Netflix allows me to rent movies categorically, by director. By doing a simple search you can find all the movies available for rent by a certain director. The director is the visionary. They have a vision, they execute the story, inspire the actors, cut the film with the editors, and overall, create the film. They are the omnipresent figure in filmmaking process. Without them lies an amalgam of creativity, inspiration, and dreams- with no outlet. They are the conduit.
My favorite directors range from classic, film noir, to French new wave, to 90s crime and beyond. This list is non-exhaustive, but here are some of my top ranking directors.
American: Spielberg, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Tarantino, Scorsese, Woody Allen, William Wyler, William Friedkin, Michael Mann, Brian De Palma, Mike Nichols, Francis Ford Coppola, David Lynch, Sidney Lumet, Sydney Pollack, Paul Thomas Anderson, Coen Brothers, Jim Jarmusch, Curtis Hanson, Spike Jonze, Spike Lee, Oliver Stone, etc...
Canadian: David Cronenberg
European: Ingmar Bergman, Luis Bunuel, Milos Forman, Elia Kazan, Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Bernando Bertolucci, Michelangelo Antonioni, Fritz Lang, Werner Herzog, Michael Haneke
French: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, François Truffaut, Alain Resnais, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Demy, Jacques Tati, Claude Chabrol, Jean Cocteau, Louis Malle, François Ozon, Roger Vadim, Polanski, Luc Besson, Jacques Rivette, Michel Gondry
Asian: Kurosawa, Wong Kar-Wai
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