Auteurasaurus

"To me, the director is a superstar."

- Roman Polanski

Below is a catalog of the films I've seen from the listed directors:

Andrew Adamson:

Shrek (2001) - 6.5
Shrek 2 (2004) - 6
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) - 6.5

Jonas Åkerlund:
Try (2000) - 5
Spun (2002) - 5
Various music videos

Woody Allen:

Take the Money and Run (1969) - 8
Bananas (1971) - 7.5
Sleeper (1973) - 7.5
Love and Death (1975) - 7
Annie Hall (1977) - 9
Manhattan (1979) - 9.5
Stardust Memories (1980) - 8.5
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) - 7
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) - 8
Melinda and Melinda (2004) - 6
Match Point (2005) - 7.5

Pedro Almodovar:

What Have I Done To Deserve This (1984) - 7.5
Live Flesh (1997) - 8
All About My Mother (1999) - 9
Talk to Her (2002) - 9
Bad Education (2004) - 8
Volver (2006) - 7.5

Robert Altman:

MASH (1970) - 9
Nashville (1975) - 8.5
The Player (1992) - 9
Short Cuts (1993) - 8

Lindsay Anderson:

If.... (1968) - 8.5
O Lucky Man! (1973) - 10
Brittania Hospital (1982) - 5

P.T. Anderson:

Hard Eight (1996) - 7
Boogie Nights (1998) - 9
Magnolia (1999) - 9
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) - 9
There Will Be Blood (2007) - 9

Wes Anderson:

Bottle Rocket (1996) - 8
Rushmore (1998) - 8.5
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) - 9
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) - 9
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) - 7.5
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - 9

Theodoros Angelopoulos:

Voyage To Cythera (1984) - 7.5
Landscape in the Mist (1988) - 8.5
The Beekeeper (1986) - 9
Ulysses' Gaze (1995) - 9.5
Eternity and a Day (1998) - 9.5
The Weeping Meadow (2004) - 8.5

Kenneth Anger:

Fireworks (1947) - 9.5
Puce Moment (1949) - 8
Rabbit's Moon (1950) - 8
Eaux d'artifice (1953)- 10
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954) - 8.5
Scorpio Rising (1964) - 9.5
Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965) - 4
Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969) - 6.5
Lucifer Rising (1972) - 8.5
Don't Smoke That Cigarette (2000) - 6
The Man We Want to Hang (2002) - 5
Mouse Heaven (2004) - 3
Anger Sees Red (2004) - 1

Michelangelo Antonioni:

Story of a Love Affair - 6
Le Amiche (1955) - 6.5
Il Grido (1957) - 9
L'Avventura (1960) - 9
La Notte (1961) - 8
L'Eclisse (1962) - 9
The Red Desert (1964) - 8.5
Blow Up (1966) - 10
The Passenger - 8.5
Eros (segment "Il filo pericoloso delle cose") (2004) - 5

Shinji Aoyama:

Eureka (2000) - 10
Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name (2002) - 6.5
Eri, Eri, rema sabachttani? (2005) - 9.5
Sad Vacation (2007) - 5.5


Judd Apatow:

The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005) - 6
Knocked Up (2007) - 7
Funny People (2009) - 5

Michael Apted:

42 Up (1998) - 8

Dario Argento:

Deep Red (1975) - 7
Suspiria (1977) - 4.5
Tenebre (1982) - 5

Darren Aronofsky:

Pi (1998) - 8.5
Requiem for a Dream (2000) - 8.5
The Fountain (2006) - 8
The Wrestler (2008) - 8

Hal Ashby:

Harold and Maude (1971) - 8
Being There (1979) - 8

Olivier Assayas:
Demonlover (2002) - 5.5

John Avildsen:

Rocky (1976)
The Karate Kid (1984) - 6
The Karate Kid, Part II (1986)- 5
The Karate Kid, Part III (1989) - 4
8 Seconds (1994) - 6

Mario Bava:

Black Sunday (1960) - 8.5
Black Sabbath (1963)

Michael Bay:

Bad Boys (1995) - 5
The Rock (1996) - 6
Armageddon (1998) - 5
Pearl Harbor (2001) - 1
Transformers (2007) - 1

Jordan Belson:

Mandala (1952) - 7.5
Allures (1961) - 7

Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoît Poelvoorde:
No C4 for Daniel-Daniel (1987) - 4.5
Man Bites Dog(1992) - 8.5

James Benning:
Los (2004) - 6.5
13 Lakes (2004) - 6

Peter Berg:

Very Bad Thing (1998) - 6
Friday Night Lights (2004) - 6.5
Hancock (2008) - 5

Ingmar Bergman:

The Seventh Seal (1957) - 10
Wild Strawberries (1957) - 9.5
The Virgin Spring (1960) - 10
Through a Glass Darkly (1961) - 9
Winter Light (1962) - 9
The Silence (1963) - 9
Persona (1966) - 10
The Hour of the Wolf (1968) - 8.5
Cries and Whispers (1972) - 7
Scenes From a Marriage (1974) - 6
Fanny and Alexander (1982) - 10

Bernardo Bertolucci:

The Conformist (1970) - 10
The Last Emperor (1987) - 7.5
The Dreamers (2003) - 7

Luc Besson:

La Femme Nikita (1990) - 7.5
The Professional (1994) - 7

Brad Bird:

The Incredibles (2004) - 8.5
Ratatouille (2007) - 8

Les Blank:
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe(1980) - 6
Burden of Dreams (1982) - 8.5

Joon-ho Bong:

Memories of Murder (2003) - 7
The Host (2006) - 8
Tokyo: "Shaking Tokyo" -8

Darren Lynn Bousman:

Saw II (2005) - 4.5
Saw III (2006) - 5.5
Saw IV (2007) - 5.5

Danny Boyle:

Shallow Grave (1994) - 7
Trainspotting (1996) - 9
The Beach (2000) - 7.5
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise (2001) - 5.5
28 Days Later... (2002) - 6
Millions (2004) - 5.5
Sunshine (2007) - 8
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) - 8

Stan Brakhage:

Desistfilm (1954) - 8.5
Cat's Cradle (1959) - 7
Wedlock House: An Intercourse (1959) - 8
Dog Star Man (1961-1964) - 9.5
Window Water Baby Moving (1962) - 8.5
Mothlight (1963) -9.5
Eye Myth (1967) - 7.5
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (1971) - 7
The Wold Shadow (1972) - 6
The Stars Are Beautiful (1974) - 4
The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981) - 8
Night Music (1986) - 7
Kindering (1987) - 7.5
I...Dreaming (1988) - 7.5
The Dante Quartet (1987) - 9
Rage Net (1988) - 8
Glaze of Cathexis (1990) - 7
Delicacies of Molton Horror Synapse (1991) - 8.5
Untitled (For Marilyn) (1992) - 8.5
Stellar (1993) - 9
Crack Glass Eulogy (1992) - 6.5
Study in Color and Black and White (1993) - 5
Black Ice (1994) - 8.5
Commingled Containers (1997) - 6
The Dark Tower (1999) - 8
Lovesong (2001) - 7.5

Robert Breer:

Blazes (1961) - 6.5
Recreation (1956) - 6.5
A Man and His Dog Out for Air (1957) - 7
69(1968) - 5
Gulls and Buoys (1972) - 8
Fuji (1974) - 7
Rubber Cement (1976) - 7

Robert Bresson:

A Man Escaped (1956) - 10
Pickpocket (1959) - 9
Au hasard Balthazar (1966) - 10

Mel Brooks:

Blazing Saddles (1974) - 8.5
Young Frankenstein (1974) - 9
History of the World: Part I (1981) - 7
Space Balls (1987) - 8
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) - 6

Tod Browning:

The Unknown (1927) - 7.5
Dracula (1931) - 8.5
Freaks (1932) - 9
Mark of the Vampire (1935) - 6
The Devil-Doll (1936) - 7

Luis Buñuel:

L’Âge d’Or (1930) - 8
An Andalusian Dog (1929) - 9.5
Los Olvidados (1950) - 9
The Youing One (1960) - 8
Viridiana (1961) - 9.5
The Exterminating Angel (1962) - 9.5
Simon of the Desert (1965) - 10
Belle de jour (1967) - 8
The Milky Way (1969) - 7
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) - 8

Charles Burnett:

Killer of Sheep (1977) - 9

Tim Burton:

Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
Beetle Juice (1988) - 6
Batman (1989) - 7
Batman Returns (1992) - 6.5
Mars Attacks! (1996) - 4
Sleepy Hollow (1999) - 6
Big Fish (2003) - 8

James Cameron:

The Terminator (1984) - 6.5
Aliens (1986) - 8
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) - 7
True Lies (1994) - 4
Titanic (1997) - 6

Frank Capra:

It Happened One Night (1934) - 8.5
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) - 8
Lost Horizon (1937) - 8.5
You Can't Take It With You (1938) - 9
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - 8.5
Meet John Doe (1941) - 8.5
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - 10

Marcel Carné:

Children of Paradise (1945) -9.5

John Carpenter:

Halloween (1978) - 7
The Thing (1982) - 7

John Cassavetes:

Shadows (1959) - 8.5
Faces (1968) - 9.5
A Woman Under the Influence (1974) -7.5

Claude Chabrol:


Charles Chaplin:

The Kid (1921) - 9.5
The Gold Rush (1925) - 9.5
The Circus (1928) - 8.5
City Lights (1931) - 10
Modern Times (1936) - 9.5
The Great Dictator (1940) - 9
Monsieur Verdoux (1947) - 10

Larry Charles:
Curb Your Enthusiasm (episodes)
Borat
Bruno

Stephen Chow:

Shaolin Soccer (2001) - 6
Kung Fu Hustle (2004) - 7.5
CJ7 (2008) - 6.5

Grigori Chukhrai:
Ballad of a Soldier (1959) - 8

René Clair:

Entr'acte (1924) - 10
Paris Asleep (1925) - 9
Le Million (1931) - 8.5
À nous la liberté! - (1931) - 8.5

Bob Clark:

Porky's (1982) - 8
A Christmas Story (1983) - 8.5

Larry Clark:

Kids (1995) - 8.5
Another Day in Paradise (1997) - 7.5
Bully (2001) - 7
Ken Park (2002) - 7

Shirley Clarke:

The Connection (1962) - 9
The Cool World (1964) - 9.5

George Clooney:

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) - 7.5
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) - 6.5
Leatherheads (2008) - 2

Henri-Georges Clouzot:

The Wages of Fear (1953) - 9.5
The Mystery of Picasso (1956) - 8.5

Jean Cocteau:

Blood of a Poet (1930) - 7
The Beauty and the Beast (1946) - 9
Orpheus (1950)
The Testament of Orpheus (1960)

Joel and Ethan Coen:

Blood Simple. (1984) - 8.5
Raising Arizona (1987) - 8
Miller's Crossing (1990) - 7
Barton Fink (1991) - 8.5
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) - 8
Fargo (1996) - 9.5
The Big Lebowski (1998) - 9
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) - 9.5
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) - 7
No Country For Old Men (2007) - 9.5
Burn After Reading (2008) - 7
A Serious Man (2009) 7.5

Chris Columbus:

Adventures in Babysitting (1987) - 5.5
Home Alone (1990) - 7
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) - 5
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) - 6
Nine Months (1995) - 5.5
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) - 6.5

Bruce Conner:

A Movie (1958) - 10
Cosmic Ray (1962) - 9.5
Report (1967) - 10
Breakaway (1966) - 9
Take the 5:10 to Dreamland (1976) - 7
Valse Triste (1977) - 8
Mongoloid (1978) - 8

Francis Ford Coppola:

The Rain People (1969) - 7
The Godfather (1972) - 9.5
The Conversation (1974) - 8.5
The Godfather: Part II (1974) - 9.5
Apocalypse Now (1979) - 10
The Godfather: Part III (1990) - 7
Tetro (2009) - 5

Sofia Coppola:

The Virgin Suicides (1999) - 7.5
Lost in Translation (2003) - 8

Costa-Gravas:
Z (1969)

Wes Craven:


A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - 7
New Nightmare (1994) - 5
Scream (1996) - 7.5
Scream 2 (1997) - 5
Scream 3 (2000) - 3

David Croenberg:

Scanners (1981)
Videodrome
The Fly
Dead Ringers (1988) - 8
Naked Lunch (1991) - 8
Crash (1996) - 8
A History of Violence (2005) - 7.5
Eastern Promises (2007) - 8.5

Alfonso Cuarón:

And Your Mother Too (2001) - 9
Children of Men (2006) - 8.5

Michael Curtiz:

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) - 8
Dodge City (1939) - 7
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) - 6
Casablanca (1942) - 9
Mildred Pierce (1945) - 7.5

Joe Dante:

Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) (segment 3) - 6
Gremlins (1984) - 7
The 'burbs (1989) - 7
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) - 6

Frank Darabont:

The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - 7
The Green Mile (1999) - 7.5

Jules Dassin:

The Naked City (1948) - 8
Never On Sunday (1960) - 7

Guillermo del Toro:

Mimic (1997) - 6
Hellboy (2004) - 5.5
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) - 8.5

Jonathan Demme:

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - 8

Claire Denis:
I Can't Sleep (1994) - 6
Trouble Every Day (2001) - 5.5

Brian De Palma:


Carrie (1976) - 6
Scarface (1983) - 7
The Untouchables (1987) - 7.5
Mission: Impossible (1996) - 5
Snake Eyes (1998) - 5

Maya Deren:

Meshes of the Afternoon (1949) - 10

Vittorio De Sica:

The Children Are Watching Us (1944) - 8
The Bicycle Thieves (1948) - 10
Umberto D. (1952) - 9
Boccaccio '70 ("La riffa") - 8

Ivan Dixon:

The Spook Who Sat By the Door (1973) - 8

Robert Drew:

Primary (1960) - 8.5

Carl Theodor Dreyer:

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) - 10
Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey (1932) - 8

Julien Duvivier:

Pépé le Moko (1937) - 9

Allan Dwan:

The Iron Mask (1929) - 8.5

Clint Eastwood:

Unforgiven (1992) - 9
Mystic River (2003) - 8
Million Dollar Baby (2004) - 7
Flags of Our Fathers (2006) - 6
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) - 6.5

Atom Egoyan:


Seregei Eisnestein:

Strike (1925) - 8.5
The Battleship Potemkin (1925) - 9.5
Alexander Nevsky (1938) - 9.5
Ivan the Terrible Part One (1944) - 9.5
Ivan the Terrible Part II (1946) - 9.5
¡Que Viva Mexico! (1979) - 9

Roland Emmerich:

Independence Day (1996) - 7
Godzilla (1998) - 4
The Patriot (2000) - 5
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) - 3

Víctor Erice:

The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) - 9.5

John Favreau:


Made (2001)
Iron Man (2008)

Bobby and Peter Farrelly:

Dumb and Dumber (1994) - 8
Kingpin (1996) - 8.5
There's Something About Mary (1998) - 7
Me, Myself & Irene (2000) - 6.5
Shallow Hal (2001) - 4
Stuck on You (2003) - 5.5

Rainer Werner Fassbinder:

The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971) - 7
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) - 7.5
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) - 7.5
Martha (1974) - 7
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) - 9
The Third Generation (1979) - 8.5
Lola (1981) - 9
Veronika Voss (1982) - 9

Federico Fellini:

Variety Lights (1950) - 7.5
The White Sheik (1952) - 7
I Vitelloni (1953) - 9
La Strada (1954) - 9
The Swindle (1955)
Nights of Cabiria (1957) - 10
La Dolce vita (1960) - 10
Boccaccio '70 ("Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio") - 8
8 1/2 (1963) - 10
Juliet of the Spirits (1965) - 9.5
Fellini - Satyricon (1969) - 8.5
Roma (1972) - 8
Amarcord (1973) - 10
City of Women (1980) - 8

Mike Figgis:

Time Code (2000) - 6
Hotel (2001) - 4

David Fincher:

Alien³ (1992) - 6
Se7en (1995) - 8.5
The Game (1997) - 6.5
Fight Club (1999) - 8
Panic Room (2002) - 6
Zodiac (2007) - 7
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) - 7

Robert Flaherty:

Nanook of the North (1922) - 9
Man of Aran (1934) - 7.5
Louisiana Story (1948) - 8.5

Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden:
Half Nelson (2006)
Sugar (2008)

Victor Fleming:

The Good Earth (1937) - 7
The Wizard of Oz (1939) - 10
Gone with the Wind (1939) -

John Ford:

Stagecoach (1939) - 8.5
The Searchers (1956) - 8

Milos Forman:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984) - 7.5
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) - 7
Man on the Moon (1999) - 7

Marc Forster:

Monster's Ball (2001) - 6.5
Finding Neverland (2004) - 5.5
Stranger Than Fiction (2006) - 2

Georges Franju:

Blood of Beasts (1949) - 8
Eyes Without a Face (1960) - 9

Stephen Frears:

High Fidelity (2000) - 6.5
Dirty Pretty Things (2002) - 7.5

Kinji Fukasaku:

The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 2: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)
The Yakuza Papers Vol. 3: Proxy War (1974)
The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 4: Police Tactics (1974)
The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 5: Final Episode (1974)

Battle Royale (2000) - 8

Vincent Gallo:

Buffalo '66 (1998)
The Brown Bunny (2003) - 3

Philippe Garrel:
Frontier of Dawn (2008)

Aleksei German:

My Friend Ivan Lasphin (1984) - 9

Mel Gibson:

Braveheart (1995) - 7.5
The Passion of the Christ (2004) - 6
Apocalypto (2006) - 6

Terry Gilliam:

Brazil (1985) - 9
Twelve Monkeys (1995) - 8
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) - 8.5
Tideland (2005) - 7.5

Jean-Luc Godard:

Breathless (1960) - 9.5
A Woman Is a Woman (1961) - 8.5
My Life To Live (1962) - My Life To Live
Les Carabiniers (1963)
Contempt (1963) - 9
Ro.Go.Pa.G. - "Il Nuovo mondo" (1963) - 5
Band of Outsiders (1964) - 9.5
Alphaville (1965) - 9
Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) - 8.5
Masculin, féminin (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966) - 8.5
La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) - 7
Week End (1967) - 9
Sympathy For The Devil (1968) - 8
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) - 7.5
First Name: Carmen (1983) - 7.5
Hail Mary (1985) - 7.5
Grandeur et décadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma - 5
Our Music (2004) - 7

Michel Gondry:

The Letter (1998) - 8
One Day... (2001) - 5
Human Nature (2001) - 5.5
Pecan Pie (2003) - 4
The Work of Michel Gondry (Various music videos) (2003) - 10
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - 8.5
Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2005)
The Science of Sleep (2006) - 9
Be Kind Rewind (2007) - 7
Tokyo - "Interior Design" (2008) - 8
Flight of the Conchords episode

James Gray
Two Lovers (2008)

David Gordon Green:


George Washington (2000) - 9
All the Real Girls (2003) - 8.5
Undertow (2004) - 6.5
Snow Angels (2007) - 7.5
Pineapple Express - 8
Eastbound and Down episodes

Paul Greengrass:

United 93 (2006) - 8

D.W. Griffith:

The Lonedale Operator (1911) - 7
The Sunbeam (1912) - 8
The Birth of a Nation (1915) - 7
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) - 9.5
Broken Blossoms (1919) - 8

Christopher Guest:

Waiting for Guffman (1996) - 7
Best in Show (2000) - 8
A Mighty Wind (2003) - 7
For Your Consideration (2006) - 6

Bill Gunn:
Ganja and Hess (1973) - 5

Michael Haneke:

The Seventh Continent (1989) - 8
Benny's Video (1992) - 9
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994) - 8
Funny Games (1997) - 9
Code Unknown (2000) - 8.5
The Piano Teacher (2001) - 7.5
Time of the Wolf (2003) - 9
Caché (2005) - 8.5

Renny Harlin:

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) - 6
Deep Blue Sea (1999) - 4

Howard Hawks:

Scarface (1932) - 9
Bringing Up Baby (1938) - 8.5
Only Angels Have Wings (1939) - 8.5
His Girl Friday (1940) - 9
To Have and Have Not (1944) - 7.5
The Big Sleep (1946) - 8

Todd Haynes:

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987) - 7
Velvet Goldmine (1998) - 6.5
I'm Not There (2007) - 9

Don Hertzfeldt

Everything Will Be OK (2006)
I'm So Proud of You (2008)
Billy's Balloon
Rejected
Lily and Jim
The Meaning of Life
Genre
Ah, L'Amour
Intermission in the Third Dimension

Werner Herzog:

Herakles (1962)
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreutz (1967)
Last Words (1968)
Signs of Life (1968) - 9
Precautions Against Fanatics (1969)
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) - 8.5
Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog, 1971) - 8
Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog, 1971) - 8.5
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) - 9.5
The Great Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner (Werner Herzog, 1974) - 9
The Enigma of Kasper Hauser (1974) - 8.5
Heart of Glass (1976) - 8
Nobody Wants To Play With Me (1976)
Stroszek (1977) - 10
La Soufriere (Werner Herzog, 1977) - 8
Woyzeck (1979) - 7.5
Nosferatu, The Vampyre (1979) - 8
Fitzcarraldo (1982) - 10
The Dark Glow of the Mountains (Werner Herzog, 1984) - 8
Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) - 6
Cobra Verde (1987) - 8
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun (1989) - 7
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theater of the Maharajah of Udaipur (1991)
Lessons of Darkness (1992) - 10
Bells From the Deep (1993) - 7.5
My Best Fiend - Klaus Kinski (1999) - 8
Invincible (2001) - 7
Wheel of Time (2003) - 7
The White Diamond (2004) - 8
Grizzly Man (2005) - 8
Wild Blue Yonder (2005) - 8
Rescue Dawn (2007) - 7.5
Encounters at the End of the World (2007) - 7
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) - 7.5

Walter Hill:

The Warriors (1979) - 7
Undisputed (2002) - 2

Alfred Hitchcock:

Blackmail (1929) - 8
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) - 8
Rebecca (1940) - 8.5
Strangers on a Train (1951) - 8
Vertigo (1958) - 5.5
North By Northwest (1959) - 8
Psycho (1960) - 9.5
The Birds (1963) - 4.5

Tobe Hooper:
The TexasChainsaw Massacre (1974)
Poltergeist (1982)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)

Dennis Hopper:

Easy Rider (1969) - 8.5

Hou Hsiao-hsien:

Dust in the Wind (1986) - 9
City of Sadness (1989) - 10
The Puppet Master (1993) - 8
Good Men. Good Women (1995) - 9.5
Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996) - 6.5
Flowers of Shanghai (1998) - 9
Millennium Mambo (2001) - 8
Café Lumière (2003) - 8.5
Three Times (2005) - 8.5
The Flight of the Red Balloon (2007) - 8.5

Ron Howard:

Willow (1988) - 6
Backdraft (1991) - 6
Ransom (1996) - 6
Edtv (1999) - 5.5
A Beautiful Mind (2001) - 8
The Da Vinci Code (2006) - 4

Albert and Allen Hughs:

Dead Presidents (1995) - 7.5
From Hell (2001) - 6.5

John Hughes:

Sixteen Candles (1984) - 7
The Breakfast Club (1985) - 7.5
Weird Science (1985) - 7.5
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) - 7.5

John Huston:

The Maltese Falcon (1941) - 8
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) - 9
The African Queen (1951) - 7

Kon Ichikawa:
The Burmese Harp (1956)
Fires on the Plain (1959)

Katsuhito Ishii:

Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1998) - 7
The Taste of Tea (2004) - 9
Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005) - 8

Shohei Imamura:
Pigs and Battleships (1961)
The Insect Woman (1963)
Intentions of Murder (1964)

Alejandro González Iñárritu:

Love's a Bitch (2000) - 8
Hire: Powder Keg (2001) - 8
21 Grams (2003) - 7
Babel (2006) - 7

Joris Ivens:

The Bridge (1928) - 8
Rain (1929) - 10
Power and the Land (1940) - 7

Peter Jackson:

The Frighteners (1996) - 5
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) - 8
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) - 8
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) - 8

Jim Jarmusch:

Permanent Vacation (1980) - 8
Stranger Than Paradise (1984) - 8.5
Down by Law (1986) - 8.5
Mystery Train (1989) - 8
Night on Earth (1991) - 9
Dead Man (1995) - 9.5
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) - 6.5
Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) - 7
Broken Flowers (2005) - 7.5
The Limits of Control (2009) - 8

Tamara Jenkins:

The Savages (2007) - 6.5

Jean-Pierre Jeunet:

Delicatessen (1991) - 8.5
The City of Lost Children (1995) - 8
Amélie (2001) - 9
A Very Long Engagement (2004) - 7.5

Norman Jewison:

In the Heat of the Night (1967) - 7.5
The Hurricane (1999) - 6

Zhang Ke Jia:
Platform (2000)
Unknown Pleasures (2002)
The World (2004)
Still Life (2006) - 9
24 City (2007)

Alejandro Jodorowsky:

La Cravate (1957) - 5
Fando and Lis (1968) - 7
El Topo (1970) - 8
The Holy Mountain (1973) - 9.5

Terry Jones:

Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969-1974) - 10
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) - 8.5
Life of Brian (1979) - 9

Spike Jonze:

Torrance Rises (1999)
Being John Malkovich (1999) - 9
Adaptation (2002) - 9
The Work of Spike Jonze (Various music videos) (2003) - 10
What's Up Fatlip? (2003)
Fully Flared (2007)
Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak (2009)
We Were Once a Fairytale (2009)
Where The Wild Things Are (2009)

Mike Judge:

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996) - 6
Office Space (1999) - 7.5

Mikheil Kalatozishvili:

The Cranes Are Flying (1957) - 10
I am Cuba (1964) - 10

Mathieu Kassovitz:

La Haine (1995) - 9

Elia Kazan:

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - 8
On the Waterfront (1954) - 9.5

Buster Keaton:

Cops (1922)
Our Hospitality (1923) - 9.5
The General (1927) - 7
The Railrodder (1965) - 6.5

Richard Kelly:

Donnie Darko (2001) - 7
Southland Tales (2007) - 5

Abbas Kiarostami:

ABC Africa - 7.5

Krzysztof Kieslowski:

The Decalogue (1989-1990) - 10
Blue (1993) - 9
White (1994) - 8
Red (1994) - 8.5

Ki-duk Kim:

Address Unknown (2001) - 9
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003) - 8
3-Iron (2004) - 6.5
Time (2006) - 6

Takeshi Kitano:

Sonatine (1993) - 6
Kid's Return (1996) - 9
Zatôichi (2003) - 7

Masaki Kobayashi:


The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) - 10
The Human Conditon II: The Road to Eternity (1959) - 9.5
The Human Condition III: A Solder's Prayer (1961) - 10
Harakiri (1962) - 9
Kwaidan (1964) - 9
Samurai Rebellion (1967) - 10

Hirokazu Kore-eda:

Maborosi (Hirokazu Koreeda, 1995) - 8
After Life (1998) - 8.5
Distance (2001) - 8.5
Nobody Knows (2005) - 10
Hana (2006) - 7
Still Walking (2007) - 7.5

Harmony Korine:

various music videos
Gummo (1997) - 9
Julien-Donkey Boy (1999) - 9
Mister Lonely (2007) - 6.5
Trash Humpers (2009) - 8.5

Stanley Kubrick:

The Killing (1956) - 9
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) - 10
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - 9.5
A Clockwork Orange (1971) - 9.5
Barry Lyndon (1975) - 9
The Shining (1980) - 9
Full Metal Jacket (1987) - 8
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) - 8

Akira Kurosawa:

Ikiru (1952) - 10
Rashômon (1950) - 10
Stray Dog (1949) - 9
The Seven Samurai (1954) - 10
Throne of Blood (1957) - 9.5
Hidden Fortress (1958) - 9.5
The Bad Sleep Well (1960) - 10
Yojimbo (1961) - 8
Sanjuro (1962) - 8.5
Red Beard (1965) - 9
High and Low (1963) - 9
Ran (1985) - 9.5
Dreams (1990) - 7.5

Kiyoshi Kurosawa:

Cure (1997) - 8.5
Pulse (2001) - 8.5
Bright Future (2003) - 8.5

Emir Kusturica:

Time of the Gypsies (1988) - 8
Arizona Dream (1993)
Blue Gypsy segment of All the Invisible Children (2005) - 7

Fritz Lang:

Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922)
Metropolis (1927) - 10
M (1931) - 9.5
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Fury (1936)
Rancho Notorious (1952)


John Lasseter:

Toy Story (1995) - 7.5
Cars (2006) - 6

Alberto Lattuada:

Variety Lights (1950) - 7.5
Mafioso (1962) - 8.5

Charles Laughton:

The Night of the Hunter (1955) - 9

Standish Lawder:

Necrology (1971) - 9

Richard Leacock:

Chiefs (1968) - 6.5

David Lean:

Brief Encounter (1945) - 4.5
Doctor Zhivago (1965) - 6.5

Mimi Leder:

The Peacemaker (1997) - 3
Deep Impact (1998) - 4

Ang Lee:

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000) - 8
Hire: Chosen (2001) - 6.5

Chang-dong Lee:

Peppermint Candy (2000) - 9
Oasis (2002) - 9
Secret Sunshine (2007) - 9

Kang-Sheng Lee:
Help Me Eros (2007)

Spike Lee:

Do the Right Thing (1989) - 10
Crooklyn (1994) - 9
Summer of Sam (1999) - 6.5
The Original Kings of Comedy (2000) - 6
Bamboozled (2000) - 8.5
25th Hour (2002) - 8.5
Jesus Children of America from All the Invisible Children (2005) - 5.5
Inside Man (2006) - 6

Mike Leigh:
Vera Drake (2004)
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)

Paul Leni:

The Man Who Laughs (1928) - 9

Sergio Leone:


A Fist Full of Dollars (1964 - 6.5
For a Few More Dollars (1965) - 8.5
The Good The Bad and The Ugly (1966) - 8

Barry Levinson:

Rain Man (1988) - 7.5
Toys (1992) - 2.5
Sleepers (1996) - 8

Doug Liman:

Swingers (1996) - 7
Go (1999) - 6
The Bourne Identity (2002) - 5

Richard Linklater:

Slacker (1991) - 8.5
Dazed and Confused (1993) - 8.5
SubUrbia (1996) - 6.5
Waking Life (2001) - 8
Tape (2001) - 7
Fast Food Nation (2006) - 6
A Scanner Darkly (2006) - 7

Ken Loach:

Sweet Sixteen (2002) - 7
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) - 8.5
Looking For Eric (2009) - 5

Pare Lorentz:

The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) - 8.5
The River (1938) - 8.5

Ernst Lubitsch:

Trouble in Paradise (1932) - 8.5

George Lucas:

Star Wars (1977) - 8.5
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) - 4
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) - 5
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) - 5


Sidney Lumet:

Dog Day Afternoon (1975) - 9
Network (1976) - 8

Lumiere Brothers:

Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory
Arrival of Train
Baby's Lunch
Sprinkler Sprinkled
Dragoons
Promenade of Ostriches
Demolition of Wall
Snowball Fight

David Lynch:

The Short films of David Lynch
Eraserhead (1977) - 9
The Elephant Man (1980) - 9.5
Blue Velvet (1986) - 8.5
Lost Highway (1997) - 7
Mulholland Dr. (2001) - 8
Inland Empire (2006) - 6.5

Guy Maddin:

The Dead Father (1986) - 7
Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988) - 8
Archangel (1990) - 8.5
Careful (1992) - 8.5
Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity (1995) - 9
Sissy Boy Slap Party (1995) - 8
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997) - 3
Hospital Fragment (1999) - 8
The Heart of the World (2000) - 9.5
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002) - 8
Fancy, Fancy Being Rich (2002) - 8.5
Cowards Bend the Knee (2003) - 9
The Saddest Music in the World (2003) - 9
A Trip to the Orphanage (2004) - 7
Sombra dolorosa (2004) - 8
My Dad Is 100 Years Old (2005) - 6.5
Nude Caboose (2006) - 5.5
"It's A Wonderful Life" (SparkleHorse Music Video) - 8
Fuseboy - 7
ZooKeeper Workbook - 7.5
Brand Upon the Brain (2006) - 9.5
My Winnipeg (2007) - 8.5

Majid Majidi:

Color of Paradise (1999) - 7.5

Terrence Malick:

Bad Lands (1973) - 9.5
Days of Heaven (1978) - 8.5
The Thin Red Line (1998) - 9
The New World (2005) - 7

Louis Malle:

Elevator to the Gallows (1958) - 8.5
Zazie dans le métro (1960) - 8
The Fire Within (1963) - 10
Murmur of the Heart (1971) - 7.5
Black Moon (1975) - 6.5
My Dinner With Andre (1981) - 6
Au revoir, les enfants (1987) - 8

James Mangold:

Identity (2003) - 6.5
3:10 To Yuma (2007) - 6.5

Anthony Mann:


Paul Mazursky:

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) - 7.5

Adam McKay:

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) - 6.5
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) - 5.5
Step Brothers (2008) - 5
Eastbound and Down episodes

Shane Meadows:

Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002) - 6
This Is England (2007) - 8.5

Fernando Meirelles:

City of God (2002) - 9
The Constant Gardener (2005) - 6
Blindness (2008) - 8.5

Georges Méliès:

Un homme de têtes (1898)
The Conjurer (1899)
L'homme orchestre (1900)
The Man With the Rubber Head (1901)
A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Le Mélomane (1903)
The Infernal Cakewalk (1903)
The Infernal Cauldron (1903)
The Living Playing Cards (1904)
The Black Imp (1905)
L'Éclipse du soleil en pleine lune (1907)
The Devilish Tenant (1909)


Jean-Pierre Melville:

Le Samouri (1967) - 8

Sam Mendes:

American Beauty (1999) - 7.5
Road to Perdition (2002) - 6
Revolutionary Road (2008) - 4

Takashi Miike:

The Bird People in China (1998)
Audition (1999)
Visitor Q (2001)
Ichi the Killer (2001)
The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
Gozu (2003)
Zebraman (2004)
Three Extremes (Segment "The Box") (2004)
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2006)
Sukiyaki Western Django (Takashi Miike, 2007)

Lewis Milestone:

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

John Cameron Mitchell:

Shortbus (2006)

Kenji Mizoguchi:

Sisters of the Gion (1936)
Osaka Elegy (1936)
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)
Women of the Night (1948)
The Life of Oharu (1952)
Ugetsu (1953)
Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
Street of Shame (1956)

Lukas Moodysson:


Michael Moore:

Bowling for Columbine (2002)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)


Paul Morrissey:

Flesh For Frankenstein (1973)
Blood For Dracula (1974)

F.W. Murneau

Nosferatu (1922)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

Kô Nakahira:

Crazed Fruit (1956)

Hideo Nakata:

Chaos (1999)


Mikio Naruse:

Floating Clouds (1958) - 9
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960) - 8
Scattered Clouds (1967) - 7.5

Mike Nichols:

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
The Graduate (1967)
Catch-22 (1970)
"Angels in America" (2003)
Closer (2004)

Gaspar Noé:

Tintarella di luna (1985)
Carne (1991)
Une expérience d'hypnose télévisuelle (1995) (TV)
I Stand Alone (1998)
Sodomites (1998)
Irréversible (2002)
EVA (2005)

Christopher Nolan:

Following (1998)
Memento (2000)
Insomnia (2002)
The Prestige (2006)
Batman Begins (2006)
The Dark Knight (2008)

Ermanno Olmi:

Il Posto (1961) - 7.5
La Cotta (1967) - 7

Nagisa Oshima:

Cruel Story of Youth (1960) - 8
Violence at High Noon (1966) - 8
Death By Hanging (1968) - 8.5
Boy (1969) - 9
The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970) - 7.5
In the Realm of the Senses (1976) - 6.5
Empire of Passion (1978) - 8.5

François Ozon:

See the Sea (1997)
Swimming Pool (2003)

Yasujiro Ozu

Late Spring (1949)
Tokyo Story (1953)

Pen-Ek Ratanaruang:
6ixtynin9 (1999) - 5.5
Last Life In the Universe (2003) - 7.5

Sergei Parajanov:

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964)
The Color of Pomegranates (1968)

Chan-wook Park:

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
Oldboy (2003)
Three Extremes(segment "Cut") (2004)
Lady Vengeance (2005)
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (2006)
Thirst (2009)

Trey Parker:

Cannibal: The Musical (1996)
Orgazmo (1997)
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (1999)
Team America: World Police (2004)

Pier Paolo Pasolini:

Accattone (1961) - 8
Mamma Roma (1962) - 9.5
Ro.Go.Pa.G. - "La Ricotta" (1963) - 9
The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966) - 6
Oedipus Rex (1967) - 5
Teorema (1968) - 7.5
Porcile (1969) -8
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) - 7

Alexander Payne:

Election (1999)
About Schmidt (2002)
Sideways (2004)

Sam Peckinpah:


Arthur Penn:

The Miracle Worker (1962)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

D.A. Pennebaker:

Don't Look Back (1967)

Todd Phillips:

Road Trip (2000)
Old School (2003)
The Hangover (2009)

Roman Polanski:

A Murderer (1957)
A Toothful Smile (1957)
The Lamp (1959)
Mammals (1963)
Repulsion (1965)
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Chinatown (1974)
The Tenant (1976)
The Ninth Gate (1999)
The Pianist (2002)

Michael Powell and Emerich Pressburger:

Black Narcissus (1947)

Otto Preminger:


Alex Proyas:

The Crow (1994)
I, Robot (2004)

Vsevolod Pudovkin:

Chess Fever (1925)
The End of St. Petersburg (1927)
Deserter (1933)

Sam Raimi:

The Evil Dead (1981)
Evil Dead II (1987)
The Quick and the Dead (1995)
A Simple Plan (1998)
For Love of the Game (1999)
Spider-Man (2002)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Harold Ramis:

Caddyshack (1980)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
Multiplicity (1996)
Bedazzled (2000)

Lynne Ramsay:

Small Deaths (1996)
Kill the Day (1996)
Gasman (1997)
Ratcatcher (1999)
Morvern Callar (2002)

Brett Ratner:

Money Talks (1997)
Rush Hour (1998)
Rush Hour 2 (2001)
Red Dragon (2002)

Nicolas Ray:

Johnny Guitar (1954)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Godfrey Reggio:

Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
Powaqqatsi (1988)
Naqoyqatsi (2002)

Kelly Reichardt:
Old Joy (2006)
Wedny and Lucy (2008)


Rob Reiner:


This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Stand by Me (1986)
A Few Good Men (1992)

Ivan Reitman:
Meatballs (1979)
Stripes (1981)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Kindergarten Cop (1990)
Evolution (2001)

Jason Reitman:

Thank You For Smoking (2005)
Juno (2007)

Jean Renoir:

The Grand Illusion(1937)
The Rules of the Game (1939)

Alain Resnais:

Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
Private Fears in Public Places (2006)

Carlos Reygadas:
Japan (2002)
Battle In Heaven (2005)
Silent Light (2007) - 4

Leni Riefenstahl:

Triumph of the Will (1935)
Olympia (1938)

Guy Ritchie:

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Snatch (2000)
Hire: Star (2001)

Jay Roach:

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
Mystery, Alaska (1999)
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
Meet the Fockers (2004)

Michael Robinson:
Light Is Waiting (2007)
Victory Over The Sun (2007)

Robert Rodriguez:

El Mariachi(1992)
Desperado (1995)
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
The Faculty (1998)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
Sin City (2005)
Grindhouse: Planet Terror (2007)

George Romero:

Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Day of the Dead (1985)
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Land of the Dead (2005)
Diary of the Dead (2007)

Roberto Rossellini:

Rome, Open City (1945) - 9
Paisan (1946) - 9
Germany Year Zero (1948) - 8
Stromboli (1950) - 8
Journey to Italy (1954) - 6
Ro.Go.Pa.G. - "Illibatezza" (1963) - 5
The Rise of Louis XIV (1966) - 6

David Russell:

Three Kings (1999)
I Heart Huckabees (2004)

Walter Salles:

Central Station (1998)
The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

John Schlesinger:

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Julian Schnabel:

Basquiat (1996)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

Paul Schrader:
Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters (1985)

Joel Schumacher:


The Lost Boys (1987) - 5
The Client (1994) - 6
Batman Forever (1995) - 4
A Time to Kill (1996) - 7
Batman & Robin (1997) - 2.5
Tigerland (2000) - 6
Phone Booth (2002) - 2

Martin Scorsese:

Taxi Driver (1976)
Raging Bull (1980)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Goodfellas (1990)
Cape Fear (1991)
Casino (1995)
Gangs of New York (2002)
The Departed (2006)
Key To Reserva (2007)

Ridley Scott:

Alien (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)
Thelma and Louise (1991)
Gladiator (2000)
Hannibal (2001)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Jonathan from All the Invisible Children (2005)
American Gangster (2007)

Tony Scott:

Top Gun (1986)
True Romance (1993)
Enemy of the State (1998)
Hire: Beat the Devil (2002)
Domino (2005)

Edward Sedgwick:
The Cameraman (1928)

Ousmane Sembene:

Faat Kiné (2000)

Tom Shadyac:

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
The Nutty Professor (1996)
Liar Liar (1997)
Patch Adams (1998)
Bruce Almighty (2003)

Jim Sheridan:
My Left Foot (1989)

Kaneto Shindo:
Onibaba (1964)

M. Night Shyamalan:

The Sixth Sense (1999)
Unbreakable (2000)
Signs (2002)
The Village (2004)

David Silverman:

Monsters Inc. (2001)
The Simpsons Movie (2007)

Tarsem Singh:
Various commercials and music videos
The Cell (2000)
The Fall (2006)

Victor Sjorstrom:

He Who Gets Slapped (1924)

Kevin Smith:

Clerks (1994)
Mallrats (1995)
Chasing Amy (1997)
Dogma (1999)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)

Zack Snyder:
300 (2006)
Watchmen (2009)

Steven Soderbergh:

Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
Schizopolis (1996)
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Traffic (2000)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Full Frontal (2002)
Eros (segment "Equilibrium") (2004)
Ocean's Twelve (2004)
Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
Che (2008)
The Informant (2009)

Todd Solondz:

Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)
Happiness (1998)
Storytelling (2001)
Palindromes (2004)

Sion Sono:

Suicide Club (2002)
Strange Circus (2005)
Noriko's Dinner Table (2005)
Exte: Hair Extensions (2007)

Steven Spielberg:

Jaws (1975)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) (segment 2)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Schindler's List (1993)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Minority Report (2002)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Munich (2005)

Andrew Stanton:

Finding Nemo (2003)
WALL-E (2008)

Ben Stiller:

The Cable Guy (1996)
Zoolander (2001)
Tropic Thunder (2008) - 5.5

Oliver Stone:

Natural Born Killers (1994)
Any Given Sunday (1999)

Preston Sturges:

The Great McGinty (1940)
Christmas In July (1940)
The Lady Eve (1941)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges, 1948)

Quentin Tarantino:

Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Jackie Brown (1997)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Grindhouse: Death Proof/Planet Terror (2007)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Andrei Tarkovsky:

The Killers - (1958) - 7
There Will Be No Leave Today (1959) - 7.5
Steamroller and Violin (1961) - 8.5
Ivan's Childhood (1962) - 9.5
Andrei Rublev (1969) - 10
Solaris (1972) - 10
The Mirror (1975) - 10
Stalker (1979) - 10
Nostalgia (1983) - 9
The Sacrifice (1986) -9

Béla Tarr:

Damnation (1988)
Sátántangó (1994)
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
The Man From London (2007) - 8.5

Jacques Tati:

M. Hullot's Holiday (1953)
Mon oncle (1958)
Playtime (1966)
Trafic (1971)
Parade (1974)

Johnny To:

Election (2005)
Election 2 (2006)
Exiled (2006)

Toshiaki Toyoda:

Pornostar (1998)
Blue Spring (2001)
9 Souls (2003)
Hanging Garden (2004)

François Truffaut:

The Kids (1957)
The 400 Blows (1959)
Jules and Jim (1962)
Day for Night (1973)

Ming-liang Tsai:

Rebels of the Neon Gold (1992)
Vive L'Amour (1994)
The River (1997)
The Hole (1998)
What Time Is It There? (2001)
The Skywalk is Gone (2002)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
The Wayward Cloud (2005)
I Don't Want To Sleep Alone (2006)

Shinya Tsukamoto:

Tetsuo, the Iron Man (1989)
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992)
Tokyo Fist (1995)
Bullet Ballet (1998)
Gemini (1999)
A Snake of June (2002)
Vital (2004)
Haze (2005)
Nightmare Detective (2006)

Tom Tykwer:

Winter Sleepers (1997)
Run Lola Run (1998)
The Princess and the Warrior (2000)
Heaven (2002)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

Edgar G. Ulmer:


Gus Van Sant:

Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Psycho (1998)
Gerry (2002)
Elephant (2003)
Last Days (2005)
Paranoid Park (2007)
Milk (2008)

Paul Verhoeven:

RoboCop (1987)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Starship Troopers (1997)
Hollow Man (2000)
Black Book (2006)

Dziga Vertov:

Kino-pravda (1922)
The Man with the Movie Camera (1929)

King Vidor:

Our Daily Bread (1934)
The Wizard of Oz (Kansas Scenes) (1939)

Luchino Visconti

Ossessione (1943) - 9
La Terra Trema (1948) - 7.5
Le Notti bianche (1957) - 6
Boccaccio '70 ("Il lavoro") - 8
The Leopard (1963) - 8
The Damned (1969) - 6.5
Death in Venice (1971) - 6

Joseph Von Sternberg:

Blonde Venus (1932)
The Scarlet Empress (1934)

Erich Von Stroheim:

Greed (1924)

Lars von Trier:

Europa (1991)
Breaking the Waves (1996)
Dancer In the Dark (2000)
Dogville (2003)
The Five Obstructions (2003)
Manderlay (2005)
Antichrist (2009)

Andy and Larry Wachowski:

The Matrix (1999)
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Speed Racer (2008)

David Wain:
Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
Roles Models (2008)

Keenen Ivory Wayans:

In Living Color (1990)
Scary Movie (2000)
Scary Movie 2 (2001)

Apichatpong Weerasethakul:

The Mysterious Object At Noon (2000)
Blissfully Yours (2002)
Tropical Malady (2004)
Syndromes and a Century (2006)
Prosperity for 2008 (2008)
Phantoms of Nabua (2009)

Peter Weir:

Gallipoli (1981)
Dead Poets Society (1989)

Orson Welles:

Citizen Kane (1941)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Touch of Evil (1958)
F is for Fake (1974)

William Wellman:

The Public Enemy (1931)
A Star is Born (1937)

Wim Wenders:

Wings of Desire (1987)

Lina Wertmüller:

Seven Beauties (1975)

Haskell Wexler:

Medium Cool (1969)

James Whale:

Frankenstein (1931)
The Old Dark House (1932)

Billy Wilder:

Double Indemnity (1944)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Stalag 17 (1953)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Apartment (1960)
One, Two, Three (1961)

Kevin Willmott:

Ninth Street (1999)
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004)

Kar Wai Wong:

As Tears Go By (1989)
Days of Being Wild (1991)
Ashes of Time (1994)
Chungking Express (1994)
Fallen Angels (1995)
Happy Together (1997)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
Hire: The Follow (2001)
Six Days music video(2002)
2046 (2004)
Eros (segment: The Hand) (2004)
There's Only One Sun (short)
To Each His Cinema (segment: I Travelled 9000 km To Give It To You)
My Blueberry Nights (2007)

John Woo:

The Killer (1989)
Hard Target (1993)
Face/Off (1997)
Hire: Hostage (2002)
Song Song and Little Cat from All the Invisible Children (2005)

Sam Wood:

A Night at the Opera (1935)
A Day at the Races (1937)

Edgar Wright:

Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Hot Fuzz (2007)

William Wyler:

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Ben-Hur (1959)

Sadao Yamanaka:

Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (1935)
Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)

Edward Yang:

Terrorizers (1986)
Yi yi (2000)

Robert Zemeckis:

Back to the Future (1985)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Forrest Gump (1994)
What Lies Beneath (2000)

Yimou Zhang:

House of Flying Daggers (2004)
Hero (2002)

Rob Zombie:
House of 1000 Corpses (2002)
The Devil's Rejects (2005)
Halloween (2007)
Halloween 2 (2009)

Frans Zwartjes:
Living (1971)

Alan Zweig:
Vinyl (2000) - 8
I, Curmudgeon (2004) - 6

Terry Zwigoff

Crumb (1994)
Ghost World (2001)
Art School Confidential (2006)