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5 Directors You've Never Heard Of

5 Directors You've Never Heard Of      I assume that, as a fully functioning American if not a film fanatic, you've at least heard of such noted (that's a fancy word for directors) as Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Spike Lee, and Martin Scorsese, not to mention such popular favorites as Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.  I also assume that you are familiar with such notable international film figures as Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Jean Renoir of France, Ingmar Bergman of Sweden, Federico Fellini, Vittorio de Sica, and Michelangelo Antonioni of Italy, Akira Kurosawa of Japan, Luis Buñuel of Spain and Mexico, Andrei Tarkovsky of Russia, and Satyajit Ray of India.  Of course, if you haven’t heard of them, that’s okay.  Just keep in mind that this discussion will not focus on the traditionally “great” directors, even if their names are totally unfamiliar to you.  As a result, I will also ignore such noted Hollywood directors of the past as Frank Capra, George Cukor, George Stevens, William Wyler, Billy Wilder, John Huston, and several others, although they have all made noteworthy films.  I am also not including, for the purposes of space, such talented directors as Ken Russell, Nicholas Ray, Howard Hawks, Oliver Stone, and Tim Burton, whose films I definitely admire.  I am not including them because I have seen too little of their work to know their specific sensibilities and whether I can wholeheartedly recommend even their misfires (and

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