2. Woody Allen
The Good: Bananas, Sleeper, Love and Death, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Broadway Danny Rose, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanours, Mighty Aphrodite, Everyone Says I Love You, Sweet and Lowdown, Match Point, Midnight In ParisThe Bad: Interiors, Stardust Memories, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, September, Another Woman, Alice, Celebrity, Small Time Crooks, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Hollywood Ending, Anything Else, Melinda and Melinda, Scoop, Cassandra's Dream, Whatever Works, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, From Rome With Love I love Woody Allen. He's arguably my all-time favourite filmmaker, but even I'd have to admit that his filmography is horribly inconsistent, and that he has an annoying tendency to remake the same movies over and over again with different titles. I feel like I've seen the same Woody Allen story retold with four of five different casts - I guess that's what happens when you make a film every year. As it stands, though, Mr. Allen has probably made more "good" movies than just about any other filmmaker in history. But that goes for the bad, too. Yes, given the high volume of Allen movies in existence, when you lay his entire filmography out flat on the table and add up the good movies, the bad movies and the average ones, there are just slightly more bad ones - or, at least, more mediocre ventures that feel like the director rehashing his old work. The fact that Woody Allen has nearly made 20 genuinely good movies is amazing, anyway, but I wish he'd take a bit more time to flesh out his projects - with every half-assed movie he puts out, he's needlessly watering down filmography.