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Home About Members Statement Video On Demand News Links 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 C ain, Girish Shambu, Joe M cElhaney, John MacKay, Michael Koresky, Parviz Jahed, Saul Levine, Phil Solomon, Sara Freeman, Lionel Soukaz, David Del Valle, Tim Lucas, Toshi Fujiwara, Pip

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Home About Members Statement Video On Demand News Links

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 were all curious about Obviously they are subject to

change as we grow and develop and the lovehate 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

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Chodorov Steve Elworth Michael Guillen Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez Stoffel Debuysere Patrick

Friel David Hudson Richard Porton Zach Campbell David Sterritt Raymond Bellour Bruno Bozzetto

Steacutephane du Mesnildot Kji Yamamura Toni DAngela and Antoni Padroacutes 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 Didnrsquot quite make

it to 12 but 13 isnrsquot too bad considering

In alphabetical order

Michelangelo Antonioni

Carmelo Bene

Marguerite Duras

Philippe Garrel (specifically the lsquo70s and lsquo80s 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

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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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Andrzej uawski

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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 Buntildeuel

Dariush Mehrjui + Masoud Kimiai

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Michelangelo Antonioni

David Lynch

Stan Brakhage

Takeshi Kitano

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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

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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

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Pouya Ahmadi

Andrei Tarkovsky

Robert Bresson

David Lynch

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Bela Tarr

Aki Kaurismaki

Philippe Garrell

Ken Loach

Hal Hartley

Christopher HonoreAtom Egoyan

Yorgos Lanthimos

Jann Clavadetscher

Jean-Luc Godard

Federico Fellini

Michelangelo Antonioni

Charles Chaplin

Franccedilois Truffaut

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre Melville

Orson Welles

Jacques Tati

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dziga VertovKrzysztof Kielowski

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Bahar Samadi

Bruce Conner

Joseph Cornell

Adrian Brunel

Ken Jacobs

Peter Gidal

Martin Arnold

Maurice Lemaitre

Jonathan Mcintosh

Beacutela Tarr

Andrei Tarkovsky

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Federico Fellini

Miguel Gomes

Rouzbeh Rashidi

Andrei Tarkovsky

Yasujir$ Ozu

Robert Bresson

Jean-Pierre Melville

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Jean-Luc Godard

Luchino Visconti

Aleksandr Sokurov

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel + Joatildeo Ceacutesar 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

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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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Kurosawa Akira

Mizoguchi Kenji

Orson Welles

Peter Tscherkassky

Peter Watkins

Robert Bresson

Yervant Gianikian amp Angela Ricci Lucchi

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Jason Mehlhorn

Chantal Akerman

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Claude Chabrol

Philippe Grandrieux

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Abbas Kiarostami

Krzysztof Kielowski

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Agnegraves Varda

Vicky Langan

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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

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Atoosa Pour Hosseini

Kaneto Shindocirc

Claire Denis

Brakhage + Mekas

Andrei Tarkovsky

Ingmar Bergman

Aleksandr Sokurov

Jan vankmajer

Sohrab Shahid Saless + Abbas Kiarostami

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Philippe Garrel

Yasujir$ Ozu

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Yves Sauriol

K$ji Wakamatsu

Hisayasu Sat$

Seijun Suzuki

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Peter Greenaway

Shampji Terayama

Yoshishige Yoshida

Dario Argento

Takashi Miike

Josef von SternbergAndrzej uawski

Sepehr Makan

Akira Kurosawa

Stanley Kubrick

Coen brothers

Michael Haneke

Quentin TarantinoFrancis Ford Coppola

Sergio Leone

Mike Leigh

David Fincher

Asghar Farhadi

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Jacques Audiard

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Willie Stewart

Ben Rivers

Jim Jarmusch

Sam Peckinpah

Wayne Wang

John Waters

Harmony Korine

Abbas Kiarostami

Aki Kaurismaumlki

John waters

Pat Collins

John CassavetesMichelangelo Antonioni

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Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujirocirc Ozu

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean-Luc Godard (late stuff especially)

Stan Brakhage

Chantal Akerman

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Isidore Isou amp 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

Ill limit myself to directors who havent been cited yet

(A Bakers Dozen +1)

Hal Ashby

Leos Carax

Zeki DemirkubuzElia Kazan

Henry King

Albert Lewin

Sidney Lumet

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Vincente Minnelli

Manoel de Oliveira

Maurice Pialat

Jean-Daniel Pollet

Richard Quine

Rauacutel 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 StraubHuillet Rivette

Karel Reisz Hou Hsiao-Hsien Tarr Sokurov Ford Welles Tony Richardson Paradjanov Wilder Donen

Tarkovsky Doillon Huston Erin Dignam Abraham Polonsky Powell amp Pressburger Werner Schroeter

Robert Mulligan Pelechian Brakhage Woody Allen

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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

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Adrian MartinChantal Akerman

Boris Barnet

Carmelo Bene

John Cassavetes

Brian De Palma

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Peter Tscherkassky

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Rainer Knepperges

Raoul Walsh

Henry King

John Ford

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Leo McCarey

Alfred HitchcockVincente Minnelli

Blake Edwards

Henry Jaglom

Klaus Lemke

Martin Scorsese

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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

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Chodorov Steve Elworth Michael Guillen Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez Stoffel Debuysere Patrick

Friel David Hudson Richard Porton Zach Campbell David Sterritt Raymond Bellour Bruno Bozzetto

Steacutephane du Mesnildot Kji Yamamura Toni DAngela and Antoni Padroacutes 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 Didnrsquot quite make

it to 12 but 13 isnrsquot too bad considering

In alphabetical order

Michelangelo Antonioni

Carmelo Bene

Marguerite Duras

Philippe Garrel (specifically the lsquo70s and lsquo80s 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

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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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Andrzej uawski

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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 Buntildeuel

Dariush Mehrjui + Masoud Kimiai

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Michelangelo Antonioni

David Lynch

Stan Brakhage

Takeshi Kitano

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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

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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

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Pouya Ahmadi

Andrei Tarkovsky

Robert Bresson

David Lynch

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Bela Tarr

Aki Kaurismaki

Philippe Garrell

Ken Loach

Hal Hartley

Christopher HonoreAtom Egoyan

Yorgos Lanthimos

Jann Clavadetscher

Jean-Luc Godard

Federico Fellini

Michelangelo Antonioni

Charles Chaplin

Franccedilois Truffaut

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre Melville

Orson Welles

Jacques Tati

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dziga VertovKrzysztof Kielowski

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Bahar Samadi

Bruce Conner

Joseph Cornell

Adrian Brunel

Ken Jacobs

Peter Gidal

Martin Arnold

Maurice Lemaitre

Jonathan Mcintosh

Beacutela Tarr

Andrei Tarkovsky

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Federico Fellini

Miguel Gomes

Rouzbeh Rashidi

Andrei Tarkovsky

Yasujir$ Ozu

Robert Bresson

Jean-Pierre Melville

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Jean-Luc Godard

Luchino Visconti

Aleksandr Sokurov

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel + Joatildeo Ceacutesar 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

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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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Kurosawa Akira

Mizoguchi Kenji

Orson Welles

Peter Tscherkassky

Peter Watkins

Robert Bresson

Yervant Gianikian amp Angela Ricci Lucchi

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Jason Mehlhorn

Chantal Akerman

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Claude Chabrol

Philippe Grandrieux

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Abbas Kiarostami

Krzysztof Kielowski

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Agnegraves Varda

Vicky Langan

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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

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Atoosa Pour Hosseini

Kaneto Shindocirc

Claire Denis

Brakhage + Mekas

Andrei Tarkovsky

Ingmar Bergman

Aleksandr Sokurov

Jan vankmajer

Sohrab Shahid Saless + Abbas Kiarostami

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Philippe Garrel

Yasujir$ Ozu

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Yves Sauriol

K$ji Wakamatsu

Hisayasu Sat$

Seijun Suzuki

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Peter Greenaway

Shampji Terayama

Yoshishige Yoshida

Dario Argento

Takashi Miike

Josef von SternbergAndrzej uawski

Sepehr Makan

Akira Kurosawa

Stanley Kubrick

Coen brothers

Michael Haneke

Quentin TarantinoFrancis Ford Coppola

Sergio Leone

Mike Leigh

David Fincher

Asghar Farhadi

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Jacques Audiard

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Willie Stewart

Ben Rivers

Jim Jarmusch

Sam Peckinpah

Wayne Wang

John Waters

Harmony Korine

Abbas Kiarostami

Aki Kaurismaumlki

John waters

Pat Collins

John CassavetesMichelangelo Antonioni

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Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujirocirc Ozu

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean-Luc Godard (late stuff especially)

Stan Brakhage

Chantal Akerman

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Isidore Isou amp 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

Ill limit myself to directors who havent been cited yet

(A Bakers Dozen +1)

Hal Ashby

Leos Carax

Zeki DemirkubuzElia Kazan

Henry King

Albert Lewin

Sidney Lumet

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Vincente Minnelli

Manoel de Oliveira

Maurice Pialat

Jean-Daniel Pollet

Richard Quine

Rauacutel 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 StraubHuillet Rivette

Karel Reisz Hou Hsiao-Hsien Tarr Sokurov Ford Welles Tony Richardson Paradjanov Wilder Donen

Tarkovsky Doillon Huston Erin Dignam Abraham Polonsky Powell amp Pressburger Werner Schroeter

Robert Mulligan Pelechian Brakhage Woody Allen

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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

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Adrian MartinChantal Akerman

Boris Barnet

Carmelo Bene

John Cassavetes

Brian De Palma

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Peter Tscherkassky

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Rainer Knepperges

Raoul Walsh

Henry King

John Ford

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Leo McCarey

Alfred HitchcockVincente Minnelli

Blake Edwards

Henry Jaglom

Klaus Lemke

Martin Scorsese

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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

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Andrzej uawski

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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 Buntildeuel

Dariush Mehrjui + Masoud Kimiai

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Michelangelo Antonioni

David Lynch

Stan Brakhage

Takeshi Kitano

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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

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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

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Pouya Ahmadi

Andrei Tarkovsky

Robert Bresson

David Lynch

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Bela Tarr

Aki Kaurismaki

Philippe Garrell

Ken Loach

Hal Hartley

Christopher HonoreAtom Egoyan

Yorgos Lanthimos

Jann Clavadetscher

Jean-Luc Godard

Federico Fellini

Michelangelo Antonioni

Charles Chaplin

Franccedilois Truffaut

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre Melville

Orson Welles

Jacques Tati

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dziga VertovKrzysztof Kielowski

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Bahar Samadi

Bruce Conner

Joseph Cornell

Adrian Brunel

Ken Jacobs

Peter Gidal

Martin Arnold

Maurice Lemaitre

Jonathan Mcintosh

Beacutela Tarr

Andrei Tarkovsky

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Federico Fellini

Miguel Gomes

Rouzbeh Rashidi

Andrei Tarkovsky

Yasujir$ Ozu

Robert Bresson

Jean-Pierre Melville

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Jean-Luc Godard

Luchino Visconti

Aleksandr Sokurov

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel + Joatildeo Ceacutesar 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

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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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Kurosawa Akira

Mizoguchi Kenji

Orson Welles

Peter Tscherkassky

Peter Watkins

Robert Bresson

Yervant Gianikian amp Angela Ricci Lucchi

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Jason Mehlhorn

Chantal Akerman

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Claude Chabrol

Philippe Grandrieux

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Abbas Kiarostami

Krzysztof Kielowski

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Agnegraves Varda

Vicky Langan

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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

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Atoosa Pour Hosseini

Kaneto Shindocirc

Claire Denis

Brakhage + Mekas

Andrei Tarkovsky

Ingmar Bergman

Aleksandr Sokurov

Jan vankmajer

Sohrab Shahid Saless + Abbas Kiarostami

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Philippe Garrel

Yasujir$ Ozu

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Yves Sauriol

K$ji Wakamatsu

Hisayasu Sat$

Seijun Suzuki

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Peter Greenaway

Shampji Terayama

Yoshishige Yoshida

Dario Argento

Takashi Miike

Josef von SternbergAndrzej uawski

Sepehr Makan

Akira Kurosawa

Stanley Kubrick

Coen brothers

Michael Haneke

Quentin TarantinoFrancis Ford Coppola

Sergio Leone

Mike Leigh

David Fincher

Asghar Farhadi

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Jacques Audiard

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Willie Stewart

Ben Rivers

Jim Jarmusch

Sam Peckinpah

Wayne Wang

John Waters

Harmony Korine

Abbas Kiarostami

Aki Kaurismaumlki

John waters

Pat Collins

John CassavetesMichelangelo Antonioni

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Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujirocirc Ozu

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean-Luc Godard (late stuff especially)

Stan Brakhage

Chantal Akerman

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Isidore Isou amp 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

Ill limit myself to directors who havent been cited yet

(A Bakers Dozen +1)

Hal Ashby

Leos Carax

Zeki DemirkubuzElia Kazan

Henry King

Albert Lewin

Sidney Lumet

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Vincente Minnelli

Manoel de Oliveira

Maurice Pialat

Jean-Daniel Pollet

Richard Quine

Rauacutel 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 StraubHuillet Rivette

Karel Reisz Hou Hsiao-Hsien Tarr Sokurov Ford Welles Tony Richardson Paradjanov Wilder Donen

Tarkovsky Doillon Huston Erin Dignam Abraham Polonsky Powell amp Pressburger Werner Schroeter

Robert Mulligan Pelechian Brakhage Woody Allen

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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

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Adrian MartinChantal Akerman

Boris Barnet

Carmelo Bene

John Cassavetes

Brian De Palma

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Peter Tscherkassky

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Rainer Knepperges

Raoul Walsh

Henry King

John Ford

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Leo McCarey

Alfred HitchcockVincente Minnelli

Blake Edwards

Henry Jaglom

Klaus Lemke

Martin Scorsese

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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

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Andrzej uawski

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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 Buntildeuel

Dariush Mehrjui + Masoud Kimiai

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Michelangelo Antonioni

David Lynch

Stan Brakhage

Takeshi Kitano

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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

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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

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Pouya Ahmadi

Andrei Tarkovsky

Robert Bresson

David Lynch

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Bela Tarr

Aki Kaurismaki

Philippe Garrell

Ken Loach

Hal Hartley

Christopher HonoreAtom Egoyan

Yorgos Lanthimos

Jann Clavadetscher

Jean-Luc Godard

Federico Fellini

Michelangelo Antonioni

Charles Chaplin

Franccedilois Truffaut

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre Melville

Orson Welles

Jacques Tati

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dziga VertovKrzysztof Kielowski

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Bahar Samadi

Bruce Conner

Joseph Cornell

Adrian Brunel

Ken Jacobs

Peter Gidal

Martin Arnold

Maurice Lemaitre

Jonathan Mcintosh

Beacutela Tarr

Andrei Tarkovsky

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Federico Fellini

Miguel Gomes

Rouzbeh Rashidi

Andrei Tarkovsky

Yasujir$ Ozu

Robert Bresson

Jean-Pierre Melville

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Jean-Luc Godard

Luchino Visconti

Aleksandr Sokurov

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel + Joatildeo Ceacutesar 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

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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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Kurosawa Akira

Mizoguchi Kenji

Orson Welles

Peter Tscherkassky

Peter Watkins

Robert Bresson

Yervant Gianikian amp Angela Ricci Lucchi

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Jason Mehlhorn

Chantal Akerman

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Claude Chabrol

Philippe Grandrieux

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Abbas Kiarostami

Krzysztof Kielowski

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Agnegraves Varda

Vicky Langan

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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

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Atoosa Pour Hosseini

Kaneto Shindocirc

Claire Denis

Brakhage + Mekas

Andrei Tarkovsky

Ingmar Bergman

Aleksandr Sokurov

Jan vankmajer

Sohrab Shahid Saless + Abbas Kiarostami

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Philippe Garrel

Yasujir$ Ozu

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Yves Sauriol

K$ji Wakamatsu

Hisayasu Sat$

Seijun Suzuki

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Peter Greenaway

Shampji Terayama

Yoshishige Yoshida

Dario Argento

Takashi Miike

Josef von SternbergAndrzej uawski

Sepehr Makan

Akira Kurosawa

Stanley Kubrick

Coen brothers

Michael Haneke

Quentin TarantinoFrancis Ford Coppola

Sergio Leone

Mike Leigh

David Fincher

Asghar Farhadi

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Jacques Audiard

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Willie Stewart

Ben Rivers

Jim Jarmusch

Sam Peckinpah

Wayne Wang

John Waters

Harmony Korine

Abbas Kiarostami

Aki Kaurismaumlki

John waters

Pat Collins

John CassavetesMichelangelo Antonioni

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Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujirocirc Ozu

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean-Luc Godard (late stuff especially)

Stan Brakhage

Chantal Akerman

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Isidore Isou amp 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

Ill limit myself to directors who havent been cited yet

(A Bakers Dozen +1)

Hal Ashby

Leos Carax

Zeki DemirkubuzElia Kazan

Henry King

Albert Lewin

Sidney Lumet

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Vincente Minnelli

Manoel de Oliveira

Maurice Pialat

Jean-Daniel Pollet

Richard Quine

Rauacutel 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 StraubHuillet Rivette

Karel Reisz Hou Hsiao-Hsien Tarr Sokurov Ford Welles Tony Richardson Paradjanov Wilder Donen

Tarkovsky Doillon Huston Erin Dignam Abraham Polonsky Powell amp Pressburger Werner Schroeter

Robert Mulligan Pelechian Brakhage Woody Allen

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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

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Adrian MartinChantal Akerman

Boris Barnet

Carmelo Bene

John Cassavetes

Brian De Palma

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Peter Tscherkassky

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Rainer Knepperges

Raoul Walsh

Henry King

John Ford

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Leo McCarey

Alfred HitchcockVincente Minnelli

Blake Edwards

Henry Jaglom

Klaus Lemke

Martin Scorsese

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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

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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 Buntildeuel

Dariush Mehrjui + Masoud Kimiai

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Michelangelo Antonioni

David Lynch

Stan Brakhage

Takeshi Kitano

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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

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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

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Pouya Ahmadi

Andrei Tarkovsky

Robert Bresson

David Lynch

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Bela Tarr

Aki Kaurismaki

Philippe Garrell

Ken Loach

Hal Hartley

Christopher HonoreAtom Egoyan

Yorgos Lanthimos

Jann Clavadetscher

Jean-Luc Godard

Federico Fellini

Michelangelo Antonioni

Charles Chaplin

Franccedilois Truffaut

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre Melville

Orson Welles

Jacques Tati

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dziga VertovKrzysztof Kielowski

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Bahar Samadi

Bruce Conner

Joseph Cornell

Adrian Brunel

Ken Jacobs

Peter Gidal

Martin Arnold

Maurice Lemaitre

Jonathan Mcintosh

Beacutela Tarr

Andrei Tarkovsky

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Federico Fellini

Miguel Gomes

Rouzbeh Rashidi

Andrei Tarkovsky

Yasujir$ Ozu

Robert Bresson

Jean-Pierre Melville

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Jean-Luc Godard

Luchino Visconti

Aleksandr Sokurov

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel + Joatildeo Ceacutesar 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

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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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Kurosawa Akira

Mizoguchi Kenji

Orson Welles

Peter Tscherkassky

Peter Watkins

Robert Bresson

Yervant Gianikian amp Angela Ricci Lucchi

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Jason Mehlhorn

Chantal Akerman

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Claude Chabrol

Philippe Grandrieux

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Abbas Kiarostami

Krzysztof Kielowski

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Agnegraves Varda

Vicky Langan

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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

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Atoosa Pour Hosseini

Kaneto Shindocirc

Claire Denis

Brakhage + Mekas

Andrei Tarkovsky

Ingmar Bergman

Aleksandr Sokurov

Jan vankmajer

Sohrab Shahid Saless + Abbas Kiarostami

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Philippe Garrel

Yasujir$ Ozu

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Yves Sauriol

K$ji Wakamatsu

Hisayasu Sat$

Seijun Suzuki

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Peter Greenaway

Shampji Terayama

Yoshishige Yoshida

Dario Argento

Takashi Miike

Josef von SternbergAndrzej uawski

Sepehr Makan

Akira Kurosawa

Stanley Kubrick

Coen brothers

Michael Haneke

Quentin TarantinoFrancis Ford Coppola

Sergio Leone

Mike Leigh

David Fincher

Asghar Farhadi

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Jacques Audiard

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Willie Stewart

Ben Rivers

Jim Jarmusch

Sam Peckinpah

Wayne Wang

John Waters

Harmony Korine

Abbas Kiarostami

Aki Kaurismaumlki

John waters

Pat Collins

John CassavetesMichelangelo Antonioni

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Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujirocirc Ozu

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean-Luc Godard (late stuff especially)

Stan Brakhage

Chantal Akerman

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Isidore Isou amp 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

Ill limit myself to directors who havent been cited yet

(A Bakers Dozen +1)

Hal Ashby

Leos Carax

Zeki DemirkubuzElia Kazan

Henry King

Albert Lewin

Sidney Lumet

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Vincente Minnelli

Manoel de Oliveira

Maurice Pialat

Jean-Daniel Pollet

Richard Quine

Rauacutel 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 StraubHuillet Rivette

Karel Reisz Hou Hsiao-Hsien Tarr Sokurov Ford Welles Tony Richardson Paradjanov Wilder Donen

Tarkovsky Doillon Huston Erin Dignam Abraham Polonsky Powell amp Pressburger Werner Schroeter

Robert Mulligan Pelechian Brakhage Woody Allen

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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

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Adrian MartinChantal Akerman

Boris Barnet

Carmelo Bene

John Cassavetes

Brian De Palma

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Peter Tscherkassky

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Rainer Knepperges

Raoul Walsh

Henry King

John Ford

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Leo McCarey

Alfred HitchcockVincente Minnelli

Blake Edwards

Henry Jaglom

Klaus Lemke

Martin Scorsese

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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

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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

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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

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Pouya Ahmadi

Andrei Tarkovsky

Robert Bresson

David Lynch

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Bela Tarr

Aki Kaurismaki

Philippe Garrell

Ken Loach

Hal Hartley

Christopher HonoreAtom Egoyan

Yorgos Lanthimos

Jann Clavadetscher

Jean-Luc Godard

Federico Fellini

Michelangelo Antonioni

Charles Chaplin

Franccedilois Truffaut

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre Melville

Orson Welles

Jacques Tati

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dziga VertovKrzysztof Kielowski

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Bahar Samadi

Bruce Conner

Joseph Cornell

Adrian Brunel

Ken Jacobs

Peter Gidal

Martin Arnold

Maurice Lemaitre

Jonathan Mcintosh

Beacutela Tarr

Andrei Tarkovsky

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Federico Fellini

Miguel Gomes

Rouzbeh Rashidi

Andrei Tarkovsky

Yasujir$ Ozu

Robert Bresson

Jean-Pierre Melville

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Jean-Luc Godard

Luchino Visconti

Aleksandr Sokurov

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel + Joatildeo Ceacutesar 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

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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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Kurosawa Akira

Mizoguchi Kenji

Orson Welles

Peter Tscherkassky

Peter Watkins

Robert Bresson

Yervant Gianikian amp Angela Ricci Lucchi

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Jason Mehlhorn

Chantal Akerman

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Claude Chabrol

Philippe Grandrieux

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Abbas Kiarostami

Krzysztof Kielowski

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Agnegraves Varda

Vicky Langan

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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

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Atoosa Pour Hosseini

Kaneto Shindocirc

Claire Denis

Brakhage + Mekas

Andrei Tarkovsky

Ingmar Bergman

Aleksandr Sokurov

Jan vankmajer

Sohrab Shahid Saless + Abbas Kiarostami

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Philippe Garrel

Yasujir$ Ozu

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Yves Sauriol

K$ji Wakamatsu

Hisayasu Sat$

Seijun Suzuki

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Peter Greenaway

Shampji Terayama

Yoshishige Yoshida

Dario Argento

Takashi Miike

Josef von SternbergAndrzej uawski

Sepehr Makan

Akira Kurosawa

Stanley Kubrick

Coen brothers

Michael Haneke

Quentin TarantinoFrancis Ford Coppola

Sergio Leone

Mike Leigh

David Fincher

Asghar Farhadi

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Jacques Audiard

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Willie Stewart

Ben Rivers

Jim Jarmusch

Sam Peckinpah

Wayne Wang

John Waters

Harmony Korine

Abbas Kiarostami

Aki Kaurismaumlki

John waters

Pat Collins

John CassavetesMichelangelo Antonioni

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Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujirocirc Ozu

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean-Luc Godard (late stuff especially)

Stan Brakhage

Chantal Akerman

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Isidore Isou amp 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

Ill limit myself to directors who havent been cited yet

(A Bakers Dozen +1)

Hal Ashby

Leos Carax

Zeki DemirkubuzElia Kazan

Henry King

Albert Lewin

Sidney Lumet

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Vincente Minnelli

Manoel de Oliveira

Maurice Pialat

Jean-Daniel Pollet

Richard Quine

Rauacutel 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 StraubHuillet Rivette

Karel Reisz Hou Hsiao-Hsien Tarr Sokurov Ford Welles Tony Richardson Paradjanov Wilder Donen

Tarkovsky Doillon Huston Erin Dignam Abraham Polonsky Powell amp Pressburger Werner Schroeter

Robert Mulligan Pelechian Brakhage Woody Allen

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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

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Adrian MartinChantal Akerman

Boris Barnet

Carmelo Bene

John Cassavetes

Brian De Palma

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Peter Tscherkassky

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Rainer Knepperges

Raoul Walsh

Henry King

John Ford

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Leo McCarey

Alfred HitchcockVincente Minnelli

Blake Edwards

Henry Jaglom

Klaus Lemke

Martin Scorsese

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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

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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

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Pouya Ahmadi

Andrei Tarkovsky

Robert Bresson

David Lynch

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Bela Tarr

Aki Kaurismaki

Philippe Garrell

Ken Loach

Hal Hartley

Christopher HonoreAtom Egoyan

Yorgos Lanthimos

Jann Clavadetscher

Jean-Luc Godard

Federico Fellini

Michelangelo Antonioni

Charles Chaplin

Franccedilois Truffaut

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre Melville

Orson Welles

Jacques Tati

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dziga VertovKrzysztof Kielowski

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Bahar Samadi

Bruce Conner

Joseph Cornell

Adrian Brunel

Ken Jacobs

Peter Gidal

Martin Arnold

Maurice Lemaitre

Jonathan Mcintosh

Beacutela Tarr

Andrei Tarkovsky

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Federico Fellini

Miguel Gomes

Rouzbeh Rashidi

Andrei Tarkovsky

Yasujir$ Ozu

Robert Bresson

Jean-Pierre Melville

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Jean-Luc Godard

Luchino Visconti

Aleksandr Sokurov

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel + Joatildeo Ceacutesar 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

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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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Kurosawa Akira

Mizoguchi Kenji

Orson Welles

Peter Tscherkassky

Peter Watkins

Robert Bresson

Yervant Gianikian amp Angela Ricci Lucchi

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Jason Mehlhorn

Chantal Akerman

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Claude Chabrol

Philippe Grandrieux

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Abbas Kiarostami

Krzysztof Kielowski

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Agnegraves Varda

Vicky Langan

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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

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Atoosa Pour Hosseini

Kaneto Shindocirc

Claire Denis

Brakhage + Mekas

Andrei Tarkovsky

Ingmar Bergman

Aleksandr Sokurov

Jan vankmajer

Sohrab Shahid Saless + Abbas Kiarostami

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Philippe Garrel

Yasujir$ Ozu

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Yves Sauriol

K$ji Wakamatsu

Hisayasu Sat$

Seijun Suzuki

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Peter Greenaway

Shampji Terayama

Yoshishige Yoshida

Dario Argento

Takashi Miike

Josef von SternbergAndrzej uawski

Sepehr Makan

Akira Kurosawa

Stanley Kubrick

Coen brothers

Michael Haneke

Quentin TarantinoFrancis Ford Coppola

Sergio Leone

Mike Leigh

David Fincher

Asghar Farhadi

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Jacques Audiard

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Willie Stewart

Ben Rivers

Jim Jarmusch

Sam Peckinpah

Wayne Wang

John Waters

Harmony Korine

Abbas Kiarostami

Aki Kaurismaumlki

John waters

Pat Collins

John CassavetesMichelangelo Antonioni

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Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujirocirc Ozu

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean-Luc Godard (late stuff especially)

Stan Brakhage

Chantal Akerman

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Isidore Isou amp 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

Ill limit myself to directors who havent been cited yet

(A Bakers Dozen +1)

Hal Ashby

Leos Carax

Zeki DemirkubuzElia Kazan

Henry King

Albert Lewin

Sidney Lumet

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Vincente Minnelli

Manoel de Oliveira

Maurice Pialat

Jean-Daniel Pollet

Richard Quine

Rauacutel 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 StraubHuillet Rivette

Karel Reisz Hou Hsiao-Hsien Tarr Sokurov Ford Welles Tony Richardson Paradjanov Wilder Donen

Tarkovsky Doillon Huston Erin Dignam Abraham Polonsky Powell amp Pressburger Werner Schroeter

Robert Mulligan Pelechian Brakhage Woody Allen

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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

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Adrian MartinChantal Akerman

Boris Barnet

Carmelo Bene

John Cassavetes

Brian De Palma

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Peter Tscherkassky

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Rainer Knepperges

Raoul Walsh

Henry King

John Ford

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Leo McCarey

Alfred HitchcockVincente Minnelli

Blake Edwards

Henry Jaglom

Klaus Lemke

Martin Scorsese

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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

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Pouya Ahmadi

Andrei Tarkovsky

Robert Bresson

David Lynch

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Bela Tarr

Aki Kaurismaki

Philippe Garrell

Ken Loach

Hal Hartley

Christopher HonoreAtom Egoyan

Yorgos Lanthimos

Jann Clavadetscher

Jean-Luc Godard

Federico Fellini

Michelangelo Antonioni

Charles Chaplin

Franccedilois Truffaut

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre Melville

Orson Welles

Jacques Tati

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dziga VertovKrzysztof Kielowski

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Bahar Samadi

Bruce Conner

Joseph Cornell

Adrian Brunel

Ken Jacobs

Peter Gidal

Martin Arnold

Maurice Lemaitre

Jonathan Mcintosh

Beacutela Tarr

Andrei Tarkovsky

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Federico Fellini

Miguel Gomes

Rouzbeh Rashidi

Andrei Tarkovsky

Yasujir$ Ozu

Robert Bresson

Jean-Pierre Melville

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Jean-Luc Godard

Luchino Visconti

Aleksandr Sokurov

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel + Joatildeo Ceacutesar 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

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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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Kurosawa Akira

Mizoguchi Kenji

Orson Welles

Peter Tscherkassky

Peter Watkins

Robert Bresson

Yervant Gianikian amp Angela Ricci Lucchi

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Jason Mehlhorn

Chantal Akerman

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Claude Chabrol

Philippe Grandrieux

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Abbas Kiarostami

Krzysztof Kielowski

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Agnegraves Varda

Vicky Langan

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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

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Atoosa Pour Hosseini

Kaneto Shindocirc

Claire Denis

Brakhage + Mekas

Andrei Tarkovsky

Ingmar Bergman

Aleksandr Sokurov

Jan vankmajer

Sohrab Shahid Saless + Abbas Kiarostami

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Philippe Garrel

Yasujir$ Ozu

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Yves Sauriol

K$ji Wakamatsu

Hisayasu Sat$

Seijun Suzuki

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Peter Greenaway

Shampji Terayama

Yoshishige Yoshida

Dario Argento

Takashi Miike

Josef von SternbergAndrzej uawski

Sepehr Makan

Akira Kurosawa

Stanley Kubrick

Coen brothers

Michael Haneke

Quentin TarantinoFrancis Ford Coppola

Sergio Leone

Mike Leigh

David Fincher

Asghar Farhadi

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Jacques Audiard

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Willie Stewart

Ben Rivers

Jim Jarmusch

Sam Peckinpah

Wayne Wang

John Waters

Harmony Korine

Abbas Kiarostami

Aki Kaurismaumlki

John waters

Pat Collins

John CassavetesMichelangelo Antonioni

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Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujirocirc Ozu

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean-Luc Godard (late stuff especially)

Stan Brakhage

Chantal Akerman

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Isidore Isou amp 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

Ill limit myself to directors who havent been cited yet

(A Bakers Dozen +1)

Hal Ashby

Leos Carax

Zeki DemirkubuzElia Kazan

Henry King

Albert Lewin

Sidney Lumet

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Vincente Minnelli

Manoel de Oliveira

Maurice Pialat

Jean-Daniel Pollet

Richard Quine

Rauacutel 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 StraubHuillet Rivette

Karel Reisz Hou Hsiao-Hsien Tarr Sokurov Ford Welles Tony Richardson Paradjanov Wilder Donen

Tarkovsky Doillon Huston Erin Dignam Abraham Polonsky Powell amp Pressburger Werner Schroeter

Robert Mulligan Pelechian Brakhage Woody Allen

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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

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Adrian MartinChantal Akerman

Boris Barnet

Carmelo Bene

John Cassavetes

Brian De Palma

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Peter Tscherkassky

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Rainer Knepperges

Raoul Walsh

Henry King

John Ford

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Leo McCarey

Alfred HitchcockVincente Minnelli

Blake Edwards

Henry Jaglom

Klaus Lemke

Martin Scorsese

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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

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Bahar Samadi

Bruce Conner

Joseph Cornell

Adrian Brunel

Ken Jacobs

Peter Gidal

Martin Arnold

Maurice Lemaitre

Jonathan Mcintosh

Beacutela Tarr

Andrei Tarkovsky

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Federico Fellini

Miguel Gomes

Rouzbeh Rashidi

Andrei Tarkovsky

Yasujir$ Ozu

Robert Bresson

Jean-Pierre Melville

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Jean-Luc Godard

Luchino Visconti

Aleksandr Sokurov

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel + Joatildeo Ceacutesar 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

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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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Kurosawa Akira

Mizoguchi Kenji

Orson Welles

Peter Tscherkassky

Peter Watkins

Robert Bresson

Yervant Gianikian amp Angela Ricci Lucchi

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Jason Mehlhorn

Chantal Akerman

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Claude Chabrol

Philippe Grandrieux

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Abbas Kiarostami

Krzysztof Kielowski

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Agnegraves Varda

Vicky Langan

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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

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Atoosa Pour Hosseini

Kaneto Shindocirc

Claire Denis

Brakhage + Mekas

Andrei Tarkovsky

Ingmar Bergman

Aleksandr Sokurov

Jan vankmajer

Sohrab Shahid Saless + Abbas Kiarostami

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Philippe Garrel

Yasujir$ Ozu

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Yves Sauriol

K$ji Wakamatsu

Hisayasu Sat$

Seijun Suzuki

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Peter Greenaway

Shampji Terayama

Yoshishige Yoshida

Dario Argento

Takashi Miike

Josef von SternbergAndrzej uawski

Sepehr Makan

Akira Kurosawa

Stanley Kubrick

Coen brothers

Michael Haneke

Quentin TarantinoFrancis Ford Coppola

Sergio Leone

Mike Leigh

David Fincher

Asghar Farhadi

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Jacques Audiard

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Willie Stewart

Ben Rivers

Jim Jarmusch

Sam Peckinpah

Wayne Wang

John Waters

Harmony Korine

Abbas Kiarostami

Aki Kaurismaumlki

John waters

Pat Collins

John CassavetesMichelangelo Antonioni

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Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujirocirc Ozu

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean-Luc Godard (late stuff especially)

Stan Brakhage

Chantal Akerman

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Isidore Isou amp 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

Ill limit myself to directors who havent been cited yet

(A Bakers Dozen +1)

Hal Ashby

Leos Carax

Zeki DemirkubuzElia Kazan

Henry King

Albert Lewin

Sidney Lumet

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Vincente Minnelli

Manoel de Oliveira

Maurice Pialat

Jean-Daniel Pollet

Richard Quine

Rauacutel 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 StraubHuillet Rivette

Karel Reisz Hou Hsiao-Hsien Tarr Sokurov Ford Welles Tony Richardson Paradjanov Wilder Donen

Tarkovsky Doillon Huston Erin Dignam Abraham Polonsky Powell amp Pressburger Werner Schroeter

Robert Mulligan Pelechian Brakhage Woody Allen

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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

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Adrian MartinChantal Akerman

Boris Barnet

Carmelo Bene

John Cassavetes

Brian De Palma

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Peter Tscherkassky

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Rainer Knepperges

Raoul Walsh

Henry King

John Ford

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Leo McCarey

Alfred HitchcockVincente Minnelli

Blake Edwards

Henry Jaglom

Klaus Lemke

Martin Scorsese

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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

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Jean-Luc Godard

Luchino Visconti

Aleksandr Sokurov

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel + Joatildeo Ceacutesar 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

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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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Kurosawa Akira

Mizoguchi Kenji

Orson Welles

Peter Tscherkassky

Peter Watkins

Robert Bresson

Yervant Gianikian amp Angela Ricci Lucchi

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Jason Mehlhorn

Chantal Akerman

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Claude Chabrol

Philippe Grandrieux

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Abbas Kiarostami

Krzysztof Kielowski

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Agnegraves Varda

Vicky Langan

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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

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Atoosa Pour Hosseini

Kaneto Shindocirc

Claire Denis

Brakhage + Mekas

Andrei Tarkovsky

Ingmar Bergman

Aleksandr Sokurov

Jan vankmajer

Sohrab Shahid Saless + Abbas Kiarostami

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Philippe Garrel

Yasujir$ Ozu

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Yves Sauriol

K$ji Wakamatsu

Hisayasu Sat$

Seijun Suzuki

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Peter Greenaway

Shampji Terayama

Yoshishige Yoshida

Dario Argento

Takashi Miike

Josef von SternbergAndrzej uawski

Sepehr Makan

Akira Kurosawa

Stanley Kubrick

Coen brothers

Michael Haneke

Quentin TarantinoFrancis Ford Coppola

Sergio Leone

Mike Leigh

David Fincher

Asghar Farhadi

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Jacques Audiard

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Willie Stewart

Ben Rivers

Jim Jarmusch

Sam Peckinpah

Wayne Wang

John Waters

Harmony Korine

Abbas Kiarostami

Aki Kaurismaumlki

John waters

Pat Collins

John CassavetesMichelangelo Antonioni

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Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujirocirc Ozu

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean-Luc Godard (late stuff especially)

Stan Brakhage

Chantal Akerman

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Isidore Isou amp 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

Ill limit myself to directors who havent been cited yet

(A Bakers Dozen +1)

Hal Ashby

Leos Carax

Zeki DemirkubuzElia Kazan

Henry King

Albert Lewin

Sidney Lumet

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Vincente Minnelli

Manoel de Oliveira

Maurice Pialat

Jean-Daniel Pollet

Richard Quine

Rauacutel 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 StraubHuillet Rivette

Karel Reisz Hou Hsiao-Hsien Tarr Sokurov Ford Welles Tony Richardson Paradjanov Wilder Donen

Tarkovsky Doillon Huston Erin Dignam Abraham Polonsky Powell amp Pressburger Werner Schroeter

Robert Mulligan Pelechian Brakhage Woody Allen

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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

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Adrian MartinChantal Akerman

Boris Barnet

Carmelo Bene

John Cassavetes

Brian De Palma

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Peter Tscherkassky

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Rainer Knepperges

Raoul Walsh

Henry King

John Ford

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Leo McCarey

Alfred HitchcockVincente Minnelli

Blake Edwards

Henry Jaglom

Klaus Lemke

Martin Scorsese

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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

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Kurosawa Akira

Mizoguchi Kenji

Orson Welles

Peter Tscherkassky

Peter Watkins

Robert Bresson

Yervant Gianikian amp Angela Ricci Lucchi

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Jason Mehlhorn

Chantal Akerman

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Claude Chabrol

Philippe Grandrieux

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Abbas Kiarostami

Krzysztof Kielowski

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Agnegraves Varda

Vicky Langan

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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

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Atoosa Pour Hosseini

Kaneto Shindocirc

Claire Denis

Brakhage + Mekas

Andrei Tarkovsky

Ingmar Bergman

Aleksandr Sokurov

Jan vankmajer

Sohrab Shahid Saless + Abbas Kiarostami

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Philippe Garrel

Yasujir$ Ozu

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Yves Sauriol

K$ji Wakamatsu

Hisayasu Sat$

Seijun Suzuki

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Peter Greenaway

Shampji Terayama

Yoshishige Yoshida

Dario Argento

Takashi Miike

Josef von SternbergAndrzej uawski

Sepehr Makan

Akira Kurosawa

Stanley Kubrick

Coen brothers

Michael Haneke

Quentin TarantinoFrancis Ford Coppola

Sergio Leone

Mike Leigh

David Fincher

Asghar Farhadi

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Jacques Audiard

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Willie Stewart

Ben Rivers

Jim Jarmusch

Sam Peckinpah

Wayne Wang

John Waters

Harmony Korine

Abbas Kiarostami

Aki Kaurismaumlki

John waters

Pat Collins

John CassavetesMichelangelo Antonioni

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Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujirocirc Ozu

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean-Luc Godard (late stuff especially)

Stan Brakhage

Chantal Akerman

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Isidore Isou amp 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

Ill limit myself to directors who havent been cited yet

(A Bakers Dozen +1)

Hal Ashby

Leos Carax

Zeki DemirkubuzElia Kazan

Henry King

Albert Lewin

Sidney Lumet

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Vincente Minnelli

Manoel de Oliveira

Maurice Pialat

Jean-Daniel Pollet

Richard Quine

Rauacutel 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 StraubHuillet Rivette

Karel Reisz Hou Hsiao-Hsien Tarr Sokurov Ford Welles Tony Richardson Paradjanov Wilder Donen

Tarkovsky Doillon Huston Erin Dignam Abraham Polonsky Powell amp Pressburger Werner Schroeter

Robert Mulligan Pelechian Brakhage Woody Allen

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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

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Adrian MartinChantal Akerman

Boris Barnet

Carmelo Bene

John Cassavetes

Brian De Palma

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Peter Tscherkassky

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Rainer Knepperges

Raoul Walsh

Henry King

John Ford

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Leo McCarey

Alfred HitchcockVincente Minnelli

Blake Edwards

Henry Jaglom

Klaus Lemke

Martin Scorsese

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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

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Kurosawa Akira

Mizoguchi Kenji

Orson Welles

Peter Tscherkassky

Peter Watkins

Robert Bresson

Yervant Gianikian amp Angela Ricci Lucchi

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Jason Mehlhorn

Chantal Akerman

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Claude Chabrol

Philippe Grandrieux

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Abbas Kiarostami

Krzysztof Kielowski

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Agnegraves Varda

Vicky Langan

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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

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Atoosa Pour Hosseini

Kaneto Shindocirc

Claire Denis

Brakhage + Mekas

Andrei Tarkovsky

Ingmar Bergman

Aleksandr Sokurov

Jan vankmajer

Sohrab Shahid Saless + Abbas Kiarostami

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Philippe Garrel

Yasujir$ Ozu

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Yves Sauriol

K$ji Wakamatsu

Hisayasu Sat$

Seijun Suzuki

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Peter Greenaway

Shampji Terayama

Yoshishige Yoshida

Dario Argento

Takashi Miike

Josef von SternbergAndrzej uawski

Sepehr Makan

Akira Kurosawa

Stanley Kubrick

Coen brothers

Michael Haneke

Quentin TarantinoFrancis Ford Coppola

Sergio Leone

Mike Leigh

David Fincher

Asghar Farhadi

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Jacques Audiard

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Willie Stewart

Ben Rivers

Jim Jarmusch

Sam Peckinpah

Wayne Wang

John Waters

Harmony Korine

Abbas Kiarostami

Aki Kaurismaumlki

John waters

Pat Collins

John CassavetesMichelangelo Antonioni

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Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujirocirc Ozu

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean-Luc Godard (late stuff especially)

Stan Brakhage

Chantal Akerman

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Isidore Isou amp 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

Ill limit myself to directors who havent been cited yet

(A Bakers Dozen +1)

Hal Ashby

Leos Carax

Zeki DemirkubuzElia Kazan

Henry King

Albert Lewin

Sidney Lumet

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Vincente Minnelli

Manoel de Oliveira

Maurice Pialat

Jean-Daniel Pollet

Richard Quine

Rauacutel 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 StraubHuillet Rivette

Karel Reisz Hou Hsiao-Hsien Tarr Sokurov Ford Welles Tony Richardson Paradjanov Wilder Donen

Tarkovsky Doillon Huston Erin Dignam Abraham Polonsky Powell amp Pressburger Werner Schroeter

Robert Mulligan Pelechian Brakhage Woody Allen

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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

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Adrian MartinChantal Akerman

Boris Barnet

Carmelo Bene

John Cassavetes

Brian De Palma

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Peter Tscherkassky

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Rainer Knepperges

Raoul Walsh

Henry King

John Ford

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Leo McCarey

Alfred HitchcockVincente Minnelli

Blake Edwards

Henry Jaglom

Klaus Lemke

Martin Scorsese

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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

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Jason Mehlhorn

Chantal Akerman

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Claude Chabrol

Philippe Grandrieux

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Abbas Kiarostami

Krzysztof Kielowski

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Agnegraves Varda

Vicky Langan

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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

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Atoosa Pour Hosseini

Kaneto Shindocirc

Claire Denis

Brakhage + Mekas

Andrei Tarkovsky

Ingmar Bergman

Aleksandr Sokurov

Jan vankmajer

Sohrab Shahid Saless + Abbas Kiarostami

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Philippe Garrel

Yasujir$ Ozu

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Yves Sauriol

K$ji Wakamatsu

Hisayasu Sat$

Seijun Suzuki

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Peter Greenaway

Shampji Terayama

Yoshishige Yoshida

Dario Argento

Takashi Miike

Josef von SternbergAndrzej uawski

Sepehr Makan

Akira Kurosawa

Stanley Kubrick

Coen brothers

Michael Haneke

Quentin TarantinoFrancis Ford Coppola

Sergio Leone

Mike Leigh

David Fincher

Asghar Farhadi

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Jacques Audiard

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Willie Stewart

Ben Rivers

Jim Jarmusch

Sam Peckinpah

Wayne Wang

John Waters

Harmony Korine

Abbas Kiarostami

Aki Kaurismaumlki

John waters

Pat Collins

John CassavetesMichelangelo Antonioni

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Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujirocirc Ozu

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean-Luc Godard (late stuff especially)

Stan Brakhage

Chantal Akerman

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Isidore Isou amp 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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Ill limit myself to directors who havent been cited yet

(A Bakers Dozen +1)

Hal Ashby

Leos Carax

Zeki DemirkubuzElia Kazan

Henry King

Albert Lewin

Sidney Lumet

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Vincente Minnelli

Manoel de Oliveira

Maurice Pialat

Jean-Daniel Pollet

Richard Quine

Rauacutel 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 StraubHuillet Rivette

Karel Reisz Hou Hsiao-Hsien Tarr Sokurov Ford Welles Tony Richardson Paradjanov Wilder Donen

Tarkovsky Doillon Huston Erin Dignam Abraham Polonsky Powell amp Pressburger Werner Schroeter

Robert Mulligan Pelechian Brakhage Woody Allen

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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

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Adrian MartinChantal Akerman

Boris Barnet

Carmelo Bene

John Cassavetes

Brian De Palma

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Peter Tscherkassky

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Rainer Knepperges

Raoul Walsh

Henry King

John Ford

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Leo McCarey

Alfred HitchcockVincente Minnelli

Blake Edwards

Henry Jaglom

Klaus Lemke

Martin Scorsese

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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

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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

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Atoosa Pour Hosseini

Kaneto Shindocirc

Claire Denis

Brakhage + Mekas

Andrei Tarkovsky

Ingmar Bergman

Aleksandr Sokurov

Jan vankmajer

Sohrab Shahid Saless + Abbas Kiarostami

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Philippe Garrel

Yasujir$ Ozu

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Yves Sauriol

K$ji Wakamatsu

Hisayasu Sat$

Seijun Suzuki

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Peter Greenaway

Shampji Terayama

Yoshishige Yoshida

Dario Argento

Takashi Miike

Josef von SternbergAndrzej uawski

Sepehr Makan

Akira Kurosawa

Stanley Kubrick

Coen brothers

Michael Haneke

Quentin TarantinoFrancis Ford Coppola

Sergio Leone

Mike Leigh

David Fincher

Asghar Farhadi

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Jacques Audiard

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Willie Stewart

Ben Rivers

Jim Jarmusch

Sam Peckinpah

Wayne Wang

John Waters

Harmony Korine

Abbas Kiarostami

Aki Kaurismaumlki

John waters

Pat Collins

John CassavetesMichelangelo Antonioni

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Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujirocirc Ozu

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean-Luc Godard (late stuff especially)

Stan Brakhage

Chantal Akerman

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Isidore Isou amp 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

Ill limit myself to directors who havent been cited yet

(A Bakers Dozen +1)

Hal Ashby

Leos Carax

Zeki DemirkubuzElia Kazan

Henry King

Albert Lewin

Sidney Lumet

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Vincente Minnelli

Manoel de Oliveira

Maurice Pialat

Jean-Daniel Pollet

Richard Quine

Rauacutel 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 StraubHuillet Rivette

Karel Reisz Hou Hsiao-Hsien Tarr Sokurov Ford Welles Tony Richardson Paradjanov Wilder Donen

Tarkovsky Doillon Huston Erin Dignam Abraham Polonsky Powell amp Pressburger Werner Schroeter

Robert Mulligan Pelechian Brakhage Woody Allen

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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

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Adrian MartinChantal Akerman

Boris Barnet

Carmelo Bene

John Cassavetes

Brian De Palma

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Peter Tscherkassky

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Rainer Knepperges

Raoul Walsh

Henry King

John Ford

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Leo McCarey

Alfred HitchcockVincente Minnelli

Blake Edwards

Henry Jaglom

Klaus Lemke

Martin Scorsese

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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

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Atoosa Pour Hosseini

Kaneto Shindocirc

Claire Denis

Brakhage + Mekas

Andrei Tarkovsky

Ingmar Bergman

Aleksandr Sokurov

Jan vankmajer

Sohrab Shahid Saless + Abbas Kiarostami

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Philippe Garrel

Yasujir$ Ozu

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Yves Sauriol

K$ji Wakamatsu

Hisayasu Sat$

Seijun Suzuki

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Peter Greenaway

Shampji Terayama

Yoshishige Yoshida

Dario Argento

Takashi Miike

Josef von SternbergAndrzej uawski

Sepehr Makan

Akira Kurosawa

Stanley Kubrick

Coen brothers

Michael Haneke

Quentin TarantinoFrancis Ford Coppola

Sergio Leone

Mike Leigh

David Fincher

Asghar Farhadi

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Jacques Audiard

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Willie Stewart

Ben Rivers

Jim Jarmusch

Sam Peckinpah

Wayne Wang

John Waters

Harmony Korine

Abbas Kiarostami

Aki Kaurismaumlki

John waters

Pat Collins

John CassavetesMichelangelo Antonioni

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Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujirocirc Ozu

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean-Luc Godard (late stuff especially)

Stan Brakhage

Chantal Akerman

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Isidore Isou amp 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

Ill limit myself to directors who havent been cited yet

(A Bakers Dozen +1)

Hal Ashby

Leos Carax

Zeki DemirkubuzElia Kazan

Henry King

Albert Lewin

Sidney Lumet

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Vincente Minnelli

Manoel de Oliveira

Maurice Pialat

Jean-Daniel Pollet

Richard Quine

Rauacutel 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 StraubHuillet Rivette

Karel Reisz Hou Hsiao-Hsien Tarr Sokurov Ford Welles Tony Richardson Paradjanov Wilder Donen

Tarkovsky Doillon Huston Erin Dignam Abraham Polonsky Powell amp Pressburger Werner Schroeter

Robert Mulligan Pelechian Brakhage Woody Allen

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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

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Adrian MartinChantal Akerman

Boris Barnet

Carmelo Bene

John Cassavetes

Brian De Palma

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Peter Tscherkassky

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Rainer Knepperges

Raoul Walsh

Henry King

John Ford

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Leo McCarey

Alfred HitchcockVincente Minnelli

Blake Edwards

Henry Jaglom

Klaus Lemke

Martin Scorsese

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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

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Yves Sauriol

K$ji Wakamatsu

Hisayasu Sat$

Seijun Suzuki

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Peter Greenaway

Shampji Terayama

Yoshishige Yoshida

Dario Argento

Takashi Miike

Josef von SternbergAndrzej uawski

Sepehr Makan

Akira Kurosawa

Stanley Kubrick

Coen brothers

Michael Haneke

Quentin TarantinoFrancis Ford Coppola

Sergio Leone

Mike Leigh

David Fincher

Asghar Farhadi

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Jacques Audiard

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Willie Stewart

Ben Rivers

Jim Jarmusch

Sam Peckinpah

Wayne Wang

John Waters

Harmony Korine

Abbas Kiarostami

Aki Kaurismaumlki

John waters

Pat Collins

John CassavetesMichelangelo Antonioni

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Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujirocirc Ozu

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean-Luc Godard (late stuff especially)

Stan Brakhage

Chantal Akerman

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Isidore Isou amp 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

Ill limit myself to directors who havent been cited yet

(A Bakers Dozen +1)

Hal Ashby

Leos Carax

Zeki DemirkubuzElia Kazan

Henry King

Albert Lewin

Sidney Lumet

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Vincente Minnelli

Manoel de Oliveira

Maurice Pialat

Jean-Daniel Pollet

Richard Quine

Rauacutel 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 StraubHuillet Rivette

Karel Reisz Hou Hsiao-Hsien Tarr Sokurov Ford Welles Tony Richardson Paradjanov Wilder Donen

Tarkovsky Doillon Huston Erin Dignam Abraham Polonsky Powell amp Pressburger Werner Schroeter

Robert Mulligan Pelechian Brakhage Woody Allen

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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

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Adrian MartinChantal Akerman

Boris Barnet

Carmelo Bene

John Cassavetes

Brian De Palma

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Peter Tscherkassky

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Rainer Knepperges

Raoul Walsh

Henry King

John Ford

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Leo McCarey

Alfred HitchcockVincente Minnelli

Blake Edwards

Henry Jaglom

Klaus Lemke

Martin Scorsese

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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

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Willie Stewart

Ben Rivers

Jim Jarmusch

Sam Peckinpah

Wayne Wang

John Waters

Harmony Korine

Abbas Kiarostami

Aki Kaurismaumlki

John waters

Pat Collins

John CassavetesMichelangelo Antonioni

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Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujirocirc Ozu

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean-Luc Godard (late stuff especially)

Stan Brakhage

Chantal Akerman

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Isidore Isou amp 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

Ill limit myself to directors who havent been cited yet

(A Bakers Dozen +1)

Hal Ashby

Leos Carax

Zeki DemirkubuzElia Kazan

Henry King

Albert Lewin

Sidney Lumet

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Vincente Minnelli

Manoel de Oliveira

Maurice Pialat

Jean-Daniel Pollet

Richard Quine

Rauacutel 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 StraubHuillet Rivette

Karel Reisz Hou Hsiao-Hsien Tarr Sokurov Ford Welles Tony Richardson Paradjanov Wilder Donen

Tarkovsky Doillon Huston Erin Dignam Abraham Polonsky Powell amp Pressburger Werner Schroeter

Robert Mulligan Pelechian Brakhage Woody Allen

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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

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Adrian MartinChantal Akerman

Boris Barnet

Carmelo Bene

John Cassavetes

Brian De Palma

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Peter Tscherkassky

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Rainer Knepperges

Raoul Walsh

Henry King

John Ford

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Leo McCarey

Alfred HitchcockVincente Minnelli

Blake Edwards

Henry Jaglom

Klaus Lemke

Martin Scorsese

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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

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujirocirc Ozu

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean-Luc Godard (late stuff especially)

Stan Brakhage

Chantal Akerman

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Isidore Isou amp 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

Ill limit myself to directors who havent been cited yet

(A Bakers Dozen +1)

Hal Ashby

Leos Carax

Zeki DemirkubuzElia Kazan

Henry King

Albert Lewin

Sidney Lumet

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Vincente Minnelli

Manoel de Oliveira

Maurice Pialat

Jean-Daniel Pollet

Richard Quine

Rauacutel 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 StraubHuillet Rivette

Karel Reisz Hou Hsiao-Hsien Tarr Sokurov Ford Welles Tony Richardson Paradjanov Wilder Donen

Tarkovsky Doillon Huston Erin Dignam Abraham Polonsky Powell amp Pressburger Werner Schroeter

Robert Mulligan Pelechian Brakhage Woody Allen

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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

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Adrian MartinChantal Akerman

Boris Barnet

Carmelo Bene

John Cassavetes

Brian De Palma

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Peter Tscherkassky

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Rainer Knepperges

Raoul Walsh

Henry King

John Ford

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Leo McCarey

Alfred HitchcockVincente Minnelli

Blake Edwards

Henry Jaglom

Klaus Lemke

Martin Scorsese

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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

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujirocirc Ozu

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean-Luc Godard (late stuff especially)

Stan Brakhage

Chantal Akerman

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Isidore Isou amp 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

Ill limit myself to directors who havent been cited yet

(A Bakers Dozen +1)

Hal Ashby

Leos Carax

Zeki DemirkubuzElia Kazan

Henry King

Albert Lewin

Sidney Lumet

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Vincente Minnelli

Manoel de Oliveira

Maurice Pialat

Jean-Daniel Pollet

Richard Quine

Rauacutel 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 StraubHuillet Rivette

Karel Reisz Hou Hsiao-Hsien Tarr Sokurov Ford Welles Tony Richardson Paradjanov Wilder Donen

Tarkovsky Doillon Huston Erin Dignam Abraham Polonsky Powell amp Pressburger Werner Schroeter

Robert Mulligan Pelechian Brakhage Woody Allen

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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

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Adrian MartinChantal Akerman

Boris Barnet

Carmelo Bene

John Cassavetes

Brian De Palma

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Peter Tscherkassky

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Rainer Knepperges

Raoul Walsh

Henry King

John Ford

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Leo McCarey

Alfred HitchcockVincente Minnelli

Blake Edwards

Henry Jaglom

Klaus Lemke

Martin Scorsese

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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

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Fergus Daly

Ill limit myself to directors who havent been cited yet

(A Bakers Dozen +1)

Hal Ashby

Leos Carax

Zeki DemirkubuzElia Kazan

Henry King

Albert Lewin

Sidney Lumet

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Vincente Minnelli

Manoel de Oliveira

Maurice Pialat

Jean-Daniel Pollet

Richard Quine

Rauacutel 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 StraubHuillet Rivette

Karel Reisz Hou Hsiao-Hsien Tarr Sokurov Ford Welles Tony Richardson Paradjanov Wilder Donen

Tarkovsky Doillon Huston Erin Dignam Abraham Polonsky Powell amp Pressburger Werner Schroeter

Robert Mulligan Pelechian Brakhage Woody Allen

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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

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Adrian MartinChantal Akerman

Boris Barnet

Carmelo Bene

John Cassavetes

Brian De Palma

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Peter Tscherkassky

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Rainer Knepperges

Raoul Walsh

Henry King

John Ford

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Leo McCarey

Alfred HitchcockVincente Minnelli

Blake Edwards

Henry Jaglom

Klaus Lemke

Martin Scorsese

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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

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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

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Adrian MartinChantal Akerman

Boris Barnet

Carmelo Bene

John Cassavetes

Brian De Palma

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Peter Tscherkassky

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Rainer Knepperges

Raoul Walsh

Henry King

John Ford

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Leo McCarey

Alfred HitchcockVincente Minnelli

Blake Edwards

Henry Jaglom

Klaus Lemke

Martin Scorsese

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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

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Adrian MartinChantal Akerman

Boris Barnet

Carmelo Bene

John Cassavetes

Brian De Palma

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Peter Tscherkassky

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Rainer Knepperges

Raoul Walsh

Henry King

John Ford

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Leo McCarey

Alfred HitchcockVincente Minnelli

Blake Edwards

Henry Jaglom

Klaus Lemke

Martin Scorsese

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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

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Rainer Knepperges

Raoul Walsh

Henry King

John Ford

Henry Hathaway

Howard Hawks

Leo McCarey

Alfred HitchcockVincente Minnelli

Blake Edwards

Henry Jaglom

Klaus Lemke

Martin Scorsese

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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

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Claudia Siefen

Josef von Sternberg

RW Fassbinder

David Lean

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves 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 Almodoacutevar 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

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Hesam Amiri

Mikloacutes Jancsoacute

Werner Schroeter

Chris Marker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Shunji Iwai

Marco Ferreri

Micheal Snow

Alexander Sokurov

Robert Bresson

Kon Ichikawa

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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KJ Farrington

In no particular order

Luis Bunuel

Nicholas Ray

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

MA (initials alone should suffice here)

Abel Ferrera

Chris Marker

RW 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 thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Nicole Brenez

Favorite Twelve Filmmakers

I put my very best friends out of the list but thatrsquos unfair Philippe Grandrieux FJ Ossang Lionel

Soukaz

Masao Adachi

Stan Brakhage amp Jonas Mekas

Ken Brown et Pierre Cleacutementi

Jean Epstein

Jean-Luc Godard

Ange Leccia

Ulrike Meinhof amp Holger Meins

Jocelyne Saab

Rui Simoes

Anthony Stern amp Peter Whitehead

Joseacute Val del Omar

Reneacute Vautier

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Claudia Basrawi

Elia Kazan

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Anatole Litvak

Ernst Lubitsch

Roman Polanski

Sidney Lumet

Stanley Kubrick

Roberto Rossellini

Pawe Pawlikowski

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Josef von Sternberg

Claude Chabrol

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Aacutengel RuedaJoseacute Val del Omar

Claudio Caldini

Nathaniel Dorsky

Michael Snow

Anthony McCall

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Gregory Markopoulos

Stan Brakhage

Guy Sherwin

Takashi Ito

Takahiko Iimura

Peter Kubelka

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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)

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Anja CzioskaDimitri 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

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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 todayrsquos 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 Yoursquore 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 morehellip

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Claus Loumlser

Luis Buntildeuel

Vra Chytilovaacute

Jean-Luc Godard

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Nagisa (shima

Sergei Paradschanow

Harry Smith

Agnegraves Varda

Varda Lars von Trier

Andrzej uawski

Rinaldo Censi

Paul Sharits

Eric Von Stroheim

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Jacques Tourneur

Joseph H Lewis

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Jack Arnold

Buster Keaton

Ernie Gehr

Andy Warhol

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Kurt Kren

Tex Avery

Joe McElhaney

Chaplin

Ford

Lang

Mizoguchi

Hitchcock

Buntildeuel

Cornell

Minnelli

Resnais

Pasolini

Warhol

Fassbinder

Self-imposed restrictions No one after Fassbinder No one still alive unless they are over ninety

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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John MacKay

Kenji Mizoguchi

Charles Burnett

Chantal Akerman

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Paradzhanov

Aleksej German

Carl Theodor DreyerChris Marker

Djibril Diop Mambety

Ken Jacobs

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Forough Farrokhzad

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Girish Shambu

I want to name only women

Maya Deren

Daniegravele Huillet

Claire Denis

Chantal Akerman

Marguerite Duras

Agnegraves Varda

Elaine May

Catherine Breillat

Kira MuratovaDorothy Arzner

Vra Chytilovaacute

Kelly Reichardt

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Albert AlcozDziga Vertov

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stan Brakhage

Michael Snow

Andy Warhol

Jonas Mekas

Bruce Conner

Ivaacuten Zulueta

Craig Baldwin

Ross McElwee

Gary Hill

Leighton Pierce

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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 Buntildeuel

I also canrsquot ignore great directors such as Akira Kurosawa Mikloacutes Jancsoacute Orson Wells Franchesco

Rosie Federico Fellini Coenrsquos 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 Meacuteliegraves

David Lynch

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Marcel Ophuumlls

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Abbas Kiarostami

Jean-Luc Godard

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Haneke

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Saul Levine

Maya Deren

Marie Menken

Viking Eggeling

Stan Brakhage

Buster Keaton

Charles ChaplinCarolee Schneemann

Len Lye

Jack Smith

Gregory Markopoulos

Andy Warhol

Ulrike Ottinger

Chick Strand

Gunvor Nelson

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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 JacobsBuster Keaton

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Sara Freeman

When I make these types of lists I enjoy looking at this ridiculously hard task from two perspectives ndash

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

DW Griffith

Kenji Mizoguchi

Vincente Minnelli

John McTiernan

Dorothy Arzner

Stan Brakhage

Roberto Rossellini

Douglas Sirk

John Ford

Johnnie ToGeorge Cukor

I hope the aliens look at these guys and gals too Fritz Lang Michael Snow John Carpenter Ida

Lupino Claude Chabrol Jacques Rivette Martin Fric Edgar G Ulmer Samuel Fuller John M Stahl

Michael Mann Frank Borzage Frank Tashlin Jerry Lewis Raoul Walsh Nicholas Ray Larry Cohen Georges

Melies Jane Campion Allan Dwan Josef Von Sternberg Yasujiro Ozu Mikio Naruse Robert Mulligan Max

Ophuls and Buster Keaton

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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 BergmanAlain Resnais

Ming-liang Tsai

Victor Erice

Federico Fellini

Marcel Carneacute

Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean Renoir

Ermanno Olmi

I could add but could not subtract

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Oriol Saacutenchez

David Wark Griffith

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Stan Brakhage

Joseacute Val del Omar

David Lynch

Robert Bresson

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet

Maurice LemaicirctreAlberto Grifi amp Gianfranco Baruchello

Jean Svankmajer

Alexander Kluge

Dario Argento

Paolo Gioli

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Lionel Soukaz

Roberto Rossellini

Federico Fellini

Jonas Mekas

Kenneth Anger

Yasujir$ Ozu

Yves-Marie Maheacute

Othello Vilgard

Franssou Prenant

Jacques Keacutebadian

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

COLLECTIF 360 deg ET PLUS

David Matarasso

Orson Welles

Jean Vigo

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Birk Weiberg

Orson Welles

Lars von Trier

Terrence Malick

King Vidor

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Howard Hawks

Isidore Isou amp Guy Debord

Morgan Fisher

Stanley Kubrick

Kenneth Anger

Werner Herzog

Ida Lupino

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Silvia Szymanski

Jack Deveau

Wakefield Poole

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Armando Bo

Helmut Kaumlutner

Raffaele Andreassi (Flashback)John Hayes (Baby Vickie)

Isabelle Stever (Gisela)

Alex de Renzy (Pretty Peaches)

Hans Billian (Josefine Mutzenbacher)

Juumlrgen Enz (Herbstromanze)

Rudolf Schuumlndler (Der treue Husar)

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Tim Lucas

Mario Bava

Luiacutes Buntildeuel

Roger Corman

Jesuacutes 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 Fellinis TOBY DAMMIT Leones ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Antonionis

LECLISSE Godards CONTEMPT Zulawskis THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE Powell amp Pressburgers I KNOW

WHERE IM GOING Sturges UNFAITHFULLY YOURS Markers LA JETEacuteE 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

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Toshi Fujiwara

Naturally this sort of list can never be definite changes all the times according to what you are

doingexperiencing 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 heshe 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)

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Moacutenica Saviroacuten

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 Viacutector 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

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Marcos Ortega Miranda

Carmelo Bene

Ingmar Bergman

Stan Brakhage

Jack Chambers

Federico Fellini

Hollis Frampton

Akira Kurosawa

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovski

Dziga Vertov

Frans Zwartjes

Rainer Kirberg

Stanley Kubrick

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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 1964ndash67 USA Directed by Gregory Markopoulos copy the Temenos Archive)

Feacutelix Garciacutea de Villegas

Bruce Baillie

James Herbert

Agnes Martin

Stan Brakhage

Andrew Noren

Barbara Rubin

Gregory Markopoulos

Marjorie Keller

JoAnn Elam

Joseacute Val del Omar

Rick Patton

Robert Fulton

Mencioacuten especial para David Gatten

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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(Film strip of Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de lUsine Lumiegravere agrave Lyon) 1984 Peter

Tscherkassky)

Geraldine Salles Kobilanski

Either it is a cheating ldquo12rdquo or a ldquo12rdquo with a big heart

Carl Theodor Dreyer amp Artavazd Peleshyan

Viacutector Erice

Ivaacuten Zulueta amp Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Tscherkassky

Charles Chaplin amp Buster Keaton

Jonas MekasStan Brakhage amp Maya Deren

Chris Marker

Joseacute Celestino Campusano amp John Ford

Isidore Isou

Norman Mc Laren amp Raoul Servais

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pip Chodorov

Lets not forget who really makes the film

bullKodak bull Fuji bull Agfa bull Orwo bull Foma bull Ilford bull Sviema bull Adox bull Ferrania bull Efke bull Gasparcolorbull

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Steve Elworth

Jean Renoir

John Ford

Buster Keaton

Max Ophuumlls

Maya Deren

Kenji Mizoguchi

Yasujiro Ozu

Stan Brakhage

Agnes Varda

Alain ResnaisJean-Luc Godard

Stanley Kubrick

Five living filmmakers under 65 Chantal Akerman Wong Kar-Wai Lewis Klahr Phil Solomon and Hong

Sang-Soo

Michael Guillen

Indulging the distinction between favorite and bestmdashwhich for me revolves around the subjective

pleasures of cinephiliamdashI turn the spotlight of world cinema away from Europe onto Latin America

Lisandro Alonso

Julio Bracho

Emilio Fernaacutendez

Roberto Gavaldoacuten

Patricio Guzmaacuten

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Miguel Littin

Claudia Llosa

Carlos Reygadas

Arturo Ripstein

Rauacutel Ruiz

Fernando Solanas

Francisco Vargas

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

Sebastian Wiedemann

If I had to save only one movie in the world it would be ldquoMan with a movie camerardquo 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 hellip Dreyer Bresson Ozu Bela Tarr Sokurov Kiarostami hellip

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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(Pola X (1999) By Leos Carax)

Cristina Aacutelvarez Loacutepez

Chantal Akerman

Ingmar Bergman

Luis Buntildeuel

Leos Carax

Brian De Palma

Philippe Garrel

Alfred Hitchcock

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Fritz Lang

Jean-Pierre MelvilleAndrei Tarkovsky

Teresa Villaverde

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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(Close-Up (1990) amp Through the Olive Trees (1994) By Abbas Kiarostami)

Stoffel Debuysere

Robert Bresson

Charles Chaplin

Jean-Luc Godard

Abbas Kiarostami

Kenji Mizoguchi

Jean Marie Straub amp Daniele Huillet

Antoacutenio Reis amp Margarida Cordeiro

Jean Renoir

Roberto Rossellini

Johan van der Keuken

Dziga Vertov

Jean Vigo

Doctor Chance (1997) By FJ Ossang

Moacutenica Delgado

Robert Bresson

Andrzej uawski

Stan Brakhage

Jonas Mekas

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Jean-Luc Godard

FJ Ossang

Alfred Hitchcock

Mario Bava

Andrei Tarkovsky

Marguerite Duras

Yasujir$ Ozu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

(Marlene Dietrich and Ernst Lubitsch)

Guy Maddin

Jean Vigo

Luis Buntildeuel

Erich von Stroheim

Josef von Sternberg

Ernst Lubitsch

CB deMille

David Lynch

Joseph Cornell

Standish LawderMax Ophuls

Aleksandr Sokurov

Matthias Muumlller

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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(Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali)

Claudio Caldini

James amp John Whitney

Len Lye

Jordan Belson

Paul Sharits

Heinz Emigholz

Werner Nekes

Gregory Markopoulos

Lisl Ponger

Bruce Mc Clure

Jorge Honik

Narcisa Hirsch

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Sonatine (1993) By Takeshi Kitano

Ethan Race

Shinya Tsukamoto

Masao Adachi

Andrej uawski

K$ji Wakamatsu

Chris Marker

Nagisa Oshima

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

K$ji Wakamatsu

Shinji Aoyama

Takeshi KitanoDavid Lynch

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Masaki Kobayashi

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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 Meacuteliegraves

Oscar Micheaux

Vincente Minnelli

Roberto Rossellini

Edgar G Ulmer

Jean Vigo

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

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Mauro Pereira

Jean-Luc Godard

Luis Buntildeuel

Andrei Tarkovsky

Jean Vigo

Robert Bresson

Ingmar Bergman

Yasujiro Ozu

Carl Theodor Dreyer Friedrich

Wilhelm Murnau

Fritz Lang

Alfred Hitchcock

Franccedilois Truffaut

Sergei Parajanov Rainer Werner Fassbinder Pier Paolo Pasolini Werner Herzog David Lynch Erich

von Stroheim and Jacques Tati

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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 AndreiTruffaut Franccedilois

Wajda Andrzej

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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

FW Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu

Christian Petzold

Jacques Tati

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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 Ophuumlls

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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 isnt so much

my flimsy attempt at ldquobestrdquo or even ldquofavoritesrdquo 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 amp Eurocentric slant in particular is entirely a function of my own

implicit biases personal viewing history and knowledge base and shouldnt be passed over as neutral

when we perform such conscious canon-building exercises But such is the good company it will keep ndash as

list ndash that the function of discovering new territory remains intact for browsing cinephiles and othercurious people

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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 LynchKoji Wakamatsu

But Id have to think about Vigo Vertov Bresson Tarr Lang Tarkovsky Renoir as well

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindo

Oliver Laxe

Andrei Tarkovski

Robert Bresson

John Cassavettes

David Lynch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Michelangelo Antonioni

Artavazd Peleshyan

Kaneto ShindoYasujir$ Ozu

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Maurice Pialat

Jacques Tati

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004) Eve Heller

Peter Tscherkassky

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

James Benning

Joel amp Ethan Coen

Maya Deren

Howard Hawks

Eve HellerPeter Kubelka

Sergio Leone

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Pat ONeill

Jacques Tati

Billy Wilder

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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American Falls (2000 ndash2012 ) By Phil Solomon

Eve Heller

My hats 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

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Lifeboat (1944) Alfred Hitchcock

David Sterritt

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Michael Snow

Carl Th Dreyer

Agnes VardaDouglas Sirk

Frederick Wiseman

FW Murnau

Glauber Rocha

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Chris ONeill

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

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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

Shampji Terayama

Wong Kar-wai

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Salem KapsaskiJohn 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

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Abbas Fahdel

Robert Bresson

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ingmar Bergman

Andreiuml Tarkovski

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kenji Mizoguchi

Roberto Rossellini

Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu

Alfred HitchcockJean-Luc Godard

Howard Hawks

Bruno Bozzetto

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

FEDERICO FELLINI

STANLEY KUBRICK

JACQUES TATI

WOODY ALLEN

BILLY WILDER

JOHN LASSETER

WALT DISNEY

JOEL amp ETHAN COEN

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 104106

Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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7252019 Experimental Film Society

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 94106

Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 103106

Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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7252019 Experimental Film Society

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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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

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 91106

Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 93106

Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 94106

Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 95106

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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 96106

Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 97106

Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 98106

Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 99106

Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 100106

Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 101106

Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 102106

Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 103106

Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 104106

Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 105106

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 106106

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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 87106

Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 88106

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 89106

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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 90106

Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 91106

Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 92106

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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 93106

Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 94106

Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 95106

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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 96106

Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 97106

Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 101106

Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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7252019 Experimental Film Society

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Raoul Walsh

Stan Brakhage

Yasujiro Ozu

Roberto Rossellini

Peter Hutton

Jacques Rivette

Boris Barnet

King Vidor

Martin Scorsese

Jean Renoir

Antoni Padroacutes

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

Ciprigrave e Maresco

Roberto Rossellini

Bela Tarr

Fred Niblo

Max Ophuumlls

Jean Vigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Jean Eustache

Maurice Tourneur

Magraverio Peixoto

Alain Robbe Grillet

Luis Buntildeuel

Dziga Vertov

Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauEric Von Stroheim

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 94106

Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 95106

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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 97106

Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 98106

Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 99106

Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 100106

Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 101106

Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 102106

Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 103106

Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 104106

Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 105106

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 106106

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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 89106

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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 90106

Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 91106

Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 92106

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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 93106

Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 94106

Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 95106

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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 96106

Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 97106

Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 101106

Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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7252019 Experimental Film Society

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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 (Whatrsquos Up Fatlip)

Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There)

EFS Filmmakers (Proving that no budget doesnrsquot mean no vision the EFS films have been

motivation for me over the past few yearsrdquo)

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 94106

Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 98106

Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 99106

Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 100106

Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 101106

Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 102106

Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 103106

Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 104106

Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 105106

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 106106

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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

Page 90: Experimental Film Society

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Angela Prysthon

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Robert Bresson

Alberto Cavalcanti

Terence Davies

Jacques Demy

Claire DenisStanley Donen

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fritz Lang

Ernst Lubitsch

Yasujiro Ozu

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Michael Powell amp Emeric Pressburger

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 91106

Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 92106

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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 93106

Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 94106

Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 95106

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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 96106

Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 97106

Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 98106

Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 99106

Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 100106

Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 101106

Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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7252019 Experimental Film Society

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Alessandra W Tantillo

Auguste e Louis-Jean Lumiegravere

Georges Meacuteliegraves

Dziga Vertov

John Ford

Stan Brakhage

Alberto Grifi

Robert Drew

Frederick Wiseman

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean-Luc Godard

John Cassavetes

Jem Cohen

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 101106

Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 102106

Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 103106

Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 104106

Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 105106

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 106106

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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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 Buntildeuel (Viridiana)

John Ford (La Prisonniegravere du deacutesert)

Carl Theodor Dreyer (La passion de Jeanne dArc)

Satyajit Ray (Charulata)

Michelangelo Antonioni (LAvvantura)

Jean Eustache (La Maman et la putain)

Nima Behforouz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

John Cassavetes

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Robert Bresson

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 93106

Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 94106

Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 95106

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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 96106

Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 97106

Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 99106

Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 100106

Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 101106

Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 102106

Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 103106

Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 104106

Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 105106

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 106106

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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

Page 93: Experimental Film Society

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 93106

Orson Welles

David Lynch

Andrei Tarkovsky

Dario Argento

Eric Rohmer

Derek Jarman

Fritz Lang

Bonus tracks Jacques Rivette Aki Kaurismaumlki John Carpenter David Cronenberg Sergei Parajanov

Shayan Bazri

Robert Altman

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Andrzej Zulawski

Martin Scorsese (especially 80s)

Kenneth Anger

David Lynch

Carlos Reygadas

Dario Argento (especially 70s)

Peter Tscherkassky

Rauacutel Ruiz

Nicolas Roeg

Peter Greenaway

Also Virgil Widrich Wes Anderson Gaspar Noe Abel Ferrara Guy Maddin

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 94106

Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 95106

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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 96106

Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 97106

Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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7252019 Experimental Film Society

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Joatildeo 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)

GEacuteRARD DAMIANO (DEEP THROAT)

GEORGES MEacuteLIEgraveS (VOYAGE A LA LUNE)

HOWARD HAWKS (THE BIG SLEEP)

BUSTER KEATON (THE GENERAL)

INGMAR BERGMAN (PERSONA)

ORSON WELLES (CITIZEN KANE)

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 104106

Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 105106

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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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 BeckettBuster Keaton (Film)

Alejandro Gonzaacutelez Intildeaacuterritu (21 Grams)

Nicolas RoegDonald Cammell (Performance Eureka Bad Timing)

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 97106

Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 101106

Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 102106

Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 103106

Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 104106

Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 105106

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 106106

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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Olivier Hadouchi

Michelangelo Antonioni

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Joseacute Val del Omar

Glauber Rocha

Nicolaacutes Guilleacuten Landriaacuten and Santiago Aacutelvarez

Sara Goacutemez and Tomaacutes Gutieacuterrez Alea

Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker

Max Ophuumlls

Djibril Diop Mambeacutety

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 97106

Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 101106

Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 102106

Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 104106

Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 106106

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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

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Beacutela Tarr amp Aacutegnes 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 Eacuteric Rohmer Artavazd

Peleshyan Ingmar Bergman Veiko Otildeunpuu Konstantin Lopushansky Dimitri Kirsanoff Jean-Seacutebastien

Nouveau Jean-Pierre Melville Zoltaacuten Huszaacuterik Jean-Luc Godard Aleksandr Sokurov Robert Bresson

Marguerite Duras Wang Bing Bruce Baillie Audrius Stronys Kaneto Shindocirc Jan Nmec Chantal Akerman

Andrzej uawski Pawe ozi+ski Mikhail Kalatozov Jean Marie Straub amp Daniegravele Huillet Amy Kravitz

Bill Viola Guy Sherwin Robert Beavers Harun Farocki Florence Pezon Ben Rivers Elem Klimov Lav

Diaz Djordje Kadijevic Jean Epstein Rauacutel Ruiz Du)an Hanaacutek Bert Haanstra Maacuterio Peixoto TengizAbuladze Margot Benacerraf Roy Andersson Peter von Bagh Abel Gance Darezhan Omirbaev Aleksandr

Kajdanovsky Walter Hugo Kouri Pierre Perrault Joris Ivens Franti)ek Vlaacuteil Michael Haneke Yves

Alleacutegret Laacuteszloacute Moholy-Nagy Philippe Garrel Allain-Robbe Grillet Larry Gottheim Frans Zwartjes

Harmony Korine Sava Trifkovic Marjorie Keller Grzegorz Kroacutelikiewicz Andrei Tarkovsky Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Maacuterio 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

Joatildeo Ceacutesar Monteiro Jospeh Cornell Jean Vigo Werner Herzog Bill Morrison Jan Schmidt Jean Daniel

Pollet Raymond Salvatore Harmon Dore O FW 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 Joseacute Val Del Omar Martin Arnold Djibril Diop

Mambeacutety Krzysztof Kielowski Du)an Makavejev Matthew Allen Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick David

Lynch Franccedilois Truffaut Sylvain George

Leila Sajjadi

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 101106

Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 102106

Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 103106

Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 104106

Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 105106

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 106106

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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Ingmar Bergman

Eric Rohmer

Rainder Werner Fassbinder

Luis Buntildeuel

Aki Kaurismaumlki

Michael Haneke

Federico Fellini

Roy Andersson

Jan vankmajer

Krzysztof Kielowski

Robert Altman

Asghar Farhadi

Faezeh Karimpour

RWFassbinder

Werner Schroeter

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Chris Marker

Marquerite Duras

Masahiro Shinoda

Miklos Jancso

Werner Herzog

Luchino Visconti

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Jean-Luc Godard

David Lynch

7252019 Experimental Film Society

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 100106

Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 101106

Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 102106

Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 103106

Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 104106

Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 105106

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 106106

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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Jay McRoy

Chantal Akerman

Michelangelo Antonioni

James Benning

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Stephen Dwoskin

Philippe Garrel

Jean-Luc Godard

Philippe GrandrieuxAbbas Kiarostami

Leighton Pierce

Andrei Tarkovsky

Claudio Romano

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 100106

Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 101106

Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 102106

Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 103106

Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 104106

Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 105106

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 106106

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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Artour Aristakisian

arunas Bartas

Robert Bresson

Lav Diaz

Carl Th Dreyer

Gyoumlrgy Feheacuter

Anton Perich

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beacutela Tarr

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tomaacutes Rogeacutes

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

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 101106

Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 102106

Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 103106

Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 104106

Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 105106

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 106106

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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

Page 101: Experimental Film Society

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Rafael Castanheira Parrode

Peter Hutton

Jacques Tourneur

Paul Vecchialli

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

Brian de Palma

Ken Jacobs

Lucio Fulci

Juacutelio Bressane

Khavn de la Cruz

Seijun Suzuki

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 102106

Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 103106

Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 104106

Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 105106

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 106106

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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

Powell amp Pressburger

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Bani Khoshnoudi

Maya Deren

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Forough Farrokhzad

Jean-Luc Godard

Agnegraves Varda

Sohrab Shahid Saless

Chris Marker

Shohei Imamura

Jonas Mekas

Harun FarockiJean Rouch

Chantal Ackerman

John Cassavetes

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 103106

Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 104106

Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 105106

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 106106

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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

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Alexander Jacoby

Bergman

Bresson

Dreyer

Hitchcock

Minnelli

Mizoguchi

Murnau

Ophuls

Ozu

Powell

Renoir

Rohmer

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

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Eacutemmsen Jafari

I usually dont 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 Buntildeuel Portoleacutes

Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski

Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Robert Bresson

Agnegraves Varda

Jean-Luc Godard

Charles Spencer Chaplin jr

Aki Olavi Kaurismaumlki

Werner Herzog

Michelangelo Antonioni

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 105106

7252019 Experimental Film Society

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullexperimental-film-society 106106

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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

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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 Chytilovaacute

Derek Jarman

Agnegraves Varda

Ken Russell

Nicolas Roeg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Deren

Jacques Rivette

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