Total Film - top 20 Film directors of all time

[Gwylan]

It's a weird list that has just two non-English language directors on it ... and only eight who were making films before 1970.

To add to Les's list: no Eisenstein, no Dreyer, no Renoir, no Carne, no Rossellini, no Visconti and most astonishingly of all, no Bresson.

 

[Woodchip]

Where's Kevin Smith?

 

[Woodchip]

Oops, you've already answered.

Kubrik for me then.

 

[Captain Haddock]

Yimou Zhang? Geeeenius.

Good call.

The list appears to be embarrassingly crap, but I'm voting for Hitch...the master.

 

[Captain Haddock]

My 20, in n.p.o, MIGHT be:

Woody Allen
Joel & Ethan Coen
Michael Powell
John Ford
Billy Wilder
Akira Kurosawa
Stanley Kubrick
Ingmar Bergman
Orson Welles
Francis Ford Coppola
Howard Hawks
Steven Spielberg
Martin Scorcese
Alfred Hitchcock
Jean Renoir
Patrice Leconte
Zhang Yimou
Sergio Leone
Ridley Scott
Pedro Almodovar

 

[Easy 10]

Ridley Scott - 39th

Oh. And Woody Allen is there in 19th.
Yeah well done Total Film.

 

[otk]

My top three would be Tarantino, Lynch and Almodovar, with an honourable mention to Takeshi

Btw Joel Cohen is the director, Ethan Coen produces their movies

 

[Muzzman]

Hitchcock outta that lot.. Agree with Easy about Cameron too.

 

[The Large One]

Sergio Leone

 

[H block]

Where`s Altman

 

[fatbadger]

That is an absolutely shocking list. Only two who made films in languages other than English. I mean, ffs.

And even when they did choose a Japanese they failed to list Ozu or Mizoguchi (at the very least - what about Teshigahara or Masamura?), and when they chose a Scandinavian they didn't bother with Dreyer. And, just talking about Europeans - No Italians (Visconti)? No French (Vigo)? No Spaniards (Bunuel - my favourite)? No Russians (Tarkovsky)?


Clearly, a list made by a complete film illiterate.

 

[Captain Haddock]

That is an absolutely shocking list. Only two who made films in languages other than English. I mean, ffs.

And even when they did choose a Japanese they failed to list Ozu or Mizoguchi (at the very least - what about Teshigahara or Masamura?), and when they chose a Scandinavian they didn't bother with Dreyer. And, just talking about Europeans - No Italians (Visconti)? No French (Vigo)? No Spaniards (Bunuel - my favourite)? No Russians (Tarkovsky)?


Clearly, a list made by a complete film illiterate.

Well bugger me wit' a fishin; rod! Great call, shipmate!!!

 

[Brightonfan1983]

I go for Billy Wilder - how the heck can they include Peter Jackson, amongst a few others, in this list??

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

NSC Verdict

1.Hitchcock 7
2.Scorcese 6
3.Kubrik 5
4.Spielberg 4

 

[Trufflehound]

Where's Yasujiro Ozu?

 

[Hampden Park]

Where's Yasujiro Ozu?

isn't it in Japan

 

[Vatican Citys No.2 Keeper]

& where in the hell is George Lucas in all of this?

Stuck on Tatooine or something?

 

[Eggmundo]

A good director means nowt, It is a culmination that makes greatness. Actors, production, director et al. If there is a click then greatness is achieved. just because "it's a Spielberg film" or a "Ridley Scott film" doesn't mean it's good.

 

[dougdeep]

Tarantino.

 

[Goodfella]

Scorsese for me, closely followed by Joel and Ethan Cohen.



Blood Simple for Goodfella.