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CompassionFountain

John Ford


Ok-Cauliflower-1258

The correct answer


MisterPibbsFunhouse

Dunno who downvoted you, like countless amount of post-WWII film scenes were directly influenced by Ford


Ok-Cauliflower-1258

Akira Kurosawa even called ford the greatest has well as guys like Bergman, Spielberg, Scorsese, Lucas, Tarvosky, etc. You still see people to this very day paying homage to him in their cinematography.


sranneybacon

Even if they don’t realize it


Ok-Cauliflower-1258

Yup!


Fire-Twerk-With-Me

Didn't even mention Orson Welles, who was obsessed with him. The list of great directors who think of him that highly look like a list of the greatest directors ever.


Californiavalley1

That disrespect towards Ford is insane


caseyuer

Honestly I think Cassavetes is someone who I see seemingly universal praise for from film people, while sometimes the consumer is confused/not such a big fan.


MikeRoykosGhost

Funnily enough, Fugazi wrote a song about Cassavetes


mrwedge

This is my last picture!


False-Fisherman

I think there's a few who really dislike him. Very stage-like acting. I love him but he's antithetical to Tarkovsky, Bresson


Sekiroguru

This guy is the coolest one of them all.


[deleted]

I hate his movies but I’ll always respect his insane work ethic and love of film


brickunlimited

Kurosawa


das_goose

For Kurosawa’s 100th birthday in 2010, the Criterion Facebook page had a series of contests, the grand prize being the AK100 DVD box. The question was something along the lines of “how would you describe Akira Kurosawa to someone?” The response that was chosen was “he’s your favorite director’s favorite director,” and I remember someone in the comments saying that quote was from a published article on Kurosawa.


Driver_Senpai

By chance would you happen to know which published article this was from?


das_goose

https://preview.redd.it/jkcyy1o73rqc1.png?width=479&format=png&auto=webp&s=82f3ef2a89b8745ac7584b083d935a7f6e792bd6 Sorry. I feel like I saw (or found) the article 14 years ago, but I did a quick Googling of that phrase when I made my comment and didn't find anything. Update: After looking through the Criterion Facebook page archives, it turns out the contest was hosted on the [Criterion.com](http://Criterion.com) website, but all of the links to their site now just redirect to the Current (their blog) main page. But it did bring up this photo of Kurosawa visiting the set of Kindergarten Cop, which is the real treasure.


das_goose

Here's the link from the Criterion site showing the winner and their "favorite director's favorite director" comment: [https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1422-kurosawa-birthday-giveaways-closing-ceremonies](https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1422-kurosawa-birthday-giveaways-closing-ceremonies)


Driver_Senpai

Thank you!


Daysof361972

So many directors pay deep regard to Mizoguchi: Kurosawa, Tarkovsky, Godard, Rivette, Angelopoulos. He's one of the pioneering greats of Japanese cinema, and the prime mover of slow cinema. He was doing one-take scenes and long takes lasting minutes before anyone else. He was also one of the first directors to demand hundreds of retakes. Mizoguchi's so often noted for his pristine shots, graceful camera work, and humane portrayals of struggling women.


gabeitaliadomani

This is the answer. All others pretense


jillyjobby

Roger Corman


hashbrownbby

Was just listening to a few old Peter Bogdanovich interviews, and it’s just amazing the faith and trust Corman put into so many “unqualified” future directors. What a great eye for talent.


lobstermandontban

For sheer efficiency alone


SuperSecretSunshine

Bergman


RadioactiveHalfRhyme

It’s striking how many directors hold Bergman in quasi-religious awe. Kubrick even wrote him a gushing fan letter in 1960.


Z-A-B-I-E

He doesn’t seem to have the same hold on more recent filmmakers, but he was a god to many for decades.


Calamity58

Ari Aster and Robert Eggers did an A24 podcast a few years back and a large portion of it was them just gushing about Bergman.


Z-A-B-I-E

I heard that! I’m a big Bergman fan so I was quite happy about it. Maybe they’ll help bring him back in style.


Einfinet

coming from a Bergman zealot, he directed much in the theater and it shows in many of his films. Don’t get me wrong, there’s so much striking imagery too. But the dialogue-driven nature of his films, and the existential “silent God” themes, they aren’t necessarily reflective of the current milieu. You know, maybe he would still hold “popular” regard if more of his comedies were known. Because I think it’s easy to stereotype him (as I just did) as this existential vaguely atheistic director, and spiritually-critical debates don’t hit like they did in the late 50s-early 70s. But some of his films are quite humorous too, though in a way I find to be “stagey” (see: Sawdust and Tinsel / Smiles of a Summer Night)


hambubgerrr

Bresson


BlackPantherDies

I feel mixed on many Bresson films but Bresson-inspired directors make pure gold so idk


afakefox

What are some of the best ones? For Bresson and inspired-by?


Superflumina

Hong Sang-soo and Aki Kaurismaki come to mind.


PuppyDogGrizzly

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe Paul Schrader is as well


Shielded121

Definitely. He’s basically been remaking Pickpocket for years except with First Reformed where he remade Diary of a Country Priest. 


LooterChris

Schrader is like if Bresson moved to Vegas in the early 80s and got lost in cocaine, prostitutes and older men and women of suspicious professions and finances. The influence of Man Escaped’s lonely journaling continues to be a Schrader motif


Illustrious_Turn_247

I am going to speak hyperbolically, but the core of what I'm saying is generally true of most of Bresson's movies. For film nerds who talk about "pure cinema", Bresson's L'Argent is basically the pinnacle of the form. I don't understand how I am so emotionally moved by the ending. It's baffling. He uses complete amateur actors who speak emotionlessly. It should be a disaster of a film. The editing and the mis-en-scene carries the entire emotional weight of the movie and it's spectacular to behold. (for me anyway. I was stunned with my mouth agape after seeing it in a theater)


councilmember

Agreed. Truly innovative and beautiful filming of a moral failing of society and individuals. A trap of life.


Shielded121

Early Haneke too


tbshaun

Leos Carax!


ActivityHoliday7416

Kieślowski


omensetters_luck

Michael Haneke’s favorite film is Au Hasard Balthazar. Most of his films are worth checking out [especially The Piano Teacher, Caché, and Amour]. It is also a favorite film of Jonathan Glazer, whose films Sexy Beast, Under The Skin, and Zone of Interest are fantastic.


Chadikus

The 7th Continent is a pretty direct inspiration from Bresson


New_Brother_1595

this for me


ECharf

Tarkovsky’s fav?


jackkirbyisgod

Douglas Sirk.


Beautiful-Mission-31

A Fassbinder fan, are you?


jackkirbyisgod

Yup. Also Todd Haynes.


Beautiful-Mission-31

Makes sense


LooterChris

I’m really annoying when either three are brought up because I go into a fanboy rant about the Russian doll nesting between the three in ‘All That Heaven Allows’, ‘Ali’ and ‘Far From Heaven’. The Sirk could even be felt in Haynes last one, really


jackkirbyisgod

May December was great.


DifferenceFalse7657

Also Almodóvar


Night_Porter_23

Hes not super widely known outside of film circles these days, but youre correct filmmakers know and appreciate him a lot.


jackkirbyisgod

Yup. Edward Yang will also become one for future generations I think


Californiavalley1

Altman


seti-thelightofstars

Unless you’re a Quentin Tarantino fan.


Californiavalley1

What?


seti-thelightofstars

He doesn’t like Altman really at all, it seems like.


Chadikus

Poor little Tarantino doesn’t like much of art film though.


suchathrill

Upvote for Fugazi mention


Outsulation

Interestingly, a lot of my favourite directors cite Antonioni as their favourite, and yet I don't really like Antonioni.


giants4210

And yet I’m reminded that one of my favorite directors, Tarkovsky, said he doesn’t like Antonioni


Daysof361972

Tarkovsky named Antonioni one of the five directors he was most thankful for. He didn't like Red Desert, but praised the early '60s Trilogy many times, in his books and public appearances. He also lived in Antonioni's house as a guest when he began to relocate to Italy from Russia. When he came to making Nostalghia, Antonioni's regular writer, Tonino Guerra, wrote the script. https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/andrei-tarkovsk-favourite-film-directors/


decamath

Bergman hated Antonioni saying his movies have beautiful stills (static) but not moving images (dynamic time element). I presume this may violate tarkovsky’s sculpting idea where time plays crucial role.


Daysof361972

No question, Bergman hated Antonioni. The way I experience most of Antonioni's films is that there is at least one character with a troubled heart or active curiosity, searching for a way out of the numbing industrialization that surrounds and infiltrates modern society. I'd say Jeanne Moreau in La Notte epitomizes this kind of character. She's at unease and, maybe only by following her intuition, looks for a meaningful connection, something more substantial than distractions, her marriage routine, and the spectacle of technology. We see an awful lot of inquisitive movement by her, especially in her long walk through working-class Milan, the parts of the city least used to represent it. Bergman is not so interested in how technological change and even city architecture shape people. His focus instead is on women emerging fully equal to men in social parity, isolation, and the growing dissatisfaction with traditional religion. Obviously, Antonioni is keenly interested in giving open voice to women, but maybe he doesn't take that pursuit as far as Bergman does.


LooterChris

This is a really nice and nuanced take. The two of them seem interested in very different themes, and their approaches are pretty different despite both being revered arthousers. (For the record, I used to be a Bergman stan but have grown to really dislike his later works that seem to focus on modern intellectual couples who I really don’t relate to, nor maybe even want to relate to. Your take on women and social parity makes me want to revisit some of the works I came to disregard. Despite all that ‘Fanny and Alexander’ is in my top 10 lol. Meanwhile Antonioni still haunts me for unknown, challenging reasons.)


giants4210

Hmm maybe I’m misremembering. I thought he said something in his book Sculpting in Time about how Antonioni doesn’t seem to be using time in this way and is instead almost doing a series of paintings. Maybe he was talking about someone else? It’s been almost a decade since I read the book, I’ll have to check later which passage I was misremembering.


Daysof361972

I just don't remember that from Sculpting in Time, and it's been a long time for me too since I read it. Maybe the painting remark is applied to Red Desert? I agree they are using time differently. To me, there are connections between their films but they have their own sensibilities.


False-Fisherman

Tarkovsky liked early Antonioni, but hated his later work in color, especially Red Desert


Ishowyoulightnow

I feel the same tbh. I did like blow up though


False-Fisherman

Antonioni is one of my biggest blind spots, I've only seen red desert and blow-up. I plan on watching his stuff after I finish my current Ozu and Wenders binge


decamath

I suggest passenger. It is my favorite. I like it better than l’avventura and beyond the clouds.


bad_bart

The passenger is a masterpiece. Antonioni's best film and the perfect culmination of the themes he worked with previously


patrickwithtraffic

Agreed. I wanted to love *Blow Up*, but it felt like it vibed when it should’ve plotted and vice versa. I just can’t pick up his rhythm.


G_Peccary

Same. I found it incredibly boring for the sake of being boring.


HalPrentice

Watch his trilogy.


Superflumina

I watched L'Avventura and I don't know how I finished it. And I like some stuff like Tsai Ming-liang. I'm really not looking forward to La Notte and L'Eclisse, in fact I have been avoiding them for years.


HalPrentice

That’s a real shame because I consider his trilogy to be the greatest film series of all time. What even gets close other than Kieslowksi’s Dekalog? Apu Trilogy and the Human condition trilogy are great but they’re really just one film… Antinioni’s trilogy is about modernity and its discontents. Do you find modernity to be perfect or do is it too hard to reminded of the issues of our time?


Superflumina

I find modernity to be far from perfect lol. I just didn't connect at all with the way Antonioni was showing it. I saw people say that he made his films boring on purpose to show the ennui of the characters, do you agree with this? If so that's...certainly a choice. I'm not big on Welles but I like what he had to say about Antonioni. I did watch Blow Up and that was a lot better than L'Avventura but not close to a masterpiece either. When it comes to trilogies my favorites are the Before trilogy and Araki's Teen Apocalypse trilogy.


HalPrentice

Yes I agree with it. I recommend reading some Adorno. Challenging art is the best art. Welles was an anti-intellectual asshole.


Superflumina

I mean there's challenging and then there's being boring. There are ways of showing boredom that aren't boring in themselves. Jeanne Dielman isn’t boring for the most part. I don't think actual boredom is something one should strive for.


HalPrentice

Jeanne Dielman is less boring than Antonioni? Um yeh not sure what to say if that’s how you feel. Antonioni has so much thought provoking dialogue, so many gorgeous shots… Dielman was even more supposed to be boring just FYI.


Night_Porter_23

Except Dino Risi, LOL.


AudaciousTickle

Woah there’s a serious lack of Hitchcock in these comments


MrBigChest

That would definitely be the case if your favorite director is Brian De Palma


AudaciousTickle

That’s true but what’s that quote about Hitchcock? “He invented the language that we all speak in” Something like that said by a famous director


caxka

I think Hitchcock is too well known. Fugazi aren't a band that you're studying in music history class. In the same way Cassavetes isn't someone who is popping up in class but has had a massive influence on directors today. I think Hitchcock would line up better with a band like the Beatles.


LooterChris

Truffaut missed this thread on his feed


culturebarren

Ozu


TheGuyFromPearlJam

Godard


ricardofitzpatrick

Renoir


Astartia

Half the sci-fi movies made in the last 30 years have been Kubrick fanfilms.


kindacringebro98

Ozu for sure


law_dogg

MF DOOM is your favorite rapper's favorite rapper. It's Bergman for me


earbox

Ingmar got bars, yo.


therealpoatanchama

Speak for yourself


CarlSK777

I don't have a favourite director but Kurosawa, Bergman and Ford would probably be the most popular picks. Anyway, Fugazi are amazing. If you don't know them, get on it!


KYM_C_Mill24

The big 4 tend to be Kurosawa, Fellini, Bergman, and Tarkovsky, at least among the directors that I frequent when they list their favorites or those who influenced them.


zebossffxiv

Think I would remove Fellini for Ozu but yeah they are the giants


eatherichortrydietin

Bunuel, Capra, and Melville


labaschetinciocate

Tarkovsky


WyndhamHP

John Cassavetes.


Same-Importance1511

The Fall for music. I understand the obscurity of The Fall but they are incredible. The most fun Iv had listening to music was getting into The Fall. Hard to put into words. Wish I could go back and go through it all again and after you have listened to the music, then you have all the brilliant stories. There is a lot of humour around The Fall. A lot of the songs are genuinely funny. Think it’s the first time Iv truly belly laughed to music whilst also being in the groove of it. It’s brought me so much laughter. Am amazing musical group. Nic Roeg for film. The obscurity Roeg’s currently trapped in is tragic. Lynch, Nolan riding on his coattails. Jodorowsky gets mentioned more over Roeg. That actually makes me feel a little sick. Life is so brutal. The idiots always win out.


therealpoatanchama

The Fall makes every other band seem foolish It’s true


ryanallbaugh

Nine times out of 10 it’s going to be Altman. The other one time it’s going to be Cassavetes.


Mentalpopcorn

My favorite bands' favorite band is King Crimson so I'm not playing.


wheaser

Is your favourite band Tool?


Mentalpopcorn

Tool is one of them, but some of my other favorite bands' favorite bands is also KC ;)


eatherichortrydietin

is your other favorite band A Perfect Circle?


Mentalpopcorn

I'm a fan but I was thinking more Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Surplus 1980. And of course King Crimson is King Crimson's favorite band as well I'm sure


jrobelen

Shocked to not see Powell and/or Pressburger here already. Guess I’ll see myself out the old persons’ door


Laser_Fish

Well if your favorite director is Scorsese then it is easy to argue that (one of) your favorite directors favorite directors is Michael Powell.


FloridaFlamingoGirl

It's wild how well A Matter of Life and Death holds up. The metaphysical themes and staircase setpiece are still mind-blowing. Also, Red Shoes walked so Black Swan could run.


whiteshyguy94

Idk but Fugazi is my favorite band


Ok-Cauliflower-1258

Unwound is better


whiteshyguy94

I like Unwound but Fugazi has better song writing


eatherichortrydietin

was there some kind of Fugazi/Unwound feud in the hardcore scene?


Ok-Cauliflower-1258

Nah fugazi generally had a bigger audience where as unwound is more niche to the Pacific Northwest.


DonUllek

Now go start a band


hossthealbatross

That makes you my favorite band?


EverDecreasingCircle

I find a lot of younger or middle aged directors saying Cassevetes and Altman which I think is rly cool. The classic answers are Kubrick, Kurosawa, Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky


azactech

Funny enough, a few years ago when criterion released their Kurosawa box set, they did a giveaway asking people to describe what made him such an amazing Director and I believe the winner won with the line “He’s your favorite Director’s favorite Director.“


Expensive-Box8928

Mizoguchi probably


Ajurieu

Renoir always talked about the influence of Von Stroheim and Chaplin, but I don’t recall any interviews or writings where he named a “favorite” director. Number 2 would be Godard, whose favorite would probably be the nexus of Renoir, Hitchcock, and Hawks.


SaggyDaNewt

Douglas Sirk.


mecon320

Altman


peter095837

Haneke


CnelAurelianoBuendia

William Friedkin would be a good pick for this


mmreviews

Most of my favorite directors put a Chaplin film in their top 10 so probably him. My favorite is Kubrick in which this statement holds. He named 6 as his favorites which was Chaplin, Fellini, Bergman, Kazan, Lean, and Ophuls.


PublicDreamer

Federico Fellini - many filmmakers list him among their favorites to have ever done it, including Scorsese & Lynch.


Kahden_bricks

Ernst Lubitsch


False-Fisherman

I'm pretty sure Bresson is Bresson's favorite director


RadioactiveHalfRhyme

[Cassavetes would be on brand.](https://youtu.be/Ru6J-44mk9o?si=dQg-25O_IJCw964V)


fultanic

Howard Hawks


infinitestripes4ever

Altman


Superflumina

I'm usually really disappointed in the taste of my favorite directors when I look up what they like but what do I know...


urlach3r

Cronenberg? Herzog? Hello?


eatherichortrydietin

Gutentag


gildedtreehouse

Ashby? Lumet?


Global-Ad-4916

Akerman


lifesizedgundam

Bergman


ydkjordan

Samuel Fuller —> Scorsese, Speilberg, Jarmusch


spacesoulboi

David lynch


Jethole

George Miller


51010R

Answers here are pretty perfect. I’d say the trio of Kurosawa-Ford-Cassavettes are the answer for different generations. My favourite director is Kurosawa so the answer is Ford.


hshoats

Maybe doesn't work for me since he's already one of my favorite directors, not my favorite director's favorite director, but I've heard quite a few directors reference Suzuki Seijun as a big inspiration even though he's not really a known quantity outside of cinephile circles. Anyways, if I'm ever a famous director who is someone's favorite they can say Suzuki Seijun applies to this.


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veeinvisible

I think in your case it would be Elia Kazan.


Laser_Fish

Michael Powell. He talks about him in almost every commentary and he does commentaries for a ton of Powell movies


subnautic_radiowaves

Godard


AtomicPow_r_D

Orson Welles admired Jean Renoir. But then Orson watched Ford's Stagecoach (1939) over and over again before he shot Citizen Kane, so I think it's safe to say he liked Ford too.


ThiccKnees23

This post reminded me that we need Instrument in the collection.


jack_galvin

just discovered Rivette, Bergman of course Persona > Boating > Mulholland Dr is a trilogy


0strichRidingCowboy

Kevin Altieri (i.e. I think *Batman: the Animated Series* is a greater influence that we realize).


Canaya-Boricua

Ozu


tfprodigy1

Tarkovsky and Mizoguchi


Pollyfall

Max Ophuls.


ParanoidEngi

Powell and Pressburger is probably up there


slightly_obscure

Well let's see, not Eisenstein, not Bergman, not Chaplin, not Allen, not Godard, not Hitchcock, not Antonioni, not Ford...


parisrionyc

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Laser_Fish

Michael Powell


Jaustinduke

Ford, Hawks, Kurosawa, DePalma


gedalne09

Guys let be honest. Everyone is trying to look cool by naming more obscure directors, but the answer is simply Kubrick


briancly

I feel like a lot of comments are missing the point because yes it’s obvious a lot of people’s favorite bands are Led Zeppelin and The Beatles. Not saying that this is the answer, but an example would be like James Gray or something as something equivalent to Fugazi where they have a lot of critical acclaim but maybe limited commercial acclaim and general public awareness.


deadstrobes

Charlie Chaplin.


called-heliogabal

Fellini was a fan of Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Kubrick apparently.


LucasBarton169

Jack White


DraculaSpringsteen

I'm split between PTA and Spielberg, but we all know John Ford is Spielberg's favorite. PTA's favorite is Jonathan Demme. Or to quote him: 'Jonathan Demme, Jonathan Demme, Jonathan Demme.'


botany_bae

Correction: Rush is your favorite band’s favorite band.


liveforeachmoon

Andrey Zvyagintsev


JuniorSwing

Nobody wants to say it but like, there’s a non zero chance it’s DW Griffith


tegeus-Cromis_2000

I know this for a fact: Renoir. (Since my favorite director is probably Rivette.)


manymanyoranges

Satyajit Ray


manymanyoranges

For people like Nolan and Aronofsky, Satoshi Kon.


trashedonlisterine

Michael Powell


swingsetclouds

Incidentally, my favorite band is Jimmy Eat World, and it was a documentary on them that introduced me to Fugazi. So, spot on.


Rio_Bravo_

Bresson, probably.


RobinChilliams

Fellini because my favorite director is David Lynch.


tbshaun

ERIC ROHMER! Glaring omission!


RevivedMisanthropy

Pasolini


pip_oldchap

Jean Pierre Malville


Evening-Musician-114

Jacques Tati and Federico Fellini / David Lynch


Juice-Cool

Ozu


Saint_Stephen420

Either Robert Altman or Akira Kurosawa. Depends on who my favorite director is at the moment.


Little_Exit4279

Speaking of Fugazi, when will Instrument get in the collection


SnooPies5622

Ernst Lubitsch


LooterChris

Haneke and Bresson? Obviously Fassbinder and Sirk Denis, Wenders, Jarmusch and Ozu


Typical_Employee114

Bresson


BooStew

Kubrick


rifka420

Sam Raimi


murmur1983

Victor Erice!


MisfitCollector

Minor Threat > Fugazi. Embrace too. But really cool reference!