Legendary critic Andrew Sarris has his pantheon, our esteemed mothership site, Bullz-Eye.com, has its Directors Hall of Fame. Admittedly, as a men’s magazine with a youngish readership, our leanings are populist, relatively recent, and male-friendly, so super-cinephile Ozu, Dreyer, Sirk, Flaherty, Murnau, and Bresson fans may have a very long wait — especially as our prior group of inductees was way back on 2007.
Still, each of the four director and one great directorial brother-act we’ve selected have made the kind of hugely entertaining and involving movies that turn casual viewers into fans and fans into filmmakers, and all have even made films that I’d argue are genuine works of art — yes, I consider “A Fistful of Yen” from “Kentucky Fried Movie” a genuine work of art. This year’s class was selected via a painstaking process akin to a virtual group knife-fight as several highly opinionated film fans, myself definitely included, bandied names about. (John Ford, Billy Wilder, Akira Kurosawa, and Howard Hawks, you’ll have your day yet!)
So, who made our list? Well, there’s a clue above and the picture below may also provide a small clue about one of them. But you can see all of them right here.
