The Guardian's "The World's 40 best directors"

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Their list of the best active directors. It was printed in 2003 or 2004.

The objects on the list are the work considered to be the directors best, or the best film that includes "by BLANK" on this website

http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/page/0,11456,1082823,00.html

  1. 1.
    Eraserhead
    by David Lynch

  2. 2.
    GoodFellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

  3. 3.
    Fargo (Special Edition)
    by Ethan Coen

  4. 4.
    Traffic
    by Steven Soderbergh

  5. 5.
    Days of Heaven
    by Terrence Malick

  6. 6.
    Taste of Cherry (The Criterion Collection)
    by Abbas Kiarostami

  7. 7.
    Gates of Heaven
    by Errol Morris

  8. 8.
    Spirited Away
    by Hayao Miyazaki

  9. 9.
    Crash
    by David Cronenberg

  10. 10.
    Distant Voices Still Lives [VHS]
    by Terence Davies

  11. 11.
    Together
    by Lukas Moodysson

  12. 12.
    Ratcatcher (The Criterion Collection)
    by Lynne Ramsay

  13. 13.
    Werckmeister Harmonies

  14. 14.
    In the Mood for Love (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kar Wai Wong

  15. 15.
    Volver
    by Pedro Almodóvar

  16. 16.
    Far from Heaven

  17. 17.
    Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Quentin Tarantino

  18. 18.
    Rebels of the Neon God
    by Ming-liang Tsai

  19. 19.
    The Man Without a Past
    by Aki Kaurismäki

  20. 20.
    24 Hour Party People
    by Michael Winterbottom

  21. 21.

  22. 22.
    The Seventh Continent
    by Michael Haneke

  23. 23.
    The Motorcycle Diaries (Widescreen Edition)
    by Walter Salles

  24. 24.
    Sideways (Widescreen Edition)

  25. 25.
    Being John Malkovich
    by Spike Jonze

  26. 27.
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    by Ang Lee

  27. 28.
    Fahrenheit 9/11
    by Michael Moore

  28. 29.
    Rushmore

  29. 30.
    Dolls
    by Takeshi Kitano

  30. 31.
    Before Sunrise

  31. 32.
    I Stand Alone
    by Gaspar Noé

  32. 33.
    Last Resort [Region 2]
    by Pawel Pawlikowski

  33. 34.
    Three Kings
    by David O. Russell

  34. 35.
    The Matrix
    by The Wachowski Brothers

  35. 37.
    Dogville
    by Lars von Trier

  36. 38.
    Ichi the Killer (Unrated Edition)
    by Takashi Miike

  37. 39.
    Seven (New Line Platinum Series)
    by David Fincher

  38. 40.
    Drugstore Cowboy

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Created by beeniebag12 on Jul 10, 2009.
 

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