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)

  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.
  13. 13.
    Werckmeister Harmonies

  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
  27. 27.
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    by Ang Lee
  28. 28.
    Fahrenheit 9/11
    by Michael Moore
  29. 29.
    Rushmore

  30. 30.
    Dolls
    by Takeshi Kitano
  31. 31.
    Before Sunrise

  32. 32.
    I Stand Alone
    by Gaspar Noé
  33. 33.
    Last Resort [Region 2]
    by Pawel Pawlikowski
  34. 34.
    Three Kings
    by David O. Russell
  35. 35.
    The Matrix
    by Andy Wachowski
  37. 37.
    Dogville

  38. 38.
    Ichi the Killer (Unrated Edition)
    by Takashi Miike
  39. 39.
    Seven (New Line Platinum Series)
    by David Fincher
  40. 40.
    Drugstore Cowboy

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Created by beeniebag12 on Jul 10, 2009.
 

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