Sunday 6 November 2011

Directors Pick their Favourite Films

Danny Boyle
01. Fearless
02. The Wrong Trousers
03. The Double Life of Veronique
04. Groundhog Day
05. The Piano
06. Darkness in Tallinn
07. Sonatine
08. Riff-Raff
09. Edward Scissorhands
10. Pulp Fiction



Donald Cammell
01. Napoleon
02. Contempt
03. Nouvelle Vague
04. Ivan the Terrible Part I
05. Blood of a Poet
06. Ran
07. Throne of Blood
08. Touch of Evil
09. Dr. Strangelove
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey 

Sam Fuller
01. The Informer
02. The Gold Rush
03. Battleship Potemkin
04. Rashomon
05. Citizen Kane
06. Pierrot Le Fou
07. 400 Blows
08. The Last Emperor
09. La Dolce Vita
10. Brief Encounter


Fabrizio Federico
01 The Last Movie (Hopper, 1971)
02 Drive He Said  (Nicholson, 1971)
03 Lilith (Rossen, 1964)
04 Wild Side (Cammell, 1995)
05 Ciao Manhattan (Palmer, Weisman, 1972)
06 The Great Rock & Roll Swindle (Temple, 1980)
07 Tarnation (Caouette, 2003)
08 Julien Donkey Boy (Korine, 1999)
09 A Hole in my Heart (Moodysson, 2004) / The Wrong Ferrari (Adam Green, 2011)
10 Made (Favreau,2001)

Monte Hellman
01. Spirit of the Beehive
02. A Slave of Love
03. Outcast of the Islands
04. Persona
05. Broken Blossoms
06. Stavisky
07. A Place in the Sun
08. Sherlock Jr.
09. It's a Wonderful Life
10. Celine and Julie Go Boating

Todd Haynes
01. All That Heaven Allows
02. Un Chant a'Amour
03. Citizen Kane
04. Fear Eats the Soul
05. Jeanne Dielman -- 23, Quai du Commerce -- 1080 Bruxelles
06. Nashville
07. Night of the Hunter
08. Performance
09. The Reckless Moment
10. Vertigo

Gillian Armstrong's Top 10 Films (circa 2002):
  1. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
  2. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
  3. La Strada (Fellini, 1954)
  4. The Godfather Part II (Coppola, 1974)
  5. Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1951)
  6. Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
  7. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)
  8. 8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963)
  9. Singin' in the Rain (Kelly, Donen, 1952)
  10. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)


Peter Greenway
01. Last Year in Marienbad
02. A Bout de Souffle
03. La Notte
04. La Regle du Jeu
05. The Seventh Seal
06. Strike
07. Throne of Blood
08. Fellini's Casanova
09. 8½
10. The Marquise Von O...

Harmony Korine
01 Pixote (Barbenco)
02 Badlands (Malick)
03 Days of Heaven (Malick)
04 Fat City (Huston)
05 Stroszek (Herzog)
06 Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Cassavetes)
07 A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)
08 McCabe & Mrs Miller (Altman)
09 Out of the Blue (Hopper)
10 Hail Mary (Godard)
    George Armitage
  1. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
  2. Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick)
  3. The Magnificent Seven (J. Sturges)
  4. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
  5. The Boy with Green Hair (Losey)
  6. The Thing from Another World (Nyby)
  7. A Canterbury Tale (Powell, Pressburger)
  8. The Maltese Falcon (Huston)
  9. Sullivan's Travels (P. Sturges)
  10. Citizen Kane (Welles)
  11. Local Hero (Forsyth)
    Harold Becker (circa 2002):
  • L'avventura (Antonioni)
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)
  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
  • 8 1/2 (Fellini)
  • The Grapes of Wrath (Ford)
  • In Cold Blood (Brooks)
  • Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)
  • Sunset Blvd. (Wilder)
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston)
Andrew Bergman (circa 2002): 8 1/2 (Fellini) Jules et Jim (Truffaut) Citizen Kane (Welles) City Lights (Chaplin) The Godfather and The Godfather Part II (Coppola) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston) Brief Encounter (Lean) Jaws (Spielberg) Rear Window (Hitchcock) It Happened One Night (Capra) Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick) Some Like It Hot (Wilder) Double Indemnity (Wilder)
    Bernardo Bertolucci Bernardo Bertolucci's Top 10 Films (circa 2002):
  1. La Règle du Jeu (Renoir, 1939)
  2. Sansho Dayu (Mizoguchi, 1954)
  3. Germany, Year Zero (Rossellini, 1947)
  4. A Bout de Souffle (Godard, 1959)
  5. Stagecoach (Ford, 1939)
  6. Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
  7. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
  8. Marnie (Hitchcock, 1964)
  9. Accattone (Pasolini, 1961)
  10. Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)
    Robert Bresson's Favorite Films (circa 1952):
  1. The Gold Rush (Chaplin, ?)
  2. City Lights (Chaplin, ?)
  3. Potemkin (Eisentein, ?)
  4. Brief Encounter (Lean, ?)
  5. The Bicycle Thief (De Sica, ?)
  6. Man of Aran (Flaherty, ?)
  7. Louisiana Story (Flaherty, ?)   
  8.  
Luis Buñuel's Favorite Films (circa 1952)
    1. Underworld (Sternberg)
    2. The Gold Rush (Chaplin)
    3. The Bicycle Thief (De Sica)
    4. Potemkin (Eisenstein)
    5. Portrait of Jennie (Dieterle)
    6. Cavalcade (Lloyd)
    7. White Shadows in the South Seas (Van Dyke)
    8. Dead of Night (Cavalcantin, etc.)
    9. L'Age d'Or (Buñuel)
    10. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Le Roy)
      Yiwen Chen Yiwen Chen (circa 2002): Ashes of Time (Wong) A Brighter Summer Day (Yang) Citizen Kane (Welles) Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen) The Godfather (Coppola) Red Sorghum (Zhang) Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky) Thirty-two Short Films about Glenn Gould (Girard) Throne of Blood (Kurosawa) The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Hou)
      Alex Cox Alex Cox (circa 2002): Citizen Kane (Welles) The Devils (K. Russell) The Exterminating Angel (Bu??) King Kong (Cooper, Schoedsack) The Mattei Affair (Rosi) O Lucky Man! (Anderson) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) Throne of Blood (Kurosawa) The Wages of Fear (Clouzot) The War Game (Watkins) Cameron Crowe (circa 2002): The Apartment (Wilder) La R?e du jeu (Renoir) La dolce vita (Fellini) Manhattan (Allen) The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler) To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan) Harold and Maude (Ashby) Pulp Fiction (Tarantino) Quadrophenia (Roddam) Ninotchka (Lubitsch) John Dahl (circa 2002): Chinatown (Polanski) A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick) Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen) Double Indemnity (Wilder) The Godfather (Coppola) Once upon a Time in the West (Leone) Schindler's List (Spielberg) Sunset Blvd. (Wilder) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston) Unforgiven (Eastwood)
      Joe Dante Joe Dante (circa 2002):
    1. Citizen Kane (Welles)
    2. City Lights (Chaplin)
    3. 8 1/2 (Fellini)
    4. Les Enfants du paradis (Carn?/a>
    5. The Dead (Brakhage)
    6. Rashomon (Kurosawa)
    7. Psycho (Hitchcock)
    8. Raging Bull (Scorsese)
    9. The Searchers (Ford)
    10. Once upon a Time in the West (Leone) 
      Vittorio De Sica's Favorite Films (circa 1952):
    1. Man of Aran (Flaherty)
    2. The Kid (Chaplin)
    3. La Chienne (Renoir)
    4. Le Million (Clair)
    5. L'Atalante (Vigo)
    6. Kameradschadt (Pabst)
    7. Storm Over Asia (Pudovkin)
    8. Potemkin (Eisenstein)
    9. Hallelujah! (Vidor)
    10. La Kermesse Heroique (Feyder)
      Carl Dreyer Carl Dreyer's Favorite Films (circa 1952):
    1. Birth of a Nation (Griffith)
    2. Arne's Treasure (Stiller)
    3. Potemkin (Eisenstein)
    4. The Gold Rush (Chaplin)
    5. Sous les Toits de Paris (Clair)
    6. Quai des Brumes (Carne)
    7. Brief Encounter (Lean)
    8. Henry V (Olivier)
    9. The Petrified Forest (Mayo)
    10. Open City (Rossellini)
        Milos Forman (circa 2002): Amarcord (Fellini) American Graffiti (Lucas) Citizen Kane (Welles) City Lights (Chaplin) The Deer Hunter (Cimino) Les Enfants du paradis (Carn?/a> Giant (Stevens) The Godfather (Coppola) Miracle in Milan (De Sica) Raging Bull (Scorsese)  
      Terry Gilliam's 10 Favorite Films 
      Citizen Kane Seven Samurai Seventh Seal 8 1/2 2001: A Space Odyssey Sherlock Jr Pinocchio Les Enfants du Paradis One-Eyed Jacks The Apartment Source: Sight and Sound Magazine Also: Birth of a Nation The Exterminating Angel Lawrence of Arabia Napoleon - D: Gance 
      Jonathan Glazer (circa 2002): Andrei Roublev (Tarkovsky) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) Throne of Blood (Kurosawa) The Godfather Part II (Coppola) Citizen Kane (Welles) Cries and Whispers (Bergman) 8 1/2 (Fellini) The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pasolini) Raging Bull (Scorsese) The Great Dictator (Chaplin)
      Mary Harron Mary Harron (circa 2002): Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein) Citizen Kane (Welles) La dolce vita (Fellini) Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick) Les Enfants du paradis (Carn?/a> The Exterminating Angel (Bu??) His Girl Friday (Hawks) The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) Raging Bull (Scorsese) World of Apu (S. Ray)
      Ann Hui Ann Hui (circa 2002): The Godfather Part II (Coppola) The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Hou) Viridiana (Bu??) Mirror (Tarkovsky) Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) Floating Clouds (Naruse) All about My Mother (Almod??) Vivre sa vie (Godard) ?oge de l'amour (Godard) Eternity and a Day (Angelopoulos)
      Jim Jarmusch  (circa 2002): L'Atalante (Vigo) Tokyo Story (Ozu) They Live by Night (N. Ray) Bob le flambeur (Melville) Sunrise (Murnau) The Cameraman (Sedgwick) Mouchette (Bresson) Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) Broken Blossoms (Griffith) Rome, Open City (Rossellini)
      Asif Kapadia Asif Kapadia (circa 2002): Psycho (Hitchcock) Raging Bull (Scorsese) The Godfather and The Godfather Part II (Coppola) Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi) Do the Right Thing (Lee) Once upon a Time in the West (Leone) Don't Look Now (Roeg) The Hidden Fortress (Kurosawa) The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang) Straw Dogs (Peckinpah)
      Jonathan Kaplan Jonathan Kaplan (circa 2002): Modern Times (Chaplin) Vertigo (Hitchcock) The Searchers (Ford) Bringing Up Baby (Hawks) Barry Lyndon (Kubrick) The Apartment (Wilder) To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan) The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah) Once upon a Time in the West (Leone) White Heat (Walsh)
      Aki Kaurism (circa 2002): L'Age d'or (Bu??) L'Atalante (Vigo) Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson) Broken Blossoms (Griffith) Casque d'or (Becker) Greed (von Stroheim) Mon oncle (Tati) Nanook of the North (Flaherty) Rome, Open City (Rossellini) Tokyo Story (Ozu)
      Elia Kazan's Favorite Films (circa 1952):
    1. Potemkin (Eisenstein)
    2. Aerograd (Dovzhenko)
    3. The Gold Rush (Chaplin)
    4. Flesh and the Devil (Brown)
    5. Open City (Rossellini)
    6. The Bicycle Thief (De Sica)
    7. Shoulder Arms (Chaplin)
    8. Target for Tonight (Watt)
    9. La Femme du Boulanger (Pagnol)
    10. Marius, Fanny, Cesar (Pagnol)
      Stanley Kubrick's 10 Favorite Films (circa 1963):
    1. Vitelloni, I (1953) (aka Vitelloni) - D: Federico Fellini
    2. Smultronstället (1957) (aka Wild Strawberries) - D: Ingmar Bergman
    3. Citizen Kane (1941) - D: Orson Welles
    4. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) - D: John Huston
    5. City Lights (1931) - D: Charles Chaplin
    6. Henry V (1944) - D: Laurence Olivier
    7. La Notte (1960) (aka The Night) - D: Michelangelo Antonioni
    8. The Bank Dick (1940) - D: Edward F. Cline
    9. Roxie Hart (1942) - D: William A. Wellman
    10. Hell's Angels (1930) - D: Howard Hughes

      Clara Law Clara Law (circa 2002): Mirror (Tarkovsky) Sacrifice (Tarkovsky) Tokyo Story (Ozu) Eternity and a Day (Angelopoulos) L'Argent (Bresson) Three Colours Blue (Kieslowski) L'eclisse (Antonioni) A City of Sadness (Hou) Ran (Kurosawa) Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais)
      David Lean's Favorite Films (circa 1952):
    1. Intolerance (Griffith)
    2. Variety (DuPont)
    3. The Crowd (Vidor)
    4. City Lights (Chaplin)
    5. White Shadows in the South Seas (Van Dyke)
    6. A Nous la Liberte (Clair)
    7. Grand Illusion (Renoir)
    8. Les Enfants du Paradis (Carne)
    9. Le Jour se leve (Carne)
    10. Citizen Kane (Welles)
      Sidney Lumet Sidney Lumet (circa 2002): The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler) Fanny and Alexander (Bergman) The Godfather (Coppola) The Grapes of Wrath (Ford) Intolerance (Griffith) The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) Ran (Kurosawa) Roma (Fellini) Singin' in the Rain (Kelly, Donen) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
      Kevin MacDonald Kevin MacDonald (circa 2002): Atanarjuat The Fast Runner (Kunuk) Double Indemnity (Wilder) The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell, Pressburger) The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles) The Palm Beach Story (P. Sturges) Partie de campagne (Renoir) Rear Window (Hitchcock) Singin' in the Rain (Kelly, Donen) The Thin Blue Line (Morris) The Unseen (Janek)
      Michael Mann (circa 2002): Apocalypse Now (Coppola) Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) Citizen Kane (Welles) Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick) Faust (Murnau) Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais) My Darling Clementine (Ford) The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) Raging Bull (Scorsese) The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)
      Scott McGehee (circa 2002): A Matter of Life and Death (Powell, Pressburger) The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler) Written on the Wind (Sirk) Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick) Touch of Evil (Welles) Vertigo (Hitchcock) When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Naruse) Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (Demy) The Conformist (Bertolucci) Chinatown (Polanski)
      Anurag Mehta (circa 2002): Star Wars (Lucas) Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg) Rocky (Avildsen) Jaws (Spielberg) Forrest Gump (Zemeckis) Superman (Donner) Jerry Maguire (Crowe) Casablanca (Curtiz) Back to the Future (Zemeckis) Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
      Lukas Moodysson The Chekist (1992) - D: Aleksandr Rogozhkin Steel Magnolias - D: Herbert Ross Geri - D: Molly Dineen Lamerica (1994) - D: Gianni Amelio Tarnation (2003)
      Mira Nair Mira Nair (circa 2002):
    1. An Angel at My Table (Campion)
    2. The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)
    3. Dekalog (Kieslowski)
    4. The Double Life of V?nique (Kieslowski)
    5. 8 1/2 (Fellini)
    6. The Godfather (Coppola)
    7. In the Mood for Love (Wong)
    8. La Jet?(Marker)
    9. The Music Room (S. Ray)
    10. Pyaasa (Dutt)
    11. Raging Bull (Scorsese)
    12. Time of the Gypsies (Kusturica)
      Babak Payami Babak Payami (circa 2002): Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) The White Nights (Visconti) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) Un Chien andalou (Bu??) Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais) Short Cuts (Altman) L'avventura (Antonioni) Still Life (Saless) Que Viva Mexico! (Eisenstein) Citizen Kane (Welles)
      Sydney Pollack (circa 2002): Casablanca (Curtiz) Citizen Kane (Welles) The Conformist (Bertolucci) The Godfather Part II (Coppola) La Grande Illusion (Renoir) The Leopard (Visconti) Once upon a Time in America (Leone) Raging Bull (Scorsese) The Seventh Seal (Bergman) Sunset Blvd. (Wilder)
      Alex Proyas (circa 2002):
    1. Citizen Kane (Welles)
    2. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
    3. The Exorcist (Friedkin)
    4. The Godfather (Coppola)
    5. It's a Wonderful Life (Capra)
    6. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)
    7. North by Northwest (Hitchcock)
    8. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Forman)
    9. The Third Man (Reed)
    10. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming)
      Carol Reed's Favorite Films (circa 1952):
    1. City Lights (Chaplin)
    2. Ninotchka (Lubitsch)
    3. Les Enfants du Paradis (Carne)
    4. Gone With the Wind (Fleming)
    5. La Ronde (Ophuls)
    6. All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone)
    7. La Kermesse Heroique (Feyder)
    8. Variety (DuPont)
    9. La Femme du Boulanger (Pagnol)
    10. Pygmalion (Asquith)
      Karel Reisz (circa 2002): The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bu??) Earth (Dovzhenko) Fires Were Started (Jennings) The Lady Eve (P. Sturges) Nashville (Altman) Raging Bull (Scorsese) La R?e du jeu (Renoir) Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock) They Were Expendable (Ford) Tokyo Story (Ozu)
      George A. Romero (circa 2002): The Brothers Karamazov (Brooks) Casablanca (Curtiz) Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick) High Noon (Zinnemann) King Solomon's Mines (Bennett) North by Northwest (Hitchcock) The Quiet Man (Ford) Repulsion (Polanski) Touch of Evil (Welles) The Tales of Hoffmann (Powell, Pressburger)
      Paul Schrader (circa 2002): La R?e du jeu (Renoir) Tokyo Story (Ozu) Pickpocket (Bresson) Citizen Kane (Welles) The Lady Eve (P. Sturges) La Belle et la B? (Cocteau) The Conformist (Bertolucci) Vertigo (Hitchcock) The Searchers (Ford) The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)
      Barbet Schroeder (circa 2002):
    1. Anatomy of a Murder (Preminger)
    2. Bigger Than Life (N. Ray)
    3. The Big Heat (Lang)
    4. Europa '51 (Rossellini)
    5. Gion Bayashi (Mizoguchi)
    6. Late Spring (Ozu)
    7. Ordet (Dreyer)
    8. Rio Bravo (Hawks)
    9. Sunrise (Murnau)
    10. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
      Joel Schumacher (circa 2002): Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) Lawrence of Arabia (Lean) The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Greenaway) Bicycle Thieves (De Sica) Breaking the Waves (von Trier) A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick) The Conversation (Coppola) Sunset Blvd. (Wilder) Stalker (Tarkovsky) The Conformist (Bertolucci)
      Martin Scorcese Martin Scorcese's Favorite Color Films (circa 2005): English-Language:
    1. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
    2. Duel in the Sun (Vidor, 1946)
    3. Invaders from Mars (Menzies, 1953)
    4. Leave Her to Heaven (Stahl, 1946)
    5. Moby Dick (Huston, 1956)
    6. Phantom of the Opera (Lubin, 1943)
    7. The Red Shoes (Powell, 1948)
    8. The Searchers (Ford, 1956)
    9. Singin' in the Rain (Donen, 1952)
    10. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958) Foreign-Language:
    11. Contempt (Godard, 1963)
    12. Cries and Whispers (Bergman, 1972)
    13. Gate of Hell (Kinugasa, 1953)
    14. In The Mood For Love (Wong, 2000)
    15. The Last Emperor (Betolucci, 1987)
    16. Red Desert (Antonioni, 1964)
    17. The River (Renoir, 1951)
    18. Satyricon (Fellini, 1969)
    19. Senso (Visconti, 1954)
    20. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Paradjanov, 1964) Source: Pigs and Battleships
      Susan Seidelman (circa 2002): All about Eve (Mankiewicz) The Apartment (Wilder) Badlands (Malick) Blue Velvet (Lynch) Broadway Danny Rose (Allen) GoodFellas (Scorsese) Jules et Jim (Truffaut) Nights of Cabiria (Fellini) North by Northwest (Hitchcock) Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
       Mrinal Sen (circa 2002): The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) La Grande Illusion (Renoir) L'Age d'or (Bu??) Four Nights of a Dreamer (Bresson) Bicycle Thieves (De Sica) La dolce vita (Fellini) Aparajito (S. Ray) Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin) Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais)
      Santosh Sivan (circa 2002): The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) Mirror (Tarkovsky) Tokyo Story (Ozu) Cries and Whispers (Bergman) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) Charulata (S. Ray) Aguirre, Wrath of God (Herzog) The Great Dictator (Chaplin) Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
      George Sluizer (circa 2002): Andrei Roublev (Tarkovsky) L'avventura (Antonioni) Voyage to Italy (Rossellini) Sunset Blvd. (Wilder) On the Waterfront (Kazan) Lacombe Lucien (Malle) Vertigo (Hitchcock) Death in Venice (Visconti) Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein) The Golden Coach (Renoir)
      Kevin Smith's Top Ten Films of 2006 (circa 2007): The Departed Little Children Half Nelson Clerks II Inside Man V for Vendetta The Last King of Scotland United 93 Perfume Borat
      Iain Softley (circa 2002): Casablanca (Curtiz) Citizen Kane (Welles) The Godfather (Coppola) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) Don't Look Now (Roeg) Apocalypse Now (Coppola) Chinatown (Polanski) Lawrence of Arabia (Lean) Psycho (Hitchcock) Sunset Blvd. (Wilder)
      Quentin Tarantino (circa 2002):
    1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone)
    2. Rio Bravo (Hawks)
    3. Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
    4. His Girl Friday (Hawks)
    5. Rolling Thunder (Flynn)
    6. They All Laughed (Bogdanovich)
    7. The Great Escape (J. Sturges)
    8. Carrie (De Palma)
    9. Coffy (Hill)
    10. Dazed and Confused (Linklater)
    11. Five Fingers of Death (Chang)
    12. Hi Diddle Diddle (Stone)

      Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
      Chungking Express
      Iron Monkey
      'Manos' the Hands of Fate (1966)
      Revenge
      Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
      Switchblade Sisters
      Thriller: A Cruel Picture
      Johnnie To
    1. Seven Samurai
    2. High and Low
    3. Straw Dogs
    4. Harakiri
    5. Le Samourai
    6. Le Cercle Rouge
    7. In in the Mood for Love
    8. Brazil
    9. The Last Emperor
    10. Yojimbo
      Gore Verbinski (circa 2002): Chinatown (Polanski) The Conversation (Coppola) Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone) McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman) The Night of the Hunter (Laughton) Sacrifice (Tarkovsky) The Servant (Losey) The Tenant (Polanski) The Wages of Fear (Clouzot)
      King Vidor's Favorite Films (circa 1952):
    1. Intolerance (Griffith)
    2. Sunrise (Murnau)
    3. Der letze Mann (Murnau)
    4. The Big Parade (Vidor)
    5. Brief Encounter (Lean)
    6. Red Shoes (Powell-Pressburger)
    7. Open City (Rossellini)
    8. City Lights (Chaplin)
    9. Citizen Kane (Welles)
    10. The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler)
      Vincent Ward (circa 2002):
    1. Andrei Roublev (Tarkovsky)
    2. La strada (Fellini)
    3. The General (Keaton)
    4. The Navigator (Keaton)
    5. The Apartment (Wilder)
    6. Sunrise (Murnau)
    7. The Wind (Sj??/a>
    8. Metropolis (Lang)
    9. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Riesner)
    10. Blade Runner (Scott)
      Orson Welles's Favorite Films (circa 1952):
    1. City Lights (Chaplin)
    2. Greed (von Stroheim)
    3. Intolerance (Griffith)
    4. Nanook of the North (Flaherty)
    5. Shoe Shine (De Sica)
    6. Potemkin (Eisenstein)
    7. La Femme du Boulanger (Pagnol)
    8. Grand Illusion (Renoir)
    9. Stagecoach (Ford)
    10. Our Daily Bread (Vidor)
      Billy Wilder's Favorite Films (circa 1952):
    1. Potemkin (Eisenstein)
    2. Greed (von Stroheim)
    3. Variety (DuPont)
    4. The Gold Rush (Chaplin)
    5. The Crowd (Vidor)
    6. Grand Illusion (Renoir)
    7. The Informer (Ford)
    8. Ninotchka (Lubitsch)
    9. The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler)
    10. The Bicycle Thief (De Sica)
      Geoffrey Wright (circa 2002): Citizen Kane (Welles) Lawrence of Arabia (Lean) The Godfather (Coppola) The Godfather Part II (Coppola) Apocalypse Now (Coppola) Stray Dog (Kurosawa) Taxi Driver (Scorsese) Psycho (Hitchcock) The Exorcist (Friedkin) Jaws (Spielberg) 
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