you bitches have preempted me many posts, from seijun suzuki to the italian directors to melville & godard maya deren casavettes herzog &c. i'll add

visconti




peckinpah






(i'm about to watch disc 1 of the newly released berlin alexanderplatz!!)

a very un-flatterable wim wenders

catherine breillat

Many good choices, y'all.

Ira Cohen







John Carpenter







Pasolini







Jack Smith

http://www.creativescreenwriting.com...ordon_Cole.jpg

david lynch as gordon cole in twin peaks

http://news.greenvilleonline.com/blogs/link/coen.jpg


coen bros

http://olivier.roller.free.fr/miike.jpg

takashi miike

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...px-Scors_3.jpg

scorcese on coke (obvious choice, but did you film raging bull or taxi driver? didnt think so...)

su friederich


miranda july


sofia coppola (except for the atrocious marie-antoinette)


lina wertmuller

kieslowski




jacques rivette


gregory markopoulos

eisenstein!

dziga vertov (if you haven't seen man with the movie camera, you should...)

 

bresson

 

and, needing no introduction:

lars von trier


wim wenders


andre tarkovsky


lang

tout va bien is the only 70's movie of his i have seen and it's excellent.

Dario Argento





Mike Leigh






Jacques Demy

bertolucci (he's at times a hack, but i forgive him)


takeshi kitano


and i just realize, why the fuck haven't we posted a picture of kurosawa yet????


and the coen brothers?

Joseph Losey

Gus Van Sant

Béla Tarr!

Round 2 - Satoshi Kon

Aki Kaurismaki. I love a lot of his stuff, in particular Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana.





The poster for Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana:



A rather splendid still culled from the same:

Sam Fuller


Michael Haneke


Roman Polanski


Jörg Buttgereit

Hitchcock.Some of you may have heard of him.

edit:

Wow a non-trying desperately to out obscure everybody else post. But no Hitchcock really is fucking amazing.

As for me. I'll post some up tomorrow. Taking some thinking. Has a director ever not made a bad film?