I knew there were some directors missing from my list... thanks

David Cronenberg
David Lynch
Pedro Almodóvar
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Michael Haneke
Gaspar Noe
Lars Von Trier
Takeshi Miike
Michaelangelo Antonioni
Jean-Luc Godard
Ingmar Bergman

I can't believe I left out Bela Tarr!

Alejandro González Ińárritu
David Lynch
Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson
David Gordon Green
Martin Scorsese
Michael Mann
David Cronenberg
David Fincher
Peter Jackson
Spike Jonze
Pedro Almodóvar

I'm waiting for the National Gallery's showing of 'Damnation' (next month) and a eight hour block of time for me to watch my DVD of 'Sátántangó' before I come to a decision about Tarr's films, I really really struggled through "Werckmeister harmóniák"

I'll be the 7th or 8th to say:

Tim Burton

If you didn't like Werckmeister it's hard to imagine you'll like the rest of his work. For me, the first time I saw it I had no idea a movie could be that Earth shattering, and could completely transform the way I viewed life. Then I saw Satantango...

Whoa, I made up all the names on my list just to look cool...

Good look trying to fit Satantango in Giles!

And now I see Autumn Almanac (Tarr) is available on DVD! And Eureka (Aoyama) too! I so need to see these again. I've been waiting to see Eureka again for 6 years...

Kevin Smith
Quentin Tarantino
Richard Donner
Robert Rodriguez
Trey Parker

Martin Scorsese
Curtis Hanson
Jonathan Demme
Luc Besson
Tim Burton
Bryan Singer
Quentin Taratino
Steven Spielberg
Jim Sheridan
Stephen Frears
Ang Lee
David Fincher
Ridley Scott
Pedro Almodovar
Anthony Minghella
Robert Zemeckis
Alexander Payne
Cohen Brothers
Peter Weir
Sofia Coppola
Sam Raimi

I was thinking of trying to watch it on President's Day, and then go over to to AFI and see Barry Lyndon - ten hours later, I'll still have red bull and coffee in my veins and a glaze over my eyes.

David Lynch
Christopher Nolan
Darren Aronofsky
Tim Burton
Luc Besson
Martin Scorsese
Steven Soderbergh

Steven Spielberg.

Mel Gibson.

Ha!

I couldn't imagine watching Satantango at home, but that's because I don't have an immersive (or any) home theater.

At least on DVD you don't have to wait through the two half-hour intermissions... 450 minutes in a row.

Is there a midnight showing of Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles playing that night too?

Michael Mann

Considering my list is deficient of female directors, I think Chantal Akerman belongs on it. Jeanne Dielman... was a seminal film for me. I just haven't had the chance to see much else of her stuff (saw her doc From the Other Side a few years ago). But if I did come across her name on a screening listing I would make it a point to check it out.

And Claire Denis too... I still find The Intruder haunting my memory.

I'd love to see someone do that. Maybe on consecutive Saturdays one month, with The Mother and the Whore, Celine and Julie Go Boating, and La Commune rounding out the month.

Stanley Kubrick
David Lynch

funny you should mention, Celine and Julie which I just saw, what a fun, very quirky film...

as for female directors I find it upsetting that Lynne Ramsay (after the International success of 'Ratcatcher') only followed up with 'Morvern Callar' - what a promising debut and second feature... and then... nothing new.

Tarantino
Spielberg
Scorcese
Gibson
Braff
Besson
Larry Clark

Sticking with the living:

Terry Gilliam
Quentin Tarantino
David Lynch
Martin Scorsese
Kevin Smith
Takashi Miike
Michael Mann
Eli Roth
Peter Jackson
Steven Soderbergh
Cameron Crowe
Woody Allen
David Fincher
David Cronenberg
George A. Romero
Wes Anderson
Clive Barker
The Coen Brothers
Ridley Scott
Tony Scott
Guillermo del Toro
Paul Thomas Anderson
Christopher Nolan
Alfonso Cuaron
Zhang Yimou
Sofia Coppola
Alexander Payne
Bernardo Bertolucci
James Cameron
Michel Gondry
Spike Jonze
Doug Liman
Jim Jarmusch
Stuart Gordon
Roman Polanski
Sam Mendes
James L. Brooks
John Carpenter
Frank Henenlotter
Tim Burton
Don Coscarelli
Sam Raimi

And yes...

Michael Bay

There are more but I'm tired of thinking and typing.

Steven Spielberg
Clint Eastwood
Martin Scorsese
Christopher Nolan
Cameron Crowe
James Cameron
Peter Jackson
Andy and Larry Wachowski
Ang Lee
David Fincher
Michael Mann
Steven Soderbergh
Paul Greengrass

Steven Spielberg
Marty Scorsese
Peter Jackson
Jim Cameron
David Fincher
PT Anderson
Darren Aronofsky
Quentin Tarantino
Doug Liman
Chris Nolan
Paul Greengrass
Clint Eastwood
Alfonso Cuaron
Michael Mann
Ridley Scott
Ang Lee
Peter Weir
Curtis Hanson
Anthony Minghella
Todd Field
Jonathan Mostow
Alexander Payne

David Lynch
The Coen Brothers
Guillermo Del Toro
Alfonso Cuaron
Quentin Tarantino
Roger Avary
George Romero
Richard Linklater