All Right, Mr. DeMille, I'm Ready For My Close-Up ... It's The ILXOR's Top 101 Director Poll Results Thread

mirror is the tarkovsky for skeptics i think.

my favorite is The Mirror fwiw, but Andrei Rublev not far behind

I thought The Sacrifice was relatively accessible (for him), and is a favorite of mine along with The Mirror

Nostalghia is definitely his most 'inaccessible' for lack of a better word - but if you're on his frequency it's astonishing.

You have to look at the lists side by side. Putting aside placement, half of the two lists overlap. So it comes down these 10 from their list vs. these 10 from the ILX list:

Cinematary 10: Kiarostami, Akerman, Malick, Ford, P.T. Anderson, Coppola, Yang, Kar-wai, Hawks, Dreyer

ILX 10: Powell & Pressburger, Fassbinder, Buñuel, Altman, Renoir, Lang, Antonioni, Wilder, Murnau, Bresson