Claudio Gnoli

My favourite film directors


  1. Krzysztof Kieślowski (Red)
  2. Billy Wilder (The apartment)
  3. Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne (The son)
  4. Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove)
  5. Luis Buñuel (The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie)
  6. Woody Allen (The purple rose of Cairo)
  7. Éric Rohmer (Rendezvous in Paris)
  8. Jacques Tati (Playtime)
  9. Mike Leigh (Vera Drake)
  10. Fritz Lang (M)
  11. Emir Kusturica (Life is a miracle)
  12. Edgar Reitz (Heimat 2)
  13. Pedro Almodóvar (Volver)
  14. Otar Iosseliani (Chasing butterflies)
  15. Ingmar Bergman (The magician)

 

others, in alphabetical order:

Robert Altman (The players), Claude Chabrol (The unfaithful wife), Joel & Ethan Coen (Fargo), Blake Edwards (A shot in the dark), Federico Fellini (Amarcord), Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North), Alfred Hitchcock (Rear window), Aki Kaurismäki (I hired a contract killer), Kim Ki-Duk (3-Iron), Takeshi Kitano (Dolls), Cédric Klapisch (L'auberge espagnole), Enrst Lubitsch (Ninotchka), Mario Monicelli (Cops and robbers), Elio Petri (The working class goes to heaven), Jean Renoir (The rules of the game), Walter Salles (Central do Brasil), Andrei Tarkovsky (Solaris), Bertrand Tavernier (The clockmaker), Lars von Trier (Dogville), François Truffaut (The man who loved women), Carlo Verdone (L'amore è eterno finché dura), Henri Verneuil (The Sicilian clan), Paolo Virzì (Tutta la vita davanti)


These lists only include directors of at least two films that I have seen. In brackets is my favourite film for each director.

 


Claudio Gnoli. My favourite film directors — Università di Pavia. Dipartimento di Matematica <http://www-dimat.unipv.it/gnoli/directors.htm> : 2007.10 - 2012.02 -