great directors change what cinema is

The following links are starting points. Some pages are labors of love by fans, others are jumping-off places with good links, a few sites have interesting interviews or essays. I was surprised by the dearth of good information on old masters (like Billy Wilder). As always, try the imdb, and also cineparlance

Woody Allen	Lasse Halström	Terrence Malick
Robert Altman	Howard Hawks	Louis Malle
Michelangelo Antonioni	Alfred Hitchcock	Joseph Mankiewicz
Ingmar Bergman	John Huston	Jean-Pierre Melville
Bernardo Bertolucci	Elia Kazan	Pier Paolo Pasolini
Luc Besson	Buster Keaton	Maurice Pialat
Robert Bresson	Krzysztof Kieslowski	Satyajit Ray
Luis Bunuel	Stanley Kubrik	Alain Resnais
Frank Capra	Akira Kurosawa	Gus van Sant, Jr
Marcel Carné	Emir Kusturica	Martin Scorcese
Alain Cavalier	Fritz Lang	John Schlesinger
Michael Cimino	Charles Laughton	Ridley Scott
George Cukor	Claude Lauzon	Steven Spielberg
Francis Ford Coppola	David Lean	Josef von Sternberg
Michael Curtiz	Spike Lee	Preston Sturges
Jonathan Demme	Mike Leigh	Quentin Tarantino
Blake Edwards	Sergio Leone	Andrei Tarkovsky
Federico Fellini	Richard Lester	Jacques Tati
Abel Ferrara	David Lynch	Lars von Trier
Milos Forman		François Truffaut
Jean-Luc Godard		Paul Verhoven
Sasha Guitry		Peter Weir
		Orson Wells
		Billy Wilder
		John Woo

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