18 Dec 2013
12 Favourite Filmmakers
I asked members of EFS, some of its friends, associates, critics, programmers, and filmmakers to send in lists of their twelve favourite filmmakers for publication on the EFS website. The criteria were simple: to list the filmmakers who had the most impact on your life and art.
In alphabetical order:
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Carmelo Bene
- Marguerite Duras
- Philippe Garrel (specifically, the ‘70s and ‘80s films)
- Jeff Keen
- Jean Rollin
- Werner Schroeter
- Paul Sharits
- Josef von Sternberg
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Luchino Visconti
- Frans Zwartjes
- Andrzej Zulawski
Three brief notes:
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- Michael Snow
- Iván Zulueta
- Lettrisme
- Paul Sharits
- Jean-Luc Godard
- A. Robbe-Grillet
- David Lynch
- W. S. Burroughs / Anthony Balch
- R. W. Fassbinder
- Stan Brakhage
- Hollis Frampton
- Maximilian Le Cain
- Sergio Leone
- Frans Zwartjes
- Joseph Cornell
- Charles Dekeukeleire
- Stephen Dwoskin
- Standish Lawder
- Rouzbeh Rashidi
- Jean-Luc Godard + Andrei Tarkovsky
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- João César Monteiro
- Andrzej Żuławski
- Luchino Visconti
- Stan Brakhage
- Ingmar Bergman
- Rouzbeh Rashidi + Maximilian Le Cain + Michael Higgins
- Takeshi Kitano
- Aleksandr Sokurov
- Akira Kurosawa
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Jean-Luc Godard
- George A. Romero
- Brian De Palma
- Dario Argento
- Stanley Kubrick
- Luis Buñuel
- Dariush Mehrjui + Masoud Kimiai
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- David Lynch
- Stan Brakhage
- Takeshi Kitano
- Stan Brakhage
- Robert Bresson
- David Cronenberg
- Alejendro Jodorowsky
- Dean Kavanagh
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Harmony Korine
- Maximilian Le Cain
- David Lynch
- Sergei Parajanov
- Rouzbeh Rashidi
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Francois Truffaut
- Stan Brakhage
- Robert Bresson
- Ingmar Bergman
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Brian De Palma
- Dario Argento
- Kaneto Shindo
- Kinji Fukasaku
- Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Takashi Miike
- Tatsumi Kumashiro
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Robert Bresson
- David Lynch
- Theodoros Angelopoulos
- Bela Tarr
- Aki Kaurismaki
- Philippe Garrell
- Ken Loach
- Hal Hartley
- Christopher Honore
- Atom Egoyan
- Yorgos Lanthimos
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Federico Fellini
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Charles Chaplin
- François Truffaut
- Fritz Lang
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Orson Welles
- Jacques Tati
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Dziga Vertov
- Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Bruce Conner
- Joseph Cornell
- Adrian Brunel
- Ken Jacobs
- Peter Gidal
- Martin Arnold
- Maurice Lemaitre
- Jonathan Mcintosh
- Béla Tarr
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Theodoros Angelopoulos
- Federico Fellini
- Miguel Gomes
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Robert Bresson
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Luchino Visconti
- Aleksandr Sokurov
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Ingmar Bergman
- Luis Buñuel + João César Monteiro
- Maya Deren + Sergio Leone
- Maximilian Le Cain
- (Hammer Film Productions + Universal Horror)
- Aki Kaurismaki
- Jim Jarmusch
- Hal Hartley
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Jean Renoir
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Mike Leigh
- Marcel Carne
- David Mamet
- Albert Serra
- Hong Sang Soo
- Todd Browning
- Claire Denis
- Jean Epstein
- Jean Eustache
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Buster Keaton
- Sergio Leone
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Robert Rossen
- Martin Scorsese
- Miike Takashi
- Jacques Tourneur
- Robert Bresson
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Sergio Leone
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Theo Angelopoulos
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Stanley Kubrick
- Akira Kurosawa
- Luis Bunuel
- Andrzej Wajda
- Sohrab Shahid Saless
- Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Carmelo Bene
- Chris Marker
- Dziga Vertov
- Frederick Wiseman
- João César Monteiro
- Kurosawa Akira
- Mizoguchi Kenji
- Orson Welles
- Peter Tscherkassky
- Peter Watkins
- Robert Bresson
- Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi
- Chantal Akerman
- James Benning
- Robert Bresson
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Claude Chabrol
- Philippe Grandrieux
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Béla Tarr
- Agnès Varda
- Frans Zwartjes
- Harry Smith
- Jess Franco
- Jean Rollin
- Jeff Keen
- Kenneth Anger
- Mauricio Kagel
- Yevgeny Yufit
- John Waters
- Danny Plotnick
- John Ford
- Kurt Kren
- Martha Colburn
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Robert Bresson
- Ingmar Bergman
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Bela Tarr
- Yasujiro Ozu
- RW Fassbinder
- Aki Kaurismaki
- Luis Bunuel
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- John Casavettes
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Kaneto Shindô
- Claire Denis
- Brakhage + Mekas
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Ingmar Bergman
- Aleksandr Sokurov
- Jan Švankmajer
- Sohrab Shahid Saless + Abbas Kiarostami
- Theodoros Angelopoulos
- Philippe Garrel
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Kōji Wakamatsu
- Hisayasu Satō
- Seijun Suzuki
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Peter Greenaway
- Shūji Terayama
- Yoshishige Yoshida
- Dario Argento
- Takashi Miike
- Josef von Sternberg
- Andrzej Żuławski
- Akira Kurosawa
- Stanley Kubrick
- Coen brothers
- Michael Haneke
- Quentin Tarantino
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Sergio Leone
- Mike Leigh
- David Fincher
- Asghar Farhadi
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Jacques Audiard
- Ben Rivers
- Jim Jarmusch
- Sam Peckinpah
- Wayne Wang
- John Waters
- Harmony Korine
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Aki Kaurismäki
- John waters
- Pat Collins
- John Cassavetes
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Tossapol Boonsinsukh
- Robert Bresson
- Lav Diaz
- Marguerite Duras
- Derek Jarman
- Fred Kelemen
- Jun Ichikawa
- Jacques Rivette
- Eric Rohmer
- Werner Schroeter
- Teeranit Siangsanoh
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Robert Bresson
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Yasujirô Ozu
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Jean-Luc Godard (late stuff especially)
- Stan Brakhage
- Chantal Akerman
- Jean Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet
- Isidore Isou & Guy Debord
- Johan van der Keuken
- James Benning
- Philippe Garrel
- Jonas Mekas
- Marguerite Duras
- Akira Kurosawa
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Hal Hartley
- Federico Fellini
- Mike Leigh
- Woody Allen
- Seijun Suzuki
- Dario Argento
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Wim Wenders
- Kevin Smith
- Sam Fuller
- Hal Ashby
- Leos Carax
- Zeki Demirkubuz
- Elia Kazan
- Henry King
- Albert Lewin
- Sidney Lumet
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Vincente Minnelli
- Manoel de Oliveira
- Maurice Pialat
- Jean-Daniel Pollet
- Richard Quine
- Raúl Ruiz
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- Abbas Kiarostami
- Jean Vigo
- Jean Cocteau
- Jonas Mekas
- Bela Tarr
- Chris Marker
- Man Ray
- Sergio Leone
- Robert Bresson
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Chantal Akerman
- Boris Barnet
- Carmelo Bene
- John Cassavetes
- Brian De Palma
- Stephen Dwoskin
- Philippe Garrel
- Fritz Lang
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Peter Tscherkassky
- Raoul Walsh
- Henry King
- John Ford
- Henry Hathaway
- Howard Hawks
- Leo McCarey
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Vincente Minnelli
- Blake Edwards
- Henry Jaglom
- Klaus Lemke
- Martin Scorsese
(in rough order of impact)
- Roberto Rossellini
- Robert Bresson
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Frank Borzage
- Chantal Akerman
- Jean Renoir
- John Cassavetes
- Philippe Garrel
- Luis Bunuel
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Josef von Sternberg
- R.W. Fassbinder
- David Lean
- Stephen and Timothy Quay
- Marguerite Duras
- Agnès Varda
- Federico Fellini
- Chantal Akerman
- Woody Allen
- Werner Herzog
As we are all imited to make it 10 here are a few close to my brains, heart and stomach: John Waters, Kitano Takeshi, Orson Welles, Pedro Almodóvar, Kira Muratova. – For me they all have in common that they are able to create a special “look”, a certain “baroque” feeling in pictures, emotions and not necessarily when it comes to story-telling.
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- Miklós Jancsó
- Werner Schroeter
- Chris Marker
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Shunji Iwai
- Marco Ferreri
- Micheal Snow
- Alexander Sokurov
- Robert Bresson
- Kon Ichikawa
- Jean Renoir
- Max Ophuls
- Ozu Yasujiro
- Mizoguchi Kenji
- Naruse Mikio
- Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Abel Ferrara
- Monte Hellman
- Vincente Minnelli
- Michael Cimino
- Elaine May
- Jacques Rivette
In alphabetical order:
- Bresson
- Chaplin
- Dreyer
- Godard
- Hawks
- Hitchcock
- Kiarostami
- Lang
- Ozu
- Stroheim
- Tati
- Welles
- Luis Bunuel
- Nicholas Ray
- Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- M.A. (initials alone should suffice here)
- Abel Ferrera
- Chris Marker
- R.W. Fassbinder
- Claire Denis
- Yoshishige Yoshida
- Stanley Kubrick
- David Cronenberg (in particular, ’79-’88)
- Nicholas Roeg
Favorite Twelve Filmmakers:
I put my very best friends out of the list, but that’s unfair : Philippe Grandrieux, FJ Ossang, Lionel Soukaz.
- Masao Adachi
- Stan Brakhage & Jonas Mekas
- Ken Brown et Pierre Clémenti
- Jean Epstein
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Ange Leccia
- Ulrike Meinhof & Holger Meins
- Jocelyne Saab
- Rui Simoes
- Anthony Stern & Peter Whitehead
- José Val del Omar
- René Vautier
- Elia Kazan
- Alfred Hitchcock
- François Truffaut
- Anatole Litvak
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Roman Polanski
- Sidney Lumet
- Stanley Kubrick
- Roberto Rossellini
- Paweł Pawlikowski
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Josef von Sternberg
- Claude Chabrol
- José Val del Omar
- Claudio Caldini
- Nathaniel Dorsky
- Michael Snow
- Anthony McCall
- Iván Zulueta
- Gregory Markopoulos
- Stan Brakhage
- Guy Sherwin
- Takashi Ito
- Takahiko Iimura
- Peter Kubelka
This list alphabetically sorted:
- Walerian Borowczyk
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Peter Greenaway
- King Hu
- Guy Maddin (and Quentin Tarantino, a difficult draw)
- Yasuzo Masumura
- Sarkis Parajanian (aka. Sergei Parajanov)
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Josef Von Sternberg
- Erich Von Stroheim
- Seijun Suzuki
- Jan Svankmajer (and John Cocteau, another difficult draw)
- Dimitri Kirsanoff
- Peter Kubelka
- Hans Richter
- Carolee Schneemann
- Marie Menken
- Andy Warhol
- George Kuchar
- Jean Cocteau
- Jonas Mekas
- Kenneth Anger
- Maya Deren
- Bruce Conner
- Bruce Baillie
- Christopher Maclaine
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Orson Welles
- Robert Bresson
- Jean-Luc Godard (esp. Breathless thru Week-end)
- Nicolas Roeg (esp, Performance thru Eureka)
- John Cassavetes
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Bruce Conner
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Josef von Sternberg
- Luis Buñuel
- Věra Chytilová
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Stanley Kubrick
- David Lynch
- Nagisa Ōshima
- Sergei Paradschanow
- Harry Smith
- Agnès Varda
- Varda Lars von Trier
- Andrzej Żuławski
- Paul Sharits
- Eric Von Stroheim
- Herschell Gordon Lewis
- Jacques Tourneur
- Joseph H. Lewis
- Jack Arnold
- Buster Keaton
- Ernie Gehr
- Andy Warhol
- Dimitri Kirsanoff
- Kurt Kren
- Tex Avery
- Chaplin
- Ford
- Lang
- Mizoguchi
- Hitchcock
- Buñuel
- Cornell
- Minnelli
- Resnais
- Pasolini
- Warhol
- Fassbinder
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Charles Burnett
- Chantal Akerman
- Dziga Vertov
- Sergei Paradzhanov
- Aleksej German
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Chris Marker
- Djibril Diop Mambety
- Ken Jacobs
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Forough Farrokhzad
“I want to name only women”
- Maya Deren
- Danièle Huillet
- Claire Denis
- Chantal Akerman
- Marguerite Duras
- Agnès Varda
- Elaine May
- Catherine Breillat
- Kira Muratova
- Dorothy Arzner
- Věra Chytilová
- Kelly Reichardt
- Dziga Vertov
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Stan Brakhage
- Michael Snow
- Andy Warhol
- Jonas Mekas
- Bruce Conner
- Iván Zulueta
- Craig Baldwin
- Ross McElwee
- Gary Hill
- Leighton Pierce
- Chantal Akerman
- Ingmar Bergman
- Robert Bresson
- Claire Denis
- Terence Davies
- Brian De Palma
- Victor Erice
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Vincente Minnelli
- Satyajit Ray
- Steven Spielberg
- Tsai Ming-liang
- John Ford
- Masaki Kobayashi
- Ingmar Bergman
- Michael Angelo Antonioni
- John Cassavetes
- Jean Luc Godard
- Bela Taar
- Luchino Visconti
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Sohrab Shahid-Saless
- Theodoros Angelopoulos
- Luis Buñuel
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Georges Méliès
- David Lynch
- Sohrab Shahid-Saless
- Federico Fellini
- Jonas Mekas
- Marcel Ophüls
- Theodoros Angelopoulos
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Michael Haneke
- Maya Deren
- Marie Menken
- Viking Eggeling
- Stan Brakhage
- Buster Keaton
- Charles Chaplin
- Carolee Schneemann
- Len Lye
- Jack Smith
- Gregory Markopoulos
- Andy Warhol
- Ulrike Ottinger
- Chick Strand
- Gunvor Nelson
- Stan Brakhage
- Robert Breer
- Robert Bresson
- Frank Capra
- John Cassavetes
- Jack Chambers
- Charles Chaplin
- Bruce Conner
- Ken Jacobs
- Buster Keaton
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Michael Snow
- Howard Hawks
- D.W. Griffith
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Vincente Minnelli
- John McTiernan
- Dorothy Arzner
- Stan Brakhage
- Roberto Rossellini
- Douglas Sirk
- John Ford
- Johnnie To
- George Cukor
As others have noted, an impossible task. In no particular order:
- Vsevolod Pudovkin
- Buster Keaton
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Preston Sturges
- John Ford
- Fritz Lang
- Carol Reed
- John Huston
- Ingmar Bergman
- Alain Resnais
- Ming-liang Tsai
- Victor Erice
- Federico Fellini
- Marcel Carné
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Jean Renoir
- Ermanno Olmi
- David Wark Griffith
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Stan Brakhage
- José Val del Omar
- David Lynch
- Robert Bresson
- Jean Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
- Maurice Lemaître
- Alberto Grifi & Gianfranco Baruchello
- Jean Svankmajer
- Alexander Kluge
- Dario Argento
- Paolo Gioli
- Roberto Rossellini
- Federico Fellini
- Jonas Mekas
- Kenneth Anger
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Yves-Marie Mahé
- Othello Vilgard
- Franssou Prenant
- Jacques Kébadian
- Jean-Pierre Bouyxou
- COLLECTIF 360 ° ET PLUS
- David Matarasso
- Orson Welles
- Jean Vigo
- Orson Welles
- Lars von Trier
- Terrence Malick
- King Vidor
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Howard Hawks
- Isidore Isou & Guy Debord
- Morgan Fisher
- Stanley Kubrick
- Kenneth Anger
- Werner Herzog
- Ida Lupino
- Emile de Antonio
- James Benning
- Luis Buñuel
- Morgan Fisher
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Maurice Lemaitre
- Arthur Lipsett
- Rose Lowder
- Michael Snow
- Jean-Marie Straub
- Dziga Vertov
- Andy Warho
- Roman Polanski
- Josph Von Sternberg
- Stanley Kubrick
- Jean Cocteau
- Kenneth Anger
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Orson Welles
- Nicolas Roeg
- David Lynch
- Brain De Palma
- Curtis Harrington
- Jacques Tourneur
- Jack Deveau
- Wakefield Poole
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Armando Bo
- Helmut Käutner
- Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)
- John Hayes (Baby Vickie)
- Isabelle Stever (Gisela)
- Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)
- Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)
- Jürgen Enz (Herbstromanze)
- Rudolf Schündler (Der treue Husar)
- Mario Bava
- Luís Buñuel
- Roger Corman
- Jesús Franco
- Georges Franju
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Stanley Kubrick
- Joseph Losey
- Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Eric Rohmer
- Ken Russell
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- Andrei Tarkovsky (The Sacrifice)
- Alexei German (My Friend Ivan Lapshin)
- Nagisa Oshima (Night and Fog in Japan)
- Edward Yang (A Brighter Summer Day)
- John Ford (Cheyenne Autumn)
- Carl Th. Dreyer (Vampyr)
- Makoto Sato (Self and Others)
- Amos Gitai (Lullaby to My Father)
- Aleksandr Sokurov (Elegy of a Voyage)
- Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story)
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder (The Marriage of Maria Braun)
- Frederick Wiseman (Belfast, Maine)
- Dziga Vertov
- Zdiga Revtov
- Gdiza Tevrov
- Dgiza Tetrov
- Idzga Ertvov
- Izdga Tervov
- Gidza Torvev
- Zidga Rotvev
- Digza Torvev
- Zgida Vretov
- Gizda Vervot
- Zigda Retvov
- Carmelo Bene
- Ingmar Bergman
- Stan Brakhage
- Jack Chambers
- Federico Fellini
- Hollis Frampton
- Akira Kurosawa
- João César Monteiro
- Leighton Pierce
- Andrei Tarkovski
- Dziga Vertov
- Frans Zwartjes
- Stanley Kubrick
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Robert Bresson
- Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
- Ingmar Bergman
- Jean Eustache
- Hal Ashby
- Gus Van Sant
- Todd Haynes
- Georges Franju
- James Benning
- Pere Portabella
- Bruce Baillie
- James Herbert
- Agnes Martin
- Stan Brakhage
- Andrew Noren
- Barbara Rubin
- Gregory Markopoulos
- Marjorie Keller
- JoAnn Elam
- José Val del Omar
- Rick Patton
- Robert Fulton
Either it is a cheating “12” or a “12” with a big heart.
- Carl Theodor Dreyer & Artavazd Peleshyan
- Víctor Erice
- Iván Zulueta & Alfred Hitchcock
- Peter Tscherkassky
- Charles Chaplin & Buster Keaton
- Jonas Mekas
- Stan Brakhage & Maya Deren
- Chris Marker
- José Celestino Campusano & John Ford
- Isidore Isou
- Norman Mc Laren & Raoul Servais
- Georges Méliès
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Jerry Lewis
- Abel Ferrara
- Robert Bresson
- Jean-Luc Godard (early films)
- Josef von Sternberg
- Samuel Fuller
- Jean Renoir
- Dušan Makavejev
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Billy Wilder
- Jean Renoir
- John Ford
- Buster Keaton
- Max Ophüls
- Maya Deren
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Stan Brakhage
- Agnes Varda
- Alain Resnais
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Stanley Kubrick
- Lisandro Alonso
- Julio Bracho
- Emilio Fernández
- Roberto Gavaldón
- Patricio Guzmán
- Miguel Littin
- Claudia Llosa
- Carlos Reygadas
- Arturo Ripstein
- Raúl Ruiz
- Fernando Solanas
- Francisco Vargas
- Chantal Akerman
- Ingmar Bergman
- Luis Buñuel
- Leos Carax
- Brian De Palma
- Philippe Garrel
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Fritz Lang
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Teresa Villaverde
- Robert Bresson
- Charles Chaplin
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Jean Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet
- António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro
- Jean Renoir
- Roberto Rossellini
- Johan van der Keuken
- Dziga Vertov
- Jean Vigo
- Robert Bresson
- Andrzej Żuławski
- Stan Brakhage
- Jonas Mekas
- Jean-Luc Godard
- F.J. Ossang
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Mario Bava
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Marguerite Duras
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Jean Vigo
- Luis Buñuel
- Erich von Stroheim
- Josef von Sternberg
- Ernst Lubitsch
- CB deMille
- David Lynch
- Joseph Cornell
- Standish Lawder
- Max Ophuls
- Aleksandr Sokurov
- Matthias Müller
- James & John Whitney
- Len Lye
- Jordan Belson
- Paul Sharits
- Heinz Emigholz
- Werner Nekes
- Gregory Markopoulos
- Lisl Ponger
- Bruce Mc Clure
- Jorge Honik
- Narcisa Hirsch
- Shinya Tsukamoto
- Masao Adachi
- Andrej Żuławski
- Kōji Wakamatsu
- Chris Marker
- Nagisa Oshima
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Kōji Wakamatsu
- Shinji Aoyama
- Takeshi Kitano
- David Lynch
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Masaki Kobayashi
Alphabetical:
- Frank Borzage
- Robert Breer
- Kyle Canterbury
- Joseph Cornell
- Andre de Toth
- John Ford
- Georges Méliès
- Oscar Micheaux
- Vincente Minnelli
- Roberto Rossellini
- Edgar G. Ulmer
- Jean Vigo
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Luis Buñuel
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Jean Vigo
- Robert Bresson
- Ingmar Bergman
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich
- Wilhelm Murnau
- Fritz Lang
- Alfred Hitchcock
- François Truffaut
- Anger, Kenneth
- Antonioni, Michelangelo
- Egoyan, Atom
- Godard, Jean Luc
- Greenaway, Peter
- Kiarostami, Abbas
- Lean, David
- Marker, Chris
- Russell, Ken
- Tarkovsky, Andrei
- Truffaut, François
- Wajda, Andrzej
Too many shut-outs, but in alphabetical order:
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- David Cronenberg
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Todd Haynes
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Stanley Kubrick
- Fritz Lang
- Chris Marker
- F.W. Murnau
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Christian Petzold
- Jacques Tati
- Luis Bunuel
- Jean Vigo
- Dusan Makavejev
- Chris Marker
- Howard Hawks
- Elio Petri
- Francesco Rosi
- Ousmane Sembene
- Michael Powell
- Jacques Rivette
- Jean Eustache
- Max Ophüls
(alphabetically)
- Charles Burnett
- Claire Denis
- John Ford
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Joris Ivens
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Christopher Maclaine
- Elaine May
- Leo McCarey
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Paul Sharits
- Jose Val del Omar
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Martin Scorsese
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Sergio Leone
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Stanley Kubrick
- Wong Kar Wai
- Quentin Tarantino
- Jim Jarmusch
- David Lynch
- Koji Wakamatsu
But I’d have to think about Vigo, Vertov, Bresson, Tarr, Lang, Tarkovsky, Renoir, as well.
- Andrei Tarkovski
- Robert Bresson
- John Cassavettes
- David Lynch
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Artavazd Peleshyan
- Kaneto Shindo
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Maurice Pialat
- Jacques Tati
- Woody Allen
- Robert Altman
- James Benning
- Joel & Ethan Coen
- Maya Deren
- Howard Hawks
- Eve Heller
- Peter Kubelka
- Sergio Leone
- Georges Méliès
- Pat O’Neill
- Jacques Tati
- Billy Wilder
- Peggy Ahwesh
- Santiago Alvarez
- Sadie Benning
- Bruce Conner
- Jack Chambers
- Forough Farrokhzad
- Robert Frank
- Ken Jacobs
- Peter Kubelka
- Michael Snow
- Phil Solomon
- Aldo Tambellini
- Peter Tscherkassky
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Jean-Luc Godard
- John Cassavetes
- Stan Brakhage
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Michael Snow
- Carl Th. Dreyer
- Agnes Varda
- Douglas Sirk
- Frederick Wiseman
- F.W. Murnau
- Glauber Rocha
Chris O’Neill
I have found this list difficult to compile because I can often acknowledge key films, rather than necessarily a whole body of work, as making an impact on me as a film maker, enthusiast and programmer. Therefore, there are filmmakers omitted from this list because I was trying to think concisely about bodies of work that initially and continue to influence me. Here, in no particular order, is my list:
- Brian De Palma
- Nicolas Roeg
- RW Fassbinder
- William Friedkin
- Tony Scott
- Paul Morrissey
- Paul Verhoeven
- Larry Cohen
- Anthony Balch and William Burroughs
- David Cronenberg
- Lynne Ramsey
- Martin Scorsese
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Fritz Lang
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Chris Marker
- Alain Resnais
- Michael Snow
- Ingmar Bergman
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Ritwik Ghatak
- Jean Renoir
- Roberto Rossellini
- Leighton Pierce
- John Cassavetes
- Claire Denis
- Philippe Garrel
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Robert Kramer
- Terrence Malick
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Jacques Rivette
- Raul Ruiz
- Shūji Terayama
- Wong Kar-wai
- Jean Vigo
- Jean Renoir
- John Cassavetes
- Maurice Pialat
- Fritz Lang
- Robert Bresson
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Jaques Tati
- John Ford
- Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- Mikio Naruse
- Jean luc Godard
- John Waters
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Carmelo Bene
- John Cassavetes
- George Kuchar
- Jesus Franco
- Jack Smith
- Andrzej Żuławski
- Pier Paolo Passolini
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Jean Cocteau
- Nikos Nikolaidis
- Robert Bresson
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Ingmar Bergman
- Andreï Tarkovski
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Roberto Rossellini
- Satyajit Ray
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Howard Hawks
- CHARLIE CHAPLIN
- FEDERICO FELLINI
- STANLEY KUBRICK
- JACQUES TATI
- WOODY ALLEN
- BILLY WILDER
- JOHN LASSETER
- WALT DISNEY
- JOEL & ETHAN COEN
- ALFRED HITCHCOCK
- Sono Sion
- Andrezj Zulawski
- Shuji Terayama
- Koji Wakamatsu
- Mario Bava
- Abel Ferrara
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Claude Chabrol
- Jess Franco
- Brian De Palma
- Dario Argento
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Federico Fellini
- Hou Hsiao Hsien
- Jacques Tati
- Karel Zeman
- Luis Buñuel
- Priit Pärn
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Robert Bresson
- Seijun Suzuki
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Yuri B. Norstein
- Vitali Kanevsky
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Claire Denis
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Jafar Panahi
- Johnnie To
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Terence Malick
- Lucrecia Martel
- Alexander Sokurov
- Jia Zhangke
- Abderrahmane Sissako
- Michael Snow
- Igor Kovalyov
- Buster Keaton
- Koji Yamamura
- Mati Kutt
- Robert Bresson
- Hal Hartley
- Michaela Pavlatova
- Billy Wilder
- Arthur Lipsett
- Guy Maddin
- John Ford
- Orson Welles
- Raoul Walsh
- Stan Brakhage
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Roberto Rossellini
- Peter Hutton
- Jacques Rivette
- Boris Barnet
- King Vidor
- Martin Scorsese
- Jean Renoir
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Robert Bresson
- Ciprì e Maresco
- Roberto Rossellini
- Bela Tarr
- Fred Niblo
- Max Ophüls
- Jean Vigo
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Jean Eustache
- Maurice Tourneur
- Màrio Peixoto
- Alain Robbe Grillet
- Luis Buñuel
- Dziga Vertov
- Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
- Eric Von Stroheim
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Charlie Chaplin
- Peter Kubelka
- Jacques Rivette
- F J Ossang
- Mikio Naruse
- Peter Tscherkassky
- Eric Rohmer
- Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- Claire Denis
- Bela Tarr
- Gustav Deutsch
- Aki Kaurismaki (Ariel)
- Andrei Tarkovsky (Andrei Rublev)
- Chantal Akerman (From The East)
- David Lynch (Inland Empire)
- Errol Morris (Vernon, Florida)
- Jim Jarmusch (Down By Law)
- Jukka Karkkainen (The Punk Syndrome)
- Mike Figgis (Hotel)
- Roy Andersson (World Of Glory)
- Spike Jonze (What’s Up Fatlip?)
- Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There?)
- EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesn’t mean no vision, the EFS films have been motivation for me over the past few years.”)
- Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
- Robert Bresson
- Alberto Cavalcanti
- Terence Davies
- Jacques Demy
- Claire Denis
- Stanley Donen
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Fritz Lang
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
- Robert Bresson (Les Dames du bois de Boulogne)
- Yazujiro Ozu (Une poule dans le vent)
- Ingmar Bergman (Persona)
- Barbara Loden (Wanda)
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Le Mariage de Maria Braun)
- Marguerite Duras (India Song)
- Luis Buñuel (Viridiana)
- John Ford (La Prisonnière du désert)
- Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne d’Arc)
- Satyajit Ray (Charulata)
- Michelangelo Antonioni (L’Avvantura)
- Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- John Cassavetes
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Robert Bresson
- Orson Welles
- David Lynch
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Dario Argento
- Eric Rohmer
- Derek Jarman
- Fritz Lang
Shayan Bazri
- Robert Altman
- Dimitri Kirsanoff
- Andrzej Zulawski
- Martin Scorsese (especially 80’s)
- Kenneth Anger
- David Lynch
- Carlos Reygadas
- Dario Argento (especially 70’s)
- Peter Tscherkassky
- Raúl Ruiz
- Nicolas Roeg
- Peter Greenaway
João Antunes
- YASUJIRO OZU (TOKYO MONOGATARI)
- ALFRED HITCHCOCK (VERTIGO)
- JOHN FORD (MY DARLING CLEMENTINE)
- NICHOLAS RAY (JOHNNY GUITAR)
- JEAN RENOIR (LA REGLE DU JEU)
- STANLEY KUBRICK (2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY)
- GÉRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)
- GEORGES MÉLIÈS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)
- HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)
- BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)
- INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)
- ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)
- Nicholas Ray They Live by Night
- Koji Wakamatsu (Ecstasy of the Angels)
- Emile de Antonio (Point of Order)
- Michelangelo Antonioni (Red Desert + all the others)
- Pier Paolo Pasolini (everything)
- Philippe Grandrieux (La Vie nouvelle)
- Jean-Luc Godard (everything)
- Fritz Lang (everything)
- Bela Tarr (Satantango)
- Philippe Garrel (Les Hautes Solitudes)
- Samuel Beckett/Buster Keaton (Film)
- Alejandro González Iñárritu (21 Grams)
- Nicolas Roeg/Donald Cammell (Performance, Eureka, Bad Timing)
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- José Val del Omar
- Glauber Rocha
- Nicolás Guillén Landrián and Santiago Álvarez
- Sara Gómez and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
- Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker
- Max Ophüls
- Djibril Diop Mambéty
- Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino
- Mohammed Zinet
- Kinji Fukasaku and Sam Peckinpah
With some combinations, but without forgetting the singularity and personality of each filmmaker. And many filmmakers for just one or some great films in a long or a short broken path.
- Jean-Claude Rousseau
- Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky
- Phil Solomon
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Pere Portabella
- Yoshishige Yoshida
- Barbara Meter
- Stan Brakhage
- Philippe Grandrieux
- Sharunas Bartas
- Wojciech Wiszniewski
- Peter Hutton
………
Leila Sajjadi
- Ingmar Bergman
- Eric Rohmer
- Rainder Werner Fassbinder
- Luis Buñuel
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Michael Haneke
- Federico Fellini
- Roy Andersson
- Jan Švankmajer
- Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Robert Altman
- Asghar Farhadi
Faezeh Karimpour
- R.W.Fassbinder
- Werner Schroeter
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Chris Marker
- Marquerite Duras
- Masahiro Shinoda
- Miklos Jancso
- Werner Herzog
- Luchino Visconti
- Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Jean-Luc Godard
- David Lynch
………
- Chantal Akerman
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- James Benning
- Robert Bresson
- Lav Diaz
- Stephen Dwoskin
- Philippe Garrel
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Philippe Grandrieux
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Leighton Pierce
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Artour Aristakisian
- Šarunas Bartas
- Robert Bresson
- Lav Diaz
- Carl Th. Dreyer
- György Fehér
- Anton Perich
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Béla Tarr
- Tsai Ming-liang
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Maurice Pialat
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Lav Diaz
- Albert Brooks
- Josef Von Sternberg
- Bela Tarr
- Joe Swanberg
- Charlie Chaplin
- Jean Luc Godard
- Woody Allen
- Michael Reeves
- Alain Robbe-Grillet
Rafael Castanheira Parrode
- Peter Hutton
- Jacques Tourneur
- Paul Vecchialli
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Fritz Lang
- Brian de Palma
- Ken Jacobs
- Lucio Fulci
- Júlio Bressane
- Khavn de la Cruz
- Seijun Suzuki
- Maya Deren
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Forough Farrokhzad
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Agnès Varda
- Sohrab Shahid Saless
- Chris Marker
- Shohei Imamura
- Jonas Mekas
- Harun Farocki
- Jean Rouch
- Chantal Ackerman
- John Cassavetes
- Bergman
- Bresson
- Dreyer
- Hitchcock
- Minnelli
- Mizoguchi
- Murnau
- Ophuls
- Ozu
- Powell
- Renoir
- Rohmer
- Carl Theodor Dryer
- Luis Buñuel Portolés
- Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski
- Ernst Ingmar Bergman
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Robert Bresson
- Agnès Varda
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Charles Spencer Chaplin jr.
- Aki Olavi Kaurismäki
- Werner Herzog
- Michelangelo Antonioni
Filmmakers whose films have had the most impact on my own work, who stir in me a sense of awe and excitement and inspire me to leap out from my chair and start making movies.
- Derek Jarman
- Jeff Keen
- Věra Chytilová
- Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Jacques Rivette
- Douglas Sirk
- Ken Russell
- Nicolas Roeg
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Sergei Parajanov
- George Kuchar
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Jeff Keen
- George Kuchar
- Sergei Parajanov
- Věra Chytilová
- Derek Jarman
- Agnès Varda
- Ken Russell
- Nicolas Roeg
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Maya Deren
- Jacques Rivette
- Powell & Pressburger