Top 50 Directors of All Time (Total Film magazine

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http://www.totalfilm.com/features/the_greatest_directors_ever_-_part_2

here's the list:

50 Sam Fuller

49 Mike Leigh

48 Fritz Lang

47 Krzysztof Kieslowski

46 Alexander Payne

45 Werner Herzog

44 François Truffaut

43 Preston Sturges

42 Frank Capra

41 Ang Lee

40 David Lean

39 Ridley Scott

38 James Cameron

37 Sergio Leone

36 Roman Polanski

35 Rob Reiner

34 Carol Reed

33 Yasujiro Ozu

32 Christopher Nolan

31 Terrence Malick

30 Luis Buñuel

29 Jean-Pierre Melville

28 Michael Mann

27 Sam Peckinpah

26 Robert Altman

25 Hayao Miyazaki

24 Tim Burton

23 Jean Renoir

22 David Lynch

21 Clint Eastwood

20 Paul Thomas Anderson

19 Woody Allen

18 Joel and Ethan Coen

17 David Cronenberg

16 Michael Powell

15 Steven Soderbergh

14 John Ford

13 Billy Wilder

12 Quentin Tarantino

11 Akira Kurosawa

10 David Fincher

9 Peter Jackson

8 Stanley Kubrick

7 Ingmar Bergman

6 Orson Welles

5 Francis Ford Coppola

4 Howard Hawks

3 Steven Spielberg

2 Martin Scorsese

1 Alfred Hitchcock
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I'm sorry, Ang Lee, Paul Thomas Anderson, Tim Burton, Steven Soderberg and Woody Allen are NOT better directors than Frank Capra...:furious3::furious3::furious3::furious3:
 
These lists are always skewed to more contemporary directors. David Lean at 40? Come on mang. Lean should be before Luis Bunuel.
 
15 Steven Soderbergh
21 Clint Eastwood
32 Christopher Nolan
23 Jean Renoir

This is ridiculous. These guys are better than Wong Kar Wai, Frederico Fellini, Michaelangelo Antonioni, or Jean Luc Goddard? Are they insane?
 
Rob Reiner is higher up than Jean-Luc Godard and John Cassavetes? No wait, strike that--Rob Reiner is on the list of 100 greatest directors?
 
honestly i can't argue with the top 3. that part is good. i have it in a different order, but they're all still there. but eastwood, capra should DEFINITELY be in the Top 10. This is a very crappy list.
 
Fincher and Jackson before Kurosawa? :banned:
This is a joke, am I right?

This list favors modern directors as well as Americans.

No Fellini, Tarkovsky, etc, etc, etc, etc...

I don't even agree with the top 1, 2 or 3. Hitchcock wouldn't drop much, but I would never consider him number 1.
 
StefanHaynes said:
Yeah, the appearance of Tarantino and the lack of Tarkovsky is enough to expunge your meal.
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I am surprised that Tarkovsky is not on the list. :shocked:

Tarantino belongs on there and in fact, I'd rank him higher than he is. Quentin speaks the same visual langauge as Scorsese, De Palma (The extreme end of the curve), Spielberg and Copolla. (Not saying his work has reached the level of these guys (although Pulp Fiction is close) but he is one of the very few filmmakers working today that is keeping the Auteur style alive in cinema.

He clearly understands films visual langauge.

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I should add; Welles introduced many of todays modern techniques (Mis-en- scene) and I think Hitchcock more or less set the standard. Marty, Steve, Brian and Quentin all shoot from that manual.
 
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