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Hi, I'm Tim from Tennessee.
Check out my new blog! http://timmy501.wordpress.com/Below are some old lists I'm keeping here for nostalgia's sake. Check out my imdb lists for some that are more up to date.
Director Canon:
1. Alain Resnais
2. Raoul Ruiz
3. Joel and Ethan Coen
4. Michelangelo Antonioni
5. Buster Keaton
6. Josef Von Sternberg
7. Martin Scorsese
8. Anthony Mann
9. Luchino Visconti
10. Orson Welles
11. Hayao Miyazaki
12. David Cronenberg
13. Eric Rohmer
14. Brian DePalma
15. Pen-ek Ratanaruang
16. Terrence Malick
17. Stanley Kubrick
18. Robert Altman
19. Fritz Lang
20. Max Ophuls
21. Sergio Leone
22. Joon-ho Bong
23. Tomu Uchida
24. Masaki Kobayashi
25. Jules Dassin
26. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
27. Stan Brakhage
28. Akira Kurosawa
29. Shuji Terayama
30. Mikhail Kalatazov
31. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
32. Woody Allen
33. Larissa Sheptiko
34. Clint Eastwood
35. Christopher Nolan
010s
Mysteries of Lisbon (Raoul Ruiz)
Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
Exit Through The Gift Shop (Banksy)
Easy A (Will Gluck)
True Grit (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Drive (Nicholas Winding Refn)
Source Code (Duncan Jones)
Inception (Christopher Nolan)
000s
Memento (Christopher Nolan)
AI: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
Adventureland (Greg Mottola)
Mind Game (Masaaki Yuasa)
Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong)
Last Life in the Universe (Pen Ek Ratanaruang)
The Man Who Wasn’t There (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
Three Monkeys (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch)
The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
Invisible Waves (Pen Ek Ratanaruang)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater)
A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)
American Psycho (Mary Harron)
Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani)
Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright)
Wall*E (Andrew Stanton)
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
The Twilight Samurai (Yoji Yamada)
No Man’s Land (Denis Tanovic)
Ploy (Pen Ek Ratanaruang)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring (Ki-Duk Kim)
Sileni/Lunacy (Jan Svankmajer)
Iron Man (Jon Favreau)
Big Fish (Tim Burton)
1990s
The Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Fight Club (David Fincher)
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird)
After Dark, My Sweet (James Foley)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki)
Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
Trust (Hal Hartley)
Barton Fink (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Mother and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov)
Three Colors: White (Krystof Kieslowski)
Naked (Mike Leigh)
Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
eXistenZ (David Cronenberg)
Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar Wai)
Kicking and Screaming (Noah Baumbach)
Fallen Angels (Wong Kar Wai)
Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata)
Lone Star (John Sayles)
Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
Maborosi (Hirokazu Koreeda)
The Grifters (Stephen Frears)
The Blue Villa (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
Shadows and Fog (Woody Allen)
Following (Christopher Nolan)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen)
Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
The Spanish Prisoner (David Mamet)
A Tale of Winter (Eric Rohmer)
1980s
The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer)
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki)
Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
Manoel on the Island of Wonders (Raoul Ruiz)
My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
Never Cry Wolf (Carol Ballard)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
The Fourth Man (Paul Verhoeven)
The Horse Thief (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
My American Uncle (Alain Resnais)
The Brother from Another Planet (John Sayles)
Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
Snakes and Ladders (Raoul Ruiz)
The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg)
City of Pirates (Raoul Ruiz)
They Live (John Carpenter)
Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader)
Stardust Memories (Woody Allen)
Time Masters (Rene Laloux)
The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
The Fall of the House of Usher (Jan Svankmajer)
La Belle Captive (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
1970s
Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti)
The Man Asleep (Bernard Queysanne)
Pastoral: To Die in the Country (Shuji Terayama)
Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
Love in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer)
Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood)
Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (Kinji Fukasaku)
The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdonavich)
Night Moves (Arthur Penn)
Love and Death (Woody Allen)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
Dogs’ Dialogue (Raoul Ruiz)
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski)
Fantastic Planet (Rene Laloux)
The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
The Chess Players (Satyajit Ray)
High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese)
M*A*S*H (Robert Altman)
1960s
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
The Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
Hero of the Red Light District (Tomu Uchida)
Dog Star Man (IV) (Stan Brakhage)
Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa)
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi)
Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
Cemetary Without Crosses (Roberto Hossein)
Boy (Nagisa Oshima)
Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto)
A Fugitive from the Past (Tomu Uchida)
Faccia a Faccia (Sergio Sollima)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
Wings (Larissa Sheptiko)
The Letter Never Sent (Mikhail Kalazatov)
Je t’aime, je t’aime (Alain Resnais)
The Haunting (Robert Wise)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
8 ½ (Federico Fellini)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchock)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
The War is Over (Alain Resnais)
Pitfall (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
The Innocents (Jack Clayton)
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Sydney Pollack)
The Stranger (Luchino Visconti)
1950s
In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
A Bloody Spear at Mt. Fuji (Tomu Uchida)
The Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity (Masaki Kobayashi)
Rififi (Jules Dassin)
Toute La Memoire Du Monde (Alain Resnais)
Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder)
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
Rancho Notorious (Fritz Lang)
Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
Ballad of a Soldier (Gregori Chukrai)
The Man From Laramie (Anthony Mann)
The Cranes are Flying (Mikhail Kalazatov)
Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Masaki Kobayashi)
Kanal (Andzrej Wajda)
Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
Gun Crazy (Joseph Lewis)
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
1940s
The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
The Third Man (Carol Reed)
The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles)
A Matter of Life and Death (Powell and Pressburger)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren)
Detour (Edward Ulmer)
Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang)
The Killers (Richard Siodmak)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell and Pressburger)
The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges
Odd Man Out (Carol Reed)
Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
1930s
The Devil is a Woman (Josef Von Sternberg)
Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
The Scarlet Empress (Josef Von Sternberg)
Blonde Venus (Josef Von Sternberg)
City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)
M (Fritz Lang)
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
Destry Rides Again (George Marshall)
La Bete Humaine (Jean Renoir)
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
Stagecoach (John Ford)
Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka)
A Story of Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu)
1920s
The Cameraman (Buster Keaton)
La Roue (Abel Gance)
Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton)
The Fall of the House of Usher (Watson and Webber)
The Navigator (Buster Keaton)
The Last Command (Josef Von Sternberg)
The Cabinet of Caligari (Robert Wiene)
A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugusa)
Destiny (Fritz Lang)
Underworld (Josef Von Sternberg)
Steamboat Bill Jr. (Buster Keaton)
Some favorite bands/musicians
Gaslight Anthem
Bruce Springsteen
The Smiths
Uncle Tupelo
Son Volt
Favorite Writers
Thomas Pynchon
Philip K. Dick
Raymond Chandler
Ursula K. Le Guin
