Pantheon of Directors

[mlrg]

In no particular order

Terrence Malick
Steven Spielberg
John Ford
Ingmar Bergman
David Lean
Alfred Hitchcock
Francis Ford Coppola
Woody Allen
Federico Fellini
Stanley Kubrick
Martin Scorsese
D.W. Griffith

[bizarre]

I've never gotten on the Ford train.

Awww, you gotta get a little sentimentality into your mental frame.

I really, really, really can't.

[Damien]

I've never gotten on the Ford train.

Awww, you gotta get a little sentimentality into your mental frame.

[Reza]

In alphabetical order:

Ingmar Bergman
Frank Borzage
John Ford
Alfred Hitchcock
Akira Kurosawa
Ernest Lubitsch
Vincente Minnelli
Michael Powell
Bimal Roy
Douglas Sirk
Luchino Visconti
Billy Wilder

The 13th Spot: Luis Bunuel & Ken Russell

[bizarre]

Honorable mention to Victor Erice, who has only made three features, and Jean Vigo who only made one.

The Archers
Robert Bresson
Michael Haneke
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Mike Leigh
Ernst Lubitsch
David Lynch
Kira Muratova
Mikio Naruse
Nagisa Oshima
Yasujiro Ozu
Jacques Rivette

I've never gotten on the Ford train.

[Damien]

Frank Borzage

Borzage completely slipped my mind, but he's a definite inclusion for my list. But whom to remove? Decisions, decisions, sad decisions. I guess Andre de Toth gets moved to number 13. I could have also included Carl Theodor Dreyer but i relegated him to runner-up status because he made so few films.

[Big Magilla]

Frank Borzage
George Cukor
John Ford (yep, the best)
Alfred Hitchcock
Elia Kazan
David Lean
Ernst Lubitsch
Leo McCarey
Vincente Minnelli
Jean Renoir
William Wellman
William Wyler

[dws1982]

Great idea for a thread.

Charles Burnett
Clint Eastwood
John Ford (Also my all-time favorite. On my top 250 movies of all time list--which I may post around New Years--he had the most of any filmmaker, with two in the top ten.)
Terrence Malick
Leo McCarey
Yasijuro Ozu
Nicholas Ray
Jean Renoir
Roberto Rossellini
Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrzej Wajda
Valerio Zurlini

Haven't seen enough, but I like what I see: Andre DeToth, Abbas Kiarostami, Jean-Pierre Melville, Anthony Mann, Vincente Minnelli, Max Ophuls, Bob Rafelson, Nicolas Roeg, Vincent Sherman, Douglas Sirk Jann Troell, King Vidor, Luchino Visconti, Edward Yang

[Damien]

I got into a discussion with some friends the other day about which directors -- dating from silent films to the present -- are in our own personal pantheon. While the Supporting Actor polls are on hiatus, I thought it would be interesting to see which filmmakers mean the most to the the members of the UAADB. List your 12 favorite directors, and we'll compare and contrast.

Mine (in alphabetical order):

Andre de Toth
Blake Edwards
John Ford (my absolute number one favorite)
Jean-Luc Godard
Abbas Kiarostami
Ernst Lubitsch
Leo McCarey
Vincente Minnelli
Yasujiro Ozu
Jean Renoir
Douglas Sirk
Luchino Visconti