1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Orson Welles
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. Federico Fellini
5. Jean-Luc Godard
6. Francis Ford Coppola
7. Jean Renoir
8. Ingmar Bergman
9. John Ford
10. Akira Kurosawa
11. Martin Scorsese
12. Yasujiro Ozu
13. Luis Buñuel
14. Andrei Tarkovsky
15. Charles Chaplin
16. Robert Bresson
17. Carl Theodor Dreyer
18. Billy Wilder
19. F.W. Murnau
20. Michelangelo Antonioni
21. Howard Hawks
22. Fritz Lang
23. François Truffaut
24. Sergei Eisenstein
25. Kenji Mizoguchi
26. Roberto Rossellini
27. Steven Spielberg
28. David Lynch
29. Jacques Rivette
30. David Lean
31. Vittorio De Sica
32. Luchino Visconti
33. Alain Resnais
34. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
35. Roman Polanski
36. Ernst Lubitsch
37. John Cassavetes
38. Sergio Leone
39. Wong Kar-wai
40. Jean Vigo
41. Satyajit Ray
42. Max Ophüls
43. Robert Altman
44. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
45. Abbas Kiarostami
46. Zack Snyder
47. Werner Herzog
48. D.W. Griffith
49. Terrence Malick
50. Buster Keaton
>>79862170
>No G.W. past
At least I'm two for three
>>79862170
>no Iñárritu
>no Chazelle
shit list, get with the times gramps
>>79862983
>Chazelle
Really now? The guy's made two above-average movies and he's your favorite?
>>79862170
That's not how you spell M. Night Shyamalan
>>79862170
>2. Orson Welles
>Made one (1) famous movie that is only remembered because of some fancy camera angles
>Anyone's favorite director
>>79862170
If you are not your own favorite director, you aren't doing a good enough job.
why is Alfonso Cauron not on these list?
>>79862170
>no R.L.Stine
>>79862170
>46. Zack Snyder
>>79863049
the same can be said about Coppola and he's apparently #6
>39. Wong Kar-wai
Phew thank goodness some random anon doesn't think I'm a pleb
>>79863280
What's the joke?
>>79862170
> 50. Buster Keaton
That was dangerously fucking close
>No Tarantino
>No Nolan
>No Snyder
>>79862170
>46. Zack Snyder
At least make the bait a little more subtle.
>>79862170
>15. Charles Chaplin
>50. Buster Keaton
ENOUGH. THESE BETTER NOT BE IN ANY KIND OF FUCKING ORDER!
>believing in auteur theory
now I know /tv/ is pleb
>>79863601
use you eyes m8
>>79863833
You'r
>>79863833
I overlooked that for some reason.
>no Pasolini
lol
>>79863439
>nice bait
>>79862170
where my nigga danny boyle?
>>79862170
>implying
>>79864115
He lost all credibility after slum dog millionaire
kek what a list
>No Coen Brothers
>No films of wes anderson
>no refn
get fucked OP
>>79862170
where miyazaki?
>No Stephen Chow
>>79862170
No Ridley Scott. Alien and Bladerunner are kino.
>>79864113
>Coppola directed Jack
He is forever tarnished
>>79862170
Do you have to like both Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly? What if you like one but don't like the other?
>Zack Snyder
>no Jodorowsky
¡que pleb!
>>79864722
>Jodorowsky
Can i get a quick Tarrot reading about him?
>>79864722
Found the Mexican
>having a favorite director
>having a favorite anything
Grow up.
>>79865763
>Growing up
t. Brainlet
>Roberto Rosselini
Said no one ever.
>>79862170
1) John Ford, 2) John Ford, 3) Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Donen for Charade more than singing in the rain. The rest are lagniappe
>>79864285
You cant direct a cartoon dude, cartoons dont have actors or camera
Where's jared hess, where's fincher reee
>>79866430
Get out
>No Villeneuve
>But he actually put Zack fucking Snyder
No Capra, Melville, Clouzot, Shindo, Wenders, Yang...
Also, Kurosawa above Mizoguchi?
This is a lovingly crafted bait thread but next time drop Snyder...far too obvious. It's inclusion only betrays your purpose.
>>79863124
>he hasn't watched The Trial
>>79862170
The "I'm two semesters into film school" starter pack.
>>79862170
>46. Zack Snyder
>47. Werner Herzog
I love the Zack like every other red blooded heterosexual white male but come the fuck on
>ctrl f "kobayashi"
>0 results
Into le trash it le goes
>be me
>read thru the list
>hmmm
>ok...
>where is he...
>any moment now..
>FUCK YEA ZACK SNYDER
>>79866999
A Brighter Summer Day is a masterpeice, Yiyi is good, the rest of his films are averange, Wenders doesn't have more than two good films, Melville is highly overrated by normies
>>79863503
probably the fact that OP would even feel the need to include that hack on the list
>>79867472
OUT
>No Edgar Wright
Nobody cares about comedy these days
>>79864281
Thank you. Faggot op.
>>79868944
pleb
>>79862170
>32. Luchino Visconti
apparently i am a patrician. out of the way, plebs
>>79869000
Nobody cares about good and smart comedy these days
>No Wes Anderson
Are you fucking gay?
>No Paul Thomas Anderson
kys
>>79869796
Aren't you talking about yourself? TRT is one of the most gay films ever created.
>>79862170
No Vertov, Dovzhenko, Parajanov, Jonathan Glazer, Park Chan Wook...
>Zack Snyder
>Spielberg
>>79863124
Touch of Evil is great you pleb
>>79862170
Pasolini > Fellini
>>79862170
where's Korine?
Where the fuck is Denis Villeneuve? Dude's last five features have all been Oscar worthy.