Name That Director!

I curse you a thousand times for bringing this picture to my attention. I'm supposed to teach a class tomorrow. I guess I'll just have to wing it.

It looks like Fassbinder said something really dirty to Agnes Varda. She can't even look at him.

At least Jim Jarmusch is easy to pick out.

My eye just kinda wanders all over this thing. Here's some holes I landed in:

Row 1
5. Robert Aldrich
11. I believe that's Stan Brakhage
19. Mario Bava

Row II
4. Maya Deren (it's a tiny photo, but that hair, right?)
14. Georges Méliès

Row III
16. Jacques Rivette.
17... or is it Nic Roeg?
18. is definitely Raoul Walsh.
19. Preminger maybe?

Row VI
1. Claude Charbrol
2. Lucio Fulci
3. J-P Melville

Row VII
2. Vincente Minnelli

Row IX
4. Takeshi Kitano

My facial recognition capacity is legendarily bad, and my eyesight is apparently failing because I couldn't even recognize that picture as John Waters and I was looking for him!

I _think_ I have the following but may be embarrassingly wrong.

Row 1, 4: Robert Bresson (my eyes strain on this but the hair looks right)

ROw 2, 4; Maya Deren

Row 8, 4; Lars von trier
Row 9, 4: Takeshi Kitano

First Try (in addition to Jim's):

Row I: Antonioni! You missed him, please guess (I think I am right on this one) I think the real John Ford is #5 on the first row.

Row II: after Buenuel: Charles Burnett

Row IV: Tsui Hark (the guy before Rohmer) After Rohmer is Edward Yang.
Also on the row: #9 - Zhang Yimou

Row VI: The alien before Paul Verhoeven is Hiroshi Teshigahara.

Row VIII: Chinese guy with the sunglasses - Wong Kar Wai (duh!)

Rox IX: Malick after Coens

Except for the eyepatch (which I believe was over his left eye, but of course the image may be flopped), John Ford doesn't look like John Ford.

Also, VII-7: John Hughes?

Samuel Fuller is there. He is #2 on Row IV (between Jane Campion and Joe Dante)

Also, in Row IX, #4. is Takeshi Kitano

Second Round:

Row II: #3 Cassavetes

Row III: Is the guy before Allen, Ray ... or is he the one you pointed out?

Row XI: Rossellini is also before godard.

Thoroughly done.

The most agonizing aspect of the whole exercise is that I couldn't name a single woman.

Fun!

Regarding Cinemania, I checked the first five or so you listed against Cinemania '96 (I think the first time I've ever looked at it) and none were the same. Black and white headshots, but different black and white headshots.

Row 9, Pic is Terrence Malick. Taken on the set of Badlands

Row 8, Pic 4 looks like young Lars von Trier

Row 7, pic 10 is Theo Angelopoulos. Same picture is on the cover of a book of interviews with him, edited by David Fainaru

Row 6, pic 17 is Tsai Ming Liang

Row 4, pic 16 is Tsui Hark

IX:4 is Takeshi Kitano.
IV:16 I'm pretty sure is Tsui Hark.

That's all I got.

Aha! The guy at III:18 that you thought was John Ford is Raoul Walsh!

All I have are guesses, but here goes.

Row 2
#3: John Cassavetes?
#4: Maya Deren?

This is going to be a fun/frustrating week.

and Gilliam twice?

I recognize the shots of Leone, Fellini, De Palma, Corman, Carpenter and Raoul Walsh from Cinemania 97. (Which I should probably thank you for - so, thanks!)
And number 15 is Dreyer.

Row 2, #4 is Maya Deren
Row 4, #2 is Sam Fuller
Row 8, #3 is Terry Gilliam (yes, he's in there twice)
Row 8, #4 is Lars Von Trier

Re: Dreyer - Row I 15, that is.
Row IX, 2 is Malick; IX, 4, is Kitano; IX, 18, is Visconti. Another Cinemania shot, by the way.
Row VIII, 3 is Gilliam as well. VIII, 4 is von Trier - right next to Tarkovsky, hmm... VIII, 17 is Wong Kar-Wai. VI, 17 is Rossellini. III, 18 is Raoul Walsh, and 20 perhaps Preminger? And now I have to force myself away from the screen.

I want to say #14 in Row VI (before Spielberg) is Dennis Hopper, but I can't be sure.

And #20 in Row 1 I'm positive is Chantal Akerman.

Here's the results of my first pass, complicated by my realization that there are repeats!

Row I
1. Victor Erice
2. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
3. Agnes Varda
4. Robert Bresson
5. Robert Aldrich
6. Robert Altman
7.
8. Michelangelo Antonioni
9. Gillian Armstrong
10. Dorothy Arzner
11. Stan Brakhage
12.
13. Peter Bogdanovich
14.
15.
16. Doris Wishman
17. Ingmar Bergman
18. Craig Baldwin
19.
20.

Row II
1. Luis Bunuel
2. Charles Burnett
3.
4. Maya Deren
5.
6. Jacques Demy
7.
8.
9. Robert Flaherty
10.
11. Kenji Mizoguchi
12. Francis Ford Coppola
13. Mikio Naruse
14.
15. Georges Méliès
16. Guy Maddin
17.
18. Sergio Leone
19. Howard Hawks
20. David Lean

Row III
1. Tim Burton
2. Federico Fellini
3. David Cronenberg
4. Werner Herzog
5. Krzysztof Kieslowski
6. Clara Law
7. Abbas Kiarostami
8. Stanley Kubrick
9. Fritz Lang
10. Shohei Imamura
11. Satyajit Ray
12. Woody Allen
13. John Waters
14.
15. Idrissa Ouedraogo
16. Jacques Rivette
17. Richard Lester
18. Raoul Walsh
19. François Truffaut
20.

Row IV
1. Jane Campion
2. Samuel Fuller
3. Joe Dante
4. Jia Zhangke
5.
6. Preston Sturges
7. Pier Paolo Pasolini
8. Don Siegel
9. Zhang Yimou
10. Preston Sturges
11.
12.
13.
14. Nicholas Ray
15.
16. Tsui Hark
17. Eric Rohmer
18. Edward Yang
19. Sam Peckinpah
20.

Row V
1. Leos Carax
2.
3. George Cukor
4. Chuck Jones
5.
6.
7.
8. William Wyler
9. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
10.
11.
12. Jean Cocteau
13. Kon Ichikawa
14.
15. Jonathan Demme
17.
18.
19. Alfred Hitchcock
20.

Row VI
1.
2.
3. Melvin Van Peebles
4. Akira Kurosawa
5.
6.
7.
8. Bernardo Bertolucci
9. Richard Linklater
10. Jerzy Skolimowski
11.
12. Paul Verhoeven
13.
14.
15. Steven Spielberg
16. Tsai Ming-Liang
17.
18. Jean-Luc Godard
19.
20. Francesco Rosi

Row VII
1. Chang Cheh
2.
3. Jean-Pierre Melville
4.
5. Mamoru Ishii
6. Martin Scorsese
7.
8. Mitchell Leisen
9. John Schlesinger
10.
11. Melvin Van Peebles
12.
13. Roger Corman
14.
15. Terry Gilliam
16. Arthur Penn
17. Bertrand Tavernier
18.
19. Clint Eastwood
20.

Row VIII
1. Henri-Georges Clouzot
2. Michael Haneke
3. Terry Gilliam
4. Lars Von Trier
5. Andrei Tarkovsky
6.
7. Sergei Eisenstein
8. Brian DePalma
9. David Fincher
10.
11. John Carpenter
12. Phillip Noyce
13.
14. Wang Xiaoshuai
15. Sadie Benning
16.
17. Wong Kar-Wai
18.
19.
20. Andy Warhol

Row IX
1. Joel & Ethan Coen
2. Terrence Malick
3. Michael Mann
4. Takeshi Kitano
5. Nagisa Oshima
6. John Sayles
7.
8. Mike Nichols
9.
10. Orson Welles
11.
12. Wim Wenders
13. Jerry Lewis
14. Steven Soderbergh
15. Gaspar Noe
16. Jim Jarmusch
17.
18.
19. Michael Powell
20. Billy Wilder

Isn't that Von Trier next to Tarkovsky?

IX 4 Looks like Takeshi Kitano to me.

I'd say IIX 3 is Terry Gilliam.

Jim,

This post is really a pleasant shock, given that it's coming from my favorite critic. Thanks a million for the generous mention. This has made my day. No, YEAR!

When I made the mosaic I knew only about a dozen of these directors. It'll be really great if we could get them all with inputs from the very informed readers at Scanners.

P.S: I think Row1-11 is Stan Brakhage. OK, I don't want to be a spoilsport of sorts. So I'll just listen for now :)

I found a few.

Row 1:

4. Robert Bresson
11. Stan Brakhage

Row 2:

4. Maya Deren

Row 8:

4. Lars Von Trier

Row 9:

2. Terrence Malick

Hi Jim, here's my small contribution.

1-11: Maybe Stan Brakhage?
2-2: Charles Burnett
3-18: That's Raoul Walsh, not Ford.
6-2: Lucio Fulci?
8-4: von Trier
9-2: Terence Malick

That's all I got for now.

A few more...

1-4: Bresson
1-5: Robert Aldrich
3-17: Nicolas Roeg
4-10: Looks like Preston Sturges to me
6-1: Claude Chabrol?
7-2: Minelli
8-3: Terry Gilliam
9-4: Takeshi Kitano

Looks like Terry Gilliam is on there twice.
Once where you pointed him out and the other where you thought it was Neil Jordan. The dimpled chin gives it away.
In fact, I think this is where the pic comes from:
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/montypython/montypythonIMAGE/montypython.jpg

Also missing is David Lynch.

Off the top of my head...

II / 5 - Ken Loach
IV / 16 - Jonathan Demme
IV / 20 - James Whale
VII / 4 - Lars von Trier
VII / 17 - Wong Kar-Wai
VIII / 4 - Takeshi Kitano

Row III
18. Raoul Walsh not John Ford
20. It looks a lot like Otto Preminger, but I can see how it looks like Renoir. It's criminal to leave off either of them though.

Row IX
4. Takeshi Kitano
I know there were a ton of pictures to go through, but does that mean you've never seen Battle Royale or Zatôichi?

Row VIII, 4. Lars Von Triers
Row IV, 9. Zhang Yimou

To the right of Michael Mann: isn't that Takashi Kitano?

I'll be looking at this thing all day...

That's Terry Gilliam, not Neil Jordan. To the right of him is, I think, Lars Von Trier.

There has to be some mistake.

Row 7 # 15 is Terry Gilliam.

Row 8 # 3 is a young Terry Gilliam.

I am sure of it. I've seen plenty of Monty Python to recognize his face. I may be wrong but it sure looks like him.

Oh, wait, there's Gilliam...I'm confused.

Okay, I'll leave.

I can only confirm that Row 3, #18 is not John Ford. He didn't get the eye patch until the 50's, and his skin wasn't remotely that smooth during that time period. Even when his skin was smooth, he didn't take pictures like this; debonair was not his style. The only picture of his - that I've seen - that makes him look distinguished was taken in the late 20's.

This little parlor game is devilish. I too answered a number of these with a (?) at the end. Of course, my handicap is that I've never edited a CD-ROM of cinema history.

Row IX, Pic 4 is Takeshi Kitano.

I am sure you have Satyajit Ray wrong. I believe he is there at Row III, Pic 11

Jim, you've ruined my day with this, but in the best was possible. I agree some important choices are missing but hey, if we all named the directors we think should be in that picture, it would probably go on for eternity and might end up ruining a whole week.

A few more

Row IV
9. Zhang Yimou

Row VI
16. Tsai Ming Liang

Row VII
10. Theo Angelopoulos

Row VIII
4. Lars von Trier
16. Wong Kar Wai

Row IX
2. Terrence Malick

Thank God work is slow today!

It was kind of distressing to see the number of faces which I did not recognize. Anyone who can name all of these at one go is a real champ.

Here's my effort to help out-- mostly guesses, unfortunately. Some are sure things, however-- those are the ones in CAPS.

Row I: (15) Michael Powell?
(20) Kimberly Pierce?

Row II: (2) Charles Burnett?
(3) JOHN FRANKENHEIMER

Row III: (18) Not Ford. Or DeToth. Maybe Raoul Walsh?

Row IV: (10) Sturges again?
(11) ROUBEN MAMOULIAN

Row V: (2) John Huston?
(19) James Whale?

Row VI: (2) LUCIO FULCI
(3) MELVIN VAN PEEBLES

Row VII: Park-Chan Wook?

Row VIII: (3) TERRY GILLIAM again
(17) WONG KAR-WAI

Row IX: (4) TAKESHI KITANO

Yeesh.

Without being too negative, is anyone else bothered that so many of the pictures are stretched/compressed so that the proportions are wrong? It does make certain directors seem thinner which might help them out.

I spotted quite a few, but none that Jim hadn't already identified. (And I didn't even recognize some of my faves, like Kubrick. Partly because I don't know if I've ever seen him young.)

I'm pretty sure you're right about Lucas, re: the (?).

Row IX number 2 is Terrence Malick.

I never realized how many directors I could probably recognize more easily through watching a scene from one of their films than through a photograph.

Just looking at the first three rows so far, I'm pretty sure I know these three:

Row 1 #11: Stan Brakhage
Row 3 #10: Shohei Imamura
Row 3 #18: Andre De Toth

Only ones I can add:

Row II
2. Charles Burnett

Row VIII
4. Lars von Trier

Row IX
2. Terrence Malick

Row 1 # 11 I believe is Stan Brakhage, not Lucas.

This might be tricky because although you are correct that Row VII #15 is Gilliam, Row VIII #3 also appears to be (a younger) Gilliam.

In any event, I believe Row I #12 is John Frankenheimer (as is Row II #3), Row IV #9 is Zhang Yimou, Row VIII #17 is Wong Kar Wai, Row IX #2 is Terrence Malick, and Takeshi Kitano is Row IX #4.

No Lynch?

Row 2, #4 is Maya Deren. Outside of that you recognized a lot more of them than I did.

Oh and Row VIII, #3 actually looks to me like Terry Jones of Monty Python, but then I don't know what Neil Jordan looked like.

V - 1: A really weirdly thin Derek Jarman?

Row 6, Picture #2 is Lucio Fulci (woo hoo Italian horror!)

Wow. My eyes hurt from trying to figure this out. Row 1, Picture #19 looks REALLY familiar, but I just can't put a name to it. Anyway...I know Fulci is correct!

I'll try to figure out more of these after lunch.

Once who they are has been finalized, is there any reasoning behind the positioning in the framework?

Did I just blow my own mind? I think I did.

Pretty sure Row I #8 is Youssef Chahine...that mole is pretty distinctive

Row 2 #4 --- Leni Riefenstahl?
Row 3, #10 --- Ishiro Honda (from Google image, looks like the hat and the smoke were trademarks)
Row 8, #15 --- Jodie Foster?

Some of the remaining women:

Row 3:
#14. Margarethe von Trotta

Row 4:
#5. Alanis Obomsawin
#12. Leslie Thornton

Row 8:
#16. Kira Muratova
#18. Margarethe von Trotta again

haven't had a chance to look through them all, but the one that jumped out at me is row 5, #7... paul thomas anderson.

Second pass, fixing some holes.

Row I
14. Blake Edwards
20. Catherine Breillat

Row II
10. Joseph Losey
14. Antonio Margheriti
17. Joseph H. Lewis

Row IV
11. Robert Siodmak
20. Don Siegel (again)

Row V
8. Carol Reed
10. Fred Zinnemann
11. Michael Winterbotom

Row VI
5. Jacques Tati

Row VII
4 Mamoru Oshii
20 Emeric Pressburger

Row VIII
10 Edward G. Ulmer
19. Jean Vigo

Row IX
18. Leo McCarey

It occurred to me that anyone with the time and inclination to ruin a party (guilty!) can go to Senses of Cinema's Great Director's page, click through every name and ID all the photos. After this revelation I managed to compile a key to all the faces in short order, so I'm dropping out of the race.

(There's only one photo I still haven't located Row 7, #12.)

A lot of those thumbnails are on this site. Scan the margins and you'll find one picture of Margarethe von Trotta that I saw, then click on her name and you'll see the other.

http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/index.html

I imagine many of the remaining gaps can be filled in by browsing there.

Okay, here's an unrelated question that has me curious; what are the other six other arts supposed to be? The blog doesn't mention, and Wikipedia has not a single tidy list where film/theater match at seven.

Whoa! That was quick. Thanks, all. I never thought there were multiple pics of the same director(s). I made this thing three years ago. That explains why Keaton, Chaplin, Kaurismaki etc are missing.

I thought Row-7 #12 was Clouzot. Apperently not. Thanks again.

Dear Jim,

I mentioned these before, but seeing that your list hasn't corrected them:

On Row VI, please move Tsai Ming Liang to 16, and put in Roberto Rossellini as 17. If you don't believe me look here:

http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/rossellini.html

The second "Zhang yimou" (row IV #18 after Rohmer) on the list is in fact Edward Yang:

http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/yang.html

check out the glasses.

Can't help on the others.

Wshew. Here's what I came up with. By the time I got back to this, most of the errors and holes were filled in. Which means everyone is very smart and cool!

If errors and typos slipped into this, all apologies. Again, this list was devised by checking the collage photos against the Senses of Cinema articles.

Row 7, #12 - seriously what the hell?

Row I
1. Victor Erice

2. Rainer Werner Fassbinder

3. Agnes Varda

4. Robert Bresson

5. Robert Aldrich

6. Robert Altman

7. Theodoros Angelopoulos

8. Michelangelo Antonioni

9. Gillian Armstrong
10. Dorothy Arzner

11. Stan Brakhage

12. Mauro Bolognini

13. Peter Bogdanovich

14. Blake Edwards

15. Carl Theodor Dreyer
16. Doris Wishman
17. Ingmar Bergman

18. Craig Baldwin

19. Mario Bava

20. Catherine Breillat (who does look a lot like Chantal Akerman)

Row II

1. Luis Buñuel

2. Charles Burnett
3. John Frankenheimer
4. Maya Deren

5. Ken Loach
6. Jacques Demy
7. Su Friedrich

8. Robert Flaherty

9. Arthur Lipsett

10. Joseph Losey
11. Kenji Mizoguchi

12. Francis Ford Coppola

13. Mikio Naruse
14. Antonio Margheriti

15. Georges Méliès

16.Guy Maddin

17. Joseph H. Lewis
18. Sergio Leone

19. Howard Hawks

20. David Lean

Row III

1. Timothy Walter Burton

2. Federico Fellini

3. David Cronenberg

4. Werner Herzog

5. Krzysztof Kieslowski

6. Clara Law
7. Abbas Kiarostami

8. Stanley Kubrick

9. Fritz Lang

10. Shohei Imamura

11. Satyajit Ray

12. Allen Stewart Konigsberg

13. John Waters

14. Margarethe von Trotta

15. Idrissa Ouedraogo

16. Jacques Rivette

17. Richard Lester

18. Raoul Walsh
19. François Truffaut

20. Otto Preminger

Row IV
1. Jane Campion

2. Sam Fuller

3. Joe Dante

4. Jia Zhangke

5. Alanis Obomsawin

6. Preston Sturges

7. Pier Paolo Pasolini

8. Don Siegel

9. Zhang Yimou

10. Preston Sturges (again)

11. Robert Siodmak
12. Leslie Thornton

13. Yasujiro Ozu (without hat, indeed)

14. Nicholas Ray

15. Claude Sautet
16. Tsui Hark

17. Eric Rohmer

18. Edward Yang

19. Sam Peckinpah

20. Don Siegel (again)

Row V
1. Leos Carax

2. Ritwik Ghatak

3. George Cukor

4. Chuck Jones

5. Idrissa Ouedraogo (again)

6. Carol Reed

7. François Ozon

8. William Wyler

9. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

10. Fred Zinnemann
11. Michael Winterbottom

12. Jean Cocteau

13. Kon Ichikawa
14. Tomu Uchida
15. Jonathan Demme
16. Jacques Becker

17. Abraham Polonsky

18. Alfred Hitchcock

19. James Whale


Row VI
1. Claude Charbrol
2. Maestro Lucio Fulci

3. Melvin Van Peebles
4. Akira Kurosawa

5. Jacques Tati(scheff)

6. Jerzy Skolimowski

7. Glauber Rocha

8. Bernardo Bertolucci

9. Richard Linklater

10. Jerzy Skolimowski (again)

11. Hiroshi Teshigahara

12. Paul Verhoeven

13. Luis García Berlanga

14. Werner Schroeter

15. Steven Spielberg

16. Tsai Ming-liang

17. Roberto Rossellini

18. Jean-Luc Godard

19. Michael Almereyda

20. Francesco Rosi

Row VII
1. Chang Cheh
2. Vincente Minnelli
3. Jean-Pierre Melville

4. King Hu
5. Mamoru Oshii
6. Martin Scorsese

7. Richard Franklin

8. Mitchell Leisen

9. John Schlesinger

10. Theodoros Angelopoulos (again)

11. Melvin Van Peeples
 (again)
12.

13. Lifetime Achievement Oscar Honoree Roger Corman

14. Peggy Ahwesh

15. Terry Gilliam

16. Arthur Penn

17. Bertrand Tavernier

18. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
19. Clint Eastwood

20. Emeric Pressburger

Row VIII
1. Henri-Georges Clouzot

2. Michael Haneke

3. Terry Gilliam (again
)
4. Lars "von" Trier
5. Andrei Tarkovsky

6. Bertrand Tavernier (again
)
7. Sergei Eisenstein

8. Brian De Palma

9. David Fincher

10. Edward G. Ulmer looking like a badass

11. John Carpenter

12. Phillip Noyce

13. Yoshimitsu Morita

14. Wang Xiaoshuai

15. Sadie Benning
16. Kira Muratova

17. Wong Kar-wai
18. Margarethe von Trotta (again
)
19. Jean Vigo

20. Andy Warhol

Row IX
1. Joel & Ethan Coen

2. Terrence Malick
3. Michael Mann

4. Takeshi Kitano

5. Nagisa Oshima

6. John Sayles

7. Willi Forst

8. Mike Nichols

9. Yvonne Rainer

10. Orson Welles

11. Bill Forsyth

12. Wim Wenders

13. Jerry Lewis

14. Steven Soderbergh

15. Gaspar Noe

16. Jim Jarmusch

17. Maria Novaro
18. Leo McCarey
19. Michael Powell
20. Billy Wilder

Row I

12. Mauro Bolognini

Row II

9. Arthur Lipsett

Row V

14. Tomu Uchida

Row VI

14. Werner Schroeter
17. Roberto Rossellini

Row VI

7. Glauber Rocha

Row VII

14. Peggy Ahwesh

Row VIII

13. Yoshimitsu Morita
16. Kira Muratova

Rox IX

9. Yvonne Rainer
11. Bill Forsyth

OK, I got a few more. I've added them with a tabspace in front. Here's the updated list:

Row I
1. Victor Erice
2. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
3. Agnes Varda
4. Robert Bresson
5. Robert Aldrich
6. Robert Altman
7. Youssef Chahine
8. Michelangelo Antonioni
9. Gillian Armstrong
10. Dorothy Arzner
11. Stan Brakhage
12. Mauro Bolognini
13. Peter Bogdanovich
14. Blake Edwards
15. Carl Theodor Dreyer
16. Doris Wishman
17. Ingmar Bergman
18. Craig Baldwin
19. Mario Bava
20. Catherine Breillat

Row II
1. Luis Buñuel
2. Charles Burnett
3. John Frankenheimer
4. Maya Deren
5. Ken Loach
6. Jacques Demy
7. Su Friedrich
8. Robert Flaherty
9. Su Friedrich
10. Joseph Losey
11. Kenji Mizoguchi
12. Francis Ford Coppola
13. Mikio Naruse
14. Antonio Margheriti
15. Georges Méliès
16. Guy Maddin
17. Joseph H. Lewis
18. Sergio Leone
19. Howard Hawks
20. David Lean

Row III
1. Tim Burton
2. Federico Fellini
3. David Cronenberg
4. Werner Herzog
5. Krzysztof Kieslowski
6. Clara Law
7. Abbas Kiarostami
8. Stanley Kubrick
9. Fritz Lang
10. Shohei Imamura
11. Satyajit Ray
12. Woody Allen
13. John Waters
14. Margarethe von Trotta
15. Idrissa Ouedraggo
16. Jacques Rivette
17. Nicolas Roeg
18. Raoul Walsh
19. François Truffaut
20. Otto Preminger

Row IV

1. Jane Campion
2. Sam Fuller
3. Joe Dante
4. Jia Zhangke
5. Alanis Obomsawin
6. Preston Sturges
7. Pier Paolo Pasolini
8. Don Siegel
9. Zhang Yimou
10. Preston Sturges
11. Robert Siodmak
12. Leslie Thornton
13. Yasujiro Ozu (without hat?)
14. Nicholas Ray
15. Claude Sautet
16. Tsui Hark
17. Eric Rohmer
18. Zhang Yimou
19. Sam Peckinpah
20. Don Siegel (again)

Row V

1. Leos Carax
2. Lucio Fulci
3. George Cukor
4. Chuck Jones
5. Idrissa Ouedraogo (again)
6. Carol Reed
7. François Ozon
8. William Wyler
9. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
10. Fred Zinnemann
11. Michael Winterbottom
12. Jean Cocteau
13. Kon Ichikawa
14. Tomu Uchida
15. Jonathan Demme
16.
17.
18. Alfred Hitchcock
19. James Whale

Row VI

1. Claude Chabrol
2. Lucio Fulci
3. Melvin Van Peebles
4. Akira Kurosawa
5. Jacques Tati
6. Jerzy Skolimowski
7. Glauber Rocha
8. Bernardo Bertolucci
9. Richard Linklater
10. Jerzy Skolimowski (again)
11. Hiroshi Teshigahara
12. Paul Verhoeven
13.
14. Werner Schroeter
15. Steven Spielberg
16. Tsai Ming Liang
17. Roberto Rossellini
18. Jean-Luc Godard
19. Michael Almereyda
20. Francesco Rosi

Row VII

1. Chang Cheh
2. Vincente Minnelli
3. Jean-Pierre Melville
4. King Hu
5. Mamoru Oshii
6. Martin Scorsese
7. Richard Franklin
8. Mitchell Leisen
9. John Schlesinger
10. Theo Angelopoulos
11. Melvin Van Peebles
12. Anthony Mann
13. Roger Corman
14. Peggy Ahwesh
15. Terry Gilliam
16. Arthur Penn
17. Bertrand Tavernier
18. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
19. Clint Eastwood
20. Emeric Pressburger

Row VIII

1. Henri-Georges Clouzot
2. Michael Haneke
3. Terry Gilliam (again)
4. Lars von Trier
5. Andrei Tarkovsky
6. Bertrand Tavernier
7. Sergei Eisenstein
8. Brian DePalma
9. David Fincher
10. Edgar G. Ulmer
11. John Carpenter
12. Phillip Noyce
13.
14. Wang Xiaoshuai
15. Sadie Benning
16.
17. Wong Kar-Wai
18. Margarethe von Trotta
19. Jean Vigo
20. Andy Warhol

Row IX

1. Joel & Ethan Coen
2. Terence Malick
3. Michael Mann
4. Takeshi Kitano
5. Nagisa Oshima
6. John Sayles
7. Willi Forst
8. Mike Nichols
9.
10. Orson Welles
11. Bill Forsyth
12. Wim Wenders
13. Jerry Lewis
14. Steven Soderbergh
15. Gaspar Noé
16. Jim Jarmusch
17.
18. Leo McCarey
19. Michael Powell
20. Billy Wilder

V-5: Tomu Uchida
V-7: Jacques Becker
VII-7: Richard Franklin
VII-14: Peggy Ahwesh
VIII-13: Yoshimitsu Morita
VIII-16: Kira Muratova
IX-17: Maria Novaro

Oops, Su Friedrich's already mentioned. No idea who 2-#9 is...

So close to finishing...

II, 9 - Arthur Lipsett

#17 on Row V is Abraham Polonsky, director of Force of Evil & Tell them Willie Boy is Here. He also was screenwriter of Body and Soul. F of E and B&S are (somewhat) overlooked classics of American cinema starring John Garfield (in two MASSIVELY influential pre-Clift/Brando acting performances).

Wow. Never thought this would one day be taken apart and put together. Thanks a ton, Jim and everyone else, for this. I'll first save this list. This is terrific stuff.

Cheers and Thanks again!

I feel bad that the only woman I recognized on there was Agnes Varda. Not that I feel bad recognizing Agnes Varda because she's a darling patron saint of cinema and Beaches of Agnes blew me away in alot of different ways, but I love female directors, Lynne Ramsey, Katherine Bigelow, but there's always more faces to learn. And I didn't recognize Antonioni or Mario Bava so boo on me. But I guess the important thing is to recognize the work and bonus points if you can put the name to the face. I love Kenji Mizoguchi but hadn't seen him before. And I also love how many sunglasses were being worn in deference to either Goddard or Kurosawa or maybe John Ford. And what's with older American directors and eye patches? Were lenses made from asbestos back in the day? If you watch Scorsese's Journey through American cinema it's lousy with eye patches. Also, this is the only important non rambling part. How do you pronounce Brakhage? I've seen some of the films and seen the name plenty of times but I never have heard it spoken. Is it brack-ahge? br-a-cage? It's always nagged me. Great collage though, viva cinema!

Other (conspicuous) absentees (off the top of my head): Peter Greenaway, F.W. Murnau, John Ford (???), Rene Clair, Douglas Sirk, Pedro Almodovar, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, Mike Leigh, Hayao Miyazaki, Spike Lee, Derek Jarman, Ousmane Sembene, Stephen Frears, Sidney Lumet, Rouben Mamoulian, Todd Haynes, Oscar Micheaux, Yuriy Norshteyn, John Lasseter, Josef Von Sternberg and Erich Von Stroheim. Some of these directors may be there, I basically glanced over the list very quickly.