Monday, August 4, 2008

Jeremi Szaniawski's Greatest Directors

Top tier:
Ingmar Bergman [pictured]
Stanley Kubrick
D.W. Griffith
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Robert Bresson
F.W. Murnau
Erich von Stroheim
Luis Buñuel
Federico Fellini
Alfred Hitchcock

Second tier:
Éric Rohmer
Fritz Lang
Buster Keaton
Orson Welles
Alexander Dovzhenko [pictured]
Luchino Visconti
Jean-Luc Godard
Kenji Mizoguchi
Ernst Lubitsch
Abbas Kiarostami

Third tier:
John Cassavetes
Agnès Varda
Andrey Tarkovsky
Andrzej Wajda
Wojciech Has
Michelangelo Antonioni
Alexander Sokurov
Paul Verhoeven [pictured, kissing the governor of California]
Béla Tarr
Michael Haneke
Lars von Trier
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Jim Jarmusch
Thierry Zeno
Brian De Palma
Hou Hsao-Hsien
Quentin Tarantino
Terrence Malick
David Cronenberg

I'll stop here, of course there's more, but... these are my favorite ones.

Jeremi is a PhD candidate in Films Studies and Slavic Languages and Literature at Yale University.

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