Seen of "They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?"'s Top 100 Directors

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  1. 1. Orson Welles

  2. 1. Citizen Kane (1941)
  3. 2. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
  4. 3. The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
  5. 4. Mr. Arkadin (1955)
  6. 5. Touch of Evil (1958)
  7. 6. The Trial (1962)
  8. 7. F for Fake (1974)

  10. 2. Alfred Hitchcock

  11. 1. The Lodger (1927)
  12. 2. 39 Steps (1935)
  13. 3. Saboteur (1942)
  14. 4. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
  15. 5. Spellbound (1945)
  16. 6. Notorious (1946)
  17. 7. Rope (1948)
  18. 8. Strangers on a Train (1951)
  19. 9. Rear Window (1954)
  20. 10. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
  21. 11. Vertigo (1958)
  22. 12. North by Northwest (1959)
  23. 13. Psycho (1960)
  24. 14. The Birds (1963)
  25. 15. Marnie (1964)

  27. 3. Federico Fellini

  28. 1. La Strada (1954)
  29. 2. La Dolce Vita (1960)
  30. 3. 8 ½ (1963)
  31. 4. Amarcord (1974)

  33. 4. John Ford

  34. 1. Stagecoach (1939)
  35. 2. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
  36. 3. Grapes of Wrath (1940)
  37. 4. My Darling Clementine (1946)
  38. 5. The Searchers (1956)
  39. 6. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

  41. 5. Stanley Kubrick

  42. 1. The Killing (1956)
  43. 2. Paths of Glory (1957)
  44. 3. Lolita (1962)
  45. 4. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
  46. 5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  47. 6. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  48. 7. Barry Lyndon (1975)
  49. 8. The Shining (1980)
  50. 9. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  51. 10. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

  53. 6. Jean Renoir

  54. 1. Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
  55. 2. La Grande Illusion (1937)
  56. 3. Bete Humaine (1938)
  57. 4. Rules of the Game (1939)
  58. 5. The River (1951)

  60. 7. Akira Kurosawa

  61. 1. Rashomon (1950)
  62. 2. Ikiru (1952)
  63. 3. The Seven Samurai (1954)
  64. 4. Throne of Blood (1957)
  65. 5. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
  66. 6. Yojimbo (1961)
  67. 7. Sanjuro (1962)
  68. 8. High and Low (1963)
  69. 9. Dersu Uzala (1975)
  70. 10. Kagemusha (1980)
  71. 11. Ran (1985)
  72. 12. Rhapsody in August (1991)

  74. 8. Ingmar Bergman

  75. 1. The Seventh Seal (1957)
  76. 2. Wild Strawberries (1957)
  77. 3. The Virgin Spring (1960)
  78. 4. Persona (1966)
  79. 5. Cries and Whispers (1972)
  80. 6. Fanny and Alexander (1982)

  82. 9. Jean-Luc Godard

  83. 1. Breathless (1960)
  84. 2. My Life to Live (1962)
  85. 3. Contempt (1963)
  86. 4. Weekend (1967)

  88. 10. Luis Bunuel

  89. 1. Un Chien Andalou (1929)
  90. 2. L’Age D’Or (1930)
  91. 3. Viridiana (1961)
  92. 4. The Exterminating Angel (1962)
  93. 5. Belle de Jour (1967)
  94. 6. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
  95. 7. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)

  97. 11. Francis Ford Coppola

  98. 1. The Godfather (1972)
  99. 2. The Conversation (1974)
  100. 3. The Godfather part II (1974)
  101. 4. Apocalypse Now (1979)
  102. 5. Cotton Club (1984)
  103. 6. Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
  104. 7. The Godfather part III (1990)
  105. 8. Jack (1996)

  107. 12. Charles Chaplin

  108. 1. The Gold Rush (1925)
  109. 2. City Lights (1931)
  110. 3. Modern Times (1936)
  111. 4. The Great Dictator (1940)
  112. 5. Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
  113. 6. Limelight (1952)

  115. 13. Billy Wilder

  116. 1. Double Indemnity (1944)
  117. 2. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
  118. 3. Stalag 17 (1953)
  119. 4. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
  120. 5. Some Like It Hot (1959)
  121. 6. The Apartment (1960)

  123. 14. Martin Scorsese

  124. 1. Mean Streets (1973)
  125. 2. Taxi Driver (1976)
  126. 3. Raging Bull (1980)
  127. 4. Goodfellas (1990)
  128. 5. Gangs of New York (2002)
  129. 6. The Departed (2006)

  131. 15. Howard Hawks

  132. 1. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
  133. 2. Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
  134. 3. His Girl Friday (1940)
  135. 4. Sergeant York (1941)
  136. 5. The Big Sleep (1946)
  137. 6. Red River (1948)
  138. 7. Rio Bravo (1959)

  140. 16. Carl Dreyer

  141. 1. Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
  142. 2. Vampyr (1932)
  143. 3. Day of Wrath (1943)
  144. 4. Ordet (1955)
  145. 5. Gertrude (1964)

  147. 17. Sergei Eisenstein

  148. 1. The Battleship Potempkin (1925)
  149. 2. Alexander Nevsky (1938)
  150. 3. Ivan the Terrible (1944-1946)

  152. 18. FW Murnau

  153. 1. Nosferatu (1922)
  154. 2. The Last Laugh (1924)
  155. 3. Faust (1926)
  156. 4. Sunrise (1927)
  157. 5. Tabu (1931)

  159. 19. Yasujiro Ozu

  160. 1. Late Spring (1949)
  161. 2. Early Summer (1951)
  162. 3. Tokyo Story (1953)
  163. 4. Floating Weeds (1959)

  165. 20. Robert Bresson

  166. 1. A Man Escaped (1956)
  167. 2. Pickpocket (1959)
  168. 3. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
  169. 4. Mouchette (1967)
  170. 5. Lancelot du Lac (1974)

  172. 21. Andrei Tarkovsky

  173. 1. Andrei Rublev (1969)
  174. 2. Solaris (1972)
  175. 3. The Mirror (1975)
  176. 4. Stalker (1979)
  177. 5. Sacrifice (1986)

  179. 22. Fritz Lang

  180. 1. Metropolis (1927)
  181. 2. M (1931)
  182. 3. The Last Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
  183. 4. Scarlet Street (1945)
  184. 5. The Big Heat (1953)
  185. 6. While the City Sleeps (1956)
  186. 7. Tiger of Eschnapur (1958)
  187. 8. Indian Tomb (1959)

  189. 23. Kenji Mizoguchi

  190. 1. Sisters of the Gion (1936)
  191. 2. Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)
  192. 3. Life of Oharu (1952)
  193. 4. Ugetsu (1953)
  194. 5. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
  195. 6. Street of Shame (1956)

  197. 24. Francois Truffaut

  198. 1. The 400 Blows (1959)
  199. 2. Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
  200. 3. Jules et Jim (1962)

  202. 25. David Lean

  203. 1. Brief Encounter (1945)
  204. 2. Great Expectations (1946)
  205. 3. The Bridge Over the River Kwai (1957)
  206. 4. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  207. 5. Doctor Zhivago (1965)

  209. 26. Buster Keaton

  210. 1. Our Hospitality (1923)
  211. 2. Sherlock Jr (1924)
  212. 3. The Navigator (1924)
  213. 4. The General (1927)
  214. 5. Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)
  215. 6. The Cameraman (1928)

  217. 27. Michelangelo Antonioni

  218. 1. L’Avventura (1960)
  219. 2. Blow Up (1966)

  221. 28. DW Griffith

  222. 1. Birth of a Nation (1915)
  223. 2. Intolerance (1916)
  224. 3. Broken Blossoms (1919)
  225. 4. Way Down East (1920)

  227. 29. Roberto Rossellini

  228. 1.Voyage in Italy (1954)

  230. 30. Max Ophuls

  231. 1. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
  232. 2. Earrings of Madame De… (1953)

  234. 31. Steven Spielberg

  235. 1. Jaws (1975)
  236. 2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
  237. 3. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  238. 4. E.T.-the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
  239. 5. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
  240. 6. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
  241. 7. Hook (1991)
  242. 8. Schindler’s List (1993)
  243. 9. Jurassic Park (1993)
  244. 10. Jurassic Part II: the Lost World (1997)
  245. 11. Amistad (1997)
  246. 12. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  247. 13. A.I-Artificial Intelligence (2001)
  248. 14. Minority Report (2002)
  249. 15. Catch Me If You Can (2002)
  250. 16. The Terminal (2004)
  251. 17. The War of the Worlds (2005)
  252. 18. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Kull (2008)

  254. 32. Vittorio De Sica

  255. 1. Bicycle Thief (1948)
  256. 2. Miracle in Milan (1951)
  257. 3. Umberto D. (1952)

  259. 33. Satyajit Ray

  260. 1. Pather Panchali (1955)
  261. 2. Aparajito (1956)
  262. 3. World of Apu (1959)

  264. 34. Luchino Visconti

  265. 1. The Leopard (1963)
  266. 2. The Damned (1969)

  268. 35. Woody Allen

  269. 1. Take the Money and Run (1969)
  270. 2. Annie Hall (1977)
  271. 3. Manhattan (1979)
  272. 4. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
  273. 5. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
  274. 6. Might Aphrodite (1995)
  275. 7. Vicky Christina Barcelona (2008)

  277. 36. Ernst Lubitsch

  278. 1. Trouble in Paradise (1932)
  279. 2. Ninotchka (1939)
  280. 3. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
  281. 4. To Be or Not to Be (1942)

  283. 37. John Huston

  284. 1. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  285. 2. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  286. 3. The African Queen (1950)

  288. 38. Roman Polanski

  289. 1. Repulsion (1965)
  290. 2. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
  291. 3. Chinatown (1974)
  292. 4. The Tenant (1976)
  293. 5. The Pianist (2002)

  295. 39. Jean Vigo

  296. 1. L’Atalante (1934)

  298. 40. Robert Altman

  299. 1. MASH (1970)
  300. 2. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
  301. 3. Nashville (1975)
  302. 4. Short Cuts (1993)
  303. 5. Gosford Park (2001)

  305. 41. Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly

  306. 1. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
  307. 2. Charade (1963)

  309. 42. Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger

  310. 1. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
  311. 2. A Canterbury Tale (1944)
  312. 3. A Matter of Life and Death/Stairway to Heaven (1946)
  313. 4. Black Narcissus (1947)
  314. 5. The Red Shoes (1948)
  315. 6. Peeping Tom (1960) (solo Powell)

  317. 43. Frank Capra

  318. 1. It Happened One Night (1936)
  319. 2. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  320. 3. Meet John Doe (1941)
  321. 4. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

  323. 44. Alain Resnais

  324. 1. Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959)
  325. 2. Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

  327. 45. Sergio Leone

  328. 1. Fistful of Dollars (1964)
  329. 2. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
  330. 3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
  331. 4. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
  332. 5. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

  334. 46. Michael Curtiz

  335. 1. Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
  336. 2. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
  337. 3. Casablanca (1942)

  339. 47. Sam Peckinpah

  340. 1. The Wild Bunch (1969)
  341. 2. Straw Dogs (1971)
  342. 3. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)

  344. 48. Bernardo Bertolucci

  345. 1. The Conformist (1970)
  346. 2. Last Tango in Paris (1972)
  347. 3. Little Buddha (1994)

  349. 49. Preston Sturges

  350. 1. Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
  351. 2. The Lady Eve (1941)
  352. 3. The Palm Beach Story (1942)

  354. 50. Carol Reed

  355. 1. Odd Man Out (1947)
  356. 3. Fallen Idol (1948)
  357. 3. The Third Man (1949)

  359. 51. Victor Fleming

  360. 1. Gone with the Wind (1939)
  361. 2. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

  363. 52. John Cassavetes

  364. 1. Faces (1968)
  365. 2. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
  366. 3. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

  368. 53. Marcel Carne

  369. 1. Children of Paradise (1945)

  371. 54. Eric von Stroheim

  372. 1. Foolish Wives (1922)
  373. 2. Greed (1924)
  374. 3. Queen Kelly (1929)

  376. 55. Ridley Scott

  377. 1. Alien (1979)
  378. 2. Blade Runner (1982)
  379. 3. Gladiator (2000)
  380. 4. Black Hawk Down (2001)
  381. 5. Hannibal (2001)
  382. 6. Matchstick Men (2003)
  383. 7. American Gangster (2007)
  384. 8. Body of Lies (2008)

  386. 56. Werner Herzog

  387. 1. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
  388. 2. Stroszek (1977)
  389. 3. Fitzcarraldo (1982)
  390. 4. Rescue Dawn (2006)

  392. 57. Jacques Tati

  393. 1. Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (1953)
  394. 2. Playtime (1967)

  396. 58. George Cukor

  397. 1. The Philadelphia Story (1940)

  399. 59. David Lynch

  400. 1. Eraserhead (1977)
  401. 2. Blue Velvet (1986)
  402. 3. Lost Highway (1997)
  403. 4. Mulhollad Dr. (2001)

  405. 60. Krzysztof Kieslowski

  406. 1. The Decalogue (1988)
  407. 2. A Short Film About Killing (1988)
  408. 3. The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
  409. 4. Bleu (1993)
  410. 5. Blanc (1994)
  411. 6. Rouge (1994)

  413. 61. RW Fassbinder

  414. 1. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
  415. 2. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
  416. 3. Veronika Voss (1982)

  418. 62. Leo McCarey

  419. 1. Duck Soup (1933)

  421. 63. Joseph von Sternberg

  422. 1. The Blue Angel (1930)
  423. 2. Morocco (1930)
  424. 3. The Scarlet Empress (1932)
  425. 4. The Shanghai Gesture (1941)

  427. 64. Vincente Minnelli

  429. 65. Douglas Sirk

  430. 1. All That Heaven Allows (1955)
  431. 2. Written on the Wind (1956)
  432. 3. Imitation of Life (1959)

  434. 66. Nicholas Ray

  435. 1. In a Lonely Place (1950)
  436. 2. Rebel without a Cause (1955)
  437. 3. Bitter Victory (1957)

  439. 67. Elia Kazan

  440. 1. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  441. 2. On the Waterfront (1954)
  442. 3. Splendor in the Grass (1961)

  444. 68. Pier Paolo Passolini

  446. 69. Abbas Kiarostami

  447. 1. Close-Up (1990)
  448. 2. A Taste of Cherry (1997)
  449. 3. The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)

  451. 70. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  452. 1. All About Eve (1950)

  454. 71. William Wyler

  455. 1. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  456. 2. Roman Holiday (1953)
  457. 3. Ben-Hur (1959)

  459. 72. Terrence Malick

  460. 1. Badlands (1972)
  461. 2. Days of Heaven (1978)
  462. 3. The Thin Red Line (1998)
  463. 4. The New World (2005)

  465. 73. King Vidor

  466. 1. The Crowd (1928)

  468. 74. Jacques Tourneur

  469. 1. Cat People (1942)
  470. 2. I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
  471. 3. Out of the Past (1947)
  472. 4. Night of the Demon (1957)

  474. 75. Chris Marker

  475. 1. La Jetée (1962)

  477. 76. David Cronenberg

  478. 1. Videodrome (1983)
  479. 2. The Fly (1986)
  480. 3. Dead Ringers (1988)
  481. 4. A History of Violence (2005)
  482. 5. Eastern Promises (2007)

  484. 77. Wong Kar-Wai

  485. 1. Days of Being Wild (1991)
  486. 2. Chungking Express (1994)
  487. 3. Ashes of Time (1994)
  488. 4. Happy Together (1997)
  489. 5. In the Mood for Love (2000)

  491. 78. Jacques Rivette

  492. 1. Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
  493. 2. La Belle Noiseuse (1991)

  495. 79. Milos Forman

  496. 1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
  497. 2. Amadeus (1984)

  499. 80. Wim Wenders

  500. 1. Paris, Texas (1984)

  502. 81. Eric Rohmer

  504. 82. Quentin Tarantino

  505. 1. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
  506. 2. Pulp Fiction (1994)
  507. 3. Jackie Brown (1997)
  508. 4. Kill Bill vol. 1 (2003)
  509. 5. Kill Bill vol. 2 (2004)
  510. 6. Death Proof (2007)

  512. 83. Hou Hsiao-Hsien

  513. 1. The Puppetmaster (1993)
  514. Plus several other movies I've tried to watch but given up on halfway through

  516. 84. Joel Coen

  517. 1. Miller’s Crossing (1990)
  518. 2. Barton Fink (1991)
  519. 3. Fargo (1996)
  520. 4. The Big Lebowski (1998)
  521. 5. O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000)
  522. 6. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
  523. 7. Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
  524. 8. The Ladykillers (2004)
  525. 9. No Country for Old Men (2007)
  526. 10. Burn After Reading (2008)

  528. 85. Alexander Dovzhenko

  529. 1. Earth (1930)

  531. 86. Jean Cocteau

  532. 1. Blood of the Poet (1930)
  533. 2. Belle et la Bete (1946)
  534. 3. Orpheus (1950)

  536. 87. Jacques Demy

  537. 1. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

  539. 88. Robert Flaherty

  541. 89. Clint Eastwood

  542. 1. Pale Rider (1985)
  543. 2. Unforgiven (1992)
  544. 3. True Crime (1999)
  545. 4. Mystic River (2003)
  546. 5. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
  547. 6. Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
  548. 7. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
  549. 8. Gran Torino (2008)

  551. 90. Nicolas Roeg

  552. 1. Walkabout (1971)

  554. 91. Sidney Lumet

  555. 1. Network (1976)

  557. 92. Jean-Pierre Melville

  558. 1. Le Samourai (1967)

  560. 93. George Lucas

  561. 1. American Graffiti (1973)
  562. 2. Star Wars (1977)
  563. 3. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)
  564. 4. Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)
  565. 5. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)

  567. 94. George Stevens

  568. 1. Shane (1953)

  570. 95. Stan Brakhage

  571. 1. The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981)
  572. 2. Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse (1991)
  573. 3. Water for Maya (2000)

  575. 96. James Whale

  576. 1. Frankenstein (1931)
  577. 2. The Bride of Frankenstien (1935)

  579. 97. Otto Preminger

  580. 1. Laura (1944)

  582. 98. Brian De Palma

  583. 1. Dressed to Kill (1980)
  584. 2. Scarface (1983)
  585. 3. Body Double (1984)
  586. 4. The Untouchables (1987)
  587. 5. Carlito's Way (1993)
  588. 6. Mission Impossible (1996)
  589. 7. Mission to Mars (2000)

  591. 99. Andrzej Wajda

  592. 1. Ashes and Diamonds (1958)

  594. 100. Theo Angelopoulos

  595. 1. Landscape in the Mist (1988)
  596. 2. Eternity and a Day (1998)
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