【导演】收集排名
【The Greatest Film Directors Ever by Total Film Magazine 】
排名 导演 代表作（Total Film选择） 代表作（Filmsite选择）
1 Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo (1958) or Psycho (1960)
2 Martin Scorsese Goodfellas (1990) Taxi Driver (1976)
3 Steven Spielberg E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Schindler's List (1993)
4 Howard Hawks His Girl Friday (1940) or The Big Sleep (1946)
5 Francis Ford Coppola The Godfather (1972) or The Godfather, Part II (1974)
6 Orson Welles Citizen Kane (1941) -
7 Ingmar Bergman Persona (1966, Swed.) The Seventh Seal (1957, Swed.)
8 Stanley Kubrick 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
9 Peter Jackson The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
10 David Fincher Fight Club (1999) Se7en (1995)
11 Akira Kurosawa The Seven Samurai (1954, Jp.) Rashomon (1950, Jp.)
12 Quentin Tarantino Reservoir Dogs (1992) Pulp Fiction (1994)
13 Billy Wilder The Apartment (1960) Double Indemnity (1944) or Sunset Boulevard (1950)
14 John Ford The Searchers (1956) -
15 Steven Soderbergh Out of Sight (1998) Traffic (2000)
16 Michael Powell The Red Shoes (1948)
17 David Cronenberg Crash (1996) or The Fly (1986)
18 Joel & Ethan Coen Miller's Crossing (1990) Fargo (1996)
19 Woody Allen Manhattan (1979) Annie Hall (1977)
20 Paul Thomas Anderson Magnolia (1999) or Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
21 Clint Eastwood Unforgiven (1992) or Million Dollar Baby (2004)
22 David Lynch Blue Velvet (1996) or Mulholland Drive (2001)
23 Jean Renoir The Rules of the Game (1939, Fr.) or The Grand Illusion (1937, Fr.)
24 Tim Burton Ed Wood (1994) or Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985)
25 Hayao Miyazaki My Neighbor Totoro (1988, Jp.) Spirited Away (2001, Jp.)
26 Robert Altman Nashville (1975) -
27 Sam Peckinpah Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) The Wild Bunch (1969)
28 Michael Mann Heat (1995) or The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
29 Jean Pierre Melville Army of Shadows (1969, Fr.)
30 Luis Bunuel That Obscure Object of Desire (1977, Sp.) The Exterminating Angel (1962, Sp.)
31 Terrence Malick Badlands (1973)
32 Christopher Nolan Memento (2000)
33 Yasujiro Ozu Tokyo Story (1957, Jp.) -
34 Carol Reed The Third Man (1949, UK)
35 Rob Reiner This is Spinal Tap (1984)
36 Roman Polanski Chinatown (1974) -
37 Sergio Leone Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, It.) or The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966, It.)
38 James Cameron The Terminator (1984) Titanic (1997)
39 Ridley Scott Blade Runner (1982) -
40 David Lean Lawrence of Arabia (1962, UK) -
41 Ang Lee The Ice Storm (1997) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, HK/US)
42 Frank Capra It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
43 Preston Sturges Sullivan's Travels (1941) or The Lady Eve (1941)
44 Francois Truffaut The 400 Blows (1959, Fr.) -
45 Werner Herzog Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, Germ.) Fitzcarraldo (1982, Germ.)
46 Alexander Payne Sideways (2004) -
47 Kryzsztof Kieslowski Three Colors: Red (1994, Fr/Pol.) Three Colors: Blue (1993, Fr/Pol.)
48 Fritz Lang M (1931, Germ.) -
50 Sam Fuller The Big Red One (1980) Pickup on South Street (1953)
51 Robert Wise The Curse of the Cat People (1944) The Sound of Music (1965)
52 Michael Haneke Hidden (2005) (aka Caché)
53 Don Siegel Dirty Harry (1971) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
54 Brian DePalma Scarface (1983) Carrie (1976)
55 John Huston The Maltese Falcon (1941) -
56 Nicholas Ray Bigger Than Life (1956) Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
57 Spike Lee Do the Right Thing (1989) -
58 Hal Ashby Harold and Maude (1971) Being There (1979)
59 Jean-Luc Godard Breathless (1960, Fr.) -
60 John Cassavetes A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
61 Sam Raimi Evil Dead II (1987) Spider-Man (2002)
62 Robert Bresson Pickpocket (1959) -
63 John Carpenter Halloween (1978) -
64 Richard Linklater Dazed and Confused (1993) Waking Life (2001)
65 Bryan Singer The Usual Suspects - 66 Ken Loach Kes (1969, UK)
67 Federico Fellini La Dolce Vita (1960, It.) 8 1/2 (1963, It.)
68 Pedro Almodovar All About My Mother (1999, Sp.) Talk to Her (2002, Sp.)
69 Alexander Mackendrick Sweet Smell of Success (1957) -
70 Michael Curtiz Casablanca (1942) -
71 John Sayles Lone Star (1996) -
72 Sergei Eisenstein Battleship Potemkin (1925, USSR)
73 Nicolas Roeg Don't Look Now (1973)
74 Tony Scott The Last Boy Scout (1991) True Romance (1993)
75 Milos Forman One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) -
76 Kenji Mizoguchi Ugetsu (1953, Jp.) Legend of Bailiff Sansho (1954, Jp.)
77 William Friedkin The Exorcist (1973) The French Connection (1971)
78 Oliver Stone Platoon (1986) -
79 George Romero Dawn of the Dead (1978) Night of the Living Dead (1968)
80 Satyajit Ray The Lonely Wife (1964, India) Pather Panchali (1955, India)
81 Cameron Crowe Jerry Maguire (1996) Almost Famous (2000)
82 James Whale Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
83 Wes Anderson Rushmore (1998)
84 Carl Theodor Dryer Ordet (1955, Fr.) La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928)
85 John Woo The Killer (1989, HK) -
86 Lars von Trier Breaking the Waves (1996) Dogville (2003)
87 Gus van Sant Drugstore Cowboy (1989) or Good Will Hunting (1997)
88 Buster Keaton The General (1927)
89 Peter Weir The Truman Show (1999) Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
90 Curtis Hanson L.A. Confidential (1997) -
91 D.W. Griffith Intolerance (1916) The Birth of a Nation (1915)
92 Paul Verhoeven RoboCop (1987) Basic Instinct (1992)
93 Alan J. Pakula All the President's Men (1976)
94 Wong Kar-Wai 2046 (2004) -
95 George Lucas Star Wars (1977)
96 M. Night Shyamalan The Sixth Sense (1999)
97 Baz Luhrmann Moulin Rouge! (2001) -
98 John Sturges The Magnificent Seven (1960) Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
99 Sofia Coppola Lost in Translation (2003)
100 Abel Ferrara Bad Lieutenant (1992) -
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【《娱乐周刊》伟大导演TOP 50 名单 】
Steven Spielberg
Peter Jackson
Martin Scorsese
Christopher Nolan
Steven Soderbergh
Ridley Scott
Quentin Tarantino
Michael Mann
James Cameron
Joel and Ethan Coen
Guillermo del Toro
David Fincher
Tim Burton
Judd Apatow
Sam Raimi
Darren Aronofsky
Danny Boyle
Clint Eastwood
Ron Howard
Ang Lee
.Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Greengrass
Pedro Almodóvar
Jon Favreau
Woody Allen
Brad Bird
David Cronenberg
Sofia Coppola
Bryan Singer
Sam Mendes
Mel Gibson
The Wachowski Brothers
J.J. Abrams
Alfonso Cuaron
Hayao Miyazaki
Mike Leigh
Oliver Stone
Roman Polanski
Spike Jonze
Richard Linklater
Spike Lee
David Lynch
Wong Kar-Wai
Wes Anderson
Mira Nair
Andrew Stanton
Michael Moore
Mary Harron
Sidney Lumet
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【历史上最伟大导演TOP 25（MovieMaker 杂志2002年评选） 】
25 Most Influential Directors of All-Time (ranked) - MovieMaker Magazine
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. D.W. Griffith
3. Orson Welles
4. Jean-Luc Godard
5. John Ford
6. Stanley Kubrick
7. Sergei Eisenstein
8. Charlie Chaplin
9. Federico Fellini
10. Steven Spielberg
11. Martin Scorsese
12. Akira Kurosawa
13. Ingmar Bergman
14. John Cassavetes
15. Billy Wilder
16. Jean Renoir
17. Francis Ford Coppola
18. Howard Hawks
19. Francois Truffaut
20. Buster Keaton
21. Fritz Lang
22. John Huston
23. Woody Allen
24. Luis Bunuel
25. Ernst Lubitsch
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1 Orson Welles (1) 8 films
2Alfred Hitchcock (2) 14 films
3Federico Fellini (3) 12 films
4John Ford (4) 18 films (the most)
5Stanley Kubrick (5) 11 films
6Jean Renoir (6) 11 films
7Akira Kurosawa (7) 11 films
8Ingmar Bergman (8) 13 films
9Francis Ford Coppola (11) 5 films
10Jean-Luc Godard (9) 13 films
11 Charles Chaplin (12) 10 films
12 Billy Wilder (13) 8 films
13 Luis Buñuel (10) 15 films
14 Martin Scorsese (14) 9 films
15 Howard Hawks (15) 11 films
16 Carl Dreyer (16) 5 films
17 Sergei Eisenstein (17) 7 films
18 F.W. Murnau (18) 6 films
19 Yasujiro Ozu (19) 7 films
20 Robert Bresson (20) 8 films
21 Fritz Lang (22) 16 films
22 Andrei Tarkovsky (21) 7 films
23 François Truffaut (24) 7 films
24 Kenji Mizoguchi (23) 10 films
25 David Lean (25) 6 films
26 Buster Keaton (26) 7 films
27 Michelangelo Antonioni (27) 6 films
28 Roberto Rossellini (29) 8 films
29 D.W. Griffith (28) 5 films
30 Steven Spielberg (31) 7 films
31 Max Ophüls (30) 7 films
32 Vittorio De Sica (32) 4 films
33 Luchino Visconti (34) 9 films
34 Ernst Lubitsch (36) 7 films
35 Satyajit Ray (33) 6 films
36 John Huston (37) 8 films
37 Woody Allen (35) 8 films
38 Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly (41) 2 films
39 Jean Vigo (39) 2 films
40 Roman Polanski (38) 5 films
41 Robert Altman (40) 8 films
42 Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (42) 7 films
43 Frank Capra (43) 6 films
44 Michael Curtiz (46) 2 films
45 Alain Resnais (44) 6 films
46 Sergio Leone (45) 3 films
47 Victor Fleming (51) 2 films
48 Sam Peckinpah (47) 7 films
49 Preston Sturges (49) 5 films
50 Bernardo Bertolucci (48) 7 films
51 Carol Reed (50) 3 films
52 Ridley Scott (55) 4 films
53 John Cassavetes (52) 7 films
54 Marcel Carné (53) 3 films
55 Erich von Stroheim (54) 4 films
56 George Cukor (58) 5 films
57 Rainer Werner Fassbinder (61) 6 films
58 Leo McCarey (62) 5 films
59 Vincente Minnelli (64) 5 films
60 Douglas Sirk (65) 6 films
61 Werner Herzog (56) 5 films
62 David Lynch (59) 7 films
63 Jacques Tati (57) 3 films
64 Josef von Sternberg (63) 8 films
65 Nicholas Ray (66) 6 films
66 Pier Paolo Pasolini (68) 5 films
67 Elia Kazan (67) 6 films
68 Joseph L. Mankiewicz (70) 4 films
69 Krzysztof Kieslowski (60) 7 films
70 William Wyler (71) 5 films
71 Abbas Kiarostami (69) 6 films
72 Terrence Malick (72) 3 films
73 King Vidor (73) 6 films
74 Jacques Tourneur (74) 4 films
75 Milos Forman (79) 4 films
76 Wim Wenders (80) 4 films
77 Jacques Rivette (78) 4 films
78 Chris Marker (75) 2 films
79 Eric Rohmer (81) 7 films
80 Wong Kar-Wai (77) 5 films
81 Quentin Tarantino (82) 2 films
82 David Cronenberg (76) 3 films
83 Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (84) 5 films
84 Jean Cocteau (86) 4 films
85 Hou Hsiao-Hsien (83) 4 films
86 Clint Eastwood (89) 3 films
87 Jean-Pierre Melville (92) 6 films
88 Nicolas Roeg (90) 4 films
89 Robert Flaherty (88) 4 films
90 Alexander Dovzhenko (85) 2 films
91 Sidney Lumet (91) 4 films
92 Brian De Palma (98) 3 films
93 Jacques Demy (87) 4 films
94 Raoul Walsh (--) 3 films
95 George Lucas (93) 2 films
96 James Cameron (--) 3 films
97 Andrzej Wajda (99) 3 films
98 Otto Preminger (97) 3 films
99 Chantal Akerman (--) 2 films
100 George Stevens (94) 3 films
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【卫报】
1. David Lynch
After all the discussion, no one could fault the conclusion that David Lynch is the most important film-maker of the current era. Providing a portal into the collective subconscious, the daydream nation conjured up in tales such as Blue Velvet, Lost Highway or Mulholland Drive is by turns frightening, exasperating, revelatory and wild. Nobody makes films like David Lynch. He is our spooky tour guide through a world of dancing dwarves, femme fatales and little blue boxes that may (or may not) contain all the answers. We wouldn't want to live in the places he takes us. Somehow, we suspect, we do.
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Total 89
Wild at art: profile
More about Mulholland Drive
2. Martin Scorsese
Scorsese's influence is impossible to overstate. His red-blooded canon has spawned a generation of copycats while his muscular style has become a template. That said, opinion is divided over the man's recent output. Some regard his monumental Gangs of New York as a classic to rank alongside Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. Others worry that the heavyweight champion of American movies is no longer quite punching his weight.
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More about Gangs of New York
A terrible beauty: interview
3. Joel and Ethan Coen
Their latest film, Intolerable Cruelty, may have marked a new, "commercial" phase in their career, but no one could ever accuse the Coen brothers of selling out. The Coens' special mix of arch, sculpted dialogue, film-history homage and scrupulously-framed cinematography has never failed them yet, and through their associations with Sam Raimi and Barry Sonnenfeld, have exerted a powerful, if unacknowledged, influence on mainstream event cinema. Until Fargo, they seemed content to mess about in their own particular corner of the film industry; that film's stunning popular success suddenly catapulted them into the Hollywood big league.
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Double vision: interview
More about: Intolerable Cruelty
4. Steven Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh is a one-off: an independent-minded film-maker who has forged a happy working relationship with Hollywood. This is thanks to a brilliant balancing act. Soderbergh soothes the studios with expert, intelligent crowd-pleasers like Erin Brockovich and Ocean's Eleven then shifts gear for more esoteric, personal projects (Solaris, Full Frontal). His ongoing alliance with George Clooney, moreover, is the most reliable director-star double act since Scorsese found De Niro.
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Total 85
More about Solaris
Steven Soderbergh at the NFT
5. Terrence Malick
The lofty ranking of Terrence Malick just goes to show that it's quality, not quantity, that counts. Renowned as a ghostly, Garbo-style recluse, this fabled figure has made just three films over three decades. Even so, the wild beauty of his 1973 debut Badlands casts a formidable shadow, while his sprawling 1999 war epic The Thin Red Line at least proved that the master had lost none of his magic. Next up, apparently, is a biopic of Che Guevara. But don't hold your breath.
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More about The Thin Red Line
6. Abbas Kiarostami
The highest ranking non-American, and one of the most respected film-makers working today - by his peers if not the general public. Operating mostly in rural Iran, Kiarostami has often concealed potentially life-threatening political commentary within films of simplicity and compassion. But he has complicated his medium, too, by mixing drama and documentary, and actors and non-actors, to dizzying effect. His recent in-car drama Ten provided a daring Tehran exposé as well as a radical new film-making technique - one that almost does away with the director entirely.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum on Kiarostami's short films
People watching: Interview
7. Errol Morris
Morris is the joker in this top 10, in that his position is solely down to his documentaries. Put simply, Morris is the world's best investigative film-maker. He possesses a forensic mind, a painter's eye and a nose for the dark absurdities of American life. High points include The Thin Blue Line (which unearths the nightmarish truth behind a Dallas cop killing), Mr Death (a treatise on execution-device inventor and Holocaust denier Fred Leuchter Jr), and the forthcoming Fog of War, his compelling autopsy on the war in Vietnam.
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More about Fog of War
8. Hayao Miyazaki
It's about time the rest of the world came to appreciate the genius of Japanese animator Miyazaki, whose films have been breaking box-office records in Japan for years. He's now in his 60s, but as this year's Spirited Away proved, the work just keeps getting better. His films create the world anew, literally. Each is set in an intricate, self-contained fantasy world that's been built from scratch and drawn with devotion. Miyazaki's stories are frequently considered children's fare but they are deeper than they look - like the best fairy tales, they conceal dark, very adult themes beneath their surfaces.
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Nick Park pays tribute to Hayao Miyazaki
More about Spirited Away
9. David Cronenberg
Few directors have ploughed such distinctive furrows as Cronenberg. And now in his fourth decade of film-making, he is still at the cutting edge. Crash set the entire film world agog with its bizarre sexual constructs; eXistenZ examined the implications of the virtual world more thoughtfully than most; and Spider superbly summoned up a bleak, decaying Britishness (largely forgotten by our own film-makers). His next film, with Nicolas Cage playing a plastic-surgery fetishist, is already inducing shudders.
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Menace to society: interview
10. Terence Davies
Our highest-placed British film-maker is here because of his uncompromising and unique cinematic vision; but, with painful irony, it's also made him the highest-profile victim of Britain's commercial film industry revival. Emerging from the state-sponsored art-film sector in the mid-80s, Davies completed a trilogy of short films and two features - Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes. But, in a more cut-throat environment, the sensitive Davies has suffered, making only two films in a decade - one of them the international hit The House of Mirth. So it seems a shame - and somehow scandalous - that his current project, an adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song, should be facing major funding obstacles.
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More about The House of Mirth
11. Lukas Moodysson
You would assume that the surest way to hobble a young Swedish film-maker is to label him "the new Bergman". Fortunately, Lukas Moodysson seems immune to such pressure. His 2001 hit Together - about hippies living communally in 1970s Stockholm - was warm, witty and altogether disarming. By contrast, his follow-up, Lilya 4-Ever (about a Russian teen dragooned into prostitution), was a social-realist vision of hell. Heartfelt and uncompromising, Moodysson treads his own path.
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Lukas Moodysson at the NFT
More about Together
12. Lynne Ramsay
Ramsay, the second highest-placed Brit - and the highest woman of any nationality - has trodden a distinctive path through the lottery-fuelled sludge of modern British cinema. Her first film, Ratcatcher, set during the binmen strikes of 70s Glasgow, was the anti-Billy Elliot; her second, adapted from Alan Warner's novel More about Morvern Callar, confirmed her promise. Morvern is an authentic modern classic, with an actress, Samantha Morton, whose blank-faced performance is a perfect complement to Ramsay's studied camerawork.
Lynne Ramsay at the NFT
More about Morvern Callar
13. Bela Tarr
In just a few years, the Hungarian director has emerged from obscurity to be revered as the Tarkovsky of his generation, with his dark and mysterious monochrome parables, shot with uncompromisingly long, slow single camera takes. His recent Werckmeister Harmonies was a dreamlike film: compelling and sublime. From 1994, Satantango has cult status on the festival circuit, not least for its awe-inspiring length: seven hours. He is now developing a movie at least partly set in London.
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More about The Werckmeister Harmonies
14. Wong Kar-wai
Hong Kong has become synonymous with action cinema, but Wong Kar-Wai is one of few exceptions. His trademark portraits of quirky urban longing have influenced Asian film as a whole, but the delectably sensuous In the Mood for Love proved that Wong is still improving (and that he has one of the best cinematographers in the business in Christopher Doyle). Next up he's making a sci-fi movie - should be interesting.
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Mood music: interview
15. Pedro Almodovar
Post-Franco Spain needed Almodovar like a desert needs rain. His early films were gaudy, bawdy and loud; drunken celebrations of the country's new-found social and sexual freedoms. But Almodovar is much more than some posturing agent provocateur. He spins soulful, spellbinding stories and creates characters that ring with life. All About My Mother and Talk to Her were exotic masterpieces that confirmed their creator as the most important Spanish director since Luis Buñuel.
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Pedro Almodovar at the NFT
16. Todd Haynes
In retrospect, it seems such a simple idea - take your favourite director (in Haynes' case, Douglas Sirk) and faithfully imitate their style and meaning, subtly changing things enough to throw a whole new meaning on an entire historical epoch and film genre. In 1996 Haynes had made an earlier masterpiece, Safe; few directors could have topped that, but Far From Heaven managed it.
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Todd Haynes at the NFT
17. Quentin Tarantino
The jury may still be undecided on the virtues of Kill Bill, but no one can deny the massive impact the former video-store clerk has had on cinema across the world. The chewy, minutiae-obsessed dialogue and abundant bloodletting of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction catapulted him to era-defining stature and influence beyond the wildest dreams of any director; had this poll been taken in 1995, he would have been top three, no question. But Tarantino has since been the victim of his own success: he took three years to make his third film, Jackie Brown, and another six to make his fourth. Perhaps inevitably, neither of them made the splash of his first two, but whatever else, Tarantino can still make the simple act of watching a film seem oh-so-exciting.
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Saint Quentin: interview
More about Kill Bill: Volume 1
18. Tsai Ming-Liang
One of the least well-known names on the list, but a director who has steadily refined his own gentle, bittersweet style. Using his native Taipei as a backdrop, Tsai distills the complexity and alienation of city life into films that are austere, unhurried and emotional, but also comical. His pre-apocalyptic The Hole included 1950s musical numbers, for example, while What Time Is It There? paid homage to Harold Lloyd in a movie about death and loneliness. In his latest, Goodbye Dragon Inn, he has almost done away with dialogue altogether.
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More about What Time Is It There?
19. Aki Kaurismaki
Cinema needs the occasional breath of fresh air, and you can always rely on Kaurismaki to provide it. Coming from Finland, he had a head start, but where other quirky directors last a film or two, Kaurismaki seems to have a bottomless pool of eccentric ideas to draw from. His films are an acquired taste, but they never pander to good taste. For a supposed director of art films, he's more interested in the world out on the street, or in the gutter. And his most recent, The Man Without a Past, saw him re-emerge into the global spotlight after some years at its fringe.
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'I am a lousy film-maker': interview
20. Michael Winterbottom
Winterbottom's career presents a study in motion. His films spirit us from Hardy's Wessex (Jude) to war-torn Bosnia (Welcome to Sarajevo), and from post-punk Manchester (24 Hour Party People) to the asylum-seekers' "silk road" out of Pakistan (In This World). As well as being technically brilliant and a seeming workaholic, Winterbottom is arguably the most politically astute director in the business, with an unerring eye for the stories that matter. British cinema would be lost without him.
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More about In This World
Michael Winterbottom on In This World
21. Paul Thomas Anderson
There is something wonderfully fearless about 33-year-old Paul Thomas Anderson. His two best pictures (Boogie Nights and Magnolia) are works of gob-smacking ambition in one so young - lush, multi-layered ensemble pieces that spotlight the damaged souls of his native San Fernando Valley. But let's not forget the recent Punch-Drunk Love, starring Adam Sandler and Emily Watson. Smaller in scale but no less turbulent, this undervalued effort is like a nail bomb in the guise of a romantic comedy.
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'I can be a real arrogant brat': interview
22. Michael Haneke
No one, perhaps not even Gaspar Noé, delivers more hardcore horror than the German-born Austrian Haneke - even when his shocks are happening off camera, which they mostly do. After a long career in TV, Haneke graduated to the big screen in the early 90s and audiences quickly came to know they were in for a profoundly uncomfortable experience.The Piano Teacher, with Isabelle Huppert, was a disquieting study of a musician driven to agonies of despair and self-loathing. More recently, Time of the Wolf was an almost unwatchably horrible vision of post-apocalyptic Europe.
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No pain, no gain: interview
More about The Piano Teacher
23. Walter Salles
The godfather and trailblazer of the buena onda - the "good wave" of contemporary Latin American cinema, Salles's directorial reputation rests largely on two recent films, Central Station and Behind the Sun, which virtually on their own put Brazilian cinema on the map. Salles has just finished another road movie, The Motorcycle Diaries, based on Che Guevara's book, for Britain's FilmFour, and is finally going Hollywood with a remake of Hideo "Ring" Nakata's Dark Water. But Salles is equally notable as a facilitator for other Brazilian projects - most importantly the sensational City of God, which he co-produced.
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Walter Salles on making City of God
24. Alexander Payne
Payne came to prominence in 1999 with his stunning high school satire Election, the Animal Farm of American sexual politics in the Clinton era. From here, Payne went on to direct About Schmidt, which gave Jack Nicholson the best role of his late career. With these two movies, Payne has established an auteur distinctiveness: amplifying the disappointment and regret lurking within the peppy, can-do civic culture of middle America, while acknowledging the sweetness and innocence that is still there.
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More about About Schmidt
25. Spike Jonze
Born into millionaire stock (and heir to the Spiegel mail-order catalogue fortune), Spike Jonze has installed himself as the genius jester in the court of King Hollywood. His 1999 debut, Being John Malkovich, was a delirious satire on celebrity culture, while Adaptation led the viewer on a slaloming joyride along the border between truth and fiction. Inevitably, though, one cannot celebrate Jonze without also crediting his scriptwriter - the ingenious Charlie Kaufman.
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The weird world of Spike Jonze
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26. Aleksandr Sokurov
The veteran Russian director is inexhaustibly prolific, making both features and documentaries, with 31 credits to his name over a 23-year career. His movies are powerful, poetic, often severe, and at their most accessible when they meditate on the nature of Russia. Sokurov had his biggest recent success with Russian Ark: a staggeringly ambitious single-take 90-minute journey through the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. His latest movie, Father And Son, is an enigmatic and often baffling study of a father-son relationship between two soldiers. His work gets a lively, mixed reaction in the west, but Sokurov's admirers revere the haunting, occasionally austere power of his films.
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More about Russian Ark
27. Ang Lee
He may have taken a bit of a stumble with The Hulk, his elevation to blockbusterdom, but the Taiwanese-born Lee clocked up plenty of brownie points over the preceding decade for his dazzling versatility, if nothing else. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (a record-breaker for a subtitled film), The Ice Storm, The Wedding Banquet and Sense and Sensibility are all testament to a career of wonderfully fertile cinematic cross-pollination. Lee's proficiency at swapping genres, but retaining a purposeful humaneness, is his hallmark.
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The middle man: more about Ang Lee
28. Michael Moore
You could say it's Moore's blend of humour, righteousness and persistence that has made his documentaries so successful, but his political commitment would be nothing without the film-making skills to back it up. Bowling for Columbine has been one of the most influential films of recent years, affecting the public in a way that most directors on this list will never know, but it would never have become such a cause had it not been so rigorously researched, painstakingly constructed and broadly entertaining.
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Total 79
Guerrilla in the Ritz: interview
More about Bowling For Columbine
29. Wes Anderson
No less an authority than Martin Scorsese recently tipped Anderson as the brightest hope for American cinema. Scripted in tandem with his actor buddy Owen Wilson, Anderson's work is literate, quirky and unexpectedly moving. His breakthrough picture, Rushmore, amounted to a poignant salute to high-school losers everywhere. More recently, the vibrant, Salinger-esque The Royal Tenenbaums charted the decline and fall of a precocious New York family.
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More about The Royal Tenenbaums
30. Takeshi Kitano
Few directors have ever made themselves look as cool as Kitano has. His shark-eyed gangster persona became a fixture of Japanese action thrillers in the 1990s, but behind the camera his controlled blend of visual slapstick and sudden violence has become a distinctive style. Recent efforts have seen him trying to diversify. Dolls was a subdued art film, but next year's Zatoichi is a sword-swishing crowd pleaser.
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'You can't tell what I'm going to do next': interview
31. Richard Linklater
Linklater is the grunge philosopher of independent cinema. Hailing from Austin, Texas, he casually defined an era with 1991's loose-knit, haphazard Slacker. The uproarious Dazed and Confused and the seductive Before Sunrise extolled the joys of footloose youth, while his animated Waking Life spun a woozy, bong-smoking rumination on dreams and reality. Incredibly, Linklater recently graduated to the big time when his School of Rock hit number one at the US box office.
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More about Waking Life
32. Gaspar Noé
Not bad for someone who's only made two features, but Noé has made as much impact as you can with them. There's nothing pretty about either his carnal debut Seul Contre Tous, or last year's backwards-told rape-revenge drama Irréversible - both have challenged boundaries of decency and induced reactions as extreme as nausea and vomiting. In a supposedly unshockable age, that's some kind of cinematic achievement.
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Total 77
More about Irreversible
33. Pavel Pawlikowski
With only one substantial feature under his belt, Polish-born, British-based director Pawlikowski has arguably the slenderest claim of all to be on this list. But Last Resort, with its mix of heartfelt social insight (the then-radical subject of asylum seekers) and improvisatory, documentary-style film-making, has exerted an influence of gigantic proportions on a whole generation of British cinema. Where would In This World and Dirty Pretty Things, to name but two, be without it?
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More about Last Resort
34. David O Russell
Russell's natural habitat is the dysfunctional American family. He dished up a deadpan Oedipal comedy with 1994's Spanking the Monkey and then dispatched Ben Stiller cross-country in the freewheeling adoption caper Flirting With Disaster. Yet this tart, original talent adapts well to other terrain. On the one hand his big-budget Three Kings was an expert, high-concept war thriller. On the other, it can be read as a savage assault on bungled US policy during the first Gulf War.
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More about Three Kings
35. Larry and Andy Wachowski
Now that their Matrix trilogy is finally wrapped up, it's a good time to draw breath and appreciate the scale of the Wachowskis' achievement. Merging the techno-porn of the contemporary action movie with the artful ballet of the Hong Kong martial arts film, the sci-fi paranoia of Philip K Dick with the visual exuberance of Japanese anime, the Matrix phenomenon utterly redefined the nature of the blockbuster movie serial, as well as relegating such mid-90s action luminaries as John Woo and Roland Emmerich to the margins. Like, awesome.
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More about The Matrix
More about Matrix Revolutions
36. Samira Makhmalbaf
You could say Ms Makhmalbaf had it easy, being the daughter or one of Iran's greatest film-makers, but she's hardly taken any easy options. Her films get bolder and more confrontational every time - Blackboards took her into the Kurdish lands on the Iranian border; her latest, At Five in the Afternoon, was shot in the chaos of post-Taliban Afghanistan - but for all their political currency, there's still evidence of an artistic sensibility. And she's only 23 years old.
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A woman's place: interview
37. Lars von Trier
To his fans he's the impish genius who redefined cinema with his Dogme doctrine. To his critics he's Jeremy Beadle with a degree in anthropology. Either way, there's no denying the impact of this phobic, Prozac-popping Dane. His most successful pictures (Breaking the Waves, The Idiots, the upcoming Dogville) are hazardous human dramas in which cruelty and compassion come equally blended. Happily there seems little danger of von Trier selling out and heading to Hollywood. He hates America and nurses a crippling fear of flying.
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No Dane, no gain: interview
More about The Five Obstructions
38. Takashi Miike
If Miike had channelled his energies into making one film every year, rather than his customary six or seven, he could be a lot further up the list. Not that you'd want him to change. Miike's casual technical brilliance and total disregard for taste are what makes his best films such a joy. Sure, there are plenty of misfires and generic gangster pictures to his credit, too, but there's plenty of everything when it comes to Miike, surely that can't be bad?
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Interview: 'Blood isn't that scary'
39. David Fincher
Heading the list of the pop-promo-and-TV-commercial wonderkids of the early 90s, Fincher successfully brought that world's visual inventiveness into the feature film world. In Alien 3, Seven, and Fight Club, he forged a string of visceral, unforgettable images; but his subsequent career has been dogged by aborted projects. Fincher's most recent film, the unremarkable Panic Room, saw him in a holding pattern - it's certainly cost him a few points.
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Interview: 'Directing is masochism'
40. Gus Van Sant
A casual observer would be forgiven for thinking that there are two Gus Van Sants at work within American cinema. The first makes gloopy studio fodder like Good Will Hunting and the odious Finding Forrester. The second is the visionary auteur of Drugstore Cowboy, Gerry, My Own Private Idaho and the Palme d'Or-winning Elephant (an elegant, ultimately devastating take on the Columbine tragedy). For the record, it is the second Gus Van Sant who gets the votes here.
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More about Elephant
排名 导演 代表作（Total Film选择） 代表作（Filmsite选择）
1 Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo (1958) or Psycho (1960)
2 Martin Scorsese Goodfellas (1990) Taxi Driver (1976)
3 Steven Spielberg E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Schindler's List (1993)
4 Howard Hawks His Girl Friday (1940) or The Big Sleep (1946)
5 Francis Ford Coppola The Godfather (1972) or The Godfather, Part II (1974)
6 Orson Welles Citizen Kane (1941) -
7 Ingmar Bergman Persona (1966, Swed.) The Seventh Seal (1957, Swed.)
8 Stanley Kubrick 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
9 Peter Jackson The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
10 David Fincher Fight Club (1999) Se7en (1995)
11 Akira Kurosawa The Seven Samurai (1954, Jp.) Rashomon (1950, Jp.)
12 Quentin Tarantino Reservoir Dogs (1992) Pulp Fiction (1994)
13 Billy Wilder The Apartment (1960) Double Indemnity (1944) or Sunset Boulevard (1950)
14 John Ford The Searchers (1956) -
15 Steven Soderbergh Out of Sight (1998) Traffic (2000)
16 Michael Powell The Red Shoes (1948)
17 David Cronenberg Crash (1996) or The Fly (1986)
18 Joel & Ethan Coen Miller's Crossing (1990) Fargo (1996)
19 Woody Allen Manhattan (1979) Annie Hall (1977)
20 Paul Thomas Anderson Magnolia (1999) or Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
21 Clint Eastwood Unforgiven (1992) or Million Dollar Baby (2004)
22 David Lynch Blue Velvet (1996) or Mulholland Drive (2001)
23 Jean Renoir The Rules of the Game (1939, Fr.) or The Grand Illusion (1937, Fr.)
24 Tim Burton Ed Wood (1994) or Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985)
25 Hayao Miyazaki My Neighbor Totoro (1988, Jp.) Spirited Away (2001, Jp.)
26 Robert Altman Nashville (1975) -
27 Sam Peckinpah Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) The Wild Bunch (1969)
28 Michael Mann Heat (1995) or The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
29 Jean Pierre Melville Army of Shadows (1969, Fr.)
30 Luis Bunuel That Obscure Object of Desire (1977, Sp.) The Exterminating Angel (1962, Sp.)
31 Terrence Malick Badlands (1973)
32 Christopher Nolan Memento (2000)
33 Yasujiro Ozu Tokyo Story (1957, Jp.) -
34 Carol Reed The Third Man (1949, UK)
35 Rob Reiner This is Spinal Tap (1984)
36 Roman Polanski Chinatown (1974) -
37 Sergio Leone Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, It.) or The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966, It.)
38 James Cameron The Terminator (1984) Titanic (1997)
39 Ridley Scott Blade Runner (1982) -
40 David Lean Lawrence of Arabia (1962, UK) -
41 Ang Lee The Ice Storm (1997) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, HK/US)
42 Frank Capra It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
43 Preston Sturges Sullivan's Travels (1941) or The Lady Eve (1941)
44 Francois Truffaut The 400 Blows (1959, Fr.) -
45 Werner Herzog Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, Germ.) Fitzcarraldo (1982, Germ.)
46 Alexander Payne Sideways (2004) -
47 Kryzsztof Kieslowski Three Colors: Red (1994, Fr/Pol.) Three Colors: Blue (1993, Fr/Pol.)
48 Fritz Lang M (1931, Germ.) -
50 Sam Fuller The Big Red One (1980) Pickup on South Street (1953)
51 Robert Wise The Curse of the Cat People (1944) The Sound of Music (1965)
52 Michael Haneke Hidden (2005) (aka Caché)
53 Don Siegel Dirty Harry (1971) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
54 Brian DePalma Scarface (1983) Carrie (1976)
55 John Huston The Maltese Falcon (1941) -
56 Nicholas Ray Bigger Than Life (1956) Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
57 Spike Lee Do the Right Thing (1989) -
58 Hal Ashby Harold and Maude (1971) Being There (1979)
59 Jean-Luc Godard Breathless (1960, Fr.) -
60 John Cassavetes A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
61 Sam Raimi Evil Dead II (1987) Spider-Man (2002)
62 Robert Bresson Pickpocket (1959) -
63 John Carpenter Halloween (1978) -
64 Richard Linklater Dazed and Confused (1993) Waking Life (2001)
65 Bryan Singer The Usual Suspects - 66 Ken Loach Kes (1969, UK)
67 Federico Fellini La Dolce Vita (1960, It.) 8 1/2 (1963, It.)
68 Pedro Almodovar All About My Mother (1999, Sp.) Talk to Her (2002, Sp.)
69 Alexander Mackendrick Sweet Smell of Success (1957) -
70 Michael Curtiz Casablanca (1942) -
71 John Sayles Lone Star (1996) -
72 Sergei Eisenstein Battleship Potemkin (1925, USSR)
73 Nicolas Roeg Don't Look Now (1973)
74 Tony Scott The Last Boy Scout (1991) True Romance (1993)
75 Milos Forman One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) -
76 Kenji Mizoguchi Ugetsu (1953, Jp.) Legend of Bailiff Sansho (1954, Jp.)
77 William Friedkin The Exorcist (1973) The French Connection (1971)
78 Oliver Stone Platoon (1986) -
79 George Romero Dawn of the Dead (1978) Night of the Living Dead (1968)
80 Satyajit Ray The Lonely Wife (1964, India) Pather Panchali (1955, India)
81 Cameron Crowe Jerry Maguire (1996) Almost Famous (2000)
82 James Whale Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
83 Wes Anderson Rushmore (1998)
84 Carl Theodor Dryer Ordet (1955, Fr.) La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928)
85 John Woo The Killer (1989, HK) -
86 Lars von Trier Breaking the Waves (1996) Dogville (2003)
87 Gus van Sant Drugstore Cowboy (1989) or Good Will Hunting (1997)
88 Buster Keaton The General (1927)
89 Peter Weir The Truman Show (1999) Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
90 Curtis Hanson L.A. Confidential (1997) -
91 D.W. Griffith Intolerance (1916) The Birth of a Nation (1915)
92 Paul Verhoeven RoboCop (1987) Basic Instinct (1992)
93 Alan J. Pakula All the President's Men (1976)
94 Wong Kar-Wai 2046 (2004) -
95 George Lucas Star Wars (1977)
96 M. Night Shyamalan The Sixth Sense (1999)
97 Baz Luhrmann Moulin Rouge! (2001) -
98 John Sturges The Magnificent Seven (1960) Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
99 Sofia Coppola Lost in Translation (2003)
100 Abel Ferrara Bad Lieutenant (1992) -
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【《娱乐周刊》伟大导演TOP 50 名单 】
Steven Spielberg
Peter Jackson
Martin Scorsese
Christopher Nolan
Steven Soderbergh
Ridley Scott
Quentin Tarantino
Michael Mann
James Cameron
Joel and Ethan Coen
Guillermo del Toro
David Fincher
Tim Burton
Judd Apatow
Sam Raimi
Darren Aronofsky
Danny Boyle
Clint Eastwood
Ron Howard
Ang Lee
.Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Greengrass
Pedro Almodóvar
Jon Favreau
Woody Allen
Brad Bird
David Cronenberg
Sofia Coppola
Bryan Singer
Sam Mendes
Mel Gibson
The Wachowski Brothers
J.J. Abrams
Alfonso Cuaron
Hayao Miyazaki
Mike Leigh
Oliver Stone
Roman Polanski
Spike Jonze
Richard Linklater
Spike Lee
David Lynch
Wong Kar-Wai
Wes Anderson
Mira Nair
Andrew Stanton
Michael Moore
Mary Harron
Sidney Lumet
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【历史上最伟大导演TOP 25（MovieMaker 杂志2002年评选） 】
25 Most Influential Directors of All-Time (ranked) - MovieMaker Magazine
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. D.W. Griffith
3. Orson Welles
4. Jean-Luc Godard
5. John Ford
6. Stanley Kubrick
7. Sergei Eisenstein
8. Charlie Chaplin
9. Federico Fellini
10. Steven Spielberg
11. Martin Scorsese
12. Akira Kurosawa
13. Ingmar Bergman
14. John Cassavetes
15. Billy Wilder
16. Jean Renoir
17. Francis Ford Coppola
18. Howard Hawks
19. Francois Truffaut
20. Buster Keaton
21. Fritz Lang
22. John Huston
23. Woody Allen
24. Luis Bunuel
25. Ernst Lubitsch
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1 Orson Welles (1) 8 films
2Alfred Hitchcock (2) 14 films
3Federico Fellini (3) 12 films
4John Ford (4) 18 films (the most)
5Stanley Kubrick (5) 11 films
6Jean Renoir (6) 11 films
7Akira Kurosawa (7) 11 films
8Ingmar Bergman (8) 13 films
9Francis Ford Coppola (11) 5 films
10Jean-Luc Godard (9) 13 films
11 Charles Chaplin (12) 10 films
12 Billy Wilder (13) 8 films
13 Luis Buñuel (10) 15 films
14 Martin Scorsese (14) 9 films
15 Howard Hawks (15) 11 films
16 Carl Dreyer (16) 5 films
17 Sergei Eisenstein (17) 7 films
18 F.W. Murnau (18) 6 films
19 Yasujiro Ozu (19) 7 films
20 Robert Bresson (20) 8 films
21 Fritz Lang (22) 16 films
22 Andrei Tarkovsky (21) 7 films
23 François Truffaut (24) 7 films
24 Kenji Mizoguchi (23) 10 films
25 David Lean (25) 6 films
26 Buster Keaton (26) 7 films
27 Michelangelo Antonioni (27) 6 films
28 Roberto Rossellini (29) 8 films
29 D.W. Griffith (28) 5 films
30 Steven Spielberg (31) 7 films
31 Max Ophüls (30) 7 films
32 Vittorio De Sica (32) 4 films
33 Luchino Visconti (34) 9 films
34 Ernst Lubitsch (36) 7 films
35 Satyajit Ray (33) 6 films
36 John Huston (37) 8 films
37 Woody Allen (35) 8 films
38 Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly (41) 2 films
39 Jean Vigo (39) 2 films
40 Roman Polanski (38) 5 films
41 Robert Altman (40) 8 films
42 Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (42) 7 films
43 Frank Capra (43) 6 films
44 Michael Curtiz (46) 2 films
45 Alain Resnais (44) 6 films
46 Sergio Leone (45) 3 films
47 Victor Fleming (51) 2 films
48 Sam Peckinpah (47) 7 films
49 Preston Sturges (49) 5 films
50 Bernardo Bertolucci (48) 7 films
51 Carol Reed (50) 3 films
52 Ridley Scott (55) 4 films
53 John Cassavetes (52) 7 films
54 Marcel Carné (53) 3 films
55 Erich von Stroheim (54) 4 films
56 George Cukor (58) 5 films
57 Rainer Werner Fassbinder (61) 6 films
58 Leo McCarey (62) 5 films
59 Vincente Minnelli (64) 5 films
60 Douglas Sirk (65) 6 films
61 Werner Herzog (56) 5 films
62 David Lynch (59) 7 films
63 Jacques Tati (57) 3 films
64 Josef von Sternberg (63) 8 films
65 Nicholas Ray (66) 6 films
66 Pier Paolo Pasolini (68) 5 films
67 Elia Kazan (67) 6 films
68 Joseph L. Mankiewicz (70) 4 films
69 Krzysztof Kieslowski (60) 7 films
70 William Wyler (71) 5 films
71 Abbas Kiarostami (69) 6 films
72 Terrence Malick (72) 3 films
73 King Vidor (73) 6 films
74 Jacques Tourneur (74) 4 films
75 Milos Forman (79) 4 films
76 Wim Wenders (80) 4 films
77 Jacques Rivette (78) 4 films
78 Chris Marker (75) 2 films
79 Eric Rohmer (81) 7 films
80 Wong Kar-Wai (77) 5 films
81 Quentin Tarantino (82) 2 films
82 David Cronenberg (76) 3 films
83 Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (84) 5 films
84 Jean Cocteau (86) 4 films
85 Hou Hsiao-Hsien (83) 4 films
86 Clint Eastwood (89) 3 films
87 Jean-Pierre Melville (92) 6 films
88 Nicolas Roeg (90) 4 films
89 Robert Flaherty (88) 4 films
90 Alexander Dovzhenko (85) 2 films
91 Sidney Lumet (91) 4 films
92 Brian De Palma (98) 3 films
93 Jacques Demy (87) 4 films
94 Raoul Walsh (--) 3 films
95 George Lucas (93) 2 films
96 James Cameron (--) 3 films
97 Andrzej Wajda (99) 3 films
98 Otto Preminger (97) 3 films
99 Chantal Akerman (--) 2 films
100 George Stevens (94) 3 films
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【卫报】
1. David Lynch
After all the discussion, no one could fault the conclusion that David Lynch is the most important film-maker of the current era. Providing a portal into the collective subconscious, the daydream nation conjured up in tales such as Blue Velvet, Lost Highway or Mulholland Drive is by turns frightening, exasperating, revelatory and wild. Nobody makes films like David Lynch. He is our spooky tour guide through a world of dancing dwarves, femme fatales and little blue boxes that may (or may not) contain all the answers. We wouldn't want to live in the places he takes us. Somehow, we suspect, we do.
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Intelligence 17
Total 89
Wild at art: profile
More about Mulholland Drive
2. Martin Scorsese
Scorsese's influence is impossible to overstate. His red-blooded canon has spawned a generation of copycats while his muscular style has become a template. That said, opinion is divided over the man's recent output. Some regard his monumental Gangs of New York as a classic to rank alongside Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. Others worry that the heavyweight champion of American movies is no longer quite punching his weight.
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Total 88
More about Gangs of New York
A terrible beauty: interview
3. Joel and Ethan Coen
Their latest film, Intolerable Cruelty, may have marked a new, "commercial" phase in their career, but no one could ever accuse the Coen brothers of selling out. The Coens' special mix of arch, sculpted dialogue, film-history homage and scrupulously-framed cinematography has never failed them yet, and through their associations with Sam Raimi and Barry Sonnenfeld, have exerted a powerful, if unacknowledged, influence on mainstream event cinema. Until Fargo, they seemed content to mess about in their own particular corner of the film industry; that film's stunning popular success suddenly catapulted them into the Hollywood big league.
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Total 86
Double vision: interview
More about: Intolerable Cruelty
4. Steven Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh is a one-off: an independent-minded film-maker who has forged a happy working relationship with Hollywood. This is thanks to a brilliant balancing act. Soderbergh soothes the studios with expert, intelligent crowd-pleasers like Erin Brockovich and Ocean's Eleven then shifts gear for more esoteric, personal projects (Solaris, Full Frontal). His ongoing alliance with George Clooney, moreover, is the most reliable director-star double act since Scorsese found De Niro.
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Intelligence 18
Total 85
More about Solaris
Steven Soderbergh at the NFT
5. Terrence Malick
The lofty ranking of Terrence Malick just goes to show that it's quality, not quantity, that counts. Renowned as a ghostly, Garbo-style recluse, this fabled figure has made just three films over three decades. Even so, the wild beauty of his 1973 debut Badlands casts a formidable shadow, while his sprawling 1999 war epic The Thin Red Line at least proved that the master had lost none of his magic. Next up, apparently, is a biopic of Che Guevara. But don't hold your breath.
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More about The Thin Red Line
6. Abbas Kiarostami
The highest ranking non-American, and one of the most respected film-makers working today - by his peers if not the general public. Operating mostly in rural Iran, Kiarostami has often concealed potentially life-threatening political commentary within films of simplicity and compassion. But he has complicated his medium, too, by mixing drama and documentary, and actors and non-actors, to dizzying effect. His recent in-car drama Ten provided a daring Tehran exposé as well as a radical new film-making technique - one that almost does away with the director entirely.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum on Kiarostami's short films
People watching: Interview
7. Errol Morris
Morris is the joker in this top 10, in that his position is solely down to his documentaries. Put simply, Morris is the world's best investigative film-maker. He possesses a forensic mind, a painter's eye and a nose for the dark absurdities of American life. High points include The Thin Blue Line (which unearths the nightmarish truth behind a Dallas cop killing), Mr Death (a treatise on execution-device inventor and Holocaust denier Fred Leuchter Jr), and the forthcoming Fog of War, his compelling autopsy on the war in Vietnam.
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More about Fog of War
8. Hayao Miyazaki
It's about time the rest of the world came to appreciate the genius of Japanese animator Miyazaki, whose films have been breaking box-office records in Japan for years. He's now in his 60s, but as this year's Spirited Away proved, the work just keeps getting better. His films create the world anew, literally. Each is set in an intricate, self-contained fantasy world that's been built from scratch and drawn with devotion. Miyazaki's stories are frequently considered children's fare but they are deeper than they look - like the best fairy tales, they conceal dark, very adult themes beneath their surfaces.
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Intelligence 16
Total 84
Nick Park pays tribute to Hayao Miyazaki
More about Spirited Away
9. David Cronenberg
Few directors have ploughed such distinctive furrows as Cronenberg. And now in his fourth decade of film-making, he is still at the cutting edge. Crash set the entire film world agog with its bizarre sexual constructs; eXistenZ examined the implications of the virtual world more thoughtfully than most; and Spider superbly summoned up a bleak, decaying Britishness (largely forgotten by our own film-makers). His next film, with Nicolas Cage playing a plastic-surgery fetishist, is already inducing shudders.
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Intelligence 16
Total 83
Menace to society: interview
10. Terence Davies
Our highest-placed British film-maker is here because of his uncompromising and unique cinematic vision; but, with painful irony, it's also made him the highest-profile victim of Britain's commercial film industry revival. Emerging from the state-sponsored art-film sector in the mid-80s, Davies completed a trilogy of short films and two features - Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes. But, in a more cut-throat environment, the sensitive Davies has suffered, making only two films in a decade - one of them the international hit The House of Mirth. So it seems a shame - and somehow scandalous - that his current project, an adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song, should be facing major funding obstacles.
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Intelligence 17
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More about The House of Mirth
11. Lukas Moodysson
You would assume that the surest way to hobble a young Swedish film-maker is to label him "the new Bergman". Fortunately, Lukas Moodysson seems immune to such pressure. His 2001 hit Together - about hippies living communally in 1970s Stockholm - was warm, witty and altogether disarming. By contrast, his follow-up, Lilya 4-Ever (about a Russian teen dragooned into prostitution), was a social-realist vision of hell. Heartfelt and uncompromising, Moodysson treads his own path.
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Intelligence 16
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Lukas Moodysson at the NFT
More about Together
12. Lynne Ramsay
Ramsay, the second highest-placed Brit - and the highest woman of any nationality - has trodden a distinctive path through the lottery-fuelled sludge of modern British cinema. Her first film, Ratcatcher, set during the binmen strikes of 70s Glasgow, was the anti-Billy Elliot; her second, adapted from Alan Warner's novel More about Morvern Callar, confirmed her promise. Morvern is an authentic modern classic, with an actress, Samantha Morton, whose blank-faced performance is a perfect complement to Ramsay's studied camerawork.
Lynne Ramsay at the NFT
More about Morvern Callar
13. Bela Tarr
In just a few years, the Hungarian director has emerged from obscurity to be revered as the Tarkovsky of his generation, with his dark and mysterious monochrome parables, shot with uncompromisingly long, slow single camera takes. His recent Werckmeister Harmonies was a dreamlike film: compelling and sublime. From 1994, Satantango has cult status on the festival circuit, not least for its awe-inspiring length: seven hours. He is now developing a movie at least partly set in London.
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Intelligence 16
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14. Wong Kar-wai
Hong Kong has become synonymous with action cinema, but Wong Kar-Wai is one of few exceptions. His trademark portraits of quirky urban longing have influenced Asian film as a whole, but the delectably sensuous In the Mood for Love proved that Wong is still improving (and that he has one of the best cinematographers in the business in Christopher Doyle). Next up he's making a sci-fi movie - should be interesting.
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Total 82
Mood music: interview
15. Pedro Almodovar
Post-Franco Spain needed Almodovar like a desert needs rain. His early films were gaudy, bawdy and loud; drunken celebrations of the country's new-found social and sexual freedoms. But Almodovar is much more than some posturing agent provocateur. He spins soulful, spellbinding stories and creates characters that ring with life. All About My Mother and Talk to Her were exotic masterpieces that confirmed their creator as the most important Spanish director since Luis Buñuel.
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Total 81
Pedro Almodovar at the NFT
16. Todd Haynes
In retrospect, it seems such a simple idea - take your favourite director (in Haynes' case, Douglas Sirk) and faithfully imitate their style and meaning, subtly changing things enough to throw a whole new meaning on an entire historical epoch and film genre. In 1996 Haynes had made an earlier masterpiece, Safe; few directors could have topped that, but Far From Heaven managed it.
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Todd Haynes at the NFT
17. Quentin Tarantino
The jury may still be undecided on the virtues of Kill Bill, but no one can deny the massive impact the former video-store clerk has had on cinema across the world. The chewy, minutiae-obsessed dialogue and abundant bloodletting of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction catapulted him to era-defining stature and influence beyond the wildest dreams of any director; had this poll been taken in 1995, he would have been top three, no question. But Tarantino has since been the victim of his own success: he took three years to make his third film, Jackie Brown, and another six to make his fourth. Perhaps inevitably, neither of them made the splash of his first two, but whatever else, Tarantino can still make the simple act of watching a film seem oh-so-exciting.
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Intelligence 14
Total 81
Saint Quentin: interview
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18. Tsai Ming-Liang
One of the least well-known names on the list, but a director who has steadily refined his own gentle, bittersweet style. Using his native Taipei as a backdrop, Tsai distills the complexity and alienation of city life into films that are austere, unhurried and emotional, but also comical. His pre-apocalyptic The Hole included 1950s musical numbers, for example, while What Time Is It There? paid homage to Harold Lloyd in a movie about death and loneliness. In his latest, Goodbye Dragon Inn, he has almost done away with dialogue altogether.
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Total 80
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19. Aki Kaurismaki
Cinema needs the occasional breath of fresh air, and you can always rely on Kaurismaki to provide it. Coming from Finland, he had a head start, but where other quirky directors last a film or two, Kaurismaki seems to have a bottomless pool of eccentric ideas to draw from. His films are an acquired taste, but they never pander to good taste. For a supposed director of art films, he's more interested in the world out on the street, or in the gutter. And his most recent, The Man Without a Past, saw him re-emerge into the global spotlight after some years at its fringe.
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Total 80
'I am a lousy film-maker': interview
20. Michael Winterbottom
Winterbottom's career presents a study in motion. His films spirit us from Hardy's Wessex (Jude) to war-torn Bosnia (Welcome to Sarajevo), and from post-punk Manchester (24 Hour Party People) to the asylum-seekers' "silk road" out of Pakistan (In This World). As well as being technically brilliant and a seeming workaholic, Winterbottom is arguably the most politically astute director in the business, with an unerring eye for the stories that matter. British cinema would be lost without him.
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Total 80
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Michael Winterbottom on In This World
21. Paul Thomas Anderson
There is something wonderfully fearless about 33-year-old Paul Thomas Anderson. His two best pictures (Boogie Nights and Magnolia) are works of gob-smacking ambition in one so young - lush, multi-layered ensemble pieces that spotlight the damaged souls of his native San Fernando Valley. But let's not forget the recent Punch-Drunk Love, starring Adam Sandler and Emily Watson. Smaller in scale but no less turbulent, this undervalued effort is like a nail bomb in the guise of a romantic comedy.
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Total 79
'I can be a real arrogant brat': interview
22. Michael Haneke
No one, perhaps not even Gaspar Noé, delivers more hardcore horror than the German-born Austrian Haneke - even when his shocks are happening off camera, which they mostly do. After a long career in TV, Haneke graduated to the big screen in the early 90s and audiences quickly came to know they were in for a profoundly uncomfortable experience.The Piano Teacher, with Isabelle Huppert, was a disquieting study of a musician driven to agonies of despair and self-loathing. More recently, Time of the Wolf was an almost unwatchably horrible vision of post-apocalyptic Europe.
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Total 79
No pain, no gain: interview
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23. Walter Salles
The godfather and trailblazer of the buena onda - the "good wave" of contemporary Latin American cinema, Salles's directorial reputation rests largely on two recent films, Central Station and Behind the Sun, which virtually on their own put Brazilian cinema on the map. Salles has just finished another road movie, The Motorcycle Diaries, based on Che Guevara's book, for Britain's FilmFour, and is finally going Hollywood with a remake of Hideo "Ring" Nakata's Dark Water. But Salles is equally notable as a facilitator for other Brazilian projects - most importantly the sensational City of God, which he co-produced.
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Walter Salles on making City of God
24. Alexander Payne
Payne came to prominence in 1999 with his stunning high school satire Election, the Animal Farm of American sexual politics in the Clinton era. From here, Payne went on to direct About Schmidt, which gave Jack Nicholson the best role of his late career. With these two movies, Payne has established an auteur distinctiveness: amplifying the disappointment and regret lurking within the peppy, can-do civic culture of middle America, while acknowledging the sweetness and innocence that is still there.
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Total 79
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25. Spike Jonze
Born into millionaire stock (and heir to the Spiegel mail-order catalogue fortune), Spike Jonze has installed himself as the genius jester in the court of King Hollywood. His 1999 debut, Being John Malkovich, was a delirious satire on celebrity culture, while Adaptation led the viewer on a slaloming joyride along the border between truth and fiction. Inevitably, though, one cannot celebrate Jonze without also crediting his scriptwriter - the ingenious Charlie Kaufman.
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Total 79
The weird world of Spike Jonze
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26. Aleksandr Sokurov
The veteran Russian director is inexhaustibly prolific, making both features and documentaries, with 31 credits to his name over a 23-year career. His movies are powerful, poetic, often severe, and at their most accessible when they meditate on the nature of Russia. Sokurov had his biggest recent success with Russian Ark: a staggeringly ambitious single-take 90-minute journey through the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. His latest movie, Father And Son, is an enigmatic and often baffling study of a father-son relationship between two soldiers. His work gets a lively, mixed reaction in the west, but Sokurov's admirers revere the haunting, occasionally austere power of his films.
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27. Ang Lee
He may have taken a bit of a stumble with The Hulk, his elevation to blockbusterdom, but the Taiwanese-born Lee clocked up plenty of brownie points over the preceding decade for his dazzling versatility, if nothing else. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (a record-breaker for a subtitled film), The Ice Storm, The Wedding Banquet and Sense and Sensibility are all testament to a career of wonderfully fertile cinematic cross-pollination. Lee's proficiency at swapping genres, but retaining a purposeful humaneness, is his hallmark.
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The middle man: more about Ang Lee
28. Michael Moore
You could say it's Moore's blend of humour, righteousness and persistence that has made his documentaries so successful, but his political commitment would be nothing without the film-making skills to back it up. Bowling for Columbine has been one of the most influential films of recent years, affecting the public in a way that most directors on this list will never know, but it would never have become such a cause had it not been so rigorously researched, painstakingly constructed and broadly entertaining.
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Intelligence 16
Total 79
Guerrilla in the Ritz: interview
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29. Wes Anderson
No less an authority than Martin Scorsese recently tipped Anderson as the brightest hope for American cinema. Scripted in tandem with his actor buddy Owen Wilson, Anderson's work is literate, quirky and unexpectedly moving. His breakthrough picture, Rushmore, amounted to a poignant salute to high-school losers everywhere. More recently, the vibrant, Salinger-esque The Royal Tenenbaums charted the decline and fall of a precocious New York family.
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Total 78
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30. Takeshi Kitano
Few directors have ever made themselves look as cool as Kitano has. His shark-eyed gangster persona became a fixture of Japanese action thrillers in the 1990s, but behind the camera his controlled blend of visual slapstick and sudden violence has become a distinctive style. Recent efforts have seen him trying to diversify. Dolls was a subdued art film, but next year's Zatoichi is a sword-swishing crowd pleaser.
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'You can't tell what I'm going to do next': interview
31. Richard Linklater
Linklater is the grunge philosopher of independent cinema. Hailing from Austin, Texas, he casually defined an era with 1991's loose-knit, haphazard Slacker. The uproarious Dazed and Confused and the seductive Before Sunrise extolled the joys of footloose youth, while his animated Waking Life spun a woozy, bong-smoking rumination on dreams and reality. Incredibly, Linklater recently graduated to the big time when his School of Rock hit number one at the US box office.
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32. Gaspar Noé
Not bad for someone who's only made two features, but Noé has made as much impact as you can with them. There's nothing pretty about either his carnal debut Seul Contre Tous, or last year's backwards-told rape-revenge drama Irréversible - both have challenged boundaries of decency and induced reactions as extreme as nausea and vomiting. In a supposedly unshockable age, that's some kind of cinematic achievement.
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Total 77
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33. Pavel Pawlikowski
With only one substantial feature under his belt, Polish-born, British-based director Pawlikowski has arguably the slenderest claim of all to be on this list. But Last Resort, with its mix of heartfelt social insight (the then-radical subject of asylum seekers) and improvisatory, documentary-style film-making, has exerted an influence of gigantic proportions on a whole generation of British cinema. Where would In This World and Dirty Pretty Things, to name but two, be without it?
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34. David O Russell
Russell's natural habitat is the dysfunctional American family. He dished up a deadpan Oedipal comedy with 1994's Spanking the Monkey and then dispatched Ben Stiller cross-country in the freewheeling adoption caper Flirting With Disaster. Yet this tart, original talent adapts well to other terrain. On the one hand his big-budget Three Kings was an expert, high-concept war thriller. On the other, it can be read as a savage assault on bungled US policy during the first Gulf War.
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35. Larry and Andy Wachowski
Now that their Matrix trilogy is finally wrapped up, it's a good time to draw breath and appreciate the scale of the Wachowskis' achievement. Merging the techno-porn of the contemporary action movie with the artful ballet of the Hong Kong martial arts film, the sci-fi paranoia of Philip K Dick with the visual exuberance of Japanese anime, the Matrix phenomenon utterly redefined the nature of the blockbuster movie serial, as well as relegating such mid-90s action luminaries as John Woo and Roland Emmerich to the margins. Like, awesome.
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36. Samira Makhmalbaf
You could say Ms Makhmalbaf had it easy, being the daughter or one of Iran's greatest film-makers, but she's hardly taken any easy options. Her films get bolder and more confrontational every time - Blackboards took her into the Kurdish lands on the Iranian border; her latest, At Five in the Afternoon, was shot in the chaos of post-Taliban Afghanistan - but for all their political currency, there's still evidence of an artistic sensibility. And she's only 23 years old.
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Total 76
A woman's place: interview
37. Lars von Trier
To his fans he's the impish genius who redefined cinema with his Dogme doctrine. To his critics he's Jeremy Beadle with a degree in anthropology. Either way, there's no denying the impact of this phobic, Prozac-popping Dane. His most successful pictures (Breaking the Waves, The Idiots, the upcoming Dogville) are hazardous human dramas in which cruelty and compassion come equally blended. Happily there seems little danger of von Trier selling out and heading to Hollywood. He hates America and nurses a crippling fear of flying.
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No Dane, no gain: interview
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38. Takashi Miike
If Miike had channelled his energies into making one film every year, rather than his customary six or seven, he could be a lot further up the list. Not that you'd want him to change. Miike's casual technical brilliance and total disregard for taste are what makes his best films such a joy. Sure, there are plenty of misfires and generic gangster pictures to his credit, too, but there's plenty of everything when it comes to Miike, surely that can't be bad?
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Interview: 'Blood isn't that scary'
39. David Fincher
Heading the list of the pop-promo-and-TV-commercial wonderkids of the early 90s, Fincher successfully brought that world's visual inventiveness into the feature film world. In Alien 3, Seven, and Fight Club, he forged a string of visceral, unforgettable images; but his subsequent career has been dogged by aborted projects. Fincher's most recent film, the unremarkable Panic Room, saw him in a holding pattern - it's certainly cost him a few points.
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Total 74
Interview: 'Directing is masochism'
40. Gus Van Sant
A casual observer would be forgiven for thinking that there are two Gus Van Sants at work within American cinema. The first makes gloopy studio fodder like Good Will Hunting and the odious Finding Forrester. The second is the visionary auteur of Drugstore Cowboy, Gerry, My Own Private Idaho and the Palme d'Or-winning Elephant (an elegant, ultimately devastating take on the Columbine tragedy). For the record, it is the second Gus Van Sant who gets the votes here.
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