Directors who made a great movie prior to 1970 AND after 1979

Name of director and name of great movies in each period.

Jean-Luc Godard: Pierrot le fou & Goodbye to Language

Akira Kurosawa: Drunken Angel & Ran

Akira Kurosawa; Stray Dog (pre) & Ran (post)

John Huston; African Queen (pre) & Annie (post)

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With ranking on my personal lists for each in ()

Alain Resnais - Hiroshima Mon Amour (#1) - Mon oncle d'Amérique (#5)

Youssef Chahine - Cairo Station (#1) - An Egyptian Story (#2)

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If we're taking the weaker film, I reckon the strongest so far are either Leone (personally I'd have used FAFDM) or Kurosawa?
What do you guys reckon?
(I haven't seen Godard's Goodbye to Language yet so can't comment, but my perception is that it isn't commonly regarded as being one of the greats).

seeing goodbye to language in theatre was the single most powerful cinematic experience i've ever had. that is absolutely an all timer.

Ingmar Bergman - Wild Strawberries(1957), Fanny and Alexander (1982)


John Cassavettes - Shadows (1959), Gloria (1980)


Costa-Gavras - Z(1969) - Missing (1982)


Roman Polanski - Rosemary's Baby (1969) - The Pianist (2002)


Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Full Metal Jacket (1988)

I'm new here, so I wasn't sure what was expected, but yeah, I chose what was meaningful to me, rather than what the critical or popular consensus was.

With Leone for example, I'd have gone with the two "Once Upons", I don't know if that's the right answer for the masses, but it's what I'd go with.

I also considered Saura (The Hunt or Peppermint Frappe & Deprisa, Deprisa), but I think his greatest works came in between those years with Cria, Angelica, Elisa, and Anna.

Robert Bresson - "Pickpocket" "L'Argent"

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did john huston have a great movie after 1979?? not sure

Andrei Tarkovsky: Andrei Rublev - Nostalgia

Depends on whom you ask. He directed six films after 1979. The only one I've seen is Annie, apparently, which wasn't bad. I only included it so I could have another choice than just Kurosawa. I couldn't think of anyone else.

some of his movies are my favorites. i didn't really follow his later stuff.

I remember admiring his last 3, Volcano, Prizzi's and The Dead, but it's been a long while since I saw them, not sure how they'd hold up for me.

Yeah he has some good ones. I haven't seen a whole lot though. I watched Annie because I was forced to watch it and I figured a movie with Carol Burnett and Tim Curry couldn't be all bad. It was mildly entertaining. I didn't know Huston directed it though.

The Dead is great. John Huston qualifies.

More people need to see Prizzi's Honor it might be Jack's best movie

I tried watching "The Dead" a few times, but it must have had the slowest start. Huston and Nicholson were great in the 70s, but ... the well goes dry (or opportunities).

Pretty sure Scorsese qualifies here

"Who's That Knocking at My Door, originally titled I Call First, is a 1967 American independent drama film written and directed by Martin Scorsese....

American critic Roger Ebert gave the film an extremely positive review after its world premiere at the Chicago International Film Festival in November 1967...Variety described the film as "more of a class exercise than a commercially sound film". The review later stated, "Scorsese occasionally brings the film to life, as in a weekend drive by J.R. and two buddies to an upstate village where the camera shows up their 'big city' shallowness in comparison to the townspeople. Generally, however, his script and direction lack any dramatic value and give far too much exposure to sexual fantasies on the part of the boy."
When the film received its theatrical release more than a year later, Ebert admitted that he had been perhaps too eager with his first review, admitting that "Scorsese was occasionally too obvious, and the film has serious structural flaws."...
On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 71% based on 24 reviews, with an average rating of 6/10. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 63 out of 100 based on nine critics"