Director Grade Averages

Jim Jarmusch
Stranger Than Paradise, A
Down By Law, B
Mystery Train, B+
Night on Earth, B-
Dead Man, B
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, B+
Coffee and Cigarettes, A-
Broken Flowers, A-

Overall: B+

Takashi Miike

Audition A+
The Happiness of the Katakuris A+
Ichi the Killer A
Gozu A
Box A-
Visitor Q B+
Fudoh: The New Generation B
Imprint B

Overall: A


Quentin Tarantino

Pulp Fiction A++
Kill Bill A+
Reservoir Dogs A
Jackie Brown A
Four Rooms A-
Death Proof B+

Overall: A+


Robert Rodriguez

Sin City A
Planet Terror A
From Dusk Till Dawn A
Four Rooms A
Shark Boy & Lava Girl F

Overall: C+



Martin Scorsese
The Departed B-
The Aviator B+
Gangs of New York A
Goodfellas A+
Taxi Driver C-

Overall: C+

Stanely Kubrik
The Shining A
2001: A Space Odysee A
Full Metal Jacket A
A Clockwork Orange A
Dr. Strangelove B+

Overall: A

David Fincher
Fight Club A
Panic Room B
Zodiac B-

Overall: B

I'll update some of my grades, having seen new movies and re-watched many olds since my last post here:



Hal Hartley

Fay Grim B+
The Girl From Monday B-
No Such Thing A
The Book of Life C-
Henry Fool A-
Flirt C-
Amateur A
Simple Men B+
Surviving Desire C
Trust B+
The Unbelievable Truth B

Overall: B

Though really I feel like he deserves an A- for what he's accomplished. He's one of maybe 10 or so directors who I think are the best ones working regularly today.

David Cronenberg
The Brood, B
Scanners, C
Videodrome, B
The Dead Zone, C
The Fly, A
Dead Ringers, B+
Naked Lunch, B-
Crash, B+
eXistenZ, B+
Spider, B-
A History of Violence, B+
Eastern Promises, B

Overall: B

Surprised you rate The Brood so highly, most consider it one of his worst (myself included). Not seen Shivers?

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On the contrary, I think The Brood is his best horror movie along with The Fly, I find it a lot more frightening and disturbing than his other films. Samantha Eggar is amazing, almost coming across as sympathetic, no mean feat considering her character's psychotic nature. It's a really tense and suspenseful film where the violence forms an integral part of the narrative rather than feeling gratuitously tacked on. I say give it another chance.

Oh yeah, and what about Rabid?

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Well, Rabid isn't very good or very prolific, unlike Shivers that most Cronenberg fans would have seen. I haven't seen The Brood recently enough to formulate a valid response but do remember when researching my dissertation it was frequently described as one of his 'lesser' films.

I have a real soft spot for Rabid, true it's unintentionally funny exploitation, but it has its moments, is well made and Chambers is surprisingly good. My favourite scene involves a surgeon's finger and a pair of scissors.

Guy Maddin
Archangel B-
Careful C+
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs C-
Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary C+
Cowards Bend The Knee A
The Saddest Music In The World B
My Winnipeg A-

Lukas Moodysson
****ing Amal A
Together A
Lilya 4-Ever B
A Hole In My Heart D-

Brad Bird
The Iron Giant A-
The Incredibles A
Ratatouille A-

Pedro Almodovar
Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown C-
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! B
The Flower Of My Secret C
Live Flesh B
All About My Mother A-
Talk To Her A-
Bad Education C-
Volver B+

Christopher Nolan
Memento B+
Batman Begins D
The Prestige C
The Dark Knight B-

edit: didn't see this was supposed to be favorite directors, i just put a few that came to mind

Favorite Directors, Schmavorite Directors...

John Ford

Silents

The Iron Horse (1924) -

Lightnin' (1925) -

3 Bad Men (1926) -

Four Sons (1928) -

Hangman's House (1928) -

Riley the Cop (1928) -

Talkies:

Salute (1929) -

Men Without Women (1930) -

Seas Beneath (1931) -

Arrowsmith (1931) -

Airmail (1932) -

Doctor Bull (1933) -

The Lost Patrol (1934)

The World Moves On (1934)

Judge Priest (1934) -

The Whole Town's Talking (1935) -

The Informer (1935) -

Steamboat 'Round the Bend (1935) -

The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) -

Mary of Scotland (1936) -

The Plough and the Stars (1936) -

Wee Willie Winkie (1937) -

The Hurricane (1937) -

Four Men and a Prayer (1938) -

Submarine Patrol (1938) -

Stagecoach (1939) -

!!
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) -

Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) -

The Grapes of Wrath (1940) -

The Long Voyage Home (1940) -

Tobacco Road (1941) -

How Green Was My Valley (1941) -

The Battle of Midway (1942) -

December 7th (1943) -

They Were Expendable (1945) -

My Darling Clementine (1946) -

The Fugitive (1947) -

Fort Apache (1948) -

3 Godfathers (1948) -

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) -

Wagon Master (1950) -

Rio Grande (1950) -

When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950) -

The Quiet Man (1952) -

What Price Glory (1952) -

The Sun Shines Bright (1953) -

Mogambo (1953) -

The Long Gray Line (1955) -

Mister Roberts (1955) -

The Searchers (1956) -

The Wings of Eagles (1957) -

The Rising of the Moon (1957) -

The Last Hurrah, The (1958) -

Gideon's Day aka Gideon of Scotland Yard (1958) -

The Horse Soldiers (1959) -

Sergeant Rutledge (1960) -

Two Rode Together (1961) -

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) -

How the West Was Won (1962) (segment The Civil War) -

Donovan's Reef (1963) -

Cheyenne Autumn (1964) -

Young Cassidy (1965) -

7 Women (1966) -

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Silents:
Talkies (1929-1939):
(1940-1949):

(1950-1959):

(1960-1966)

Overall:

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Mark,

Donovan's Reef rated the same as :

Fort Apache
Young Mr. Lincoln and
Stagecoach

and no 5 stars in the whole bunch (not even The Searchers)?

I think you must have been there with Michaleen Flynn when he said :

"Well, it's a nice soft night so I think I'll go and join me comrades and talk a little treason."

Your friend,

uconjack

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I love the guy; why else would I list him? It took me over 90 minutes to make that post. And all the films you listed? I've seen them all at least six times, and Stagecoach at least 12.

By the way, is the hugest range of ratings, at least in my list. I didn't think my list would be a cliche, but maybe you should check my ratings more often. Most people would raise them at least one popcorn box. I believe that I only give about 10 films .

Clint Eastwood
Play Misty For Me C+
Firefox D+
Unforgiven B
Mystic River D-
Million Dollar Baby F
Flags Of Our Fathers C

Guillermo Del Toro
Cronos C
Mimic C
The Devil's Backbone B-
Hellboy C
Pan's Labyrinth B+
Hellboy II B-

David Lynch
Eraserhead B
The Elephant Man B+
Dune D+
Blue Velvet A
Wild At Heart A-
Twin Peaks A
Twin Peaks- Fire Walk With Me C
Lost Highway C
The Straight Story A-
Mulholland Drive B

Hayao Miyazaki
Nausicaa B+
Laputa B
My Neighbour Totoro A-
Kiki's Delivery Service B-
Porco Rosso B-
Princess Mononoke A
Spirited Away B+
Howl's Moving Castle A-

Frank Darabont
The Shawshank Redemption C+
The Green Mile D+
The Mist D-

Five random directors who I have at one point or another considered "favourites"...

Richard Linklater

Slacker, B
Dazed and Confused, A
Before Sunrise, A-
subUrbia, B
Waking Life, B+
Before Sunset, B
A Scanner Darkly, C+

John Carpenter

Assault on Precinct 13, B-
Halloween, B
The Fog, B-
Escape From New York, A
The Thing, A+
Big Trouble in Little China, B+
Prince of Darkness, C
They Live, A-
Memoirs of an Invisible Man, C-
In the Mouth of Madness, C+
Escape From L.A., C+

Robert Rodriguez

El Mariachi, B
Desperado, C-
From Dusk Till Dawn, C
Spy Kids, C
Spy Kids 2, C+
Spy Kids 3-D, C-
Once Upon a Time in Mexico, C
Sin City, B
Planet Terror, B

Kevin Smith

Clerks, A
Mallrats, B
Chasing Amy, A
Dogma, B+
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, C
Clerks II, B+

Stanley Kubrick

Lolita, B-
Dr. Strangelove, A-
2001, A
A Clockwork Orange, A
The Shining, A-
Full Metal Jacket, B+
Eyes Wide Shut, B

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I'm happy to see that you give Doc Strangelove an A-. I was under the impression that you found it unfunny, so you must think it's really exciting and suspenseful. You need to check out Paths of Glory ASAP.

Dr. Strangelove reached #14 on my old Top 100 list back in 2005. I haven't re-watched it at all since then, and for what it's worth, while it's a great film and all, you can't really call it "laugh out loud" funny (or maybe you can, different strokes and all, I just don't feel any great need to chuckle at all over it). I just thought A- would be a fair rating - great use of black-and-white, excellent interweaving of the stories and the performances are sublime.

Consider Paths of Glory on my to-do list. Hell, I should get it right now.

William Wyler

Hell's Heroes (1930) -

Counselor-at-Law (1933) -

These Three (1936) -

Dodsworth (1936) -

Come and Get It (1936) -

Dead End (1937) -

Jezebel (1938) -

Wuthering Heights (1939) -

The Westerner (1940) -

The Letter (1940) -

The Little Foxes (1941) -

Mrs. Miniver (1942) -

The Memphis Belle (1944) -

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) -

The Heiress (1949) -

Detective Story (1951) -

Carrie (1952) -

Roman Holiday (1953) -

The Desperate Hours (1955) -

Friendly Persuasion (1956) -

The Big Country (1958) -

Ben-Hur (1959) -

The Children's Hour (1961) -

The Collector (1965) -

How to Steal A Million (1966) -

Funny Girl (1968) -

The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970) -

Average:

Billy Wilder : Coming Next

Oh Goody I am a big fan

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Mark, i'm intrigued to know what your 10 films are, i know you're ratings are generally pretty objective so can't be too sure if they're your Top 10 Favourites, favourites being subjective and all.

Well, I do remember reading in Movie Tab that he gave Elmer Gantry a (not to mention giving Jaws a 7/5 - yes, I'm serious) so I think it would be reasonable to assume it is his top 10.