Lists
CuteMeat’s nearly identical top ten lists.
KOURTNEY’S 2009
- The Mother (Bong)
- The White Ribbon (Haneke)
- A Serious Man (Coen)
- Bad Lieutenant (Herzog)
- Ponyo (Miyazaki)
- Thirst (Park)
- A Prophet (Audiard)
- Broken Embraces (Almodovar)
- House of the Devil (West)
- Up in the Air (Reitman)
MACY’S MMIX:
- The White Ribbon (Haneke)
- Bad Lieutenant (Herzog)
- A Serious Man (Coens)
- Thirst (Bong)
- Ponyo (Miyazaki)
- Antichrist (Von Trier)
- The Mother (Bong)
- Broken Embraces (Almodovar)
- Moon (Jones)
- House of the Devil (West)
Honorable Mention: Fantastic Mr. Fox (Anderson).
Additional Note: We need to stop watching the same movies or something.
MACY’S GREATEST LIVING DIRECTORS:
- Jean-Luc Godard — The list is “living directors,” until this man dies he holds this spot.
- David Lynch — The sooner he makes a coherent narrative film again the better
- Michael Haneke — In his prime
- Pedro Almodovar — Perhaps a little past his prime, but still consistent.
- Peter Greenaway — If this dude doesn’t start making more movies I’m going to throw a fit.
- Hiyao Miyazaki — Because fuck you, he really is that good.
- Woody Allen — There is something to be said about not making a film instead of producing a solid stream of disappointments.
- Joel and Ethan Coen — Two real winners in a row, plus excellent flicks like Raising Arizona in their belts.
- Michael Winterbottom — Possibly the one surprise, but if you watch his films you’ll see he deserves it. Plus The Killer Inside Me is going to blow your fucking brains out.
- Roman Polanski — He earned it with The Tenant alone, even given the predilection towards paedophilia.
HONORABLE MENTION: Wong Kar-Wai (Needs to take the blueberry taste out of my mouth), Francis Ford Coppola (The Conversation is probably one of the best American movies, ever).
KOURTNEY’S UN-DEAD DIRECTOR LIST
- Wong Kar-Wai
- Joon-Ho Bong
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Pedro Almodovar
- David Lynch
- Michael Haneke
- Hiyao Miyazaki
- Woody Allen
- Peter Greenaway
- David Cronenberg
