Back in March 2012 I made a list of my 40 Favourite Directors and the 'Essential Viewing' (4 Stars+) from their filmographies.
This list stretched from early cinema pioneers like Sergei Eisenstein and Charlie Chaplin to present-day masters like David Fincher and Paul Thomas Anderson - and the skilled auteurs like Robert Bresson, Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkvosky and Ingmar Bergman who were at their peak in between.
I thought that I should update that list, see who would still make the cut and who I would add.
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More currently-working directors, including a few with only a couple of features to their name.
More female filmmakers.
I have seen several more films from directors Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Howard Hawks, Sidney Lumet and Steven Soderbergh, which strengthen my admiration for them.
Several filmmakers were added to this list as a result of films released in 2013 - Alexander Payne, Jeff Nichols, Edgar Wright, Paul Greengrass, Spike Jonze amongst them.
Check out the list after the jump:
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