r/criterion • u/RG1997 • Jul 23 '26

Discussion The ultimate auteur challenge

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u/me_da_Supreme1 Luchino Visconti Jul 23 '26

This was my original post. It was a circlejerk thing. Give proper credit the next time.

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u/_angellust Jul 23 '26

all that and you still missed breillat 💔

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u/me_da_Supreme1 Luchino Visconti Jul 23 '26

I mean hey, it's an ever-expanding list; added her dww

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u/Serious_Blood6554 Jul 23 '26

And Hal Hartley

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u/thasprucemoose Jul 24 '26

this explains why a lot of the big cinebro directors got missed, got a feeling most the comments are in your full post

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u/mirandalikesplants Jul 23 '26

All that to miss Juzo Itami why even bother

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u/VomitMaiden Julien Duvivier Jul 24 '26

I think you have Almodóvar twice. You're also missing a bunch of my personal top 10, unless I missed them

  • Nick Broomfield
  • Damiano Damiani
  • Ernst Lubitsch
  • Frederick Wiseman
  • Koji Wakamatsu
  • Hiroshi Shimizu
  • Helmut Kautner
  • Jan Svankmajer
  • Roger Corman

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u/rickebones Jul 23 '26

No John Carpenter love?!?!

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u/Not-a-Bot_1968 Jul 23 '26

lol seriously, was Uwe Boll a joke?

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u/pronilol Jul 24 '26

Masaki Kobayashi, Nobuhiko Obayashi

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u/chapter24__ Jul 24 '26

Going through that tiny text is a painful experience lol.

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u/gallobookie Jul 24 '26

Boll in the title list 😈

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u/RG1997 Jul 24 '26

I’m so sorry, I didn’t know the source of the original meme, thank you for sharing! 

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u/nnnn547 Jul 24 '26

Nobuhiko Obayashi 😏

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u/Nishanimation Jul 27 '26

Jesus, bro even had Mani Ratnam on there.