I made a quick list. Wha'chu got? In defense of my list, it's compacted to fit directors I find consistent. There are 10000000 Movies I personally love, but the director of those films can't seem to produce anything of substance aside from that one exception.

Stanley Kubrick
Terry Gilliam
Milos Forman
Joel Coen
Joon-ho Bong
Sidney Lumet
Roman Polanski
David Cronenberg
Akira Kurosawa
Lucio Fulci
René Laloux
Peter Jackson
Hayao Miyazaki
Ridley Scott
Clint Eastwood
Alfred Hitchcock
Jim Jarmusch
Wes Anderson
Ji-woon Kim
Rob Reiner
Frank Henenlotter - DONT YOU DARE QUESTION ME!
Kevin Reynolds - Let's see if anyone is paying attention.

Steven Spielburg
George Lucas
Wim Wenders
Yimou Zhang
Cohen Bros.
quentin tarrantino
Martin Scorsese
James Cameron
Milos Forman
Woody Allen

http://www.imdb.com/list/nlZ0yIWaIxE/

This post was edited by card_sultan on Mar 20 2013 01:12am

I've never seen anything by the bold'd director. Is this something I should remedy?

Yimou Zhang, is a visual god.

The three K's:

Kieslowski
Kurosawa
Kubrick


I guess I'll add a couple more, but keeping it short. Only listing absolute favorites.

Kar-wai
Malick

This post was edited by ZiggyStardust on Mar 20 2013 01:15am

For Wim Wender watach Paris Texas - a great great film

also Wings of Desire is pretty cool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b44paD20O3M

This post was edited by card_sultan on Mar 20 2013 01:17am

Also

Billy Wilder was great in the 50s/60s - check out The Apartment

and Francis Ford Coppola too - Apocolyse Now // Godfather//Outsiders

and yeah the thing I love about Yimou Zhang is that he doesnt really on Dialogue to tell the story

just pictures and hes a very good story teller because he really allows you to connect to the characters.

This post was edited by card_sultan on Mar 20 2013 01:27am

Michael Bay

With jerry bruckheimer producing

Using previous posts ase a base

Stanley Kubrick
Terry Gilliam
Sidney Lumet
Roman Polanski
David Cronenberg
Akira Kurosawa
Lucio Fulci
René Laloux
Hayao Miyazaki
Alfred Hitchcock
Jim Jarmusch
Wes Anderson
Frank Henenlotter
Kieslowski
Malick
Bela Tarr
Bruno Dumont
Michael Haneke
Lars von Trier
Luis Bunuel
Pasolini
Jafar Panahi
Harmony Korine
Jodorowsky
Roy anderson
Thomas Vinterberg
Todd Solondz
Tarkovsky
Bergman
Dreyer
Bresson
Ulrich Seidl
Ulrich Köhler
Leos Carax
Zulawski
Tsai Ming Liang
Fassbinder
Renoir
Dardenne Brothers
Gregg Araki
Carpenter
Moodyson
Kim Ki Duk
Louis Malle
Herzog
De Sica
Claire Denis
Gaspar Noe
Cassavetes
Mike Leigh
Jerzy Skolimowski
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Varda
Östlund

Darren Aronofsky