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contemplative I watched a documentary on George Stevens the other day on PBS and it got me thinking about directors. Who are the 50 greatest movie directors of all time? My list would go kind of like this:
1. George Stevens (The Diary of Anne Frank, Shane, Giant, The Greatest Story Ever Told)
2. Frank Capra (It's A Wonderful Life, Arsenic and Old Lace, It Happened One Night, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington)
3. David Lean (The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Pygmalion)
4. Akira Kurosawa (The Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Rashomon, Ran, Kagemusha)
5. Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, North by Northwest, The Birds)
6. Cecil B. DeMille (The Ten Commandments, The Greatest Show On Earth, The War Of The Worlds)
7. William Wyler (Ben-Hur, Roman Holiday, The Desperate Hours, The Big Country, Carrie)
8. Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, The Rainmaker, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders)
9. Stephen Spielburg (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Amistad, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Arc)
10. Stanley Kubrik (2001, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, Eyes Wide Shut)
11. Elia Kazan (A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, East of Eden, Splendor in the Grass)
12. Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, Moby Dick, The Lady from Shanghai)
13. Franklin J. Schaffner (Patton, Papillon, Planet of the Apes)
14. Richard Attenborough (A Bridge Too Far, Gandhi, Chaplin, Shadowlands)
15. Sergio Leone (Once Upon a Time in America, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good the Bad and the Ugly)
16. Guiseppe Tornatore (Malena, The Legend of 1900, Cinema Paradiso)
17. Jean Negulesco (The Pleasure Seekers, Boy on a Dolphin, How to Marry a Millionaire)
18. William Friedkin (The French Connection, The Exorcist, To Live and Die in L.A.)
19. Federico Fellini (Federico Fellini's 8 1/2, The Degenerates, The Clowns, Roma, The Voice of the Moon)
20. Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Hannibal, Blade Runner, Alien, White Squall, Black Hawk Down, Legend, Black Rain, Thelma & Louise, Kingdom of Heaven)
21. Peter Jackson (Lord of The Rings, King Kong, The Frighteners)
22. George Lucas (Star Wars, American Graffiti, Herbie)
23. Terry Gilliam (Twelve Monkeys, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Time Bandits)
24. Ethan and Joel Cohen (The Big Labowski, O Brother Where Art Thou, Fargo, Raising Arizona)
25. Andy and Larry Wachowski (The Matrix, Bound)
26. James Cameron (Titanic, The Terminator, True Lies, Aliens, The Abyss)
27. Brian De Palma (Scarface, The Untouchables, Mission Impossible, Casualties of War, Snake Eyes)
28. Martin Scorsese (The Aviator, Gangs of New York, Casino, Cape Fear, Goodfellas, Raging Bull)
29. Quentin Terantino (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown)
30. Steven Soderbergh (Oceans 11, Oceans 12, The Limey, Out Of Sight, Traffic, Solaris)
31. David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en, Panic Room)
32. Robert Rodriquez (Sin City, From Dusk Till Dawn, Desperado, El Mariachi)
33. Bryan Singer (X Men, X2, Apt Pupil, The Usual Suspects)
34. Christopher Nolan (Batman Begins, Memento, Insomnia)
35. Sam Raimi (Spider-Man, The Gift, Army of Darkness, Evil Dead)
36. Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie, The City of Lost Children, Alien 4)
37. Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Majestic)
38. Robert Mulligan (To Kill A Mockingbird, The Rat Race, Cleopatra)
39. Charlie Chaplain (The Gold Rush, The Kid, The Great Dictator, The Tramp)
40. Luc Besson (The Professional, The Fifth Element, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc)
41. Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, Pale Rider)
42. Buster Keaton (The Boat, Go West, The General)
43. Kevin Smith (Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Clerks, Dogma, Jersey Girl)
44. John Singleton (Boys N The Hood, Higher Learning, Rosewood)
45. Rob Reiner (Stand By Me, A Few Good Men, Misery, The Princess Bride)
46. Billy Wilder (The Apartment, Some Like It Hot, The Seven Year Itch, The Major and the Minor, The Lost Weekend)
47. Oliver Stone (Platoon, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Nixon, Alexander)
48. Howard Hughes (Hell's Angels, The Outlaw, Scarface)
49. Michael Mann (Ali, Heat, Crime Story)
50. John Woo (The Killer, Hard-Boiled, Paycheck, Face/Off)
July 18 2005, 17:05:09 UTC 6 years ago
thats over 2 hours of wasted time :)
July 18 2005, 17:14:59 UTC 6 years ago
Anyway, I started it the other day and finished it last night. It was a two part effort. I like to make lists sometimes. I guess it's kind of like archiving and organizing random thoughts so I know where they are and won't have to worry about finding them later.
Man, ... stupid journal!
*goes outside*
July 19 2005, 03:56:15 UTC 6 years ago
http://www.imdb.com/