YC2: Your 100 Favorite Directors

[Lauren]

#100-96
100 Elia Kazan
99 Jacques Tourneur
98 George Cukor
97 Roberto Rossellini
96 Albert Brooks

#95-91
95 Peter Weir
94 William Wyler
93 Jean-Pierre Melville
92 Clint Eastwood
91 Alain Robbe-Grillet

#90-86
90 Bela Tarr
89 Tsai Ming-Liang
88 Edward Yang
87 King Vidor
86 Darren Aronofsky

#85-81
85 Max Ophuls
84 Leo McCarey
83 Emir Kusturica
82 Jean Cocteau
81 Budd Boetticher

#80-76
80 Sidney Lumet
79 Ermanno Olmi
78 Chris Marker
77 Peter Greenaway
76 Anthony Mann

#75-71
75 Marcel Carne
74 Francois Truffaut
73 Lars Von Trier
72 Guy Maddin
71 Jean Vigo

#70-66
70 James Whale
69 Josef Von Sternberg
68 Henri-Georges Clouzot
67 Wes Anderson
66 Vittorio De Sica

#65-61
65 Bernardo Bertolucci
64 Wim Wenders
63 Raoul Walsh
62 Preston Sturges
61 Douglas Sirk

#60-56
60 Frank Capra
59 Otto Preminger
58 Agnes Varda
57 Kenji Mizoguchi
56 Claude Chabrol

#55-51
55 Brian De Palma
54 Quentin Tarantino
53 Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
52 Nicolas Roeg
51 David Lean

#50-46
50 John Huston
49 Roman Polanski
48 Andrzej Zulawski
47 Francis Ford Coppola
46 William A Wellman

#45-41
45 Sergio Leone
44 Jim Jarmusch
43 Federico Fellini
42 Nicholas Ray
41 David Cronenberg

#40-36
40 Yasujiro Ozu
39 Steven Spielberg
38 Michael Haneke
37 Terrence Malick
36 Carl Th Dreyer

#35-31
35 Sergei Eisenstein
34 Andrei Tarkovsky
33 Alain Resnais
32 Werner Herzog
31 Jacques Rivette

#30-26
30 Gus Van Sant
29 Paul Thomas Anderson
28 Joel & Ethan Coen
27 FW Murnau
26 Akira Kurosawa

#25-21
25 Howard Hawks
24 Michelangelo Antonioni
23 Pedro Almodovar
22 John Cassavetes
21 Billy Wilder

#20-16
20 Orson Welles
19 Robert Bresson
18 Wong Kar-Wai
17 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
16 Fritz Lang

#15-11
15 Krzysztof Kieslowski
14 Martin Scorsese
13 David Lynch
12 Robert Altman
11 Charles Chaplin

#10-6
10 Jean Renoir
9 Buster Keaton
8 John Ford
7 Woody Allen
6 Jean-Luc Godard

#5-1
5 Stanley Kubrick
4 Luis Bunuel
3 Ingmar Bergman
2 Ernst Lubitsch
1 Alfred Hitchcock


The 223 who placed, but didn't make the list!

Abel Gance, Adrian Lyne, Aki Kaurismaki, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Aleksandr Sokurov, Alex Cox, Alf Sjoberg, Alfonso Cuaron, Alfred E Green, Allan Dwan, Anatole Litvak, Andre Bonzel, Andrew Dominik, Andrew Stanton, Andrzej Wajda, Ang Lee, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ari Folman, Arthur Penn, Atom Egoyan, Barbara Loden, Ben Sharpsteen, Benjamin Christensen, Bertrand Tavernier, Bill Douglas, Bill Forsyth, Billie August, Bo Wideberg, Bob Fosse, Carlos Reygadas, Carlos Saura, Carol Reed, Cecil B DeMille, Chan-wook Park, Charles Laughton, Charles Vidor, Charley Chase, Charlie Kaufman, Chuck Jones, Claire Denis, Clarence Brown, Claude Lelouch, Danny Boyle, Dario Argento, David Fincher, David Gordon Green, David Hand, Derek Jarman, Dimitri Kirsanoff, Donald Crisp, Dorothy Arzner, DW Griffith, Dziga Vertov, Edward Dmytryck, Elaine May, Elem Klimov, Eric Rohmer, Errol Morris, Fernando Meirelles, Forough Farrokhzad, Frank Borzage, Frank Tashlin, Fred Niblo, Fred Zinnemann, Frederick Wiseman, Gaspar Noe, Gene Kelly, George Lucas, George Romero, George Roy Hill, George Stevens, Georges Franju, Gerald Kargl, Germaine Dulac, Gillo Pontecorvo, Gregg Araki, Gregory La Cava, GW Pabst, Hal Ashby, Harmony Korine, Harry Smith, Hasse Alfredson, Hayao Miyazaki, Hirokazu Koreeda, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Hiroshi Shimizu, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Irving Rapper, Jack Chambers, Jack Clayton, Jacques Demy, Jacques Tati, James Gray, Jan Nemec, Jan Troell, Jane Campion, Jean Epstein, Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Jerry Lewis, Jim Sheridan, John Boorman, John Carpenter, John Schlesinger, Jonathan Demme, Joseph L Mankiewicz, Joseph Losey, Jules Dassin, Julian Schnabel, Julien Duvivier, Juraj Herz, Juraj Jakubisko, Kelly Reichardt, Ken Loach, Kenneth Anger, Kon Ichikawa, Larry Clark, Lasse Hallstrom, Leni Riefenstahl, Leos Carax, Lewis Milestone, Lindsay Anderson, Lodge Kerrigan, Lotte Reiniger, Louis Malle, Luchino Visconti, Lukas Moodysson, Lynne Ramsay, Malcolm St Clair, Manoel de Oliveira, Marcel Pagnol, Marco Bellocchio, Mark Sandrich, Mathieu Kassovitz, Maurice Pialat, Maya Deren, Mel Gibson, Merian C Cooper, Mervyn Le Roy, Michael Cimino, Michael Curtiz, Michael Powell, Michael Winterbottom, Michel Gondry, Mike Figgis, Mike Hodges, Mike Leigh, Mike Nichols, Mikhail Kalatozov, Mikio Naruse, Milos Forman, Monte Hellman, Noah Baumbach, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Oliver Stone, Patrick Bokanowski, Paul Fejos, Paul Greengrass, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Jackson, Peter Watkins, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Remy Belvaux, Rene Clair, Rene Clement, Richard Brooks, Richard Lester, Richard Linklater, Richard Rosson, Ridley Scott, Rob Minkoff, Robert J Flaherty, Robert Siodmak, Robert Wiene, Roger Allers, Ross McElwee, Rouben Mamoulian, Roy Andersson, Ryan Fleck, Sadao Yamanaka, Sally Potter, Sam Mendes, Sam Peckinpah, Sam Raimi, Samuel Fuller, Satayajit Ray, Satoshi Kon, Sean Penn, Sergei Parajanov, Shane Meadows, Sharunas Bartas, Shunji Iwai, Sofia Coppolla, Spike Jonze, Stanley Donen, Stayajit Ray, Steve James, Steven Soderbergh, Sydney Pollack, Tage Danielsson, Teinosuke Kinguasa, Terence Davies, Terry Gilliam, Tex Avery, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Tim Burton, Tod Browning, Todd Haynes, Todd Solondz, Tomas Alfredson, Tommy Lee Jones, Tony Kaye, Vera Chytilova, Victor Erice, Victor Fleming, Victor Sjostrom, Vincent Gallo, Vincente Minnelli, Warren Beatty, William Friedkin, Zhang Yimou.

[wigwam]

Warren Beatty, [...] William Friedkin

meet me halfway across the sky, Whit

[Mikadzuki]

Awesome! When can we expect the top 100?

[Lauren]

I'm going to stretch this out as long as possible with 10-20 a night, or something like that.

[Ally]

YUM YUM!!!

[Lauren]

ELIA KAZAN

3pt
2pt On the Waterfront
1pt East of Eden, A Streetcar Named Desire





JACQUES TOURNEUR

3pt
2pt Out of the Past
1pt Cat People, I Walked With a Zombie





GEORGE CUKOR

3pt
2pt Holiday
1pt The Philadelphia Story, Gaslight





ROBERTO ROSSELLINI

3pt
2pt Rome: Open City
1pt Germany Year Zero, Voyage in Italy





ALBERT BROOKS

3pt
2pt Modern Romance
1pt Defending Your Life, Real Life

[Ally]

Albert Brooks

[Lauren]

PETER WEIR

3pt
2pt Picnic at Hanging Rock
1pt The Truman Show, Witness





WILLIAM WYLER

3pt
2pt The Best Years of Our Lives
1pt Dodsworth, Roman Holiday





JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE

3pt
2pt Le Samourai
1pt Army of Shadows, Le Cercle rouge





CLINT EASTWOOD

3pt
2pt Unforgiven
1pt The Bridges of Madison County, Mystic River





ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET

3pt
2pt Eden & After
1pt L'Immortelle, Trans-Europ Express

[Ally]

i wonder how close (far away) this will be to the other directors list.
maybe i'll do a comparison??

[InHuman]

Eastwood way too low

[warthog]

not really

[Ally]

not really

[sidehacker]

At least he made the list. Same can't be said for Naruse and some of my other favorites.

We all need to see more from Jacques Tourneur.

[Simon M.]

not really

[warthog]

not really

Hmm...You know what I'm thinking

[Ally]

Simon & Allison & Simon. We go great together.

[InHuman]

Yes really, you douches. Wimbledon was fun though too short, gonna start posting stuff tomorrow!

[Lauren]

BELA TARR

3pt
2pt Werckmeister Harmonies
1pt Damnation, Prefab People





TSAI MING-LIANG

3pt
2pt What Time is it There?
1pt The Hole, The Wayward Cloud





EDWARD YANG

3pt
2pt Yi yi (a one and a two...)
1pt The Terrorizers, A Brighter Summer Day





KING VIDOR

3pt
2pt
1pt Duel in the Sun, La Boheme, The Champ, The Crowd





DARREN ARONOFSKY

3pt The Wrestler
2pt Requiem for a Dream
1pt

[Simon M.]

Yes really, you douches. Wimbledon was fun though too short, gonna start posting stuff tomorrow!

see more than 25 movies in your lifetime before calling us douches for not going ga-ga over Clint Eastwood

Looking forward to your Wimbledon stuff

[InHuman]

What? I'm not gonna post about Wimbledon. And seeing as you, compared with some people here, haven't seen anything either, I suggest you just shut the fuck up

[Ally]

calm-down-peeps

[james]

Yes really, you douches. Wimbledon was fun though too short, gonna start posting stuff tomorrow!

see more than 25 movies in your lifetime before calling us douches for not going ga-ga over Clint Eastwood

see more than five of his movies before saying he doesn't deserve a higher spot

[warthog]

Yes really, you douches. Wimbledon was fun though too short, gonna start posting stuff tomorrow!

see more than 25 movies in your lifetime before calling us douches for not going ga-ga over Clint Eastwood

see more than five of his movies before saying he doesn't deserve a higher spot

5 is pretty much enough, besides, eastwood isnt that good.

[Ally]

what is this, ymdb deux? stop being douchetards and respect someone else's opinion for once.

[warthog]

pff, we always do that.