Top 250 Directors Challenge

[brokenface]

Goal:
Watch one film for each of the directors on the top 250 directors according to TSPDT, as listed in the spoiler below:
(added 2016 version, thanks to Tarr. Also left the original version from when the challenge started - if you are starting fresh, take your pick!)

2013 versionShow

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Orson Welles
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. Federico Fellini
5. Jean-Luc Godard
6. Jean Renoir
7. John Ford
8. Akira Kurosawa
9. Francis Ford Coppola
10. Ingmar Bergman
11. Yasujiro Ozu
12. Martin Scorsese
13. Carl Dreyer
14. Luis Buñuel
15. Charles Chaplin
16. Andrei Tarkovsky
17. Robert Bresson
18. Billy Wilder
19. F.W. Murnau
20. Howard Hawks
21. Michelangelo Antonioni
22. Fritz Lang
23. Sergei Eisenstein
24. François Truffaut
25. Kenji Mizoguchi
26. Roberto Rossellini
27. David Lean
28. David Lynch
29. Vittorio De Sica
30. Luchino Visconti
31. Steven Spielberg
32. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
33. Woody Allen
34. Jean Vigo
35. Satyajit Ray
36. John Cassavetes
37. Ernst Lubitsch
38. Roman Polanski
39. Sergio Leone
40. Alain Resnais
41. Max Ophüls
42. D.W. Griffith
43. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
44. Robert Altman
45. Wong Kar-wai
46. Abbas Kiarostami
47. Buster Keaton
48. Terrence Malick
49. John Huston
50. Ridley Scott
51. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
52. Werner Herzog
53. Dziga Vertov
54. Pier Paolo Pasolini
55. Chris Marker
56. Jacques Tati
57. Sam Peckinpah
58. Michael Curtiz
59. Bernardo Bertolucci
60. Carol Reed
61. Marcel Carné
62. Preston Sturges
63. Krszystof Kieslowski
64. Frank Capra
65. Victor Fleming
66. Vincente Minnelli
67. Nicholas Ray
68. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
69. Leo McCarey
70. Erich von Stroheim
71. Béla Tarr
72. Douglas Sirk
73. Hou Hsiao-hsien
74. Nicolas Roeg
75. Wim Wenders
76. Chantal Akerman
77. Gillo Pontecorvo
78. Quentin Tarantino
79. Elia Kazan
80. Jacques Rivette
81. Edward Yang
82. Josef von Sternberg
83. Jean-Pierre Melville
84. Claude Lanzmann
85. Lars von Trier
86. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
87. Eric Rohmer
88. Milos Forman
89. George Cukor
90. David Cronenberg
91. Jacques Tourneur
92. Jacques Demy
93. William Wyler
94. Jean Eustache
95. Hayao Miyazaki
96. Victor Erice
97. Clint Eastwood
98. Claire Denis
99. Theo Angelopoulos
100. Sidney Lumet
101. Spike Lee
102. King Vidor
103. Paul Thomas Anderson
104. Michael Haneke
105. Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
106. Jean Cocteau
107. Brian De Palma
108. Abel Gance
109. George Lucas
110. George A. Romero
111. James Cameron
112. Sergei Parajanov
113. Pedro Almodóvar
114. Michael Snow
115. Robert Flaherty
116. Glauber Rocha
117. Stan Brakhage
118. Otto Preminger
119. Ken Loach
120. Alexander Dovzhenko
121. Mikio Naruse
122. Peter Weir
123. Jane Campion
124. Alexander Mackendrick
125. Jim Jarmusch
126. Aleksandr Sokurov
127. Henri-Georges Clouzot
128. William Friedkin
129. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
130. Andrzej Wajda
131. John Carpenter
132. Raoul Walsh
133. Andy Warhol
134. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
135. Michael Powell
136. Elem Klimov
137. Hal Ashby
138. Michael Cimino
139. Ousmane Sembene
140. Terry Gilliam
141. Mike Leigh
142. Maurice Pialat
143. James Whale
144. Agnès Varda
145. Zhang Yimou
146. Louis Malle
147. Mike Nichols
148. Arthur Penn
149. Ritwik Ghatak
150. Samuel Fuller
151. Nagisa Oshima
152. Robert Wise
153. Djibril Diop Mambéty
154. G.W. Pabst
155. Mikhail Kalatozov
156. George Stevens
157. Michael Mann
158. Robert Aldrich
159. Rob Reiner
160. Terence Davies
161. Maya Deren
162. John Boorman
163. René Clair
164. Tod Browning
165. Tobe Hooper
166. Anthony Mann
167. Georges Méliès
168. Robert Hamer
169. Tsai Ming-liang
170. Manoel de Oliveira
171. Robert Zemeckis
172. Frank Borzage
173. Humphrey Jennings
174. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
175. Joseph Losey
176. Bob Fosse
177. Robert Wiene
178. Shohei Imamura
179. Peter Bogdanovich
180. Don Siegel
181. Frederick Wiseman
182. Ben Sharpsteen
183. Emir Kusturica
184. Blake Edwards
185. Oliver Stone
186. Georges Franju
187. Victor Sjöström
188. Sydney Pollack
189. Todd Haynes
190. David Hand
191. Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
192. Lindsay Anderson
193. David Fincher
194. Charles Burnett
195. Fei Mu
196. John Schlesinger
197. George Roy Hill
198. Tim Burton
199. Guru Dutt
200. Harold Ramis
201. Fred Zinnemann
202. Kenneth Anger
203. Ang Lee
204. Errol Morris
205. Gus Van Sant
206. Ken Russell
207. Jia Zhangke
208. Luis García Berlanga
209. Paul Verhoeven
210. Leni Riefenstahl
211. Monte Hellman
212. Ermanno Olmi
213. Louis Feuillade
214. John Woo
215. Richard Linklater
216. Francesco Rosi
217. Chen Kaige
218. Mel Brooks
219. Peter Kubelka
220. Jean Rouch
221. Jacques Becker
222. Peter Watkins
223. Jack Clayton
224. Boris Barnet
225. Robert Mulligan
226. Bob Rafelson
227. Edgar G. Ulmer
228. Jerry Lewis
229. Rouben Mamoulian
230. Peter Jackson
231. Dario Argento
232. King Hu
233. Alan J. Pakula
234. Sam Wood
235. Aki Kaurismäki
236. John Hughes
237. Marcel Ophüls
238. Peter Greenaway
239. Claude Chabrol
240. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
241. Frantisek Vlácil
242. Miklós Jancsó
243. Giuseppe Tornatore
244. Dennis Hopper
245. Seijun Suzuki
246. Dusan Makavejev
247. Masaki Kobayashi
248. Jonas Mekas
249. Mark Sandrich
250. Alejandro Jodorowsky

2016 VersionShow

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Orson Welles
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. Federico Fellini
5. Jean-Luc Godard
6. Francis Ford Coppola
7. Akira Kurosawa
8. Ingmar Bergman
9. Jean Renoir
10. John Ford
11. Yasujiro Ozu
12. Martin Scorsese
13. Luis Buñuel
14. Andrei Tarkovsky
15. Charles Chaplin
16. Billy Wilder
17. Carl Theodor Dreyer
18. Robert Bresson
19. F.W. Murnau
20. Michelangelo Antonioni
21. Howard Hawks
22. Fritz Lang
23. Sergei Eisenstein
24. François Truffaut
25. Steven Spielberg
26. Kenji Mizoguchi
27. Woody Allen
28. Roberto Rossellini
29. David Lean
30. David Lynch
31. Vittorio De Sica
32. Alain Resnais
33. Luchino Visconti
34. Roman Polanski
35. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
36. John Cassavetes
37. Sergio Leone
38. Satyajit Ray
39. Wong Kar-wai
40. Jean Vigo
41. Ernst Lubitsch
42. Ridley Scott
43. Robert Altman
44. Max Ophüls
45. Werner Herzog
46. Abbas Kiarostami
47. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
48. Dziga Vertov
49. D.W. Griffith
50. Chris Marker
51. Krzysztof Kieslowski
52. Buster Keaton
53. John Huston
54. Terrence Malick
55. Hou Hsiao-hsien
56. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
57. Edward Yang
58. Jacques Tati
59. Pier Paolo Pasolini
60. Bernardo Bertolucci
61. Sam Peckinpah
62. Michael Curtiz
63. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
64. Frank Capra
65. Victor Fleming
66. Quentin Tarantino
67. Preston Sturges
68. Marcel Carné
69. Vincente Minnelli
70. Carol Reed
71. Wim Wenders
72. Nicholas Ray
73. Béla Tarr
74. Leo McCarey
75. Erich von Stroheim
76. Douglas Sirk
77. Elia Kazan
78. Lars von Trier
79. Nicolas Roeg
80. Eric Rohmer
81. Claude Lanzmann
82. Jean-Pierre Melville
83. Gillo Pontecorvo
84. David Cronenberg
85. Chantal Akerman
86. Theo Angelopoulos
87. Milos Forman
88. George Cukor
89. Hayao Miyazaki
90. Josef von Sternberg
91. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
92. Jacques Rivette
93. Jacques Demy
94. Michael Haneke
95. William Wyler
96. Jacques Tourneur
97. Victor Erice
98. James Cameron
99. Sidney Lumet
100. Paul Thomas Anderson
101. George Lucas
102. Brian De Palma
103. Clint Eastwood
104. Pedro Almodóvar
105. Robert Flaherty
106. Spike Lee
107. Jean Eustache
108. Claire Denis
109. Mikio Naruse
110. Glauber Rocha
111. Ken Loach
112. King Vidor
113. Jim Jarmusch
114. Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
115. Terry Gilliam
116. George A. Romero
117. John Carpenter
118. Jean Cocteau
119. Hal Ashby
120. Zhang Yimou
121. William Friedkin
122. Aleksandr Sokurov
123. Agnès Varda
124. Michael Cimino
125. Michael Snow
126. Stan Brakhage
127. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
128. Jane Campion
129. Otto Preminger
130. Sergei Parajanov
131. Abel Gance
132. Alexander Dovzhenko
133. Alexander Mackendrick
134. Ang Lee
135. Nagisa Oshima
136. Fei Mu
137. Emir Kusturica
138. Peter Weir
139. Rob Reiner
140. Mike Leigh
141. Elem Klimov
142. Errol Morris
143. Henri-Georges Clouzot
144. Samuel Fuller
145. Andrzej Wajda
146. Robert Wise
147. Arthur Penn
148. Raoul Walsh
149. Andy Warhol
150. Robert Zemeckis
151. Mike Nichols
152. Frederick Wiseman
153. Michael Powell
154. Maurice Pialat
155. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
156. Robert Aldrich
157. Michael Mann
158. Luis García Berlanga
159. John Boorman
160. Louis Malle
161. Tsai Ming-liang
162. Ousmane Sembene
163. David Fincher
164. James Whale
165. G.W. Pabst
166. George Stevens
167. Ritwik Ghatak
168. Mikhail Kalatozov
169. Jia Zhangke
170. King Hu
171. Georges Méliès
172. Jean Rouch
173. Humphrey Jennings
174. Anthony Mann
175. Tobe Hooper
176. Maya Deren
177. Joseph Losey
178. Manoel de Oliveira
179. Gus Van Sant
180. Paul Verhoeven
181. Tod Browning
182. Chen Kaige
183. Robert Wiene
184. Terence Davies
185. Sydney Pollack
186. Djibril Diop Mambéty
187. Tim Burton
188. Richard Linklater
189. Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
190. Peter Bogdanovich
191. Georges Franju
192. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
193. René Clair
194. Bob Fosse
195. John Schlesinger
196. Shohei Imamura
197. Don Siegel
198. Robert Hamer
199. Ben Sharpsteen
200. Peter Jackson
201. Harold Ramis
202. John Woo
203. Robert Mulligan
204. Albert Maysles, David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin
205. Peter Watkins
206. Fred Zinnemann
207. Lindsay Anderson
208. Blake Edwards
209. Ken Russell
210. David Hand
211. Mel Brooks
212. Leni Riefenstahl
213. George Roy Hill
214. Victor Sjöström
215. Charles Burnett
216. Ermanno Olmi
217. Guru Dutt
218. Oliver Stone
219. Todd Haynes
220. Frank Borzage
221. Marcel Ophüls
222. Aki Kaurismäki
223. Irvin Kershner
224. Giuseppe Tornatore
225. Nelson Pereira dos Santos
226. Peter Greenaway
227. Wes Anderson
228. Dario Argento
229. Jonathan Demme
230. D.A. Pennebaker
231. Jonas Mekas
232. John Hughes
233. Kenneth Anger
234. Francesco Rosi
235. Jacques Becker
236. John Landis
237. Claude Chabrol
238. Monte Hellman
239. Christopher Nolan
240. Alan J. Pakula
241. Pedro Costa
242. Andy Wachowski & Lana Wachowski
243. Alejandro Jodorowsky
244. Danny Boyle
245. Jack Clayton
246. Bob Rafelson
247. John Frankenheimer
248. Louis Feuillade
249. Masaki Kobayashi
250. Takeshi Kitano

Rules:
- A feature film (Anything over 45 minutes) counts as one entry
- A total of 60 minutes of short films count as one entry*
- Rewatches are allowed.
- Challenge is ongoing
- If you've already seen everything by a director, either rewatch something, skip them, or pick a different director to nominate in their place.

*can be less if the director doesn't have enough (e.g. Peter Kubelka).

Links:

http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000 ... ectors.htm

Participants - Updated 14/07/2020 [not sure how to deal with additional ones for people tracking extras from changed versions, I've kept the order as the main tally out of 250]

jvv - 250
brokenface - 250

cinephage - 248
kierkegaardian - 203
tarr - 201 (+10)

Lonewolf2003 - 193
Hunziker - 174
PGonzalez - 168
connordenney - 164 (+7)
redcard29 - 164
Melvelet - 159
lampadatriste - 158

flavo5000 - 125
funkybusiness - 122
ibetolis - 118
sebby - 112
coryn - 109

albajos 82
Gonzalito199 - 79
kowry - 76
Kasparius - 76
frbrown - 70
clemmetarey - 61
b_n - 53
jamescgray3 - 51

Daviddoes - 47
Gregmnewman - 46
VincentPrice - 36
Mochard - 31
sushantv - 27
edward5 - 20
mightysparks - 15
takk71 - 15
moktay - 15
nornd - 15
aliveli452 - 15
Volonte - 14
jgwr - 12
Nopros - 9
Wonderful Rainbow - 9
Cinepolis - 9
TheRedDeath - 4
VerbalKint - 3
SeanMX12 - 1
LarsC - 1

[VincentPrice]

Definitely in

[brokenface]

oh god, I just realized this is committing me to watching another Bela Tarr film

[sebby]

In.

But looking at that list I feel a little less enthused. Tarr, Jodorowsky, Brakhage...

[Kasparius]

"- If you've already seen everything by a director, you must like them so rewatch something "

i think this should be optional

[brokenface]

In.

But looking at that list I feel a little less enthused. Tarr, Jodorowsky, Brakhage...

The good definitely outweigh the bad though!

[brokenface]

"- If you've already seen everything by a director, you must like them so rewatch something "

i think this should be optional

yeah fair enough, don't wanna put anyone off.

have replaced it with:


- If you've already seen everything by a director, either rewatch something, skip them, or pick a different director to nominate in their place.

[Kasparius]

I'm in, but the prospect of watching another Tarr is daunting.

[brokenface]

It's gonna be a long challenge. I'm saving Tarr for when the memory of the pain has faded.

[VincentPrice]

I've never seen anything by Tarr so I'll assume I am in for a life-changing experience when I finally do.

[funkybusiness]

I'm in.

[funkybusiness]

I was writing this post and then I found out that Cooper/Schoedsack made multiple films together, I thought they only made King Kong together. I didn't want to re-watch King Kong. I'll post this anyway.

There are a couple director pairs listed. Do we have to watch a film directed by both of them? The Coens and the Dardennes, that makes sense, but Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack and Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger made films independent of each other. Can a film by either of them count? The TSPDT list is compiled based on specific films, of course.

[Kasparius]

I'm done with 4 of the first 5, so I'll start with Fellini, I guess.

Well I guess we don't have to do this in order at all.

[sebby]

001. Forty Guns [1957, Samuel Fuller, #150] 7/10

Liked it a lot. Have yet to be let down by Fuller.

TSPDT Top 250 Director ChallengeShow

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Orson Welles
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. Federico Fellini
5. Jean-Luc Godard
6. Jean Renoir
7. John Ford
8. Akira Kurosawa
9. Francis Ford Coppola
10. Ingmar Bergman
11. Yasujiro Ozu
12. Martin Scorsese
13. Carl Dreyer
14. Luis Buñuel
15. Charles Chaplin
16. Andrei Tarkovsky
17. Robert Bresson
18. Billy Wilder
19. F.W. Murnau
20. Howard Hawks
21. Michelangelo Antonioni
22. Fritz Lang
23. Sergei Eisenstein
24. François Truffaut
25. Kenji Mizoguchi
26. Roberto Rossellini
27. David Lean
28. David Lynch
29. Vittorio De Sica
30. Luchino Visconti
31. Steven Spielberg
32. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
33. Woody Allen
34. Jean Vigo
35. Satyajit Ray
36. John Cassavetes
37. Ernst Lubitsch
38. Roman Polanski
39. Sergio Leone
40. Alain Resnais
41. Max Ophüls
42. D.W. Griffith
43. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
44. Robert Altman
45. Wong Kar-wai
46. Abbas Kiarostami
47. Buster Keaton
48. Terrence Malick
49. John Huston
50. Ridley Scott
51. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
52. Werner Herzog
53. Dziga Vertov
54. Pier Paolo Pasolini
55. Chris Marker
56. Jacques Tati
57. Sam Peckinpah
58. Michael Curtiz
59. Bernardo Bertolucci
60. Carol Reed
61. Marcel Carné
62. Preston Sturges
63. Krszystof Kieslowski
64. Frank Capra
65. Victor Fleming
66. Vincente Minnelli
67. Nicholas Ray
68. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
69. Leo McCarey
70. Erich von Stroheim
71. Béla Tarr
72. Douglas Sirk
73. Hou Hsiao-hsien
74. Nicolas Roeg
75. Wim Wenders
76. Chantal Akerman
77. Gillo Pontecorvo
78. Quentin Tarantino
79. Elia Kazan
80. Jacques Rivette
81. Edward Yang
82. Josef von Sternberg
83. Jean-Pierre Melville
84. Claude Lanzmann
85. Lars von Trier
86. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
87. Eric Rohmer
88. Milos Forman
89. George Cukor
90. David Cronenberg
91. Jacques Tourneur
92. Jacques Demy
93. William Wyler
94. Jean Eustache
95. Hayao Miyazaki
96. Victor Erice
97. Clint Eastwood
98. Claire Denis
99. Theo Angelopoulos
100. Sidney Lumet
101. Spike Lee
102. King Vidor
103. Paul Thomas Anderson
104. Michael Haneke
105. Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
106. Jean Cocteau
107. Brian De Palma
108. Abel Gance
109. George Lucas
110. George A. Romero
111. James Cameron
112. Sergei Parajanov
113. Pedro Almodóvar
114. Michael Snow
115. Robert Flaherty
116. Glauber Rocha
117. Stan Brakhage
118. Otto Preminger
119. Ken Loach
120. Alexander Dovzhenko
121. Mikio Naruse
122. Peter Weir
123. Jane Campion
124. Alexander Mackendrick
125. Jim Jarmusch
126. Aleksandr Sokurov
127. Henri-Georges Clouzot
128. William Friedkin
129. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
130. Andrzej Wajda
131. John Carpenter
132. Raoul Walsh
133. Andy Warhol
134. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
135. Michael Powell
136. Elem Klimov
137. Hal Ashby
138. Michael Cimino
139. Ousmane Sembene
140. Terry Gilliam
141. Mike Leigh
142. Maurice Pialat
143. James Whale
144. Agnès Varda
145. Zhang Yimou
146. Louis Malle
147. Mike Nichols
148. Arthur Penn
149. Ritwik Ghatak
150. Samuel Fuller
151. Nagisa Oshima
152. Robert Wise
153. Djibril Diop Mambéty
154. G.W. Pabst
155. Mikhail Kalatozov
156. George Stevens
157. Michael Mann
158. Robert Aldrich
159. Rob Reiner
160. Terence Davies
161. Maya Deren
162. John Boorman
163. René Clair
164. Tod Browning
165. Tobe Hooper
166. Anthony Mann
167. Georges Méliès
168. Robert Hamer
169. Tsai Ming-liang
170. Manoel de Oliveira
171. Robert Zemeckis
172. Frank Borzage
173. Humphrey Jennings
174. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
175. Joseph Losey
176. Bob Fosse
177. Robert Wiene
178. Shohei Imamura
179. Peter Bogdanovich
180. Don Siegel
181. Frederick Wiseman
182. Ben Sharpsteen
183. Emir Kusturica
184. Blake Edwards
185. Oliver Stone
186. Georges Franju
187. Victor Sjöström
188. Sydney Pollack
189. Todd Haynes
190. David Hand
191. Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
192. Lindsay Anderson
193. David Fincher
194. Charles Burnett
195. Fei Mu
196. John Schlesinger
197. George Roy Hill
198. Tim Burton
199. Guru Dutt
200. Harold Ramis
201. Fred Zinnemann
202. Kenneth Anger
203. Ang Lee
204. Errol Morris
205. Gus Van Sant
206. Ken Russell
207. Jia Zhangke
208. Luis García Berlanga
209. Paul Verhoeven
210. Leni Riefenstahl
211. Monte Hellman
212. Ermanno Olmi
213. Louis Feuillade
214. John Woo
215. Richard Linklater
216. Francesco Rosi
217. Chen Kaige
218. Mel Brooks
219. Peter Kubelka
220. Jean Rouch
221. Jacques Becker
222. Peter Watkins
223. Jack Clayton
224. Boris Barnet
225. Robert Mulligan
226. Bob Rafelson
227. Edgar G. Ulmer
228. Jerry Lewis
229. Rouben Mamoulian
230. Peter Jackson
231. Dario Argento
232. King Hu
233. Alan J. Pakula
234. Sam Wood
235. Aki Kaurismäki
236. John Hughes
237. Marcel Ophüls
238. Peter Greenaway
239. Claude Chabrol
240. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
241. Frantisek Vlácil
242. Miklós Jancsó
243. Giuseppe Tornatore
244. Dennis Hopper
245. Seijun Suzuki
246. Dusan Makavejev
247. Masaki Kobayashi
248. Jonas Mekas
249. Mark Sandrich
250. Alejandro Jodorowsky

[PeacefulAnarchy]

I was writing this post and then I found out that Cooper/Schoedsack made multiple films together, I thought they only made King Kong together. I didn't want to re-watch King Kong. I'll post this anyway.

There are a couple director pairs listed. Do we have to watch a film directed by both of them? The Coens and the Dardennes, that makes sense, but Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack and Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger made films independent of each other. Can a film by either of them count? The TSPDT list is compiled based on specific films, of course.

Powell is listed twice, once with Pressburger and one without, so if you're staying true to the list yes.

[funkybusiness]

I was writing this post and then I found out that Cooper/Schoedsack made multiple films together, I thought they only made King Kong together. I didn't want to re-watch King Kong. I'll post this anyway.

There are a couple director pairs listed. Do we have to watch a film directed by both of them? The Coens and the Dardennes, that makes sense, but Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack and Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger made films independent of each other. Can a film by either of them count? The TSPDT list is compiled based on specific films, of course.

Powell is listed twice, once with Pressburger and one without, so if you're staying true to the list yes.

Ah, I missed Powell. I'm okay with that.

[Kasparius]

001. Forty Guns [1957, Samuel Fuller, #150] 7/10

Liked it a lot. Have yet to be let down by Fuller.

TSPDT Top 250 Director ChallengeShow

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Orson Welles
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. Federico Fellini
5. Jean-Luc Godard
6. Jean Renoir
7. John Ford
8. Akira Kurosawa
9. Francis Ford Coppola
10. Ingmar Bergman
11. Yasujiro Ozu
12. Martin Scorsese
13. Carl Dreyer
14. Luis Buñuel
15. Charles Chaplin
16. Andrei Tarkovsky
17. Robert Bresson
18. Billy Wilder
19. F.W. Murnau
20. Howard Hawks
21. Michelangelo Antonioni
22. Fritz Lang
23. Sergei Eisenstein
24. François Truffaut
25. Kenji Mizoguchi
26. Roberto Rossellini
27. David Lean
28. David Lynch
29. Vittorio De Sica
30. Luchino Visconti
31. Steven Spielberg
32. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
33. Woody Allen
34. Jean Vigo
35. Satyajit Ray
36. John Cassavetes
37. Ernst Lubitsch
38. Roman Polanski
39. Sergio Leone
40. Alain Resnais
41. Max Ophüls
42. D.W. Griffith
43. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
44. Robert Altman
45. Wong Kar-wai
46. Abbas Kiarostami
47. Buster Keaton
48. Terrence Malick
49. John Huston
50. Ridley Scott
51. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
52. Werner Herzog
53. Dziga Vertov
54. Pier Paolo Pasolini
55. Chris Marker
56. Jacques Tati
57. Sam Peckinpah
58. Michael Curtiz
59. Bernardo Bertolucci
60. Carol Reed
61. Marcel Carné
62. Preston Sturges
63. Krszystof Kieslowski
64. Frank Capra
65. Victor Fleming
66. Vincente Minnelli
67. Nicholas Ray
68. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
69. Leo McCarey
70. Erich von Stroheim
71. Béla Tarr
72. Douglas Sirk
73. Hou Hsiao-hsien
74. Nicolas Roeg
75. Wim Wenders
76. Chantal Akerman
77. Gillo Pontecorvo
78. Quentin Tarantino
79. Elia Kazan
80. Jacques Rivette
81. Edward Yang
82. Josef von Sternberg
83. Jean-Pierre Melville
84. Claude Lanzmann
85. Lars von Trier
86. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
87. Eric Rohmer
88. Milos Forman
89. George Cukor
90. David Cronenberg
91. Jacques Tourneur
92. Jacques Demy
93. William Wyler
94. Jean Eustache
95. Hayao Miyazaki
96. Victor Erice
97. Clint Eastwood
98. Claire Denis
99. Theo Angelopoulos
100. Sidney Lumet
101. Spike Lee
102. King Vidor
103. Paul Thomas Anderson
104. Michael Haneke
105. Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
106. Jean Cocteau
107. Brian De Palma
108. Abel Gance
109. George Lucas
110. George A. Romero
111. James Cameron
112. Sergei Parajanov
113. Pedro Almodóvar
114. Michael Snow
115. Robert Flaherty
116. Glauber Rocha
117. Stan Brakhage
118. Otto Preminger
119. Ken Loach
120. Alexander Dovzhenko
121. Mikio Naruse
122. Peter Weir
123. Jane Campion
124. Alexander Mackendrick
125. Jim Jarmusch
126. Aleksandr Sokurov
127. Henri-Georges Clouzot
128. William Friedkin
129. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
130. Andrzej Wajda
131. John Carpenter
132. Raoul Walsh
133. Andy Warhol
134. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
135. Michael Powell
136. Elem Klimov
137. Hal Ashby
138. Michael Cimino
139. Ousmane Sembene
140. Terry Gilliam
141. Mike Leigh
142. Maurice Pialat
143. James Whale
144. Agnès Varda
145. Zhang Yimou
146. Louis Malle
147. Mike Nichols
148. Arthur Penn
149. Ritwik Ghatak
150. Samuel Fuller
151. Nagisa Oshima
152. Robert Wise
153. Djibril Diop Mambéty
154. G.W. Pabst
155. Mikhail Kalatozov
156. George Stevens
157. Michael Mann
158. Robert Aldrich
159. Rob Reiner
160. Terence Davies
161. Maya Deren
162. John Boorman
163. René Clair
164. Tod Browning
165. Tobe Hooper
166. Anthony Mann
167. Georges Méliès
168. Robert Hamer
169. Tsai Ming-liang
170. Manoel de Oliveira
171. Robert Zemeckis
172. Frank Borzage
173. Humphrey Jennings
174. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
175. Joseph Losey
176. Bob Fosse
177. Robert Wiene
178. Shohei Imamura
179. Peter Bogdanovich
180. Don Siegel
181. Frederick Wiseman
182. Ben Sharpsteen
183. Emir Kusturica
184. Blake Edwards
185. Oliver Stone
186. Georges Franju
187. Victor Sjöström
188. Sydney Pollack
189. Todd Haynes
190. David Hand
191. Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
192. Lindsay Anderson
193. David Fincher
194. Charles Burnett
195. Fei Mu
196. John Schlesinger
197. George Roy Hill
198. Tim Burton
199. Guru Dutt
200. Harold Ramis
201. Fred Zinnemann
202. Kenneth Anger
203. Ang Lee
204. Errol Morris
205. Gus Van Sant
206. Ken Russell
207. Jia Zhangke
208. Luis García Berlanga
209. Paul Verhoeven
210. Leni Riefenstahl
211. Monte Hellman
212. Ermanno Olmi
213. Louis Feuillade
214. John Woo
215. Richard Linklater
216. Francesco Rosi
217. Chen Kaige
218. Mel Brooks
219. Peter Kubelka
220. Jean Rouch
221. Jacques Becker
222. Peter Watkins
223. Jack Clayton
224. Boris Barnet
225. Robert Mulligan
226. Bob Rafelson
227. Edgar G. Ulmer
228. Jerry Lewis
229. Rouben Mamoulian
230. Peter Jackson
231. Dario Argento
232. King Hu
233. Alan J. Pakula
234. Sam Wood
235. Aki Kaurismäki
236. John Hughes
237. Marcel Ophüls
238. Peter Greenaway
239. Claude Chabrol
240. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
241. Frantisek Vlácil
242. Miklós Jancsó
243. Giuseppe Tornatore
244. Dennis Hopper
245. Seijun Suzuki
246. Dusan Makavejev
247. Masaki Kobayashi
248. Jonas Mekas
249. Mark Sandrich
250. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Then don't watch Run of the Arrow, only disappointment so far. I guess Verboten! isn't great either.

[brokenface]

I was writing this post and then I found out that Cooper/Schoedsack made multiple films together, I thought they only made King Kong together. I didn't want to re-watch King Kong. I'll post this anyway.

There are a couple director pairs listed. Do we have to watch a film directed by both of them? The Coens and the Dardennes, that makes sense, but Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack and Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger made films independent of each other. Can a film by either of them count? The TSPDT list is compiled based on specific films, of course.

I think Donen you could just watch a solo film. Powell as peaceful said.

Cooper & Schoedsack - they were both more producers than directors really. I think all of Cooper's directing credits are with Schoedsack. Schoedsack has more directing credits, but Cooper was nearly always producer anyway so anything should count..

[brokenface]

Well I guess we don't have to do this in order at all.

absolutely not!

[VincentPrice]

1/250

That Uncertain Feeling-1941: B

Lubitsch done

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1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Orson Welles
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. Federico Fellini
5. Jean-Luc Godard
6. Jean Renoir
7. John Ford
8. Akira Kurosawa
9. Francis Ford Coppola
10. Ingmar Bergman
11. Yasujiro Ozu
12. Martin Scorsese
13. Carl Dreyer
14. Luis Buñuel
15. Charles Chaplin
16. Andrei Tarkovsky
17. Robert Bresson
18. Billy Wilder
19. F.W. Murnau
20. Howard Hawks
21. Michelangelo Antonioni
22. Fritz Lang
23. Sergei Eisenstein
24. François Truffaut
25. Kenji Mizoguchi
26. Roberto Rossellini
27. David Lean
28. David Lynch
29. Vittorio De Sica
30. Luchino Visconti
31. Steven Spielberg
32. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
33. Woody Allen
34. Jean Vigo
35. Satyajit Ray
36. John Cassavetes
37. Ernst Lubitsch
-That Uncertain Feeling
38. Roman Polanski
39. Sergio Leone
40. Alain Resnais
41. Max Ophüls
42. D.W. Griffith
43. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
44. Robert Altman
45. Wong Kar-wai
46. Abbas Kiarostami
47. Buster Keaton
48. Terrence Malick
49. John Huston
50. Ridley Scott
51. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
52. Werner Herzog
53. Dziga Vertov
54. Pier Paolo Pasolini
55. Chris Marker
56. Jacques Tati
57. Sam Peckinpah
58. Michael Curtiz
59. Bernardo Bertolucci
60. Carol Reed
61. Marcel Carné
62. Preston Sturges
63. Krszystof Kieslowski
64. Frank Capra
65. Victor Fleming
66. Vincente Minnelli
67. Nicholas Ray
68. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
69. Leo McCarey
70. Erich von Stroheim
71. Béla Tarr
72. Douglas Sirk
73. Hou Hsiao-hsien
74. Nicolas Roeg
75. Wim Wenders
76. Chantal Akerman
77. Gillo Pontecorvo
78. Quentin Tarantino
79. Elia Kazan
80. Jacques Rivette
81. Edward Yang
82. Josef von Sternberg
83. Jean-Pierre Melville
84. Claude Lanzmann
85. Lars von Trier
86. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
87. Eric Rohmer
88. Milos Forman
89. George Cukor
90. David Cronenberg
91. Jacques Tourneur
92. Jacques Demy
93. William Wyler
94. Jean Eustache
95. Hayao Miyazaki
96. Victor Erice
97. Clint Eastwood
98. Claire Denis
99. Theo Angelopoulos
100. Sidney Lumet
101. Spike Lee
102. King Vidor
103. Paul Thomas Anderson
104. Michael Haneke
105. Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
106. Jean Cocteau
107. Brian De Palma
108. Abel Gance
109. George Lucas
110. George A. Romero
111. James Cameron
112. Sergei Parajanov
113. Pedro Almodóvar
114. Michael Snow
115. Robert Flaherty
116. Glauber Rocha
117. Stan Brakhage
118. Otto Preminger
119. Ken Loach
120. Alexander Dovzhenko
121. Mikio Naruse
122. Peter Weir
123. Jane Campion
124. Alexander Mackendrick
125. Jim Jarmusch
126. Aleksandr Sokurov
127. Henri-Georges Clouzot
128. William Friedkin
129. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
130. Andrzej Wajda
131. John Carpenter
132. Raoul Walsh
133. Andy Warhol
134. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
135. Michael Powell
136. Elem Klimov
137. Hal Ashby
138. Michael Cimino
139. Ousmane Sembene
140. Terry Gilliam
141. Mike Leigh
142. Maurice Pialat
143. James Whale
144. Agnès Varda
145. Zhang Yimou
146. Louis Malle
147. Mike Nichols
148. Arthur Penn
149. Ritwik Ghatak
150. Samuel Fuller
151. Nagisa Oshima
152. Robert Wise
153. Djibril Diop Mambéty
154. G.W. Pabst
155. Mikhail Kalatozov
156. George Stevens
157. Michael Mann
158. Robert Aldrich
159. Rob Reiner
160. Terence Davies
161. Maya Deren
162. John Boorman
163. René Clair
164. Tod Browning
165. Tobe Hooper
166. Anthony Mann
167. Georges Méliès
168. Robert Hamer
169. Tsai Ming-liang
170. Manoel de Oliveira
171. Robert Zemeckis
172. Frank Borzage
173. Humphrey Jennings
174. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
175. Joseph Losey
176. Bob Fosse
177. Robert Wiene
178. Shohei Imamura
179. Peter Bogdanovich
180. Don Siegel
181. Frederick Wiseman
182. Ben Sharpsteen
183. Emir Kusturica
184. Blake Edwards
185. Oliver Stone
186. Georges Franju
187. Victor Sjöström
188. Sydney Pollack
189. Todd Haynes
190. David Hand
191. Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
192. Lindsay Anderson
193. David Fincher
194. Charles Burnett
195. Fei Mu
196. John Schlesinger
197. George Roy Hill
198. Tim Burton
199. Guru Dutt
200. Harold Ramis
201. Fred Zinnemann
202. Kenneth Anger
203. Ang Lee
204. Errol Morris
205. Gus Van Sant
206. Ken Russell
207. Jia Zhangke
208. Luis García Berlanga
209. Paul Verhoeven
210. Leni Riefenstahl
211. Monte Hellman
212. Ermanno Olmi
213. Louis Feuillade
214. John Woo
215. Richard Linklater
216. Francesco Rosi
217. Chen Kaige
218. Mel Brooks
219. Peter Kubelka
220. Jean Rouch
221. Jacques Becker
222. Peter Watkins
223. Jack Clayton
224. Boris Barnet
225. Robert Mulligan
226. Bob Rafelson
227. Edgar G. Ulmer
228. Jerry Lewis
229. Rouben Mamoulian
230. Peter Jackson
231. Dario Argento
232. King Hu
233. Alan J. Pakula
234. Sam Wood
235. Aki Kaurismäki
236. John Hughes
237. Marcel Ophüls
238. Peter Greenaway
239. Claude Chabrol
240. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
241. Frantisek Vlácil
242. Miklós Jancsó
243. Giuseppe Tornatore
244. Dennis Hopper
245. Seijun Suzuki
246. Dusan Makavejev
247. Masaki Kobayashi
248. Jonas Mekas
249. Mark Sandrich
250. Alejandro Jodorowsky

[SeanMX12]

I'm in! I'm so glad you allow rewatches.

[brokenface]

1. Jean-Luc Godard - Numero deux (1975) 4/10

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1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Orson Welles
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. Federico Fellini
5. Jean-Luc Godard - Numero deux (1975) 4/10
6. Jean Renoir
7. John Ford
8. Akira Kurosawa
9. Francis Ford Coppola
10. Ingmar Bergman
11. Yasujiro Ozu
12. Martin Scorsese
13. Carl Dreyer
14. Luis Buñuel
15. Charles Chaplin
16. Andrei Tarkovsky
17. Robert Bresson
18. Billy Wilder
19. F.W. Murnau
20. Howard Hawks
21. Michelangelo Antonioni
22. Fritz Lang
23. Sergei Eisenstein
24. François Truffaut
25. Kenji Mizoguchi
26. Roberto Rossellini
27. David Lean
28. David Lynch
29. Vittorio De Sica
30. Luchino Visconti
31. Steven Spielberg
32. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
33. Woody Allen
34. Jean Vigo
35. Satyajit Ray
36. John Cassavetes
37. Ernst Lubitsch
38. Roman Polanski
39. Sergio Leone
40. Alain Resnais
41. Max Ophüls
42. D.W. Griffith
43. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
44. Robert Altman
45. Wong Kar-wai
46. Abbas Kiarostami
47. Buster Keaton
48. Terrence Malick
49. John Huston
50. Ridley Scott
51. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
52. Werner Herzog
53. Dziga Vertov
54. Pier Paolo Pasolini
55. Chris Marker
56. Jacques Tati
57. Sam Peckinpah
58. Michael Curtiz
59. Bernardo Bertolucci
60. Carol Reed
61. Marcel Carné
62. Preston Sturges
63. Krszystof Kieslowski
64. Frank Capra
65. Victor Fleming
66. Vincente Minnelli
67. Nicholas Ray
68. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
69. Leo McCarey
70. Erich von Stroheim
71. Béla Tarr
72. Douglas Sirk
73. Hou Hsiao-hsien
74. Nicolas Roeg
75. Wim Wenders
76. Chantal Akerman
77. Gillo Pontecorvo
78. Quentin Tarantino
79. Elia Kazan
80. Jacques Rivette
81. Edward Yang
82. Josef von Sternberg
83. Jean-Pierre Melville
84. Claude Lanzmann
85. Lars von Trier
86. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
87. Eric Rohmer
88. Milos Forman
89. George Cukor
90. David Cronenberg
91. Jacques Tourneur
92. Jacques Demy
93. William Wyler
94. Jean Eustache
95. Hayao Miyazaki
96. Victor Erice
97. Clint Eastwood
98. Claire Denis
99. Theo Angelopoulos
100. Sidney Lumet
101. Spike Lee
102. King Vidor
103. Paul Thomas Anderson
104. Michael Haneke
105. Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
106. Jean Cocteau
107. Brian De Palma
108. Abel Gance
109. George Lucas
110. George A. Romero
111. James Cameron
112. Sergei Parajanov
113. Pedro Almodóvar
114. Michael Snow
115. Robert Flaherty
116. Glauber Rocha
117. Stan Brakhage
118. Otto Preminger
119. Ken Loach
120. Alexander Dovzhenko
121. Mikio Naruse
122. Peter Weir
123. Jane Campion
124. Alexander Mackendrick
125. Jim Jarmusch
126. Aleksandr Sokurov
127. Henri-Georges Clouzot
128. William Friedkin
129. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
130. Andrzej Wajda
131. John Carpenter
132. Raoul Walsh
133. Andy Warhol
134. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
135. Michael Powell
136. Elem Klimov
137. Hal Ashby
138. Michael Cimino
139. Ousmane Sembene
140. Terry Gilliam
141. Mike Leigh
142. Maurice Pialat
143. James Whale
144. Agnès Varda
145. Zhang Yimou
146. Louis Malle
147. Mike Nichols
148. Arthur Penn
149. Ritwik Ghatak
150. Samuel Fuller
151. Nagisa Oshima
152. Robert Wise
153. Djibril Diop Mambéty
154. G.W. Pabst
155. Mikhail Kalatozov
156. George Stevens
157. Michael Mann
158. Robert Aldrich
159. Rob Reiner
160. Terence Davies
161. Maya Deren
162. John Boorman
163. René Clair
164. Tod Browning
165. Tobe Hooper
166. Anthony Mann
167. Georges Méliès
168. Robert Hamer
169. Tsai Ming-liang
170. Manoel de Oliveira
171. Robert Zemeckis
172. Frank Borzage
173. Humphrey Jennings
174. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
175. Joseph Losey
176. Bob Fosse
177. Robert Wiene
178. Shohei Imamura
179. Peter Bogdanovich
180. Don Siegel
181. Frederick Wiseman
182. Ben Sharpsteen
183. Emir Kusturica
184. Blake Edwards
185. Oliver Stone
186. Georges Franju
187. Victor Sjöström
188. Sydney Pollack
189. Todd Haynes
190. David Hand
191. Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
192. Lindsay Anderson
193. David Fincher
194. Charles Burnett
195. Fei Mu
196. John Schlesinger
197. George Roy Hill
198. Tim Burton
199. Guru Dutt
200. Harold Ramis
201. Fred Zinnemann
202. Kenneth Anger
203. Ang Lee
204. Errol Morris
205. Gus Van Sant
206. Ken Russell
207. Jia Zhangke
208. Luis García Berlanga
209. Paul Verhoeven
210. Leni Riefenstahl
211. Monte Hellman
212. Ermanno Olmi
213. Louis Feuillade
214. John Woo
215. Richard Linklater
216. Francesco Rosi
217. Chen Kaige
218. Mel Brooks
219. Peter Kubelka
220. Jean Rouch
221. Jacques Becker
222. Peter Watkins
223. Jack Clayton
224. Boris Barnet
225. Robert Mulligan
226. Bob Rafelson
227. Edgar G. Ulmer
228. Jerry Lewis
229. Rouben Mamoulian
230. Peter Jackson
231. Dario Argento
232. King Hu
233. Alan J. Pakula
234. Sam Wood
235. Aki Kaurismäki
236. John Hughes
237. Marcel Ophüls
238. Peter Greenaway
239. Claude Chabrol
240. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
241. Frantisek Vlácil
242. Miklós Jancsó
243. Giuseppe Tornatore
244. Dennis Hopper
245. Seijun Suzuki
246. Dusan Makavejev
247. Masaki Kobayashi
248. Jonas Mekas
249. Mark Sandrich
250. Alejandro Jodorowsky

[brokenface]

I'm in! I'm so glad you allow rewatches.

I think rewatches should be encouraged not avoided

[Kasparius]

I'm in! I'm so glad you allow rewatches.

I think rewatches should be encouraged not avoided

I think you need to rewatch Numéro deux.

[brokenface]

I'm in! I'm so glad you allow rewatches.

I think rewatches should be encouraged not avoided

I think you need to rewatch Numéro deux.

Maybe in 10 years if my cinematic balls drop.

[Kasparius]

I think rewatches should be encouraged not avoided

I think you need to rewatch Numéro deux.

Maybe in 10 years if my cinematic balls drop.

Apparently mine haven't dropped either, Ruiz is going over my head completely.

[TheRedDeath]

I made the list with the movies for the top 25:

(all of them first watch)

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1 Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock 1960
2 Touch of Evil - Orson Welles 1958
3 Clockwork Orange, A - Stanley Kubrick 1971
4 Dolce vita, La - Federico Fellini 1960
5 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle - Jean-Luc Godard 1967
6 Grande illusion, La - Jean Renoir 1937
7 Stagecoach - John Ford 1939
8 Kakushi-toride no san-akunin - Akira Kurosawa 1958
9 Conversation, The - Francis Ford Coppola 1974
10 Fanny och Alexander - Ingmar Bergman 1982
11 Hitori musuko - Yasujirô Ozu 1936
12 Raging Bull - Martin Scorsese 1980
13 Vampyr - Carl Theodor Dreyer 1932
14 Olvidados, Los - Luis Buñuel 1950
15 Gold Rush, The - Charles Chaplin 1925
16 Stalker - Andrey Tarkovskiy 1979
17 Procès de Jeanne d'Arc - Robert Bresson 1962
18 Ninotchka - Ernst Lubitsch 1939
19 Der letzte Mann - F.W. Murnau 1924
20 Only Angels Have Wings - Howard Hawks 1939
21 L'avventura - Michelangelo Antonio 1960
22 Metropolis - Fritz Lang 1927
23 Aleksandr Nevskiy - Sergei M. Eisenstein 1938
24 Quatre cents coups, Les - François Truffaut 1959
25 Zangiku monogatari - Kenji Mizoguchi 1939

[brokenface]

I made the list with the movies for the top 25:

(all of them first watch)

Spoiler: click to toggleShow

1 Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock 1960
2 Touch of Evil - Orson Welles 1958
3 Clockwork Orange, A - Stanley Kubrick 1971
4 Dolce vita, La - Federico Fellini 1960
5 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle - Jean-Luc Godard 1967
6 Grande illusion, La - Jean Renoir 1937
7 Stagecoach - John Ford 1939
8 Kakushi-toride no san-akunin - Akira Kurosawa 1958
9 Conversation, The - Francis Ford Coppola 1974
10 Fanny och Alexander - Ingmar Bergman 1982
11 Hitori musuko - Yasujirô Ozu 1936
12 Raging Bull - Martin Scorsese 1980
13 Vampyr - Carl Theodor Dreyer 1932
14 Olvidados, Los - Luis Buñuel 1950
15 Gold Rush, The - Charles Chaplin 1925
16 Stalker - Andrey Tarkovskiy 1979
17 Procès de Jeanne d'Arc - Robert Bresson 1962
18 Ninotchka - Ernst Lubitsch 1939
19 Der letzte Mann - F.W. Murnau 1924
20 Only Angels Have Wings - Howard Hawks 1939
21 L'avventura - Michelangelo Antonio 1960
22 Metropolis - Fritz Lang 1927
23 Aleksandr Nevskiy - Sergei M. Eisenstein 1938
24 Quatre cents coups, Les - François Truffaut 1959
25 Zangiku monogatari - Kenji Mizoguchi 1939

You got a lot of treats ahead

[brokenface]

been going through the directors picking out what I need to watch. Struck me that for a few it might be tricky to find enough shorts to watch (esp. if you've already seen some & don't fancy rewatching), so I've cut the amount of shorts needed to 60 mins.

[brokenface]

2. Steven Spielberg - War Horse (2011) 5/10

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1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Orson Welles
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. Federico Fellini
5. Jean-Luc Godard - Numero deux (1975) 4/10
6. Jean Renoir
7. John Ford
8. Akira Kurosawa
9. Francis Ford Coppola
10. Ingmar Bergman
11. Yasujiro Ozu
12. Martin Scorsese
13. Carl Dreyer
14. Luis Buñuel
15. Charles Chaplin
16. Andrei Tarkovsky
17. Robert Bresson
18. Billy Wilder
19. F.W. Murnau
20. Howard Hawks
21. Michelangelo Antonioni
22. Fritz Lang
23. Sergei Eisenstein
24. François Truffaut
25. Kenji Mizoguchi
26. Roberto Rossellini
27. David Lean
28. David Lynch
29. Vittorio De Sica
30. Luchino Visconti
31. Steven Spielberg - War Horse (2011) 5/10
32. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
33. Woody Allen
34. Jean Vigo
35. Satyajit Ray
36. John Cassavetes
37. Ernst Lubitsch
38. Roman Polanski
39. Sergio Leone
40. Alain Resnais
41. Max Ophüls
42. D.W. Griffith
43. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
44. Robert Altman
45. Wong Kar-wai
46. Abbas Kiarostami
47. Buster Keaton
48. Terrence Malick
49. John Huston
50. Ridley Scott
51. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
52. Werner Herzog
53. Dziga Vertov
54. Pier Paolo Pasolini
55. Chris Marker
56. Jacques Tati
57. Sam Peckinpah
58. Michael Curtiz
59. Bernardo Bertolucci
60. Carol Reed
61. Marcel Carné
62. Preston Sturges
63. Krszystof Kieslowski
64. Frank Capra
65. Victor Fleming
66. Vincente Minnelli
67. Nicholas Ray
68. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
69. Leo McCarey
70. Erich von Stroheim
71. Béla Tarr
72. Douglas Sirk
73. Hou Hsiao-hsien
74. Nicolas Roeg
75. Wim Wenders
76. Chantal Akerman
77. Gillo Pontecorvo
78. Quentin Tarantino
79. Elia Kazan
80. Jacques Rivette
81. Edward Yang
82. Josef von Sternberg
83. Jean-Pierre Melville
84. Claude Lanzmann
85. Lars von Trier
86. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
87. Eric Rohmer
88. Milos Forman
89. George Cukor
90. David Cronenberg
91. Jacques Tourneur
92. Jacques Demy
93. William Wyler
94. Jean Eustache
95. Hayao Miyazaki
96. Victor Erice
97. Clint Eastwood
98. Claire Denis
99. Theo Angelopoulos
100. Sidney Lumet
101. Spike Lee
102. King Vidor
103. Paul Thomas Anderson
104. Michael Haneke
105. Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
106. Jean Cocteau
107. Brian De Palma
108. Abel Gance
109. George Lucas
110. George A. Romero
111. James Cameron
112. Sergei Parajanov
113. Pedro Almodóvar
114. Michael Snow
115. Robert Flaherty
116. Glauber Rocha
117. Stan Brakhage
118. Otto Preminger
119. Ken Loach
120. Alexander Dovzhenko
121. Mikio Naruse
122. Peter Weir
123. Jane Campion
124. Alexander Mackendrick
125. Jim Jarmusch
126. Aleksandr Sokurov
127. Henri-Georges Clouzot
128. William Friedkin
129. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
130. Andrzej Wajda
131. John Carpenter
132. Raoul Walsh
133. Andy Warhol
134. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
135. Michael Powell
136. Elem Klimov
137. Hal Ashby
138. Michael Cimino
139. Ousmane Sembene
140. Terry Gilliam
141. Mike Leigh
142. Maurice Pialat
143. James Whale
144. Agnès Varda
145. Zhang Yimou
146. Louis Malle
147. Mike Nichols
148. Arthur Penn
149. Ritwik Ghatak
150. Samuel Fuller
151. Nagisa Oshima
152. Robert Wise
153. Djibril Diop Mambéty
154. G.W. Pabst
155. Mikhail Kalatozov
156. George Stevens
157. Michael Mann
158. Robert Aldrich
159. Rob Reiner
160. Terence Davies
161. Maya Deren
162. John Boorman
163. René Clair
164. Tod Browning
165. Tobe Hooper
166. Anthony Mann
167. Georges Méliès
168. Robert Hamer
169. Tsai Ming-liang
170. Manoel de Oliveira
171. Robert Zemeckis
172. Frank Borzage
173. Humphrey Jennings
174. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
175. Joseph Losey
176. Bob Fosse
177. Robert Wiene
178. Shohei Imamura
179. Peter Bogdanovich
180. Don Siegel
181. Frederick Wiseman
182. Ben Sharpsteen
183. Emir Kusturica
184. Blake Edwards
185. Oliver Stone
186. Georges Franju
187. Victor Sjöström
188. Sydney Pollack
189. Todd Haynes
190. David Hand
191. Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
192. Lindsay Anderson
193. David Fincher
194. Charles Burnett
195. Fei Mu
196. John Schlesinger
197. George Roy Hill
198. Tim Burton
199. Guru Dutt
200. Harold Ramis
201. Fred Zinnemann
202. Kenneth Anger
203. Ang Lee
204. Errol Morris
205. Gus Van Sant
206. Ken Russell
207. Jia Zhangke
208. Luis García Berlanga
209. Paul Verhoeven
210. Leni Riefenstahl
211. Monte Hellman
212. Ermanno Olmi
213. Louis Feuillade
214. John Woo
215. Richard Linklater
216. Francesco Rosi
217. Chen Kaige
218. Mel Brooks
219. Peter Kubelka
220. Jean Rouch
221. Jacques Becker
222. Peter Watkins
223. Jack Clayton
224. Boris Barnet
225. Robert Mulligan
226. Bob Rafelson
227. Edgar G. Ulmer
228. Jerry Lewis
229. Rouben Mamoulian
230. Peter Jackson
231. Dario Argento
232. King Hu
233. Alan J. Pakula
234. Sam Wood
235. Aki Kaurismäki
236. John Hughes
237. Marcel Ophüls
238. Peter Greenaway
239. Claude Chabrol
240. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
241. Frantisek Vlácil
242. Miklós Jancsó
243. Giuseppe Tornatore
244. Dennis Hopper
245. Seijun Suzuki
246. Dusan Makavejev
247. Masaki Kobayashi
248. Jonas Mekas
249. Mark Sandrich
250. Alejandro Jodorowsky

[Knaldskalle]

I was writing this post and then I found out that Cooper/Schoedsack made multiple films together, I thought they only made King Kong together. I didn't want to re-watch King Kong. I'll post this anyway.

There are a couple director pairs listed. Do we have to watch a film directed by both of them? The Coens and the Dardennes, that makes sense, but Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack and Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger made films independent of each other. Can a film by either of them count? The TSPDT list is compiled based on specific films, of course.

Allow me to recommend Cooper and Schoedsack's Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life. An amazing documentary about the annual migration of an Iranian tribe across a mountain range. It's puzzling to me why this isn't more famous, it's an astonishing movie!

[funkybusiness]

I was writing this post and then I found out that Cooper/Schoedsack made multiple films together, I thought they only made King Kong together. I didn't want to re-watch King Kong. I'll post this anyway.

There are a couple director pairs listed. Do we have to watch a film directed by both of them? The Coens and the Dardennes, that makes sense, but Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack and Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger made films independent of each other. Can a film by either of them count? The TSPDT list is compiled based on specific films, of course.

Allow me to recommend Cooper and Schoedsack's Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life. An amazing documentary about the annual migration of an Iranian tribe across a mountain range. It's puzzling to me why this isn't more famous, it's an astonishing movie!

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll give it a go.

[funkybusiness]

1. 155. Mikhail Kalatozov Letyat zhuravli (1957) 9/10

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1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Orson Welles
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. Federico Fellini
5. Jean-Luc Godard
6. Jean Renoir
7. John Ford
8. Akira Kurosawa
9. Francis Ford Coppola
10. Ingmar Bergman
11. Yasujiro Ozu
12. Martin Scorsese
13. Carl Dreyer
14. Luis Buñuel
15. Charles Chaplin
16. Andrei Tarkovsky
17. Robert Bresson
18. Billy Wilder
19. F.W. Murnau
20. Howard Hawks
21. Michelangelo Antonioni
22. Fritz Lang
23. Sergei Eisenstein
24. François Truffaut
25. Kenji Mizoguchi
26. Roberto Rossellini
27. David Lean
28. David Lynch
29. Vittorio De Sica
30. Luchino Visconti
31. Steven Spielberg
32. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
33. Woody Allen
34. Jean Vigo
35. Satyajit Ray
36. John Cassavetes
37. Ernst Lubitsch
38. Roman Polanski
39. Sergio Leone
40. Alain Resnais
41. Max Ophüls
42. D.W. Griffith
43. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
44. Robert Altman
45. Wong Kar-wai
46. Abbas Kiarostami
47. Buster Keaton
48. Terrence Malick
49. John Huston
50. Ridley Scott
51. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
52. Werner Herzog
53. Dziga Vertov
54. Pier Paolo Pasolini
55. Chris Marker
56. Jacques Tati
57. Sam Peckinpah
58. Michael Curtiz
59. Bernardo Bertolucci
60. Carol Reed
61. Marcel Carné
62. Preston Sturges
63. Krszystof Kieslowski
64. Frank Capra
65. Victor Fleming
66. Vincente Minnelli
67. Nicholas Ray
68. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
69. Leo McCarey
70. Erich von Stroheim
71. Béla Tarr
72. Douglas Sirk
73. Hou Hsiao-hsien
74. Nicolas Roeg
75. Wim Wenders
76. Chantal Akerman
77. Gillo Pontecorvo
78. Quentin Tarantino
79. Elia Kazan
80. Jacques Rivette
81. Edward Yang
82. Josef von Sternberg
83. Jean-Pierre Melville
84. Claude Lanzmann
85. Lars von Trier
86. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
87. Eric Rohmer
88. Milos Forman
89. George Cukor
90. David Cronenberg
91. Jacques Tourneur
92. Jacques Demy
93. William Wyler
94. Jean Eustache
95. Hayao Miyazaki
96. Victor Erice
97. Clint Eastwood
98. Claire Denis
99. Theo Angelopoulos
100. Sidney Lumet
101. Spike Lee
102. King Vidor
103. Paul Thomas Anderson
104. Michael Haneke
105. Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
106. Jean Cocteau
107. Brian De Palma
108. Abel Gance
109. George Lucas
110. George A. Romero
111. James Cameron
112. Sergei Parajanov
113. Pedro Almodóvar
114. Michael Snow
115. Robert Flaherty
116. Glauber Rocha
117. Stan Brakhage
118. Otto Preminger
119. Ken Loach
120. Alexander Dovzhenko
121. Mikio Naruse
122. Peter Weir
123. Jane Campion
124. Alexander Mackendrick
125. Jim Jarmusch
126. Aleksandr Sokurov
127. Henri-Georges Clouzot
128. William Friedkin
129. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
130. Andrzej Wajda
131. John Carpenter
132. Raoul Walsh
133. Andy Warhol
134. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
135. Michael Powell
136. Elem Klimov
137. Hal Ashby
138. Michael Cimino
139. Ousmane Sembene
140. Terry Gilliam
141. Mike Leigh
142. Maurice Pialat
143. James Whale
144. Agnès Varda
145. Zhang Yimou
146. Louis Malle
147. Mike Nichols
148. Arthur Penn
149. Ritwik Ghatak
150. Samuel Fuller
151. Nagisa Oshima
152. Robert Wise
153. Djibril Diop Mambéty
154. G.W. Pabst
155. Mikhail Kalatozov Letyat zhuravli (1957) 9/10
156. George Stevens
157. Michael Mann
158. Robert Aldrich
159. Rob Reiner
160. Terence Davies
161. Maya Deren
162. John Boorman
163. René Clair
164. Tod Browning
165. Tobe Hooper
166. Anthony Mann
167. Georges Méliès
168. Robert Hamer
169. Tsai Ming-liang
170. Manoel de Oliveira
171. Robert Zemeckis
172. Frank Borzage
173. Humphrey Jennings
174. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
175. Joseph Losey
176. Bob Fosse
177. Robert Wiene
178. Shohei Imamura
179. Peter Bogdanovich
180. Don Siegel
181. Frederick Wiseman
182. Ben Sharpsteen
183. Emir Kusturica
184. Blake Edwards
185. Oliver Stone
186. Georges Franju
187. Victor Sjöström
188. Sydney Pollack
189. Todd Haynes
190. David Hand
191. Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
192. Lindsay Anderson
193. David Fincher
194. Charles Burnett
195. Fei Mu
196. John Schlesinger
197. George Roy Hill
198. Tim Burton
199. Guru Dutt
200. Harold Ramis
201. Fred Zinnemann
202. Kenneth Anger
203. Ang Lee
204. Errol Morris
205. Gus Van Sant
206. Ken Russell
207. Jia Zhangke
208. Luis García Berlanga
209. Paul Verhoeven
210. Leni Riefenstahl
211. Monte Hellman
212. Ermanno Olmi
213. Louis Feuillade
214. John Woo
215. Richard Linklater
216. Francesco Rosi
217. Chen Kaige
218. Mel Brooks
219. Peter Kubelka
220. Jean Rouch
221. Jacques Becker
222. Peter Watkins
223. Jack Clayton
224. Boris Barnet
225. Robert Mulligan
226. Bob Rafelson
227. Edgar G. Ulmer
228. Jerry Lewis
229. Rouben Mamoulian
230. Peter Jackson
231. Dario Argento
232. King Hu
233. Alan J. Pakula
234. Sam Wood
235. Aki Kaurismäki
236. John Hughes
237. Marcel Ophüls
238. Peter Greenaway
239. Claude Chabrol
240. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
241. Frantisek Vlácil
242. Miklós Jancsó
243. Giuseppe Tornatore
244. Dennis Hopper
245. Seijun Suzuki
246. Dusan Makavejev
247. Masaki Kobayashi
248. Jonas Mekas
249. Mark Sandrich
250. Alejandro Jodorowsky

[mightysparks]

Argh, I was trying not to join any more challenges, but as soon as I think I'm out, you pull me back in!

[funkybusiness]

Argh, I was trying not to join any more challenges, but as soon as I think I'm out, you pull me back in!

A ha! I know what I'm watching for Coppola!

[Nopros]

I'm in!

[brokenface]

3. Ernst Lubitsch - Lady Windermere's Fan (1925) 6/10

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1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Orson Welles
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. Federico Fellini
5. Jean-Luc Godard - Numero deux (1975) 4/10
6. Jean Renoir
7. John Ford
8. Akira Kurosawa
9. Francis Ford Coppola
10. Ingmar Bergman
11. Yasujiro Ozu
12. Martin Scorsese
13. Carl Dreyer
14. Luis Buñuel
15. Charles Chaplin
16. Andrei Tarkovsky
17. Robert Bresson
18. Billy Wilder
19. F.W. Murnau
20. Howard Hawks
21. Michelangelo Antonioni
22. Fritz Lang
23. Sergei Eisenstein
24. François Truffaut
25. Kenji Mizoguchi
26. Roberto Rossellini
27. David Lean
28. David Lynch
29. Vittorio De Sica
30. Luchino Visconti
31. Steven Spielberg - War Horse (2011) 5/10
32. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
33. Woody Allen
34. Jean Vigo
35. Satyajit Ray
36. John Cassavetes
37. Ernst Lubitsch - Lady Windermere's Fan (1925) 6/10
38. Roman Polanski
39. Sergio Leone
40. Alain Resnais
41. Max Ophüls
42. D.W. Griffith
43. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
44. Robert Altman
45. Wong Kar-wai
46. Abbas Kiarostami
47. Buster Keaton
48. Terrence Malick
49. John Huston
50. Ridley Scott
51. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
52. Werner Herzog
53. Dziga Vertov
54. Pier Paolo Pasolini
55. Chris Marker
56. Jacques Tati
57. Sam Peckinpah
58. Michael Curtiz
59. Bernardo Bertolucci
60. Carol Reed
61. Marcel Carné
62. Preston Sturges
63. Krszystof Kieslowski
64. Frank Capra
65. Victor Fleming
66. Vincente Minnelli
67. Nicholas Ray
68. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
69. Leo McCarey
70. Erich von Stroheim
71. Béla Tarr
72. Douglas Sirk
73. Hou Hsiao-hsien
74. Nicolas Roeg
75. Wim Wenders
76. Chantal Akerman
77. Gillo Pontecorvo
78. Quentin Tarantino
79. Elia Kazan
80. Jacques Rivette
81. Edward Yang
82. Josef von Sternberg
83. Jean-Pierre Melville
84. Claude Lanzmann
85. Lars von Trier
86. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
87. Eric Rohmer
88. Milos Forman
89. George Cukor
90. David Cronenberg
91. Jacques Tourneur
92. Jacques Demy
93. William Wyler
94. Jean Eustache
95. Hayao Miyazaki
96. Victor Erice
97. Clint Eastwood
98. Claire Denis
99. Theo Angelopoulos
100. Sidney Lumet
101. Spike Lee
102. King Vidor
103. Paul Thomas Anderson
104. Michael Haneke
105. Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
106. Jean Cocteau
107. Brian De Palma
108. Abel Gance
109. George Lucas
110. George A. Romero
111. James Cameron
112. Sergei Parajanov
113. Pedro Almodóvar
114. Michael Snow
115. Robert Flaherty
116. Glauber Rocha
117. Stan Brakhage
118. Otto Preminger
119. Ken Loach
120. Alexander Dovzhenko
121. Mikio Naruse
122. Peter Weir
123. Jane Campion
124. Alexander Mackendrick
125. Jim Jarmusch
126. Aleksandr Sokurov
127. Henri-Georges Clouzot
128. William Friedkin
129. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
130. Andrzej Wajda
131. John Carpenter
132. Raoul Walsh
133. Andy Warhol
134. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
135. Michael Powell
136. Elem Klimov
137. Hal Ashby
138. Michael Cimino
139. Ousmane Sembene
140. Terry Gilliam
141. Mike Leigh
142. Maurice Pialat
143. James Whale
144. Agnès Varda
145. Zhang Yimou
146. Louis Malle
147. Mike Nichols
148. Arthur Penn
149. Ritwik Ghatak
150. Samuel Fuller
151. Nagisa Oshima
152. Robert Wise
153. Djibril Diop Mambéty
154. G.W. Pabst
155. Mikhail Kalatozov
156. George Stevens
157. Michael Mann
158. Robert Aldrich
159. Rob Reiner
160. Terence Davies
161. Maya Deren
162. John Boorman
163. René Clair
164. Tod Browning
165. Tobe Hooper
166. Anthony Mann
167. Georges Méliès
168. Robert Hamer
169. Tsai Ming-liang
170. Manoel de Oliveira
171. Robert Zemeckis
172. Frank Borzage
173. Humphrey Jennings
174. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
175. Joseph Losey
176. Bob Fosse
177. Robert Wiene
178. Shohei Imamura
179. Peter Bogdanovich
180. Don Siegel
181. Frederick Wiseman
182. Ben Sharpsteen
183. Emir Kusturica
184. Blake Edwards
185. Oliver Stone
186. Georges Franju
187. Victor Sjöström
188. Sydney Pollack
189. Todd Haynes
190. David Hand
191. Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
192. Lindsay Anderson
193. David Fincher
194. Charles Burnett
195. Fei Mu
196. John Schlesinger
197. George Roy Hill
198. Tim Burton
199. Guru Dutt
200. Harold Ramis
201. Fred Zinnemann
202. Kenneth Anger
203. Ang Lee
204. Errol Morris
205. Gus Van Sant
206. Ken Russell
207. Jia Zhangke
208. Luis García Berlanga
209. Paul Verhoeven
210. Leni Riefenstahl
211. Monte Hellman
212. Ermanno Olmi
213. Louis Feuillade
214. John Woo
215. Richard Linklater
216. Francesco Rosi
217. Chen Kaige
218. Mel Brooks
219. Peter Kubelka
220. Jean Rouch
221. Jacques Becker
222. Peter Watkins
223. Jack Clayton
224. Boris Barnet
225. Robert Mulligan
226. Bob Rafelson
227. Edgar G. Ulmer
228. Jerry Lewis
229. Rouben Mamoulian
230. Peter Jackson
231. Dario Argento
232. King Hu
233. Alan J. Pakula
234. Sam Wood
235. Aki Kaurismäki
236. John Hughes
237. Marcel Ophüls
238. Peter Greenaway
239. Claude Chabrol
240. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
241. Frantisek Vlácil
242. Miklós Jancsó
243. Giuseppe Tornatore
244. Dennis Hopper
245. Seijun Suzuki
246. Dusan Makavejev
247. Masaki Kobayashi
248. Jonas Mekas
249. Mark Sandrich
250. Alejandro Jodorowsky

[Daviddoes]

Sounds like an interesting challenge

1. John Huston(#49) - The African Queen (1951) 7/10

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1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Orson Welles
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. Federico Fellini
5. Jean-Luc Godard
6. Jean Renoir
7. John Ford
8. Akira Kurosawa
9. Francis Ford Coppola
10. Ingmar Bergman
11. Yasujiro Ozu
12. Martin Scorsese
13. Carl Dreyer
14. Luis Buñuel
15. Charles Chaplin
16. Andrei Tarkovsky
17. Robert Bresson
18. Billy Wilder
19. F.W. Murnau
20. Howard Hawks
21. Michelangelo Antonioni
22. Fritz Lang
23. Sergei Eisenstein
24. François Truffaut
25. Kenji Mizoguchi
26. Roberto Rossellini
27. David Lean
28. David Lynch
29. Vittorio De Sica
30. Luchino Visconti
31. Steven Spielberg
32. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
33. Woody Allen
34. Jean Vigo
35. Satyajit Ray
36. John Cassavetes
37. Ernst Lubitsch
38. Roman Polanski
39. Sergio Leone
40. Alain Resnais
41. Max Ophüls
42. D.W. Griffith
43. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
44. Robert Altman
45. Wong Kar-wai
46. Abbas Kiarostami
47. Buster Keaton
48. Terrence Malick
49. John Huston - The African Queen (1951) 7/10
50. Ridley Scott
51. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
52. Werner Herzog
53. Dziga Vertov
54. Pier Paolo Pasolini
55. Chris Marker
56. Jacques Tati
57. Sam Peckinpah
58. Michael Curtiz
59. Bernardo Bertolucci
60. Carol Reed
61. Marcel Carné
62. Preston Sturges
63. Krszystof Kieslowski
64. Frank Capra
65. Victor Fleming
66. Vincente Minnelli
67. Nicholas Ray
68. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
69. Leo McCarey
70. Erich von Stroheim
71. Béla Tarr
72. Douglas Sirk
73. Hou Hsiao-hsien
74. Nicolas Roeg
75. Wim Wenders
76. Chantal Akerman
77. Gillo Pontecorvo
78. Quentin Tarantino
79. Elia Kazan
80. Jacques Rivette
81. Edward Yang
82. Josef von Sternberg
83. Jean-Pierre Melville
84. Claude Lanzmann
85. Lars von Trier
86. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
87. Eric Rohmer
88. Milos Forman
89. George Cukor
90. David Cronenberg
91. Jacques Tourneur
92. Jacques Demy
93. William Wyler
94. Jean Eustache
95. Hayao Miyazaki
96. Victor Erice
97. Clint Eastwood
98. Claire Denis
99. Theo Angelopoulos
100. Sidney Lumet
101. Spike Lee
102. King Vidor
103. Paul Thomas Anderson
104. Michael Haneke
105. Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
106. Jean Cocteau
107. Brian De Palma
108. Abel Gance
109. George Lucas
110. George A. Romero
111. James Cameron
112. Sergei Parajanov
113. Pedro Almodóvar
114. Michael Snow
115. Robert Flaherty
116. Glauber Rocha
117. Stan Brakhage
118. Otto Preminger
119. Ken Loach
120. Alexander Dovzhenko
121. Mikio Naruse
122. Peter Weir
123. Jane Campion
124. Alexander Mackendrick
125. Jim Jarmusch
126. Aleksandr Sokurov
127. Henri-Georges Clouzot
128. William Friedkin
129. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
130. Andrzej Wajda
131. John Carpenter
132. Raoul Walsh
133. Andy Warhol
134. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
135. Michael Powell
136. Elem Klimov
137. Hal Ashby
138. Michael Cimino
139. Ousmane Sembene
140. Terry Gilliam
141. Mike Leigh
142. Maurice Pialat
143. James Whale
144. Agnès Varda
145. Zhang Yimou
146. Louis Malle
147. Mike Nichols
148. Arthur Penn
149. Ritwik Ghatak
150. Samuel Fuller
151. Nagisa Oshima
152. Robert Wise
153. Djibril Diop Mambéty
154. G.W. Pabst
155. Mikhail Kalatozov
156. George Stevens
157. Michael Mann
158. Robert Aldrich
159. Rob Reiner
160. Terence Davies
161. Maya Deren
162. John Boorman
163. René Clair
164. Tod Browning
165. Tobe Hooper
166. Anthony Mann
167. Georges Méliès
168. Robert Hamer
169. Tsai Ming-liang
170. Manoel de Oliveira
171. Robert Zemeckis
172. Frank Borzage
173. Humphrey Jennings
174. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
175. Joseph Losey
176. Bob Fosse
177. Robert Wiene
178. Shohei Imamura
179. Peter Bogdanovich
180. Don Siegel
181. Frederick Wiseman
182. Ben Sharpsteen
183. Emir Kusturica
184. Blake Edwards
185. Oliver Stone
186. Georges Franju
187. Victor Sjöström
188. Sydney Pollack
189. Todd Haynes
190. David Hand
191. Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
192. Lindsay Anderson
193. David Fincher
194. Charles Burnett
195. Fei Mu
196. John Schlesinger
197. George Roy Hill
198. Tim Burton
199. Guru Dutt
200. Harold Ramis
201. Fred Zinnemann
202. Kenneth Anger
203. Ang Lee
204. Errol Morris
205. Gus Van Sant
206. Ken Russell
207. Jia Zhangke
208. Luis García Berlanga
209. Paul Verhoeven
210. Leni Riefenstahl
211. Monte Hellman
212. Ermanno Olmi
213. Louis Feuillade
214. John Woo
215. Richard Linklater
216. Francesco Rosi
217. Chen Kaige
218. Mel Brooks
219. Peter Kubelka
220. Jean Rouch
221. Jacques Becker
222. Peter Watkins
223. Jack Clayton
224. Boris Barnet
225. Robert Mulligan
226. Bob Rafelson
227. Edgar G. Ulmer
228. Jerry Lewis
229. Rouben Mamoulian
230. Peter Jackson
231. Dario Argento
232. King Hu
233. Alan J. Pakula
234. Sam Wood
235. Aki Kaurismäki
236. John Hughes
237. Marcel Ophüls
238. Peter Greenaway
239. Claude Chabrol
240. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
241. Frantisek Vlácil
242. Miklós Jancsó
243. Giuseppe Tornatore
244. Dennis Hopper
245. Seijun Suzuki
246. Dusan Makavejev
247. Masaki Kobayashi
248. Jonas Mekas
249. Mark Sandrich
250. Alejandro Jodorowsky

[brokenface]

4. Terence Davies - The Deep Blue Sea (2011) 6/10
Impressive in its creation of stifling post-war atmosphere. Needed more than atmosphere though.

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1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Orson Welles
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. Federico Fellini
5. Jean-Luc Godard - Numero deux (1975) 4/10
6. Jean Renoir
7. John Ford
8. Akira Kurosawa
9. Francis Ford Coppola
10. Ingmar Bergman
11. Yasujiro Ozu
12. Martin Scorsese
13. Carl Dreyer
14. Luis Buñuel
15. Charles Chaplin
16. Andrei Tarkovsky
17. Robert Bresson
18. Billy Wilder
19. F.W. Murnau
20. Howard Hawks
21. Michelangelo Antonioni
22. Fritz Lang
23. Sergei Eisenstein
24. François Truffaut
25. Kenji Mizoguchi
26. Roberto Rossellini
27. David Lean
28. David Lynch
29. Vittorio De Sica
30. Luchino Visconti
31. Steven Spielberg - War Horse (2011) 5/10
32. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
33. Woody Allen
34. Jean Vigo
35. Satyajit Ray
36. John Cassavetes
37. Ernst Lubitsch - Lady Windermere's Fan (1925) 6/10
38. Roman Polanski
39. Sergio Leone
40. Alain Resnais
41. Max Ophüls
42. D.W. Griffith
43. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
44. Robert Altman
45. Wong Kar-wai
46. Abbas Kiarostami
47. Buster Keaton
48. Terrence Malick
49. John Huston
50. Ridley Scott
51. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
52. Werner Herzog
53. Dziga Vertov
54. Pier Paolo Pasolini
55. Chris Marker
56. Jacques Tati
57. Sam Peckinpah
58. Michael Curtiz
59. Bernardo Bertolucci
60. Carol Reed
61. Marcel Carné
62. Preston Sturges
63. Krszystof Kieslowski
64. Frank Capra
65. Victor Fleming
66. Vincente Minnelli
67. Nicholas Ray
68. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
69. Leo McCarey
70. Erich von Stroheim
71. Béla Tarr
72. Douglas Sirk
73. Hou Hsiao-hsien
74. Nicolas Roeg
75. Wim Wenders
76. Chantal Akerman
77. Gillo Pontecorvo
78. Quentin Tarantino
79. Elia Kazan
80. Jacques Rivette
81. Edward Yang
82. Josef von Sternberg
83. Jean-Pierre Melville
84. Claude Lanzmann
85. Lars von Trier
86. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
87. Eric Rohmer
88. Milos Forman
89. George Cukor
90. David Cronenberg
91. Jacques Tourneur
92. Jacques Demy
93. William Wyler
94. Jean Eustache
95. Hayao Miyazaki
96. Victor Erice
97. Clint Eastwood
98. Claire Denis
99. Theo Angelopoulos
100. Sidney Lumet
101. Spike Lee
102. King Vidor
103. Paul Thomas Anderson
104. Michael Haneke
105. Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
106. Jean Cocteau
107. Brian De Palma
108. Abel Gance
109. George Lucas
110. George A. Romero
111. James Cameron
112. Sergei Parajanov
113. Pedro Almodóvar
114. Michael Snow
115. Robert Flaherty
116. Glauber Rocha
117. Stan Brakhage
118. Otto Preminger
119. Ken Loach
120. Alexander Dovzhenko
121. Mikio Naruse
122. Peter Weir
123. Jane Campion
124. Alexander Mackendrick
125. Jim Jarmusch
126. Aleksandr Sokurov
127. Henri-Georges Clouzot
128. William Friedkin
129. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
130. Andrzej Wajda
131. John Carpenter
132. Raoul Walsh
133. Andy Warhol
134. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
135. Michael Powell
136. Elem Klimov
137. Hal Ashby
138. Michael Cimino
139. Ousmane Sembene
140. Terry Gilliam
141. Mike Leigh
142. Maurice Pialat
143. James Whale
144. Agnès Varda
145. Zhang Yimou
146. Louis Malle
147. Mike Nichols
148. Arthur Penn
149. Ritwik Ghatak
150. Samuel Fuller
151. Nagisa Oshima
152. Robert Wise
153. Djibril Diop Mambéty
154. G.W. Pabst
155. Mikhail Kalatozov
156. George Stevens
157. Michael Mann
158. Robert Aldrich
159. Rob Reiner
160. Terence Davies - The Deep Blue Sea (2011) 6/10
161. Maya Deren
162. John Boorman
163. René Clair
164. Tod Browning
165. Tobe Hooper
166. Anthony Mann
167. Georges Méliès
168. Robert Hamer
169. Tsai Ming-liang
170. Manoel de Oliveira
171. Robert Zemeckis
172. Frank Borzage
173. Humphrey Jennings
174. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
175. Joseph Losey
176. Bob Fosse
177. Robert Wiene
178. Shohei Imamura
179. Peter Bogdanovich
180. Don Siegel
181. Frederick Wiseman
182. Ben Sharpsteen
183. Emir Kusturica
184. Blake Edwards
185. Oliver Stone
186. Georges Franju
187. Victor Sjöström
188. Sydney Pollack
189. Todd Haynes
190. David Hand
191. Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
192. Lindsay Anderson
193. David Fincher
194. Charles Burnett
195. Fei Mu
196. John Schlesinger
197. George Roy Hill
198. Tim Burton
199. Guru Dutt
200. Harold Ramis
201. Fred Zinnemann
202. Kenneth Anger
203. Ang Lee
204. Errol Morris
205. Gus Van Sant
206. Ken Russell
207. Jia Zhangke
208. Luis García Berlanga
209. Paul Verhoeven
210. Leni Riefenstahl
211. Monte Hellman
212. Ermanno Olmi
213. Louis Feuillade
214. John Woo
215. Richard Linklater
216. Francesco Rosi
217. Chen Kaige
218. Mel Brooks
219. Peter Kubelka
220. Jean Rouch
221. Jacques Becker
222. Peter Watkins
223. Jack Clayton
224. Boris Barnet
225. Robert Mulligan
226. Bob Rafelson
227. Edgar G. Ulmer
228. Jerry Lewis
229. Rouben Mamoulian
230. Peter Jackson
231. Dario Argento
232. King Hu
233. Alan J. Pakula
234. Sam Wood
235. Aki Kaurismäki
236. John Hughes
237. Marcel Ophüls
238. Peter Greenaway
239. Claude Chabrol
240. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
241. Frantisek Vlácil
242. Miklós Jancsó
243. Giuseppe Tornatore
244. Dennis Hopper
245. Seijun Suzuki
246. Dusan Makavejev
247. Masaki Kobayashi
248. Jonas Mekas
249. Mark Sandrich
250. Alejandro Jodorowsky

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002. US Go Home [1994, Claire Denis, #98] 8.5/10

TSPDT Top 250 Director ChallengeShow

1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Orson Welles
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. Federico Fellini
5. Jean-Luc Godard
6. Jean Renoir
7. John Ford
8. Akira Kurosawa
9. Francis Ford Coppola
10. Ingmar Bergman
11. Yasujiro Ozu
12. Martin Scorsese
13. Carl Dreyer
14. Luis Buñuel
15. Charles Chaplin
16. Andrei Tarkovsky
17. Robert Bresson
18. Billy Wilder
19. F.W. Murnau
20. Howard Hawks
21. Michelangelo Antonioni
22. Fritz Lang
23. Sergei Eisenstein
24. François Truffaut
25. Kenji Mizoguchi
26. Roberto Rossellini
27. David Lean
28. David Lynch
29. Vittorio De Sica
30. Luchino Visconti
31. Steven Spielberg
32. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
33. Woody Allen
34. Jean Vigo
35. Satyajit Ray
36. John Cassavetes
37. Ernst Lubitsch
38. Roman Polanski
39. Sergio Leone
40. Alain Resnais
41. Max Ophüls
42. D.W. Griffith
43. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
44. Robert Altman
45. Wong Kar-wai
46. Abbas Kiarostami
47. Buster Keaton
48. Terrence Malick
49. John Huston
50. Ridley Scott
51. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
52. Werner Herzog
53. Dziga Vertov
54. Pier Paolo Pasolini
55. Chris Marker
56. Jacques Tati
57. Sam Peckinpah
58. Michael Curtiz
59. Bernardo Bertolucci
60. Carol Reed
61. Marcel Carné
62. Preston Sturges
63. Krszystof Kieslowski
64. Frank Capra
65. Victor Fleming
66. Vincente Minnelli
67. Nicholas Ray
68. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
69. Leo McCarey
70. Erich von Stroheim
71. Béla Tarr
72. Douglas Sirk
73. Hou Hsiao-hsien
74. Nicolas Roeg
75. Wim Wenders
76. Chantal Akerman
77. Gillo Pontecorvo
78. Quentin Tarantino
79. Elia Kazan
80. Jacques Rivette
81. Edward Yang
82. Josef von Sternberg
83. Jean-Pierre Melville
84. Claude Lanzmann
85. Lars von Trier
86. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
87. Eric Rohmer
88. Milos Forman
89. George Cukor
90. David Cronenberg
91. Jacques Tourneur
92. Jacques Demy
93. William Wyler
94. Jean Eustache
95. Hayao Miyazaki
96. Victor Erice
97. Clint Eastwood
98. Claire Denis US Go Home [1994 - 8.5/10]
99. Theo Angelopoulos
100. Sidney Lumet
101. Spike Lee
102. King Vidor
103. Paul Thomas Anderson
104. Michael Haneke
105. Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
106. Jean Cocteau
107. Brian De Palma
108. Abel Gance
109. George Lucas
110. George A. Romero
111. James Cameron
112. Sergei Parajanov
113. Pedro Almodóvar
114. Michael Snow
115. Robert Flaherty
116. Glauber Rocha
117. Stan Brakhage
118. Otto Preminger
119. Ken Loach
120. Alexander Dovzhenko
121. Mikio Naruse
122. Peter Weir
123. Jane Campion
124. Alexander Mackendrick
125. Jim Jarmusch
126. Aleksandr Sokurov
127. Henri-Georges Clouzot
128. William Friedkin
129. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
130. Andrzej Wajda
131. John Carpenter
132. Raoul Walsh
133. Andy Warhol
134. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
135. Michael Powell
136. Elem Klimov
137. Hal Ashby
138. Michael Cimino
139. Ousmane Sembene
140. Terry Gilliam
141. Mike Leigh
142. Maurice Pialat
143. James Whale
144. Agnès Varda
145. Zhang Yimou
146. Louis Malle
147. Mike Nichols
148. Arthur Penn
149. Ritwik Ghatak
150. Samuel Fuller Forty Guns [1957 - 7/10]
151. Nagisa Oshima
152. Robert Wise
153. Djibril Diop Mambéty
154. G.W. Pabst
155. Mikhail Kalatozov
156. George Stevens
157. Michael Mann
158. Robert Aldrich
159. Rob Reiner
160. Terence Davies
161. Maya Deren
162. John Boorman
163. René Clair
164. Tod Browning
165. Tobe Hooper
166. Anthony Mann
167. Georges Méliès
168. Robert Hamer
169. Tsai Ming-liang
170. Manoel de Oliveira
171. Robert Zemeckis
172. Frank Borzage
173. Humphrey Jennings
174. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
175. Joseph Losey
176. Bob Fosse
177. Robert Wiene
178. Shohei Imamura
179. Peter Bogdanovich
180. Don Siegel
181. Frederick Wiseman
182. Ben Sharpsteen
183. Emir Kusturica
184. Blake Edwards
185. Oliver Stone
186. Georges Franju
187. Victor Sjöström
188. Sydney Pollack
189. Todd Haynes
190. David Hand
191. Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
192. Lindsay Anderson
193. David Fincher
194. Charles Burnett
195. Fei Mu
196. John Schlesinger
197. George Roy Hill
198. Tim Burton
199. Guru Dutt
200. Harold Ramis
201. Fred Zinnemann
202. Kenneth Anger
203. Ang Lee
204. Errol Morris
205. Gus Van Sant
206. Ken Russell
207. Jia Zhangke
208. Luis García Berlanga
209. Paul Verhoeven
210. Leni Riefenstahl
211. Monte Hellman
212. Ermanno Olmi
213. Louis Feuillade
214. John Woo
215. Richard Linklater
216. Francesco Rosi
217. Chen Kaige
218. Mel Brooks
219. Peter Kubelka
220. Jean Rouch
221. Jacques Becker
222. Peter Watkins
223. Jack Clayton
224. Boris Barnet
225. Robert Mulligan
226. Bob Rafelson
227. Edgar G. Ulmer
228. Jerry Lewis
229. Rouben Mamoulian
230. Peter Jackson
231. Dario Argento
232. King Hu
233. Alan J. Pakula
234. Sam Wood
235. Aki Kaurismäki
236. John Hughes
237. Marcel Ophüls
238. Peter Greenaway
239. Claude Chabrol
240. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
241. Frantisek Vlácil
242. Miklós Jancsó
243. Giuseppe Tornatore
244. Dennis Hopper
245. Seijun Suzuki
246. Dusan Makavejev
247. Masaki Kobayashi
248. Jonas Mekas
249. Mark Sandrich
250. Alejandro Jodorowsky