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by Total Film Magazine (in two parts) |
 Total Film Magazine (in August-September 2007 issues) provided their list of 100 Greatest Film Directors Ever.
Facts and Commentary About the List:
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by Total Film Magazine (Part 1, Ranked Order) |
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"Picture-Perfect" Film |
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Alfred Hitchcock | Vertigo (1958) | or Psycho (1960) |
| Martin Scorsese | Goodfellas (1990) | Taxi Driver (1976) | |
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Steven Spielberg | E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial | Schindler's List (1993) |
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Howard Hawks | His Girl Friday (1940) | or The Big Sleep (1946) |
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Francis Ford Coppola | The Godfather (1972) | or The Godfather, Part II (1974) |
| Orson Welles | Citizen Kane (1941) | - | |
| Ingmar Bergman | Persona (1966, Swed.) | The Seventh Seal (1957, Swed.) | |
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Stanley Kubrick | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | - |
| Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings Trilogy | - | |
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David Fincher | Fight Club (1999) | Se7en (1995) |
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Akira Kurosawa | The Seven Samurai (1954, Jp.) | Rashomon (1950, Jp.) |
| Quentin Tarantino | Reservoir Dogs (1992) | Pulp Fiction (1994) | |
| Billy Wilder | The Apartment (1960) | Double Indemnity (1944) or Sunset Boulevard (1950) | |
| John Ford | The Searchers (1956) | - | |
| Steven Soderbergh | Out of Sight (1998) | Traffic (2000) | |
| Michael Powell | The Red Shoes (1948) | - | |
| David Cronenberg | Crash (1996) | or The Fly (1986) | |
| Joel & Ethan Coen | Miller's Crossing (1990) | Fargo (1996) | |
| Woody Allen | Manhattan (1979) | Annie Hall (1977) | |
| Paul Thomas Anderson | Magnolia (1999) | or Punch-Drunk Love (2002) | |
| Clint Eastwood | Unforgiven (1992) | or Million Dollar Baby (2004) | |
| David Lynch | Blue Velvet (1996) | or Mulholland Drive (2001) | |
| Jean Renoir | The Rules of the Game (1939, Fr.) | or The Grand Illusion (1937, Fr.) | |
| Tim Burton | Ed Wood (1994) | or Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985) | |
| Hayao Miyazaki | My Neighbor Totoro (1988, Jp.) | Spirited Away (2001, Jp.) | |
| Robert Altman | Nashville (1975) | - | |
| Sam Peckinpah | Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) | The Wild Bunch (1969) | |
| Michael Mann | Heat (1995) | or The Last of the Mohicans (1992) | |
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Jean Pierre Melville | Army of Shadows (1969, Fr.) | - |
| Luis Bunuel | That Obscure Object of Desire (1977, Sp.) | The Exterminating Angel (1962, Sp.) | |
| Terrence Malick | Badlands (1973) | - | |
| Christopher Nolan | Memento (2000) | - | |
| Yasujiro Ozu | Tokyo Story (1957, Jp.) | - | |
| Carol Reed | The Third Man (1949, UK) | - | |
| Rob Reiner | This is Spinal Tap (1984) | - | |
| Roman Polanski | Chinatown (1974) | - | |
| Sergio Leone | Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, It.) | or The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966, It.) | |
| James Cameron | The Terminator (1984) | Titanic (1997) | |
| Ridley Scott | Blade Runner (1982) | - | |
| David Lean | Lawrence of Arabia (1962, UK) | - | |
| Ang Lee | The Ice Storm (1997) | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, HK/US) | |
| Frank Capra | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) | - | |
| Preston Sturges | Sullivan's Travels (1941) | or The Lady Eve (1941) | |
| Francois Truffaut | The 400 Blows (1959, Fr.) | - | |
| Werner Herzog | Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, Germ.) | Fitzcarraldo (1982, Germ.) | |
| Alexander Payne | Sideways (2004) | - | |
| Kryzsztof Kieslowski | Three Colors: Red (1994, Fr/Pol.) | Three Colors: Blue (1993, Fr/Pol.) | |
| Fritz Lang | M (1931, Germ.) | - | |
| Mike Leigh | Naked (1993) | Secrets & Lies (1996) | |
| Sam Fuller | The Big Red One (1980) | Pickup on South Street (1953) |
