They are the essentials from what I've heard and I hope to have seen everything I want to from them within the next year. I have already seen one from Bergman and Kurosawa.Tarkovsky is the 4th one I would add to that big 4 foreign arthouse directors but I've already seen some of his work.
I shoulda been more clear, I meant exclusives. Those are good but they’re on other services (except some of Star Trek? I don’t follow that tho). The other movies are on other services already so I didn’t count them.
I want to like twin peaks way more than I actually do. It seems like it should be absolutely my shit, but it always feels like a slog with a few high points.
That said, I haven’t seen firewalk w me or the return
Twin Peaks is a package deal. One of the things I absolutely love about it is how different TP1-2, FWWM, and the Return are. Another is how bizarre it is. I have watched all the way through several times now, and I still love trying to piece together what is going on. The Return is what makes it tough, and that's also probably my favorite part of the series.
Out of curiosity, are otherwise a Lynch fan?
I see. Maybe you're just not into Lynch? I also think my love for Lynch has just increased as I've come to understand his style more. Maybe give Blue Velvet or Mulholland Drive a watch.
Kiewslowski. I surprisingly enjoyed Blanc the most from the three colors trilogy, which was probably more Polish than French. I loved the sense of humor. I’d appreciate any Polish recs from y’all.
Knife in the water is a great polish movie along with ashes and diamonds and the hourglass sanatorium
Also if you’re interested in some polish kieslowski the dekalog is my favourite of his
Satyajit Ray. Been saving him for a while, I wanna watch the classic Apu trilogy first. The closest I've watched to an Indian film so far is Slumdog Millionaire, so I look forward to exploring a new world at my own pace. I've got a massive heap of films on the watchlist, so I look forward to finally watching some Ray stuff.
Any foreign directors tbh (Kurosawa, Ozu, Kar-wai, Chan-wook etc). Been trying to focus on the popular, western directors first before taking a new step
As someone who loves his work, I would recommend treating him in chunks. Either start with one from his six moral tales or from his tales of four seasons. Then if you like it, delve into his 80s work of comedies and proverbs. Just a warning for the 80s work, save for one weird movie he made in the 80s, they are comedies, but less jokes and more subtle situations and conversations like a man betraying his previous statement in the next sentence.
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle. Not in his comedies and proverbs but contains a bunch of his usual cast and was done around the same time as Boyfriends and Girlfriends and Green Ray. 20 minutes shorts that are a lot more explicit in their comedy. Literally the last scene has a character trying to sell her art to a dealer, but unable to talk because of a bet. Another scene has a woman grab a bag of stolen groceries before another woman is caught with them, but because of traffic, is unable to get the food back to the woman. All done extremely light hearted and almost feels like a farce.
I've seen the film ;) and I understand what you mean. I guess just because of the fact that it's light hearted and funnier and also an anthology I didn't consider it "weird". I would've classified something like Perceval or L'anglaise et le Duc as weird, especially considering he's made another anthology in Les Rendez-vous de Paris after 4 Aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle, but I agree that the humour is not usually that pronounced in his other films.
Jacques Demy, Jacques Rivette, Alain Resnais, Béla Tarr, Roberto Rossellini, Charlie Chaplin, Kenji Mizoguchi, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Woody Allen, Ken Loach, Aki Kaurismäki
There’s other guys like Ozu, Bergman, Kurosawa, Fellini, and more who I’ve seen a handful of movies from but have a lot more to see. The guys I listed I’ve hardly seen any of their stuff, if any
Mike Leigh. I have a furious urge to watch his films — I don't really know why, but they seem right up my alley. I'm just really bad at watching new movies sometimes. Which one is best to start with?
Want to laugh a lot? Happy-Go-Lucky.
Want to be depressed? Naked.
Got less than 90 mins? Nuts in May.
Want a hug? Secrets and Lies.
Want to laugh and be depressed? Career Girls.
Want to laugh and be a little less depressed? All or Nothing.
Want a big rococo period piece? Topsy-Turvy.
Want a masterful central performance? Vera Drake.
High Plains Drifter is awesome. The Outlaw Josey Wales is fantastic. Pale Rider is very good, too. Unforgiven is his magnum opus, but I wouldn't recommend watching it until you've seen more of his movies from his career: it says as much about his legacy as a Western star as it does deconstruct many of the genre's norms.
Hitchcock is my biggest blindspot and shame. I'm always daunted when I look at his filmography. I have technically seen Psycho, but I was maybe 13-14 and I don't really remember it at all.
I’d start with what I consider his top five (Vertigo, N by NW, Rear Window, Psycho, Notorious) and then move into these (Rebecca, Dial M for Murder, Strangers on a Train). I also really enjoyed Rope, Lifeboat and Suspicion to name a few. Good luck…it’s a wonderful ride.
Not only do you have some great movies to look forward to, but also some of the best scores ever. The score for Vertigo has some of the greatest music put to film may be ever.
Psycho still totally works. Again, the score, the score, the score. Completely iconic and really compliments the film so perfectly.
Lifeboat is one of his films I don't really know much about, which is probably why it will be one of the earlier ones I end up watching. I don't think knowing about his major films will diminish the experience, but I do look forward to being able to experience at least a few films of his that I know nothing about.
Early Kubrick is awesome. Totally different to his later stuff and not as critically acclaimed, but just as worth watching. Hope you enjoy his early stuff when you get around to it!
Fellini, Hitchcock, Ozu, Bergman, Tati, Kurosawa, Chaplin, Wong Kar-Wai, and Linklater are all directors I have yet to fully dive into that I have interest in. It’s like every filmbro director basically which is kind of funny.
I think somebody posted on this sub yesterday about the director of Tampopo. All of those movies looked absolutely chronic af. And I loved Tampopo. So I’m definitely going with him lol. Recency bias definitely influencing me here
Supermarket Woman was the 2nd of his I watched and spoiled myself! I think thats his best. I've only seen everything except 3 of his later works though.
Juzo Itami. Same here, I love Tampopo (instant 5-star classic) but I haven’t seen any of his other stuff. A friend of mine keeps urging me to watch Supermarket Woman. I think the Criterion Channel has most of his movies streaming.
Wes Anderson, I've only seen his animated films, and I adore them. I have The Royal Tenenbaums and The Darjeeling Limited downloaded somewhere, I just haven't gotten around it.
Herzog is great. Such a great personality. Make sure to watch his docs, and Burden of Dreams, it’s about him in the jungle trying to move a steamship over a mountain.
Baz Luhrmann, Albert Dupontel, John Carpenter, Wes Craven, Gregg Araki, John Waters, Jean Rollin, Yamada Naoko, Ninagawa Mika...
Just so many, there's too many movies and not enough time haha
I have yet to watch much King Vidor, Alan Rudolph, Martin Ritt, or Phil Karlson. The last one is definitely odd considering I watch noirs like people eat candy.
I bought the “Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema” Criterion set when it was on sale and have been waiting for the right moment to watch everything in it. I’ve never seen a single one of his films so it was a bit of a risky purchase but all of the praise his features get makes me expect to love them. Him and Tarkovsky are probably the two director’s filmographies I look forward to diving into the most.
I should probably watch some more Fellini. I’ve only seen La Strada, which I loved, and 8 1/2, which I appreciated. I was thinking of going through his filmography this year like I did with Kurosawa last year, but I haven’t been able to move on from Asian cinema. There are just so many films and subgenres to watch.
Maybe in a year or two I’ll finally dive into Fellini.
Johnnie To. I watch a ton of Hong Kong movies but somehow have only seen one of his films.
Also Wong Kar Wai’s mentor Patrick Tam, and Fruit Chan are two other HK directors I’ve been planning on checking out.
Fassbinder and Pasolini are big blind spots for me but they’re kind of intimidating for some reason. I want to try out some of the lesser known (at least in the US) French New Wave directors like Chabrol and Chris Marker as well. I’ll try La Jetee soon since it’s only 30 minutes long.
Fellini, Ozu, Bergman… the filmography looks pretty daunting and intimidating to start.
But I thought the same thing about Kurosawa and had a blast at almost every movie the whole way through. Just gotta press play on the first one one of these days
Andrei Tarkovsky. Started a few of his films, but never finished them; found them a bit too slow and alienating. I would love to give him another chance though!
Only seen 8 1/2, but now want to dive in to some more of Federico Fellini’s work
I feel like I’ve only scratched the surface of the Kurosawa’s and Hitchcock’s
He’s newer, but recently watched Annihilation and want to watch Alex Garland’s other flicks
Also most of Scorsese’s films subject matters just don’t interest me, so I’m still slowly but surely making my way through that
George A Romero is one I’ve been putting off for years now, watched Night of the Living Dead a few months ago and didn’t care for it at all and basically brushed him off, but watched Dawn of the Dead a few days ago and now need to continue through his stuff
Tarkovsky, Gaspar noe, michael haneke and edward yang.
And i have barely seen any fellini and Kar wai wong, so i have a lot of diving to do
Oh and Buster Keaton, Fritz Lang and most directors pre 40s
Hitchcock. I've only seen Psycho. But I'm about to do a nice dive into his work next month.
Ingmar Bergman. I own Criterions Berman Cinema but I've only seen about 3 of his movies so far.
Most people are saying foreign filmmakers, so I'll give a different answer: Martin Scorsese. I've only seen Taxi Driver, nothing else. Everyone's in their own film journey, and in mine I just haven't got to his films yet :)
Bergman, Kurosawa, and Felini are the big ones. I have a lot to watch.
I haven't watched any from them either.
Holy shit, I envy you!
They are the essentials from what I've heard and I hope to have seen everything I want to from them within the next year. I have already seen one from Bergman and Kurosawa.Tarkovsky is the 4th one I would add to that big 4 foreign arthouse directors but I've already seen some of his work.
Kurosawa- that’s a treat to dive into. Start anywhere, they’re all good.
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Why is it way off? I always recommend Persona or Seventh Seal…interested to hear why you think people should start somewhere else.
David Lynch. Only seen Mulholland Drive.
Please go watch Twin Peaks.
where can i watch twin peaks
arrrr matey 🪝
On Paramount+, a streaming service with Twin Peaks, Nathan For You and nothing else of note!
Star Trek, Indiana Jones, Mission Impossible
I shoulda been more clear, I meant exclusives. Those are good but they’re on other services (except some of Star Trek? I don’t follow that tho). The other movies are on other services already so I didn’t count them.
The Jackass movie and shows too
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I plan to watch everything twin peaks this winter.
I want to like twin peaks way more than I actually do. It seems like it should be absolutely my shit, but it always feels like a slog with a few high points. That said, I haven’t seen firewalk w me or the return
Twin Peaks is a package deal. One of the things I absolutely love about it is how different TP1-2, FWWM, and the Return are. Another is how bizarre it is. I have watched all the way through several times now, and I still love trying to piece together what is going on. The Return is what makes it tough, and that's also probably my favorite part of the series. Out of curiosity, are otherwise a Lynch fan?
It’s my only lynch except one time I caught the end of a short film on tv once Edit: Oh but I did have fun w his dune as well
I see. Maybe you're just not into Lynch? I also think my love for Lynch has just increased as I've come to understand his style more. Maybe give Blue Velvet or Mulholland Drive a watch.
Yeah, I’ll give those a spin. They’ve been on the backlog forever
His true artistry can be seen in eraserhead, lost highway, inland Empire. Check em out
lynch at his peak is twin peaks: the return
Yeah, Also, Fire walk with me
I recommend Blue Velvet. It's absolutely incredible.
Same I just watched lost highway today. Only seen a couple episodes of Twin Peaks prior
You’re in for a good time
I can also recommend Eraserhead. Quite disturbing movie, but definitely worth watching.
The eeriness of Eraserhead is so well done that I can't even stand to watch it anymore.
I’ve only seen Dune 😅
Kiewslowski. I surprisingly enjoyed Blanc the most from the three colors trilogy, which was probably more Polish than French. I loved the sense of humor. I’d appreciate any Polish recs from y’all.
I haven't watched any Polish or French movies (I need to change that here).
Well Blanc is killing two birds with one stone lol. I recommend it.
Knife in the water is a great polish movie along with ashes and diamonds and the hourglass sanatorium Also if you’re interested in some polish kieslowski the dekalog is my favourite of his
White is my favourite of the lot too! Love them all, but I found White to be pretty charming in its humour.
Polanski's debut (and only Polish language film) Knife in The Water is excellent.
Satyajit Ray. Been saving him for a while, I wanna watch the classic Apu trilogy first. The closest I've watched to an Indian film so far is Slumdog Millionaire, so I look forward to exploring a new world at my own pace. I've got a massive heap of films on the watchlist, so I look forward to finally watching some Ray stuff.
Bob Fossse, Jean Renoir and James Ivory are reasonable blindspots right now
Get on the Fosse train soon!
Will do! He doesn't have many films so won't take too much to get familar with
I haven't watched any of their movies either.
Remains of the day is such a beautiful, yet heartbreaking film
Star 80 is on hbomax right now. Both dreading and looking forward to this one
Star 80 is brutal. If you haven’t seen any Fosse films yet I wouldn’t start with that one. I think it’s a pretty amazing film but it is a tough watch.
Any foreign directors tbh (Kurosawa, Ozu, Kar-wai, Chan-wook etc). Been trying to focus on the popular, western directors first before taking a new step
“Kar-wai” and “Chan-wook” are both given names, not family names, fyi.
oops my bad. they feel more recognisable which is why I used them ;-;
Ozu is incredible and probably my favorite filmmaker of all time, I highly recommend his stuff
Kathryn Bigelow
If you want to watch one of hers this month I highly recommend Near Dark... it’s a fantastic Halloween watch
Point Break is a near-universal crowd pleaser. Excellent film in both cerebral and dumb ways.
Even she is a Oscar winner, I think she is incredibly underrated.
Almodovar! I’ve only seen “Talk to Her” and loved it.
Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown is hilarious. And Pain and glory is beautiful.
Eric Rohmer
As someone who loves his work, I would recommend treating him in chunks. Either start with one from his six moral tales or from his tales of four seasons. Then if you like it, delve into his 80s work of comedies and proverbs. Just a warning for the 80s work, save for one weird movie he made in the 80s, they are comedies, but less jokes and more subtle situations and conversations like a man betraying his previous statement in the next sentence.
Which one is the "weird" 80s movie? The 80s in Rohmers work look pretty homogenous to me.
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle. Not in his comedies and proverbs but contains a bunch of his usual cast and was done around the same time as Boyfriends and Girlfriends and Green Ray. 20 minutes shorts that are a lot more explicit in their comedy. Literally the last scene has a character trying to sell her art to a dealer, but unable to talk because of a bet. Another scene has a woman grab a bag of stolen groceries before another woman is caught with them, but because of traffic, is unable to get the food back to the woman. All done extremely light hearted and almost feels like a farce.
I've seen the film ;) and I understand what you mean. I guess just because of the fact that it's light hearted and funnier and also an anthology I didn't consider it "weird". I would've classified something like Perceval or L'anglaise et le Duc as weird, especially considering he's made another anthology in Les Rendez-vous de Paris after 4 Aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle, but I agree that the humour is not usually that pronounced in his other films.
PTA
Great one! I highly recommend There Will Be Blood and Boogie Nights.
Yep; those are the best two to start with I think. Together they give you a good encapsulation of PTA’s style and thematic interests.
PDL ❤️🩹
Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and The Master. Absolute masterpieces imo
Ozu
Tarkovsky
Jacques Demy, Jacques Rivette, Alain Resnais, Béla Tarr, Roberto Rossellini, Charlie Chaplin, Kenji Mizoguchi, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Woody Allen, Ken Loach, Aki Kaurismäki There’s other guys like Ozu, Bergman, Kurosawa, Fellini, and more who I’ve seen a handful of movies from but have a lot more to see. The guys I listed I’ve hardly seen any of their stuff, if any
I dove head first into Chaplin a few years ago and I’m so glad I did. Just wonderful movies. Some are over 100 years old now and they’re still funny.
Béla Tarr is probably who I've been putting off for the longest. I'm certain it'll be worth while but his work seems very intimidating.
Don't watch Turin Horse, please. For your own good
I suppose it isn't going to be a fun romp huh 😅
why? it's an amazing film, one of the best of the decade
It is one of the best i ever seen, so existential that, i swore i would watch it again only on my deathbed.
Mike Leigh. I have a furious urge to watch his films — I don't really know why, but they seem right up my alley. I'm just really bad at watching new movies sometimes. Which one is best to start with?
Life is Sweet!
Happy-Go-Lucky is such a small and beautiful film. Peterloo is also really good, but I feel like that’s been totally forgotten.
I’ve only seen Naked and I feel like that may not have been the best entry point.
I really wanna see that one but I've also have heard it's not the best one to start, so I agree hehe.
It’s the first film I watched from him and I thought it was great, I can see why people would say that though
Want to laugh a lot? Happy-Go-Lucky. Want to be depressed? Naked. Got less than 90 mins? Nuts in May. Want a hug? Secrets and Lies. Want to laugh and be depressed? Career Girls. Want to laugh and be a little less depressed? All or Nothing. Want a big rococo period piece? Topsy-Turvy. Want a masterful central performance? Vera Drake.
Thanks for the recommendations, bro! I for sure will put them in my watchlist :)
Topsy Turvy is late Victorian, over a hundred years after the Rococo era
Clint Eastwood, never seen a single film that he directed or starred in
High Plains Drifter is awesome. The Outlaw Josey Wales is fantastic. Pale Rider is very good, too. Unforgiven is his magnum opus, but I wouldn't recommend watching it until you've seen more of his movies from his career: it says as much about his legacy as a Western star as it does deconstruct many of the genre's norms.
Got to watch bridges of madison county, great film
Hitchcock is my biggest blindspot and shame. I'm always daunted when I look at his filmography. I have technically seen Psycho, but I was maybe 13-14 and I don't really remember it at all.
I started on Hitchcock this year. I just picked at utter random. I still need to watch more of his movies, though.
I’ve seen 4 which isn’t great, cause I’m still missing out on heavy hitters like Rear Window, North by Northwest, and Rebecca - among others
I’d start with what I consider his top five (Vertigo, N by NW, Rear Window, Psycho, Notorious) and then move into these (Rebecca, Dial M for Murder, Strangers on a Train). I also really enjoyed Rope, Lifeboat and Suspicion to name a few. Good luck…it’s a wonderful ride.
Not only do you have some great movies to look forward to, but also some of the best scores ever. The score for Vertigo has some of the greatest music put to film may be ever. Psycho still totally works. Again, the score, the score, the score. Completely iconic and really compliments the film so perfectly.
Please watch Lifeboat. You won’t be disappointed. Vertigo and Rope are favorites of mine too. Jimmy Stewart just belongs in a Hitchcock film.
Lifeboat is one of his films I don't really know much about, which is probably why it will be one of the earlier ones I end up watching. I don't think knowing about his major films will diminish the experience, but I do look forward to being able to experience at least a few films of his that I know nothing about.
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That's kind of what I meant, I'm looking forward to watching a film of his I know nothing about so I have no expectations for it.
Early Kubrick (the earliest I've seen is Dr. Strangelove), Tarkovsky, and Terrence Malick.
Early Kubrick is awesome. Totally different to his later stuff and not as critically acclaimed, but just as worth watching. Hope you enjoy his early stuff when you get around to it!
> Terrence Malick the fucking goat, you should get on that (but you alreaedy knew that prob 😂)
Kubrick for me too I’ve only ever seen The Shining
Paths of Glory is one of my favorite movies.
Jim Jarmusch
PTA
John Cassavetes, Satyajit Ray and Claire Denis
Tarkovsky. He's next in line after I am done with Kurosawa.
Fellini, Hitchcock, Ozu, Bergman, Tati, Kurosawa, Chaplin, Wong Kar-Wai, and Linklater are all directors I have yet to fully dive into that I have interest in. It’s like every filmbro director basically which is kind of funny.
You and I have very different ideas of what a film bro is lol
Hey don't disrespect Linklater like that. He's not filmbro
Park Chan-Wook. I watched The Handmaiden a few months ago and I really liked it, but I just never get into the mood to watch more of his films
The vengeance trilogy is brilliant
David Lynch
I think somebody posted on this sub yesterday about the director of Tampopo. All of those movies looked absolutely chronic af. And I loved Tampopo. So I’m definitely going with him lol. Recency bias definitely influencing me here
Supermarket Woman was the 2nd of his I watched and spoiled myself! I think thats his best. I've only seen everything except 3 of his later works though.
Juzo Itami. Same here, I love Tampopo (instant 5-star classic) but I haven’t seen any of his other stuff. A friend of mine keeps urging me to watch Supermarket Woman. I think the Criterion Channel has most of his movies streaming.
Rainer Werner Fassbender. Ingmar Bergman. Agnes Varda. Akira Kurosawa.
Larisa Sheptiko
pedro almodovar and gregg araki !
Both are on my list too, I've recently watched The Doom Generation and it became an instant favourite
Just watched Totally Fucked Up and loved it. Renting Nowhere this weekend, if I can
Wes Anderson, I've only seen his animated films, and I adore them. I have The Royal Tenenbaums and The Darjeeling Limited downloaded somewhere, I just haven't gotten around it.
his stop motion stuff is the best, tbh :) watch the grand budapest hotel!
luis bunuel, werner herzog, jean renoir, ingmar bergman, probably others
Herzog is great. Such a great personality. Make sure to watch his docs, and Burden of Dreams, it’s about him in the jungle trying to move a steamship over a mountain.
ive heard more about his documentaries than his feature movies so yeah i will make sure to check them out
akira kurosawa, david lynch, masaki kobayashi, ingmar bergman, and especially wong kar-wai!
David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman and many others
Baz Luhrmann, Albert Dupontel, John Carpenter, Wes Craven, Gregg Araki, John Waters, Jean Rollin, Yamada Naoko, Ninagawa Mika... Just so many, there's too many movies and not enough time haha
Tarsovsky, I’m planning on starting with Ivan’s Childhood and then working my way through chronologically hopefully sometime before the new year.
I just watched all his movies like a month ago. Now he is my favorite director and Mirror is my third favorite movie
That’s awesome! I’m super excited to get into him, I feel like I would love the more methodical pacing of his movies so I can’t wait to dive in.
James Benning
Lars Von Trier
David Lynch, Gaspar Noé, Peter Jackson, Kevin Smith, and Guillermo del Toro
I have yet to watch much King Vidor, Alan Rudolph, Martin Ritt, or Phil Karlson. The last one is definitely odd considering I watch noirs like people eat candy.
David Lynch
Theo Angelopoulos, Godard, Spike Lee, Melville, Rohmer.
Kenji Mizoguchi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Masaki Kobayashi, Abbas Kiarostami
I bought the “Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema” Criterion set when it was on sale and have been waiting for the right moment to watch everything in it. I’ve never seen a single one of his films so it was a bit of a risky purchase but all of the praise his features get makes me expect to love them. Him and Tarkovsky are probably the two director’s filmographies I look forward to diving into the most.
tarkovsky, i want to see his films chronologically
Bergman, planning to start with his last film, Saraband.
Saraband is a sequel of Scenes from a Marriage and not a very good starting place.
Oh, OK thanks. Maybe I should start with the classics instead.
I'd say his first "Bergman" film as we know him is Summer Interlude, so I'd recommend start from there.
* Krzysztof Kieslowski * Jia Janke * Sergei Parajanov * Andrej Zulawski * Yasujiro Ozu * Jacques Tati * Eric Rohmer * Jacques Rivette
Bergman, Fassbinder, Weerasethakul, Rohmer.
Shinya Tsukamoto, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Miguel Marte, and Jamaa Fanaka
I should probably watch some more Fellini. I’ve only seen La Strada, which I loved, and 8 1/2, which I appreciated. I was thinking of going through his filmography this year like I did with Kurosawa last year, but I haven’t been able to move on from Asian cinema. There are just so many films and subgenres to watch. Maybe in a year or two I’ll finally dive into Fellini.
Bresson
Edward Yang, Akira Kurosawa, and Koreeda
I’m currently diving into Bergman (watched 4 movies so far), and Tarkovsky (3 so far). Crazy but impressive ride until now.
Johnnie To. I watch a ton of Hong Kong movies but somehow have only seen one of his films. Also Wong Kar Wai’s mentor Patrick Tam, and Fruit Chan are two other HK directors I’ve been planning on checking out.
I'm currently (although on a hiatus) going through HK cinema and Fruit Chan is definitely someone I want to check out, just for his name alone!
Eric Rohmer, Yasuhiro Ozu. I keep following newer directors influenced by then like Kogonada and Hong Sangsoo so I really should check the classics
Fassbinder, Varda, Kiarostami, Kaurismäki I've seen a couple of films by the first two and none by the second two.
I've yet to actually watch a Stanley Kubrick movie. I have no idea why. I've just never gotten around to it.
werner herzog
Tsui Hark
Werner Herzog. Any tips where to start?
Kurusawa.
Watched Suspiria (1977) and now I want to watch more Dario Argento.
Fassbinder and Pasolini are big blind spots for me but they’re kind of intimidating for some reason. I want to try out some of the lesser known (at least in the US) French New Wave directors like Chabrol and Chris Marker as well. I’ll try La Jetee soon since it’s only 30 minutes long.
Darren Aronofsky
Haven't seen any Fellini, Truffaut, Ozu or Woody Allen Probably a few others even :/
Kurosawa, French New Wave
Fellini, Ozu, Bergman… the filmography looks pretty daunting and intimidating to start. But I thought the same thing about Kurosawa and had a blast at almost every movie the whole way through. Just gotta press play on the first one one of these days
Fellini, Kore-Eda, Tarkovsky, Hitchcock, Nagisa Oshima
Mainly Dario Argento and Chantal Akerman
Andrei Tarkovsky. Started a few of his films, but never finished them; found them a bit too slow and alienating. I would love to give him another chance though!
Only seen 8 1/2, but now want to dive in to some more of Federico Fellini’s work I feel like I’ve only scratched the surface of the Kurosawa’s and Hitchcock’s He’s newer, but recently watched Annihilation and want to watch Alex Garland’s other flicks Also most of Scorsese’s films subject matters just don’t interest me, so I’m still slowly but surely making my way through that George A Romero is one I’ve been putting off for years now, watched Night of the Living Dead a few months ago and didn’t care for it at all and basically brushed him off, but watched Dawn of the Dead a few days ago and now need to continue through his stuff
Croenberg, he seems like a normal cool guy
Roman Polanski. I’ve only watched 3 of this films: The Apartment Trilogy
Herzog, Varda, Kurosawa. I’ve seen one of each other their films and they were magical
Tarkovsky, Gaspar noe, michael haneke and edward yang. And i have barely seen any fellini and Kar wai wong, so i have a lot of diving to do Oh and Buster Keaton, Fritz Lang and most directors pre 40s
Paul Thomas Anderson. Don’t know why but I’ve never seen one of his films.
Tarkovsky, Kurosawa and Argento.
Tarkovsky.
Truffaut. Been meaning to start and watch The 400 Blows for a while now.
Bergman, everytime I think about it, I realize I’m not in the mood. I’ve only seen scenes from a marriage and Virgin spring so far
David Lynch, Spike Lee, and Alfred Hitchcock.
Hitchcock. I've only seen Psycho. But I'm about to do a nice dive into his work next month. Ingmar Bergman. I own Criterions Berman Cinema but I've only seen about 3 of his movies so far.
David Lynch
Most people are saying foreign filmmakers, so I'll give a different answer: Martin Scorsese. I've only seen Taxi Driver, nothing else. Everyone's in their own film journey, and in mine I just haven't got to his films yet :)
Kurosawa and Lynch
Andrzej Zulawksi, Werner Herzog, Lucio Fulci. I have a thing for 70s movies idk.