Search found 11 matches: Robert Bresson

January 2024 ratings at 5447 films rated. (^ signifies a director new to that division)

15+ films seen:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film
1 Federico Fellini - 80.4 (15) - La Strada
2 Satyajit Ray - 77.2 (15) - Charulata
3 Mario Monicelli - 75.6 (16) - Big Deal on Madonna Street
4 Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 74.5 (24) - In a Year of 13 Moons
5 Ingmar Bergman - 72.9 (24) - Autumn Sonata
6 Dino Risi - 72.1 (15) - A Difficult Life
7 Costa-Gavras - 71.9 (15) - Z ^
8 Frederick Wiseman - 71.3 (16) - Near Death
9 Werner Herzog - 71.0 (41) - Stroszek
10 Claude Chabrol - 70.9 (24) - The Girl Cut in Two
11 Douglas Sirk - 70.5 (15) - Interlude ^
12 Terry Gilliam - 70.4 (18) - Brazil
13 Aki Kaurismäki - 70.1 (16) - Drifting Clouds / The Man Without a Past
14 Ken Loach - 69.7 (16) - Kes
15 Woody Allen - 68.4 (33) - Annie Hall
16 Sidney Lumet - 66.3 (26) - 12 Angry Men
17 Martin Scorsese - 66.2 (24) - Raging Bull
18 Robert Altman - 65.1 (15) - 3 Women ^
19 Chia-Liang Liu - 64.7 (16) - The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter
20 Abbas Kiarostami - 64.2 (16) - Close-Up / A Taste of Cherry
Next spots: Polanski, Hitchcock, de Palma, Burton, Cronenberg, Lynch

10-14 films seen:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film
1 Maurice Pialat - 82.2 (10) - To Our Loves
2 Michelangelo Antonioni - 76.9 (11) - The Night
3 Antonio Pietrangeli - 76.7 (10) - The Visitor
4 Luchino Visconti - 76.6 (11) - Bellissima
5 Emir Kusturica - 76.1 (12) - Time of the Gypsies
6 Carl Theodor Dreyer - 76.1 (13) - Gertrude
7 John Cassavetes - 74.4 (10) - A Woman Under the Influence
8 Errol Morris - 73.7 (12) - The Thin Blue Line
9 Sam Peckinpah - 73.9 (11) - Straw Dogs
10 Jean Renoir - 73.6 (10) - A Day in the Country
11 Louis Malle - 73.4 (11) - My Dinner with Andre
12 Jafar Panahi - 72.3 (10) - Crimson Gold / Offside ^
13 Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne - 72.2 (10) - Two Days, One Night ^
14 Alan Clarke - 71.9 (10) - Rita, Sue and Bob Too
15 Ernst Lubitsch - 70.8 (12) - Design for Living
16 David Lean - 70.3 (11) - Hobson's Choice
17 Ettore Scola - 69.8 (10) - The Dinner
18 Charles Chaplin - 69.3 (12) - Modern Times / The Gold Rush
19 Peter Weir - 67.3 (12) - Gallipoli
20 Martin Ritt - 66.9 (10) - The Front ^
Next Spots: Masumura, Powell, Bresson, Friedkin, Zhang, Waters, Miyazaki, Wyler, Van Sant, Swanberg, Ferrara...

5-9 films seen:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film
1 Asghar Farhadi - 85.4 (8) - About Elly
2 Radu Jude - 84.3 (8) - Scarred Hearts
3 Jacques Rozier - 84.1 (7) - Near Orouet
4 Jan Troell - 80.7 (9) - The Emigrants
5 Nuri Bilge Ceylan - 79.8 (9) - Climates
6 Lynne Ramsay - 79.4 (8) - Morvern Callar
7 Matteo Garrone - 78.8 (5) - Io Capitano ^
8 Sergei Parajanov - 78.2 (6) - Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
9 Allan King - 78.0 (5) - A Married Couple
10 Andrei Zvyagintsev - 77.8 (6) - Elena
11= Ermanno Olmi - 76.6 (7) - The Tree of Wooden Clogs
11= Cristian Mungiu - 76.6 (7) - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
13 Lina Wertmuller - 76.3 (7) - Swept Away
14 Miklos Jancso - 75.3 (6) - The Red and the White
15= Catherine Breillat - 74.8 (6) - 36 fillette
15= Peter Yates - 74.8 (6) - John and Mary
15= Rithy Panh - 74.8 (6) - The Missing Picture
18 Terry Jones - 74.8 (5) - Life of Brian
19 Jacques Audiard - 74.5 (6) - A Prophet
20 Josh & Benny Safdie - 74.4 (5) - Good Time / Uncut Gems ^
Next Spots: Ophüls, Rosi, Widerberg, Clouzot, Mazursky, Asquith, Has, Kishon, Forman, Leone, Korine...

Minimum 5

1 - Federico Fellini - 76.8
1/2 - Billy Wilder - 76.8
3 - Robert Bresson - 76.3
4 - Akira Kurosawa - 75.6
5 - John Ford - 75.3

Minimum 10

1 - Akira Kurosawa - 75.6
2 - Stanley Kubrick - 74.2
2/3 - Alfred Hitchcock - 74.2
4 - Satyajit Ray - 73.9
5 - Werner Herzog - 73.7

Minimum 15

1 - Akira Kurosawa - 75.6
2 - Ken Russell - 70.2
3 - Martin Scorsese - 69.2
4 - David Lynch - 68.8
5 - David Cronenberg - 68.4

January 2020 rankings:

15+ films seen:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film
1 Federico Fellini - 79.80 (15) - La Strada
2 Satyajit Ray - 77.20 (15) - Charulata
3 Mario Monicelli - 75.63 (16) - Big Deal on Madonna Street
4 Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 74.46 (24) - In a Year of 13 Moons
5 Ingmar Bergman - 72.92 (24) - Autumn Sonata
6 Dino Risi - 72.13 (15) - A Difficult Life
7 Frederick Wiseman - 71.31 (16) - Near Death
8 Werner Herzog - 71.05 (40) - Stroszek
9 Claude Chabrol - 70.71 (21) - The Girl Cut in Two
10 Terry Gilliam - 70.44 (18) - Brazil
11 Aki Kaurismäki - 70.06 (16) - Drifting Clouds / The Man Without a Past
12 Ken Loach - 69.20 (15) - Kes
13 Woody Allen - 68.42 (33) - Annie Hall
14 Sidney Lumet - 67.42 (24) - 12 Angry Men
15 Abbas Kiarostami - 65.60 (15) - Close-Up / A Taste of Cherry
16 Martin Scorsese - 64.70 (23) - Raging Bull
17 Chia-Liang Liu - 64.69 (16) - The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter
18 Roman Polanski - 64.05 (20) - Chinatown
19 Alfred Hitchcock - 60.95 (20) - Rear Window
20 Tim Burton - 53.75 (20) - Beetlejuice

10-14 films seen:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film
1 Maurice Pialat - 82.00 (10) - To Our Loves
2 Michelangelo Antonioni - 76.91 (11) - The Night
3 Luchino Visconti - 76.64 (11) - Bellissima
4 Antonio Pietrangeli - 76.20 (10) - The Visitor
5 Carl Theodor Dreyer - 76.08 (13) - Gertrude
6 Emir Kusturica - 75.83 (12) - Time of the Gypsies
7 Errol Morris - 75.09 (11) - The Thin Blue Line
8 John Cassavetes - 74.40 (10) - A Woman Under the Influence
9 Douglas Sirk - 74.18 (11) - Interlude
10 Sam Peckinpah - 73.91 (11) - Straw Dogs
11 Jean Renoir - 73.60 (10) - A Day in the Country
12 Louis Malle - 73.18 (11) - My Dinner with Andre
13 Costa-Gavras - 72.57 (14) - Z
14 Ernst Lubitsch - 70.83 (12) - Design for Living
15 David Lean - 70.27 (11) - Hobson's Choice
16 Ettore Scola - 69.50 (10) - The Dinner
17 Charles Chaplin - 69.25 (12) - Modern Times / The Gold Rush
18 Peter Weir - 67.33 (12) - Gallipoli
19 Yasuzo Masumura - 66.60 (10) - A Lustful Man
20 Michael Powell - 66.50 (10) - The Red Shoes
Runners-up: Robert Bresson, Robert Altman, Zhang Yimou, John Waters, Hayao Miyazaki, Gus Van Sant

5-9 films seen:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film
1 Radu Jude - 87.67 (6) - Scarred Hearts
2 Asghar Farhadi - 86.43 (7) - About Elly
3 Jacques Rozier - 84.14 (7) - Near Orouet
4 Jan Troell - 83.67 (6) - The Emigrants
5 Nuri Bilge Ceylan - 80.00 (8) - Climates
6 Lynne Ramsay - 79.00 (8) - Morvern Callar
7 Sergei Parajanov - 78.17 (6) - Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
8 Allan King - 78.00 (5) - A Married Couple
9 Andrei Zvyagintsev - 77.83 (6) - Elena
=10 Lina Wertmuller - 76.29 (7) - Swept Away
=10 Ermanno Olmi - 76.29 (7) - The Tree of Wooden Clogs
12 Francesco Rosi - 75.83 (6) - Salvatore Giuliano
13 Cristian Mungiu - 75.50 (6) - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
14 Alan Clarke - 75.44 (9) - The Firm / Rita, Sue and Bob Too
15 Miklos Jancso - 75.00 (6) - The Red and the White
16 Catherine Breillat - 74.83 (6) - 36 fillette
17 Rithy Panh - 74.83 (6) - The Missing Picture
18 Terry Jones - 74.80 (5) - Life of Brian
19 Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne - 74.57 (7) - Two Days, One Night
20 Jacques Audiard - 74.50 (6) - A Prophet
Runners-up: Peter Yates, Max Ophüls, Martin Ritt, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Paul Mazursky, Anthony Asquith, Wojciech Has, David Mamet, Jafar Panahi, Ephraim Kishon, Milos Forman, Sergio Leone, Harmony Korine, Bo Widerberg, Pietro Germi, Barbet Schroeder, Andrew Bujalski, Kaneto Shindô, Ousman Sembene, Albert Brooks, Marcel Carné, Bertrand Tavernier, Luigi Comencini, Orson Welles...

2013 rankings:

[spoiler]10+ cutoff:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film

1 Mario Monicelli - 79.60 (10) - Big Deal on Madonna Street
2 Satyajit Ray - 78.83 (12) - Charulata
3 Carl Theodor Dreyer - 78.50 (12) - Gertrud
4 Luchino Visconti - 77.70 (10) – Bellissima
5 Michelangelo Antonioni - 77.50 (10) - The Night
6 Emir Kusturica - 77.45(11) - Time of the Gypsies
7 Federico Fellini – 77.30 (10) – La Strada
8 Sam Peckinpah - 76.80 (10) - Straw Dogs
9 Costa-Gavras - 76.20 (10) - Z
10 Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 75.20 (20) - In a Year of 13 Moons
11 Terry Gilliam - 75.20 (15) - Brazil
12 Claude Chabrol - 74.44 (16) - The Girl Cut in Two
13 Douglas Sirk - 74.18 (11) – Interlude
14 John Cassavetes - 73.70 (10) - A Woman under the Influence
15 Ingmar Bergman – 72.95 (19) – Autumn Sonata
16 Ernst Lubitsch – 72.80 (10) – (too many choices)
17 Werner Herzog – 71.97 (33) – Stroszek
18 Sidney Lumet - 71.79 (19) - 12 Angry Men
19 Charles Chaplin - 71.30 (10) - Modern Times
20 Aki Kaurismaki – 70.15 (13) – The Man Without a Past
Close: Woody Allen (24), Ken Loach (10), Peter Weir (11), Abbas Kiarostami (13), Martin Scorsese (17)

5-9 cutoff:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film

1 Jacques Rozier - 82.71 (7) - Adieu Philippine
2 Alan Clarke - 81.00 (6) - The Firm
3 Dino Risi - 79.33 (6) - A Hard Life
4 Lynne Ramsay - 79.20 (5) - Morvern Callar
5 Lina Wertmuller - 79.00 (6) - Swept Away
6 Ermanno Olmi - 77.67 (6) - The Tree of Wooden Clogs
7 Nuri Bilge Ceylan - 76.60 (5) - Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
8 Jean Renoir - 76.14 (7) - A Day in the Country
=9 Nicolas Roeg - 76.00 (6) - Don't Look Now
=9 Sergei Parajanov - 76.00 (6) - Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
11 Wojciech Has - 75.40 (5) - An Uninteresting Story
12 Volker Schlöndorff - 75.20 (5) - The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
13 Marcel Carné - 74.60 (5) - The Children of Paradise
14 Masaki Kobayashi - 74.14 (7) - Samurai Rebellion
15 Martin Ritt - 73.50 (6) - The Front
=16 Henri-Georges Clouzot - 73.20 (5) - The Mystery of Picasso
=16 Anthony Asquith - 73.20 (5) - The Browning Version
18 Peter Yates - 72.83 (6) - (too many choices)
19 Ephraim Kishon – 72.80 (5) – The Fox in the Chicken Coop
20 Max Ophüls - 72.20 (5) - La Plaisir
Close: Errol Morris (6), Shane Meadows (6), David Lean (8), Hal Ashby (5), Frederick Wiseman (5), Rob Reiner (6), Sergio Leone (7), Barbet Schroeder (6), Milos Forman (6), Orson Welles (6)[/spoiler]

2015 rankings:

[spoiler]10+ cutoff:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film

=1 Federico Fellini - 79.25 (12) - La Strada
=1 Satyajit Ray - 79.25 (12) - Charulata
3 Carl Theodor Dreyer - 78.67 (12) - Gertrud
4 Mario Monicelli - 78.00 (13) - Big Deal on Madonna Street
5 Emir Kusturica - 77.45(11) - Time of the Gypsies
6 Sam Peckinpah - 76.80 (10) - Straw Dogs
7 Michelangelo Antonioni - 76.64 (11) - The Night
8 Luchino Visconti - 76.36 (11) – Bellissima
9 Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 74.95 (21) - In a Year of 13 Moons
10 Terry Gilliam - 74.75 (16) - Brazil
11 Dino Risi - 74.45 (11) - A Difficult Life
12 Erroll Morris - 74.36 (11) -
13 Douglas Sirk - 74.18 (11) – Interlude
14 John Cassavetes - 73.90 (10) - A Woman under the Influence
15 Ingmar Bergman – 72.95 (19) – Autumn Sonata
16 Costa-Gavras - 72.25 (12) - Z
17 Charles Chaplin - 71.91 (11) - Modern Times
18 Sidney Lumet - 71.79 (19) - 12 Angry Men
19 Werner Herzog – 71.61 (36) – Stroszek
20 Ernst Lubitsch – 71.45 (11) – (too many choices)

Close: Claude Chabrol (19), Aki Kaurismaki (13), Woody Allen (27), David Lean (10), Ken Loach (10), Peter Weir (12), Abbas Kiarostami (15), Robert Bresson (10), Martin Scorsese (20), Robert Altman (10)

5-9 cutoff:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film

1 Asghar Farhadi - 86.40 (5) - About Elly
2 Jacques Rozier - 83.71 (7) - Adieu Philippine
3 Lynne Ramsay - 80.17 (6) - Morvern Callar
4 Antonio Pietrangeli - 78.60 (5) - Adua and Her Friends
5 Nuri Bilge Ceylan - 78.14 (7) - Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
6 Alan Clarke - 77.71 (7) - The Firm
7 Sergei Parajanov - 76.50 (6) - Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
=8 Lina Wertmuller - 76.29 (7) - Swept Away
=8 Volker Schlöndorff - 76.29 (7) - The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
10 Francesco Rosi - 75.83 (6) - (too many choices)
11 Wojciech Has - 75.40 (5) - An Uninteresting Story
12 Ermanno Olmi - 75.14 (7) - The Tree of Wooden Clogs
13 Cristian Mungiu - 75.00 (5) - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
14 Terry Jones - 74.80 (5) - Life of Brian
15 Jean Renoir - 74.56 (9) - A Day in the Country
16 Masaki Kobayashi - 74.43 (7) - Samurai Rebellion
17 Anthony Asquith - 74.33 (6) - The Browning Version
18 Vincente Minnelli - 74.20 (5) - The Clock
19 Jafar Panahi - 74.17 (6) - Crimson Gold / Offside
20 Max Ophüls - 74.00 (6) - La Plaisir

Close: Martin Ritt (7), Kaneto Shindo (5), Pietro Germi (5), Henri-Georges Clouzot (5), Peter Yates (6), Miklós Jancsó (6), Ephraim Kishon (5), Milos Forman (8), Marcel Carné (6), Louis Malle (7)[/spoiler]

2017 rankings:

15+ films seen:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film
1 Federico Fellini - 79.40 (15) - La Strada
2 Mario Monicelli - 76.27 (15) - Big Deal on Madonna Street
3 Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 75.09 (23) - In a Year of 13 Moons
4 Ingmar Bergman - 72.95 (21) - Autumn Sonata
5 Frederick Wiseman - 71.40 (15) - Near Death
6 Terry Gilliam - 71.06 (17) - Brazil
7 Werner Herzog - 70.88 (40) - Stroszek
8 Claude Chabrol - 70.40 (20) - The Girl Cut in Two
9 Aki Kaurismäki - 70.20 (15) - Drifting Clouds / The Man Without a Past
10 Sidney Lumet - 69.77 (22) - 12 Angry Men
11 Woody Allen - 68.87 (30) - Annie Hall
12 Abbas Kiarostami - 65.50 (15) - Close-Up / A Taste of Cherry
13 Martin Scorsese - 64.90 (21) - Raging Bull
14 Chia-Liang Liu - 64.69 (16) - The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter
15 Roman Polanski - 64.05 (20) - Chinatown

10-14 films seen:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film
1 Satyajit Ray - 79.50 (12) - Charulata
2 Emir Kusturica - 77.45 (11) - Time of the Gypsies
3 Sam Peckinpah - 77.00 (10) - Straw Dogs
4 Michelangelo Antonioni - 76.91 (11) - The Night
5 Luchino Visconti - 76.64 (11) - Bellissima
6 Carl Theodor Dreyer - 76.08 (13) - Gertrude
7 Errol Morris - 75.09 (11) - The Thin Blue Line
8 John Cassavetes - 74.20 (10) - A Woman Under the Influence
9 Douglas Sirk - 74.18 (11) - Interlude
10 Jean Renoir - 73.60 (10) - A Day in the Country
11 Louis Malle - 73.20 (10) - My Dinner with Andre
12 Costa-Gavras - 72.43 (14) - Z
13 Ernst Lubitsch - 72.00 (11) - Design for Living
14 Dino Risi - 71.93 (14) - A Difficult Life
15 David Lean - 70.27 (11) - Hobson's Choice
16 Ken Loach - 69.38 (13) - Kes
17 Charles Chaplin - 69.25 (12) - Modern Times / The Gold Rush
18 Ettore Scola - 69.00 (10) - The Dinner
19 Peter Weir - 67.33 (12) - Gallipoli
20 Yasuzo Masumura - 66.60 (10) - A Lustful Man
Close: Michael Powell, Robert Bresson, Robert Altman, Hayao Miyazaki, John Waters, Gus Van Sant

5-9 films seen:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film
1 Asghar Farhadi - 86.67 (6) - About Elly
2 Radu Jude - 85.80 (5) - Scarred Hearts
3 Jacques Rozier - 84.14 (7) - Near Orouet
4 Maurice Pialat - 83.38 (8) - To Our Loves
5 Nuri Bilge Ceylan - 79.29 (7) - Climates
6 Rithy Panh - 77.80 (5) - The Missing Picture
7 Lynne Ramsay - 77.71 (7) - Morvern Callar
8 Sergei Parajanov - 77.67 (6) - Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
9 Antonio Pietrangeli - 76.57 (7) - The Visitor
10 Lina Wertmuller - 76.29 (7) - Swept Away
11 Ermanno Olmi - 76.00 (7) - The Tree of Wooden Clogs
12 Francesco Rosi - 75.83 (6) - Salvatore Giuliano
13 Alan Clarke - 75.75 (8) - The Firm / Rita, Sue and Bob Too
14 Bertrand Tavernier - 75.40 (5) - The Bait
15 Cristian Mungiu - 75.00 (6) - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
16 Terry Jones - 74.80 (5) - Life of Brian
17 Jacques Audiard - 74.40 (5) - A Prophet
=18 Peter Yates - 74.33 (6) - John and Mary
=18 Max Ophüls - 74.33 (6) - Pleasure
20 Miklós Jancsó - 74.17 (6) - The Red and the White
Close: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Anthony Asquith, Martin Ritt, Wojciech Has, Luigi Comencini, Ephraim Kishon, Paul Mazursky, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Pietro Germi, Jafar Panahi, Masaki Kobayashi, Kaneto Shindo, Milos Forman, Albert Brooks, René Clément

Another two years have passed, so here's my update.

2013 rankings:

[spoiler]10+ cutoff:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film

1 Mario Monicelli - 79.60 (10) - Big Deal on Madonna Street
2 Satyajit Ray - 78.83 (12) - Charulata
3 Carl Theodor Dreyer - 78.50 (12) - Gertrud
4 Luchino Visconti - 77.70 (10) – Bellissima
5 Michelangelo Antonioni - 77.50 (10) - The Night
6 Emir Kusturica - 77.45(11) - Time of the Gypsies
7 Federico Fellini – 77.30 (10) – La Strada
8 Sam Peckinpah - 76.80 (10) - Straw Dogs
9 Costa-Gavras - 76.20 (10) - Z
10 Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 75.20 (20) - In a Year of 13 Moons
11 Terry Gilliam - 75.20 (15) - Brazil
12 Claude Chabrol - 74.44 (16) - The Girl Cut in Two
13 Douglas Sirk - 74.18 (11) – Interlude
14 John Cassavetes - 73.70 (10) - A Woman under the Influence
15 Ingmar Bergman – 72.95 (19) – Autumn Sonata
16 Ernst Lubitsch – 72.80 (10) – (too many choices)
17 Werner Herzog – 71.97 (33) – Stroszek
18 Sidney Lumet - 71.79 (19) - 12 Angry Men
19 Charles Chaplin - 71.30 (10) - Modern Times
20 Aki Kaurismaki – 70.15 (13) – The Man Without a Past
Close: Woody Allen (24), Ken Loach (10), Peter Weir (11), Abbas Kiarostami (13), Martin Scorsese (17)

5-9 cutoff:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film

1 Jacques Rozier - 82.71 (7) - Adieu Philippine
2 Alan Clarke - 81.00 (6) - The Firm
3 Dino Risi - 79.33 (6) - A Hard Life
4 Lynne Ramsay - 79.20 (5) - Morvern Callar
5 Lina Wertmuller - 79.00 (6) - Swept Away
6 Ermanno Olmi - 77.67 (6) - The Tree of Wooden Clogs
7 Nuri Bilge Ceylan - 76.60 (5) - Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
8 Jean Renoir - 76.14 (7) - A Day in the Country
=9 Nicolas Roeg - 76.00 (6) - Don't Look Now
=9 Sergei Parajanov - 76.00 (6) - Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
11 Wojciech Has - 75.40 (5) - An Uninteresting Story
12 Volker Schlöndorff - 75.20 (5) - The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
13 Marcel Carné - 74.60 (5) - The Children of Paradise
14 Masaki Kobayashi - 74.14 (7) - Samurai Rebellion
15 Martin Ritt - 73.50 (6) - The Front
=16 Henri-Georges Clouzot - 73.20 (5) - The Mystery of Picasso
=16 Anthony Asquith - 73.20 (5) - The Browning Version
18 Peter Yates - 72.83 (6) - (too many choices)
19 Ephraim Kishon – 72.80 (5) – The Fox in the Chicken Coop
20 Max Ophüls - 72.20 (5) - La Plaisir
Close: Errol Morris (6), Shane Meadows (6), David Lean (8), Hal Ashby (5), Frederick Wiseman (5), Rob Reiner (6), Sergio Leone (7), Barbet Schroeder (6), Milos Forman (6), Orson Welles (6)[/spoiler]

Today's rankings:

10+ cutoff:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film

=1 Federico Fellini - 79.25 (12) - La Strada
=1 Satyajit Ray - 79.25 (12) - Charulata
3 Carl Theodor Dreyer - 78.67 (12) - Gertrud
4 Mario Monicelli - 78.00 (13) - Big Deal on Madonna Street
5 Emir Kusturica - 77.45(11) - Time of the Gypsies
6 Sam Peckinpah - 76.80 (10) - Straw Dogs
7 Michelangelo Antonioni - 76.64 (11) - The Night
8 Luchino Visconti - 76.36 (11) – Bellissima
9 Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 74.95 (21) - In a Year of 13 Moons
10 Terry Gilliam - 74.75 (16) - Brazil
11 Dino Risi - 74.45 (11) - A Difficult Life
12 Erroll Morris - 74.36 (11) -
13 Douglas Sirk - 74.18 (11) – Interlude
14 John Cassavetes - 73.90 (10) - A Woman under the Influence
15 Ingmar Bergman – 72.95 (19) – Autumn Sonata
16 Costa-Gavras - 72.25 (12) - Z
17 Charles Chaplin - 71.91 (11) - Modern Times
18 Sidney Lumet - 71.79 (19) - 12 Angry Men
19 Werner Herzog – 71.61 (36) – Stroszek
20 Ernst Lubitsch – 71.45 (11) – (too many choices)

Close: Claude Chabrol (19), Aki Kaurismaki (13), Woody Allen (27), David Lean (10), Ken Loach (10), Peter Weir (12), Abbas Kiarostami (15), Robert Bresson (10), Martin Scorsese (20), Robert Altman (10)

5-9 cutoff:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film

1 Asghar Farhadi - 86.40 (5) - About Elly
2 Jacques Rozier - 83.71 (7) - Adieu Philippine
3 Lynne Ramsay - 80.17 (6) - Morvern Callar
4 Antonio Pietrangeli - 78.60 (5) - Adua and Her Friends
5 Nuri Bilge Ceylan - 78.14 (7) - Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
6 Alan Clarke - 77.71 (7) - The Firm
7 Sergei Parajanov - 76.50 (6) - Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
=8 Lina Wertmuller - 76.29 (7) - Swept Away
=8 Volker Schlöndorff - 76.29 (7) - The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
10 Francesco Rosi - 75.83 (6) - (too many choices)
11 Wojciech Has - 75.40 (5) - An Uninteresting Story
12 Ermanno Olmi - 75.14 (7) - The Tree of Wooden Clogs
13 Cristian Mungiu - 75.00 (5) - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
14 Terry Jones - 74.80 (5) - Life of Brian
15 Jean Renoir - 74.56 (9) - A Day in the Country
16 Masaki Kobayashi - 74.43 (7) - Samurai Rebellion
17 Anthony Asquith - 74.33 (6) - The Browning Version
18 Vincente Minnelli - 74.20 (5) - The Clock
19 Jafar Panahi - 74.17 (6) - Crimson Gold / Offside
20 Max Ophüls - 74.00 (6) - La Plaisir

Close: Martin Ritt (7), Kaneto Shindo (5), Pietro Germi (5), Henri-Georges Clouzot (5), Peter Yates (6), Miklós Jancsó (6), Ephraim Kishon (5), Milos Forman (8), Marcel Carné (6), Louis Malle (7)

lisa wrote:83.81 ingmar bergman (16)
81.25 lars von trier (16)
79.00 terrence malick (5)
78.25 stanley kubrick (12)
77.40 andrei tarkovsky (5)
77.30 werner herzog (10)
77.00 akira kurosawa (8)
75.00 abbas kiarostami (8)
74.86 federico fellini (7)
73.20 ethan & joel coen (10)

nearly a year later, still with 5 film minimum...

83.31 ingmar bergman (16)
81.20 terrence malick (5)
80.80 alejandro jodorosky (5)
78.67 robert bresson (6)
78.50 andrei tarkovsky (6)
78.40 robert altman (5)
76.50 akira kurosawa (12)
76.20 alain resnais (5)
75.73 jacques rivette (11)
75.68 lars von trier (22)

and with a 10 film minimum...

83.31 ingmar bergman (16)
76.50 akira kurosawa (12)
75.73 jacques rivette (11)
75.68 lars von trier (22)
75.00 abbas kiarostami (11)
74.08 stanley kubrick (13)
73.00 ethan & joel coen (10)
69.70 louis malle (10)
69.29 werner herzog (24)
65.54 eric rohmer (13)

Criticker averages:
Adam Curtis
Lance Bangs
Satyajit Ray
Masaki Kobayashi
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Kon Ichikawa
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Béla Tarr
Carl Theodor Dreyer
F.W. Murnau
Yasujiro Ozu
Kenji Mizoguchi
Sergio Leone
Andrei Tarkovsky
Robert Bresson
Ernst Lubitsch
Hayao Miyazaki

On the contrary Scorsese hasn't directed a genuinely great film since After Hours.

I'll stick to 3 for now, due to my lackluster voting history thus far.

Jean Luc-Godard 99.15 (13 Films Seen)
Hou Hsiao-hsien: 97.5 (6 Films Seen)
Robert Bresson 97.29 (7 Films Seen)

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)

Directors who aren't really my favorites are italicized

Jean-Pierre Melville - 8
Jacques Rivette - 7.69
Luis Buñuel - 7.55
Lina Wertmüller - 7.5
Fellini - 7.5
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Milos Forman - 7.5
Louis Malle - 7.46
Luc Moullet - 7.38
Robert Bresson - 7.29
Jerzy Skolimowski - 7.23
Jiri Menzel - 7.2
Claude Chabrol - 7.12
Quentin Tarantino - 7
Wojciech Has - 6.92
Eric Rohmer - 6.87
François Truffaut - 6.71
Jean-Luc Godard - 6.47
Jacques Demy - 6.33
Resnais - 6.1

I'm kind of surprised my averages are so much lower than everybody else's.