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12 Favourite Filmmakers

I asked members of EFS, some of its friends, associates, critics, programmers, and filmmakers to send in
lists of their twelve favourite filmmakers for publication on the EFS website. The criteria were simple:
to list the filmmakers who had the most impact on your life and art.
Contributors all found the task hard, even almost impossible, but in the end they all submitted a list
of more or less twelve names. I personally am a huge fan of such lists and make them all the time. They
are fun, revealing and, I believe, something we're all curious about. Obviously, they are subject to
change as we grow and develop, and the love/hate relationship we inevitably have with them (so much has
to be left out!) is amusing and challenging. I was very surprised with the results and hope you enjoy
reading them.
Rouzbeh Rashidi - December 2013

Lists by Jonathan Rosenbaum, Adrian Martin, Nicole Brenez, Fergus Daly, Brad Stevens, Monte Hellman, Guy
Maddin, Peter Tscherkassky, Eve Heller, Claudio Caldini, Bill Mousoulis, Claudia Siefen, Brecht
Andersch, Maximilian Le Cain, Girish Shambu, Joe McElhaney, John MacKay, Michael Koresky, Parviz Jahed,
Saul Levine, Phil Solomon, Sara Freeman, Lionel Soukaz, David Del Valle, Tim Lucas, Toshi Fujiwara, Pip

Chodorov, Steve Elworth, Michael Guillen, Cristina lvarez Lpez, Stoffel Debuysere, Patrick
Friel, David Hudson, Richard Porton, Zach Campbell, David Sterritt, Raymond Bellour, Bruno Bozzetto,
Stphane du Mesnildot, Kji Yamamura, Toni D'Angela and Antoni Padrs among others:

"The List Is Assembled In the Order of

Incoming"
Experimental Film Society Members

Maximilian Le Cain
The only possible way to approach making a list of a dozen favourite directors, with so many dozens
equally deserving to be on the same list, is to narrow it down to the ones that inspire me most at this
point in my life, the live sources of energy. A sort of self-portrait through cinema. Didnt quite make
it to 12, but 13 isnt too bad considering.
In alphabetical order:
Michelangelo Antonioni
Carmelo Bene
Marguerite Duras
Philippe Garrel (specifically, the 70s and 80s films)
Jeff Keen
Jean Rollin
Werner Schroeter
Paul Sharits
Josef von Sternberg
Andrei Tarkovsky
Luchino Visconti
Frans Zwartjes
Andrzej Zulawski
Three brief notes:
Silent cinema is here also, always important to me and increasingly so, breathing through the work of at
least half of these filmmakers, those who carry its trace forward.
I have made the decision not to include films by such collaborators and comrades as Esperanza Collado,
Rouzbeh Rashidi, Dean Kavanagh and Michael Higgins. The feverish immediacy of the inspiration I get from

seeing their splendid works appear is of a different order to that which the more distant figures on the
list provide. However, I will mention that Rouzbehs HSP: There Is No Escape From The Terrors Of The
Mind is a cinematic talisman for me, a film that expresses a vision of cinema than I share in a way that
is far more powerful and eloquent than anything I have ever been able to achieve.
And, although it is a work of commingled authorship, mention must also be made of the cut-up film Ghosts
at Number 9, which is a crucial point of reference for me these days.
..........

Esperanza Collado
Michael Snow
Ivn Zulueta
Lettrisme
Paul Sharits
Jean-Luc Godard
A. Robbe-Grillet
David Lynch
W. S. Burroughs / Anthony Balch
R. W. Fassbinder
Stan Brakhage
Hollis Frampton
Maximilian Le Cain
..........

Jason Marsh
Sergio Leone
Frans Zwartjes
Joseph Cornell
Charles Dekeukeleire
Stephen Dwoskin
Standish Lawder
Rouzbeh Rashidi
..........

Dean Kavanagh
Jean-Luc Godard + Andrei Tarkovsky
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Joo Csar Monteiro
Andrzej uawski

Luchino Visconti
Stan Brakhage
Ingmar Bergman
Rouzbeh Rashidi + Maximilian Le Cain + Michael Higgins
Takeshi Kitano
Aleksandr Sokurov
Akira Kurosawa
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
..........

Hamid Shams Javi

Jean-Luc Godard
George A. Romero
Brian De Palma
Dario Argento
Stanley Kubrick
Luis Buuel
Dariush Mehrjui + Masoud Kimiai
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Michelangelo Antonioni
David Lynch
Stan Brakhage
Takeshi Kitano
..........

Michael Higgins
Stan Brakhage
Robert Bresson
David Cronenberg
Alejendro Jodorowsky
Dean Kavanagh
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Harmony Korine
Maximilian Le Cain
David Lynch
Sergei Parajanov
Rouzbeh Rashidi
Andrei Tarkovsky
..........

Kamyar Kordestani
Francois Truffaut
Stan Brakhage
Robert Bresson
Ingmar Bergman
Alfred Hitchcock
Brian De Palma
Dario Argento
Kaneto Shindo
Kinji Fukasaku
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Takashi Miike
Tatsumi Kumashiro
..........

Pouya Ahmadi
Andrei Tarkovsky
Robert Bresson
David Lynch
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Bela Tarr
Aki Kaurismaki
Philippe Garrell
Ken Loach
Hal Hartley
Christopher Honore
Atom Egoyan
Yorgos Lanthimos
..........

Jann Clavadetscher
Jean-Luc Godard
Federico Fellini
Michelangelo Antonioni
Charles Chaplin
Franois Truffaut
Fritz Lang
Jean-Pierre Melville
Orson Welles
Jacques Tati
Andrei Tarkovsky
Dziga Vertov
Krzysztof Kielowski
..........

Bahar Samadi
Bruce Conner
Joseph Cornell
Adrian Brunel
Ken Jacobs
Peter Gidal
Martin Arnold
Maurice Lemaitre
Jonathan Mcintosh
Bla Tarr
Andrei Tarkovsky
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Federico Fellini
Miguel Gomes
..........

Rouzbeh Rashidi
Andrei Tarkovsky
Yasujir Ozu
Robert Bresson
Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean-Luc Godard
Luchino Visconti
Aleksandr Sokurov
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Ingmar Bergman
Luis Buuel + Joo Csar Monteiro
Maya Deren + Sergio Leone
Maximilian Le Cain
(Hammer Film Productions + Universal Horror)

Friends, Associates, Critics, Programmers, and

Filmmakers

James Devereaux
Aki Kaurismaki
Jim Jarmusch
Hal Hartley
Jean-Pierre Melville
Michelangelo Antonioni
Jean Renoir
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Mike Leigh
Marcel Carne
David Mamet
Albert Serra
Hong Sang Soo
..........

Mario Mentrup
Todd Browning
Claire Denis
Jean Epstein
Jean Eustache
Alfred Hitchcock
Buster Keaton
Sergio Leone
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Robert Rossen
Martin Scorsese
Miike Takashi
Jacques Tourneur
..........

Mahdi Safarali

Robert Bresson
Abbas Kiarostami
Sergio Leone
Yasujir Ozu
Theo Angelopoulos
Andrei Tarkovsky
Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
Luis Bunuel
Andrzej Wajda
Sohrab Shahid Saless
Krzysztof Kielowski
..........

Gianluca Pulsoni
Carmelo Bene
Chris Marker
Dziga Vertov
Frederick Wiseman
Joo Csar Monteiro
Kurosawa Akira
Mizoguchi Kenji
Orson Welles
Peter Tscherkassky
Peter Watkins
Robert Bresson
Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi
..........

Jason Mehlhorn
Chantal Akerman
James Benning
Robert Bresson
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Claude Chabrol
Philippe Grandrieux
Aki Kaurismki
Abbas Kiarostami
Krzysztof Kielowski
Andrei Tarkovsky
Bla Tarr
Agns Varda
..........

Vicky Langan

Frans Zwartjes
Harry Smith
Jess Franco
Jean Rollin
Jeff Keen
Kenneth Anger
Mauricio Kagel
Yevgeny Yufit
John Waters
Danny Plotnick
John Ford
Kurt Kren
Martha Colburn
..........

Mikel Guillen
Andrei Tarkovsky
Robert Bresson
Ingmar Bergman
Michelangelo Antonioni
Bela Tarr
Yasujiro Ozu
RW Fassbinder
Aki Kaurismaki
Luis Bunuel
Pier Paolo Pasolini
John Casavettes
Abbas Kiarostami
..........

Atoosa Pour Hosseini

Kaneto Shind
Claire Denis
Brakhage + Mekas
Andrei Tarkovsky
Ingmar Bergman
Aleksandr Sokurov
Jan vankmajer
Sohrab Shahid Saless + Abbas Kiarostami
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Philippe Garrel
Yasujir Ozu
..........

Yves Sauriol
Kji Wakamatsu
Hisayasu Sat
Seijun Suzuki
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Peter Greenaway
Shji Terayama
Yoshishige Yoshida
Dario Argento
Takashi Miike
Josef von Sternberg
Andrzej uawski
..........

Sepehr Makan
Akira Kurosawa
Stanley Kubrick
Coen brothers
Michael Haneke
Quentin Tarantino
Francis Ford Coppola
Sergio Leone
Mike Leigh
David Fincher
Asghar Farhadi
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Jacques Audiard
..........

Willie Stewart
Ben Rivers
Jim Jarmusch
Sam Peckinpah
Wayne Wang
John Waters
Harmony Korine
Abbas Kiarostami
Aki Kaurismki
John waters
Pat Collins
John Cassavetes
Michelangelo Antonioni
..........

Jit Phokaew
Tossapol Boonsinsukh
Robert Bresson
Lav Diaz
Marguerite Duras
Derek Jarman
Fred Kelemen
Jun Ichikawa
Jacques Rivette
Eric Rohmer
Werner Schroeter
Teeranit Siangsanoh
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
..........

Keefe Murphy
Robert Bresson

Kenji Mizoguchi
Yasujir Ozu
Andrei Tarkovsky
Jean-Luc Godard (late stuff especially)
Stan Brakhage
Chantal Akerman
Jean Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet
Isidore Isou & Guy Debord
Johan van der Keuken
James Benning
Philippe Garrel
Jonas Mekas
Marguerite Duras
..........

NUTS4R2
Akira Kurosawa
Andrei Tarkovsky
Hal Hartley
Federico Fellini
Mike Leigh
Woody Allen
Seijun Suzuki
Dario Argento
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Wim Wenders
Kevin Smith
Sam Fuller
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Fergus Daly
I'll limit myself to directors who haven't been cited yet:
(A Bakers Dozen +1)
Hal Ashby
Leos Carax
Zeki Demirkubuz
Elia Kazan
Henry King
Albert Lewin
Sidney Lumet
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Vincente Minnelli
Manoel de Oliveira
Maurice Pialat
Jean-Daniel Pollet
Richard Quine
Ral Ruiz
Without my self-imposed limit, I would have had to include Godard, Beckett, Hitchcock, Malick, Hong
Sang-Soo, Bresson, Akerman, Bene, Bergman, Cassavetes, Epstein, Kiarostami, Straub/Huillet, Rivette,
Karel Reisz, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Tarr, Sokurov, Ford, Welles, Tony Richardson, Paradjanov, Wilder, Donen,
Tarkovsky, Doillon, Huston, Erin Dignam, Abraham Polonsky, Powell & Pressburger, Werner Schroeter,
Robert Mulligan, Pelechian, Brakhage, Woody Allen.
..........

Zulfikar Filandra
Abbas Kiarostami
Jean Vigo
Jean Cocteau
Jonas Mekas
Bela Tarr
Chris Marker
Man Ray
Sergio Leone
Robert Bresson
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
..........

Adrian Martin
Chantal Akerman
Boris Barnet
Carmelo Bene
John Cassavetes
Brian De Palma
Stephen Dwoskin
Philippe Garrel
Fritz Lang
Ernst Lubitsch
Peter Tscherkassky
..........

Rainer Knepperges
Raoul Walsh
Henry King
John Ford
Henry Hathaway
Howard Hawks
Leo McCarey
Alfred Hitchcock
Vincente Minnelli
Blake Edwards
Henry Jaglom
Klaus Lemke
Martin Scorsese
..........

Bill Mousoulis
(in rough order of impact)
Roberto Rossellini
Robert Bresson
Jean-Luc Godard
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Frank Borzage
Chantal Akerman
Jean Renoir
John Cassavetes
Philippe Garrel
Luis Bunuel
Michelangelo Antonioni
Yasujiro Ozu
..........

Claudia Siefen
Josef von Sternberg
R.W. Fassbinder
David Lean
Stephen and Timothy Quay
Marguerite Duras
Agns Varda
Federico Fellini
Chantal Akerman
Woody Allen
Werner Herzog
As we are all imited to make it 10 here are a few close to my brains, heart and stomach: John Waters,
Kitano Takeshi, Orson Welles, Pedro Almodvar, Kira Muratova. - For me they all have in common that they
are able to create a special "look", a certain "baroque" feeling in pictures, emotions and not
necessarily when it comes to story-telling.
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Hesam Amiri
Mikls Jancs
Werner Schroeter
Chris Marker
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Shunji Iwai
Marco Ferreri
Micheal Snow
Alexander Sokurov
Robert Bresson
Kon Ichikawa
..........

Brad Stevens
Jean Renoir
Max Ophuls
Ozu Yasujiro
Mizoguchi Kenji
Naruse Mikio
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Abel Ferrara
Monte Hellman
Vincente Minnelli
Michael Cimino
Elaine May
Jacques Rivette
..........

Jonathan Rosenbaum
In alphabetical order:
Bresson
Chaplin
Dreyer
Godard
Hawks
Hitchcock
Kiarostami
Lang
Ozu
Stroheim
Tati
Welles
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K.J. Farrington
In no particular order:
Luis Bunuel
Nicholas Ray
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
M.A. (initials alone should suffice here)
Abel Ferrera
Chris Marker
R.W. Fassbinder
Claire Denis
Yoshishige Yoshida
Stanley Kubrick
David Cronenberg (in particular, '79-'88)
Nicholas Roeg
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Nicole Brenez
Favorite Twelve Filmmakers:
I put my very best friends out of the list, but thats unfair : Philippe Grandrieux, FJ Ossang, Lionel
Soukaz.
Masao Adachi
Stan Brakhage & Jonas Mekas
Ken Brown et Pierre Clmenti
Jean Epstein
Jean-Luc Godard
Ange Leccia
Ulrike Meinhof & Holger Meins
Jocelyne Saab
Rui Simoes
Anthony Stern & Peter Whitehead
Jos Val del Omar
Ren Vautier
..........

Claudia Basrawi
Elia Kazan
Alfred Hitchcock
Franois Truffaut
Anatole Litvak
Ernst Lubitsch
Roman Polanski
Sidney Lumet
Stanley Kubrick
Roberto Rossellini
Pawe Pawlikowski
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Josef von Sternberg
Claude Chabrol
..........

ngel Rueda
Jos Val del Omar
Claudio Caldini
Nathaniel Dorsky
Michael Snow
Anthony McCall
Ivn Zulueta
Gregory Markopoulos
Stan Brakhage
Guy Sherwin
Takashi Ito
Takahiko Iimura
Peter Kubelka
..........

Ramin S. Khanjani
This list alphabetically sorted:
Walerian Borowczyk
Sergei Eisenstein
Peter Greenaway
King Hu
Guy Maddin (and Quentin Tarantino, a difficult draw)
Yasuzo Masumura
Sarkis Parajanian (aka. Sergei Parajanov)
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Josef Von Sternberg
Erich Von Stroheim
Seijun Suzuki
Jan Svankmajer (and John Cocteau, another difficult draw)
..........

Anja Czioska
Dimitri Kirsanoff
Peter Kubelka
Hans Richter
Carolee Schneemann
Marie Menken
Andy Warhol
George Kuchar
Jean Cocteau
Jonas Mekas
Kenneth Anger
Maya Deren
Bruce Conner
Bruce Baillie
..........

Brecht Andersch
Christopher Maclaine
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Orson Welles
Robert Bresson
Jean-Luc Godard (esp. Breathless thru Week-end)
Nicolas Roeg (esp, Performance thru Eureka)
John Cassavetes
Alfred Hitchcock
Bruce Conner
Michelangelo Antonioni
Kenji Mizoguchi
Josef von Sternberg
This is todays list. Filmmakers that rotate in and out given my particular mood or circumstances
include (in no particular order): Kubrick, Bertolucci (esp. Before the Revolution thru Luna), Anger,
Baillie, Brakhage, Ford, Nicholas Ray, Minnelli, Losey, Fuller, Leone, Lang, Cimino (esp. thru Year of
the Dragon), Resnais, Dreyer, Sirk, Hawks, Preminger, Visconti, Scorsese (esp. Mean Streets thru The
King of Comedy), Ozu, Lubitsch, Altman, Demy, Bunuel, Peckinpah, Rossellini, Pasolini, Melville, Warhol,
Coppola (esp. Youre A Big Boy Now thru One from The Heart),
Akerman, Blake Edwards, Hawks, Walsh,
Tarkovsky, Ophuls, Powell, Boorman (esp. Point Blank thru Excalibur) and so many, many more
..........

Claus Lser
Luis Buuel
Vra Chytilov
Jean-Luc Godard
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Stanley Kubrick
David Lynch
Nagisa shima
Sergei Paradschanow
Harry Smith
Agns Varda
Varda Lars von Trier
Andrzej uawski
..........

Rinaldo Censi
Paul Sharits
Eric Von Stroheim
Herschell Gordon Lewis
Jacques Tourneur
Joseph H. Lewis

Jack Arnold
Buster Keaton
Ernie Gehr
Andy Warhol
Dimitri Kirsanoff
Kurt Kren
Tex Avery
..........

Joe McElhaney
Chaplin
Ford
Lang
Mizoguchi
Hitchcock
Buuel
Cornell
Minnelli
Resnais
Pasolini
Warhol
Fassbinder
Self-imposed restrictions: No one after Fassbinder. No one still alive, unless they are over ninety.
.........

John MacKay
Kenji Mizoguchi
Charles Burnett
Chantal Akerman
Dziga Vertov
Sergei Paradzhanov
Aleksej German
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Chris Marker
Djibril Diop Mambety
Ken Jacobs
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Forough Farrokhzad
.........

Girish Shambu
"I want to name only women"
Maya Deren
Danile Huillet
Claire Denis
Chantal Akerman
Marguerite Duras
Agns Varda
Elaine May
Catherine Breillat
Kira Muratova
Dorothy Arzner
Vra Chytilov
Kelly Reichardt
.........

Albert Alcoz
Dziga Vertov
Andrei Tarkovsky
Stan Brakhage
Michael Snow
Andy Warhol
Jonas Mekas
Bruce Conner
Ivn Zulueta
Craig Baldwin
Ross McElwee
Gary Hill
Leighton Pierce
.........

Michael Koresky
Chantal Akerman
Ingmar Bergman
Robert Bresson
Claire Denis
Terence Davies
Brian De Palma
Victor Erice
Abbas Kiarostami
Vincente Minnelli
Satyajit Ray
Steven Spielberg
Tsai Ming-liang
.........

Parviz Jahed

John Ford
Masaki Kobayashi
Ingmar Bergman
Michael Angelo Antonioni
John Cassavetes
Jean Luc Godard
Bela Taar
Luchino Visconti
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Sohrab Shahid-Saless
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Luis Buuel
I also cant ignore great directors such as: Akira Kurosawa Mikls Jancs, Orson Wells, Franchesco
Rosie, Federico Fellini, Coens Brothers, Arthur Penn, Fred Zinnemann, Dariush Mehrjui, Abbas
Kiarostami, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Bahram Bayzaie Alfred Hitchcock, Terrence Malick, Robert Bresson,
Bernardo Bertoluchi, Elia Kazan, Howard Hawks, Sidney Lumet, Stankey Kubrick, Kenji Mizoguchi, Akira
Kurosava, Andrei Tarkovsky, Sam Fuller, Francis Ford Coppola, Jim Jarmusch, Lav Diaz, Jacques Rivette
and many others.
.........

Maghsood Salehiarashloo
Sergei Eisenstein
Georges Mlis
David Lynch
Sohrab Shahid-Saless
Federico Fellini
Jonas Mekas
Marcel Ophls
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Abbas Kiarostami
Jean-Luc Godard
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Michael Haneke
.........

Saul Levine
Maya Deren
Marie Menken
Viking Eggeling
Stan Brakhage
Buster Keaton
Charles Chaplin
Carolee Schneemann
Len Lye
Jack Smith
Gregory Markopoulos
Andy Warhol
Ulrike Ottinger
Chick Strand
Gunvor Nelson
.........

Phil Solomon
Some cited for influence, some cited for the pure pleasure of their work, some cited for their overall
importance to the art of cinema, some for all the above.
Alphabetical Order:
Stan Brakhage
Robert Breer
Robert Bresson
Frank Capra
John Cassavetes
Jack Chambers
Charles Chaplin
Bruce Conner
Ken Jacobs
Buster Keaton
Yasujiro Ozu
Michael Snow
.........

Sara Freeman
When I make these types of lists, I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives
1) If aliens invaded earth and wanted to see the best possible examples of cinema, what filmmakers
should they watch? And 2) What filmmakers have had the biggest impact on my life? This list is a
combination of those perspectives.
In no particular order:
Howard Hawks
D.W. Griffith
Kenji Mizoguchi
Vincente Minnelli
John McTiernan
Dorothy Arzner
Stan Brakhage
Roberto Rossellini
Douglas Sirk
John Ford
Johnnie To
George Cukor
I hope
Lupino,
Michael
Melies,
Ophuls,

the aliens look at these guys and gals, too: Fritz Lang, Michael Snow, John Carpenter, Ida
Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette, Martin Fric, Edgar G. Ulmer, Samuel Fuller, John M. Stahl,
Mann, Frank Borzage, Frank Tashlin, Jerry Lewis, Raoul Walsh, Nicholas Ray, Larry Cohen, Georges
Jane Campion, Allan Dwan, Josef Von Sternberg, Yasujiro Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Robert Mulligan, Max
and Buster Keaton.

.........

Monte Hellman
As others have noted, an impossible task. In no particular order:
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Buster Keaton
Alfred Hitchcock
Preston Sturges
John Ford
Fritz Lang
Carol Reed
John Huston
Ingmar Bergman
Alain Resnais
Ming-liang Tsai
Victor Erice
Federico Fellini
Marcel Carn
Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean Renoir
Ermanno Olmi
I could add, but could not subtract.
.........

Oriol Snchez
David Wark Griffith
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Stan Brakhage
Jos Val del Omar
David Lynch
Robert Bresson
Jean Marie Straub & Danile Huillet
Maurice Lematre
Alberto Grifi & Gianfranco Baruchello
Jean Svankmajer
Alexander Kluge
Dario Argento
Paolo Gioli
.........

Lionel Soukaz
Roberto Rossellini
Federico Fellini
Jonas Mekas
Kenneth Anger
Yasujir Ozu
Yves-Marie Mah
Othello Vilgard
Franssou Prenant
Jacques Kbadian
Jean-Pierre Bouyxou
COLLECTIF 360 ET PLUS
David Matarasso
Orson Welles
Jean Vigo
.........

Birk Weiberg
Orson Welles
Lars von Trier
Terrence Malick
King Vidor
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Howard Hawks
Isidore Isou & Guy Debord
Morgan Fisher
Stanley Kubrick
Kenneth Anger
Werner Herzog
Ida Lupino
.........

Alberto Cabrera Bernal

Emile de Antonio
James Benning
Luis Buuel
Morgan Fisher
Jean-Luc Godard
Maurice Lemaitre
Arthur Lipsett
Rose Lowder
Michael Snow
Jean-Marie Straub
Dziga Vertov
Andy Warho
.........

David Del Valle

Roman Polanski
Josph Von Sternberg
Stanley Kubrick
Jean Cocteau
Kenneth Anger
Alfred Hitchcock
Orson Welles
Nicolas Roeg
David Lynch
Brain De Palma
Curtis Harrington
Jacques Tourneur

.........

Silvia Szymanski
Jack Deveau
Wakefield Poole
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Armando Bo
Helmut Kutner
Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)
John Hayes (Baby Vickie)
Isabelle Stever (Gisela)
Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)
Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)
Jrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)
Rudolf Schndler (Der treue Husar)
.........

Tim Lucas
Mario Bava
Lus Buuel
Roger Corman
Jess Franco
Georges Franju
Alfred Hitchcock
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stanley Kubrick
Joseph Losey
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Eric Rohmer
Ken Russell
Note: The list is in alphabetical order and compiled on the basis of "directors whose work I always feel
ready to watch." I also felt it necessary to consider totality of achievement; however, in doing so, I
was compelled to omit from a list limited to twelve the directors responsible for many of my most
beloved individual films: Fellini's TOBY DAMMIT, Leone's ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, Antonioni's
L'ECLISSE, Godard's CONTEMPT, Zulawski's THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE, Powell & Pressburger's I KNOW
WHERE I'M GOING!, Sturges' UNFAITHFULLY YOURS, Marker's LA JETE, etc. - TL
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Toshi Fujiwara
Naturally, this sort of list can never be definite, changes all the times according to what you are
doing/experiencing in your life--and in my case, according to the movies i am making.
And in fact, one often notices afterwards the influences and inspirations he/she was bearing
unconsciously, quite often during the editing; watching the materials and suddenly you realize some
moments or some concepts reflects a film that one saw 20 years ago, often never quite understood, but
somehow marked in the brain.
The titles indicate the films that i have to be particularly conscience of the influences right now. not
necessary the films i like to watch now, but those that are stuck in my mind, either consciously or
unconsciously.
Andrei Tarkovsky (The Sacrifice)
Alexei German (My Friend Ivan Lapshin)
Nagisa Oshima (Night and Fog in Japan)
Edward Yang (A Brighter Summer Day)
John Ford (Cheyenne Autumn)
Carl Th. Dreyer (Vampyr)
Makoto Sato (Self and Others)
Amos Gitai (Lullaby to My Father)
Aleksandr Sokurov (Elegy of a Voyage)
Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (The Marriage of Maria Braun)
Frederick Wiseman (Belfast, Maine)
(and I failed to put Robert Altman (probably Quintet), Robert Kramer (Le Maneau), and Maurice Pialat
(Van Gogh)
.........

Mnica Savirn
Dziga Vertov
Zdiga Revtov
Gdiza Tevrov
Dgiza Tetrov
Idzga Ertvov
Izdga Tervov
Gidza Torvev
Zidga Rotvev
Digza Torvev
Zgida Vretov
Gizda Vervot
Zigda Retvov
Also, 2. Forough Farrokhzad, 3. Vctor Erice, 4. Jonas Mekas, 5. Gunvor Nelson, 6. Aldo Tambellini, 7.
Werner Schroeter, 8. Maya Deren, 9. Artavazd Peleshyan, 10. Oskar Fischinger, 11. Stan Brakhage, and 12.
Vittorio de Sica.
.........

Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene
Ingmar Bergman
Stan Brakhage
Jack Chambers
Federico Fellini
Hollis Frampton
Akira Kurosawa
Joo Csar Monteiro
Leighton Pierce
Andrei Tarkovski
Dziga Vertov
Frans Zwartjes
.........

Rainer Kirberg
Stanley Kubrick

Michelangelo Antonioni
Robert Bresson
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Ingmar Bergman
Jean Eustache
Hal Ashby
Gus Van Sant
Todd Haynes
Georges Franju
James Benning
Pere Portabella
.........

(The Illiac Passion. 196467. USA. Directed by Gregory Markopoulos. the Temenos Archive)
Flix Garca de Villegas
Bruce Baillie
James Herbert
Agnes Martin
Stan Brakhage
Andrew Noren
Barbara Rubin
Gregory Markopoulos
Marjorie Keller
JoAnn Elam
Jos Val del Omar
Rick Patton
Robert Fulton
Mencin especial para David Gatten.
.........

(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de l'Usine Lumire Lyon) 1984, Peter
Tscherkassky)
Geraldine Salles Kobilanski
Either it is a cheating 12 or a 12 with a big heart.
Carl Theodor Dreyer & Artavazd Peleshyan
Vctor Erice
Ivn Zulueta & Alfred Hitchcock
Peter Tscherkassky
Charles Chaplin & Buster Keaton
Jonas Mekas
Stan Brakhage & Maya Deren
Chris Marker
Jos Celestino Campusano & John Ford
Isidore Isou
Norman Mc Laren & Raoul Servais
Georges Mlis
.........

Pip Chodorov
"Let's not forget who really makes the film"
Kodak Fuji Agfa Orwo Foma Ilford Sviema Adox Ferrania Efke Gasparcolor
.........

(The Ladies Man (1961) By Jerry Lewis)

Steven Shaviro
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Kenji Mizoguchi
Jerry Lewis
Abel Ferrara
Robert Bresson
Jean-Luc Godard (early films)
Josef von Sternberg
Samuel Fuller
Jean Renoir
Duan Makavejev
Michelangelo Antonioni
Billy Wilder
.........

(La guerre est finie (1966) By Alain Resnais)

Steve Elworth
Jean Renoir
John Ford
Buster Keaton
Max Ophls
Maya Deren
Kenji Mizoguchi
Yasujiro Ozu
Stan Brakhage
Agnes Varda
Alain Resnais
Jean-Luc Godard
Stanley Kubrick
Five living filmmakers under 65: Chantal Akerman, Wong Kar-Wai,
Sang-Soo.

Lewis Klahr, Phil Solomon and Hong

.........

Michael Guillen
Indulging the distinction between "favorite" and "best"which, for me, revolves around the subjective
pleasures of cinephiliaI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America.
Lisandro Alonso
Julio Bracho
Emilio Fernndez
Roberto Gavaldn
Patricio Guzmn

Miguel Littin
Claudia Llosa
Carlos Reygadas
Arturo Ripstein
Ral Ruiz
Fernando Solanas
Francisco Vargas
.........

(Der Leone Have Sept Cabeas (1970) By Glauber Rocha)

Sebastian Wiedemann
If I had to save only one movie in the world, it would be Man with a movie camera by Dziga Vertov. If
I had to choose only one director, it would be Andrei Tarkovsky. I live and make cinema with these 12
directors mainly. After all we never are alone, when we make or live, cinema. Even so the list of those,
that give me day be day a fresh breath is much bigger ...
So...
1. Andrei Tarkosky, because without faith in this world or another is impossible to live and create.
2. Dziga Vertov, because it is essential to enter the matter.
3. Stan Brakhage, because it is imperative reach the cosmos.
4. Werner Herzog, because it is necessary be passionate and obsessive to live and make cinema. Or as
Herzog says: "Be bold, ignore the fear and be prepared for the unexpected."
5. Glauber Rocha, because our biggest creative power is our hunger and precariousness.
6. Artavazd Peleshyan, because learning to "think-cinema" is learning how to edit / to make "montage".
And Dreyer, Bresson, Ozu, Bela Tarr, Sokurov, Kiarostami
.........

(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina lvarez Lpez
Chantal Akerman
Ingmar Bergman
Luis Buuel
Leos Carax
Brian De Palma
Philippe Garrel
Alfred Hitchcock
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Fritz Lang
Jean-Pierre Melville
Andrei Tarkovsky
Teresa Villaverde
.........

(Close-Up (1990) & Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)
Stoffel Debuysere
Robert Bresson
Charles Chaplin
Jean-Luc Godard
Abbas Kiarostami
Kenji Mizoguchi
Jean Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet
Antnio Reis & Margarida Cordeiro
Jean Renoir
Roberto Rossellini
Johan van der Keuken
Dziga Vertov
Jean Vigo
.........

Doctor Chance (1997) By F.J. Ossang

Mnica Delgado
Robert Bresson
Andrzej uawski
Stan Brakhage
Jonas Mekas

Jean-Luc Godard
F.J. Ossang
Alfred Hitchcock
Mario Bava
Andrei Tarkovsky
Marguerite Duras
Yasujir Ozu
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
.........

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin
Jean Vigo
Luis Buuel
Erich von Stroheim
Josef von Sternberg
Ernst Lubitsch
CB deMille
David Lynch
Joseph Cornell
Standish Lawder
Max Ophuls
Aleksandr Sokurov
Matthias Mller
.........

(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini
James & John Whitney
Len Lye
Jordan Belson
Paul Sharits
Heinz Emigholz
Werner Nekes
Gregory Markopoulos
Lisl Ponger
Bruce Mc Clure
Jorge Honik
Narcisa Hirsch
.........

Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race
Shinya Tsukamoto
Masao Adachi
Andrej uawski
Kji Wakamatsu
Chris Marker
Nagisa Oshima
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Kji Wakamatsu
Shinji Aoyama
Takeshi Kitano
David Lynch
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Masaki Kobayashi
.........

Journey to Italy (1954) By Roberto Rossellini

Patrick Friel
This is a first-to-pop-into-my-head list, and should not be considered definitive. All are certainly
favorites, though. At any given moment, there are perhaps another 50 or so filmmakers who could have
been chosen. The only constant would likely be Ford.
Alphabetical:
Frank Borzage
Robert Breer
Kyle Canterbury
Joseph Cornell
Andre de Toth
John Ford
Georges Mlis
Oscar Micheaux
Vincente Minnelli
Roberto Rossellini
Edgar G. Ulmer
Jean Vigo
.........

Mauro Pereira
Jean-Luc Godard
Luis Buuel
Andrei Tarkovsky
Jean Vigo
Robert Bresson
Ingmar Bergman
Yasujiro Ozu
Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich
Wilhelm Murnau
Fritz Lang
Alfred Hitchcock
Franois Truffaut
... Sergei Parajanov, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Werner Herzog, David Lynch, Erich
von Stroheim and Jacques Tati ...
.........

The Promised Land (1975) Andrzej Wajda

Vahid Vahed
Anger, Kenneth
Antonioni, Michelangelo
Egoyan, Atom
Godard, Jean Luc
Greenaway, Peter
Kiarostami, Abbas
Lean, David
Marker, Chris
Russell, Ken
Tarkovsky, Andrei
Truffaut, Franois
Wajda, Andrzej
.........

Mon Oncle (1958) Jacques Tati

David Hudson
Too many shut-outs, but in alphabetical order:
Michelangelo Antonioni
David Cronenberg
Jean-Luc Godard
Todd Haynes
Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick
Fritz Lang
Chris Marker
F.W. Murnau
Yasujiro Ozu
Christian Petzold
Jacques Tati
.........

Investigation of a citizen above suspicion (1970) By Elio Petri

Richard Porton
Luis Bunuel
Jean Vigo
Dusan Makavejev
Chris Marker
Howard Hawks
Elio Petri
Francesco Rosi
Ousmane Sembene
Michael Powell
Jacques Rivette
Jean Eustache
Max Ophls
.........

Trouble Every Day (2001) By Claire Denis

Zach Campbell
(alphabetically)
Charles Burnett
Claire Denis
John Ford
Jean-Luc Godard
Joris Ivens
Abbas Kiarostami
Christopher Maclaine
Elaine May
Leo McCarey
Yasujiro Ozu
Paul Sharits
Jose Val del Omar
Sad omissions were of course as painful as they were inevitable. But this will suffice. It isn't so much
my flimsy attempt at best or even favorites but a representation of a dozen who, I can attest, all
have changed the way I experience the world and other cinema in lasting ways, different ways, and (I can
hope) good ways. Its Americanist & Eurocentric slant, in particular, is entirely a function of my own
implicit biases, personal viewing history, and knowledge base and shouldn't be passed over as neutral
when we perform such conscious, canon-building exercises. But such is the good company it will keep as
list that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and other
curious people.
.........

2046 (2004) Kar Wai Wong

Marco Abel
Jean-Luc Godard
Martin Scorsese
Jean-Pierre Melville
Sergio Leone
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Michelangelo Antonioni
Stanley Kubrick
Wong Kar Wai
Quentin Tarantino
Jim Jarmusch
David Lynch
Koji Wakamatsu
But I'd have to think about Vigo, Vertov, Bresson, Tarr, Lang, Tarkovsky, Renoir, as well.
.........

Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe
Andrei Tarkovski
Robert Bresson
John Cassavettes
David Lynch
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Michelangelo Antonioni
Artavazd Peleshyan
Kaneto Shindo
Yasujir Ozu
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Maurice Pialat
Jacques Tati
.........

Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky
Woody Allen
Robert Altman
James Benning
Joel & Ethan Coen
Maya Deren
Howard Hawks
Eve Heller
Peter Kubelka
Sergio Leone
Georges Mlis
Pat O'Neill
Jacques Tati
Billy Wilder
.........

American Falls (2000 2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller
My hat's first off to Jean Vigo for cinematically seducing me into making films, soon followed by an
ever expanding host of other inspirational sources, including:
Peggy Ahwesh
Santiago Alvarez
Sadie Benning
Bruce Conner
Jack Chambers
Forough Farrokhzad
Robert Frank
Ken Jacobs
Peter Kubelka
Michael Snow
Phil Solomon
Aldo Tambellini
Peter Tscherkassky
.........

Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt
Alfred Hitchcock
Jean-Luc Godard
John Cassavetes
Stan Brakhage
Yasujiro Ozu
Michael Snow
Carl Th. Dreyer
Agnes Varda
Douglas Sirk
Frederick Wiseman
F.W. Murnau
Glauber Rocha
.........

Chris O'Neill
I have found this list difficult to compile because I can often acknowledge key films, rather than
necessarily a whole body of work, as making an impact on me as a film maker, enthusiast and programmer.
Therefore, there are filmmakers omitted from this list because I was trying to think concisely about
bodies of work that initially and continue to influence me. Here, in no particular order, is my list:
Brian De Palma
Nicolas Roeg
RW Fassbinder
William Friedkin
Tony Scott
Paul Morrissey
Paul Verhoeven
Larry Cohen
Anthony Balch and William Burroughs
David Cronenberg
Lynne Ramsey
Martin Scorsese
.........

Raymond Bellour
Alfred Hitchcock
Fritz Lang
Kenji Mizoguchi
Chris Marker
Alain Resnais
Michael Snow
Ingmar Bergman
Jean-Luc Godard
Yasujiro Ozu
Ritwik Ghatak
Jean Renoir
Roberto Rossellini
Leighton Pierce
.........

La belle noiseuse (1991) By Jacques Rivette

Donal Foreman
The greatest omissions here are the authors of Notes on the Cinematographer, Sculpting in Time, and That
bowling alley on the tiber. But their influence on me is so fundamental that they are probably hidden
between the lines of this selection anyway...
John Cassavetes
Claire Denis
Philippe Garrel
Jean-Luc Godard
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Robert Kramer
Terrence Malick
Yasujiro Ozu
Jacques Rivette
Raul Ruiz
Shji Terayama
Wong Kar-wai
.........

Three Times (2005) By Hsiao-hsien Hou

Vahid Mortazavi
Note: From multiple possible choices, I made some restrictions to myself: the first four are great
filmmakers of Freedom, the second four are great filmmakers of Precision, and the last four, great
filmmakers of Poetry.
Jean Vigo
Jean Renoir
John Cassavetes
Maurice Pialat
Fritz Lang
Robert Bresson
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Jaques Tati
John Ford
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Mikio Naruse
Jean luc Godard
.........

Salem Kapsaski
John Waters
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Carmelo Bene
John Cassavetes
George Kuchar
Jesus Franco
Jack Smith
Andrzej uawski
Pier Paolo Passolini
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Jean Cocteau
Nikos Nikolaidis
.........

Abbas Fahdel
Robert Bresson
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Ingmar Bergman
Andre Tarkovski
Michelangelo Antonioni
Kenji Mizoguchi
Roberto Rossellini
Satyajit Ray
Yasujiro Ozu
Alfred Hitchcock
Jean-Luc Godard
Howard Hawks
.........

Bruno Bozzetto
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
FEDERICO FELLINI
STANLEY KUBRICK
JACQUES TATI
WOODY ALLEN
BILLY WILDER
JOHN LASSETER
WALT DISNEY
JOEL & ETHAN COEN
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
.........

Stphane du Mesnildot
Sono Sion
Andrezj Zulawski
Shuji Terayama
Koji Wakamatsu
Mario Bava
Abel Ferrara
Alfred Hitchcock
Claude Chabrol
Jess Franco
Brian De Palma
Dario Argento
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
.........

Koji Yamamura

Federico Fellini
Hou Hsiao Hsien
Jacques Tati
Karel Zeman
Luis Buuel
Priit Prn
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Robert Bresson
Seijun Suzuki
Yasujir Ozu
Yuri B. Norstein
Vitali Kanevsky
.........

Peter Rist
Abbas Kiarostami
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Claire Denis
Jean-Luc Godard
Jafar Panahi
Johnnie To
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Terence Malick
Lucrecia Martel
Alexander Sokurov
Jia Zhangke
Abderrahmane Sissako
Michael Snow
Hitchcock, Tarkovsky, Rhitwik Gatak, King Hu, Eisenstein, Renoir, Shimizu Hiroshi, Keaton, Murnau,
Lubitsch, Antonioni, Brakhage, Mizoguchi, Ozu.
.........

Chris Robinson
Igor Kovalyov
Buster Keaton
Koji Yamamura
Mati Kutt
Robert Bresson
Hal Hartley
Michaela Pavlatova
Billy Wilder
Arthur Lipsett
Guy Maddin
.........

Toni D'Angela
John Ford
Orson Welles

Raoul Walsh
Stan Brakhage
Yasujiro Ozu
Roberto Rossellini
Peter Hutton
Jacques Rivette
Boris Barnet
King Vidor
Martin Scorsese
Jean Renoir
.........

Antoni Padrs
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Robert Bresson
Cipr e Maresco
Roberto Rossellini
Bela Tarr
Fred Niblo
Max Ophls
Jean Vigo
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Jean Eustache
Maurice Tourneur
Mrio Peixoto
Alain Robbe Grillet
Luis Buuel
Dziga Vertov
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Eric Von Stroheim
.........

Richie Abraham
Yasujiro Ozu
Charlie Chaplin
Peter Kubelka
Jacques Rivette
F J Ossang
Mikio Naruse
Peter Tscherkassky
Eric Rohmer
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Claire Denis
Bela Tarr
Gustav Deutsch
.........

Michael J. Hayes
Aki Kaurismaki (Ariel)
Andrei Tarkovsky (Andrei Rublev)
Chantal Akerman (From The East)
David Lynch (Inland Empire)
Errol Morris (Vernon, Florida)
Jim Jarmusch (Down By Law)
Jukka Karkkainen (The Punk Syndrome)
Mike Figgis (Hotel)
Roy Andersson (World Of Glory)
Spike Jonze (Whats Up Fatlip?)
Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There?)
EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnt mean no vision, the EFS films have been
motivation for me over the past few years.)
.........

Angela Prysthon
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
Robert Bresson
Alberto Cavalcanti
Terence Davies
Jacques Demy
Claire Denis
Stanley Donen
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Fritz Lang
Ernst Lubitsch
Yasujiro Ozu
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
.........

Alessandra W. Tantillo
Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumire
Georges Mlis
Dziga Vertov
John Ford
Stan Brakhage
Alberto Grifi
Robert Drew
Frederick Wiseman
Alfred Hitchcock
Jean-Luc Godard
John Cassavetes
Jem Cohen
.........

Latifa Said
Robert Bresson (Les Dames du bois de Boulogne)
Yazujiro Ozu (Une poule dans le vent)
Ingmar Bergman (Persona)
Barbara Loden (Wanda)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Le Mariage de Maria Braun)
Marguerite Duras (India Song)
Luis Buuel (Viridiana)
John Ford (La Prisonnire du dsert)
Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne d'Arc)
Satyajit Ray (Charulata)
Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avvantura)
Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)
.........

Nima Behforouz
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
John Cassavetes
Michelangelo Antonioni
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Robert Bresson

Orson Welles
David Lynch
Andrei Tarkovsky
Dario Argento
Eric Rohmer
Derek Jarman
Fritz Lang
Bonus tracks: Jacques Rivette, Aki Kaurismki, John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, Sergei Parajanov.
.........

Shayan Bazri
Robert Altman
Dimitri Kirsanoff
Andrzej Zulawski
Martin Scorsese (especially 80's)
Kenneth Anger
David Lynch
Carlos Reygadas
Dario Argento (especially 70's)
Peter Tscherkassky
Ral Ruiz
Nicolas Roeg
Peter Greenaway
Also Virgil Widrich, Wes Anderson, Gaspar Noe, Abel Ferrara, Guy Maddin.
.........

Joo Antunes
YASUJIRO OZU (TOKYO MONOGATARI)
ALFRED HITCHCOCK (VERTIGO)
JOHN FORD (MY DARLING CLEMENTINE)
NICHOLAS RAY (JOHNNY GUITAR)
JEAN RENOIR (LA REGLE DU JEU)
STANLEY KUBRICK (2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY)
GRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)
GEORGES MLIS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)
HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)
BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)
INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)
ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)
.........

Jay Murphy
Nicholas Ray They Live by Night
Koji Wakamatsu (Ecstasy of the Angels)
Emile de Antonio (Point of Order)
Michelangelo Antonioni (Red Desert + all the others)
Pier Paolo Pasolini (everything)
Philippe Grandrieux (La Vie nouvelle)
Jean-Luc Godard (everything)
Fritz Lang (everything)
Bela Tarr (Satantango)
Philippe Garrel (Les Hautes Solitudes)
Samuel Beckett/Buster Keaton (Film)
Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu (21 Grams)
Nicolas Roeg/Donald Cammell (Performance, Eureka, Bad Timing)
.........

Olivier Hadouchi
Michelangelo Antonioni
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Jos Val del Omar
Glauber Rocha
Nicols Guilln Landrin and Santiago lvarez
Sara Gmez and Toms Gutirrez Alea
Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker
Max Ophls
Djibril Diop Mambty
Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino
Mohammed Zinet
Kinji Fukasaku and Sam Peckinpah
With some combinations, but without forgetting the singularity and personality of each filmmaker. And
many filmmakers for just one or some great films in a long or a short broken path.
.........

Scott Barley
Jean-Claude Rousseau

Bla Tarr & gnes Hranitzky

Phil Solomon
Michelangelo Antonioni
Pere Portabella
Yoshishige Yoshida
Barbara Meter
Stan Brakhage
Philippe Grandrieux
Sharunas Bartas
Wojciech Wiszniewski
Peter Hutton
Note: I am afraid I cannot do the proposed finite list of twelve favourite filmmakers. All I can do is
write down all the ones in no order but the one that my mind recalls them in. The following have all,
incontrovertibly sculpted my life. To attempt to describe their ineffable power would not only be
futile, but would also risk reducing their work to concrete forms, and their power transcends beyond the
concrete and the absolute of the written word.
Jack Chambers, Jan Jakub Kolski, Barbara, Maya Deren, Pier Paolo Pasolini, ric Rohmer, Artavazd
Peleshyan, Ingmar Bergman, Veiko unpuu, Konstantin Lopushansky, Dimitri Kirsanoff, Jean-Sbastien
Nouveau, Jean-Pierre Melville, Zoltn Huszrik, Jean-Luc Godard, Aleksandr Sokurov, Robert Bresson,
Marguerite Duras, Wang Bing, Bruce Baillie, Audrius Stronys, Kaneto Shind, Jan Nmec, Chantal Akerman,
Andrzej uawski, Pawe oziski, Mikhail Kalatozov, Jean Marie Straub & Danile Huillet, Amy Kravitz,
Bill Viola, Guy Sherwin, Robert Beavers, Harun Farocki, Florence Pezon, Ben Rivers, Elem Klimov, Lav
Diaz, Djordje Kadijevic, Jean Epstein, Ral Ruiz, Duan Hank, Bert Haanstra, Mrio Peixoto, Tengiz
Abuladze, Margot Benacerraf, Roy Andersson, Peter von Bagh, Abel Gance, Darezhan Omirbaev, Aleksandr
Kajdanovsky, Walter Hugo Kouri, Pierre Perrault, Joris Ivens, Frantiek Vlil, Michael Haneke, Yves
Allgret, Lszl Moholy-Nagy, Philippe Garrel, Allain-Robbe Grillet, Larry Gottheim, Frans Zwartjes,
Harmony Korine, Sava Trifkovic, Marjorie Keller, Grzegorz Krlikiewicz, Andrei Tarkovsky, Gyrgy Fehr,
Mrio Peixoto, Christian-Jaque, James Benning, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Nicolas Rey, Sara Driver, Piotr
Dumala, Devin Horan, Terrence Malick, Wallace Berman, Jonathan Glazer, John Frankenheimer, Sohrab
Shahid-Saless, Leighton Pierce, Maurice Pialat, Vitali Kanevsky, Vittorio De Seta, Vojislav Rakonjac,
Joo Csar Monteiro, Jospeh Cornell, Jean Vigo, Werner Herzog, Bill Morrison, Jan Schmidt, Jean Daniel
Pollet, Raymond Salvatore Harmon, Dore O., F.W. Murnau, Frank Borzage, Pedro Costa, Jacques Tourneur,
Ken Jacobs, Jonas Mekas, Aleksandar Petrovi, Sergey Loznitsa, Albert Serra, Charlie Chaplin, Jem Cohen,
Saul Levine, David Perlov, Georges Franju, Werner Nekes, Miguel Gomes, Alan Clarke, Mike Leigh, Julian
Schnabel, Aleksei German, Juraj Herz, Peter Nestler, Jos Val Del Omar, Martin Arnold, Djibril Diop
Mambty, Krzysztof Kielowski, Duan Makavejev, Matthew Allen, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, David
Lynch, Franois Truffaut, Sylvain George.
.........

Leila Sajjadi

Ingmar Bergman
Eric Rohmer
Rainder Werner Fassbinder
Luis Buuel
Aki Kaurismki
Michael Haneke
Federico Fellini
Roy Andersson
Jan vankmajer
Krzysztof Kielowski
Robert Altman
Asghar Farhadi
.........

Faezeh Karimpour
R.W.Fassbinder
Werner Schroeter
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Chris Marker
Marquerite Duras
Masahiro Shinoda
Miklos Jancso
Werner Herzog
Luchino Visconti
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Jean-Luc Godard
David Lynch
.........

Jay McRoy
Chantal Akerman
Michelangelo Antonioni
James Benning
Robert Bresson
Lav Diaz
Stephen Dwoskin
Philippe Garrel
Jean-Luc Godard
Philippe Grandrieux
Abbas Kiarostami
Leighton Pierce
Andrei Tarkovsky
.........

Claudio Romano
Michelangelo Antonioni

Artour Aristakisian
arunas Bartas
Robert Bresson
Lav Diaz
Carl Th. Dreyer
Gyrgy Fehr
Anton Perich
Andrei Tarkovsky
Bla Tarr
Tsai Ming-liang
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
.........

Toms Rogs
Maurice Pialat
Andrei Tarkovsky
Lav Diaz
Albert Brooks
Josef Von Sternberg
Bela Tarr
Joe Swanberg
Charlie Chaplin
Jean Luc Godard
Woody Allen
Michael Reeves
Alain Robbe-Grillet
.........

Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton
Jacques Tourneur
Paul Vecchialli
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Fritz Lang
Brian de Palma
Ken Jacobs
Lucio Fulci
Jlio Bressane
Khavn de la Cruz
Seijun Suzuki
.........

Bani Khoshnoudi
Maya Deren
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Forough Farrokhzad
Jean-Luc Godard
Agns Varda
Sohrab Shahid Saless
Chris Marker
Shohei Imamura
Jonas Mekas
Harun Farocki
Jean Rouch
Chantal Ackerman
John Cassavetes
.........

Alexander Jacoby
Bergman
Bresson
Dreyer
Hitchcock
Minnelli
Mizoguchi
Murnau
Ophuls
Ozu
Powell
Renoir
Rohmer
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mmsen Jafari

I usually don't believe in such lists simply because Art is not a competition. Nevertheless this list
important for me as part of EFS. In no particular order and unfortunately I neglected so many others:
Carl Theodor Dryer
Luis Buuel Portols
Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski
Ernst Ingmar Bergman
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Robert Bresson
Agns Varda
Jean-Luc Godard
Charles Spencer Chaplin jr.
Aki Olavi Kaurismki
Werner Herzog
Michelangelo Antonioni
.........

Daniel Fawcett
Filmmakers whose films have had the most impact on my own work, who stir in me a sense of awe and
excitement and inspire me to leap out from my chair and start making movies.
Derek Jarman
Jeff Keen
Vra Chytilov
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Jacques Rivette
Douglas Sirk
Ken Russell
Nicolas Roeg
Jean-Luc Godard
Sergei Parajanov
George Kuchar
.........

Clara Pais
These are 12 (plus 2 for 1) filmmakers who I see as my core influences, from where I stand now. Their
whole approach to cinema, their art and life are examples that inspire me and keep me on track and their
films feel like home to me.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Jeff Keen
George Kuchar
Sergei Parajanov
Vra Chytilov
Derek Jarman
Agns Varda
Ken Russell
Nicolas Roeg
Andrei Tarkovsky
Maya Deren
Jacques Rivette
Powell & Pressburger
Others have also been revelations along the way, leading me onwards: Vertov, Sirk & Fassbinder, Herzog,
Godard, vankmajer, Cassavetes, Pasolini, Buuel, Duras, Argento, Obayashi, Bakshi and pretty much
anyone from the Czech New Wave and Polish 60s and 70s cinema. And here's to the ones still to discover!
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