / 6.30
Abel Ferrara - 10 - 4.00 / 6.10
Oliver Stone - 10 - 4.00 / 6.00
Budd Boetticher - 10 - 4.00 / 5.80
Don Siegel - 10 - 4.00 / 5.70
Vincent Minnelli - 10 - 4.00 / 5.70
Sam Raimi - 10 - 4.00 / 5.60
Nicholas Ray - 10 - 3.90 /
Mario Bava - 10 - 3.90 / 5.80
Dario Argentina - 10 - 5.3
Hideo Gosha - 10 - 4.7

Pedro Almodóvar, Bernardo Bertolucci, Peter Bogdanovich, Catherine Breillat, John Cassavetes, Jules Dassin, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Dennis Dugan, David Fincher, Peter Greenaway, Hsiao-hsien Hou, Ron Howard, Takashi Ishii, Zhang ke Jia, Hirokazu Koreeda, Chia-Liang Liu, David Mamet, Kenji Mizoguchi, F.W. Murnau, John Sayles, Barbet Schroeder, Quentin Tarantino, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Ming-liang Tsai, & Paul Verhoeven are close to the grade.

Woody Allen - 19
Quentin Tarantino - 12
George Lucas - 11
Paul Thomas Anderson - 10 (all)
Richard Linklater - 10
Martin Scorsese - 10
David Lynch - 9
Terry Gilliam - 8
Alfred Hitchcock - 8
Stanley Kubrick - 8
Sam Raimi - 8
Kevin Smith - 8 (all, embarassing)
Wes Anderson - 7 (all)
Gus Van Sant - 6
Robert Zemeckis - 6

Woody Allen - 31 (23 rated)
Alfred Hitchcock - 20 (17 rated)
Ingmar Bergman - 17
Akira Kurosawa - 15
Yasujiro Ozu - 12 (11 rated)
Louis Malle - 12 (11 rated)
Charles Chaplin - 10


Not too surprising, love these guys.

[Dreyer, Kubrick, Scorsese, Kevin Smith, & Anthony Mann being the one's coming up soon]