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Top 50 best directors of all time

List all those directors according to The Cinema Archives
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Director
Vertigo, Rear Window, Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock
2001: An Space Odyssey, The Shining
Stanley Kubrick
The Seventh Seal, Persona
Ingmar Bergman
Tokyo Story
Yasujiro Ozu
La dolce vita, 8 1/2
Federico Fellini
Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Hugo
Martin Scorsese
The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather
Francis Ford Coppola
Stalker, Mirror
Andrei Tarkovsky
Chimes at Midnight, The Trial, Citizen Kane
Orson Welles
The Searchers, Stagecoach
John Ford
Red Desert, The Passenger, Blow-Up
Michaelangelo Antonioni
Seven Samurai, Ran
Akira Kurosawa
The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim, Shoot the Piano Player
François Truffaut
The Rules of the Game, Grand Illusion
Jean Renoir
Punch Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood, The Master
Paul Thomas Anderson
Breathless, Pierrot le Fou, Contempt
Jean Luc-Godard
The Earrings of Madame De…, Lola Montes
Max Ophuls
Blue Velvet, Dune, Eraserhead
David Lynch
The Passion of Joan of Arc, Gertrud
Carl Theodor Dreyer
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West
Sergio Leone
M, Metropolis
Fritz Lang
In the Mood For Love, Chungking Express, 2046, Days of Being Wild
Kar-Wai Wong
Battleship Potemkin, Strike, Ivan the Terrible Part II
Sergei Eisenstein
The Thin Red Line, Days of Heaven, The New World
Terrence Malick
Sunrise, Nosferatu, The Last Laugh
F.W. Murnau
The Blue Angel, The Scarlet Empress, Morocco
Josef von Sternberg
Manhattan, Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters
Woody Allen
Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Schindler’s List
Steven Spielberg
The Big Sleep, Bringing Up Baby, Rio Bravo
Howard Hawks
Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country For Old Men
The Coen Brothers
Viridiana, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Los Olvidados
Luis Bunuel
Rome, Open City, Paisan, Germany Year Zero
Roberto Rossellini
Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago
David Lean
Nashville, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, MASH
Robert Altman
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Black Narcissus, A Matter of Life and Death
Michael Powell
Dead Ringers, Crash, A History of Violence
David Cronenberg
Dead Man, Broken Flowers, Stranger Than Paradise
Jim Jarmusch
Chinatown, Rosemary’s Baby, Repulsion
Roman Polanski
Sunset Boulevard,Double Indemnity, The Apartment
Billy Wilder
Bicycle Thieves, Umberto D, Two Women
Vittorio De Sica
Fight Club, Zodiac, Seven
David Fincher
Dekalog, Blue, Red
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee
Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Tarantino
The Music Room, Pather Panchali, Aparajito
Satyajit Ray
I am Cuba, The Cranes are Flying, Letter Never Sent
Mikhail Kalatozov
Intolerance, The Birth of a Nation
D.W.Griffith
Aguirre,the Wrath of , God, Fitzcarraldo, Nosferatu
Werner Herzog
The Pornographers, Intentions of Murder, Vengeance is Mine
Shohei Imamura
Performance, Don't Look Now, The Man Who Fell to Earth
Nicolas Roeg
1 Comments
Barsoin
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Feb 9, 2023
I don't think that much of them are really among the best.

Besides Hitchcock, Ford, Renoir, Godard, Ophüls, Dreyer, Lang, Eisenstein, Murnau, Sternberg, Hawks, Buñuel, Rossellini and Griffith, the best film directors are James Benning, Budd Boetticher, Frank Borzage, Stanley Brakhage, Robert Bresson, Charles Chaplin, Marguerite Duras, Harun Farocki, Louis Feuillade, Ritwik Ghatak, Jean Grémillon, Buster Keaton, Peter Kubelka, Boris Lehman, Ernst Lubitsch, Louis Lumière, Leo McCarey, Kenji Mizoguchi, João César Monteiro, Luc Moullet, Mikio Naruse, Peter Nestler, Jafar Panahi, Pierre Perrault, Nicholas Ray, Jacques Rivette, Jean Rouch, Jacques Rozier, Douglas Sirk, Victor Sjöström, Michael Snow, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Erich von Stroheim, Jacques Tati, Jacques Tourneur, Marie-Claude Treilhou, Tsai Ming-liang, Paul Vecchiali, King Vidor, Raoul Walsh, Wang Bing and Frederick Wiseman.

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