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1. Andrei Tarkovsky

Masterpiece: Stalker

The Wolf's rating:

8.7

2. Werner Herzog

Masterpiece: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes

The Wolf's rating:

8.3

3. Jean-Luc Godard

Masterpiece: Week End

The Wolf's rating:

9.1

4. Ingmar Bergman

Masterpiece: Persona

The Wolf's rating:

8.2

5. Terrence Malick

Masterpiece: Badlands

The Wolf's rating:

8.9

6. Krzysztof Kieslowski

Masterpiece: Dekalog

The Wolf's rating:

8.9

7. Stanley Kubrick

Masterpiece: A Clockwork Orange

The Wolf's rating:

8.9

8. Federico Fellini

Masterpiece: 8½

The Wolf's rating:

8

9. John Cassavetes

Masterpiece: A Woman Under the Influence

The Wolf's rating:

8.4

10. Aki Kaurismäki

Masterpiece: La Vie de Bohème

The Wolf's rating:

8.6

11. David Lynch

Masterpiece: Eraserhead

The Wolf's rating:

8.5

12. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Masterpiece: El Topo

The Wolf's rating:

8.4

13. Michael Haneke

Masterpiece: Funny Games (1997)

The Wolf's rating:

9

14. Akira Kurosawa

Masterpiece: Rashômon

The Wolf's rating:

8.2

15. Wim Wenders

Masterpiece: Der Himmel über Berlin

The Wolf's rating:

8.8

16. Sergio Leone

Masterpiece: C'era una volta il West

The Wolf's rating:

9

17. Yasujiro Ozu

Masterpiece: Tokyo monogatari

The Wolf's rating:

8.6

18. Robert Bresson

Masterpiece: Pickpocket

The Wolf's rating:

8.2

19. Roman Polanski

Masterpiece: Chinatown

The Wolf's rating:

8.8

20. Kenji Mizoguchi

Masterpiece: Ugetsu monogatari

The Wolf's rating:

8.4

21. Francis Ford Coppola

Masterpiece: The Conversation

The Wolf's rating:

8.9

22. Charles Chaplin

Masterpiece: City Lights

The Wolf's rating:

8.7

23. Martin Scorsese

Masterpiece: Raging Bull

The Wolf's rating:

8.6

24. François Truffaut

Masterpiece: Jules et Jim

The Wolf's rating:

8.3

25. Paul Thomas Anderson

Masterpiece: There Will Be Blood

The Wolf's rating:

7.9

26. Lars von Trier

Masterpiece: Riget

The Wolf's rating:

8.2

27. Sam Peckinpah

Masterpiece: The Wild Bunch

The Wolf's rating:

9

28. Alfred Hitchcock

Masterpiece: Vertigo

The Wolf's rating:

8.7

29. Orson Welles

Masterpiece: Touch of Evil

The Wolf's rating:

8.1

30. David Cronenberg

Masterpiece: Videodrome

The Wolf's rating:

8.6

31. Kar Wai Wong

Masterpiece: In the Mood for Love

The Wolf's rating:

8.8

32. Jean Vigo

Masterpiece: L'Atalante

The Wolf's rating:

8.4

33. John Ford

Masterpiece: The Searchers

The Wolf's rating:

8.9

34. Carl Theodor Dreyer

Masterpiece: La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc

The Wolf's rating:

8.5

35. Michelangelo Antonioni

Masterpiece: Blow-Up

The Wolf's rating:

8.4

36. Joel Coen

Masterpiece: No Country for Old Men

The Wolf's rating:

8.2

37. Jim Jarmusch

Masterpiece: Down by Law

The Wolf's rating:

8.7

38. F.W. Murnau

Masterpiece: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

The Wolf's rating:

8.5

39. Vittorio De Sica

Masterpiece: Ladri di biciclette

The Wolf's rating:

7.6

40. Brian De Palma

Masterpiece: Blow Out

The Wolf's rating:

8.4

41. Roy Andersson

Masterpiece: Sånger från andra våningen

The Wolf's rating:

7.5

42. Gus Van Sant

Masterpiece: Elephant

The Wolf's rating:

8.5

43. Maya Deren

Masterpiece: Meshes of the Afternoon

The Wolf's rating:

7.8

44. Woody Allen

Masterpiece: Annie Hall

The Wolf's rating:

8.8

45. Luis Buñuel

Masterpiece: Belle de jour

The Wolf's rating:

8.8

46. Fritz Lang

Masterpiece: M

The Wolf's rating:

8.1

47. Wes Anderson

Masterpiece: The Royal Tenenbaums

The Wolf's rating:

7.8

48. John Carpenter

Masterpiece: Halloween

The Wolf's rating:

8.1

49. Robert Altman

Masterpiece: The Long Goodbye

The Wolf's rating:

7.9

50. George A. Romero

Masterpiece: Night of the Living Dead

The Wolf's rating:

A very basic list of directors which needs still some extreme construction.

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Comments

Posted: 4 years ago at Apr 27 14:58

Very nice, very nice !

Posted: 4 years ago at May 3 7:44

Cheers mate!

Posted: 3 years, 5 months ago at Dec 17 11:15

Very nice list :=)

Posted: 2 years, 9 months ago at Aug 23 5:42

I should definitely try following this list. I really need some guide for my study in film.

Meow That's Right

Posted: 2 years, 9 months ago at Aug 24 12:59

i think i'd go Pulp Fiction on Tarantino.

Posted: 2 years, 3 months ago at Feb 1 20:19

GOOD !!!!!!

Posted: 11 months, 3 weeks ago at May 29 0:57

glad to see another who appreciates the genius of Tarkovsky as much as me

Posted: 9 months, 2 weeks ago at Aug 9 15:30

Ridley Scott, Chris Nolan, David Fincher?!

Posted: 9 months, 1 week ago at Aug 12 21:50

Why on earth should I put those on the list?

Posted: 1 month, 3 weeks ago at Mar 28 16:21

Great choices, Tarkovsky is amazing.

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