Which director have you seen the most films by?

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Re: Which director have you seen the most films by?

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Werner Herzog - 47 (8 shorts, 1 miniseries) - 4.70 / 7.30
Takashi Miike - 47 (1 short, 1 miniseries) - 3.06 / 3.94
Woody Allen - 44 (1 short) - 4.61 / 7.07
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 36 (2 shorts) - 4.50 / 6.86
Charles Chaplin - 36 (26 shorts) - 3.92 / 5.61
Ingmar Bergman - 35 - 5.09 / 7.83
Alfred Hitchcock - 35 - 4.66 / 7.09
Stan Brakhage - 30 - 3.30 / 4.47
Akira Kurosawa - 29 - 4.31 / 6.38
Yasujiro Ozu - 29 - 4.28
Steven Soderbergh - 26 - 4.08 / 5.7
Eric Rohmer - 25 (6 shorts) - 5.10 / 8.10 (including his short work, it drops to a low of 4.76)
Martin Scorsese - 24. (2 shorts) - 5.00 / 7.5
Fritz Lang - 24 - 3.79 / 5.21
Robert Altman - 23 - 4.39 / 6.70
John Huston - 23 - 4.30 / 6.48
Mike Leigh - 22 (2 shorts) - 4.41 / 6.64
Jean-Luc Godard - 22 (4 shorts) - 4.23 / 6.32
Claude Chabrol - 22 (1 short) - 4.14 / 6.05
Sidney Lumet - 21 - 4.90 / 7.67
Steven Spielberg - 21 - 4.10 / 5.95
John Ford - 21 - 3.90 / 5.57
Federico Fellini - 20 (2 shorts) - 4.70 / 7.45
Louis Malle - 20 (1 short) - 4.35 / 6.55
Anthony Mann - 20 - 5.8
Luis Buñuel - 19 - 4.63 / 7.21
Jean Painlevé - 19 - 4.21 / 6.16
Sion Sono - 19 - 4.8
Lars von Trier - 18 - 4.44 / 6.78
Nagisa Ôshima - 18 - 3.78 / 5.61
Mikio Naruse - 18 - 5.4
Alain Resnais - 17 - 4.47 / 6.94
Georges Méliès - 17 - 6.0
Masahiro Shinoda - 17 - 4.06 / 6.06
Seijun Suzuki - 17 - 5.4
Roman Polanski - 16 - 4.88 / 7.56
Jean Renoir - 16 (2 shorts) - 4.44 / 6.88
Shohei Imamura - 16 - 4.38 / 6.75
Samuel Fuller - 16 - 4.31 / 6.69
Brian De Palma - 16 - 5.7
Takeshi Kitano - 16 - 3.88 / 5.31
Terence Fisher - 16 - 3.69 / 4.94
Buster Keaton - 15 - 4.67 / 7.20
William Wyler - 15 - 4.53 / 6.93
Yimou Zhang - 15 - 4.47 / 6.80
Roberto Rossellini - 15 - 4.13 / 6.00
Coen brothers - 14 - 5.29 / 8.29
Ernst Lubitsch - 14 - 4.79 / 7.57
Michael Powell - 14 - 4.79 / 7.36
Luchino Visconti - 14 - 4.57 / 7.07
Satyajit Ray - 14 - 6.9
Terry Gilliam - 14 - 6.9
Tim Burton - 14 - 4.21 / 6.43
Howard Hawks - 14 - 4.14 / 6.29
David Cronenberg - 14 - 4.14 / 6.14
Clint Eastwood - 14 - 3.79 / 5.29
Kôji Wakamatsu - 14 - 3.36 / 4.29
George A. Romero - 14 - 3.07 / 4.14
David Lean - 13 - 4.84 /
David Lynch - 13 - 4.62 / 7.08 (4.80 /
Billy Wilder - 13 - 4.31 / 6.46
Francis Ford Coppola - 13 - 4.31 / 5.92
Otto Preminger - 13 - 4.23 / 6.23
Ki-duk Kim - 13 - 3.85 / 5.54
Ishirô Honda - 13 - 3.41 /
Kiyoshi Kurosawa - 13 - 4.7
Shuji Terayama - 13 - 3.38 / 4.54
Orson Welles - 12 - 5.08 /
Sam Peckinpah - 12 - 4.92 / 7.83
Ken Loach - 12 - 4.83 / 7.58
Guy Maddin - 12 - 4.33 / 6.50
Wim Wenders - 12 - 4.17 / 6.17
Robert Wise - 12 - 4.00 /
John Schlesinger - 12 - 3.83 / 5.58
Jan Svankmajer - 12 (10 shorts) - 3.83 / 5.50
James Ivory - 12 - 3.75 / 5.42
Ridley Scott - 12 - 5.1
Kevin Smith - 12 - 3.50 / 5.00
Cheh Chang - 12 - 3.41 /
Stanley Kubrick - 11 - 5.73 / 8.91
Michelangelo Antonioni - 11 - 5.45 / 8.73
Errol Morris - 12 (1 short, 2 miniseries) - 5.08
Robert Bresson - 10 - 4.91
Douglas Sirk - 11 - 4.91 / 7.73
Don Hertzfeldt - 11 - 4.72 /
Hayao Miyazaki - 11 - 4.55 / 7.00
Michael Haneke - 11 - 4.45 / 6.73
Kar Wai Wong - 11 - 4.36 / 6.64
François Truffaut - 11 - 4.36 / 6.55
William Friedkin - 11 - 4.36 / 6.36
Volker Schlöndorff - 10 - 4.27
Hark Tsui - 11 - 3.91 / 5.64
Josef von Sternberg - 11 - 5.5
Kon Ichikawa - 11 - 3.91 / 5.55
Edward Dmytryk - 11 - 3.64 / 5.27
Jacques Rivette - 11 - 51.1
Vincente Minnelli - 11 - 5.1
Quay Brothers - 11 (10 shorts) - 3.55 / 4.73
Johnnie To - 11 - 3.18 / 4.36
Tobe Hooper - 11 - 3.00 / 4.09
Abbas Kiarostami - 10 - 4.90 / 7.80
Peter Weir - 10 - 4.70 / 7.30
Ken Russell - 10 - 4.60 / 7.20
Pier Paolo Pasolini - 10 - 4.60 / 7.10
Jean-Pierre Melville - 10 - 4.40 / 6.30
Robert Aldrich - 10 - 4.30 / 6.60
Kinji Fukasaku - 10 - 4.20 / 6.30
Abel Ferrara - 10 - 4.00 / 6.10
Oliver Stone - 10 - 4.00 / 6.00
Budd Boetticher - 10 - 4.00 / 5.80
Don Siegel - 10 - 4.00 / 5.70
Vincent Minnelli - 10 - 4.00 / 5.70
Sam Raimi - 10 - 4.00 / 5.60
Nicholas Ray - 10 - 3.90 /
Mario Bava - 10 - 3.90 / 5.80
Dario Argentina - 10 - 5.3
Hideo Gosha - 10 - 4.7

Pedro Almodóvar, Bernardo Bertolucci, Peter Bogdanovich, Catherine Breillat, John Cassavetes, Jules Dassin, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Dennis Dugan, David Fincher, Peter Greenaway, Hsiao-hsien Hou, Ron Howard, Takashi Ishii, Zhang ke Jia, Hirokazu Koreeda, Chia-Liang Liu, David Mamet, Kenji Mizoguchi, F.W. Murnau, John Sayles, Barbet Schroeder, Quentin Tarantino, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Ming-liang Tsai, & Paul Verhoeven are close to the grade.
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Re: Which director have you seen the most films by?

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Just thinking of ones that are twenty or more...

Alfred Hitchock: 35
John Ford: 29
Martin Scorsese: 25 (as director)
Buster Keaton: 24
Woody Allen: 23 (as director)
Fritz Lang: 22
Steven Spielberg: 22 (as director)
Michael Curtiz: 21
Robert Altman: 20

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Re: Which director have you seen the most films by?

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ıs there a simple way out to count numbers?

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Re: Which director have you seen the most films by?

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elmakebabi wrote:ıs there a simple way out to count numbers?

The director's pages tell you the numbers, but there's no way to know who your top ones are other than checking whoever you think will make the cut.

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Re: Which director have you seen the most films by?

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Then i will have to check the pages one by one? For god's sake, I'm too lazy to do that. :P

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Re: Which director have you seen the most films by?

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Hopscotch wrote:
elmakebabi wrote:Then i will have to check the pages one by one? For god's sake, I'm too lazy to do that. :P


Went through your top 59 ranked films and found that you've seen a lot from these dudes. Of course it might be a little off due to the fact that some of them wrote scripts without directing them... what, I had nothing to do today.

Alfred Hitchcock - 30
Ingmar Bergman - 17
David Lynch - 15
Akira Kurosawa - 10
Stanley Kubrick - 9
Krzysztof Kieslowski - 9
Coen Brothers - 9
Gus Van Sant - 8
Martin Scorsese - 8
Michelangelo Antonioni - 7
Brian de Palma - 7
Andrei Tarkovsky - 6
Roman Polanski - 6
Fritz Lang - 5
Billy Wilder - 5
Bernardo Bertolucci - 5
James Cameron - 5



Wovv Hopscotch, you are really hard-working, i'm ashamed about that... Then, tried to check it out a bit more... ( But right now, i can't open criticker, eww, that makes me angry. I must be the ''the unluckiest human being'' ever! And that's why, im lazy lol.) Maybe im gonna note down numbers of films. :)

Well, i should add some names to that list;

Dario Argento - 16
Ertem Egilmez - 16
Sydney Pollack - 13
Steven Spielberg - 13 (ewwww) :?
Atif Yilmaz - 12
Tim Burton - 12
Pedro Almodóvar - 10
François Truffaut - 9
Wes Craven - 9
Lars von Trier - 9
John Waters - 9
Clint Eastwood - 9
Terry Gilliam - 8
Quentin Tarantino - 8
Kartal Tibet - 8
D.W. Griffith - 7
Howard Hawks - 7
Maya Deren - 7
Francis Ford Coppola - 7
John Carpenter - 7
David Cronenberg - 7
Brian De Palma - 7
Ridley Scott - 7
Emir Kusturica - 6
Masaki Kobayashi - 6
Peter Jackson - 6
Alan Parker - 6
George Lucas - 6
Ken Loach - 6


And the final list should be;


Alfred Hitchcock - 30
Ingmar Bergman - 17
Dario Argento - 16
Ertem Egilmez - 16
David Lynch - 15
Sydney Pollack - 13
Steven Spielberg - 13
Atif Yilmaz - 12
Tim Burton - 12
Akira Kurosawa - 10
Pedro Almodóvar - 10
François Truffaut - 9
Wes Craven - 9
Lars von Trier - 9
John Waters - 9
Clint Eastwood - 9
Stanley Kubrick - 9
Krzysztof Kieslowski - 9
Coen Brothers - 9
Gus Van Sant - 8
Martin Scorsese - 8
Quentin Tarantino - 8
Kartal Tibet - 8
Michelangelo Antonioni - 7
Brian de Palma - 7
D.W. Griffith - 7
Howard Hawks - 7
Maya Deren - 7
Francis Ford Coppola - 7
John Carpenter - 7
David Cronenberg - 7
Brian De Palma - 7
Ridley Scott - 7
Andrei Tarkovsky - 6
Roman Polanski - 6
Emir Kusturica - 6
Masaki Kobayashi - 6
Peter Jackson - 6
Alan Parker - 6
George Lucas - 6
Ken Loach - 6
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Well, i am not satisfied! :(

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Re: Which director have you seen the most films by?

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after looking over the list of my "fave 5" as well as most of the better known/more popular directors....I seem to come up with Spielberg :|

Steven Spielberg - 17
Takashi Miike - 14
Akira Kurosawa - 11
John Woo - 11
Martin Scorsese, Terry Gilliam and Liu Chia-Liang (aka Lau Kar Leung) - 10
Tarantino, Cronenberg and Tim Burton tied at 9

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I'll admit I didn't search very hard. These are the directors I thought I had seen at least 10 films by.

Woody Allen - 23
Senor Spielbergo - 19
Martin Scorsese - 17
Coen Bros. - 15
Tim Burton - 12
Werner Herzog - 10
Tarantino - 9
Coppola - 9
Oliver Stone - 9
Kubrick - 8
Jarmusch - 8
Wes Anderson - 8
Kurosawa - 7
Truffaut - 7

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Re: Which director have you seen the most films by?

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woody Allen 43,finally :D
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Re: Which director have you seen the most films by?

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Without thinking too hard about it, I'll say Richard Linkater (6). I'm probably wrong though.

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