My Top 1,000 Directors

101. Chantal Akerman

Chantal Akerman was born on June 6, 1950 in Brussels, Belgium. She was a director and writer, known for The Meetings of Anna (1978), I, You, He, She (1974) and A Couch in New York (1996). She was married to Sonia Wieder-Atherton. She died on October 5, 2015 in Paris, France.

FEATURES Je, Tu, Il, Elle Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles La Folie Almayer Nuit et Jour La Captive SHORTS Blow Up My Town DOCUMENTARIES No Home Movie News from Home D'Est

102. Theodoros Angelopoulos

Director | Mia aioniotita kai mia mera

Theo Angelopoulos began to study law in Athens but broke up his studies to go to the Sorbonne in Paris in order to study literature. When he had finished his studies, he wanted to attend the School of Cinema at Paris but decided instead to go back to Greece. There he worked as a journalist and ...

FEATURES Landscape in the Mist The Travelling Players To Each His Own Cinema* Ulysses' Gaze Reconstruction SHORTS Broadcast DOCUMENTARIES Lumière et Compagnie**

* segment "Trois Minutes" ** segment "Theo Angelopoulos/Athenes"

103. Matthew Barney

Director | Drawing Restraint 9

Matthew Barney was born on March 25, 1967 in San Francisco, California, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Drawing Restraint 9 (2005), Cremaster 2 (1999) and The Cremaster Cycle (2003).

FEATURES Cremaster 2 Cremaster 3 Drawing Restraint 9 Cremaster 5 Destricted* SHORTS Cremaster 4 Cremaster 1

* segment "Hoist"

104. Bernardo Bertolucci

Writer | Il conformista

Bernardo Bertolucci, the Italian director whose films were known for their colorful visual style, was born in Parma, Italy. He attended Rome University and became famous as a poet. He served as assistant director for Pier Paolo Pasolini in the film Accattone (1961) and directed The Grim Reaper (...

FEATURES The Conformist The Spider's Stratagem The Last Emperor The Dreamers Last Tango in Paris Besieged La Luna The Grim Reaper Before the Revolution Ten Minutes Older: The Cello* 1900 Me and You Venice 70: Future Reloaded** Little Buddha The Sheltering Sky Stealing Beauty DOCUMENTARIES 12 Registi per 12 Città***

* segment "Histoire d'Eaux" ** segment "Scarpette Rosse" *** segment "Bologna"

105. Albert Brooks

Actor | Drive

Albert Brooks was born on July 22, 1947 in Beverly Hills, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Drive (2011), Broadcast News (1987) and Defending Your Life (1991). He has been married to Kimberly Shlain since March 15, 1997. They have two children.

FEATURES Defending Your Life Real Life Lost in America Mother Modern Romance The Muse Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World SHORTS Albert Brooks Famous School for Comedians

106. James Cameron

Writer | Avatar: The Way of Water

James Francis Cameron was born on August 16, 1954 in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada. He moved to the United States in 1971. The son of an engineer, he majored in physics at California State University before switching to English, and eventually dropping out. He then drove a truck to support his ...

FEATURES Terminator 2: Judgment Day Aliens The Terminator Avatar True Lies Titanic Avatar: The Way of Water The Abyss Piranha II: The Spawning MUSIC VIDEOS Reach DOCUMENTARIES Aliens of the Deep

107. Frank Capra

Director | It's a Wonderful Life

One of seven children, Frank Capra was born on May 18, 1897, in Bisacquino, Sicily. On May 10, 1903, his family left for America aboard the ship Germania, arriving in New York on May 23rd. "There's no ventilation, and it stinks like hell. They're all miserable. It's the most degrading place you ...

FEATURES It's a Wonderful Life Arsenic and Old Lace It Happened One Night Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Lost Horizon The Power of the Press Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Meet John Doe Hemo the Magnificent Forbidden You Can't Take It with You The Bitter Tea of General Yen American Madness DOCUMENTARIES Prelude to War Know Your Enemy: Japan

108. Leos Carax

Director | Holy Motors

Leos Carax made several short films and also wrote film criticism, then at the age of 24 years made a very strong first feature Boy Meets Girl (1984). The film played at the 1984 Cannes film festival and was a critical triumph. It paved the way for Carax's second feature Bad Blood (1986) (Bad Blood...

FEATURES Mauvais Sang Holy Motors Boy Meets Girl Tokyo!* Annette Les Amants du Pont-Neuf Pola X SHORTS 42 One Dream Rush** Gradiva My Last Minute

* segment "Merde" ** segment "Naked Eyes"

109. René Clair

Writer | Le silence est d'or

René Clair was born on November 11, 1898 in Paris, France. He was a writer and director, known for Man About Town (1947), Beauties of the Night (1952) and The Grand Maneuver (1955). He was married to Bronia Clair. He died on March 15, 1981 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

FEATURES À Nous la Liberté Le Million I Married a Witch Le Voyage Imaginaire Under the Roofs of Paris It Happened Tomorrow Le Fantôme du Moulin-Rouge The Italian Straw Hat Forever and a Day SHORTS Entr'acte DOCUMENTARIES La Tour

110. Jean Cocteau

Writer | La Belle et la Bête

Jean Cocteau was one of the most multi-talented artists of the 20th century. In addition to being a director, he was a poet, novelist, painter, playwright, set designer, and actor. He began writing at 10 and was a published poet by age 16. He collaborated with the "Russian Ballet" company of Sergei...

FEATURES The Testament of Orpheus La Belle et la Bête Orphée The Blood of a Poet 8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements SHORTS La Villa Santo Sospir DOCUMENTARIES Jean Cocteau s'Adresse... à l'An 2000

111. George Cukor

Director | My Fair Lady

George Cukor was an American film director of Hungarian-Jewish descent, better known for directing comedies and literary adaptations. He once won the Academy Award for Best Director, and was nominated other four times for the same Award.

In 1899, George Dewey Cukor was born on the Lower East Side of...

FEATURES My Fair Lady The Philadelphia Story The Women Adam's Rib A Star is Born Lust for Life Camille Gaslight Holiday Gone with the Wind Heller in Pink Tights Sylvia Scarlett It Should Happen to You Let's Make Love SHORTS Something's Got to Give

112. Bavo Defurne

Director | Noordzee, Texas

Writer-Director Bavo Defurne is best known for _Souvenir_ starring Academy Award Nominee Isabelle Huppert . Defurne encourages his cast and crew to transform the story material into a visually beautiful and expressive tale. Unspoken desire, the human body and nature play a prominent role in his ...

FEATURES North Sea Texas SHORTS Matroos Saint Campfire Particularly Now, in Spring

113. Jacques Demy

Soundtrack | Les parapluies de Cherbourg

Jacques Demy was born on June 5, 1931 in Pontchâteau, Loire-Atlantique, France. He was a director and writer, known for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) and A Room in Town (1982). He was married to Agnès Varda. He died on October 27, 1990 in Paris, France.

FEATURES The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Lola Les Demoiselles de Rochefort Donkey Skin A Room in Town SHORTS Les Horizons Morts Le Bel Indifférent

114. Brian De Palma

Director | Body Double

Brian De Palma is one of the well-known directors who spear-headed the new movement in Hollywood during the 1970s. He is known for his many films that go from violent pictures, to Hitchcock-like thrillers. Born on September 11, 1940, De Palma was born in Newark, New Jersey in an Italian-American ...

FEATURES Carlito's Way Hi, Mom! Scarface Blow Out Obsession Dressed to Kill Carrie The Untouchables Raising Cain Dionysus in '69 The Black Dahlia Body Double Redacted Femme Fatale Sisters The Fury Greetings Snake Eyes Mission: Impossible Casualties of War Phantom of the Paradise The Bonfire of the Vanities Passion Mission to Mars Wise Guys MUSIC VIDEOS Dancing in the Dark DOCUMENTARIES The Responsive Eye

115. Vittorio De Sica

Director | Ladri di biciclette

Vittorio De Sica grew up in Naples, and started out as an office clerk in order to raise money to support his poor family. He was increasingly drawn towards acting, and made his screen debut while still in his teens, joining a stage company in 1923. By the late 1920s he was a successful matinee ...

FEATURES Bicycle Thieves Umberto D. Miracle in Milan Marriage Italian Style The Garden of the Finzi-Continis A Garibaldian in the Convent Shoeshine Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow The Roof Indiscretion of an American Wife Boccaccio '70* The Voyage Woman Times Seven

* segment "La Riffa"

116. Yi'nan Diao

Writer | Bai ri yan huo

Yi'nan Diao was born in 1969 in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. He is a writer and director, known for Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014), The Wild Goose Lake (2019) and Zhifu (2003).

FEATURES The Wild Goose Lake Uniform Black Coal, Thin Ice

117. William Dieterle

Actor | Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage

Born in Ludwigshafen, Germany, Wilhelm Dieterle was the youngest of nine children of parents Jacob and Berthe Dieterle. They lived in poverty, and when he was old enough to work, young Wilhelm earned money as a carpenter and a scrap dealer. He dreamed of better things, though, and theater caught ...

FEATURES Portrait of Jennie Duel in the Sun The Devil and Daniel Webster The Hunchback of Notre Dame Dark City The Life of Emile Zola Adorable Red Mountain I'll Be Seeing You Elephant Walk Salome The Turning Point The Crash

118. Stanley Donen

Director | Charade

Inspired by Fred Astaire's dancing in Flying Down to Rio (1933), Stanley Donen (pronounced 'Dawn-en') attended dance classes from the age of ten. He later recalled that the only thing he wanted to be was a tap dancer.

He was born in Columbia, South Carolina, to Helen Pauline (Cohen) and Mordecai ...

FEATURES Singin' in the Rain On the Town Charade Indiscreet Two for the Road Funny Face Surprise Package Royal Wedding Arabesque Kismet Bedazzled Movie Movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers The Grass is Greener Saturn 3 MUSIC VIDEOS Dancing on the Ceiling TELEVISION Moonlighting (one episode segment)

119. Aleksandr Dovzhenko

Writer | Zemlya

Aleksandr Dovzhenko was born on September 10, 1894 in Vyunishche, Sosnitsa Ueyzd, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Sosnitsa, Sosnitsa Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a writer and director, known for Earth (1930), Shors (1939) and Life in Bloom (1949). He was married to Yuliya ...

FEATURES Zvenigora Arsenal Earth SHORTS Love's Berries DOCUMENTARIES Bukovina, a Ukrainian Land

120. Atom Egoyan

Director | The Sweet Hereafter

Born in Egypt to Armenian parents, he was raised in Western Canada. Both his parents were painters, and he planned to be a playwright, but after making a short film, he became hooked on telling stories visually. Returned to ethnic "homeland" when he filmed Calendar (1993) in Armenia. Won attention ...

FEATURES The Sweet Hereafter The Adjuster Exotica Felicia's Journey Venice 70: Future Reloaded* Devil's Knot Where the Truth Lies To Each His Own Cinema** Ararat Chloe Adoration SHORTS L'Apparition TELEVISION The Twilight Zone (one episode)

* segment "Butterfly" ** segment "Artaud Double Bill"

121. Víctor Erice

Director | Cerrar los ojos

Víctor Erice was born on June 30, 1940 in Karrantza, Vizcaya, País Vasco, Spain. He is a director and writer, known for Close Your Eyes (2023), El Sur (1983) and The Spirit of the Beehive (1973).

FEATURES The Spirit of the Beehive El Sur Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet* SHORTS La Morte Rouge DOCUMENTARIES The Quince Tree Sun

* segment "Lifeline"

122. Asghar Farhadi

Writer | Forooshande

Asghar Farhadi was born in 1972 in Iran. He became interested in cinema in his teenage years and started his filmmaking education by joining the Youth Cinema Society of Esfahan in 1986 where he made 8mm and 16mm short films. He received his Bachelors in Theater from University of Tehran's School of...

FEATURES About Elly A Separation The Salesman The Past Fireworks Wednesday

123. Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer | Faustrecht der Freiheit

Above all, Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a rebel whose life and art was marked by gross contradiction. Openly homosexual, he married twice; one of his wives acted in his films and the other served as his editor. Accused variously by detractors of being anticommunist, male chauvinist, antiSemitic and...

FEATURES The Marriage of Maria Braun Fear Eats the Soul World on a Wire In a Year of Thirteen Moons Gods of the Plague Love is Colder Than Death Chinese Roulette Veronika Voss The American Soldier Querelle The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant Beware of a Holy Whore SHORTS The City Tramp The Little Chaos TELEVISION Berlin Alexanderplatz (fourteen episodes)

124. Federico Fellini

Writer | Le notti di Cabiria

The women who both attracted and frightened him and an Italy dominated in his youth by Mussolini and Pope Pius XII - inspired the dreams that Fellini started recording in notebooks in the 1960s. Life and dreams were raw material for his films. His native Rimini and characters like Saraghina (the ...

FEATURES La Dolce Vita 8½ Nights of Cabiria La Strada Juliet of the Spirits Amarcord Casanova And the Ship Sails On Satyricon Spirits of the Dead* Roma I Vitelloni Boccaccio '70** Orchestra Rehearsal Il Bidone COMMERCIALS The Picnic Lunch Dream Oh, What a Beautiful Landscape! High Society DOCUMENTARIES A Director's Notebook

* segment "Toby Dammit" ** segment "Le Tentazioni del Dottor Antonio"

125. Milos Forman

Director | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Milos Forman was born Jan Tomas Forman in Caslav, Czechoslovakia, to Anna (Svabova), who ran a summer hotel, and Rudolf Forman, a professor. During World War II, his parents were taken away by the Nazis, after being accused of participating in the underground resistance. His father died in ...

FEATURES One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Amadeus A Blonde in Love Man on the Moon The People vs. Larry Flynt Hair Goya's Ghosts The Firemen's Ball SHORTS I Miss Sonia Henie

126. John Frankenheimer

Director | The Manchurian Candidate

Born in New York and raised in Queens, John Frankenheimer wanted to become a professional tennis player. He loved movies and his favorite actor was Robert Mitchum. He decided he wanted to be an actor but then he applied for and was accepted in the Motion Picture Squadron of the Air Force where he ...

FEATURES The Manchurian Candidate Seconds Birdman of Alcatraz Black Sunday The Train Seven Days in May Ronin I Walk the Line The Gypsy Moths The Holcraft Covenant French Connection II Grand Prix The Fixer The Island of Dr. Moreau Dead Bang Reindeer Games SHORTS Ambush COMMERCIALS What Would James Bond Do? Kennedy PSA TELEVISION Tales from the Crypt (one episode) Playhouse 90 (one episode)

127. Ritwik Ghatak

Director | Jukti, Takko Aar Gappo

Ritwik Ghatak was born on November 4, 1925 in Dacca, Bengal Presidency, British India [now in Dhaka, Bangladesh]. He was a director and writer, known for Jukti, Takko Aar Gappo (1974), Musafir (1957) and The Cloud-Capped Star (1960). He was married to Surama Ghatak. He died on February 6, 1976 in ...

FEATURES Subarnarekha The Cloud-Capped Star A River Called Titas Reason, Debate and a Story DOCUMENTARIES Ramkinkar

128. Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Director | Biutiful

Alejandro González Iñárritu (ih-nyar-ee-too), born August 15th, 1963, is a Mexican film director.

González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the Directors Guild of America for Best Director. He is also the first Mexican-born ...

FEATURES Amores Perros 21 Grams Biutiful 11'09''01 - September 11* The Revenant Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Babel Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths To Each His Own Cinema** SHORTS Powder Keg COMMERCIALS Air Moves You

* segment "Mexico" ** segment "Anna"

129. Henry Hathaway

Director | True Grit

Henry Hathaway, son of a stage actress and manager, started his career as a child actor in westerns directed by Allan Dwan. His movie career was interrupted by World War I. After his discharge he briefly tried a career in finance but returned to Hollywood to work as an assistant director under such...

FEATURES Kiss of Death Peter Ibbetson The Dark Corner True Grit Call Northside 777 Rawhide The Desert Fox Nevada Smith Fourteen Hours The Shepherd of the Hills Raid on Rommel 13 Rue Madeleine Seven Thieves Niagara The House on 92nd Street The Sons of Katie Elder Down to the Sea in Ships Legend of the Lost North to Alaska O. Henry's Full House* Sundown Wing and a Prayer How the West Was Won** 5 Card Stud 23 Paces to Baker Street Garden of Evil Circus World The Black Rose Prince Valiant

* segment "The Clarion Call" ** segments "The Rivers", "The Plains" and "The Outlaws"

130. Kon Ichikawa

Director | Inugami-ke no ichizoku

Kon Ichikawa has been influenced by artists as diverse as Walt Disney and Jean Renoir, and his films cover a wide spectrum of moods, from the comic to the overwhelmingly ironic and even the perverse. Ichikawa began his career as a cartoonist, and this influence is apparent in his skillful use of ...

FEATURES An Actor's Revenge Fires on the Plain The Burmese Harp 47 Ronin Alone Across the Pacific Princess from the Moon DOCUMENTARIES Tokyo Olympiad

131. Shôhei Imamura

Director | Kuroi ame

Shohei Imamura's films dig beneath the surface of Japanese society to reveal a wellspring of sensual, often irrational, energy that lies beneath. Along with his colleagues Nagisa Ôshima and Masahiro Shinoda, Imamura began his serious directorial career as a member of the New Wave movement in Japan....

FEATURES Vengeance is Mine The Eel Pigs and Battleships Black Rain The Ballad of Narayama The Insect Woman The Profound Desire of the Gods 11'09''01 - September 11* Warm Water Under a Red Bridge Stolen Desire Nishi Ginza Station DOCUMENTARIES Muhomatsu Returns Home History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess The Pirates of Babuan A Man Vanishes

* segment "Japan"

132. Spike Jonze

Producer | Her

Spike Jonze made up one-third (along with Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman) of the triumvirate of genius minds behind Dirt Magazine, the brother publication of the much lamented ground-breaking Sassy Magazine. These three uncommon characters were all editors for Grand Royal Magazine as well, under the ...

FEATURES Being John Malkovich Adaptation. Her Where the Wild Things Are SHORTS I'm Here How They Get There Torrance Rises MUSIC VIDEOS Weapon of Choice Drop Triumph of a Heart Buddy Holly Sabotage Da Funk Praise You Sky's the Limit Get Back 100% Otis Elektrobank Undone (The Sweater Song) It's Oh So Quiet If I Only Had a Brain What's Up Fatlip? Wonderboy California Island in the Sun Feel the Pain Sure Shot Cannonball COMMERCIALS Pardon Our Dust Hello Tomorrow Lamp Kenzo World Doctors Flyweight Jeans DOCUMENTARIES Beastie Boys Story An Intimate Look Inside the Acting Process with Ice Cube What's Up Fatlip? Amarillo by Morning

133. Elia Kazan

Director | On the Waterfront

Known for his creative stage direction, Elia Kazan was born Elias Kazantzoglou on September 7, 1909 in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey). Noted for drawing out the best dramatic performances from his actors, he directed 21 actors to Oscar nominations, resulting in nine wins. He ...

FEATURES On the Waterfront A Streetcar Named Desire Panic in the Streets A Face in the Crowd Wild River East of Eden Splendor in the Grass Viva Zapata! The Last Tycoon Gentleman's Agreement Pinky A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Boomerang! Man on a Tightrope America, America DOCUMENTARIES The People of the Cumberland Watchtower Over Tomorrow

134. Abbas Kiarostami

Writer | Copie conforme

Abbas Kiarostami was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1940. He graduated from university with a degree in fine arts before starting work as a graphic designer. He then joined the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, where he started a film section, and this started his career ...

FEATURES Certified Copy Through the Olive Trees Ten Like Someone in Love Where is the Friend's Home? Taste of Cherry And Life Goes On... To Each His Own Cinema* Venice 70: Future Reloaded** The Wind Will Carry Us Tickets*** Close-Up DOCUMENTARIES Lumière et Compagnie****

* segment "Where is my Romeo?" ** segment "Abbas Kiarostami" *** segment "Abbas Kiarostami" **** segment "Abbas Kiarostami/Locarno"

135. Masaki Kobayashi

Director | Seppuku

Masaki Kobayashi was born on February 14, 1916 in Hokkaido, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Harakiri (1962), Samurai Rebellion (1967) and The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961). He died on October 4, 1996 in Tokyo, Japan.

FEATURES Harakiri Kwaidan The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer The Human Condition I: No Greater Love SHORTS My Sons' Youth DOCUMENTARIES Tokyo Trial

136. Satoshi Kon

Writer | Tôkyô goddofâzâzu

Satoshi Kon was born in 1963. He studied at the Musashino College of the Arts. He began his career as a Manga artist. He then moved to animation and worked as a background artist on many films (including Roujin Z (1991) by 'Katsuhiro Otomo'). Then, in 1995, he wrote an episode of the anthology film ...

FEATURES Millennium Actress Perfect Blue Paprika Tokyo Godfathers TELEVISION Paranoia Agent (thirteen episodes) Ani*Kuri15 (one episode)

137. Kore-eda Hirokazu

Director | Manbiki kazoku

Born in Tokyo in 1962. Originally intended to be a novelist, but after graduating from Waseda University in 1987 went on to become an assistant director at T.V. Man Union. Snuck off set to film Mou hitotsu no kyouiku - Ina shogakkou haru gumi no kiroku (1991). His first feature, Maborosi (1995), ...

FEATURES Like Father, Like Son Our Little Sister Nobody Knows Shoplifters Still Walking Air Doll After Life The Truth After the Storm The Third Murder I Wish

138. Lev Kuleshov

Director | Po zakonu

Lev Kuleshov was a Russian director who used the editing technique known as the "Kuleshov effect." Although some of the editing innovations, such as crosscutting were used by other directors before him, Kuleshov was the first to use it in the Soviet Russia. he was driving a Ford sports car amidst ...

FEATURES The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks By the Law The Death Ray

139. Claude Lanzmann

Director | Shoah

Claude Lanzmann was born on November 27, 1925 in Bois-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was a director and writer, known for Shoah (1985), The Four Sisters (2018) and Israel, Why (1973). He was married to Dominique Lanzmann-Petithory, Angelika Schrobsdorff and Judith Magre. He died on July 5, ...

DOCUMENTARIES Shoah Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. The Last of the Unjust A Visitor from the Living The Karski Report

140. David Lean

Director | Lawrence of Arabia

An important British filmmaker, David Lean was born in Croydon on March 25, 1908 and brought up in a strict Quaker family (ironically, as a child he wasn't allowed to go to the movies). During the 1920s, he briefly considered the possibility of becoming an accountant like his father before finding ...

FEATURES Brief Encounter Lawrence of Arabia Oliver Twist Hobson's Choice The Passionate Friends The Bridge on the River Kwai Great Expectations Doctor Zhivago Blithe Spirit In Which We Serve Ryan's Daughter A Passage to India This Happy Breed Madeleine The Sound Barrier The Greatest Story Ever Told* Summertime

* some scenes

141. Ang Lee

Director | Wo hu cang long

Born in 1954 in Pingtung, Taiwan, Ang Lee has become one of today's greatest contemporary filmmakers. Ang graduated from the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 and then came to the U.S. to receive a B.F.A. Degree in Theatre/Theater Direction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ...

FEATURES Brokeback Mountain Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon The Ice Storm Lust, Caution Sense and Sensibility Eat Drink Man Woman Life of Pi The Wedding Banquet Pushing Hands Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Gemini Man Ride with the Devil Taking Woodstock Hulk SHORTS Chosen

142. Spike Lee

Director | Do the Right Thing

Spike Lee was born Shelton Jackson Lee on March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York. Lee came from artistic, education-grounded background; his father was a jazz musician, and his mother, a schoolteacher. He attended ...

FEATURES Do the Right Thing Malcolm X Clockers 25th Hour Jungle Fever Mo' Better Blues Inside Man BlacKkKlansman Get on the Bus Girl 6 Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet* Chi-Raq Summer of Sam Da 5 Bloods He Got Game Sucker Free City All the Invisible Children** Bamboozled Miracle at St. Anna She Hate Me Oldboy She's Gotta Have It Crooklyn Red Hook Summer School Daze MUSIC VIDEOS Fight the Power He Got Game White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) COMMERCIALS Different Drummer Is It the Shoes? DOCUMENTARIES When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts 4 Little Girls If God is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise Lumière et Compagnie*** Bad 25 Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall The Original Kings of Comedy

* segment "We Wuz Robbed" ** segment "Jesus Children of America" *** segment "Spike Lee/Brooklyn"

143. Marcel L'Herbier

Director | L'inhumaine

Marcel L'Herbier was born on April 23, 1888 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for L'inhumaine (1924), Le bonheur (1934) and Sacrifice d'honneur (1935). He was married to Marcelle Pradot. He died on November 26, 1979 in Paris, France.

FEATURES L'Argent La Nuit Fantastique SHORTS Prometheus... Banker

144. Richard Linklater

Director | Waking Life

Self-taught writer-director Richard Stuart Linklater was born in Houston, Texas, to Diane Margaret (Krieger), who taught at a university, and Charles W. Linklater III. Richard was among the first and most successful talents to emerge during the American independent film renaissance of the 1990s. ...

FEATURES Before Sunrise Boyhood Slacker A Scanner Darkly Bernie Before Midnight Before Sunset Waking Life Tape Me and Orson Welles subUrbi@ Bad News Bears The Newton Boys The School of Rock Dazed and Confused It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books Everybody Wants Some!! Fast Food Nation SHORTS Woodshock

145. Joseph Losey

Director | The Servant

Belonging to an important family clan in Wisconsin, Joseph Losey studied philosophy but was always interested in theater and thus worked together with Bertolt Brecht. After directing some shorts for MGM, he made his first important film, The Boy with Green Hair (1948), for RKO. While he was filming ...

FEATURES The Servant Figures in a Landscape The Big Night The Prowler The Go-Between Eva Accident The Romantic Englishwoman Blind Date The Sleeping Tiger Time Without Pity The Criminal The Damned Modesty Blaise X: The Unknown The Boy with Green Hair Steaming SHORTS Pete-Roleum and His Cousins First on the Road A Gun in His Hand DOCUMENTARIES A Child Went Forth

146. Sidney Lumet

Director | 12 Angry Men

Sidney Lumet was a master of cinema, best known for his technical knowledge and his skill at getting first-rate performances from his actors -- and for shooting most of his films in his beloved New York. He made over 40 movies, often complex and emotional, but seldom overly sentimental. Although ...

FEATURES 12 Angry Men Dog Day Afternoon The Pawnbroker Network Serpico Fail-Safe Before the Devil Knows You're Dead The Fugitive Kind Murder on the Orient Express The Hill Strip Search Running on Empty The Verdict The Morning After Q & A Bye Bye Braverman The Offence Long Day's Journey Into Night Equus Guilty as Sin The Anderson Tapes Lovin' Molly Child's Play The Wiz The Deadly Affair Prince of the City Family Business Critical Care Night Falls on Manhattan Gloria DOCUMENTARIES King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis TELEVISION Play of the Week (one episode)

147. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Writer | All About Eve

Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on February 11, 1909, Joseph Leo Mankiewicz first worked for the movies as a translator of intertitles, employed by Paramount in Berlin, the UFA's American distributor at the time (1928). He became a dialoguist, then a screenwriter on numerous Paramount ...

FEATURES All About Eve A Letter to Three Wives The Ghost and Mrs. Muir No Way Out Sleuth Julius Caesar Guys and Dolls House of Strangers Suddenly, Last Summer Dragonwyck Carol for Another Christmas The Quiet American Cleopatra Escape The Honey Pot The Barefoot Contessa Somewhere in the Night 5 Fingers People Will Talk The Late George Apley DOCUMENTARIES King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

148. Anthony Mann

Director | El Cid

Anthony Mann was born on June 30, 1906 in San Diego, California, USA. He was a director and writer, known for El Cid (1961), Men in War (1957) and The Glenn Miller Story (1954). He was married to Anna, Sara Montiel and Mildred Mann. He died on April 29, 1967 in London, England.

FEATURES The Fall of the Roman Empire The Naked Spur Winchester '73 Bend of the River God's Little Acre Man of the West The Glenn Miller Story Raw Deal The Man from Laramie T-Men Thunder Bay The Furies Men in War The Tin Star Reign of Terror He Walked by Night Railroaded! El Cid The Last Frontier A Dandy in Aspic Cimarron The Far Country The Heroes of Telemark Strategic Air Command The Great Flamarion

149. Chris Marker

Writer | Twelve Monkeys

Chris Marker was born on July 29, 1921 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was a writer and director, known for 12 Monkeys (1995), Sans Soleil (1983) and Third Side of the Coin (1960). He died on July 29, 2012 in Paris, France.

SHORTS La Jetée Theory of Sets L'Ambassade Les Astronautes Tchaïka Owl Gets in Your Eyes Petite Ceinture Kino DOCUMENTARIES Sans Soleil The Last Bolshevik Grin Without a Cat Level Five The Case of the Grinning Cat The Sixth Side of the Pentagon Loin du Vietnam Letter from Siberia Statues Also Die Junkopia A.K. Sunday in Peking Description of a Struggle E-clip-se Blue Helmet Leila Attacks

150. Sergio Martino

Director | Vendetta dal futuro

Talented, prolific and versatile writer/director Sergio Martino has made a vast array of often solid and enjoyable films in such diverse genres as horror, comedy, Western and science-fiction in a career that spans over 40 years.

Martino was born on July 19, 1938, in Rome, Italy. His grandfather was ...

FEATURES All the Colors of the Dark Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh The Case of the Scorpion's Tail 2019: After the Fall of New York Torso The Suspicious Death of a Minor Casablanca Express The Mountain of the Cannibal God

151. Jirí Menzel

Director | Ostrzhe sledované vlaky

Jirí Menzel was born on February 23, 1938 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor and director, known for Closely Watched Trains (1966), I Served the King of England (2006) and Larks on a String (1969). He was married to Olga Menzelová-Kelymanová. He died on September 5, ...

FEATURES Closely Observed Trains Larks on a String I Served the King of England Ten Minutes Older: The Cello* SHORTS Our Mr Foerster Died

* segment "One Moment"

152. Takashi Miike

Director | Jûsan-nin no shikaku

Takashi Miike was born in the small town of Yao on the outskirts of Osaka, Japan. His main interest growing up was motorbikes, and for a while he harbored ambitions to race professionally. At the age of 18 he went to study at the film school in Yokohama founded by renowned director Shôhei Imamura, ...

FEATURES Audition Visitor Q Young Thugs: Nostalgia Ley Lines Big Bang Love, Juvenile A Crows Zero The Bird People in China Blade of the Immortal Ichi the Killer Gozu Rainy Dog 13 Assassins Dead or Alive 2: Birds Dead or Alive: Final Three... Extremes* Over Your Dead Body Yakuza Apocalypse The Happiness of the Katakuris Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai Dead or Alive: Hanzaisha City of Lost Souls Graveyard of Honor Lesson of Evil Shinjuku Triad Society Young Thugs: Innocent Blood Crows Zero 2 Fudoh: The New Generation Deadly Outlaw: Rekka Sabu First Love For Love's Sake The Great Yokai War Full Metal Yakuza Family 2 Sukiyaki Western Django Agitator Yatterman JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable - Chapter 1 Demon Pond Zebraman Family Bodyguard Kiba One Missed Call Bodyguard Kiba: Combat Apocalypse 2 Silver - Shirubaa MUSIC VIDEOS Pandoora TELEVISION Masters of Horror (one episode) MPD Psycho (six episodes)

* segment "Box"

153. Vincente Minnelli

Director | An American in Paris

Born Lester Anthony Minnelli in Chicago on February 28 1903, his father Vincent was a musical conductor of the Minnelli Brothers' Tent Theater. Wanting to pursue an artistic career, Minelli worked in the costume department of the Chicago Theater, then on Broadway during the depression as a set ...

FEATURES The Band Wagon Home from the Hill The Bad and the Beautiful Meet Me in St. Louis Lust for Life Designing Woman Some Came Running Madame Bovary Till the Clouds Roll By* Kismet An American in Paris Father of the Bride Brigadoon Gigi

* Judy Garland numbers

154. Hayao Miyazaki

Writer | Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi

Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan's greatest animation directors. The entertaining plots, compelling characters, and breathtaking visuals in his films have earned him international renown from critics as well as public recognition within Japan.

Miyazaki started his career in 1963 as an animator at the ...

FEATURES Kiki's Delivery Service My Neighbor Totoro Princess Mononoke The Wind Rises Spirited Away Porco Rosso The Boy and the Heron Ponyo Howl's Moving Castle Laputa: Castle in the Sky Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds The Castle of Cagliostro MUSIC VIDEOS On Your Mark TELEVISION Yuki's Sun (pilot) Sherlock Hound (three episodes)

155. Kenji Mizoguchi

Director | Ugetsu monogatari

Coming from a lower class family Mizoguchi entered the production company Nikkatsu as an actor specialized in female roles. Later he became an assistant director and made his first film in 1922. Although he filmed almost 90 movies in the silent era, only his last 12 productions are really known ...

FEATURES Street of Shame Ugetsu Sansho the Bailiff Chikamatsu Monogatari The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums The Life of Oharu The Woman in the Rumor The Lady of Musashino The 47 Ronin A Geisha Osaka Elegy Miss Oyu Princess Yang Kwei-Fei

156. Mikio Naruse

Director | Ukigumo

Considered a major figure of Japan's 'golden age of cinema', Mikio Naruse was a filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer who directed 89 films in the period 1930 to 1967. Although Naruse's work is lesser known in the twenty-first century than those of his contemporaries Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi...

FEATURES When a Woman Ascends the Stairs Floating Clouds Flowing Late Chrysanthemums Sound of the Mountain Apart from You SHORTS Flunky, Work Hard!

157. Yasujirô Ozu

Writer | Tôkyô monogatari

Tokyo-born Yasujiro Ozu was a movie buff from childhood, often playing hooky from school in order to see Hollywood movies in his local theatre. In 1923 he landed a job as a camera assistant at Shochiku Studios in Tokyo. Three years later, he was made an assistant director and directed his first ...

FEATURES Late Spring Tokyo Story Walk Cheerfully The End of Summer Early Summer Floating Weeds I Was Born, But... Dragnet Girl Late Autumn There Was a Father Equinox Flower That Night's Wife An Autumn Afternoon What Did the Lady Forget? Good Morning The Only Son SHORTS A Straightforward Boy

158. Sergei Parajanov

Director | Tini zabutykh predkiv

One of the 20th century's greatest masters of cinema Sergei Parajanov was born in Georgia to Armenian parents and it was always unlikely that his work would conform to the strict socialist realism that Soviet authorities preferred. After studying film and music, Parajanov became an assistant ...

FEATURES Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors The Color of Pomegranates Ashik Kerib The Legend of Suram Fortress DOCUMENTARIES Arabesques

159. Park Chan-wook

Director | Oldeuboi

Park Chan-wook was born on August 23, 1963 in Seoul, South Korea. He is a producer and director, known for Oldboy (2003), The Handmaiden (2016) and Decision to Leave (2022). He is married to Eun-hee Kim. They have one child.

FEATURES Oldboy JSA The Handmaiden Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance Stoker Decision to Leave Three... Extremes* Thirst Lady Vengeance I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero** SHORTS Night Fishing Judgement A Rose Reborn Life is But a Dream

* segment "Cut" ** segment "Chan-wook Park"

160. Alexander Payne

Director | Nebraska

Director, producer and screenwriter Alexander Payne was born in Omaha, Nebraska. His parents, Peggy (Constantine) and George Payne, ran a Greek restaurant. His father is of Greek and German ancestry, and his mother is of Greek descent; the family name was originally Papadopoulos. He is the youngest...

FEATURES Sideways Election Citizen Ruth Nebraska About Schmidt The Passion of Martin Paris, je t'aime* The Descendants Downsizing SHORTS Carmen

* segment "14e Arrondissement"

161. Arthur Penn

Director | Bonnie and Clyde

Arthur Penn was born on September 27, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Little Big Man (1970) and The Miracle Worker (1962). He was married to Peggy Maurer. He died on September 28, 2010 in Manhattan, New York City, New York,...

FEATURES Night Moves Bonnie and Clyde Little Big Man The Chase The Missouri Breaks Dead of Winter DOCUMENTARIES Lumière et Compagnie*

* segment "Arthur Penn/Johannesburg"

162. Vsevolod Pudovkin

Director | Admiral Nakhimov

Vsevolod Pudovkin was born on February 28, 1893 in Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a director and actor, known for Admiral Nakhimov (1947), Zhukovsky (1950) and Minin i Pozharskiy (1939). He was married to Anna Zemtsova. He died on June 30, 1953 in Jurmala, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia].

FEATURES Storm Over Asia The End of St. Petersburg Mother

163. Man Ray

Director | Home Movies

American painter and artist in various media who participated in a few films. He helped found the Dada movement and was the prime American participant in the Surrealist movement. An American expatriate to Paris in the 1920s, he was a member of the so-called "Lost Generation" of creative minds ...

SHORTS Le Retour à la Raison Emak-Bakia Poison L'Étoile de Mer Rue Campagne-Première Autoportrait ou Ce qui Manque à Nous Tous Dance DOCUMENTARIES Les Mystères du Château de Dé L'Atelier du Val de Grâce La Garoupe Course Landaise Ady Juliet Corrida

164. Godfrey Reggio

Director | Koyaanisqatsi

Godfrey Reggio is a pioneer of a film style that creates poetic images of extraordinary emotional impact for audiences worldwide. Reggio is prominent in the film world for his QATSI trilogy, essays of visual images and sound that chronicle the destructive impact of the modern world on the ...

MUSIC VIDEOS Patricia's Park DOCUMENTARIES Koyaanisqatsi Powaqqatsi Visitors Naqoyqatsi

165. Rob Reiner

Actor | All in the Family

Robert Reiner was born in New York City, to Estelle Reiner (née Lebost) and Emmy-winning actor, comedian, writer, and producer Carl Reiner.

As a child, his father was his role model, as Carl Reiner created and starred in The Dick Van Dyke Show. Estelle was also an inspiration for him to become a ...

FEATURES Stand by Me This is Spinal Tap Misery The Princess Bride Flipped The Sure Thing When Harry Met Sally... A Few Good Men The American President North Ghosts of Mississippi Rumor Has It... The Bucket List SHORTS Spinal Tap: The Final Tour DOCUMENTARIES Albert Brooks: Defending My Life

166. Glauber Rocha

Director | Terra em Transe

He studied Law. He also directed theatre pieces, wrote movie criticisms and took part in the creation and development of the 'cinema novo' movement in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, becoming its theoretical leader and first embassador in Europe. After "Barravento (1962)", a trilogy of films and "Antonio ...

FEATURES Black God, White Devil Antonio das Mortes Entranced Earth The Age of the Earth The Lion Has Seven Heads SHORTS Pátio

167. Éric Rohmer

Director | Ma nuit chez Maud

Admirers have always had difficulty explaining Éric Rohmer's "Je ne sais quoi." Part of the challenge stems from the fact that, despite his place in French Nouvelle Vague (i.e., New Wave), his work is unlike that of his colleagues. While this may be due to the auteur's unwillingness to conform, ...

FEATURES The Green Ray My Night at Maud's La Collectionneuse My Girlfriend's Boyfriend L'Amour l'Après-midi A Tale of Springtime Claire's Knee Autumn Tale Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle A Good Marriage A Tale of Winter A Summer's Tale Paris vu par...* The Marquise of O The Sign of Leo The Lady and the Duke SHORTS Nadja à Paris MUSIC VIDEOS Bois ton Café DOCUMENTARIES Cinéastes de Notre Temps - Carl Th. Dreyer

* segment "Place de l'Étoile"

168. Claude Sautet

Writer | Un coeur en hiver

Claude Sautet was born on February 23, 1924 in Montrouge, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France. He was a writer and director, known for A Heart in Winter (1992), Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995) and The Things of Life (1970). He was married to Graziella Sautet. He died on July 22, 2000 in Paris, ...

FEATURES A Heart in Winter Classe Tous Risques Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud César and Rosalie Les Choses de la Vie

169. Ridley Scott

Producer | The Martian

Described by film producer Michael Deeley as "the very best eye in the business", director Ridley Scott was born on November 30, 1937 in South Shields, Tyne and Wear. His father was an officer in the Royal Engineers and the family followed him as his career posted him throughout the United Kingdom ...

FEATURES Blade Runner Alien Gladiator The Martian Matchstick Men Black Hawk Down Alien: Covenant American Gangster Prometheus All the Money in the World Thelma & Louise The Duellists 1492: Conquest of Paradise Kingdom of Heaven House of Gucci All the Invisible Children* Hannibal A Good Year Exodus: Gods and Kings The Counselor The Last Duel Robin Hood Body of Lies White Squall Someone to Watch Over Me G.I. Jane Black Rain Legend SHORTS Boy and Bicycle COMMERCIALS 1984 Bike The Seven Worlds

* segment "Jonathan"

170. Masahiro Shinoda

Director | Shinjû: Ten no Amijima

Masahiro Shinoda was born on March 9, 1931 in Gifu, Japan. He is a director and writer, known for Double Suicide (1969), Chinmoku (1971) and Ballad of Orin (1977). He has been married to Shima Iwashita since 1967. They have one child.

FEATURES Pale Flower Double Suicide Silence Assassination Himiko

171. Don Siegel

Director | Escape from Alcatraz

Don Siegel was educated at Cambridge University, England. In Hollywood from the mid-'30s, he began his career as an editor and second unit director. In 1945 he directed two shorts (Hitler Lives (1945) and Star in the Night (1945)) which both won Academy Awards. His first feature as a director was ...

FEATURES Invasion of the Body Snatchers Charley Varrick The Beguiled Hell is for Heroes Dirty Harry Riot in Cell Block 11 The Duel at Silver Creek Coogan's Bluff The Killers Flaming Star Escape from Alcatraz Death of a Gunfighter The Shootist Madigan Edge of Eternity Count the Hours Private Hell 36 Two Mules for Sister Sara The Big Steal Rough Cut The Black Windmill DOCUMENTARIES Hitler Lives TELEVISION The Twilight Zone (one episode)

172. Robert Siodmak

Director | Nachts wenn der Teufel kam

Robert Siodmak (8 August 1900 - 10 March 1973) was a German-born, American film director. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for a series of stylish, unpretentious Hollywood films noirs he made in the 1940s.

Siodmak (pronounced SEE-ODD-MACK) was born in Dresden, Germany, the son of ...

FEATURES The Spiral Staircase The Killers People on Sunday Criss Cross Cry of the City The Suspect Phantom Lady The Dark Mirror Son of Dracula Cobra Woman The File on Thelma Jordon Custer of the West The Rough and the Smooth

173. Douglas Sirk

Director | Schlußakkord

Film director Douglas Sirk, whose reputation blossomed in the generation after his 1959 retirement from Hollywood filmmaking, was born Hans Detlef Sierck on April 26, 1897, in Hamburg, Germany, to a journalist. Both of his parents were Danish, and the future director would make movies in German, ...

FEATURES All That Heaven Allows There's Always Tomorrow Imitation of Life Written on the Wind Magnificent Obsession Interlude The Tarnished Angels Lured Summer Storm A Time to Love and a Time to Die The Strange Woman Never Say Goodbye Captain Lightfoot Shockproof Week-End with Father SHORTS Bourbon Street Blues New Year's Eve

174. Steven Soderbergh

Director | Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Steven Andrew Soderbergh was born on January 14, 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, the second of six children of Mary Ann (Bernard) and Peter Soderbergh. His father was of Swedish and Irish descent, and his mother was of Italian ancestry. While he was still at a very young age, his family moved to ...

FEATURES Solaris Traffic sex, lies, and videotape Ocean's Eleven Bubble The Limey Out of Sight Schizopolis Che: Part Two Logan Lucky Behind the Candelabra Unsane Che: Part One Contagion The Laundromat Side Effects Erin Brockovich The Informant! Ocean's Thirteen The Good German Kafka Eros* Ocean's Twelve Underneath King of the Hill Magic Mike Haywire Full Frontal DOCUMENTARIES Gray's Anatomy TELEVISION Fallen Angels (one episode)

* segment "Equilibrium"

175. Aleksandr Sokurov

Director | Russkiy kovcheg

He was born with a disability because of an anatomic defect of his leg, in 1951 in Podorvikha village in Siberian Russia. His father was a Red Army veteran of WW2. One of most important contemporary filmmakers, Sokurov worked extensively in television and later graduated from the prestigious film ...

FEATURES Alexandra Russian Ark Moloch Father and Son The Sun Faust Mother and Son DOCUMENTARIES Francofonia Sonata for Hitler

176. Todd Solondz

Director | Welcome to the Dollhouse

Todd Solondz was born in Newark, New Jersey. One of his earliest jobs in the film industry was when, as a young man, he worked as a messenger for the Writers' Guild of America. During this time, he wrote several screenplays.

Solondz's first color film with sync sound was the short "Schatt's Last ...

FEATURES Happiness Palindromes Dark Horse Welcome to the Dollhouse Wiener-Dog Venice 70: Future Reloaded* Life During Wartime Fear, Anxiety & Depression Storytelling SHORTS Feelings Babysitter

* segment "3013"

177. Sion Sono

Director | Ai no mukidashi

Shion Sono is a Japanese director, writer and poet. Born in Aichi Perfecture in 1961 he started his career working as a poet before taking his first steps in film directing. As a student he shot a series of short films in Super 8 and managed to make his first feature films in the late 80s and early...

FEATURES Love Exposure Cold Fish Utsushimi Exte: Hair Extensions Antiporno The Land of Hope Guilty of Romance Tokyo Tribe Why Don't You Play in Hell? Venice 70: Future Reloaded* Himizu Suicide Club Tag SHORTS Love Songs Father's Day

* segment "Sono Sion"

178. Erich von Stroheim

Actor | Sunset Blvd.

Erich von Stroheim was born Erich Oswald Stroheim in 1885, in Vienna, Austria, to Johanna (Bondy), from Prague, and Benno Stroheim, a hatter from Gleiwitz, Germany (now Gliwice, Poland). His family was Jewish.

After spending some time working in his father's hat factory, he emigrated to America ...

FEATURES Greed The Wedding March Queen Kelly Foolish Wives Blind Husbands

179. Seijun Suzuki

Director | Tsigoineruwaizen

Seijun Suzuki was born in Nihonbashi, Tôkyô, on May 24, 1923. In 1943, he entered the army to fight at the front. In 1946, he enrolled in the film department of the Kamakura Academy and passed the assistant director's exam. For the next few years, he worked as an assistant director at several ...

FEATURES Branded to Kill Gate of Flesh Tokyo Drifter Youth of the Beast The Flowers and the Angry Waves Zigeunerweisen Yumeji Voice Without a Shadow Pistol Opera Kagerô-za Fighting Delinquents Princess Raccoon Fighting Elegy

180. Jan Svankmajer

Director | Otesánek

After studying at the Institute of Industrial Arts and the Marionette Faculty of the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in the 1950s, Jan Svankmajer started working as a theatre director, chiefly in association with the Theatre of Masks and the Black Theatre. He first experimented with film-making after ...

FEATURES Alice Conspirators of Pleasure Faust Surviving Life Lunacy Little Otik SHORTS Dimensions of Dialogue Darkness/Light/Darkness Virile Games The Fall of the House of Usher Food Leonardo's Diary Punch and Judy The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope A Quiet Week in the House The Flat Castle of Otranto Historia Naturae, Suita A Game with Stones Meat Love Picnic with Weissmann The Garden Et Cetera Don Sajn Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasy in G Minor Jabberwocky Flora The Last Trick Down to the Cellar MUSIC VIDEOS Another Kind of Love DOCUMENTARIES The Ossuary

181. István Szabó

Director | Sunshine

István Szabó was the first director to bring home to Hungary the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The movie receiving the award was his 1981 film Mephisto. In January 2006, it became public that he had been an agent of the III/III department, a former communist agency of interior intelligence....

FEATURES Mephisto Colonel Redl Father Taking Sides Hanussen Sunshine Ten Minutes Older: The Cello* The Door SHORTS On the Seventh Day

* segment "Ten Minutes After"

182. Isao Takahata

Director | Hotaru no haka

Isao Takahata was born on October 29, 1935 in Ise, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Grave of the Fireflies (1988), Pom Poko (1994) and The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013). He died on April 5, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan.

FEATURES Grave of the Fireflies Pom Poko The Tale of Princess Kaguya Only Yesterday Chie the Brat Goshu the Cellist My Neighbors the Yamadas Little Norse Prince SHORTS Winter Days* Panda! Go Panda! The Rainy-Day Circus

* segment "Isao Takahata"

183. Béla Tarr

Producer | Werckmeister harmóniák

Béla Tarr was born on July 21, 1955 in Pécs, Hungary. He is a producer and director, known for Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), The Turin Horse (2011) and Satantango (1994). He is married to Ágnes Hranitzky.

FEATURES The Turin Horse Sátántangó Werckmeister Harmonies The Man from London Macbeth Damnation Autumn Almanac Visions of Europe* SHORTS Hotel Magnezit

* segment "Prologue"

184. Zhuangzhuang Tian

Director | Cha ma gu dao xi lie

Zhuangzhuang Tian was born in April 1952 in Beijing, China. He is a director and actor, known for Cha ma gu dao xi lie (2004), Springtime in a Small Town (2002) and The Blue Kite (1993).

FEATURES The Go Master The Horse Thief The Blue Kite Springtime in a Small Town The Warrior and the Wolf

185. François Truffaut

Writer | La nuit américaine

French director François Truffaut began to assiduously go to the movies at age seven. He was also a great reader but not a good pupil. He left school at 14 and started working. In 1947, aged 15, he founded a film club and met André Bazin, a French critic, who became his protector. Bazin helped the ...

FEATURES Jules et Jim The Bride Wore Black The 400 Blows Day for Night Shoot the Piano Player Finally, Sunday The Soft Skin The Woman Next Door The Wild Child Stolen Kisses Fahrenheit 451 Anne and Muriel Bed and Board Love on the Run The Man Who Loved Women The Last Metro SHORTS Une Histoire d'Eau

186. Shin'ya Tsukamoto

Actor | Tetsuo

Shin'ya Tsukamoto was born on January 1, 1960 in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. He is an actor and director, known for Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), Vital (2004) and Tokyo Fist (1995).

FEATURES Tetsuo: The Iron Man Bullet Ballet A Snake of June Haze Tokyo Fist Venice 70: Future Reloaded* Vital Tetsuo: The Bullet Man Kotoko Fires on the Plain Tetsuo II: Body Hammer Hiruko the Goblin SHORTS The Phantom of Regular Size

* segment "For the Future"

187. Agnès Varda

Director | Cléo de 5 à 7

Agnès Varda was born on May 30, 1928 in Ixelles, Belgium. She was a director and writer, known for Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), Vagabond (1985) and Faces Places (2017). She was married to Jacques Demy. She died on March 29, 2019 in Paris, France.

FEATURES Cléo from 5 to 7 Vagabond Le Bonheur Jacquot de Nantes Kung Fu Master! Jane B. par Agnès V. L'Une Chante, l'Autre Pas La Pointe-Courte Documenteur Lions Love SHORTS Plaisir d'Amour en Iran Les Fiancés du Pont MacDonald (Méfiez-vous des Lunettes Noires) The Vanishing Lion 7p. Cuis., s. de b., ... à Saisir Les 3 Boutons You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know... Viennale Walzer DOCUMENTARIES Faces Places The Gleaners and I The Beaches of Agnès Varda by Agnès Women Reply Uncle Yanco The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later Mur Murs Agnès Varda: From Here to There Loin du Vietnam Elsa la Rose Ydessa, the Bears and etc... Salut les Cubains Along the Coast Black Panthers Ulysse Daguerréotypes

188. King Vidor

Director | War and Peace

King Vidor was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter of Hungarian descent. He was born in Galveston, Texas to lumberman Charles Shelton Vidor and his wife Kate Wallis. King's paternal grandfather Károly (Charles) Vidor had fled Hungary as a refugee following the failed ...

FEATURES The Crowd The Wizard of Oz Duel in the Sun The Big Parade Show People The Patsy Man Without a Star The Fountainhead Stella Dallas War and Peace Our Daily Bread Bird of Paradise Hallelujah! Ruby Gentry Solomon and Sheba The Champ DOCUMENTARIES Truth and Illusion: An Introduction to Metaphysics

189. Andrzej Wajda

Director | Katyn

Andrzej Wajda is an Academy Award-winning director. He is the most prominent filmmaker in Poland known for The Promised Land (1975), Man of Iron (1981), and Katyn (2007).

He was Born on March 6, 1926, in Suwalki, Poland. His mother, Aniela Wajda, was a teacher at a Ukrainian school. His father, ...

FEATURES Ashes and Diamonds A Generation Man of Marble Kanal Man of Iron Danton Sweet Rush Katyn The Birch Wood Walesa: Man of Hope Afterimage SHORTS Roly Poly DOCUMENTARIES While You Are Asleep

190. Kôji Wakamatsu

Director | Jitsuroku Rengo Sekigun: Asama sanso e no michi

The pioneering Kôji Wakamatsu (born Ito Takashi) was a contemporary of Oshima Nagisa and equally controversial, yet not as famous. The man was born in Miyagi Prefecture in the north of Japan before dropping out of agricultural school, some say following a physical altercation, moving to Tokyo at ...

FEATURES United Red Army Violated Angels Go, Go Second Time Virgin 11.25: The Day He Chose His Own Fate Endless Waltz The Embryo Hunts in Secret DOCUMENTARIES Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War

191. Peter Weir

Director | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Peter Weir was born on August 21, 1944 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is a director and writer, known for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), The Way Back (2010) and Witness (1985). He has been married to Wendy Stites since 1966. They have two children.

FEATURES Witness The Truman Show The Last Wave Fearless Picnic at Hanging Rock The Plumber Gallipoli The Way Back The Year of Living Dangerously Dead Poets Society The Mosquito Coast Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Homesdale Green Card The Cars That Ate Paris

192. William A. Wellman

Director | A Star Is Born

William Wellman, the Oscar-winning screenwriter-director of the original A Star Is Born (1937), was called "Wild Bill" during his World War I service as an aviator, a nickname that persisted in Hollywood due to his larger-than-life personality and lifestyle.

A leap-year baby born in 1896 on the 29th...

FEATURES Nothing Sacred Lady of Burlesque The Ox-Bow Incident Battleground Yellow Sky Wings A Star is Born Buffalo Bill Beggars of Life The Public Enemy Story of G.I. Joe Track of the Cat Beau Geste Magic Town The Iron Curtain Midnight Mary Island in the Sky Blood Alley The Hatchet Man The High and the Mighty Across the Wide Missouri

193. Michael Winterbottom

Director | A Mighty Heart

Michael took an English degree at Oxford then trained in film at Bristol and London breaking into television via the cutting room at Thames Television. He made his directorial debut with two documentaries on Ingmar Bergman His production of Love Lies Bleeding won the Silver Award at the 1993 New ...

FEATURES 24 Hour Party People A Cock and Bull Story Code 46 Genova A Mighty Heart In This World Trishna Jude Welcome to Sarajevo Everyday Wonderland The Killer Inside Me I Want You Greed With or Without You The Face of an Angel The Claim The Look of Love Butterfly Kiss 9 Songs DOCUMENTARIES The Road to Guantanamo The Shock Doctrine TELEVISION This England (two episodes) The Trip to Spain (six episodes) The Trip to Italy (six episodes) The Trip to Greece (six episodes) The Trip (six episodes) Cracker (two episodes)

194. Kar-Wai Wong

Director | Yi dai zong shi

Wong Kar-wai (born 17 July 1956) is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylised, emotionally resonant work, including Ah fei zing zyun (1990), Dung che sai duk (1994), Chung Hing sam lam (1994), Do lok tin si (1995), Chun gwong ...

FEATURES In the Mood for Love Ashes of Time Chungking Express The Grandmaster Fallen Angels Happy Together 2046 As Tears Go By To Each His Own Cinema* Days of Being Wild My Blueberry Nights Eros** SHORTS The Follow There's Only One Sun MUSIC VIDEOS Six Days COMMERCIALS Mask La Rencontre Midnight Poison Hypnôse Homme

* segment "I Travelled 9000 km to Give it to You" ** segment "The Hand"

195. Yôji Yamada

Writer | Tasogare Seibei

Yamada Yoji graduated Tokyo University in 1954, the year he joined Shochiku as an assistant director. In 1969, he launched the popular "Tora-san" series, the world's longest theatrical film series. "The Twilight Samurai" (The Twilight Samurai (2002)) marks his 77th film as well as his 41th year as ...

FEATURES The Hidden Blade Love and Honour The Twilight Samurai

196. Edward Yang

Writer | Yi yi

Born on November 6, 1947 in Shanghai, China, Edward Yang has become one of the most talented international filmmakers of his generation. Along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming-Liang, Yang ranks among the leading artists of the Taiwanese New Wave, and one of the world's most brilliant auteurs. ...

FEATURES A Brighter Summer Day Yi Yi The Terrorizers Taipei Story SHORTS Likely Consequence

197. Yoshishige Yoshida

Director | Ningen no yakusoku

Yoshishige Yoshida was born on February 16, 1933 in Fukui, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for A Promise (1986), Akitsu Springs (1962) and Wuthering Heights (1988). He was married to Mariko Okada. He died on December 8, 2022 in Japan.

FEATURES Heroic Purgatory Eros + Massacre Coup d'État A Story Written with Water DOCUMENTARIES Lumière et Compagnie*

* segment "Kiju Yoshida/Hiroshima"

198. Woo-Ping Yuen

Stunts | Wo hu cang long

Woo-Ping Yuen was born on January 1, 1945 in Guangzhou, China. He is a director and actor, known for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Fearless (2006) and The Grandmaster (2013).

FEATURES Iron Monkey Drunken Master Snake in the Eagle's Shadow Dreadnaught True Legend Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny Twin Warriors

199. Fred Zinnemann

Director | A Man for All Seasons

Initially grew up wanting to be a violinist, but while at the University of Vienna decided to study law. While doing so, he became increasingly interested in American film and decided that was what he wanted to do. He became involved in European filmaking for a short time before going to America to...

FEATURES The Day of the Jackal High Noon People on Sunday Act of Violence The Nun's Story The Sundowners From Here to Eternity Behold a Pale Horse Julia The Men Oklahoma! A Man for All Seasons DOCUMENTARIES The Old South

200. Andrey Zvyagintsev

Director | Nelyubov

Director and screenwriter Andrey Zvyagintsev is the winner of the Venice Film Festival (2003) and the Cannes Film Festival (2011, 2014, 2017). Two-time the Academy Awards and the BAFTA Awards nominee. Winner or the Golden Globe Awards (2015) for his film "Leviathan". In 2018, his latest work "...

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