100 Greatest Directors Quiz (1)

[C] Martin Scorsese | New York’s street poet of sin and salvation; Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, The Irishman.

[A] Stanley Kubrick | Cold-eyed perfectionist who turned hotels, spaceships and war rooms into hypnotic nightmares; 2001, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange.

[D] Steven Spielberg | Master of awe and dread alike; Jaws, E.T., Schindler’s List, Jurassic Park.

[C] Alfred Hitchcock | Puppeteer of suspense who made showers and birds lethal; Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window.

[B] Christopher Nolan | Architect of time-bending blockbusters; Memento, The Dark Knight, Inception.

[C] Quentin Tarantino | Vinyl-spinning remixer of pulp, samurai and westerns; Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.

[B] Francis Ford Coppola | Operatic chronicler of American hubris; The Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now.

[C] Akira Kurosawa | Samurai Shakespeare painting rain-soaked epics; Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Ran.

[A] The Coen Brothers | Deadpan cartographers of cosmic jokes; Fargo, No Country for Old Men, The Big Lebowski.

[D] David Fincher | Clinical surgeon of obsession and darkness; Se7en, Fight Club, The Social Network.

[C] Orson Welles | Boy-wonder conjurer of power and ego; Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil.

[D] Ridley Scott | Visual futurist and history painter; Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator.

[C] Clint Eastwood | Stoic cowboy turned minimalist poet; Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby.

[A] Sergio Leone | Maestro of the widescreen stare-down; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West.

[C] Charlie Chaplin | Tramp-poet of silent laughter and tears; Modern Times, City Lights.

[C] David Lynch | Dream-weaver of suburbia’s dark subconscious; Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive.

[B] Billy Wilder | Razor-witted Viennese confectioner; Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot.

[C] Ingmar Bergman | Cerebral pilgrim of faith and despair; The Seventh Seal, Fanny and Alexander.

[B] Paul Thomas Anderson | Romantic chronicler of lost souls; Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood.

[A] Hayao Miyazaki | Gentle anarchist of hand-drawn skies; Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro.

[C] Sidney Lumet | Urban moralist in sweat-soaked rooms; 12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon.

[B] Robert Zemeckis | Time-traveling storyteller of heart and tech; Back to the Future, Forrest Gump.

[C] John Ford | Monument Valley myth-maker; Stagecoach, The Searchers.

[D] James Cameron | Deep-sea/space adrenaline architect; The Terminator, Titanic, Avatar.

[A] Frank Capra | Bard of small-town optimism; It’s a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

[A] Andrei Tarkovsky | Mystic sculptor of time and memory; Solaris, Stalker.

[D] Federico Fellini | Carnival ringmaster of Rome’s dreams; 8½, La Dolce Vita.

[C] Miloš Forman | Chronicler of rebellion against tyranny and madness; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus.

[B] Peter Jackson | Kiwi world-builder of Middle-earth; The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

[A] Elia Kazan | Intimate realist of explosive performances; On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire.