Great Directors
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A–C
Peggy Ahwesh by John David Rhodes
Robert Aldrich by Alain Silver
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea by Julia Levin
Woody Allen by Victoria Loy
Michael Almereyda by Jeremiah Kipp
Pedro Almodóvar by Steven Marsh
Robert Altman by Robert T. Self
Theodoros Angelopoulos by Acquarello
Kenneth Anger by Maximilian Le Cain
Michelangelo Antonioni by James Brown
Dario Argento by Xavier Mendik
Gillian Armstrong by Helen Carter
Dorothy Arzner by Theresa L. Geller
Hal Ashby by Darren Hughes
Olivier Assayas by Franck le Gac
Craig Baldwin by Tim Maloney
Mario Bava by Sam Ishii-Gonzales
Jacques Becker by James Sepsey
Sadie Benning by Melissa Rigney
Ingmar Bergman by Hamish Ford
Luis García Berlanga by Steven Marsh
Bernardo Bertolucci by Bilge Ebiri
Peter Bogdanovich by Peter Tonguette
Mauro Bolognini by David Melville
Frank Borzage by Joe McElhaney
Stan Brakhage by Brian Frye
Catherine Breillat by Brian Price
Robert Bresson by Alan Pavelin
Luis Buñuel by Dominique Russell
Charles Burnett by Nelson Kim
Tim Burton by Ben Andac
Donald Cammell by Maximilian Le Cain
Jane Campion by Fincina Hopgood
Leos Carax by Christian Checa Bañuz
John Carpenter by Marco Lanzagorta
Claude Chabrol by Richard Armstrong
Jack Chambers by Brett Kashmere
Charles Chaplin by James L. Neibaur
Chang Cheh by Ethan de Seife
Bob Clampett by Adrian Danks
Alan Clarke by Nicolas Rapold
Henri-Georges Clouzot by Fiona Watson
Jean Cocteau by Richard Misek
Joel and Ethan Coen by Paul Coughlin
Larry Cohen by Tony Williams
Francis Ford Coppola by Brian Dauth
Sofia Coppola by Anna Rogers
Roger Corman by Wheeler Winston Dixon
Alex Cox by Ralph Beliveau and Randolph Lewis
David Cronenberg by Ashley Allinson
Alfonso Cuarón by José Zarandona
George Cukor by Dan Callahan
D–F
Joe Dante by Martyn Bamber
Gerardo De Leon by Mark Holcomb
Brian De Palma by Keith Uhlich
Guy Debord by R.D. Crano
Jonathan Demme by Keith Uhlich
Jacques Demy by Caroline E. Layde
Claire Denis by Samantha Dinning
Maya Deren by Wendy Haslem
Carl Theodor Dreyer by Acquarello
Clint Eastwood by Deborah Allison
Blake Edwards by June Werrett
Sergei Eisenstein by Dan Shaw
Victor Erice by Adrian Danks
Rainer Werner Fassbinder by Joe Ruffell
Federico Fellini by Antonia Shanahan
David Fincher by Sean Lindsay
Robert Flaherty by Deane Williams
John Ford by Richard Franklin
Willi Forst by Robert von Dassanowsky
Bill Forsyth by Christopher Meir
John Frankenheimer by Stephen Bowie
Richard Franklin by Aaron Graham
Su Friedrich by Lynn Bell and Michael Zryd
Lucio Fulci by Patricia MacCormack
G–K
Ritwik Ghatak by Megan Carrigy
Terry Gilliam by Rumsey Taylor
Jean-Luc Godard by Craig Keller
Jean-Pierre Gorin by Erik Ulman
D.W. Griffith by John Steinle
Yílmaz Güney by Bilge Ebiri
Michael Haneke by Mattias Frey
Howard Hawks by David Boxwell
Todd Haynes by Keith Uhlich
Werner Herzog by David Church
Alfred Hitchcock by Ken Mogg
Mike Hodges by Tony Williams
King Hu by Stephen Teo
Kon Ichikawa by Alexander Jacoby
Shohei Imamura by Nelson Kim
Joris Ivens by Ian Mundell
Peter Jackson by Matthew Stephenson
Derek Jarman by Brian Hoyle
Jim Jarmusch by J.D. Lafrance
Jia Zhangke by Kevin Lee
Alejandro Jodorowsky by David Church
Chuck Jones by Bill Schaffer
Aki Kaurismäki by Lana Wilson
Buster Keaton by Dan Callahan
Abbas Kiarostami by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa
Krzysztof Kieslowski by Doug Cummings
Takeshi Kitano by Bob Davis
Alexander Kluge by Michelle Langford
Louise Kolm-Fleck by Robert von Dassanowsky
Harmony Korine by Fergus Grealy
Stanley Kubrick by Keith Uhlich
Akira Kurosawa by Dan Harper
L–O
Fritz Lang by Daniel Shaw
Clara Law by Dian Li
David Lean by Alain Silver
Ang Lee by David Minnihan
Mitchell Leisen by David Melville
Sergio Leone by Daniel Edwards
Richard Lester by Peter Tonguette
Jerry Lewis by Chris Fujiwara
Joseph H. Lewis by Robert Keser
Richard Linklater by Brian Price
Arthur Lipsett by Brett Kashmere
Ken Loach by Mike Robins
Joseph Losey by Dan Callahan
Richard Lowenstein by Vanessa Long
Ida Lupino by Wheeler Winston Dixon
Len Lye by Brett Kashmere
David Lynch by Thomas Caldwell
Alexander Mackendrick by Monica Garrido
Guy Maddin by Jason Woloski
Terrence Malick by Hwanhee Lee
Rouben Mamoulian by Adrian Danks
Joseph L. Mankiewicz by Brian Dauth
Anthony Mann by David Boxwell
Michael Mann by Anna Dzenis
Antonio Margheriti by Patricia MacCormack
Chris Marker by Jaime N. Christley
Leo McCarey by Paul Harrill
Jonas Mekas by Genevieve Yue
Georges Méliès by Darragh O’Donohue
Jean-Pierre Melville by Adrian Danks
Vincente Minnelli by Joe McElhaney
Kenji Mizoguchi by Alexander Jacoby
Yoshimitsu Morita by Bob Davis
Kira Muratova by Ruslan Janumyan
Mikio Naruse by Alexander Jacoby
Mike Nichols by Lee Hill
Gaspar Noé by Matt Bailey
María Novaro by Romy Sutherland
Phillip Noyce by Ingo Petzke
Alanis Obomsawin by Paul Williams
Mamoru Oshii by Richard Suchenski
Nagisa Oshima by Nelson Kim
Idrissa Ouedraogo by Martin Stollery
François Ozon by Thibaut Schilt
Yasujiro Ozu by Nick Wrigley
P–S
Pier Paolo Pasolini by Gino Moliterno
Sam Peckinpah by Gabrielle Murray
Arthur Penn by Adam Bingham
Abraham Polonsky by Andrew Marsden
Sally Potter by Kristi McKim
Powell & Pressburger by Adrian Danks
Otto Preminger by Chris Fujiwara
Quay Brothers by James Rose
Yvonne Rainer by Erin Brannigan
Nicholas Ray by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Satyajit Ray by Helen Goritsas
Carol Reed by Deirdre Feehan
Jean Renoir by James Leahy
Tony Richardson by Sandra Koponen
Hans Richter by Richard Suchenski
Jacques Rivette by Saul Austerlitz
Glauber Rocha by Gabe Klinger
Nicolas Roeg by Lee Hill
Eric Rohmer by Tamara Tracz
George A. Romero by Brian Wilson
Francesco Rosi by Gino Moliterno
Roberto Rossellini by Hugo Salas
Ken Russell by John A. Riley
Claude Sautet by Janice Tong
John Sayles by Richard Armstrong
John Schlesinger by Béatrice Schatzmann-von Aesch
Werner Schroeter by Michelle Langford
Martin Scorsese by Marc Raymond
Don Siegel by Deborah Allison
Robert Siodmak by Chris Justice
Douglas Sirk by Tom Ryan
Jerzy Skolimowski by Bruce Hodsdon
Steven Soderbergh by Anna Daly
Steven Spielberg by Stephen Rowley
Preston Sturges by Jonas Varsted Kirkegaard
T–Z
Andrei Tarkovsky by Maximilian Le Cain
Frank Tashlin by Ethan de Seife
Jacques Tati by Jaime N. Christley
Bertrand Tavernier by Carloss James Chamberlin
Hiroshi Teshigahara by Dan Harper
Leslie Thornton by Thomas Zummer
François Truffaut by Juan Carlos González A
Tsai Ming-liang by Darren Hughes
Tsui Hark by Grady Hendrix
Tomu Uchida by Alexander Jacoby
Edgar G. Ulmer by Erik Ulman
Melvin Van Peebles by Garrett Chaffin-Quiray
Agnès Varda by Helen Carter
Paul Verhoeven by Dan Shaw
Dziga Vertov by Jonathan Dawson
King Vidor by Dan Callahan
Jean Vigo by Maximilian Le Cain
Lars von Trier by Thomas Beltzer
Margarethe von Trotta by Ben Andac
Raoul Walsh by Tag Gallagher
Wang Xiaoshuai by Dror Kochan
Andy Warhol by Constantine Verevis
John Waters by Daniel Mudie Cunningham
Peter Weir by Romy Sutherland
Orson Welles by Jaime N. Christley
Wim Wenders by Dave Tacon
James Whale by David Lugowski
Billy Wilder by Richard Armstrong
Michael Winterbottom by Deborah Allison
Doris Wishman by Christopher J. Jarmick
William Wyler by David Cairns
Wong Kar-wai by Elizabeth Wright
Edward Yang by Saul Austerlitz
Zhang Yimou by Mary Farquhar
Fred Zinnemann by Robert Keser



