The 40 Best Directors In The World
No, it's not our list, it's from The Guardian. They pick the 40 best directors working today. Some of the choices are obvious (Martin Scorcese #2, Steven Soderbergh #5, ), some baffling (David Fincher #39 after directing Panic Room and Alien 3?), some confusing to American eyes (Lukas Moodysson at #11, Bela Tarr at #13). No Spielberg on the list, but that's to be expected from a non-American list. But no Coppola? I guess that's what these lists are for, to promote _thumbnail.jpg)
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6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
Wossen said...
Shitty list. The Wachowskis are on there above von Trier, Miike, van Sant and Fincher? Soderburg is way too high. I just don't agree.
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6-16-2005 @ 4:19PM
penguinblue said...
No Coppola? No Robert Altman? and David Lynch #1? very weird.
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6-16-2005 @ 4:19PM
nada said...
No
Steven Spielberg
Francis Ford Coppola
Stanley Kubrick
Sam Mendes
Roman Polanski
japan:
Kinji Fukasaku
korea:
Chan-wook Park
David Fincher like: M. Night Shyamalan
The matrix brothers?! where's Peter Jackson?
wat a crap top 40...
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7-05-2005 @ 12:47PM
Ed W. said...
forthcoming Fog of War? upcoming Dogville? How old is this?
Anyway, I was delighted to see Moodysson and Winterbottom get mentioned, but David Lynch as number one? What drugs are they on? 40, maybe, but number 1, I dont think so...
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7-05-2005 @ 12:47PM
Ed W. said...
btw, the list is kinda sucky, (whats up with the number ratings, are they truly trying to make us believe they make sense?) but remember, its a top 40 list about the most important directors for TODAY. Which means, only directors that are actually present and active in the filmworld count. Dead and morbidly productive directors dont qualify (what was the last thing coppola made anyway?)
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7-05-2005 @ 12:47PM
Ed W. said...
btw, the list is kinda sucky, (whats up with the number ratings, are they truly trying to make us believe they make sense?) but remember, its a top 40 list about the most important directors for TODAY. Which means, only directors that are actually present and active in the filmworld count. Dead and morbidly productive directors dont qualify (what was the last thing coppola made anyway?)
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6-16-2005 @ 4:19PM
Belgand said...
I have to concur. Michael Moore outranking Wes Anderson? All politics aside he's quite simply not nearly as good a filmmaker. The Wachowski Brothers even being listed after pretty much everyone derided their most recent two films as complete and utter crap (one good action/sci-fi movie does not a great director make). I also have my issues that Soderburgh made the list (with my so-trite cries of "sellout!") and Todd Solondez didn't.
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