A list of my favorite filmmakers, in no particular order.  I probably 
had some reason for making this list. <p>
Charlie Chaplin<br>
Buster Keaton<br>
Fritz Lang<br>
Aki Kaurismaki<br>
Jim Jarmusch<br>
Spike Lee<br>
Woody Allen<br>
Raj Kapoor<br>
Aaditya Chopra<br>
Mani Ratnam<br>
Luis Bunuel<br>
Pedro Almodovar<br>
Julio Medem <br>
King Hu<br>
Yuen Wo-Ping<br>
Ousmane Sembene<br>
Wakefield Poole<br>
John Cameron Mitchell<br>
Ang Lee<br>
Spike Jonze<br>
John Waters<br>
Pier Paolo Pasolini<br>
Charles Burnett<br>
Frederico Fellini<br>
Christopher Guest<br>
Terry Zwigoff<br>
Preston Sturges<br>
Billy Wilder<br>
Alejandro Amenabar<br>
Orson Welles<br>
Martin Scorsese<br>
Todd Solondz<br>
Darren Aronofsky<br>
Farah Khan<br>
Quentin Tarantino<br>
Guy Maddin<br>
John Cassavetes<br>
Martin Scorsese<br>
<p>
I won't worry about the degree to which the following are the authors 
of 
their films, and simply list:<br>
W.C. Fields<br>
The Marx Brothers<br>
Harold Lloyd<br>
Jackie Chan<br>
Fatty Arbuckle<br>
Laurel and Hardy<br>
<p>
Directors that seem awesome by the little I've seen, but whose work I've 
seen too little of, possibly too long ago:
<p>Jean Renoir<br>
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Satyajit Ray
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Ramesh Sippy<br>
David Lynch<br>
Carl Dreyr<br>
Ernst Lubitsch<br>
Agnes Varda<br>
Jacques Demy<br>
Sam Peckinpah<br>
Manmohan Desai<br>
Thom Andersen<br>
Guru Dutt<br>
Jacques Tati<br>
Stanley Kubrick<br>
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