1. Alice Rohrwacher
2. Alejandro Jodorowsky
3. Miguel Gomes
4. Christian Petzold
5. Carlos Reygadas
6. Sion Sono
7. Lee Chang-dong
8. Bi Gan
9. Leos Carax
10.Sergei Loznitsa
11.Joachim Trier
12.Hu Bo
13.Lucretia Martel
14.Pedro Costa
15.Apichatpong Weerasethakul
16.Jia Zhangke
17.Jafar Panahi
18.Bong Joon-ho
19.Lars von Trier
20.Nuri Bilge Ceylan
21.Maren Ade
22.Quentin Tarantino
23.Roy Andersson
24.Hong Sang-soo
25.Paolo Sorrentino
26.Ana Lily Amipour
27.Corneliu Porumboiu
28.Yorgos Lanthimos
29.Terrence Malick
30.Hirokazu Koreeda
31.Paul Thomas Anderson
32.Michael Haneke
33.Jordan Peele
34.Johnnie To
35.Matteo Garrone
36.Jacques Audiard
37.Asghar Farhadi
38.Nadine Labaki
39.Robert Eggers
40.Celine Sciamma
41.Christopher Nolan
42.Andrei Zvyagintsev
43.Aleksadr Sokurov
44.Nicolas Winding Refn
45.Pawel Pawlikowski
46.David Robert Mitchell
47.Josh & Benny Safdie
48.Denis Villeneuve
49.Steven Soderbergh
50.Jennifer Kent

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I lied actually bc I despise yorgos films

Very excited for Martin McDonagh‘s future

And while not necessarily a new filmmaker, Adam McKay’s shift into political satire films since 2015 has been fire and he’s grown as a director like mad

In terms of the best recent output from directors, its:

Scorsese
Eastwood
Safdies
Naoko Yamada
Chazelle
Jia Zhangke
Zahler
Hong Sang Soo
Nolan
Lynch
Malick
Hideaki Anno
Koreeda
Shyamalan
Petzold

Are we talking outside of film aswell ? Because lynch ain’t done s*** since 2006

I’m mostly referring to Twin Peaks The Return which is a better achievement than most film in the last decade so I named him

I get that. I really like when a director is indulgent so he appeals to me but that style can be off-putting for sure

Its super worth it tho. I love having these films available to watch whenever and the packaging is A1

self indulgence can work if the style feels more serving to the story rather than it being an ego stroke

What do people even mean when they say that s*** about films?

it means that when I see a film and a style being used in that film, it makes me get more invested in the story and its characters and world rather than just make me focus on how cool the filmmaking is. Best case I can use is Cuaron implements really long takes with Children of Men but he is able to selectively navigate around it as such that it always feels in service to the story and the world. Same as when Spielberg uses long takes in Jaws but it never calls attention to itself.

But then you get the Yorgos or Gaspar Noes of the world who always make it blatantly obvious that they are the ones who are directing THE S*** out of a film and thats when I feel self indulgence is a problem.

Okay I get what you’re saying. Can guarantee you didn’t watch this film but sounds like perfectly describing what the Russo bros did with “Cherry” basically using stylistic choices for the sake of using stylistic choices.

Celine Sciamma has no miss

honestly from my experience everything he made is worth your time, rly liked The Host too.

Ngl tho b4 Parasite I used to underrate Bong and Park Chan-wook was the most interesting Korean director to me. You might have heard of Oldboy already, the first film of that trilogy Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is essential too

WRWWR still my fav film work of the new decade so far tbh

Aruji with the whole top 50 ready already this is just your fav current working filmmakers? Damn I really need to get around to Happy as Lazzaro already, and Zama

still exciting:
David Lynch
Claire Denis
PTA
Von Trier
Charlie Kaufman
Alex Garland
Weerasethakul
Harmony Korine
Olivier Assayas

"new" and exciting:
Safdies
Eliza Hittman
Mati Diop
Lanthimos
Gerwig
Barry Jenkins
Guadagnino
Sean Baker
Terence Nance

real af for putting Joseph & Jafa on there didn't feel comfortable with that yet when basically only listing fiction feature (or series) directors otherwise. Need Nance to return to a fiction feature/series format and I'm excited af and pray we see a Jafa and/or Joseph feature too soon, I know both have scripts they want to get started and lots of ambitious ideas for scripted filmmaking I bet

Watch the host it's a monster movie it's great.

Scorsese
PTA

No love for Chloe Zhao? She hasn’t missed yet

Weird that she’s directing a Marvel movie now. Curious how that will turn out