Search found 5 matches: Ming-liang Tsai

Minimum 5:
Béla Tarr 96.00 (5 films)
Andrei Tarkovsky 93.57 (7 films)
Akira Kurosawa 91.88 (8 films)
Michelangelo Antonioni 90.00 (6 films)
Ming-liang Tsai 88.33 (6 films)

Minimum 9:
Ingmar Bergman 87.67 (15 films)
Kenji Mizoguchi 85.00 (12 films)
Hirokazu Koreeda 82.22 (9 films)
Claire Denis 81.25 (12 films)
Werner Herzog 80.77 (13 films)

Update, more than two years on. My previous five:

Icarus wrote:1. Robert Bresson - 96.44 (9)
2. Tsai Ming-liang - 88.63 (8)
3. P.T. Anderson - 88 (5)
4. Orson Welles - 87.4 (5)
5. Charles Chaplin - 86.1 (10)

My new top five:

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne - 96.4 (5)
Robert Bresson - 95.4 (10)
Yasujiro Ozu - 95 (5)
Roberto Rossellini - 92.8 (5)
Ernst Lubitsch - 91.6 (5)

. . . plus other favorites. Both Chaplin and Ford are personal favorites, but with the number of films of theirs I've seen, the scores come down.

Jafar Panahi - 89.4 (5)
Orson Welles - 89.33 (9)
P.T. Anderson - 89 (5)
Hayao Miyazaki - 88 (9)
Kryzsztof Kieslowski - 87.72 (18)
Jia Zhang Ke - 87 (6)
Abbas Kiarostami - 86.57 (7)
Stanley Kubrick - 86.17 (12)
Andrei Tarkovsky - 85.5 (8)
Wes Anderson - 84.43 (7)
F. W. Murnau - 84.4 (5)
Tsai Ming-liang - 84.33 (9)
Richard Linklater - 84.27 (11)
Carl Theodor Dreyer - 84.22 (9)
Ingmar Bergman - 83.59 (17)
Mohsen Makhmalbaf - 82.4 (5)
John Ford - 82.18 (67)
Akira Kurosawa - 79.57 (30)
Charles Chaplin - 65.98 (42)

And bringing up the rear, for directors I've seen at least five of their films:

Tony Scott 48.75 (8)
Oliver Stone 46 (5)

FitFortDanga wrote:Well, I didn't look up EVERY director, but the most likely candidates, and came up with:

1. Anh-Hung Tran - 94.67 (3 films)
2. Ming-Liang Tsai - 92.56 (9 films)
3. Emir Kusturica - 88.43 (7 films)
4. Kenji Mizoguchi - 86.5 (6 films)
5. Francois Truffaut - 86.22 (9 films)

While these are all among my favorite directors, the ones I'm REALLY fanatical about (Bergman, Herzog, Hitchcock, Bunuel, Satyajit Ray, Kurosawa) have lower scores. This is because they have large bodies of work and I've tried to see as much of it as I can... including their failures. Tran, Tsai, and Kusturica haven't done a whole lot. And Mizoguchi and Truffaut each have a LOT of films I haven't seen yet.

It's been over 2 years, decided to update mine. Setting a minumum of 5 films (except in Malick's case, where he only has 4).

Terrence Malick - 87.5 (4)
Masaki Kobayashi - 86.0 (6)
Ming-liang Tsai - 85.3 (10)
Peter Jackson - 84.6 (5)
David Lean - 84.5 (8)

This is pretty surprising. Kobayashi would probably go down if I were to rewatch/re-rate the Human Condition movies, and/or saw more of his work. Peter Jackson is based almost entirely on LOTR and Heavenly Creatures, I've stayed away from his early gross-out stuff (saw a few minutes of Meet the Feebles and hated it). David Lean got a big boost because I really liked Doctor Zhivago, but I'm still shocked to see up him there. Anh Hung Tran got knocked way down for the abysmal I Come With the Rain, and a couple of so-so shorts I managed to see.

If I were forced to choose my 10 favorite directors, they would be:

Ming-liang Tsai - 85.3 (10)
Kenji Mizoguchi - 83.06 (16)
Akira Kurosawa - 81.42 (26)
Francois Truffaut - 81.09 (22)
Satyajit Ray - 80.11 (35)
Ingmar Bergman - 75.43 (49)
Luis Bunuel - 75.34 (29)
Woody Allen - 74.76 (37)
Alfred Hitchcock - 74.64 (36)
Werner Herzog - 73.35 (37)

This was an interesting test. I would consider the results a good barometer of the films I like today, though those excluded from my list reminded me that I need to revisit some Dreyer (81.11) and Tarkovsky (83.75), two filmmakers I like a great deal. I also need to see more later Ford (79.15). I suspect all those numbers will rise. I also decided to only include directors when I'd seen at least five of their films. Otherwise, I would also have Wong (88), Ozu (88.33), and Satyajit Ray (96.67). My top five:

1. Robert Bresson - 96.44 (9)
2. Tsai Ming-liang - 88.63 (8)
3. P.T. Anderson - 88 (5)
4. Orson Welles - 87.4 (5)
5. Charles Chaplin - 86.1 (10)

Well, I didn't look up EVERY director, but the most likely candidates, and came up with:

1. Anh-Hung Tran - 94.67 (3 films)
2. Ming-Liang Tsai - 92.56 (9 films)
3. Emir Kusturica - 88.43 (7 films)
4. Kenji Mizoguchi - 86.5 (6 films)
5. Francois Truffaut - 86.22 (9 films)

While these are all among my favorite directors, the ones I'm REALLY fanatical about (Bergman, Herzog, Hitchcock, Bunuel, Satyajit Ray, Kurosawa) have lower scores. This is because they have large bodies of work and I've tried to see as much of it as I can... including their failures. Tran, Tsai, and Kusturica haven't done a whole lot. And Mizoguchi and Truffaut each have a LOT of films I haven't seen yet.

Here are my scores for the ones AFlickering posted:

Andrei Tarkovsky 73.57 (7 films)
Wong Kar-Wai 75.86 (7 films)
Satoshi Kon 53 (1 film)
Akira Kurosawa 81.92 (26 films)
Milos Forman 79.14 (7 films)