The Greats

Richard Brody, at his New Yorker blog, takes a shot at listing the 12 greatest living narrative filmmakers.  He's riffing off of a 20-year-old list by Jonathan Rosenbaum.

 I don't know about "great," but, for grins, let's list our favorite directors, living or dead (but let's call them "modern"), without thinking too hard, knowing we will miss a bunch and will do this again someday with different names. OK, I'll reverse the numbers and do 21 because I'm lazy:

• The Coen Brothers
• The Duplass Brothers
• The Dardenne Brothers 
• Michael Winterbottom
• Francois Ozon
• Noah Baumbach
• Danny Boyle
• Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• Sofia Coppola 
• Steven Soderbergh
• Wes Anderson
• Zhangke Jia
• Nicole Holofcener
• Tsai Ming-liang
• David Lynch
• Jim Jarmusch
• Lynn Shelton
• Bela Tarr
• Bobcat Goldthwait (hey, he put Jerry Lewis on his list)
• Guy Maddin
• Pavel Chukhrai
• Someone from Romania

In memoriam:

• Kryzystof Kieslowski
• Robert Altman