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)