Ken Russell's Favorite Directors

By: Cinebea​ts

Ken Russell’s top twenty favorite directors and the films he listed to illustrate his point from “Altered States: The Autobiography of Ken Russell” published in 1989.

• 01
  The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  Robert Wiene
• 02
  Blazing Saddles
  Mel Brooks
• 03
  Sunrise
  F.W. Murnau
• 04
  Things to Come
  William Cameron Menzies
• 05
  The Red Shoes
  Michael Powell
• 06
  Jules and Jim
  François Truffaut
• 07
  Roman Scandals
  Frank Tuttle
• 08
  Henry V
  Laurence Olivier
• 09
  Beauty and the Beast
  Jean Cocteau
• 10
  Alexander Nevsky
  Sergei Eisenstein
• 11
  L'Atalante
  Jean Vigo
• 12
  Metropolis
  Fritz Lang
• 13
  The Wizard of Oz
  Victor Fleming
• 14
  Olympia Part One: Festival of Nations
  Leni Riefenstahl
• 15
  M. Hulot's Holiday
  Jacques Tati
• 16
  War and Peace
  Sergei Bondarchuk
• 17
  I vitelloni
  Federico Fellini
• 18
  Citizen Kane
  Orson Welles
• 19
  One, Two, Three
  Billy Wilder
• 20
  Fantasia
  James Algar