50 mentalist film makers

Great article in September's Sight & Sound magazine on outré film makers

http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/49563/

"The Wild Bunch"

They make films that are uncategorisable, in which cinematic language, taste and even reality itself are bent to their will.....

Kenneth Anger (1930-)
Jane Arden (1927-1982)
Dario Argento (1940-)
Fernando Arrabal (1932-)
Alexei Balabanov (1959-)
Mario Bava (1914-1980)
Walerian Borowczyk (1923-2006)
Catherine Breillat (1947-)
Tod Browning (1882-1962)
Luis Bunuel (1900-1983)
Donald Cammell (1934-1996)
Vera Chytilová (1929-)
Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959)
Claire Denis (1948-)
Federico Fellini (1920-93)
Abel Ferrara (1951-)
Ritwik Ghatak (1925-1976)
Alexei Guerman (1938-)
Wojciech Has (1925-2000)
Werner Herzog (1942-)
Imamura Shohei (1926-2006)
Alejandro Jodorowsky (1930-)
David Lynch (1946-)
Guy Maddin (1956-)
Dusan Makavejev (1932-)
Djibril Diop Mambéty (1945-1998)
Masumura Yasuzo (1924-1986)
Ma-Xu Weibang (1905-1961)
Miike Takashi (1960-)
Nakagawa Nobuo (1905-1984)
Gaspar Noé (1963-)
Ogawa Shinsuke (1935-1992)
Sergei Paradjanov (1924-1990)
Sally Potter (1949-)
Glauber Rocha (1938-81)
Raúl Ruiz (1941-)
Ken Russell (1927-)
Jerzy Skolimowski (1938-)
Richard Stanley (1966-)
Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969)
Suzuki Seijun (1923-)
Jan Svankmajer (1934-)
Lars von Trier (1956-)
Tsui Hark (1950-)
Tsukamoto Shinya (1960-)
Edgar G. Ulmer (1904-1972)
Paul Verhoeven (1938-)
Wakamatsu Kôji (1936-)
Edward D. Wood Jr (1924-1978)
Andrzej Zulawski (1940-)