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by Guest
Wed Oct 12, 2011 8:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: (Yet) another approach to the question of greatest directors
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Re: (Yet) another approach to the question of greatest directors

Okay, I used this method with a few modifications to generate my top 100. I'm pretty happy with the results. The top 9 especially are exactly how I would rank them without using any numbers.

Modifications:

* for Stan Brakhage (112 films seen), I averaged the top 30
* for directors with 9 to 11 films seen, I averaged the top 8
* I removed certain directors that I would never consider among my top 100, no matter what the numbers say
* for certain directors, I removed the lowest film from the average when I considered it to be an anomalous stinker in their career
* I included directors with 3 or 4 films seen, but deducted 10% from the average
* minor adjustments to rank directors with the same score
* selective trimming at the bottom of the list

Ingmar Bergman - 95.20
Satyajit Ray - 94.60
Akira Kurosawa - 93.00
Terrence Malick - 91.60
Alfred Hitchcock - 91.10
Ming-liang Tsai - 90.88
Luis Buñuel - 90.30
Werner Herzog - 89.80
Woody Allen - 88.90
François Truffaut - 88.50
Martin Scorsese - 88.40
Kenji Mizoguchi - 88.20
Krzysztof Kieslowski - 87.20
Fritz Lang - 86.90
Pedro Almodóvar - 86.63
Michael Winterbottom - 86.00
Emir Kusturica - 85.50
Peter Greenaway - 85.31
Joel and Ethan Coen - 85.30
Apichatpong Weerasethakul - 85.25
Aki Kaurismäki - 85.20
Masaki Kobayashi - 85.17
Béla Tarr - 85.13
David Lean - 85.12
Stan Brakhage - 84.80
David Lynch - 84.71
Robert Bresson - 84.70
Stanley Kubrick - 84.60
Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne - 84.60
Agnès Varda - 84.50
Alain Resnais - 84.25
Steven Soderbergh - 83.90
Orson Welles - 83.81
Anthony Mann - 83.80
Yasujiro Ozu - 83.79
Elia Kazan - 83.50
Hayao Miyazaki - 83.38
John Sturges - 83.20
Quentin Tarantino - 83.10
Roman Polanski - 83.00
James Lee - 82.80
Michelangelo Antonioni - 82.63
Allan King - 82.60
Jules Dassin - 82.40
Ritwik Ghatak - 82.38
Abbas Kiarostami - 82.38
Robert Siodmak - 82.25
Frank Capra - 82.25
Ermanno Olmi - 82.00
F.W. Murnau - 81.71
Anh Hung Tran - 81.67
Kon Ichikawa - 81.60
Buster Keaton - 81.25
Michael Powell - 81.20
Billy Wilder - 81.10
Louis Malle - 80.90
Douglas Sirk - 80.63
Guy Maddin - 80.57
Yimou Zhang - 80.50
Jean Renoir - 80.40
Lars von Trier - 80.38
Federico Fellini - 80.30
Wes Anderson - 80.25
Andrei Tarkovsky - 80.17
Mike Leigh - 80.00
Michael Curtiz - 79.88
Nobuhiko Obayashi - 79.75
Max Ophüls - 79.75
Wen Jiang - 79.65
Milos Forman - 79.52
Josef von Sternberg - 79.51
Jean-Pierre Jeunet - 79.50
Jacques Demy - 79.40
Jacques Tati - 79.33
Francis Ford Coppola - 79.25
Roy Andersson - 79.20
John Huston - 79.10
Mohsen Makhmalbaf - 79.10
Shohei Imamura - 79.00
John Cassavetes - 78.88
Marco Ferreri - 78.88
Howard Hawks - 78.81
William Wyler - 78.80
Nicholas Ray - 78.75
Phil Karlson - 78.57
Kar Wai Wong - 78.50
John Brahm - 78.40
Gus Van Sant - 78.38
Sergio Leone - 78.33
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang - 78.33
Hiroshi Teshigahara - 78.13
Carl Theodor Dreyer - 78.00
Eric Rohmer - 77.90
Anthony Asquith - 77.83
Jean-Pierre Melville - 77.63
Djibril Diop Mambéty - 77.40
Zhang Ke Jia - 77.21
Michael Haneke - 77.13
Carlos Saura - 76.75
Victor Erice - 76.20