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I assume that, as a fully functioning American if not a film fanatic, youve at least heard of such noted auteurs thats a fancy word for directors as Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Spike Lee, and Martin Scorsese, not to mention such popular favorites as Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. I also assume that you are familiar with such notable international film figures as Francois Truffaut, JeanLuc Godard, and Jean Renoir of France, Ingmar Bergman of Sweden, Federico Fellini, Vittorio de Sica, and Michelangelo Antonioni of Italy, Akira Kurosawa of Japan, Luis Buñuel of Spain and Mexico, Andrei Tarkovsky of Russia, and Satyajit Ray of India. Of course, if you haven’t heard of them, that’s okay. Just keep in mind that this discussion will not focus on the traditionally “great” directors, even if their names are totally unfamiliar to you. As a result, I will also ignore such noted Hollywood directors of the past as Frank Capra, George Cukor, George Stevens, William Wyler, Billy Wilder, John Huston, and several others, although they have all made noteworthy films. I am also not including, for the purposes of space, such talented directors as Ken Russell, Nicholas Ray, Howard Hawks, Oliver Stone, and Tim Burton, whose films I definitely admire. I am not including them because I have seen too little of their work to know their specific sensibilities and whether I can wholeheartedly recommend even their misfires and all directors have misfires as worth watching, based on what I know of there talents. Finally, of course, I am not including such cinematic pioneers as D.W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, Jean Vigo, F.W. Murnau, Carl Dreyer, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Jacques Tati, because quite frankly I am completely unfamiliar with most of their work. Hopefully, that will change in the future.The 5 directors that I will discuss on this page are not necessarily the 5 greatest film directors of all time. I am not a devotee of the auteur theory, and I believe in evaluating films, not directors. Still, these directors have consistently produced work along thematic lines that I strongly identify with, and all of their films that I have seen have impressed andor fascinated me to some degree. Not every film has been a success, but nevertheless I would be interested any movie where one of these five is credited as the director, and I would highly recommend any of their films although some more than others to you.

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