To: THE GRIM GEEPER who requested it. My top ten movie directors: --------------------------- (In very particular order) Top Ten: With at least more two favourite movies of mine: Michelangelo Antonioni Andreij Tarkowskij Bertrand Blier Michel Deville all but the commercial ones Paul Mazursky esp. The Tempest Abel Ferrara Sidney Lumet Nicolas Roeg all of the early ones Pedro Almodovar esp. Laberinto de pasiones and La Ley del deseo Francis Ford Coppola Apocalypse Now, Rumble Fish Krystof Kieslowski 10x Dekalog, 3x Colors Directors with only masterpiece (I saw so far), which couldn't make it into this list, because once is not enough. Still hope the first ones will make it into the list. Some others made so shitty others... Hark Tsui Peking Opera Blues (the others are crap, but I know only 5) Quentin Tarrantino Pulp Fiction (I'm a big fan but you have to be fair...) Marco Bellocchio The Eyes The Mouth (but haven't seen "Fist in His Pocket" yet) George Armitage Miami Blues Rolf de Heer Bad Boy Bubby John Cassavetes Shadows Sergio Leone The good, the bad and the ugly Wim Wenders Paris Texas (and a lot of stylish crap) Honorable mention going to: (more than one movie in my favourite list, but couldn't make it to the top ten for various reasons, some are a hope for my future, some will never make it) Luis Bunuel esp. the three last ones Bernardo Bertolucci Last Tango in Paris, The Conformist Jim McBride Breathless, The Big Easy Kathlyn Bigelow esp. Point Break, Strange Days Paul Verhoeven esp. the early dutch ones, Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers Ridley Scott only Alien and Blade Runner John McNaughton Henry, Mad dog and glory Russ Meyer the late ones Woody Allen esp. Manhattan, Annie Hall and Zelig David Lynch well, even if From Dusk Till Dawn is much better than Wild At Heart Jean Renoir too nice, but La Regle du jeu is outstanding Ernst Lubitsch esp. To Be or Not to Be John Carpenter esp. Starman and Assault Robert Altman esp. Nashville, Streamers, MASH John Schlesinger esp. Darling, Sunday, Bloody Sunday John Stagliano best porn director ever Karel Reisz Saturday Night Till Sunday Morning Costa-Gavras esp. Z, Missing Steven Spielberg for his Indy series! Jean Jaques Beneix Betty Blue, Diva (but the others are crap) Frederico Fellini only 8 1/2 and la dolce vita Martin Scorsese most the DeNiro movies Jacques Tourneur Out of the Past, The Leopard Man Marcel Camus the two brasilian movies: Orfeu Negro, Brasilian Rhapsody (Os Bandeirantes ??) Christian Schocher Das Blut an den Lippen des Liebenden, Luezzas Walkman, Der letzte Krieger Other peoples top ten movie directors: -------------------------------------- Martin Scorsese Terry Gilliam Stanley Kubrick Quentin Tarantino Oliver Stone Gus Van Sant Joel Coen (I think he is the director of the two) Robert Altman Woody Allen John Huston 1) David Lynch (by far!!) 2) Gus Van Sant 3) Stanley Kubrick 4) Joel Coen 5) Terry Gilliam 6) Quentin Tarantino 7) Sam Raimi 8) John Landis (sometimes) 9) Francis Ford Coppola 10) Richard Linklater Quentin Tarantino Martin Scorcese John Woo Sam Raimi Francis Ford Coppola Ringo Lam Tsui Hark Oliver Stone : Ridley Scott - He crafted Bladerunner one of the most visually symbolic : and deep films ever created. His other work show similar : passion. : Here's my ten favorite: (in no particular order, of course) 1. Stanley Kubrik 2. Sam Peckinpah 3. John Huston 4. Roman Polanski 5. Elia Kazan 6. Martin Scorsese 7. Frank Capra 8. Truffaut what about Coppola, Lynch, Altman, Cassavetes, Ashby, Lumet, Schlesinger, Cronenberg, Carpenter, Roeg, or Romero? Welles Kurasawa Kubrick Antonioni Jodorowski Lean Hitchcock Spielberg Scorsese Yimou Coppola Tarkowski with Honorable mention going to Cronenberg,Lynch,Blier,Bertolucci and Besson Sure there's way more than ten, But the question warrants excess. These are my suggestions: 1. Michelangelo Antonioni 2. Alex Cox 3. Andrej Tarkovskij 4. Wim Wenders 5. John Waters 6. Francis Ford Coppola 7. Ingmar Bergman 8. Frederico Fellini 9. The Coen brothers 10.The Taviani brothers How can anyone forget David Lynch? For Eraserhead alone he deserves to be on any top ten list. Someone said that they've only seen two John Woo films, well you've seen excactly the wrong two,pal. movies like "A Better Tomorrow Part I, II, and III", "The Killer", "Hard Boiled" are instant classics. Anyway, here is my list: Stanley Kubrick David Lynch John Woo Akira Kurosawa Jeunet and Caro (french, makers of Delicatessan and City of Lost Children) Quentin Tarrantino (who didn't see this coming, sorry but he belongs on any list) Roman Polanski Terry Gilliam Martin Scorsese George Lucas -- The best are: 1. David Lynch (the best by far!!!) 2. Gus Van Sant 3. Kubrick