Film Reviews (Alphabetical by Director)
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J.J. Abrams
Robert Aldrich
Tomas Alfredson
Woody Allen
Robert Altman
Jeta Amata
Thom Andersen
Julie Anderson
Lindsay Anderson
Wes Anderson
Kenneth Anger
Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki
(+ Masuyuki)
(+ Masuyuki, Mahiro Maeda)
(+ Mahiro Maeda, Katsuichi Nakayama)
Lou Antonio
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michael Apted
(+ Paul Almond)
view Chronological by Film • Alphabetical by Film • Most Recently Published
J.J. Abrams
Robert Aldrich
Tomas Alfredson
Woody Allen
Robert Altman
Jeta Amata
Thom Andersen
Julie Anderson
Lindsay Anderson
Wes Anderson
Kenneth Anger
Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki
(+ Masuyuki)
(+ Masuyuki, Mahiro Maeda)
(+ Mahiro Maeda, Katsuichi Nakayama)
Lou Antonio
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michael Apted
(+ Paul Almond)
(solo)
Olivier Assayas
Tex Avery
Frédéric Back
Lloyd Bacon
Ramin Bahrani
Rick Barnes, Olivia Neergaard-Holm, John Nguyen
Kim Bartley, Donnacha O'Briain
Noah Baumbach
Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carriere, Georges Dufaux, Jean-Claude Labrecque
Marco Bellocchio
Ingmar Bergman
Bernardo Bertolucci
Kathryn Bigelow
Brad Bird
Don Bluth
Sergey Bondarchuk
Frank Borzage
Danny Boyle
Stan Brakhage
Robert Bresson
Tod Browning
Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
Andrew Bujalski
Luis Buñuel
Charles Burnett
Ken Burns
David Butler
James Cameron
Jaime Camino
Saara Cantell
Frank Capra
Peter Care
Claude Chabrol
Charlie Chaplin
Damien Chazelle
Vera Chytilová
René Clair
Joel & Ethan Coen
Geoff Collins
Ryan Coogler
Francis Ford Coppola
Sofia Coppola
R. Douglas Copsey, Joe Jay Jalbert
Roger Corman
Mark Cousins
Roland Crandall (animated under Dave Fleischer's directorial credit)
David Cronenberg
George Cukor
(+ Victor Fleming, Sam Wood)
(solo)
Richard Curtis
Michael Curtiz
(+ William Keighley)
(solo)
Lee Daniels
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Delmer Daves
Gareth Davies
Terence Davies
Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
Roy Del Ruth
Cecil B. DeMille
Jonathan Demme
Brian De Palma
Maya Deren
(+ Alexander Hammid)
(solo)
Jean de Rovera
Vittorio De Sica
Arnaud Desplechin
Michael Dibb
dozens of directors working under Walt Disney
Edward Dmytryk
Pete Docter
Andrew Dominik
Stanley Donen
(+ Gene Kelly)
(solo)
Robert Drew
Carl Theodor Dreyer
John Driver
Guru Dutt
dozens of directors working under Shelley Duvall
Clint Eastwood
Uli Edel
Sergei Eisenstein
Deb Ellis, Denis Mueller
Jacques Ertaud & Jean-Jacques Languepin
Jean Eustache
Arnold Fanck & Othmar Gurtner
Forugh Farrokhzad
Federico Fellini
Charles Ferguson
Giorio Ferroni
Dave Filoni
David Fincher
Charles Fitzgerald (listed as writer/producer only)
Robert Flaherty
Victor Fleming
(+ King Vidor)
(+ George Cukor, Sam Wood)
Ari Folman
Stefan Forbes
John Ford
Tom Ford
Milos Forman
(+ Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger & Mai Zetterling)
Marc Forster
Frontline program directors
Sam Fuller
Abel Gance
Michael Gates
Basil Gelpke, Raymond McCormack
Greta Gerwig
(+ Joe Swanberg)
(solo)
Alex Gibney
Michael Gill, Peter Montagnon, Ann Turner
Jean-Luc Godard
Michel Gondry
David Gordon Green
Sam Green, Bill Siegel
Peter Greenaway
Paul Greengrass
Bud Greenspan
(+ produced w/ Nancy Beffa)
Nathan Greno, Byron Howard
D.W. Griffith
Louis Gueguen
Davis Guggenheim
Gu Jun
James Gunn
Patricio Guzmán
Mark Hall
Lance Hammer
John Lee Hancock
Catherine Hardwicke
Robin Hardy
Holger Harrivirta
Henry Hathaway
Howard Hawks
Todd Haynes
Amy Heckerling
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Jim Henson, Frank Oz
Don Hertzfeldt
Juraj Herz
Werner Herzog
Alfred Hitchcock
Jonathan Hock
Stephen Hopkins
Dennis Hopper
Theo Hormann
Hou Hsiao Hsien
Ian Hugo
Courtney Hunt
John Huston
Tancred Ibsen
Kon Ichikawa
(re-edited w/ new narration by producer Taguchi Suketaro & supervisor Nobumasa Kawamoto)
(+ Milos Forman, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger & Mai Zetterling)
Alberto Isaac
Isadore Isou
produced by Istituto Luce
Wanda Jakubowska
Steve James
Andrew Jarecki
Eugene Jarecki
Derek Jarman
Jia Zhangke
Joe Johnston
Terry Jones
Spike Jonze
Neil Jordan
Carl Junghans
Lawrence Kasdan
Mathieu Kassovitz
Tai Katô
Charlie Kaufman
Aki Kaurismäki
Elia Kazan
Buster Keaton
(+ Jack Blystone)
(+ Donald Crisp)
(solo)
(+ Clyde Bruckman)
Irving Kershner
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Castleton Knight
Henry Koster
Stanley Kubrick
Zacharias Kunuk
Yoji Kuri
Akira Kurosawa
Fran Rubel Kuzui
Lee Kwang-soo
Im Kwon-taek
Gregory La Cava
Albert Lamorisse
Fritz Lang
Claude Lanzmann
David Lean
Lee Ji-won
Spike Lee
Claude Lelouch
(+ Francois Reichenbach)
(+ Milos Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger & Mai Zetterling)
Hannu Leminen
Mervyn LeRoy
Robert Lieberman
Richard Linklater
Mariano Llinás
Luis Llosa
Kenneth Lonergan
James Longley
George Lucas
Daniele Luchetti
Rene Lucot
Baz Luhrmann
Rod Lurie
Sidney Lumet
Auguste & Louis Lumière
David Lynch
Guy Maddin
Louis Malle
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Anthony Mann
Delbert Mann
Michael Mann
Romolo Marcellini
Richard Marquand
Joel Ben Marsden
James Marsh
Lucrecia Martel
Tony Maylam
(+ Drummond Challis)
Albert & David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
Martin McDonagh
Bruce McDonald
Norman Z. McLeod
Shane Meadows
Heribert Meisel
Bill Melendez
Kieth Merrill
André Michel
Gjon Mili
Vincente Minnelli
Sergey Miroshnichenko
Hayao Miyazaki
Kenji Mizoguchi
Haifaa al-Monsour
Michael Moore
Pierre Morel
Robert Mulligan
F.W. Murnau
Mikio Naruse
Gédéon & Jules Naudet, James Hanlon
John Negulesco
Kurt Neumann
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Fred Niblo, B. Reeves Easton, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn
Andrew Niccol
Christopher Nolan
Phillip Noyce
Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Ermanno Olmi
Niels Arden Oplev
Nagisa Ôshima
Yuri Ozerov
(+ Milos Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger & Mai Zetterling)
(solo)
Yasujirô Ozu
G.W. Pabst
Alan Pakula
Jafar Panahi
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Gerald Peary
Sam Peckinpah
Jordan Peele
Arthur Penn
(+ Milos Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger & Mai Zetterling)
Karen Peterson
Christopher Petit
Michael Pfleghar
(+ Milos Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, John Schlesinger & Mai Zetterling)
William Phelps
Maurice Pialat
Roman Polanski
Abraham Polonsky
Léa Pool
Frank Popper
H.C. Potter
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Wilhelm Prager
Otto Preminger
Cristi Puiu
Stephen & Timothy Quay
Sam Raimi
Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass
Man Ray
Nicholas Ray
Satyajit Ray
Carol Reed
Jerry Rees
Matt Reeves
Kelly Reichardt
Lotte Reiniger
Karel Reisz
Jason Reitman
Jean Renoir
Tony Richardson
Leni Riefenstahl
Guy Ritchie
Michael Ritchie
Jacques Rivette
(+ Suzanne Schiffman)
(more solo)
Phil Alden Robinson
Arthur Robison
Éric Rohmer
Abram Room
Roberto Rossellini
Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin
Caroline Rowland
Walter Ruttmann
Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich
Mark Sandrich
Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Parronaud
Carlos Saura
John Sayles
Lone Scherfig
John Schlesinger
(+ Milos Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar & Mai Zetterling)
Evald Schorm
Paul Schrader
Martin Scorsese
Tony Scott
Deborah Scranton
James D. Scurlock
George Seaton
Ousmane Sembene
Jim Sheridan
Hiroshi Shimizu
Masahiro Shinoda
Breno Silveira
John Smith
Steven Soderbergh
produced by Sol Film
Andrew Solt
Steven Spielberg
Andrew Stanton
Wladyslaw & Irene Starewicz
Jeff Stein
James D. Stern, Adam Del Deo
Oliver Stone
Mel Stuart
Preston Sturges
Charles Sturridge, Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Anne Sundberg, Ricki Stern
Joe Swanberg
(+ Greta Gerwig)
Kim Takal
Rachel Talalay
Talking Heads music video directors
Andrei Tarkovsky
Jacques Tati
Rob Thomas
Ernest Thompson
Béla Tarr
Francois Truffaut
Saul J. Turrell
Stefan Uher
Edgar Ulmer
Dave Unwin, Dennis Abbey
Gus Van Sant
Agnès Varda
Dziga Vertov
King Vidor
(+ Victor Fleming)
(solo)
Luchino Visconti
Erich Von Stroheim
Lars Von Trier
George Waggner
Raoul Walsh
Marc Webb
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Peter Weiss
Orson Welles
James Whale
Joss Whedon
Peter Whitchurch
Robert Wiene
Ted Wilde, Harold Lloyd, Lewis Milestone
Billy Wilder
Herbert Wise
Wong Kar Wai
Adrian Wood (from footage shot 115 years earlier)
Run Wrake
Edgar Wright
William Wyler
David Yates
Yi Seung-jun
Peter Yost
Robert Zemeckis
Marina Zenovich
Mai Zetterling
(+ Milos Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar & John Schlesinger)
Edward Zwick
& exclusively on Patreon...
Greta Gerwig
Hayao Miyazaki
Christopher Nolan
Martin Scorsese
Takashi Yamazaki
Rob Zombie
Olivier Assayas
Tex Avery
Frédéric Back
Lloyd Bacon
Ramin Bahrani
Rick Barnes, Olivia Neergaard-Holm, John Nguyen
Kim Bartley, Donnacha O'Briain
Noah Baumbach
Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carriere, Georges Dufaux, Jean-Claude Labrecque
Marco Bellocchio
Ingmar Bergman
Bernardo Bertolucci
Kathryn Bigelow
Brad Bird
Don Bluth
Sergey Bondarchuk
Frank Borzage
Danny Boyle
Stan Brakhage
Robert Bresson
Tod Browning
Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
Andrew Bujalski
Luis Buñuel
Charles Burnett
Ken Burns
David Butler
James Cameron
Jaime Camino
Saara Cantell
Frank Capra
Peter Care
Claude Chabrol
Charlie Chaplin
Damien Chazelle
Vera Chytilová
René Clair
Joel & Ethan Coen
Geoff Collins
Ryan Coogler
Francis Ford Coppola
Sofia Coppola
R. Douglas Copsey, Joe Jay Jalbert
Roger Corman
Mark Cousins
Roland Crandall (animated under Dave Fleischer's directorial credit)
David Cronenberg
George Cukor
(+ Victor Fleming, Sam Wood)
(solo)
Richard Curtis
Michael Curtiz
(+ William Keighley)
(solo)
Lee Daniels
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Delmer Daves
Gareth Davies
Terence Davies
Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
Roy Del Ruth
Cecil B. DeMille
Jonathan Demme
Brian De Palma
Maya Deren
(+ Alexander Hammid)
(solo)
Jean de Rovera
Vittorio De Sica
Arnaud Desplechin
Michael Dibb
dozens of directors working under Walt Disney
Edward Dmytryk
Pete Docter
Andrew Dominik
Stanley Donen
(+ Gene Kelly)
(solo)
Robert Drew
Carl Theodor Dreyer
John Driver
Guru Dutt
dozens of directors working under Shelley Duvall
Clint Eastwood
Uli Edel
Sergei Eisenstein
Deb Ellis, Denis Mueller
Jacques Ertaud & Jean-Jacques Languepin
Jean Eustache
Arnold Fanck & Othmar Gurtner
Forugh Farrokhzad
Federico Fellini
Charles Ferguson
Giorio Ferroni
Dave Filoni
David Fincher
Charles Fitzgerald (listed as writer/producer only)
Robert Flaherty
Victor Fleming
(+ King Vidor)
(+ George Cukor, Sam Wood)
Ari Folman
Stefan Forbes
John Ford
Tom Ford
Milos Forman
(+ Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger & Mai Zetterling)
Marc Forster
Frontline program directors
Sam Fuller
Abel Gance
Michael Gates
Basil Gelpke, Raymond McCormack
Greta Gerwig
(+ Joe Swanberg)
(solo)
Alex Gibney
Michael Gill, Peter Montagnon, Ann Turner
Jean-Luc Godard
Michel Gondry
David Gordon Green
Sam Green, Bill Siegel
Peter Greenaway
Paul Greengrass
Bud Greenspan
(+ produced w/ Nancy Beffa)
Nathan Greno, Byron Howard
D.W. Griffith
Louis Gueguen
Davis Guggenheim
Gu Jun
James Gunn
Patricio Guzmán
Mark Hall
Lance Hammer
John Lee Hancock
Catherine Hardwicke
Robin Hardy
Holger Harrivirta
Henry Hathaway
Howard Hawks
Todd Haynes
Amy Heckerling
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Jim Henson, Frank Oz
Don Hertzfeldt
Juraj Herz
Werner Herzog
Alfred Hitchcock
Jonathan Hock
Stephen Hopkins
Dennis Hopper
Theo Hormann
Hou Hsiao Hsien
Ian Hugo
Courtney Hunt
John Huston
Tancred Ibsen
Kon Ichikawa
(re-edited w/ new narration by producer Taguchi Suketaro & supervisor Nobumasa Kawamoto)
(+ Milos Forman, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger & Mai Zetterling)
Alberto Isaac
Isadore Isou
produced by Istituto Luce
Wanda Jakubowska
Steve James
Andrew Jarecki
Eugene Jarecki
Derek Jarman
Jia Zhangke
Joe Johnston
Terry Jones
Spike Jonze
Neil Jordan
Carl Junghans
Lawrence Kasdan
Mathieu Kassovitz
Tai Katô
Charlie Kaufman
Aki Kaurismäki
Elia Kazan
Buster Keaton
(+ Jack Blystone)
(+ Donald Crisp)
(solo)
(+ Clyde Bruckman)
Irving Kershner
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Castleton Knight
Henry Koster
Stanley Kubrick
Zacharias Kunuk
Yoji Kuri
Akira Kurosawa
Fran Rubel Kuzui
Lee Kwang-soo
Im Kwon-taek
Gregory La Cava
Albert Lamorisse
Fritz Lang
Claude Lanzmann
David Lean
Lee Ji-won
Spike Lee
Claude Lelouch
(+ Francois Reichenbach)
(+ Milos Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger & Mai Zetterling)
Hannu Leminen
Mervyn LeRoy
Robert Lieberman
Richard Linklater
Mariano Llinás
Luis Llosa
Kenneth Lonergan
James Longley
George Lucas
Daniele Luchetti
Rene Lucot
Baz Luhrmann
Rod Lurie
Sidney Lumet
Auguste & Louis Lumière
David Lynch
Guy Maddin
Louis Malle
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Anthony Mann
Delbert Mann
Michael Mann
Romolo Marcellini
Richard Marquand
Joel Ben Marsden
James Marsh
Lucrecia Martel
Tony Maylam
(+ Drummond Challis)
Albert & David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
Martin McDonagh
Bruce McDonald
Norman Z. McLeod
Shane Meadows
Heribert Meisel
Bill Melendez
Kieth Merrill
André Michel
Gjon Mili
Vincente Minnelli
Sergey Miroshnichenko
Hayao Miyazaki
Kenji Mizoguchi
Haifaa al-Monsour
Michael Moore
Pierre Morel
Robert Mulligan
F.W. Murnau
Mikio Naruse
Gédéon & Jules Naudet, James Hanlon
John Negulesco
Kurt Neumann
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Fred Niblo, B. Reeves Easton, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn
Andrew Niccol
Christopher Nolan
Phillip Noyce
Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Ermanno Olmi
Niels Arden Oplev
Nagisa Ôshima
Yuri Ozerov
(+ Milos Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger & Mai Zetterling)
(solo)
Yasujirô Ozu
G.W. Pabst
Alan Pakula
Jafar Panahi
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Gerald Peary
Sam Peckinpah
Jordan Peele
Arthur Penn
(+ Milos Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger & Mai Zetterling)
Karen Peterson
Christopher Petit
Michael Pfleghar
(+ Milos Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, John Schlesinger & Mai Zetterling)
William Phelps
Maurice Pialat
Roman Polanski
Abraham Polonsky
Léa Pool
Frank Popper
H.C. Potter
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Wilhelm Prager
Otto Preminger
Cristi Puiu
Stephen & Timothy Quay
Sam Raimi
Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass
Man Ray
Nicholas Ray
Satyajit Ray
Carol Reed
Jerry Rees
Matt Reeves
Kelly Reichardt
Lotte Reiniger
Karel Reisz
Jason Reitman
Jean Renoir
Tony Richardson
Leni Riefenstahl
Guy Ritchie
Michael Ritchie
Jacques Rivette
(+ Suzanne Schiffman)
(more solo)
Phil Alden Robinson
Arthur Robison
Éric Rohmer
Abram Room
Roberto Rossellini
Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin
Caroline Rowland
Walter Ruttmann
Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich
Mark Sandrich
Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Parronaud
Carlos Saura
John Sayles
Lone Scherfig
John Schlesinger
(+ Milos Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar & Mai Zetterling)
Evald Schorm
Paul Schrader
Martin Scorsese
Tony Scott
Deborah Scranton
James D. Scurlock
George Seaton
Ousmane Sembene
Jim Sheridan
Hiroshi Shimizu
Masahiro Shinoda
Breno Silveira
John Smith
Steven Soderbergh
produced by Sol Film
Andrew Solt
Steven Spielberg
Andrew Stanton
Wladyslaw & Irene Starewicz
Jeff Stein
James D. Stern, Adam Del Deo
Oliver Stone
Mel Stuart
Preston Sturges
Charles Sturridge, Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Anne Sundberg, Ricki Stern
Joe Swanberg
(+ Greta Gerwig)
Kim Takal
Rachel Talalay
Talking Heads music video directors
Andrei Tarkovsky
Jacques Tati
Rob Thomas
Ernest Thompson
Béla Tarr
Francois Truffaut
Saul J. Turrell
Stefan Uher
Edgar Ulmer
Dave Unwin, Dennis Abbey
Gus Van Sant
Agnès Varda
Dziga Vertov
King Vidor
(+ Victor Fleming)
(solo)
Luchino Visconti
Erich Von Stroheim
Lars Von Trier
George Waggner
Raoul Walsh
Marc Webb
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Peter Weiss
Orson Welles
James Whale
Joss Whedon
Peter Whitchurch
Robert Wiene
Ted Wilde, Harold Lloyd, Lewis Milestone
Billy Wilder
Herbert Wise
Wong Kar Wai
Adrian Wood (from footage shot 115 years earlier)
Run Wrake
Edgar Wright
William Wyler
David Yates
Yi Seung-jun
Peter Yost
Robert Zemeckis
Marina Zenovich
Mai Zetterling
(+ Milos Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar & John Schlesinger)
Edward Zwick
& exclusively on Patreon...
Greta Gerwig
Hayao Miyazaki
Christopher Nolan
Martin Scorsese
Takashi Yamazaki
Rob Zombie
