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10 June 2005

The best directors?

I ran across the website called They Shoot Pictures, Don't They which compiled this master list of the 1,000 greatest films ever. They combined all these other lists from Sight and Sound, The New York Times, YMDb, etc., fiddled with the numbers (probably a lot) and came up with a list that they continue to update as their sources get changed. Geek that I am, I imported the list into Access and generated the following rank order of directors, based on the number of films they had on the list.
  • Ford, John (16)
  • Godard, Jean-Luc (14)
  • Hitchcock, Alfred (13)
  • Kurosawa, Akira (13)
  • Bergman, Ingmar (13)
  • Mizoguchi, Kenji (12)
  • Visconti, Luchino (12)
  • Bunuel, Luis (12)
  • Fellini, Federico (12)
  • Renoir, Jean (11)
  • Kubrick, Stanley (11)
  • Hawks, Howard (10)
It's criminal that Mizoguchi has 12 films on the list, yet only one is available on DVD in R1. He's probably the most overlooked great director of all-time. Also astonishing is the fact that every film Stanley Kubrick made, after his initial two films from the early 50s, made the list. 11/13 ain't too bad.

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