It is always difficult to summarize all the movies we like into a list of 10. How about a list of favorite film directors? My basic criterion here is I have to watch at least 3 of the directors' films and I enjoy most of their works a lot. Here's my top 10 list and please post yours:
Orson Welles
Akria Kurosawa
Stanley Kubrick
Yasujiro Ozu
Federico Fellini
Francois Truffaut
Hayao Miyazaki
Jim Jarmusch
Wong Kar-Wai
Takeshi Kitano
I didn't put Martin Scorsese, even though I love Taxi Driver and Raging Bull a lot. His other movies are good too but I lost interest in his recent stuff. Godard is great, but sometimes he's too style-over-substance. Wes Anderson is on the bubble.... I don't watch enough David Lean, Kenji Mizoguchi and John Cassavetes movies, but I'm certainly interested. Other honorable mention: Pedro Almodovar, Hal Ashby, Michel Gondry, Edward Yang, Takashi Miike and probably more.
(next time, we'll talk about our favorite living/working directors)
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here's my list - strictly based on statistics (number of 5 and 4 star films):
1. Francois Truffaut
2. Federico Fellini
3. Jean-Luc Godard
4. Stanley Kubrick
5. Milos Forman
6. Akira Kurosawa
7. Orson Welles
8. Errol Morris
9. Martin Scorsese
10. Wes Anderson
Runners up: the Coen Bros., Terrence Malick, Ingmar Bergman, Yasujiro Ozu, John Cassavettes
obviously, this is all subject to change... I'm sure once I watch more Bergman films he will be much higher on the list
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