EW's Top 25 Active Directors (It's worse than you can imagine)

[Ezee E]

Hopefully Kathryn Bigelow will qualify as active and significant if The Hurt Locker turns out to be good.

It's like you're questioning if The Hurt Locker will be good or not. Of course it will be.

[number8]

Oh, and btw, Frost/Nixon has erased a lot of bad Ron Howard memories for me. I now feel about him the way I felt after Apollo 13.

It's the Akiva Effect.

[baby doll]

I guess if raking in tons of cash is your only criteria (as opposed to storytelling, framing or mise en scène) than these guys are way better directors than Wes Anderson, Roy Andersson, Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bernardo Bertolucci, Leos Carax, Claire Denis, Atom Egoyan, Philippe Garrel, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, Michael Haneke, Todd Haynes, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jia Zhang-ke, Abbas Kiarostami, Mike Leigh, Guy Maddin, Lucrecia Martel, Alain Resnais, Jacques Rivette, André Téchiné, Tsai Ming-liang, Agnès Varda and Wong Kar-wai.

EDIT: I can't believe I forgot Jim Jarmusch.

[baby doll]

Kelly Reichardt. But, heh, not for EW I guess.

Didn't he say "significant"--as opposed to pretty good and accidentally topical?

[baby doll]

1) Sofia Coppola -- not commercial

What? Since when?

[Wryan]

Julie Taymor, even though Across the Universe was terrible.

But Titus and Frieda weren't. I like Taymor, too.

[Wryan]

But relying solely on Lord of the Rings and King Kong as their evidence diminishes it a bit, no?

[/elitist]

Heck no. Terrific films.

[Raiders]

Didn't he say "significant"--as opposed to pretty good and accidentally topical?

Well, I haven't seen her films, but considering his post listed Nora Ephron, I think you can find it even in your icy heart to allow Reichardt a mention.

[Qrazy]

EDIT: I can't believe I forgot Jim Jarmusch.

I can believe it and I'd prefer to keep it that way.