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In this feature, I list my favorite filmmakers of all time, directors who have made an invaluable impression on my life and my cinematic perspective, artists who have reached through the screen and inspired my creative and intellectual curiosity, as well as provided me endless pleasure in experiencing the infinite possibilities of the medium. These are the geniuses who make me love film like no other art form. As I still have so much to see and so many new directors' works to discover, the list will no doubt be updated as I view and cherish more and more of cinema's great artists.
Ranked in rough order of preference:
1. Ingmar Bergman SWEDEN
THREE BEST: Persona (1966), Cries and Whispers (1973), The Silence (1963)
2. Federico Fellini ITALY
THREE BEST: Nights of Cabiria (1957), 8 1/2 (1963), La Strada (1954)
3. Steven Spielberg UNITED STATES
THREE BEST: Schindler's List (1993), E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Empire of the Sun (1987)
4. Woody Allen UNITED STATES
THREE BEST: Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Annie Hall (1977), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
5. Akira Kurosawa JAPAN
THREE BEST: Ran (1985), Seven Samurai (1954), High and Low (1963)
6. Joel and Ethan Coen UNITED STATES
THREE BEST: A Serious Man (2009), No Country for Old Men (2007), Fargo (1996)
7. Martin Scorsese UNITED STATES
THREE BEST: Taxi Driver (1976), The Aviator (2004), Goodfellas (1990)
8. Francis Ford Coppola UNITED STATES
THREE BEST: Apocalypse Now (1979), The Godfather (1972), The Godfather: Part II (1974)
9. Louis Malle FRANCE
THREE BEST: Au Revoir les Enfants (1987), Murmur of the Heart (1971), Atlantic City (1981)
10. Charlie Chaplin UNITED KINGDOM
THREE BEST: City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936), The Gold Rush (1925)
11. Stanley Kubrick UNITED STATES
THREE BEST: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
12. Billy Wilder UNITED STATES
THREE BEST: Sunset Boulevard (1950), Double Indemnity (1944), The Apartment (1960)
13. Buster Keaton UNITED STATES
THREE BEST: The General (1927), Our Hospitality (1923), Seven Chances (1925)
14. Yasujiro Ozu JAPAN
THREE BEST: Late Spring (1949), I Was Born, But... (1932), Early Summer (1951)
15. Terrence Malick UNITED STATES
THREE BEST: The Tree of Life (2011), Days of Heaven (1978), Badlands (1973)
16. Alfred Hitchcock UNITED KINGDOM
THREE BEST: Vertigo (1958), Strangers on a Train (1951), North by Northwest (1959)
17. Luis Buñuel SPAIN
THREE BEST: Viridiana (1961), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), The Exterminating Angel (1962)
18. F.W. Murnau GERMANY
THREE BEST: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931), The Last Laugh (1925)
19. Robert Breer UNITED STATES
THREE BEST: Bang! (1986), Fuji (1974), Gulls and Buoys (1972)
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Jonathan Leithold-Patt is a 21-year-old film student at Columbia College Chicago. Besides watching lots and lots of films and writing about them, he is an avid painter.
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