In Second...
By: Charles Ziegler-Hartmann
These are the films that came in second to the two lists of ten favorites, and they are in order of the directors listed.
Includes the runner-ups from “My Ten Favorite Films”, “Another Ten”, “Thirty”, “Ten, No. 4”. and “50”.
1. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Dir. Paul Schrader, 1985)
2. Natural Born Killers (Dir. Oliver Stone, 1994)
3. Thief (Dir. Michael Mann, 1981)
4. The Dark Knight (Dir. Christopher Nolan, 2008)
5. Blue Velvet (Dir. David Lynch, 1986)
6. Sonatine (Dir. Takeshi Kitano, 1993)
7. Play Misty For Me (Dir. Clint Eastwood, 1971)
8. Bound (Dir. Wachowski Bros., 1996)
9. Videodrome (Dir. David Cronenberg, 1983)
10. The Funeral (Dir. Abel Ferrara, 1996)
11. Floating Weeds (Dir. Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)
12. The Life of Oharu (Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952)
13. The Grapes of Wrath (Dir. John Ford, 1940)
14. Serpico (Dir. Sidney Lumet, 1973)
15. Once Upon a Time in America (Dir. Sergio Leone, 1984)
16. The Last Temptation of Christ (Dir. Martin Scorsese, 1988)
17. La Vie de Boheme (Dir. Aki Kaurismaki, 1992)
18. Paris, Texas (Dir. Wim Wenders, 1984)
19. Mona Lisa (Dir. Neil Jordan, 1986)
20. Europa (Dir. Lars von Trier, 1991)
21. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975)
22. Black Rain (Dir. Shohei Imamura, 1989)
23. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Dir. John Huston, 1948)
24. The Exorcist (Dir. William Friedkin, 1973)
25. 12 Monkeys (Dir. Terry Gilliam, 1995)
26. The Game (Dir. David Fincher, 1997)
27. Pi (Dir. Darren Aranofsky, 1998)
28. The Edge of Heaven (Dir. Fatih Akin, 2007)
29. (Dir. Matthias Glasner, )
30. Homicide (Dir. David Mamet, 1991)
31. The Rules of the Game (Dir. Jean Renoir, 1939)
32. Psycho (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
33. Mouchette (Dir. Robert Bresson, 1967)
34. Ran (Dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
35. Masculine Feminine (Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1966)
36. Last Tango in Paris (Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)
37. The Wild Bunch (Dir. Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
38. Performance (Dir. Nicolas Roeg, 1970)
39. The Doom Generation (Dir. Gregg Araki, 1995)
40. Good Will Hunting (Dir. Gus Van Sant, 1997)
41. M (Dir. Fritz Lang, 1931)
42. The Wages of Fear (Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1954)
43. Rebel Without a Cause (Dir. Nicholas Ray, 1955)
44. Letter From an Unknown Woman (Dir. Max Ophuls, 1948)
45. (Dir. Louis Malle, )
46. Beware of a Holy Whore (Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971)
47. Rosemary’s Baby (Dir. Roman Polanski, 1968)
48. American Psycho (Dir. Mary Harron, 2000)
49. (Dir. Mark Romanek, )
50. Funny Games & Funny Games U.S. (Dir. Michael Haneke, 1998-2007)
51. Meshes of the Afternoon (Dir. Maya Deren, 1943)
52. Beauty and the Beast (Dir. Jean Cocteau, 1946)
53. Scorpio Rising (Dir. Kenneth Anger, 1964)
54. Leaves From Satan’s Book (Dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1921)
55. The Shining (Dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
56 L’Eclisse (Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)
57. Persona (Dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
58. The Sacrifice (Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986)
59. (Dir. Godfrey Reggio, )
60. (Dir. Ron Fricke, )
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01Paul Schrader
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02Oliver Stone
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03Michael Mann
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04Christopher Nolan
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05David Lynch
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06Takeshi Kitano
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07Clint Eastwood
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08Andy Wachowski
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09David Cronenberg
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10Abel Ferrara
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11Yasujirô Ozu
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12Kenji Mizoguchi
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13John Ford
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14Sidney Lumet
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15Sergio Leone
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16Martin Scorsese
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17Aki Kaurismäki
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18Wim Wenders
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19Neil Jordan
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20Lars von Trier
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21Pier Paolo Pasolini
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22Shôhei Imamura
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23John Huston
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24William Friedkin
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25Terry Gilliam
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26David Fincher
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27Darren Aronofsky
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28Fatih Akin
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29David Mamet
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30Jean Renoir
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31Alfred Hitchcock
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32Robert Bresson
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33Akira Kurosawa
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34Jean-Luc Godard
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35Bernardo Bertolucci
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36Sam Peckinpah
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37Donald Cammell
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38Gregg Araki
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39Gus Van Sant
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40Fritz Lang
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41Henri-Georges Clouzot
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42Nicholas Ray
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43Max Ophüls
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44Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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45Roman Polanski
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46Mary Harron
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47Michael Haneke
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48Michael Haneke
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49Maya Deren
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50Jean Cocteau
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51Kenneth Anger
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52Carl Theodor Dreyer
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53Stanley Kubrick
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54Michelangelo Antonioni
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55Ingmar Bergman
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56Andrei Tarkovsky