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General   Directors Of No Stature   Woody Allen   Robert Altman   Lindsay Anderson   Theo Angelopoulos   Michelangelo Antonioni   Michael Apted   Ingmar Bergman   John Boorman   Robert Bresson   Tod Browning   Luis Buñuel   Ken Burns   Tim Burton   Frank Capra   John Cassavetes   Nuri Bilge Ceylan   Charlie Chaplin   Michael Cimino   George Clooney   Henri-Georges Clouzot   Jean Cocteau   Coen Bros.   Francis Ford Coppola   Sofia Coppola   Costa-Gavras   Vittorio De Sica   Carl Theodor Dreyer   Clint Eastwood   Atom Egoyan   Rainer Werner Fassbinder   Federico Fellini   John Ford  Milos Forman   Sam Fuller   Terry Gilliam   Jean-Luc Godard   John Grabowska   David Gordon Green   Howard Hawks  Werner Herzog   Alfred Hitchcock   Ron Howard   Kon Ichikawa   Peter Jackson   Jim Jarmusch   Jean-Pierre Jeunet   Spike Jonze   Abbas Kiarostami   Krzysztof Kieslowski   Masaki Kobayashi   Stanley Kubrick   Akira Kurosawa   David Lean   Ang Lee   Sergio Leone   Sidney Lumet   Guy Maddin   Mohsen Makhmalbaf   Terrence Malick   Louis Malle   Chris Marker   Steve Martin   Deepa Mehta   Kenji Mizoguchi   Michael Moore   Errol Morris   Christopher Nolan   Yasujiro Ozu   Pier Paolo Pasolini   Sam Peckinpah   Roman Polanski   Alex Proyas   Satyajit Ray   Carol Reed   Jean Renoir   Alain Resnais   Martin Ritt   George Romero   Roberto Rossellini   John Sayles   Martin Scorsese   Ridley Scott   Vilgot Sjoman   Kevin Smith   Steven Soderbergh   Oliver Stone   Andrei Tarkovsky   Bela Tarr   Luchino Visconti  Lars Von Trier   Francois Truffaut   Jacques Tourneur   Andrzej Wajda   Orson Welles   Wim Wenders   Robert Wise   Fred Zinneman

General 

5 Films: George Dickerson in Blue Velvet & After Dark, My Sweet, Josh Becker’s Thou Shalt Not Kill…Except & Running Time, & Freddy vs. Jason

A Third Face

A Val Kilmer Overview

Godzilla On My Mind

I Am Serpico!

Kill Bill, Vol. 2 & Heat

Lipstick Woody Allens (Amy's O & Kissing Jessica Stein)

On DVD Commentaries

The Player & Adaptation

Thoughts on The Planet Of The Apes

Villains, Heroes, Film, & Lists

W. Barada Nikto: The Way Bush Stands Still

Directors Of No Stature

13 Going On 30

20 Million Miles To Earth

A Certain Kind Of Death

A Decade Under The Influence

A Great Day In Harlem

A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints

Alien Hunter

Alien Vs. Predator

All The President's Men

Alone In The Wilderness

American Splendor

An Inconvenient Truth

Atanarjuat

Babes In Toyland

Beat

Between Strangers

Beyond The Mat

Black Orpheus 

Bloom

Borat

By Brakhage

Capote

Capturing The Friedmans

Casablanca

Champion

Chinese Coffee

Colossus: The Forbin Project

Crash

Crumb

Danny Deckchair

David & Lisa

Dawn Of The Dead

De-Lovely

Die Mommie Die!

Dirty Pretty Things

Downfall

El Cid

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

Everyday People

Everything Is Illuminated

Evil Brain From Outer Space

First Men In the Moon

Flash Of Genius

Flatland

Forbidden Planet

Godzilla vs. Gojira

Good Bye Lenin!

Hearts Of Darkness

Help!

House Of Sand And Fog

How To Draw A Bunny

In America

Into The Wild

It Came From Beneath The Sea

Japan's War, In Colour

Jason And The Argonauts

King Arthur

Kinsey

Le Mystere Picasso

Love Actually

Man Bites Dog

March Of The Penguins

Mean Creek

Memories

Mona Lisa Smile

Mongol: The Rise Of Genghis Khan

Monster  

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

My Kid Could Paint That

Mysterious Skin

Napoleon Dynamite

Nine Lives

Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without A Pause

Osama

Pauly Shore Is Dead

Piñero

Prozac Nation

Regeneration

Rent

Robinson Crusoe On Mars

Robot Monster

Russian Ark

Santa Claus Conquers The Martians

Shakespeare Behind Bars

Sideways

Sin City

Skins

Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow

Some Kind Of Monster

Soylent Green

Spartan

Spider-Man 2

 Spider-Man 3

Super Size Me

Suspect Zero

The 40 Year Old Virgin

The Assassination Of Richard Nixon

The Beast From Yucca Flats

The Butterfly Effect

The Cocoanuts

The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian

The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe

The Cooler

The Quiet Earth

The God Who Wasn't There

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

The Hours

The Jimmy Show

The Kid Stays In The Picture

The Legend Of Zorro

The Life Aquatic

The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra

The Machinist

The Magdalene Sisters

The Mayor Of Sunset Strip

The Mole People

The Monolith Monsters

The Mothman Prophecies

The Motorcycle Diaries

The Painted Veil (Joe Valdez)

The Oscar Wilde BBC Collection

The Salton Sea

The Samurai Trilogy

The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad

The Triplets Of Belleville

The Village

The War Game

The Weather Underground

The World At War

The Yards (Joe Valdez)

Thicker Than Water

Things Behind The Sun

Thumbsucker

THX 1138

Touching The Void

Vera Drake

Walk The Line

What The #$*! Do We Know?

Winged Migration

Winter Kills (Joe Valdez)

Wonderland

Y Tu Mama Tambien

Woody Allen

Woody, Women, & Films

Cassandra's Dream

Love And Death

Match Point

Melinda And Melinda

Scoop

Stardust Memories

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Whatever Works

Wildman Blues

 

Robert Altman

 

3 Women

Short Cuts

Vincent And Theo

 

Lindsay Anderson

 

If....

 

Theo Angelopoulos

 

Days Of '36

Eternity And A Day

Landscape In The Mist

The Suspended Step Of The Stork

Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow

Ulysses' Gaze

 

Michelangelo Antonioni

 

Blowup

Il Grido

La Notte

L'Avventura

L'Eclisse

The Passenger

The Red Desert

 

Michael Apted

 

49 Up!

The Up Series

 

Ingmar Bergman

 

A Passion

Autumn Sonata

Bergman Island

Cries And Whispers

Fanny And Alexander

Hour Of The Wolf

Persona

Saraband

Scenes From A Marriage

Shame

Smiles Of A Summer's Night

The Magic Flute

The Serpent's Egg

The Seventh Seal

The Silence

The Virgin Spring

Through A Glass Darkly

Wild Strawberries

Winter Light

John Boorman

Deliverance

Robert Bresson

Au Hasard Balthazar

Diary Of A Country Priest

Tod Browning

Freaks

Luis Buñuel

Belle De Jour

Viridiana

Ken Burns

The War

Tim Burton

Big Fish

Frank Capra

It Happened One Night

Defending It's A Wonderful Life

Mr. Deeds Goes To Town

Why We Fight

 

John Cassavetes

 

A Woman Under The Influence

Faces

Minnie And Moskowitz

Opening Night

Shadows

The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie

 

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

 

Climates

Clouds Of May

Distant

Three Monkeys

 

Charlie Chaplin

 

Chaplin's Goliath

The Circus

 

Michael Cimino

 

Heaven's Gate (Joe Valdez)

 

George Clooney

 

Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind

Good Night, And Good Luck.

 

 

Henri-Georges Clouzot

 

The Wages Of Fear

 

 

Jean Cocteau

 

Orpheus

Testament Of Orpheus

The Blood Of A Poet

 

Coen Bros

 

The Ladykillers

 

 

Francis Ford Coppola

 

The Conversation

 

Sofia Coppola

 

Lost In Translation

Marie Antoinette

 

Costa-Gavras

 

Missing

 

Vittorio De Sica

 

The Bicycle Thief

Umberto D.

 

Carl Theodor Dreyer

 

Day Of Wrath

Gertrud

Ordet

Vampyr

 

Clint Eastwood

 

Million Dollar Baby

Mystic River

 

Atom Egoyan

 

The Sweet Hereafter

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Pioneers In Ingolstadt

Whity

Federico Fellini

Amarcord

Intervista

Juliet Of The Spirits

La Dolce Vita

La Strada

Nights Of Cabiria

Roma

Satyricon

Variety Lights

John Ford

The Searchers

Milos Forman

Amadeus

Sam Fuller

Shock Corridor

The Big Red One

The Naked Kiss

 

Terry Gilliam

 

Brazil

Jean-Luc Godard

Breathless

Contempt

Le Petit Soldat

 

John Grabowska

 

Crown Of The Continent

Remembered Earth

Ribbon Of Sand

David Gordon Green

All The Real Girls

George Washington

Undertow

 

Howard Hawks

 

Red River

Werner Herzog

Aguirre: The Wrath Of God

Cobra Verde

Even Dwarfs Started Small

Fata Morgana

Fitzcarraldo

Grizzly Man

Heart Of Glass

Incident At Loch Ness

Little Dieter Needs To Fly

My Best Fiend

Nosferatu, Phantom Of The Night

Rescue Dawn

Signs Of Life

The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser

The White Diamond

Where The Green Ants Dream

Woyzeck

 

Alfred Hitchcock

 

Frenzy

Lifeboat

Marnie

North By Northwest

Rear Window

Rope

Strangers On A Train

The Wrong Man

Vertigo

 

Ron Howard

 

Cinderella Man

 

Kon Ichikawa

 

Fires On The Plain

The Burmese Harp

 

Peter Jackson

 

King Kong

 

Jim Jarmusch

 

Broken Flowers

Coffee And Cigarettes

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

A Very Long Engagement

Spike Jonze

Strictly Ballroom

Abbas Kiarostami

Taste Of Cherry

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Blind Chance

Blue

Camera Buff

Red

The Decalogue

The Double Life Of Veronique

White

 

Masaki Kobayashi

 

The Human Condition

Stanley Kubrick

The Affliction Of Genius: Stanley Kubrick, Filmmakers & Pop Labels

Akira Kurosawa

High And Low

Ikiru

Kagemusha

Ran

Rashomon

Seven Samurai

The Bad Sleep Well

The Hidden Fortress

Throne Of Blood

 

David Lean

 

Hobson's Choice

Ang Lee

Brokeback Mountain

Sergio Leone

Once Upon A Time In The West

Sidney Lumet

I Am Serpico!

Network

Guy Maddin

The Saddest Music In The World

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

The Cyclist

Terrence Malick

Days Of Heaven

The New World

Louis Malle

Au Revoir Les Enfants

Lacombe, Lucien

Chris Marker

La Jetee

Sans Soleil

Steve Martin

Shopgirl

Deepa Mehta

Fire

Kenji Mizoguchi

Sansho The Bailiff

Ugetsu

Michael Moore

Bowling For Columbine

Fahrenheit 9/11

 

Errol Morris

 

Gates Of Heaven

The Fog Of War

 

Christopher Nolan

 

Batman Begins

The Dark Knight

 

Yasujiro Ozu

 

A Story Of Floating Weeds

Early Summer

Floating Weeds

Good Morning

Late Spring

Tokyo Story

 

Pier Paolo Pasolini

 

Salo

 

Sam Peckinpah

 

Major Dundee

Straw Dogs

The Wild Bunch

 

Roman Polanski

 

Knife In The Water

The Fearless Vampire Killers

 

Alex Proyas

 

Dark City

 

Satyajit Ray

 

Aparajito

Pather Panchali

The World Of Apu

 

Carol Reed

 

The Fallen Idol

 

Jean Renoir

 

Grand Illusion

The Rules Of The Game

 

Alain Resnais

 

Last Year In Marienbad

Night And Fog

 

Martin Ritt

 

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

 

George Romero

 

Land Of The Dead

 

Roberto Rossellini

 

Il Generale Della Rovere

 

John Sayles

 

Casa De Los Babys

Silver City

The Return Of The Secaucus 7

The Secret Of Roan Inish

 

Martin Scorsese

 

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Joe Valdez)

The Aviator

 

Ridley Scott

 

Blade Runner

 

Vilgot Sjoman

 

I Am Curious

 

Kevin Smith

 

Jersey Girl

 

Steven Soderbergh

 

Full Frontal

Ocean's Twelve

The Limey

Oliver Stone

Alexander

W.

 

Andrei Tarkovsky

 

Solaris

Stalker

 

Bela Tarr

 

Damnation

Werckmeister Harmonies

Satantango

The Man From London

 

Luchino Visconti

 

Le Notti Bianche

 

Lars Von Trier

 

The Five Obstructions

 

Francois Truffaut

 

Day For Night

The 400 Blows

 

Jacques Tourneur

 

Cat People

War-Gods Of The Deep

 

Andrzej Wajda

 

A Generation

Maids Of Wilko

 

Orson Welles

 

F For Fake

Mr. Arkadin

 

Wim Wenders

 

Lightning Over Water

 

Robert Wise

 

Curse Of The Cat People

The Day The Earth Stood Still

 

Fred Zinneman

 

High Noon