Notable missing directors

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Re: Notable missing directors

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paulofilmo wrote:
paulofilmo wrote: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.


I think only Resnais and Yang remain unseen. I will add:

Philippe Garrel
Masaki Kobayashi

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Here 15 quite prominent directors that as of December 2015 I haven't tried and am planning to. :oops:
Let's make this the new year's resolution.

King Vidor
Taviani bros.
Tsai Ming-Liang
Jean-Claude Brisseau
Pedro Costa
Philippe Garrel
Zoltan Fabri
Jean Gremillon
Jacques Feyder
Manoel de Oliveira
Kira Muratova
Jacques Doillon
Alain Corneau
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Oldrich Lipsky

As well as perhaps less prominent ones such as: Karel Zeman, Ali Hatami, Mario Camerini, Lucrecia Martel, Carmelo Bene, Ritwik Ghatak, Rakhshan Bani Etemad, Amleto Palermi, Muriel Box, Frank Beyer, Lucille Hadzihalilovic, Rutiparno Ghosh...

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I think only Resnais and Yang remain unseen. I will add:

Philippe Garrel
Masaki Kobayashi


Jean Vigo

and while i'm here:

Béla Tarr
Jonas Mekas

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A few that come to mind:

Bela Tarr
Agnes Varda
Takeshi Kitano
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Dario Argento

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As much as I've heard about him, I've yet to see a film by Alan Smithee.

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mucow wrote:As much as I've heard about him, I've yet to see a film by Alan Smithee.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

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Am going to try to watch at least one film by each of these directors:

/ John Cassavetes
/ George A. Romero
/ Michael Cimino
Dennis Hopper
Darren Aronofsky
/ Ralph Bakshi
/ Hal Hartley
/ John Sayles
/ Harmony Korine
/ Whit Stillman
/ Monte Hellman
Andy Warhol
Robert Downey Sr.
/ William Dieterle
/ Edward Dmytryk
/ Nicholas Ray
/ Mike Leigh
/ Ken Loach
/ Joseph Losey
Tony Richardson
/ Lindsay Anderson
/ Bernardo Bertolucci
/ Pier Paolo Pasolini
Luchino Visconti
Roberto Rossellini
Michelangelo Antonioni
Lucio Fulci
/ Mario Bava
/ Sergio Sollima
/ Yasujiro Ozu
/ Takashi Miike
/ Seijun Suzuki
Sion Sono
Mikio Naruse
Johnnie To
/ Wong Kar-Wai
/ Cheh Chang
/ Yuen Woo Ping
/ Jean Renoir
/ Jean Cocteau
/ Jacques Demy
/ Jacques Becker
/ René Clair
/ Eric Rohmer
/ Henri-Georges Clouzot
/ Alain Resnais
/ Leos Carax
/ Agnes Varda
/ Louis Malle
/ Marcel Carné
Gaspar Noé
Xavier Dolan
/ Denis Villeneuve
Guy Maddin
G.W. Pabst
Erich von Stroheim
/ Josef von Sternberg
/ Rainer Werner Fassbinder
/ Max Ophuls
/ Jan Svankmajer
/ Satyajit Ray
/ Lars von Trier
Abbas Kiarostami
/ Costa-Gavras
/ Michael Haneke
/ Andrzej Wajda
/ Pedro Almodovar
/ Victor Sjostrom
/ Ousmane Sembene
/ Djibril Diop Mambety
Jesus Franco
Russ Meyer :D
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jeff_v wrote:Directors mentioned thus far that have goose-egged me:

Yoshishige Yoshida
Alexander Kluge
Ettore Scola
Claude Autant-Lara
Pedro Costa
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Lucio Fulci
Jesus Franco
Tinto Brass
Ritwik Ghatak
Sergei Parajanov
Christoffer Boe (uh... who?)
Glauber Rocha
Louis Feuillade
Luis García Berlanga
Claude Lanzmann
Ousmane Sembene


Just your 8 years later update. Remaining directors from the list above:

Alexander Kluge
Tinto Brass
Christoffer Boe

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these are the highest on the TSPDT list:
24) eisenstein
27) rossellini
32) visconti
40) s. ray
52) fassbinder
54) tati
55) pasolini
65) yang
67) sturges
68) minnelli
72) carne
75) von stroheim
77) sirk
87) rivette
89) pontecorvo
90) angelopoulos
93) von sternberg
94) lanzmann
98) mankiewicz

i'm particularly desperate to knock fassbinder, yang, sirk and rivette off this list. think i may try to do that this week.

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List is now down to:

/ Dennis Hopper
/ Darren Aronofsky
Andy Warhol
/ Robert Downey Sr.
Tony Richardson
/ Luchino Visconti
/ Roberto Rossellini
Michelangelo Antonioni
Lucio Fulci
/ Yasujiro Ozu
Sion Sono
/ Mikio Naruse
Johnnie To
/ Alain Resnais
/ Leos Carax
Gaspar Noé
Xavier Dolan
/ Denis Villeneuve
Guy Maddin
G.W. Pabst
Erich von Stroheim
/ Jan Svankmajer
/ Satyajit Ray
Abbas Kiarostami
/ Costa-Gavras
/ Pedro Almodovar
Jesus Franco
/ Russ Meyer :D

New:
/ Jean Epstein
/ Claude Chabrol
/ Maurice Pialat
Frank Borzage
/ Lewis Milestone
/ Vincente Minnelli
/ Jerry Lewis
Abel Ferrara
/ Sofia Coppola
/ Bennett Miller
Andrew Bujalski
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