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November 17, 2003
THE TOP 40
David Lynch is the world's "most important filmmaker of the current era." So say experts for London's Guardian newspaper, who rated the world's 40 best directors on the basis of five categories: substance, look, craft, originality and intelligence. Martin Scorsese followed so closely at No. 2 in the ranking -- he scored 88 points to Lynch's 89, out of a possible 100 -- he should lodge a protest with the track stewards.
Steven Spielberg didn't make the list at all. Neither did Clint Eastwood, Mike Nichols, Robert Altman, Spike Lee, Roman Polanski, Peter Weir, Francis Ford Coppola, nor the other usual suspects. Rounding out the top five were Joel and Ethan Coen (3rd), Steven Soderbergh (4th) and, if you can believe it, Terrence Malick (5th). Errol Morris made the top ten (7th). So did David Cronenberg (9th).
Other favored darlings who made the cut were Pedro Almodovar (15th), Todd Haynes (16th) and Quentin Tarantino (17th), along with Paul Thomas Anderson (21st), Alexander Payne (24th), Spike Jonze (25), Ang Lee (27th), Michael Moore (28th), Wes Anderson (29th), Richard Linklater (31st), David O Russell (34th), Larry and Andy Wachowski (35th), David Fincher (39th) and Gus Van Sant (40th). Needless to say, "the current era" has a few kinks.
Posted by at November 17, 2003 02:07 AM