Nice work, Erik! That synced up perfectly for me. You may not have a "formal education", but you sure can mash things together to make filmic beauty.

JUST MORE PROOF THAT KUBRICK IS A ONE NOTE HACK.

Ha ha, nice.

GOD TIER: Suzuki, Hitchkock, Denis
HIGH TIER: Tarkovsky, Kaurismaki, Fukasaku, Melville
MID TIER: Kurosawa, Herzog, Breillat, Lynch
OVERRATED SHIT TIER: Kubrick, Tarantino, Anderson

@C&B: YOU NEGLECTED TO INCLUDE MICHAEL BAY IN YOUR GOD TIER. THAT IS UNPARDONABLE. ALSO, WHY DIDN'T YOU COME SAY HELLO AFTER HECKLEVISION? THAT TOO IS UNPARDONABLE.

@ cat:

hitchcock, really? i would have him and kubrick switch places in your list.....and then switch tarantino and anderson with lynch.....(did you mean wes or p.t. anderson? -- the latter is easily in the god tier).....

herzog goes in the high tier.....gallo needs to be added to the mid tier, and the coens need to be added to the overrated shit tier.

and obviously, as graham noted, bay needs to be added to the god tier.

@ Graham, I was drunk and my wife had the keys. I also don't know what you look like.

@ Human, Wes Anderson of course. And obviously this list could go on and on because OPINIONS. And mostly I'm being a grump. And Gallo hasn't done enough to be in the Hall of Champions. Coens are pretty much in Wes Anderson territory, starting their career in God Mode and here we are now in Babby Mode.

i know -- fucking opinions:

"...in all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane." -- twain

so, then, i assume you agree with the opinion (fact) that p.t. anderson is in the god's-god tier?

No Fellini love here?