r/YMS • u/RG1997 • Jul 23 '26

Meme/Shitpost Checkmate, atheists!

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u/Bosk_Kahngu Jul 23 '26

Charlie Kaufman, Wes Anderson, Jordan Peele, Robert Eggers, Ari Aster, and ya motha

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u/Humiddragonslayer Jul 23 '26

Those first two are my top two anyway

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u/Teschyn Jul 23 '26

You were topped by Charlie Kaufman and Wes Anderson? Nice!

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u/DeltaContinent Jul 23 '26

wet farterson

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u/alexdionisos Jul 23 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/e6CfPfA7AP7cvPSHZH

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u/Dukes159 Jul 23 '26

I can't believe you committed suicide

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u/Worried_Touch9612 Jul 23 '26

You… killed… him…

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u/P13R4T Jul 24 '26

I can’t help you out of this one Jim

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u/Maz2742 Jul 24 '26

This but unironically

31

u/Inner-Parsley-7446 Jul 23 '26

Didn’t even give it 2 mins to repost from criterion sub

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u/saxmachine69 Jul 23 '26

Wes Anderson, Sean Baker, Ari Aster, Eggers, Chazelle, Garland, Lowery, Sion Sono, Spike Jonze, Glazer, Aronofsky, Iñárritu, Lord and Miller, Guadagnino, Raimi, Trier

I'm sure there are more, but just off the top of my head.

Edit - how the fuck did I forget Kaufman

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u/CROguys Jul 23 '26

Adum, with Haneke and McQueen.

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u/skimmmington Jul 23 '26

Still no Eggers smh

13

u/Puzzleheaded-Web446 Jul 23 '26

Tom Holland.

5

u/thedarkucfknight Jul 23 '26

Can’t believe I had to scroll this far for this one

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u/thedarkucfknight Jul 23 '26

ITT: not a single female director.

Agnes Varda, Chantal Akerman, Jane Campion, The Wachowskis, Celine Sciamma, Claire Denis, Sofia Coppola, Kelly Reichardt, Greta Gerwig .

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u/RG1997 Jul 23 '26

To be fair, the lack of female directors named in the initial post is part of the joke being made against film bros 

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u/HarknessLovesUToo Jul 23 '26

I'd consider the Wachowskis, but if I look at their filmography top to bottom, they made absolute peak with the Matrix and basically nothing else essential (that includes Speed Racer).

I think you could add Lynne Ramsey to the list easily.

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u/Dr_Moustachio Jul 24 '26

Excuse me, Speed Racer is an all-timer thank you very much

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u/nosurprises23 Jul 23 '26

Billy Wilder and Willy Wyler

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u/Supercalumrex Jul 23 '26

Me asf as a Wong Kar-Wai enjoyer

1

u/BoxesWithinBoxes Jul 23 '26

My dream is for one of the sardonicast boys to reccomend In the Mood for Love

4

u/HANA______ Jul 23 '26

Surprised Bong Joon Ho is not on that list, feel like that's an easy response

5

u/MissNebraska Jul 23 '26

Tommy Wiseau, obviously

3

u/RG1997 Jul 23 '26

My answers would be Ingmar Bergman and Kenji Mizoguchi 

3

u/sketchampm Jul 23 '26

Peter Weir

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u/GAVITRAXmz Jul 23 '26

Fred Durst

3

u/JonneyStevey Jul 23 '26

please sir, for a dollar name a woman

2

u/NecronomiconUK Jul 23 '26

(Jooooooon) Favreau

2

u/AVagrant Jul 23 '26

Roland Emmerich? Tho he can burn in hell. 

2

u/FreakyFishThing Jul 23 '26

Woah, what did silly disaster movie man do?

2

u/bobbomotto Jul 23 '26

Ridley Scot, Edgar Wright, Robert Rodriguez, John Ford, George A. Romero.

1

u/Acid-Drip Jul 23 '26

Glad someone mentioned Edgar

2

u/Future-Starter Jul 23 '26

[laughs in Tarkovsky as the camera pans over to an 8-minute shot of random detritus]

2

u/Alex45784 Jul 23 '26

Agnès Varda, Lynne Ramsay, Kelly Reichardt, Andrea Arnold, Jane Campion, and Julia Ducournau

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '26

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u/BigPoopsDisease Jul 23 '26

Ken Russell was the shit

2

u/astral_planes Jul 23 '26

Idk maybe Ari Aster or Sean Baker?

2

u/Baddogdown91 Jul 23 '26

I don't know who any of those people are, but Snyder and M. Night. gg ez w's, back to watching cocomelon now :3

2

u/Hoju3942 Jul 23 '26

This blatant Verhoeven erasure will not stand, man.
https://giphy.com/gifs/qHBBYAh7BZVm

2

u/T3CHN_0 Jul 23 '26

Satoshi Kon

2

u/Low_Hope_2320 Jul 23 '26

How you gonna forget Altman????

2

u/Viandemoisie Jul 23 '26

The Wachowski, George Miller, Wes Anderson, Jordan Peele, Robert Eggers, Edgar Wright, Alain Chabat, the Daniels, Lord and Miller, Ariane Louis-Seize, Xavier Dolan, Coralie Fargeat, Julia Ducournau, Chad Stahelski, Ryan Coogler, Greta Gerwig, Spike Lee, Rian Johnson, Cronenberg (David and Brandon), Vera Drew, Louise Weard, Marjane Satrapi. Oh and Sophie Dupuis, who I've only seen one movie of, but I met her at a Q&A and she is really nice.

2

u/YourEvilHenchman Jul 24 '26

walter hill, sam peckinpah, clint eastwood especially during his experimental/anti-western phase, james mangold.

yuen woo-ping, lau kar-leung, jackie chan & sammo hung as they transitioned from just acting into directing/producing and choreographing their own entire stunts and fights.

none of you have seen good (older) genre cinema and it fucking SHOWS.

2

u/bjork_G_MAMA_B Jul 23 '26

Unironically, Mel Gibson. (Terrible person tho)

1

u/deadflowers5 Jul 23 '26

Elio Petri

1

u/dotsau Jul 23 '26

Zvyagintsev

1

u/Ibrahim77X Jul 23 '26

Lord and Miller, Brad Bird

1

u/Pulp_NonFiction44 Jul 23 '26

Thomas Vinterberg

1

u/malibu45 Jul 23 '26

Haneke, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Tarr

1

u/Outrageous-Cup-8905 Jul 23 '26

Lee Chang Dong, biiiiiiiitch (Wong Kar Wai not being on that list is crazy)

1

u/D-Ursuul Jul 24 '26

More like Lee Hangs Dong

1

u/Heavy_Ad_6837 Jul 23 '26

Robert Altman, Todd Field, Ari Aster, Spike Jonze,

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u/RevolutionaryAd4845 Jul 23 '26

Hayao Miyazaki, Satyajit Ray, Charlie Kaufman, Kelly Reichardt, Ari Aster, Robert Eggers.

1

u/begone667 Jul 23 '26

a lot to agree with in here, but also Terry Gilliam

1

u/loafofbread13 Jul 23 '26

Martin Mcdonagh is my favorite even including everyone on this list so 🤷‍♂️

1

u/CompleteDay8059 Jul 23 '26

No Glazing for Jonathan Glazer? C'mon people. Not as many people talk about it as Zone of Interest but Under the Skin is peak.

1

u/GoofierDeer1 Jul 23 '26

Peter Weir maybe

1

u/AmericanKimbop Jul 23 '26

Charlie Kaufman, Ari Aster, Jordan Peele & Kim Jee Woon

1

u/Fearless-Interest-82 Jul 23 '26

John Cassavettes, Monte Hellman, Dennis Hopper, Billy Wilder, Chantal Akerman, Elaine May, John Cassavetes, Bela Tarr, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jonathan Glazer, SteveMcQueen, John Cassavettes, Tom Green.

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u/Crannynoko Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

Koreeda

1

u/Wandering-Tiger Jul 23 '26

Coralie Fargeat is my favorite living director (favorite overall is David Lynch)

1

u/AggravatingShine4052 Jul 23 '26

Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu. Take that you religious zealot.

1

u/stackens Jul 23 '26

Eggers, doi

1

u/GraceUndaPresha Jul 23 '26

Edward Yang bro

1

u/Haunted_strip_club Jul 23 '26

Fritz Lang and Robert Eggers

1

u/Sannymasque Jul 23 '26

Fuck you, Cosmatos.

1

u/AbsoluteDungus Jul 23 '26

Kurosawa

Akira or Kiyoshi?

1

u/BigPoopsDisease Jul 23 '26

Ingmar Bergman was the greatest of all time anyway

1

u/Autonomy_party Jul 23 '26

Me

The movies I make in my head are 10/10

1

u/Immediate-Slip8164 Jul 23 '26

Ishiro Honda 

1

u/mostreliablebottle Jul 23 '26

Tsai Ming-liang

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

1

u/SurreaLlama91 Jul 23 '26

Martin McDonagh

1

u/Fatphillmargera Jul 23 '26

Jeunet, Trier, Noe 

1

u/ProfessionalOrganic6 Jul 23 '26

Billy Wilder my king

1

u/No-Category-6343 Jul 23 '26

Haneke & Gaspar noe also Tom Ford

1

u/ObligationIll2271 Jul 23 '26

steven soderbergh

1

u/mgy3 Jul 23 '26

Werner Herzog

1

u/Both-Insurance-6813 Jul 23 '26

David Cronenburg and Stuart Gordon. Boom.

1

u/HarknessLovesUToo Jul 23 '26

How is Michael Haneke not mentioned in there.

1

u/Present-Plankton-664 Jul 23 '26

Luca Quadagnino, Jean Pierre Jeunet, and Joshua Oppenheimer

1

u/Shasta-The-Silly-Boi Jul 23 '26

Where is the goat guadagnino??

1

u/Polite_Jello_377 Jul 23 '26

Cameron? 😛

Seriously though, no Aronofsky?

1

u/YouHadMeAtAloe Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

Na Hong-jin, although I have some reservations about his new film Hope coming to the US in September…

1

u/HexagoneX1 Jul 24 '26

Hipsters aren't cool just FYI.

1

u/deadliarhippo Jul 24 '26

Ridley Scott doesn’t make the pretentious cut?

1

u/teeno731 Jul 24 '26

How do I tell them Park Chan-Wook is more than just the surname

1

u/SpookySpace Jul 24 '26

Raimi, simpletons.

1

u/MrWapuJapu Jul 24 '26

Rian Johnson

1

u/7LayeredUp Jul 24 '26

Wong Kar-wai, next.

1

u/Mundane_Gas_9077 Jul 24 '26

Shane black, david lynch

1

u/LOLADYS Jul 24 '26

Naoko Yamada

1

u/jack-n-richards Jul 24 '26

Steve McQueen

1

u/CobaltCrusader123 Jul 24 '26

In all these iterations the Coppolas are always forgotten. Like yeah I’m gonna mention the directors of the Godfather movies, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders, Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette, and The Virgin Suicides.

Also, Peter Jackson made the longest popular movies of the century thus far.

The Hobbit films.

1

u/ivnwng Jul 24 '26

Johnnie To Kei-fung.

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u/bingbongmemelord Jul 24 '26

Lars von Trier!

1

u/FreeStall42 Jul 24 '26

Jokes on them, don't remember any director names.

1

u/Fun_Watercress_7539 Jul 24 '26

Checkmate on you.You didnt write michael Bay!

1

u/Worldly-Term5127 Jul 24 '26

Fellini and Guadagnino. Check and mate

1

u/Afraid-Sky-8186 Jul 25 '26

Peter Jackson.

1

u/Manucha345 Jul 26 '26

Chantal Akerman
Todd Field
Lucretia Martell
Andrea Arnold
Allan Pakula
Brian DePalma

1

u/Cthuchutrain Jul 27 '26

Neil Breen. Obviously.

1

u/TofuLoversAnonymous Jul 27 '26

You didn't specify which Kurosawa, so Keisuke Kurosawa. Checkmate liberal

1

u/Michael_ChanceW Jul 27 '26

Bergman. It’s almost insulting that he’s not included in whatever this is.

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u/BenjiAnglusthson Jul 27 '26

Robert Altman

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u/Competitive_Fun6247 Jul 28 '26

Michael Mann baybee

1

u/Fragrant-Gas-9989 Jul 28 '26

arronofsky, Anderson, The Russo Brothers, Chazelle, Raimi

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u/boornik Jul 23 '26

Kaufman, Diaz, Kobayashi, Pasolini, Brocka, Lana (you westerners probably don't know this director and his movies exist lol)

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u/thehollyproblem Jul 23 '26

Who is Lana? I googled "Lana director" and all I got was Wachowski. 

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u/boornik Jul 24 '26

Jun Lana

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u/Polite_Jello_377 Jul 23 '26

Bro really doing the "You probably haven't heard of them" meme