Pantheon Directors: A List of 10 Iconoclasts
1.Orson Welles
2.Stanley Kubrick
3.Federico Fellini
4.Akira Kurosawa
5.F.W. Murnau
5.Vittorio De Sica
7.Yasujiro Ozu
8.Sergei Eisenstein
8.D.W. Griffith
10.Alfred Hitchcock
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Hard for me to pick just ten i consider essential. I'll give a list with my 2 favorite films they done, numbered just for order not to rank one over the other.
1. akira kurosawa "Seven Samurai/ikuru"
2. jean renoir "Grand Illusian/Rules of the game"
3. orson welles "Citizen Kane/F for Fake"
4. andrei tarkovsky"Andrei Rubeluv/Stalker"
5. luis bunuel "Phantom of liberty/Un chien Andalou"
6. david lynch "eraserhead/ Blue velvet"
7. Roberto Rossellini "Paisan/ Rome, open city"
8. Frederico Fellini "La Strada/ 8 1/2"
9. Alfred Hitchcock "The 39 steps/Notorious"
10. Francois Truffaut "Jules and Jim/ the 400 blows"
11. Vittorio De Sica "The Bicycle thief/Umberto D."
12. STanley Kubrick "2001/ A clockwork orange"
13. Jean Pierre Melville "Le Samourai/ Bob le flambeur"
14. Ingmar Bergman "Wild Strawberries/ Seventh Seal"
15. Woody Allen "Annie Hall/Manhattan"
16. Billy Wilder "Double Indemnity/Sunset Boulevard"
17. Alain Resnais "Hiroshima, Mon Amour/Last year at Marienbad"
18. Stan Brakhage "Mothlight/The Dante Quartet"
19. Jean Luc Godard "Breathless/ Alphaville"
20. Marcel Carne "CHildren of the paradise"
21. David Lean "Lawrence of Arabia"
22. Gillo Pontecorvo "Battle of Algiers"
23. Werner Herzog "Aguire: Wrath of god/ Fitzcarldo"
24. Martin Scorcese "Raging bull/Goodfellas"
25. charlie chaplin "Gold Rush/Modern times"
26. Francis Ford Coppolla "Apocalypse Now/Godfather"
27. Terrence Mallick "Badlands/Days of heaven"
28. Satyajit Ray "Pather Panchali/The world of Apu"
29. Peter Fischli and Davud Weiss "The way things go"
30. Milos Foreman "One flew over the cuckoos nest/Loves of a blonde"
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*Luis Bunuel - Un Chien Andalou, L'Age D'Or, The Disrceet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty, That Obscure Object of Desire
*Ingmar Bergman - Wild Strawberries, The Seventh Seal, Persona
*Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Casino
*David Lynch - Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, Mulholland Dr.
*Federico Fellini - La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2
*David Cronenberg - Videodrome, Naked Lunch
*Stanley Kubrick - Dr.Strangelove, 2001:A Space Odyssey, Clockwork Orange
*P.T. Anderson - Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love
*Wes Anderson - The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
*Tim Burton - Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish
*Terry Gilliam - Brazil, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
*Fritz Lang - Metropolis, M
Those are just directors that have made multiple movies that I have seen and loved. I still have quite a few films to watch though. Some that I love only one film by (so far)include: Roman Polanski (Chinatown), Nicolas Roeg (Bad Timing), Fernando Mierelles (City of God), Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko), David O. Russell (I Heart Huckabees), Francois Truffaut (Jules and Jim), Jean-Luc Godard (Contempt), Jean-Pierre Melville (Le Samourai), Christopher Nolan (Memento), Carl Th. Dreyer (The Passion of Joan of Arc), Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream), Alexander Payne (Sideways), Noah Bambauch (The Squid and the Whale) . . . yeah, that list goes on for a while. Some of the directors have other movies that I didn't love but liked a lot and some of their other movies just suck, others, I have yet to see their other films.
Thank you! Wes Anderson is king
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Ten BEST Directors, in order. Favorite film listed next to the director.
1. Andrei Tarkovsky - Stalker
2. Orson Welles - Touch of Evil
3. Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo
4. Ingmar Bergman - The Seventh Seal
5. Stanley Kubrick - 2001
6. Robert Bresson - Pickpocket
7. Carl Dreyer - Day of Wrath
8. Akira Kurosawa - Ran
9. Fritz Lang - M
10. Federico Fellini - 8 1/2
11. Jean Cocteau - Beauty and the Beast
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(alphabetical order)
Woody Allen (Manhattan, Annie Hall)
Robert Altman (McCabe & Mrs. Miller, 3 Women)
Michelangelo Antonioni (L'eclisse, L'avventura)
Ingmar Bergman (Cries and Whispers, Fanny and Alexander)
Robert Bresson (Au Hasard Balthazar, Pickpocket)
Luis Buñuel (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty)
Jean Cocteau (Orpheus, Blood of a Poet)
Francis Ford Coppola (The Conversation, Apocalypse Now)
Carl Theodor Dreyer (Ordet, The Passion of Joan of Arc)
Jean-Luc Godard (Band of Outsiders, Breathless)
Federico Fellini (8 1/2, La Dolce Vita)
Howard Hawks (His Girl Friday, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo, Rear Window)
Jim Jarmusch (Dead Man, Down by Law)
Buster Keaton (Sherlock, Jr., The General)
Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr. Strangelove)
Richard Lester (The Knack, A Hard Day's Night)
David Lynch (Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet)
Terrence Malick (Badlands, Days of Heaven)
Nicholas Ray (Johnny Guitar, In a Lonely Place)
Jean Renoir (The Rules of the Game, Grand Ilussion)
Jacques Tati (Mon Oncle, M. Hulot's Holiday)
Francois Truffaut (Jules and Jim, The 400 Blows)
Lars von Trier (Dogville, Breaking the Waves)
Orson Welles (F for Fake, Citizen Kane)
Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire)
Billy Wilder (The Apartment, Double Indemnity)
1. Sergei M Eisenstein (Potemkin, Strike, October etc)
2. D.W.Griffith
3. Orson Welles
4. Stanley Kubrick
5. Hitchcock
6. Kirosawa
7. Ingmer Bergman
8. Robert Altman
9. Couldnt think of any others so I just say the directors for the Simple Plan concerts because Simple Plan is the best..........cough.......vomit........
1. Fritz Lang
2. Akira Kurosawa
3. Jean-luc Goddard
4. Vittorio De Sica
5. Luis Bunuel
6. Jean Cocteau
7. Alfred Hitchcock
8. Ingmar Bergman
9. Carl Th. Dreyer
10. Federico Fellini
Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo, Rear Window)
Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove)
Martin Scorcese (Goodfellas, Taxi Driver)
Francis Ford Coppola (Godfather I & II, Apocalypse Now)
As for the much neglected horror and slightly phantasmagorical directors...
David Lynch (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet)
Dario Argento (Suspiria, Deep Red)
John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing)
you guys basically listed most of the ones, but don't forget
Jean-Pierre Melville
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1.Alfred Hitchcock
2.Luis Bunuel
3.Jean Pierre Melville
4.Claude Chabrol
5.Luchino Visconti
6.Jean Cocteau
7.Vittorio De Sica
8.Fritz Lang
no order, this is based on influence not my favorites, they are all great though
Akira Kurosawa
Orson Welles
Murnau
Hitchcock
De Sica
Kubrick
Eisentein
Fritz Lang
Chaplin
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Its weird to call directors like Hitchcock or Kubrick mainstream because during their time they really weren't such. I believe 2001: A Space Odyssey was trashed when it first came out and there really hasnt been a film quite like it since. And Hitchcock did freaking Vertigo. I dont think anyone expected something quite that personal out of him. I would hardly call David Lynch anti-mainstream. He's got a pretty huge following. Any college campus in the U.S. is full of David Lynch fanatics. I believe the first midnight movie they played at the theater by my place in Columbus was Blue Velvet and its a fairly mainstream theater. I think you really have to put yourself in the time of the director to decide whether or not he's mainstream. Many of these directors mentioned were very much iconoclasts in their time. The images they portrayed in their movies had really never been seen before.
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Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
Ingmar Bergman
Federico Fellini
Werner Herzog
Kenji Mizoguchi
Sergei Eisenstein
Charlie Chaplin
Alfred Hitchcock
My Top 20
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I was scratching my head at the use of the word iconoclasts as well. Quite a number of directors listed so far, however brilliant, were hardly iconoclastic. Perhaps the the problem is simply word choice.
Now, at the risk of shooting myself in the foot, I add D.W. Griffith to that list. He really changed everything and practically invented the language of film. Before him movies were nothing more than theatre plays. Griffith realized the ability of the camera to be so much more.