David Lynch is the world’s “most important filmmaker of the current era.” So say experts for Steven Spielberg didn’t make the list at all. Neither did Clint Eastwood, Mike Nichols, Robert Other favored darlings who made the cut were Pedro Almodovar (15th), Todd Haynes (16th) 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-76","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLondon’s Guardian newspaper, who rated
\ncategories: substance, look, craft, originality and intelligence. Martin Scorsese followed so closely
\nat No. 2 in the ranking — he scored 88 points to Lynch’s 89, out of a possible 100 — he should
\nlodge a protest with the track stewards.<\/P>
\n
\nAltman, Spike Lee, Roman Polanski, Peter Weir, Francis Ford Coppola, nor the other usual
\nsuspects. Rounding out the top five were Joel and Ethan Coen (3rd), Steven Soderbergh (4th)
\nand, if you can believe it, Terrence Malick (5th). Errol Morris made the top ten (7th). So did
\nDavid Cronenberg (9th). <\/P>
\n
\nand Quentin Tarantino (17th), along with Paul Thomas Anderson (21st), Alexander Payne (24th),
\nSpike Jonze (25), Ang Lee (27th), Michael Moore (28th), Wes Anderson (29th), Richard
\nLinklater (31st), David O Russell (34th), Larry and Andy Wachowski (35th), David Fincher
\n(39th) and Gus Van Sant (40th). Needless to say, “the current era” has a few kinks.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"