This is just a page that allows me to keep a count of how many films we have shown by various directors, just out of curiosity. Bold indicates films shown as a part of a movie marathon.
Updated 6/7/23
(8) Akira Kurosawa – Seven Samurai; Yojimbo; Ikiru; Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams; High and Low; Stray Dog; Rashomon; The Hidden Fortress
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(7) Alfred Hitchcock – The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934); Strangers on a Train; Rear Window; Vertigo; The Birds; North By Northwest; Foreign Correspondent
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(6) Ingmar Bergman – Winter Light; The Seventh Seal; Smiles of a Summer Night; Persona; Fanny and Alexander; Hour of the Wolf
(6) Ethan Coen – The Hudsucker Proxy (co); Miller’s Crossing (co); Barton Fink (co); A Serious Man (co); True Grit (co); Fargo (co)
(6) Joel Coen – The Hudsucker Proxy (co); Miller’s Crossing (co); Barton Fink (co); A Serious Man (co); True Grit (co); Fargo (co)
(6) Terry Gilliam – Brazil; The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus; Monty Python and the Holy Grail (co); Twelve Monkeys; The Fisher King; The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
(6) Richard Linklater – Before Sunrise; Before Sunset; Dazed and Confused; A Scanner Darkly; Boyhood; Waking Life
(6) Martin Scorcese – Raging Bull; Mean Streets; The Last Temptation of Christ; The Age of Innocence; Taxi Driver; Silence
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(5) Woody Allen – Annie Hall, Sleeper, Manhattan, Match Point, Take the Money and Run
(5) Quentin Tarantino – Four Rooms (“The Man from Hollywood”); Reservoir Dogs; Inglourious Basterds; Pulp Fiction; Django Unchained
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(4) Mel Brooks – Young Frankenstein; The Producers; Spaceballs; High Anxiety
(4) Sergio Leone – A Fistful of Dollars; For a Few Dollars More; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Once Upon a Time in the West
(4) Sidney Lumet – Network; 12 Angry Men; Dog Day Afternoon; Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
(4) Billy Wilder – Sunset Blvd.; Double Indemnity; Some Like it Hot; The Apartment
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(3) Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan; The Fountain; The Wrestler
(3) Luis Buñuel – The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie; Viridiana; The Exterminating Angel
(3) John Cassavetes – Faces; Gloria; The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
(3) Federico Fellini – La Strada; 8 1/2; Amarcord
(3) John Ford – The Grapes of Wrath; The Quiet Man; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
(3) Ang Lee – The Wedding Banquet; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Life of Pi
(3) Ridley Scott – Blade Runner; Alien; The Martian
(3) Steven Spielberg – E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial; Jurassic Park; Ready Player One
(3) Preston Sturges – The Lady Eve; Sullivan’s Travels; Unfaithfully Yours
(3) Andrei Tarkovsky – Zerkalo; Stalker; Andrei Rublev
(3) Denis Villeneuve – Arrival; Blade Runner 2049; Dune
(3) Taika Waititi – What We Do in the Shadows (co); Hunt for the Wilderpeople; Thor: Love and Thunder
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(2) Michelangelo Antonioni – The Passenger; Blow-Up
(2) Luc Besson – Nikita; Leon (“The Professional”)
(2) John Carpenter – Big Trouble in Little China; They Live
(2) Sylvain Chomet – The Triplets of Belleville; L’Illusionniste
(2) Sofia Coppola – The Virgin Suicides; Lost In Translation
(2) Alfonso Cuarón – Children of Men; Roma
(2) Clint Eastwood – Play Misty For Me; Unforgiven
(2) Bryan Forbes – The Wrong Box; Séance on a Wet Afternoon
(2) Stephen Frears – Dirty Pretty Things; High Fidelity
(2) Michel Hazanavicius – OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies; The Artist
(2) Jonathan Glazer – Under the Skin; Sexy Beast
(2) Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman; The Revenant
(2) Luca Guadagnino – Io Sono L’Amore; Call Me by Your Name
(2) Terry Jones – Monty Python’s Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (co)
(2) Krzysztof Kieslowski – Blue; The Double Life of Véronique
(2) Stanley Kubrick – Dr. Strangelove; 2001: A Space Odyssey
(2) Emir Kusturica – Black Cat, White Cat; Underground
(2) Daniel Kwan – Swiss Army Man (co); Everything Everywhere All at Once (co)
(2) Richard Lester – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; A Hard Day’s Night
(2) Barry Levinson – Diner; Good Morning, Vietnam
(2) David Lynch – Inland Empire; Blue Velvet
(2) Terrence Malick – The New World; The Tree of Life
(2) Louis Malle – Au Revoir Les Enfants; Black Moon
(2) Hayao Miyazaki – Spirited Away (co); Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
(2) Andrew Niccol – Anon; Gattaca
(2) Christopher Nolan – Interstellar; Memento
(2) Alan J. Pakula – All the President’s Men; Klute
(2) Roman Polanski – Chinatown; Rosemary’s Baby
(2) S.S. Rajamouli – RRR; Eega
(2) Daniel Scheinert – Swiss Army Man (co); Everything Everywhere All at Once (co)
(2) M. Night Shyamalan – Unbreakable; Split
(2) John Sturges – The Great Escape; Bad Day At Black Rock
(2) Julie Taymor – Titus; Frida
(2) Guillermo del Toro – Pan’s Labyrinth; The Devil’s Backbone
(2) Agnès Varda – Visages Villages (co); Cléo from 5 to 7
(2) Matthew Vaughn – Kick-Ass; Kingsman: The Secret Service
(2) Orson Welles – Touch of Evil; Mr. Arkadin
(2) Wim Wenders – Der himmel über Berlin; Paris, Texas
(2) Edgar Wright – Shaun of the Dead; Hot Fuzz
(2) Robert Zemeckis – Back to the Future; Back to the Future Part II
(2) Jerry Zucker – Airplane! (co); Rat Race
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(1) Jim Abrahams – Airplane! (co)
(1) Hany Abu-Assad – Paradise Now
(1) Percy Adlon – Bagdad Cafe
(1) Tomas Alfredson – Let the Right One In
(1) Pedro Almodóvar – Hable con ella
(1) Ana Lily Amirpour – A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
(1) Allison Anders – Four Rooms (“The Missing Ingredient”)
(1) Paul Thomas Anderson – Punch-Drunk Love
(1) Wes Anderson – The Royal Tenenbaums
(1) Denys Arcand – The Barbarian Invasions
(1) Emile Ardolino – Dirty Dancing
(1) Neil Armfield – Candy
(1) Hal Ashby – Being There
(1) Anthony Asquith – The Browning Version
(1) Gabriel Axel – Babette’s Feast
(1) Charles Bail – The Gumball Rally
(1) Ritesh Batra – The Lunchbox
(1) Timur Bekmambetov – Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
(1) Justin Benson – The Endless (co)
(1) Fabián Bielinsky – Nueve Reinas
(1) Antonia Bird – Ravenous
(1) Brad Bird – Incredibles 2
(1) Larry Blamire – The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
(1) Neill Blomkamp – District 9
(1) John Boorman – Zardoz
(1) Darren Lynn Bousman – Repo! The Genetic Opera
(1) Atticus Brady – Errol Garner: No One Can Hear You Read
(1) Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
(1) Tim Burton – Big Fish
(1) Adrián Caetano – Bolivia
(1) Mike Cahill – King of California
(1) James Cameron – The Terminator
(1) Juan José Campanella – The Secret in Their Eyes
(1) Jane Campion – An Angel at My Table
(1) Leos Carax – Holy Motors
(1) Marc Caro – City of Lost Children (co)
(1) Shane Carruth – Primer
(1) D. J. Caruso – The Salton Sea
(1) Jay Chandrasekhar – Super Troopers
(1) Charlie Chaplin – City Lights
(1) Jimmy Chin – Free Solo (co)
(1) Stephen Chow – Kung Fu Hustle
(1) Jermaine Clement – What We Do in the Shadows (co)
(1) Edward F. Cline – The Bank Dick
(1) Henri-Georges Clouzot – Les Diaboliques (1955)
(1) Jean Cocteau – La Belle et la Bête (1946)
(1) Chris Columbus – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (alternate soundtrack)
(1) Ryan Coogler – Black Panther
(1) Martha Coolidge – Real Genius
(1) Francis Ford Coppola – The Conversation
(1) Frank Coraci – The Wedding Singer
(1) Costa-Gavras – Z
(1) Arthur Crabtree – Fiend Without a Face
(1) David Cronenberg – Scanners
(1) Cameron Crowe – Vanilla Sky
(1) George Cukor – The Philadelphia Story
(1) Lavinia Currier – Passion in the Desert
(1) Michael Curtiz – Casablanca
(1) Lee Daniels – Shadowboxer
(1) Julie Dash – Daughters of the Dust
(1) Jules Dassin – The Naked City
(1) Jonathan Demme – The Silence of the Lambs
(1) Ted Demme – Blow
(1) Jacques Demy – The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
(1) Alain Desrochers – Bon Cop Bad Cop 2
(1) Mark Dindal – The Emperor’s New Groove
(1) Carl Theodor Dreyer – The Passion of Joan of Arc
(1) Daryl Duke – The Silent Partner
(1) Nicolás Echevarría – Cabeza de Vaca
(1) Adam Elliot – Mary and Max
(1) Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
(1) Paul Feig – Bridesmaids
(1) David Fincher – Se7en
(1) Victor Fleming – The Wizard of Oz (alternate soundtrack)
(1) James Foley – Glengarry Glen Ross
(1) Ari Folman – Waltz With Bashir
(1) Milos Forman – Amadeus
(1) Bob Fosse – Cabaret
(1) Georges Franju – Eyes Without a Face
(1) David Frankel – The Big Year
(1) John Frankenheimer – The Manchurian Candidate
(1) Kinji Fukasaku – Battle Royale
(1) Roberto Gabaldón – Macario
(1) Alex Garland – Ex Machina
(1) Bahman Ghobadi – No One Knows About Persian Cats
(1) Craig Gillespie – Lars and the Real Girl
(1) Tony Gilroy – Michael Clayton
(1) François Girard – Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
(1) Richard Glatzer – Still Alice (co)
(1) Michel Gondry – Human Nature
(1) Debra Granik – Winter’s Bone
(1) F. Gary Gray – Straight Outta Compton
(1) Christopher Guest – Best in Show
(1) John Guillermin – Death on the Nile
(1) Paul Haggis – In the Valley of Elah
(1) Anthony Harvey – The Lion in Winter
(1) Herk Harvey – Carnival of Souls
(1) Howard Hawks – The Big Sleep
(1) Victor Heerman – Animal Crackers
(1) Brian Helgeland – Payback
(1) Stephen Herek – Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
(1) Don Hertzfeldt – Bitter Films, Vol. 1
(1) Gordon Hessler – KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park
(1) George Roy Hill – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(1) P.J. Hogan – My Best Friend’s Wedding
(1) Savage Steve Holland – Better Off Dead
(1) Ishirô Honda – Gojira
(1) Dennis Hopper – Easy Rider
(1) Mamoru Hosoda – The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
(1) John Hughes – Weird Science
(1) John Huston – The Maltese Falcon
(1) Kon Ichikawa – Fires on the Plain
(1) Shôhei Imamura – The Ballad of Narayama
(1) Jûzô Itami – Tampopo
(1) Mick Jackson – L.A. Story
(1) Peter Jackson – They Shall Not Grow Old
(1) Steve James – Hoop Dreams
(1) Michael Patrick Jann – Drop Dead Gorgeous
(1) Jim Jarmusch – Broken Flowers
(1) Barry Jenkins – Moonlight
(1) Garth Jennings – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
(1) Jean-Pierre Jeunet – City of Lost Children (co)
(1) Norman Jewison – A Soldier’s Story
(1) Alejandro Jodorowsky – El Topo
(1) The Man Who Killed Star Wars – Looper
(1) Duncan Jones – Moon
(1) Spike Jonze – Being John Malkovich
(1) JR – Visages Villages (co)
(1) Mihalis Kakogiannis – Zorba the Greek
(1) Je-kyu Kang – Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
(1) Matthieu Kassovitz – La Haine
(1) Charlie Kaufman – Synechdoche, New York
(1) Aki Kaurismäki – Le Havre
(1) Elia Kazan – A Streetcar Named Desire
(1) Richard Kelly – Donnie Darko
(1) Irvin Kershner – The Empire Strikes Back
(1) Abbas Kiarostami – Close-Up
(1) Jee-woon Kim – A Tale of Two Sisters
(1) Takeshi Kitano – Outrage
(1) Jon Knautz – The Shrine
(1) Masaki Kobayashi – Harakiri
(1) Satoshi Kon – Perfect Blue
(1) Stanley Kramer – It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
(1) Zacharias Kunuk – Atanarjuat
(1) Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Cure
(1) John Landis – ¡Three Amigos!
(1) Fritz Lang – Metropolis
(1) James Lapine – Into The Woods (American Playhouse, 1991)
(1) Andrew Lau – Infernal Affairs (co)
(1) Bart Layton – The Imposter
(1) Emilio Martínez Lázaro – The Other Side of the Bed
(1) David Lean – Hobson’s Choice
(1) Chang-dong Lee – Burning
(1) Spike Lee – School Daze
(1) Doug Liman – Edge of Tomorrow
(1) Ernst Lubitsch – To Be or Not To Be
(1) Baz Luhrmann – Elvis
(1) George Lucas – Star Wars
(1) Kevin Macdonald – Touching the Void
(1) Alexander Mackendrick – Sweet Smell of Success
(1) John Mackenzie – The Long Good Friday
(1) Alan Mak – Infernal Affairs (co)
(1) Milcho Manchevski – Before the Rain
(1) James Mangold – 3:10 to Yuma
(1) Joseph L. Mankiewicz – All About Eve
(1) Chris Marker – Sans Soleil
(1) Richard Marquand – Return of the Jedi
(1) James Marsh – Man On Wire
(1) Martin McDonagh – Seven Psychopaths
(1) Sam Mendes – American Beauty
(1) James Merendino – SLC Punk!
(1) Takashi Miike – Audition
(1) George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road
(1) Tim Miller – Deadpool
(1) David Robert Mitchell – It Follows
(1) John Cameron Mitchell – Hedwig and the Angry Inch
(1) Kenji Mizoguchi – Ugetsu
(1) Tomm Moore – Song of the Sea
(1) Aaron Moorhead – The Endless (co)
(1) Errol Morris – Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
(1) Robert Mulligan – To Kill a Mockingbird
(1) F. W. Murnau – The Last Laugh
(1) Eddie Murphy – Harlem Nights
(1) Olivier Nakache – Intouchables (co)
(1) Hideo Nakata – Ringu
(1) Jessie Nelson – I Am Sam
(1) Tim Blake Nelson – The Grey Zone
(1) Fred C. Newmeyer – Safety Last! (co)
(1) Mike Nichols – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(1) Katsuhiro Ôtomo – Akira
(1) Frank Oz – Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
(1) Yasujirô Ozu – Equinox Flower
(1) Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis (co)
(1) Chan-wook Park – Oldboy
(1) Woo-sang Park – Miami Connection
(1) Alexander Payne – Sideways
(1) Jordan Peele – Get Out
(1) Sean Penn – Into the Wild
(1) Stacy Peralta – Riding Giants
(1) Wolfgang Petersen – Das Boot
(1) Sydney Pollack – Three Days of the Condor
(1) Gillo Pontecorvo – The Battle of Algiers
(1) Alex Proyas – Dark City
(1) Sam Raimi – Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn
(1) Nicholas Ray – In a Lonely Place
(1) Satyajit Ray – The Big City
(1) Benjamin Ree – The Painter And The Thief
(1) Carol Reed – The Third Man
(1) Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive
(1) Carl Reiner – Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
(1) Rob Reiner – The Princess Bride
(1) Jean Renoir – La règle du jeu
(1) William Richert – Winter Kills
(1) W. D. Richter – The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
(1) Jay Roach – Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
(1) Mark Robson – Valley of the Dolls
(1) Alexandre Rockwell – Four Rooms (“The Wrong Man”)
(1) Robert Rodriguez – Four Rooms (“The Misbehavers”)
(1) George A. Romero – Night of the Living Dead
(1) Nanci Rossov – Unbowed
(1) Anthony Russo – Avengers: Infinity War (co)
(1) Joe Russo – Avengers: Infinity War (co)
(1) Joseph Sargent – The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
(1) Michael Sarnoski – Pig
(1) Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis (co)
(1) Jeremy Saulnier – Blue Ruin
(1) John Sayles – Lone Star
(1) Julian Schnabel – Le scaphandre et le papillon
(1) Michael Schultz – The Last Dragon
(1) Tony Scott – True Romance
(1) Peter Segal – Tommy Boy
(1) Steven Shainberg – Secretary
(1) Taylor Sheridan – Wind River
(1) Tarsem Singh – The Fall
(1) John Singleton – Boyz n the Hood
(1) Victor Sjöström – The Phantom Carriage
(1) Erik Skjoldbjærg – Insomnia
(1) Steven Soderbergh – Schizopolis
(1) Silvio Soldini – Pane e Tulipani
(1) Paul Solet – Tread
(1) Ben Stiller – Tropic Thunder
(1) Oliver Stone – Wall Street
(1) Tom Stoppard – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
(1) Seijun Suzuki – Tokyo Drifter
(1) Damián Szifrón – Relatos Salvajes
(1) Masayuki Suo – Shall We Dance?
(1) Yôjirô Takita – Departures
(1) Gustavo Taretto – Medianeras
(1) Jacques Tati – Playtime
(1) Sam Taylor – Safety Last! (co)
(1) Matt Thompson – Bloodline
(1) Johnnie To – Cheung Foh
(1) Michael Tolajian – Once Brothers
(1) Eric Toledano – Intouchables (co)
(1) Giuseppe Tornatore – Cinema Paradiso
(1) Colin Trevorrow – Safety Not Guaranteed
(1) Lars von Trier – Dancer in the Dark
(1) Shin’ya Tsukamoto – Tetsuo, the Iron Man
(1) Tom Tykwer – Cloud Atlas (co)
(1) Jamie Uys – The Gods Must Be Crazy
(1) W.S. Van Dyke – The Thin Man
(1) Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi – Free Solo (co)
(1) Francis Veber – La Doublure
(1) Paul Verhoeven – Soldaat van Oranje
(1) Nacho Vigalondo – Los cronocrímenes
(1) Thomas Vinterberg – Festen
(1) František Vláčil – Marketa Lazarová
(1) Andy Wachowski – Cloud Atlas (co)
(1) Lana Wachowski – Cloud Atlas (co)
(1) Michael Wadleigh – Woodstock
(1) J. Robert Wagoner – Disco Godfather
(1) Tim Wardle – Three Identical Strangers
(1) Lina Wertmüller – Pasqualino Settebellezze
(1) Wash Westmoreland – Still Alice (co)
(1) Robert Wiene – The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
(1) Fred M. Wilcox – Forbidden Planet
(1) Kirk Wise – Spirited Away (co)
(1) David Wnendt – Er Ist Wieder Da (Look Who’s Back)
(1) Wong Kar-Wai – In the Mood for Love
(1) Edward Yang – A Brighter Summer Day
(1) Peter Yates – Bullitt
(1) Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. – The Blob
(1) Masaaki Yuasa – The Night is Short, Walk on Girl
(1) Corey Yuen – Fong Sai Yuk
(1) Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild
(1) Yimou Zhang – Hero
(1) David Zucker – Airplane! (co)
(1) Terry Zwigoff – Ghost World
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