I was inspired by this thread (viewtopic.php?f=2&t=42194), so I am doing a sequel for this subforum.

This will be harder to do because these directors made several masterpieces, so start the brainstorming.

Abbas Kiarostami	The Wind Will Carry Us
Akira Kurosawa	Ikiru
Alain Resnais	Last Year at Marienbad
Andrei Tarkovsky	Stalker
Carl Theodor Dreyer	Gertrud
Federico Fellini	8½
François Truffaut	Jules et Jim
Ingmar Bergman	Cries and Whispers
Jacques Rivette	Céline and Julie Go Boating
Jacques Tati	Playtime
Jean Renoir	The Rules of the Game
Jean Vigo	L'Atalante
Jean-Luc Godard	Breathless
Kenji Mizoguchi	Sansho The Bailiff
Krzysztof Kieslowski	Red
Luchino Visconti	Le Notti Bianche
Luis Buñuel	L'Âge d'Or
Marcel Carné	Children of Paradise
Max Ophüls	The Earrings of Madame De…
Michelangelo Antonioni	L'Avventura
Rainer Werner Fassbinder	Ali: Fear Eats The Soul
Robert Bresson	Au Hassard Balthazar
Roberto Rossellini	Rome, Open City
Satyajit Ray	Pather Panchali
Sergei Eisenstein	The Battleship Potemkin
Vittorio De Sica	Umberto D.
Wong Kar-Wai	Chungking Express
Yasujiro Ozu	Tokyo Story

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Dear Bergmaniac,
Just so yr aware, this thread isnt being ignored. I just feel really bad calling the one film I've seen by a director their "masterpiece", even if, yes, that film is a "masterpiece." There are also at least one or two directors listed who, I think, I've seen nothing by.
Keeping that in mind, I can agree with these as my "favorites":

Abbas Kiarostami The Wind Will Carry Us
Andrei Tarkovsky Stalker
Federico Fellini 8½
Jacques Tati Playtime
Jean Vigo L'Atalante
Jean-Luc Godard Breathless
Michelangelo Antonioni L'Avventura
Satyajit Ray Pather Panchali

And (again, understand my knowledge is limited), throw these out as my choices for some others:

Akira Kurosawa Seven Samurai
Alain Resnais Hiroshima, mon amour
François Truffaut The 400 Blows
Ingmar Bergman The Seventh Seal
Kenji Mizoguchi Ugetsu
Krzysztof Kieslowski Double Life of Veronique
Luchino Visconti The Leopard
Luis Buñuel The Phantom of Liberty
Rainer Werner Fassbinder The Marriage of Maria Braun
Robert Bresson A Man Escaped
Roberto Rossellini The Flowers of St. Francis
Sergei Eisenstein Strike
Vittorio De Sica The Bicycle Thief
Wong Kar-Wai In the Mood for Love
Yasujiro Ozu Floating Weeds

I'm in the same boat as kypade. But....

Resnais - Last Year at Marienbad
Tarkovsky - Solyaris
Godard - Contempt
Truffaut - The 400 Blows
Renoir - Grand Illusion
Kar-Wai - Chungking Express

I am not (yet) worthy.

Antonioni - Blow Up
Bergman - Persona
Bunuel - Un Chien Andalou
Clouzot - Le Salaire De La Peur
Dassin - Du Rififi Chez Les Hommes
De Sica - Ladri Di Biciclette
Dreyer - La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc
Eisenstein - Bronenossez Potjomkin
Fassbinder - Angst Essen Seele Auf
Fellini - 8 1/2
Godard - Pierrot Le Fou
Herzog - Fitzcarraldo
Kar-Wai - In The Mood For Love
Kitano - Hana-Bi
Kobayashi - Joi-Uchi: Hairyo Tsuma Shimatsu
Kurosawa - Shichinin No Samurai
Lang - M
Melville - Le Samourai
Murnau - Nosferatu
Ozu - Tôkyô Monogatari
Renoir - La Grand Illusion
Resnais - Hiroshima, Mon Amour
Rivette - L'Amour Fou
Rossellini - Roma, Citta Aperta
Sjostrom - Korkarlen
Suzuki - Koroshi No Rakuin
Tarkovsky - Andrey Rublyov
Teshigahara - Suna No Onna
Truffaut - Les Quatre Cents Coups
Wajda - Kanal
Wiene - Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari

Uhhhh? Am I the only one on the planet who doesn't like Umberto D.?

My favorite De Sica is either Bicycle Thieves, Miracle in Milan, or Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.

Mid-range De Sica for me is Garden of the Finzi-Continis and Two Women.

In fact, Umberto D. and Children are Watching Us were just too expected (?) and heavy-handed for me in their expectedness, if that makes any sense?


I have Rules of the Game and have been dying to watch it for ages. When I survive this weekend and get to veg out of vacation I will see it!

Antonioni, M. · La Notte, {L'Avventura}
Argento, D. · Suspiria
Bergman, I. · Det Sjunde Inseglet, {Fanny och Alexander}
Bogdanovich, P. · Paper Moon, {The Last Picture Show}
Bresson, R. · Au Hasard Balthazar, {L'Argent}
Browning, T. · The Unknown, {Freaks}
Buñuel, L. · Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie, {L'Âge d'or)
Carné, M. · Les Enfants du Paradis
Chaplin, C. · Modern Times, {The Gold Rush}
Clouzot, H-G. · Le Salaire de la Peur
Coppola, F. F. · The Godfather: Part II, {The Godfather}
Cukor, G. · The Philadelphia Story, {Dinner at Eight}
Curtiz, M. · Casablanca
De Sica, V. · Ladri di Biciclette, {Umberto D.}
Dreyer, C. T. · La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, {Ordet}
Eisenstein, S. · Ivan Groznyy I+II, {Bronenosets Potyomkin}
Fassbinder, R. W. · Satansbraten, {Die Ehe der Maria Braun}
Fellini, F. · La Strada, {8 1/2}
Ford, J. · The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, {The Grapes of Wrath}
Forman, M. · One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, {Amadeus}
Godard, J-L. · Le Mépris
Hawks, H. · His Girl Friday, {Red River}
Herzog, W. · Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes, {Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle}
Hitchcock, A. · Vertigo, {Shadow of a Doubt}
Huston, J. · The Maltese Falcon, {The Treasure of the Sierra Madre}
Keaton, B. · The Cameraman, {Sherlock Jr.}
Kieslowski, K. · Trois Couleurs: Rouge, {Krótki Film o Zabijaniu}
Kubrick, S. · 2001 - A Space Odyssey, {Barry Lyndon}
Kurosawa, A. · Shichinin no samurai, {Ikiru}
Lang, F. · M, {Der müde Tod}
Lean, D. · Lawrence of Arabia, {The Bridge on the River Kwai}
Leone, S. · Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo, {Once Upon a Time in America}
Mankiewicz, J. L. · All About Eve, {Sleuth}
Méliès, G. · Le Voyage Dans la Lune, {Le Diable Noir}
Mizoguchi, K. · Sanshô Dayû, {Ugetsu Monogatari}
Murnau, F.W. · Nosferatu, {Sunrise}
Ozu, Y. · Tôkyô Monogatari
Pabst, G.W. · Die Büchse der Pandora
Peckinpah, S. · The Wild Bunch, {The Ballad of Cable Hogue}
Polanski, R. · Chinatown, {Le Locataire}
Powell, M. · The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, {Peeping Tom}
Ray, S. · Pather Panchali
Reed, C. · The Third Man
Renoir, J. · La Grande Illusion, {La Règle du Jeu}
Resnais, A. · L'Année Dernière à Marienbad
Roeg, N. · Don't Look Now, {Walkabout}
Rossellini, R. · Germania Anno Zero, {Viaggio in Italia}
Scorsese, M. · Taxi Driver, {Raging Bull}
Sjöström, V. · Körkarlen
Snyder, Z. ·
Tarkowskij, A. · Zerkalo, {Andreij Rubljow}
Tati, J. · Playtime
Tourneur, J. · Out of the Past, {Cat People}
Truffaut, F. · Les Quatre Cents Coups, {Jules et Jim}
Vigo, J. · L'Atalante
Von Stroheim, E. · Greed
Wegener, P. · Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam
Welles, O. · Citizen Kane, {Touch of Evil}
Wenders, W. · Der Himmel über Berlin, {Paris, Texas}
Wiene, R. · Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
Wilder, B. · Sunset Blvd., {Double Indemnity}

{Runner-ups added where considered necessary}

Die müssen noch unbedingt erwähnt werden (!) :

+
Guo Xiaolu - ... (haven't seen any of her movies)
Zhang Yimou - Dà hóng dēnglóng gāogāo guà
Andrzej Zulawski - Possession

I always thought Bleu was better than Rouge. Always. I actually prefer Blanc to Rouge.

And although not my favorite of his films, I have to put a shout out to Welles' F For Fake.

for the time being:
only will give for directors I've seen more than 3 films of. also, the number of films I have seen by each.

Akerman, C. · (1)
Aldrich, R. · (2)
Almodovar, P. · (8) ·
Allen, W. · (14) Manhattan
Antonioni, M. · (6) L'Eclisse
Argento, D. · (3)
Assayas, O. · (4) Demonlover
Bresson, R. · (5) · Mouchette
Bergman, I. · (6)
Bunuel, L. · (8) Los Olvidados
Carne, M. · (1)
Capra, F. · (1)
Chaplin, C.  (7)
Coen, J. & E.  (6)
Coppola, F. F. · (3)
Clouzot, H-G. · (1)
Cronenberg, D. · (5)
Cukor, G. · (3)
Curtiz, M. · (2)
Dassin, J. · (1)
Davies, T. · (1)
De Sica, V. · (2)
Desplechen, A.· (1)
Dreyer, C. T. · (6) Ordet
Eisenstein, S. · (4)
Fassbinder, R.W.· (3)
Fellini, F. · (5) 8 1/2
Ford, J. · (1)
Fuller, S. · (3)
Godard, J-L. · (15) Pierrot le Fou {2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle}
Hawks, H. · (9) His Girl Friday
Herzog, W. · (2)
Hitchcock, A. · (18) Vertigo (Notorious)
Hsiao-Hsien, H · (4) A City of Sadness
Huston, J. · (3)
Griffith, D.W. · (2)
Keaton, B. · (6)
Kieslowski, K. · (2)
Kubrick, S.  · (7)
Kurosawa, A. · (3) Rashomon
Lang, F. · (5)
Lean, D. · (1)
LeRoy, M.  (1)
Lubitsch, E. [b] · (7)
[b]Lynch, D. · (7) Eraserhead
Malle, L. · (1)
Mankiewicz, J. L. · (1)
McCarey, L. · (1)
Melies, G. · (2)
Melville, J.P. · (2)
Mizoguchi, K. · (2)
Murnau, F.W. · (2)
Ophuls, M · (5) Letter from an Unknown Woman
Ozu, Y.· (3)
Pabst, G.W.· (1)
Pialat, M.· (1)
Polanski, R. · (3)
Powell, M. · (4)
Pialat, M. · (1)
Preminger, O. · (2)
Pudovkin, V. · (1)
Ray, N. · (7) They Live By Night (Johnny Guitar)
Reed, C. · (1)
Renoir, J. · (3)
Resnais, A. · (2)
Rivette, J. (1)
Roeg, N. · (3)
Rohmer, E. · (2)
Scorsese, M. · (5)
Sirk, D.· (4)
Stillman, W. · (4)
Sturges, P. · (4)
Tarkovskij, A. · (6) Zerkalo (Stalker)
Tashlin, F. · (3)
Tati, J. · (4) Playtime (M. Hulot's Holiday)
Tourneur, J. · (3)
Truffaut, F. · (4)
Tsai, M-L. [b] · (2)
[b]Varda, A. · (1)
Vigo, J. · (2)
von Sternberg, J. · (5)
von Stroheim, E. · (1)
von Trier, L. · (5)
Walsh, R. · (2)
Weerasethakul, A. · (3) Tropical Malady
Welles, O. · (6) Citzen Kane (The Magnificent Ambersons)
Wenders, W. · (2)
Wiene, R. · (1)
Wilder, B. · (5) Double Indemnity
Wiseman, F. · (2)
Wong, K. · (6) Chungking Express
Yang, E. · (2)
Zhang, Y. · (1)
Zhangke, J. · (2)

Snack? Only 1 Curtiz, 1 Kurosawa, 5 Hitchcock, etc etc. And you consider yourself a snob? I don't consider myself one and have seen the following number from each one.

Almodovar, P. · 13
Allen, W. · 31
Antonioni, M. · 3
Bergman, I. · 3
Buñuel, L. · 6
Capra, F. · 9
Coppola, F. F. · 17
Curtiz, M. · 16
De Sica, V. · 3
Dreyer, C. T. · 0
Eisenstein, S. · 1
Fellini, F. · 4
Godard, J-L. · 4
Hawks, H. · 18
Hitchcock, A. · 35
Huston, J. · 27
Kieslowski, K. · 1
Kubrick, S. · 12
Kurosawa, A. · 13
Lang, F. · 18
Lean, D. · 6
Mankiewicz, J. L. · 11
Méliès, G. · 0
Murnau, F.W. · 1
Ophüls, M · 5
Polanski, R. · 15
Renoir, J. · 5
Scorsese, M. · 20
Truffaut, F. · 2
Welles, O. · 7
Wilder, B. · 20

It is very unfortunate, I have so little time. I probably missed a few though, but yeah, most embarrassing.

Indeed.

yea, this is over my head. i'm too trashy.

and which Balzac novels have you read lately?
right.

Actually, I have no intention to read Balzac. And I am a snob because they would not let me out of the club.

As far as Abbas Kiarostami is concerned, I feel Taste of Cherry is superior to The Wind Will Carry Us. I found the later a little tedious. I dunno.