Thursday, March 7, 2013

My Director Watch: Updated 2013


Here is my newest update to my Director Watch which was begun in 2010 and has changed since then. Mostly directors get added to the list. Sadly this last year one of my favorite directors, Tony Scott passed on so I am removing him from the list as a current, active filmmaker.

Please refer to my earlier post called My Director Watch for explanations.

The Hollywood Master Directors

James Cameron
Piranha II, Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2, True Lies, Titanic, Avatar, Avatar 2, Battle Angel

John Carpenter
Dark Star, Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, The Fog, Escape From New York, The Thing, Christine, Starman, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, In the Mouth of Madness, Village of the Damned, Escape from L.A., Vampires, Ghosts of Mars, The Ward

Francis Ford Coppola

The Godfather, The Conversation, Godfather II, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, Godfather III, Dracula, Jack, The Rainmaker, Youth Without Youth, Tetro, Twixt

Clint Eastwood

Unforgiven, A Perfect World, Bridges of Madison County, Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil, Absolute Power, True Crime, Space Cowboys, Blood Work, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Changeling, Gran Torino, Invictus, Hereafter, J. Edgar

Terry Gilliam
Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Brazil, Jabberwocky, Time Bandits, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King, Twelve Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Brothers Grimm, Tideland, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The Zero Theorem

Werner Herzog
Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Fitzcarraldo, Invincible, Rescue Dawn, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, My Son My Son What Have Ye Done, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Into the Abyss

George Lucas
THX 1138, American Graffiti, Star Wars Franchise

Terrence Malick
Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World, The Tree of Life, To the Wonder, Knight of Cups, Voyage of Time

Martin Scorcese
Taxi Driver, New York New York, Raging Bull, After Hours, Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Cape Fear, Age of Innocence, Casino, Kundun, Bringing Out The Dead, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, The Departed, Shutter Island, Hugo, The Wolf of Wall Street

Ridley Scott
Duelists, Alien, Blade Runner, Legend, Someone to Watch Over Me, Black Rain, Thelma & Louise, 1492, White Squall, GI Jane, Gladiator, Hannibal, Black Hawk Down, Matchstick Men, Kingdom of Heaven, A Good Year, American Gangster, Body of Lies, Robin Hood, Prometheus, The Councelor, Gertrude Bell

Stephen Spielberg
Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Indiana Jones Movies, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Empire of the Sun, Jurassic Park, Amistad, Saving Private Ryan, AI: Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can, The Terminal, War of the Worlds, Munich, The Adventures of Tintin, War Horse, Lincoln, American Sniper


The Currently En Vogue Directors

J. J. Abrams
Alias (TV), Lost (TV), Mission Impossible III, Star Trek (2009), Super 8, Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Wars: Episode VII

Ben Affleck
Gone Baby Gone, Gimme Shelter, The Town, Argo, Live by Night

P. T. Anderson
Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood, The Master, Inherent Vice

Wes Anderson
Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel

Judd Apatow
40 Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People, This is Forty

Darren Aronofsky
Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, Black Swan, Noah

Jacques Audiard
Read My Lips, The Beat That Skipped My Heart, A Prophet, Rust & Bone

David Ayer
Harsh Times, Street Kings, End of Watch, Ten, Fury

Noah Baumbach
Kicking & Screaming, Highball, Mr. Jealousy, The Squid & The Whale, Margot at the Wedding, Greenberg, Frances Ha

Michael Bay

Bad Boys, The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys II, The Island, Transformers, Transformers II, Transformers III, Pain and Gain, Transformers 4

Kathryn Bigelow
Near Dark, Blue Steel, Point Break, Strange Days, The Weight of Water, K-19: The Widowmaker, The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty

Timur Bekmambetov
Night Watch, Day Watch, Wanted, 9, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter

Danny Boyle
Trainspotting, A Life Less Ordinary, The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, Trance

Edward Burns

The Brothers McMullen, She's the One, No Looking Back, Sidewalks of New York, Ash Wednesday, Looking for Kitty, The Groomsman, Purple Violets, Nice Guy Johnny, Newlyweds, Fitzgerald Family Christmas

Tim Burton
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Beetle Juice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Ed Wood, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow, Planet of the Apes, Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Alice in Wonderland, Dark Shadows, Frankenweenie, Big Eyes, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Leos Carax
Boy Meets Girl, The Lovers on the Bridge, Pola X, Tokyo!, Holy Motors

Joe Carnahan
Narc, Ticker, Smokin' Aces, The A-Team, The Grey, Stretch, Killing Pablo

D. J. Caruso
The Salton Sea, Taking Lives, Disturbia, Eagle Eye, I Am Number Four, Standing Up

Park Chan-Wook
Joint Security Area, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, Lady Vengeance, Thirst, Stoker

Joel & Ethan Coen
Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Millers Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Man Who Wasn't There, Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, No Country For Old Men, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, True Grit, Inside Llewyn Davis

Sofia Coppola
The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette, Somewhere, The Bling Ring

Alfonso Cuaron
Great Expectations, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Children of Men, Gravity, A Boy and His Shoe

Guillermo Del Toro
Blade II, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Pacific Rim, Crimson Peak, Pinocchio, Hellboy 3

Quentin Dupieux
Nonfilm, Steak, Rubber, Wrong, Wrong Cops, Realite

Mark & Jay Duplass
The Puffy Chair, Cyrus, Jeff Who Lives At Home, The Do-Deca-Pentathlon

Roland Emmerich
Making Contact, Moon 44, Universal Soldier, Stargate, Independence Day, Godzilla, The Patriot, Day After Tomorrow, 10,000BC, 2012, Anonymous, White House Down, ID Forever: Part 1 & Part 2

Gareth Evans
Footsteps, Merantau, The Raid: Redemption, V/H/S/2, The Raid 2: Berandal

David Fincher
Alien 3, Seven, The Game, Fight Club, Panic Room, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Social Network, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, House of Cards (TV), Gone Girl

Marc Forster
Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland, Stay, Stranger Than Fiction, Quantum of Solace, Machine Gun Preacher, World War Z

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Intact, 28 Weeks Later, Intruders, Wednesday

Mel Gibson
Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ, Apocalypto

Michel Gondry
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, Be Kind Rewind, The Green Hornet, The We and the I, Mood Indigo

Paul Greengrass

Resurrected, The Theory of Flight, Bloody Sunday, The Bourne Supremacy, United 93, The Bourne Ultimatum, Green Zone, Captain Phillips, Barca

Davis Guggenheim
An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud, Waiting for Superman, From the Sky Down

Mikael Hafstrom
Evil, Derailed, 1408, The Rite, Escape Plan

Michael Haneke
Code Unknown, The Piano Teacher, Cache (Hidden), Funny Games, The White Ribbon, Amour

Jered Hess
Napolean Dynamite, Nacho Libre, Gentlemen Broncos, Loomis Fargo

John Hillcoat
The Proposition, The Road, Lawless, Triple Nine

Gavin Hood
Tsotsi, Rendition, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Ender's Game

Tom Hooper
The Damned United, The Kings Speech, Les Miserables

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
21 Grams, Babel, Biutiful, Naran Ja, Birdman

Peter Jackson
Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, Dead Alive, Heavenly Creatures, The Frighteners, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, King Kong, The Lovely Bones, The Hobbit Trilogy, The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun

Jim Jarmusch

Permanent Vacation, Stranger Than Paradise, Down by Law, Mystery Train, Dead Man, Night on Earth, Ghost Dog: The Way of The Samurai, Coffee and Cigarettes, Broken Flowers, Limits of Control, Only Lovers Left Alive

Rian Johnson
Brick, The Brothers Bloom, Looper

Spike Jonze
Being John Malkovich, Adaptation., Where the Wild Things Are, Pretty Sweet, Her

Wong Kar-Wai
Chunking Express, In the Mood for Love, 2046, My Blueberry Nights, The Grandmaster

Richard Kelly
Donnie Darko, Southland Tales, The Box, Corpus Christi

Abbas Kiarostami
Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, Certified Copy, Like Someone In Love

Francis Lawrence

Constantine, I Am Legend, Water for Elephants, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 & 2

Ang Lee
Sense and Sensibility, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hulk, Brokeback Mountain, Lust Caution, Taking Woodstock, Life of Pi

Baz Lehrmann
Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, Australia, The Great Gatsby

Louis Leterrier
The Transporter, Unleashed, Transporter 2, The Incredible Hulk, Clash of the Titans, Now You See Me

Richard Linklater
Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise, School of Rock, Before Sunset, A Scanner Darkly, Fast Food Nation, Me and Orson Welles, Bernie, Before Midnight

David Lynch
Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks (TV), Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Rabbits, Inland Empire

James Mangold
Heavy, Copland, Girl Interrupted, Kate & Leopold, Identity, Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma, Knight & Day, Juliet, The Wolverine, Three Little Words

Michael Mann
Thief, The Keep, Manhunter, Last of the Mohicans, Heat, The Insider, Ali, Collateral, Miami Vice, Public Enemies, Cyber

Adam McKay
Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers, The Other Guys, Anchorman: The Legend Continues

Sam Mendes
American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, Away We Go, Skyfall, Bond 24

John Cameron Mitchell
 
Hedwig & the Angry Inch, Shortbus, Rabbit Hole

Michael Moore

Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, Capitalism: A Love Story

Vincenzo Natali

 Cube, Cypher, Nothing, Splice, Haunter, High Rise, ABC's of Death 2

Christopher Nolan
Following, Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, Interstellar

Niels Arden Oplev
We Shall Overcome, Worlds Apart, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Dead Man Down

Wolfgang Petersen
Das Boot, The Neverending Story, In the Line of Fire, Outbreak, The Perfect Storm, Troy, Poseidon

Alex Proyas

Spirits of the Air Gremlins of the Clouds, The Crow, Dark City, Garage Days, I Robot, Knowing, The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, Gods of Egypt

Sam Raimi
Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Darkman, Army of Darkness, The Quick and the Dead, Spiderman Franchise, Drag Me To Hell, Oz: The Great & Powerful

Matt Reeves

Cloverfield, Let Me In, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Ivan Reitman

Foxy Lady, Cannibal Girls, Meatballs, Stripes, Ghostbusters, Legal Eagles, Twins, Ghostbusters II, Kindergarten Cop, Dave, Junior, Fathers' Day, Six Days Seven Nights, Evolution, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, No Strings Attached, Draftday, Triplets

Jason Reitman
Thank You For Smoking, Juno, Up In The Air, Young Adult, Labor Day

Nicholas Winding Refn

Pusher, Bleeder, Fear X, With Blood On My Hands: Pusher II, I'm the Angel of Death: Pusher III, Bronson, Valhalla Rising, Drive, Only God Forgives, I Walk With The Dead

Guy Ritchie

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch., Swept Away, Revolver, RocknRolla, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Robert Rodriguez

El Mariachi, Desperado, From Dusk Til Dawn, The Faculty, Spy Kids, Spy Kids 2, Spy Kids 3, Once Upon A Time In Mexico, Sin City, Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, Planet Terror, Shorts, Machete, Spy Kids 4, Machete Kills, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Mark Romanek

Static, One Hour Photo, Never Let Me Go, The Lost Symbol

David O. Russell
Spanking the Monkey, Flirting with Disaster, Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees, The Fighter, The Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, Nailed

Walter Salles
Behind the Sun, The Motorcycle Diaries, Dark Water, Paris Je T'aime, On the Road

Joel Schumacher
The Lost Boys, Flatliners, Falling Down, Batman Forever, The Phantom of the Opera, The Number 23, Blood Creek, Twelve, Man in the Mirror, Trespass

M. Night Shyamalan
The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village, Lady In The Water, The Last Airbender, After Earth

Bryan Singer
The Usual Suspects, X-Men, X2, Superman Returns, Valkyrie, Jack the Giant Killer, X-Men: Days of Future Past

Tarsem Singh
The Cell, The Fall, Immortals, Mirror Mirror, Marco Polo, Selfless

Kevin Smith

Clerks., Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jersey Girl, Clerks II, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Cop Out, Red State, Clerks 3

Zack Snyder
Dawn of the Dead, 300, Watchmen, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, Sucker Punch, The Man of Steel, Man of Steel 2

Steven Soderburgh
Sex Lies and Videotape, Kafka, The Underneath, Out of Sight, The Limey, Erin Brockovich, Traffic, Ocean's 11, Solaris, Ocean's 12, Bubble, The Good German, Ocean's 13, Che, The Girlfriend Experience, The Informant!, Haywire, Contagion, Magic Mike, Side Effects, Behind the Candelabra

Joe Swanberg
Kissing on the Mouth, LOL, Hanna Takes the Stairs, Nights & Weekends, Alexander the Last, Uncle Kent, Silver Bullets, V/H/S, All the Light in the Sky, Privacy Setting, Drinking Buddies, 24 Exposures, Happy Christmas

Quentin Tarantino
Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Vol I-II, Death Proof, Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained, Kill Bill: Vol III

Gus Van Sant
My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, Psycho (1998), Finding Forrester, Elephant, Paranoid Park, Milk, Restless, My Own Private River, Promised Land

Gore Verbinski
The Mexican, The Ring, Pirates of the Caribbean I-III, The Weather Man, Rango, The Lone Ranger

The Wachowskis
Bound, The Matrix Trilogy, Speed Racer, Cloud Atlas, Jupiter Ascending

Joss Whedon

Firefly (TV), Buffy The Vampire Slayer (TV), Angel (TV), Serenity, Thor, The Avengers, Much Ado About Nothing, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Avengers: Age of Ultron

Edgar Wright

Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The World's End, Ant-Man

Joe Wright

Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, The Soloist, Hanna, Anna Karenina




The New Directors with Fresh Eyes
They have made 1-3 films with at least one film that speaks with a new and skillful voice.

Tomas Alfredson - Let the Right One In, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Fede Alvarez - Evil Dead

Andrea Arnold - Red Road, Fish Tank, Wuthering Heights

Richard Ayoade - Submarine, The Double

Zal Batmanblij - Sound of my Voice, The East

Jeffrey Blitz - Rocket Science, Lucky

Neill Blomkamp - District 9, Elysium, Chappie

Mike Cahill - Boxers & Bellerinas, Another Earth, I Origins

Antonio CamposAfterschool, Simon Killer

Shane Carruth - Primer, Upstream Color

Stephen Chbosky - The Four Corners of Nowhere, Perks of Being a Wallflower

Derek Cianfrance - Brother Tied, Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines, Metalhead

Roman Coppola - CQ, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III

Joe Cornish - Attack the Block, Rust

Andrew Dominik - Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Killing them Softly, Blonde

Lena Dunham - Tiny Furniture, Girls

Sean Durkin - Martha Marcy May Marlene, Janis

Gareth Edwards - Monsters, Godzilla

Ruben Fleischer - Zombieland, 30 Minutes or Less, Gangster Squad

Chris Fuller - Loren Cass, Surpassing All Other Kings

Evan Glodell - Bellflower

Drew Goddard - Cabin in the Woods

Debra Granik - Down to the Bone, Winters Bone

James Gunn - Slither, Super, Guardians of the Galaxy

Ian Hubert - Anagnorisis, Tears of Steel, Project London

Duncan Jones - Moon, Source Code, Warcraft

Harmony Korine - Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy, Mister Lonely, Spring Breakers

Joseph Kosinski - Tron: Legacy, Oblivion, Untitled Tron: Legacy Sequel

Jonathan Levine - All The Boys Love Mandy Lane, The Wackness, 50/50, Warm Bodies

Jennifer Chambers Lynch- Surveillance, Chained, A Fall From Grace

Greg Marcks - 11:14, Echelon Conspiracy

John Maybury - The Jacket, The Edge of Love

Martin McDonagh - In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths

Jeff Nichols - Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter, Mud

Calvin Reeder - The Oregonian, The Rambler

Kelly Reichardt - Old Joy, Wendy & Lucy, Meek's Cutoff, Night Moves

Scott Stewart - Legion, Priest, Dark Skies, Dominion

M. Dot Strange - We Are The Strange, Heart String Marionette

Josh Trank - Chronicle, Fantastic Four, Venom

Pete Travis - Vantage Point, Endgame, Dredd, Hangman

Colin Trevorrow - Safety Not Guaranteed, Jurassic Park IV

Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild

Craig Zobel - Great World of Sound, Compliance, Z for Zachariah

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