My favorite fifty directors

To mark the passing of Andrew Sarris a couple weeks back, here's an alphabetically arranged list of my fifty favorite directors (I know I've forgotten to include many)along with my preferred movie from each. Andrew Sarris liked lists and I like Andrew Sarris. Long live lists, and death to bad lists (like those found weekly in Entertainment Weekly--see July 1 issue, which, btw, I'm only aware of because my fiancee sometimes brings it home, and I sometimes peruse it while taking my morning dumps).

Altman, Robert - 3 Women (1977)

Antonioni, Michaelangelo - Il Grido (1957)

Araki, Gregg - Mysterious Skin (2004)

Bergman, Ingmar - Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)

Blier, Bertrand - Un, deux, trois, soleil (1993)

Bunuel, Luis - The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

Bresson, Robert - Diary of a Country Priest (1951)

Cassavetes, John - The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

Chaplin, Charles - The Circus (1928)

Corman, Roger - Masque of the Red Death (1964)

Dante, Joe - Gremlins (1984)

Eastwood, Clint - Gran Torino (2008)

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner - Satan's Brew (1976)

Ferreri, Marco - I Love You (1985)

Fellini, Federico - La Dolce Vita (1960)

Ford, John - Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)

Forman, Milos - Taking Off (1971)

Fuller, Sam - The Naked Kiss (1964)

Griffith, D.W. - Broken Blossoms (1919)

Hartley, Hal - Trust (1990)

Hawks, Howard - Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

Herzog, Werner - Signs of Life (1968)

Hitchcock, Alfred - Strangers on a Train (1951)

Jodorowsky, Alejandro - The Holy Mountain (1973)

Kaurismaki, Aki - Shadows in Paradise (1986)

Korine, Harmony - Gummo (1997)

Kubrick, Stanley - A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Lang, Fritz - House by the River (1950)

Laughton, Charles - The Night of the Hunter (1955) -- (I know this was his only
directorial effort, but who cares)

Lubitsch, Ernst - The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Lynch, David - Blue Velvet (1986)

Malick, Terrence - Badlands (1973)

McCarey, Leo - Love Affair (1939)

Ophuls, Max - La Plaisir (1951)

Ray, Nicholas - Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Renoir, Jean - La Grande illusion (1937)

Resnais, Alain - Hiroshima mon amour (1959)

Rivette, Jacques - Va savior (2001)

Rohmer, Eric - Love in the Afternoon (1972)

Rossellini, Roberto - Viaggio in Italia (1954)

Suzuki, Seijun - Youth of the Beast (1963)

Sternberg, Josef von - The Devil is a Woman (1935)

Tarkovsky, Andrei - Solaris (1972)

Terayama, Shuji - Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974)

Truffaut, Francois - The Man Who Loved Women (1977)

Veber, Francis - La Chevre (1981)

Welles, Orson - The Lady From Shanghai (1947)

Wertmuller, Lina - Love and Anarchy (1973)

Wilder, Billy - The Apartment (1960)

Zemeckis, Robert - Back to the Future (1985)