Derived from the mysterious Metacritic ratings.
https://qz.com/902844/the-100-best-directors-of-the-last-25-years-ranked-according-to-thousands-of-critics-reviews/
Earnest spod Ron Howard better than Aki Kaurismaki? Laughable.
It's a list. They're all rubbish.
Tarantino only a scrapes into the top 20? Get the fuck out of here. The man's a goddam genius.
Glad that Todd Solondz made the list. I would put him among top ten.
Nothing Stone has done in the last 25 years has received an awful lot of praise though. There's NBK and Nixon at one end of the period, then the Castro/Chavez/Untold History documentaries - interspersed with a mixture of stuff. I've only seen bits and pieces though, so perhaps he's been harshly reviewed much of the time, due to the critical (of US policy) nature of much of the material.
Jean-Pierre Dardenne and the Coens are in there, which is good.
But no Michael Bay.
They have no sense of drama and tension by listing them from no.1 on, instead of from no.100.
I'd guess, given the economics of publishing that a high proportion of the critics drawn upon were pretty young. That would also skew results.
I was about to express surprise at the omission of James Cameron, but then noticed Terminator 2 is 26 years old.
But Titanic and Avatar weren't exactly unheard of.
But T2 is a really good film, neither of those are (though technically they were both innovative)
Both cack though.
But T2 is a really good film, neither of those are
Can't argue with that.
Secretly I have always had a soft spot for Titanic though.
Nothing Stone has done in the last 25 years has received an awful lot of praise though.
Snowden is a very worthy film, IMO.
Hirokazu Horeeda
Asghar Farhadi
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Aki Kaurismaki
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Michael Haneke
Cristian Mungiu
Lard Von Trier
Peter Strickland
Jonathan Glazer
Lynne Ramsay
Abbas Kiarostami
David Lynch
Honourable mentions:
Mike Leigh
Andrea Arnold
Steve McQueen
Jacques Audiard
Francois Ozon
"I don't think a real good film has been made yet." Robert Altman, Times article, quoted in 100 Best Films of the Century by Barry Norman. '92.
Hopefully things have looked up in the last quarter century :-)