{"id":33849,"date":"2023-02-09T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=33849"},"modified":"2023-05-19T10:25:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T17:25:49","slug":"75-greatest-film-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/75-greatest-film-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling Boy Selects the 75 Greatest Film Directors of All-Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since the release of Sight & Sound<\/em><\/a> magazine\u2019s 2022 Top 100 Greatest Films of All Time critics poll<\/em><\/a>, some of us agreed, others were appalled; in particular with the absence of masterworks by Luis Bu\u00f1uel, Ernst Lubitsch and Howard Hawks. But the positive is that it opens pathways for lists by other cineastes which keeps the importance of cinema on the front burner. There were twice as many new pundits in the Sight & Sound<\/em> poll from the last decades poll in 2012, where many stressed the importance of literary content over form. I\u2019m a bit old school on that, remembering the medium is<\/em> the message, <\/em>a phrase coined by the Canadian communication theorist Marshall McLuhan<\/a><\/em> in his Understanding Media:<\/strong> The Extensions of Man<\/a><\/em>. Is it content over form, or is it form over content; or should the two really be the same in the visual frame?  No doubt, you’ll notice I approach film within the context of the auteur theory<\/em>.<\/a> It\u2019s hard not to do so, where each of the 75 directors have a personal signature and vision that\u2019s evident from film to film. Yes, some are a product of the Hollywood studio system, simply given a script to shoot. Yet, like a painter who is assigned to do a portraiture, the content of their painting is well-defined, but they still are able to convey their own unique style, a style that belongs to them alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s my list, and I encourage you to assault, disagree or perhaps even agree, and send in your own list in our readers\u2019 section at ad***<\/span>@**********<\/span>oy.com<\/span><\/a>. What is most important is to keep a dialogue going about cinema as a visual medium for artistic expression where it takes its place among other art forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1. Robert Bresson<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Robert Bresson, France, (1901-1999). Photograph courtesy of Senses of Cinema.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.<\/em> When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye towards the other.<\/em> \u2013 <\/em>Robert Bresson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bresson Films for Review:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n