Directors with Tier 10 and Tier 1 films

[BrutalBrian]

I'd like to vouch for Stanley Kubrick.

He gave us 2001, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket among others, which myself and many like.

Also gave us Eyes Wide Shut, even though I like the film, it is not a very good one.

[astrakhan]

Only found one in my ratings: Lukas Moodysson. But he's done this to the power of 2:

Together - 90 (Tier 10)
Show Me Love - 85 (Tier 10)
...
A Hole In My Heart - 55 (Tier 1)
Container - 30 (Tier 1)

[MmzHrrdb]

I've got a bunch of them. I've left a few off because (like PeaceAnarchy) I feel I owe the Tier 1 films a fresh viewing. I will say that most of these tend to be on the "high end" of my tier 1. At the very bottom, I didn't see anything by directors I like.

Carl Thedor Dreyer (T10: Vampyr; T1: Gertrud)

Steven Spielberg (T10: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; T1: The Terminal, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Jurassic Park)

Jean-Luc Godard (T10: Band of Outsiders; T1: Hail Mary, 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her)

John Ford (T10: My Darling Clementine; T1: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Searchers, The Quiet Man)

Stan Brakhage (T10: too many to list; T1: too many to list)

Vittorio de Sica (T10: The Bicycle Thief; T1: Terminal Station, The Children Are Watching Us)

Ernst Lubitsch (T10: One Hour With You; T1: Ninotchka)

Victor Fleming (T10: The Wizard of Oz; T1: Gone With the Wind)

Charlie Chaplin (T10: The Circus; T1: Monsieur Verdoux, Limelight)

Sidney Lumet (T10: Network; T1: Find Me Guilty)

John Huston (T10: The Dead; T1: Victory)

Martin Brest (T10: Midnight Run; T1: Scent of a Woman)

Howard Hawks (T10: Rio Bravo; T1: The Thing from Another World)

Federico Fellini (T10: Nights of Cabiria, 8 1/2; T1: Amarcord)


Even some of my favorite directors:

Alfred Hitchcock (T10: too many to list; T1: Marnie, Topaz)

Akira Kurosawa (T10: too many to list; T1: Rhapsody in August)

Woody Allen (T10: too many to list; T1: September, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion)

Luis Bunuel (T10: too many to list; T1: The Milky Way)

Ingmar Bergman (T10: way too many to list; T1: All These Women, High Tension)

Robert Bresson (T10: A Man Escaped, Pickpocket; T1: Lancelot du Lac)


Brakhage is easily the most striking example for me. I love his later films, especially the hand-painted stuff. But with a few notable exceptions (Dog Star Man, Deus Ex, Window Water Baby Moving, The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes, Text of Light), his work up until the 80's leaves me cold. He has films in all 10 tiers for me.

[djross]

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[MmzHrrdb]

Michael Haneke
T10 - The Piano Teacher
T1 - Funny Games US

Francis Ford Coppola
T10 - Apocalypse Now, The Godfather Parts I and II
T1 - Youth Without Youth

Martin Scorsese
T10 - Taxi Driver
T1 - New York, New York

Lars von Trier
T10 - Breaking the Waves
T1 - Antichrist

Wow, I was only expecting to have Coppola and Haneke.

[prowler]

Coppola: Apocalypse Now, The Godfather 1,2 / Jack
Burton: Ed Wood / Charlie...

[MockHamill]

Peter Jackson has managed to make both the best and the worse movie I have ever seen:
Lord of the Rings (Tier 10, 100 Rating)
Bad Taste (Tier 1, 5 Rating)

[prowler]

i think you have them the other way around

[leekenn]

Martin Campbell

T10 - Casino Royale

T1 - The Mask of fucking Zorro

[Pickpocket]

One that hasn't been mentioned: Alfonso Cuaron

Tier 10 - Children of men

Tier 1 - The Shock Doctrine (short film, but still terrible)

And another vote for Michael Mann

Tier 10 - Collateral, The Insider

Tier 1 - Public Enemies