Director Recommendation Thread
This can be a thread where Soapboxers can recommend the works of director to the Tastebuds community. There are movie recommendation threads already in existence, but to my surprise, none for directors. That's like having an album recommendation thread without having an artist/band recommendation thread.
Anyway, I'll just start off by naming my favorites: Antonioni, Bergman, Bresson, Fassbinder, Godard, Kieslowski, Kubrick, Kurosawa, and Tarkovsky.
In terms of those still working that still have my faith in their more recent output, I'd cite Kiarostami, Scorsese, Cronenberg, and Richard Linklater. Maybe von Trier as well; he at least elicits a distanced intrigue (or amusement - it depends on the day).