I almost put Jarmush. Stranger Than Paradise just blew me away the first time I saw it.

Great flick for sure... I really dig Down By Law too Tom Waits should act more!

Martin Scorsese
Akira Kurosawa
Stanley Kubrick
Alfred Hitchcock
Luis Bunuel
Orson Welles
Ingmar Bergman
Elia Kazan
Sidney Lumet
Fritz Lang



Modern directors list, since only two of my top ten directors are still working:
The Coen Brothers
Christopher Nolan
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
John Singleton
Spike Lee
Spike Jonze
David Chronenberg
Sofia Coppola
Michel Gondrey
David Fincher

1. Martin Scorsese
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Billy Wilder
4. Stanley Kubrick
5. Charles Chaplin
6. Sergio Leone
7. Frank Capra
8. Fritz Lang
9. Dario Argento
10. Francis Ford Coppola

(11.) F.W. Murnau

• Alfred Hitchcock
• Akira Kurosawa
• David Cronenberg
• Sergio Leone
• David Lynch
• Quentin Tarantino
• Clint Eastwood
• Martin Scorcese
• Paul Thomas Anderson
• Roman Polanski

Changed it 3 times just typing that out.

But that stays for now. In that order too.

No particular order...

Lucio Fulci
Jörg Buttgeriet
Brian Yuzna
Dario Argento
Mario Bava
Frtiz Lang
Peter Jackson
Sam Raimi
Ingmar Bergman
Bob Clark

I like his films too Dead Of Night and Black Christmas are amazing. I've got a really good article on him from Psychotronic I should scan and post

10)Quentin Tarantino.
9)Roman Polanski.
8)John Carpenter.
7)Guillmero Del Toro.
6)Sergio Leone.
5)Francis Ford Coppolla.
4)Alfred Hitchcock.
3)Martin Scorsese.
2)David Lynch.
1)Stanley Kubrick.

cool lists - i like the mix of new and old

though i'm still shocked that more of the 'classic movie' lists don't have howard hawks - the man was amazing! and innovated in every genre from horror (the original THING - which he 'really' directed) comedy (Bringing up Baby) westerns (Red River) gangster films (he directed the original 1932 version of Scarface)! come on people - some love for the hawk!

No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!