🎬 The DiS Top 75 Director List

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3 - Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, The Master)
4 - Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining)
2 - The Coen Brothers
6 - Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums)
8 - Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window, Vertigo)
11 - Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Rashomon)
14 - David Fincher (Se7en, Zodiac)
19 - Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro)
21 - Christopher Nolan (Memento, The Prestige)
73 - Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Her)
29 - Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, The Virgin Suicides)
41 - Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk)
46 - Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank, Red Road)
52 - Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave, Hunger)
55 - Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, The Devil’s Backbone)
63 - Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Lobster)
64 - Richard Linklater (Before Series, Dazed and Confused)
70 - Pawel Pawlikowski (Cold War, Ida)

FWIW mine would have looked like this roughly on this order, though I’d have had Polanski (yeah, I know) around the 5 or 6 mark and maybe Sean Baker slipping in the lower numbers but this is without giving it loads of thought

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Watched Uncle Boonmee and loved it.

Just three directors to go - Dumont, Waters and Campion.

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@eltham

Peter Weir - Difficult to recommend one film. Everyone has seen Truman Show already. Picnic at Hanging Rock is essential if you haven’t seen it. Master & Commander is the one I’ve rewatched most times. What a director!

Dunno I would always say Witness.without hesitation.

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Here’s my list for no one who was waiting for it

Points	Director
20pts:	Steven Spielberg
19pts:	David Fincher
18pts:	James Cameron
17pts:	Christopher Nolan
16pts:	Rob Reiner
15pts:	Spike Lee
14pts:	Kathryn Bigelow
13pts:	Penny Marshall
12pts:	Jordan Peele
11pts:	Ryan Coogler
10pts:	Rian Johnson
9pts:	Stanley Kubrick
8pts:	Ridley Scott
7pts:	Ron Howard
6pts:	John Carpenter
5pts:	Paul Thomas Anderson
4pts:	ZAZ (Zucker Brothers & Abrahams)

[ericVI]

Which you watching of each?

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The Piano of Campion. BFIPlayer has Camile 1915 or whatever it’s called, and Cry Baby, so I figure those? Unless you have other thoughts

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All decent shouts I’d say. Camille Claudel is brilliant but not massively representative of him as a whole.

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Cry Baby isn’t massively representative of Waters either but a gentle place to start before the mad shit

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@ericVI

recommend a film by a director you voted for (or would have) who wasn’t placed

alright here’s mine:

Kiyoshi “The Other” Kurosawa is best known for horror but more accurately his schtick is taking existing genres and subverting them in oddball ways (admittedly with sometimes mixed results.) His most well known films are Pulse and Cure, his takes on J-Horror and sort of American cop thrillers (a la Se7en) but Tokyo Sonata is his version of a family drama. It won the jury prize at Cannes so it’s probably his most successful film. Don’t wanna give the plot away but it’s a sort of hyperreal, black comedy about the nuclear family coming apart. Highly recommended.

N.B. please do not watch the trailers on youtube, they will ruin it.

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I’mma watch this man. I’ve just found it on YouTube but I won’t post a link because it’s 720p.

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Gonna watch it across a number of days on the tube on my phone.

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No headphones.

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In a priority seat.

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while eating a curry burrito

[Petagno]

My local cinema is doing a showing of Agnes Vardy’s final film

VARDA BY AGNÈS (2019) at Deptford Cinema

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Yer boy Todd Haynes is on 6 music now talking about music/films etc.

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aki kaurismaki’s most recent film, that he’s apparently said is his final one, the other side of hope is on iplayer for about a month. is super, a 90 minuter…

The Other Side of Hope

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ooh thanks, haven’t watched a Kaurismaki for years, might stick this on