Top 5 Director Averages

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Andrei Tarkovsky 9.33
Stanley Kubrick 8.40
Akira Kurosawa 8.00
Quentin Tarantino 7.50
P. Thomas Anderson 7.50

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Geez, my list is in constant motion as I adjust my rankings. Still going off the four film minimum.

10. Stanley Kubrick (6 films) 83.00
High film - Paths of Glory (91)
Low film - Eyes Wide Shut (68)

9. Coen brothers (9 films) 83.67
High film - The Big Lebowski (89)
Low film - Burn After Reading and The Hudsucker Proxy (80s)

8. Tarantino (8 films) 83.88
High film - Pulp Fiction (93)
Low film - Jackie Brown (71)

7. Danny Boyle (4 films; New to the list) 84.00
High film - Trainspotting (90)
Low film - 28 Days Later (80)

TIED 5. Milos Forman (4 films; New to the list) 84.25
High film - Amadeus (94 - Top 10 film of all time)
Low film - The People vs. Larry Flynt (72)

TIED 5. Darren Aronofsky (4 films) 84.25
High film - Black Swan (95 - Top 10 film of all time)
Low film - Pi (79)

4. Christopher Nolan (7 films) 86.86
High film - Inception (93)
Low film - Insomnia (73)

3. Peter Jackson (5 films) 87.00
High film - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (95 - Top 10 film of all time)
Low film - The Lovely Bones (67)

2. Sergio Leone (4 films) 87.50
High film - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (92)
Low film - My Name is Nobody (79)

1. Hayao Miyazaki (7 films) 88.00
High film - Princess Mononoke (94 - Top 10 film of all time)
Low film - Ponyo (79)

I've been a bit rougher on ranking, so everyone but Nolan and the Coens dropped a few points. Despite George Lucas having previously been ranked higher on my list, I've also been a bit harsher to the Star Wars prequels now that I know that JJ Abrams is gonna be directing some new films, and Guy Ritchie dropped below Kubrick to also fall off the list due to the two new editions.

My bottom 5 haven't changed a bit, though.

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nice list, I feel like our TCI should be lower.

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Things have changed in the two years since I last posted here, so it's time for an update. Once again, I'm splitting it up into 2 top 20 lists. The 1st is of directors by whom I have watched 10 or more films. The 2nd list is of those by whom I saw 5-9 films. After each list I name directors who were close but didn't make the cut. I'm sticking to using "by score" because "by tier" messes up the order.
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Moribunny wrote:I split this up into 2 top 20 lists. The 1st is of directors by whom I have watched 10 or more films. The 2nd list is of those by whom I saw 5-9 films. After each list I name directors who were close but didn't make the cut.
It tends to be unfair if I watch a lot including negligible shorts which kind of drag down the score unfairly. This happened with Herzog, Kiarostami and Polanski, for instance. They probably deserve higher.

10+ cutoff:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film

1 Emir Kusturica - 80.2 (10) - Time of the Gypsies
2 Carl Theodor Dreyer - 79.45 (11) - Gertrud
3 Satyajit Ray - 78 (11) - Charulata
4 Luchino Visconti - 77.7 (10) – Bellissima
5 Federico Fellini – 77.3 (10) – La Strada
6 Sam Peckinpah - 76.8 (10) - Straw Dogs
7 Costa-Gavras - 75.9 (10) - Z
8 Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 75.07 (20) - In a Year of 13 Moons
9 Terry Gilliam - 75 (15) - Brazil
10 Sidney Lumet - 74.35 (17) - 12 Angry Men
11 Claude Chabrol - 73.79 (14) - The Girl Cut in Two
12 John Cassavetes - 73.7 (10) - A Woman under the Influence
13 Douglas Sirk - 73.5 (10) – Interlude
14 Ingmar Bergman – 73.22 (18) – Autumn Sonata
15 Ernst Lubitsch – 72.5 (10) – too many choices
16 Werner Herzog – 71.75 (32) – Stroszek
17 Woody Allen – 71.42 (19) – Annie Hall
18 Peter Weir – 69.7 (10) – Gallipoli
19 Aki Kaurismaki – 69.45 (10) – The Man Without a Past
20 Martin Scorsese – 66.19 (16) – Raging Bull
Close: Abbas Kiarostami, Roman Polanski

5-9 cutoff:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film

1 Jacques Rozier - 83.33 (6) - Adieu Philippine
2 Mario Monicelli - 83 (5) - Big Deal on Madonna Street
3 Dino Risi - 81.8 (5) - A Hard Life
4 Alan Clarke - 80.5 (6) - The Firm
5 Nicolas Roeg - 79.2 (5) - Don't Look Now
6 Lina Wertmuller - 79 (6) - Swept Away
7 Sergei Parajanov - 78.6 (5) - Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
8 Michelangelo Antonioni - 77.75 (8) - The Night
9 William Friedkin - 75.8 (5) - The French Connection
10 Jean Renoir - 75.71 (7) - A Day in the Country
11 Martin Ritt - 75.6 (5) - The Front
12 Marcel Carne - 74.6 (5) - The Children of Paradise
13 Charles Chaplin – 73.14 (7) – Modern Times
14 Ephraim Kishon – 72.8 (5) – The Fox in the Chicken Coop
15 Anthony Asquith - 72.2 (5) - The Browning Version
16 Max Ophuls - 72.2 (5) - La Plaisir
17 Shane Meadows - 72.17 (6) -This Is England
18 David Lean – 72.14 (7) – Hobson’s Choice
19 Hal Ashby - 71.8 (5) - The Last Detail
20 Jean-Luc Godard - 71.8 (5) - My Life to Live
Close: Errol Morris, Rob Reiner, Sergio Leone, Preston Sturges, Orson Welles
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10+ cutoff:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film

1 Mario Monicelli - 79.60 (10) - Big Deal on Madonna Street
2 Satyajit Ray - 78.83 (12) - Charulata
3 Carl Theodor Dreyer - 78.50 (12) - Gertrud
4 Luchino Visconti - 77.70 (10) – Bellissima
5 Michelangelo Antonioni - 77.50 (10) - The Night
6 Emir Kusturica - 77.45(11) - Time of the Gypsies
7 Federico Fellini – 77.30 (10) – La Strada
8 Sam Peckinpah - 76.80 (10) - Straw Dogs
9 Costa-Gavras - 76.20 (10) - Z
10 Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 75.20 (20) - In a Year of 13 Moons
11 Terry Gilliam - 75.20 (15) - Brazil
12 Claude Chabrol - 74.44 (16) - The Girl Cut in Two
13 Douglas Sirk - 74.18 (11) – Interlude
14 John Cassavetes - 73.70 (10) - A Woman under the Influence
15 Ingmar Bergman – 72.95 (19) – Autumn Sonata
16 Ernst Lubitsch – 72.80 (10) – (too many choices)
17 Werner Herzog – 71.97 (33) – Stroszek
18 Sidney Lumet - 71.79 (19) - 12 Angry Men
19 Charles Chaplin - 71.30 (10) - Modern Times
20 Aki Kaurismaki – 70.15 (13) – The Man Without a Past
Close: Woody Allen (24), Ken Loach (10), Peter Weir (11), Abbas Kiarostami (13), Martin Scorsese (17)

5-9 cutoff:
# Director - Avg (films seen) - Fav.film

1 Jacques Rozier - 82.71 (7) - Adieu Philippine
2 Alan Clarke - 81.00 (6) - The Firm
3 Dino Risi - 79.33 (6) - A Hard Life
4 Lynne Ramsay - 79.20 (5) - Morvern Callar
5 Lina Wertmuller - 79.00 (6) - Swept Away
6 Ermanno Olmi - 77.67 (6) - The Tree of Wooden Clogs
7 Nuri Bilge Ceylan - 76.60 (5) - Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
8 Jean Renoir - 76.14 (7) - A Day in the Country
=9 Nicolas Roeg - 76.00 (6) - Don't Look Now
=9 Sergei Parajanov - 76.00 (6) - Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
11 Wojciech Has - 75.40 (5) - An Uninteresting Story
12 Volker Schlöndorff - 75.20 (5) - The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
13 Marcel Carné - 74.60 (5) - The Children of Paradise
14 Masaki Kobayashi - 74.14 (7) - Samurai Rebellion
15 Martin Ritt - 73.50 (6) - The Front
=16 Henri-Georges Clouzot - 73.20 (5) - The Mystery of Picasso
=16 Anthony Asquith - 73.20 (5) - The Browning Version
18 Peter Yates - 72.83 (6) - (too many choices)
19 Ephraim Kishon – 72.80 (5) – The Fox in the Chicken Coop
20 Max Ophüls - 72.20 (5) - La Plaisir
Close: Errol Morris (6), Shane Meadows (6), David Lean (8), Hal Ashby (5), Frederick Wiseman (5), Rob Reiner (6), Sergio Leone (7), Barbet Schroeder (6), Milos Forman (6), Orson Welles (6)
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Lets try it with tiers this time (5 films minimum):

Hayao Miyazaki 8.90 (10)
Juraj Jakubisko 8.83 (6)
Agnès Varda 8.67 (6)
Ingmar Bergman 8.20 (5)
Ngai Kai Lam 8.20 (5)
Alejandro Jodorowsky 8.17 (6)
Quentin Tarantino 8.13 (8)
Mario Bava 8.10 (10)
Chan-wook Park 8.00 (7)
Alain Robbe-Grillet 8.00 (5)

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TheDenizen wrote:nice list, I feel like our TCI should be lower.


I think anything below 2.0 is pretty low. I'm surprised there aren't more people with closer TCI's to me. Everywhere I look is 2.5ish. I didn't think my tastes were that different.

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i'll have to go with 3 minimum at this stage of my film watching career :lol:

92.7 david lynch (3)
92.0 lars von trier (4)
86.0 federico fellini (3)
86.3 roman polanski (4)
83.7 stanley kubrick (9)
77.0 joel & ethan coen (4)
73.7 terrence malick (3)
73.3 david fincher (6)
73.3 christopher nolan (6)
68.8 david yates (4)

it gets into my tier 7 at the bottom, so...

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Director, avg rating, # of films
Satyajit Ray, 82.83, 6
Masaki Kobayashi, 82.50, 6
Edward Yang, 80.67, 3
Mikhail Kalatozov, 80.33, 3
Henri-Georges Clouzot, 78.60, 5
(w. min 3 films rated, all with avg tier 10)
others with avg tier 10:

Kon Ichikawa
Ettore Scola
Kaneto Shindô
Victor Sjöström

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It's been at least 6 months. I can afford to do another update. Again, 4 film minimum.

10. Peter Jackson (6 films) 83.33
High film - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (95 - on my Top 10 list)
Low film - The Lovely Bones (65)

9. Quentin Tarantino (8 films) 83.5
High film - Pulp Fiction (93)
Low film - Four Rooms (69)

8. Coen Brothers (9 films) 83.67
High film - The Big Lebowski (90)
Low film - Burn After Reading (79)

7. Stanley Kubrick (6 films) 83.83
High film - Paths of Glory (91)
Low film - Eyes Wide Shut (73)

6. Danny Boyle (4 films) 84
High film - Trainspotting (89)
Low film - 28 Days Later (81)

TIED 5. Milos Forman (4 films) 84.25
High film - Amadeus (94 - on my Top 10 list)
Low film - The People vs. Larry Flynt (72)

TIED 5. Darren Aronofsky (4 films) 84.25
High film - Black Swan (95 - on my Top 10 list)
Low film - Pi (79)

TIED 3. Hayao Miyazaki (7 films) 87.57
High film - Princess Mononoke (94 - on my Top 10 list)
Low film - Ponyo (79)

TIED 3. Christopher Nolan (7 films) 87.57
High film - Inception (93)
Low film - Incomnia (76)

1. Sergio Leone (4 films) 88
High film - A Fistful of Dollars AND The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (92's)
Low film - My Name is Nobody (79)

I finally watched King Kong, and while I liked it more than the Lovely Bones, it was still a mediocre film, which dropped Jackson a bit. I expect, being a huge Tolkien fan, that he'll rise again after I see and rank the Hobbit film coming out soon. The other directors were adjusted because of the small score changes I make when I compare a group of films with the same ranking. Some of those films stand out as being better than the others, some are clearly worse, and you have to adjust based on that, so those are 1 or 2 point adjustments.

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lisagirl wrote:i'll have to go with 3 minimum at this stage of my film watching career :lol:

92.7 david lynch (3)
92.0 lars von trier (4)
86.0 federico fellini (3)
86.3 roman polanski (4)
83.7 stanley kubrick (9)
77.0 joel & ethan coen (4)
73.7 terrence malick (3)
73.3 david fincher (6)
73.3 christopher nolan (6)
68.8 david yates (4)

it gets into my tier 7 at the bottom, so...


over the course of (nearly) 3 months and (nearly) 150 films, this has changed...a lot.

93.00 lars von trier (6)
87.00 akira kurosawa (3)
85.27 ingmar bergman (11)
83.89 stanley kubrick (9)
83.50 federico fellini (4)
83.25 roman polanski (4)
81.67 david cronenberg (3)
81.67 sidney lumet (3)
81.60 david lynch (5)
80.00 kyrzysztof kieslowski (3)

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