Notable missing directors

[MmzHrrdb]

Knocked a few off my old list:

Out of the ones listed so far in the thread:

Gillian Armstrong
-- Alexander Kluge
-- Ettore Scola
-- Claude Autant-Lara
Lucio Fulci
Jesus Franco (except for his edit of Welles' Don Quixote)
Christoffer Boe
Bertrand Blier
Lina Wertmüller
Clarence Brown (saw The Yearling, but it was ages ago and I might not have seen the whole thing)
-- Alfred E. Green
Walter Lang
Cheh Chang


There are several others that I've only seen one film by, and probably not their best one.

The two Scola films I've seen are fantastic.

[Anomaly]

Great idea for a thread, and relevant. In the last month I watched my first Weerasethakul, Ford, Renoir, and Kusturica, and before that knocked off Wyler, Kazan, Argento, and Carpenter. Despite that, as I looked through TSPDT's best directors lists, I realized it would probably be easier to list which directors I have seen rather than haven't, so here's a list of the filmmakers I haven't seen that I'm most looking forward to watching, which should still tell you about my interests:

Howard Hawks
Yasujiro Ozu
Robert Bresson
David Lean
Roberto Rossellini
John Huston
Satyajit Ray
Robert Altman
Bernardo Bertolucci
John Cassavetes
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Chantal Akerman
Hayao Miyazaki
Agnès Varda
Todd Haynes
Alexander Payne
Powell & Pressburger
Aki Kaurismäki
Kon Ichikawa
Ming-liang Tsai
Anh Hung Tran
Atom Egoyan

[paulofilmo]

Looking at the Priority Collection:
Chris Marker
Anh Hung Tran Norwegian Wood
Abbas Kiarostami
Alain Resnais
Ritwik Ghatak C-CS
David Gordon Green
Jane Campion Piano
Vittorio De Sica
Sergei Parajanov Poms, Shadows
Hiroshi Teshigahara

Just added A Brighter Summer Day - haven't seen anything by Edward Yang.

[andagh]

I've seen 0 by the following directors:
Wes Anderson
Hal Hartley
Nora Ephron
Claude Chabrol
Eric Rohmer
Jacques RIvette
André Techiné
Alejandro Iñárritu
Gregg Araki
Jane Campion
Charlie Chaplin
Theo Angelopoulos
Mario Bava
Lucio Fulci
Ernst Lubitsch
Mel Brooks
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Peter Greenaway
James Ivory
Oliver Stone
Jean Vigo
Satyajit Ray
Koji Wakamatsu
Shuji Terayama
Ida Lupino
D.W. Griffith

[Svengali]

Takashi Miike
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Jacques Rivette
Dardenne brothers
Anh Hung Tran
John Huston
Howard Hawks
Chantal Akerman
Lina Wertmüller
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Hsiao-hsien Hou

Those are the ones that comes to my mind thinking about it and looking at some directors in this topic, even though there are many I don't recognize in this topic.

[MmzHrrdb]

Here are 50 pretty shameful blind spots. Hopefully in a year's time I'll be able to come back to this thread and cross most of these names out.

Yasujiro Ozu
Mikio Naruse
Jean Vigo
Kenji Mizoguchi
Satyajit Ray
Jean Renoir
Jean Cocteau
Leo McCarey
Raoul Walsh
Vittorio De Sica
Luchino Visconti
Jacques Tourneur
Max Ophuls
Anthony Mann
Jules Dassin
Douglas Sirk
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Elia Kazan
Vincente Minnelli
Jerry Lewis
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Samuel Fuller
Shohei Imamura
Ingmar Bergman
Peter Bogdanovich
Kon Ichikawa
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Russ Meyer
Elaine May
Frederick Wiseman
Andrei Konchalovsky
Emir Kusturica
Terence Davies
Bela Tarr
Ira Sachs
Edward Yang
Tsai Ming-liang
Claire Denis
Manoel de Oliveira
Aleksandr Sokurov
Catherine Breillat
Lou Ye
Joachim Trier
Marco Tullio Giordana
James Gray
Raoul Ruiz
Fred Niblo
Erich von Stroheim
Jean Epstein
Lewis Milestone

[lisa-]

currently annoying me:

louis malle
elaine may
masaki kobayashi
jacques rivette
lina wertmuller
emir kusturica
ming-liang tsai
ernst lubitsch
apichatpong weerasethakul

there are plenty more tat i'd like to see obviously, but those are the ones that right now feel like big gaps that i need to fix.

here are some others that i know i should see at some point but honestly am not expecting that much:

ang lee
steve mcqueen
michael mann
william wyler
luc besson
bryan singer
elia kazan
george cukor
clint eastwood
spike lee

and so on and so forth.

[ShogunRua]

Off the top of my head, I have not ranked anything significant directed by

Lucio Fulci
Mario Bava
Yasujiro Ozu
Federico Fellini (ugh...)
Billy Wilder (segment of "Casino Royale" doesn't count)
Francois Truffaut
Sam Peckinpah (I have watched part of "Convoy", but I don't think that really counts)
Cecil B. DeMille (don't feel too bad about this one)
Carl Theodore Dreyer (since he was the initial inspiration for my favorite director, Sidney Lumet)
John Ford
John Huston (segment of "Casino Royale" doesn't count)
Bernardo Bertolucci
Abel Ferrera
John Cassavetes

Well, it's been almost 4 years!

I have now seen

Billy Wilder (3 movies, ranging from very good to high masterpiece. Added to my list of Favorite Directors already)

Fellini (2 movies, both all-time great. One more outstanding one and he gets added to the list of Favorite Directors)

John Ford (2 movies, both horrible. Haven't seen his Westerns yet, but not impressed in the slightest so far)

Abel Ferrera (2 movies, one good, China Girl, and one poor, Bad Lieutenant)

The others remain unwatched, and there are some news to add to the list of those I haven't seen, so it's now

Lucio Fulci
Mario Bava
Yasujiro Ozu
Francois Truffaut
Sam Peckinpah (I have watched part of "Convoy", but I don't think that really counts)
Cecil B. DeMille (don't feel too bad about this one)
Carl Theodore Dreyer (since he was the initial inspiration for my favorite director, Sidney Lumet)
John Huston (segment of "Casino Royale" doesn't count)
Bernardo Bertolucci
John Cassavetes
Elia Kazan
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alfonso Cuarón
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Andrei Tarkovsky
Ernst Lubitsch
Jean Renoir

[edkrak]

Let's look at my list from 2011

I still have 32 left on the list:
Rivette, Imamura, Hideo Gosha, Jancsó, Tarr, Cavani, Malle, Russ Meyer, Cocteau, Corman, Jean Renoir, Hawks, Tati, Powell & Pressburger, Lina Wertmüller, Tony Richardson, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Schlesinger, Ray, Rossellini, Ophuls, Lubitsch, Naruse, Bogdanovich, Mankiewicz, Kazan, Walsh, Otto Preminger, Carne, Buster Keaton, Victor Sjöström, Eisenstein

I've seen since then:
T10
1. Béla Tarr - Werckmeister Harmonies (95)
Raoul Walsh - White Heat (95)
3. Ernst Lubitsch - To Be or Not to Be (90)
Otto Preminger - Anatomy of a Murder (90)
T8
5. Elia Kazan - On the Waterfront (75)
T7
6. Miklós Jancsó - Vizi privati, pubbliche virtù (70)
Jean Cocteau - The Blood of a Poet (70)
Howard Hawks - The Big Sleep (70)
Mikio Naruse - When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (70)
Sergei M. Eisenstein - Battleship Potemkin (70) (+short Dnevnik Glumova - T5 (50))
T5
11. Jean Renoir -The Rules of the Game (60)
Buster Keaton -The General (60)
T3
13.Roger Corman - The Masque of the Red Death (50)
14.Jacques Rivette - Celine and Julie Go Boating (45)
Louis Malle - Black Moon (45)
T2
16. Powell & Pressburger - A Matter of Life and Death (30)
T1
17. Jacques Tati - Mon oncle (20)
18. Russ Meyer - Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (15)

14 left: Imamura, Hideo Gosha, Cavani, Lina Wertmüller, Tony Richardson, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Schlesinger, Ray, Rossellini, Ophuls, Bogdanovich, Mankiewicz, Carne, Victor Sjöström.
+38 new that came to my mind: Kim Ki Duk, Alexander Kluge, Cecil B. DeMille, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Frank Borzage, Josef von Sternberg, Dziga Vertov, William Wyler, Robert Siodmak, Douglas Sirk, Julien Duvivier, Hiroshi Inagaki, Jacques Becker, Fred Zinnemann, Edward Dmytryk, Karel Zeman, John Sturges, Georges Franju, Samuel Fuller, Dino Risi, Andrzej Munk, Frantisek Vlácil, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Hal Ashby, Taviani, King Hu, Ermanno Olmi, Ruy Guerra, Jack Hill, Costa-Gavras, Kwon-taek Im, Yilmaz Güney, István Szabó, Bertrand Tavernier, Claire Denis, Spike Lee, Harry Kümel, Robert Aldrich
52 total - as usual my watchlist is only getting longer with time.

[ShogunRua]

52 total - as usual my watchlist is only getting longer with time.

That's how it always goes.