For Fun, My Current Top 5 Directors

And no, none of the directors are current. But here's where I'm at right now

Sergio Leone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Leone

Howard Hawks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hawks

Akira Kurasawa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa

Alfred Hitchcock
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock

Orson Welles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles

Who's in your top 5? Later in the week, I'll post a "next 5." BTW, if you want to read some interesting stuff on directors, and how they can influence each other look into the life, writing and monographs of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bogdanovich

It seems to me that he has always tried to capture the ineffable male/female dynamic that appeared to come so easily to Howard Hawks. Anyone who says it's effable is snowing you. He made two movies after he was sort of the flavor of the early `70's called "They All Laughed" and "The Thing Called Love" where he got kind of close. He also made a great flick before he went super nova called, "Targets." A very interesting film buff.