Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Entertainment Weekly lists the 25 greatest working directors today...

...and even though they leave off some big names, the article (found here) is a good one. Here are the 25 names they came up with:

  1. David Fincher
  2. Christopher Nolan
  3. Steven Spielberg
  4. Martin Scorsese
  5. Darren Aronofsky
  6. Joel and Ethan Coen
  7. Quentin Tarantino
  8. Terrence Malick
  9. Clint Eastwood
  10. Pedro Almodovar

  11. The rest of the names, as well as the exclusions, after the jump...

  12. Paul Thomas Anderson
  13. Guillermo Del Toro
  14. Roman Polanski
  15. Danny Boyle
  16. Kathryn Bigelow
  17. David O. Russell
  18. David Lynch
  19. James Cameron
  20. Peter Jackson
  21. Edgar Wright
  22. Spike Lee
  23. J.J. Abrams
  24. Brad Bird
  25. Mike Leigh
  26. Wes Anderson



-Joey's Two Cents: They left out, in my eyes, the following 10 names: Woody Allen, Judd Apatow, Sofia Coppola, Cameron Crowe, David Gordon Green, Sam Mendes, Alexander Payne, Jason Reitman, Kevin Smith, and Gus Van Sant. Thoughts?

13 comments:

  1. Overall it's a strong list, to me at least...

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  2. Ballsy, putting Nolan and Fincher ahead of Scorsese and the beard. But collectively, I'd have to agree, strong list.

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  3. Agree with David, pretty daring to go with Nolan and Fincher over Marty. But yeah, pretty good list, if I had to name my notable omissions I'd say: Woody Allen, David Cronenberg, Sofia Coppola, Jane Campion, Alfonso CuarĂ³n, Cameron Crowe, Paul Greengrass, Jason Reitman and Joe Wright

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  4. Cuaron's omission is rather glaring...

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  5. No Gus Van Sant? Walter Salles? Ang Lee? Wong Kar Wai? I think as usual some of the greatest auteurs of World Cinema get left behind in this list. But as far as mainstream Hollywood is concerned its a good list, even though some of the rankings may be up for debate.

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  6. Cuaron was the unlisted name that immediately jumped out at me.

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  7. Wright and Adams over Cuaron and Ang Lee? Odd.

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