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-Peter Greenaway
-Mohsen Makhmalbaf
-Carlos Reygadas
-Louis Malle
-Shohei Imamura
-Jules Dassin
-Jacques Rivette
-Kaneto Shindo
-Jacques Tati
-Bernardo Bertolucci
-Preston Sturges
-Erich Von Stroheim
-Wim Wenders
-Gilo Pontecorvo
-Claude Lanzmann
-Jean Eustache
-Claire Denis
-Jean Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
-Robert Flaherty
-Glauber Rocha
-Jane Campion
-Ousmame Sembene
-Mike Leigh
-Maurice Pialat
-Djibril Diop Mambéty
-G.W. Pabst
-George Stevens
-Humphrey Jennings
-Bob Fosse
-Peter Bogdanovich
-Oliver Stone
-Lindsay Anderson
-Fei Mu
-John Schlesinger
-Guru Dutt
-Ken Russell
-Louis Feuillade
-John Woo
-Francesco Rosi
-Mel Brooks
-Jean Rouch
-Peter Watkins
-Bob Rafelson
-Rouben Mamoulian
-King Hu
-Alan J. Pakula
-John Hughes
-Dennis Hopper
-Seijun Suzuki
-Dusan Makavejev
-Mark Sandrich
-Hong Sang-soo
-Abel Ferrara
-Michael Bay
Whoa, I have shortened this list a damn lot. Adding others that were mentioned: Guy Maddin (same as Cobpyth, only shorts), Stanley Kramer, Masahiro Shinoda, Sion Sono, Yoshishige Yoshida, Nanni Moretti, John Sayles, Cecil B. DeMille, John Frankenheimer, Paul WS Anderson (the only good Anderson?).