Search found 5 matches: Richard Linklater

Updated top ten. Five film minimum

Michael Powell (13) – 8.46
Andrei Tarkovsky (5) – 8.40
Emeric Pressburger (9) – 8.33
Preston Sturges (6) – 8.33
Akira Kurosawa (10) – 8.10
Yasujiro Ozu (11) – 8.09
Elia Kazan (6) – 8.00
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne (5) – 8.00
Buster Keaton (6) – 7.83
Sam Wood (5) – 7.80

…and a top ten for living filmmakers.

Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne (5) – 8.00
Richard Linklater (8) – 7.63
Hirokazu Koreeda (7) – 7.57
Ang Lee (9) – 7.56
Peter Bogdanovich (5) – 7.40
Yimou Zhang (6) – 7.33
Mike Leigh (10) – 7.30
Pedro Almodovar (8) – 7.13
Hayao Miyazaki (11) – 7.00
Hsiao-hsien Hou (5) – 7.00

With a minimum of 5 films, we have:

1. Chantal Akerman - 81,80 - 10 films
2. Terry Gilliam - 81,60 - 10 films
3. Marco Ferreri - 81,40 - 5 films
4. Alfonso Cuarón - 81,20 - 5 films
5. Werner Herzog - 80,67 - 6 films
6. Richard Linklater - 80,50 - 6 films
7. Tomek Baginski - 80,20 - 5 films
7. Sam Mendes - 80,20 - 5 Films
9. Peter Weir - 80,00 - 5 films
10. Wim Wenders - 79,17 - 12 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)

My top 10 with 5+ ratings :

Ingmar Bergman 87.63 (9)
Orson Welles 83.5 (8)
Michael Powell 82.6 (5)
Luis Buñuel 82.56 (9)
Akira Kurosawa 80.87 (15)
Richard Linklater 80.13 (8)
Krzysztof Kieslowski 79.9 (10)
Joel Coen 78 (14)
Mamoru Oshii 78 (6)
Terry Gilliam 76.36 (11)

Possibly some are missing..

Jonathan Demme - 83 (2)
Ingmar Bergman - 79.5 (2)
Edward Zwick - 79 (2)
Richard Linklater - 77 (6)
Shane Meadows - 76.67 (3)

Although, I think I am more of a screenwriter type.


The funny thing is, one of my highest averages for anyone is Scottish actress Kelly Macdonald, with 81. That score may shoot up once I see No Country.