Directors I’ve Seen in Person

Maren Ade
Woody Allen
Michael Almereyda
Pedro Almodóvar
Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson
Dario Argento
Darren Aronofsky
Olivier Assayas
Ari Aster
John G. Avildsen
Ramin Bahrani
Bob Balaban
Noah Baumbach
Peter Bogdanovich
Danny Boyle
Mel Brooks
Charles Burnett
Steve Buscemi
Louis C.K.
Bruce Campbell
Jane Campion
John Carpenter
Nuri Bige Ceylan
George Clooney
Joel and Ethan Coen
Roger Corman
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Terence Davies
Robert De Niro
Brian De Palma
Guillermo del Toro
Jonathan Demme
Claire Denis
Robert Downey Sr.
Julia Ducournau
Lena Dunham
Robert Eggers
Ralph Fiennes
Stephen Frears
William Friedkin
Greta Gerwig
Alex Gibney
Terry Gilliam
Michel Gondry
Lee Grant
David Gordon Green
Luca Guadagnino
Andrew Haigh
Mia Hansen-Løve
Todd Haynes
Matthew Heineman
Joanna Hogg
Sang-soo Hong
Christophe Honoré
Armando Iannucci
James Ivory
Steve James
Jim Jarmusch
Barry Jenkins
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Charlie Kaufman
Yorgos Lanthimos
Nadav Lapid
Spike Lee
Mike Leigh
Sebastián Lelio
Herschell Gordon Lewis
Jerry Lewis
Richard Linklater
David Lowery
David Lynch
Michael Mann
Elaine May
Martin McDonagh
Scott McGehee and David Siegel
Jonas Mekas
Bennett Miller
Rebecca Miller
Mike Mills
John Cameron Mitchell
Michael Moore
Brett Morgen
Errol Morris
Oren Moverman
Cristian Mungiu
Mira Nair
Morgan Neville
Gaspar Noé
Tom Noonan
Joshua Oppenheimer
Ruben Östlund
Frank Oz
Al Pacino
Chan-wook Park
Alexander Payne
D.A. Pennebaker
Alex Ross Perry
Matías Piñeiro
Sarah Polley
Sam Raimi
Lynne Ramsay
Dee Rees
Nicolas Winding Refn
Kelly Reichardt
Jason Reitman
Seth Rogen
George A. Romero
Ira Sachs
Benny and Josh Safdie
Jeremy Saulnier
John Sayles
Jerry Schatzberg
Paul Schrader
Barbet Schroeder
Céline Sciamma
Martin Scorsese
Albert Serra
Michael Showalter
Trey Edward Shults
Chris Smith
Kevin Smith
Steven Soderbergh
Todd Solondz
Steven Spielberg
Ben Stiller
Whit Stillman
Joe Swanberg
Joachim Trier
John Turturro
Agnès Varda
Gore Verbinski
Paul Verhoeven
Taika Waititi
Denzel Washington
John Waters
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Charlotte Wells
Wim Wenders
Frederick Wiseman
Edgar Wright
Chloé Zhao
Rob Zombie
Terry Zwigoff