Steven Soderbergh
1) Out of Sight
2) The Limey
3) Traffic
Michael Mann
1) Heat
2) Collateral
3) The Insider
Akira Kurosawa
1) Yojimbo
2) Seven Samurai
3) Stray Dog
Wong Kar Wai
1) Fallen Angels
2) In the Mood for Love
3) Chung King Express
John Woo
1) Hard Boiled
2) The Killer
3) Bullet in the Head
Maya Deren
1)Very Eye of Night
2)At Land
3)Ritual of Transfigured Time
Stanley Kubrick
1)Eyes Wide Shut
2)Barry Lyndon
3)Clockwork Orange
Andrei Tarkovsky
1)Sacrifice
2)Andrei Rublev
3)Steamroller and the Violin
Ingmar Bergman
1)Fanny and Alexander
2)Scenes from a marriage
3)Cries and Whispers
John Cassavetes
1)Opening Night
2)Minnie and Moskowitz
3)Husbands
Vittorio De Sica
1. Umberto D
2. Miracle In Milan
3. Shoeshine
Jacques Demy
1. The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg
2. Bay Of Angels
3. Lola
Julien Duvivier
1. Poil De Carotte
2. Pepe Le Moko
3. Panique
Frank Borzage
1. Man’s Castle
2. Desire
3. History Is Made At Night
Jean Cocteau
1. Orpheus
2. Beauty And The Best
3. Les Parents Terribles
Werner Herzog
1. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
2. Fitzcarraldo
3. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Stanley Kubrick
1. 2001
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. The Shining
Francis Ford Coppola
1. Apocalypse Now
2. The Godfather Part I
3. The Godfather Part II
Paul Thomas Anderson
1. Magnolia
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Punch-Drunk Love
Wes Anderson
1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. Rushmore
3. The Darjeeling Limited
Patrice Chereau
1) Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train
2) L’Homme Blesse
3) Son Frere
Jacques Rivette
1) Out 1
2) Duelle
3) Noroit
Federico Fellini
1) 8 1/2
2) La Dolce Vita
3) Nights of Cabiria
Robert Bresson
1) Un condamne a mort s’est echappe
2) Le Diable Probablement
3) Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
Peter Watkins
1) La Commune (de Paris1871)
2) Privilege
3) Punishment Park
paul verhoeven:
total recall
starship troopers
black book
r. w. fassbinder:
fox and his friends
querelle
veronika voss
brian de palma:
raising cain
phantom of the paradise
body double
spike lee:
do the right thing
25th hour
jungle fever
peter weir:
the mosquito coast
the truman show
the year of living dangerously
Yes, David, Peter Watkins is the shit.
Mike Leigh – Meantime, Career Girls, Secrets and Lies
Lars von Trier – Breaking the Waves, The Element of Crime, Dancer in the Dark
Louis Malle – Phantom India, Au Revoir Les Enfants, Damage
Spike Lee – Malcolm X, Clockers, Do the Right Thing
John Cassavetes – Husbands, Minnie and Moskowitz, Shadows
I am also going to go for previously unmentioned directors (so I won’t have Bergman, Antonioni, Fellini, Tarkovsky, Sturges, Haneke, Bresson, WKW, Wilder, Hou, Tarr, Welles or Varda)
ALAIN RESNAIS
L’Année dernière à Marienbad
La Guerre est Finie
Nuit et Brouillard
ALEKSANDR SOKUROV
Elegy of a voyage
Mother and son
Second circle
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
Close up
The wind will carry us
Through the olive trees
DARDENNE
La Promesse
Le Fils
L’Enfant
CLAUDE CHABROL
Une affaire de femmes
La Rupture
Les bonnes femmes
STANLEY KUBRICK
2001 a space odyssey
Eyes Wide Shut
Dr Strangelove
ANDREI TARKOVSKY
Andrei Rublev
Solaris
The Mirror
FEDERICO FELLINI
Satyricon
Amarcord
La Dolce Vita
INGMAR BERGMAN
Hour of the Wolf
Persona
Wild Strawberries
ROBERT BRESSON
Mouchette
Diary of a country Priest
Au Hasard Balthazar
Anontioni
—L’avventura
—L’eclisse
—Blow-up
Kieslowski
—Double Life of Veronique
—Red
—Blue
Fellini
—Nights of Cabiria
—8 1/2
—La Dolce Vita
Coen Brothers
—No Country for Old Men
—Big Lebowski
—Barton Fink
Woody Allen
—Manhatten
—Zelig Zelig Zelig
—Annie Hall
Tarkovsky:
-Stalker
-Nostalghia
-The Sacrifice
Bergman:
-Fanny & Alexander
-Wild Strawberries
-Sawdust & Tinsel
Hitchcock:
-Vertigo
-Rear Window
-Spellbound
Kubrick:
-2001
-Dr. Strangelove
-The Shining
Resnais
-Last Year at Mareinbad
-Hiroshima Mon Amour
-La Guerre est Finie
john cassavetes
a woman under the influence
faces
husbands
altman
the long goodbye
mccabe
nashville
paul thomas anderson
punch-drunk love
there will be blood
boogie nights
scorsese
raging bull
taxi driver
king of comedy
woody allen
annie hall
manhattan
love and death
Kurosawa
1) High and Low
2) Stray Dog
3) Ikiru
Godard
1) Band of Outsiders
2) Breathless
3) A Woman is a Woman
Kubrick
1) A Clockwork Orange
2) Dr.Strangelove
3) 2001
The Coen Bros
1) Barton Fink
2) No Country for Old Men
3) Raising Arizona
Bergman
1) The Seventh Seal
2) Hour of the Wolf
3) Fanny and Alexander
Sidney Lumet
TWELVE ANGRY MEN
BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD
THE VERDICT
Alexander Payne
PARIS, JE T’AIME
ELECTION
SIDEWAYS
Paul Thomas Anderson
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
MAGNOLIA
PUNCH DRUNK LOVE
Christopher Nolan
MEMENTO
THE DARK KNIGHT
INSOMNIA
Hayao Miyazaki
PRINCESS MONANOKE
SPIRITED AWAY
CASTLE IN THE SKY
JOEL & ETHAN COEN
The Hudsucker Proxy
Fargo
Barton Fink
STANLEY KUBRICK
Dr. Strangelove
The Shining
A Clockwork Orange
MICHEL GONDRY
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Science of Sleep
Be Kind Rewind
QUENTIN TARANTINO
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill vol. 1
Kill Bill vol. 2
DAVID FINCHER
Fight Club
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Se7en
Jean-Luc Godard
Pierrot Le Fou 1965
À Bout De Souffle (Breathless) 1960
Le Mépris (Contempt) 1963
Andrei Tarkovsky
Zerkalo (The Mirror) 1975
Solaris 1972
Stalker 1979
Alfred Hitchcock
Psycho 1960
Notorious 1946
The Birds 1963
Alain Resnais
L’Année Dernière à Marienbad (Last Year At Marienbad) 1961
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Hiroshima My Love) 1959
Mon Oncle D’Amérique (My American Uncle) 1980
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Dekalog (The Decalogue) 1988
Trois Couleurs: Rouge (Three Colors: Red) 1994
Trois Couleurs: Bleu (Three Colors: Blue) 1993
1. Godard— Pierrot le Fou, Vivre sa Vie, Contempt
2. Bunuel— Belle de Jour, Viridiana, Tristana
3. Bergman— Persona, Smiles of a Summer Night, Shame
4. Wilder— Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, Double Indemnity
5. Visconti— The Leopard, Rocco and His Brothers, The Stranger
Fellini
81/2
Amarcord
La Dolce Vita
Godard
Pierrot Le Fou
Contempt
Breathless
Coppola
Godfather II
Apocalypse Now
Godfather I
Kurosawa
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
Sanjuro
Tarantino
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill
Jackie Brown
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
-Mamma Roma
-Salo, or 120 Days of Sodom
-Teorema
PEDRO ALMODOVAR
-All About My Mother
-Dark Habits
-Law of Desire
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
-L’avventura
-Blow Up
-Zabriskie Point
JOHN CASSAVETES
-Opening Night
-A Woman Under the Influence
-Faces
RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER
-The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
-Fear of Fear
-Ali:Fear Eats the Soul
louis malle
—LACOMBE, LUCIEN
—LE FEU FOLLET
—ATLANTIC CITY
jean-pierre melville
—LE SAMOURAI
—ARMY OF SHADOWS
—LE DOULOS
clint eastwood
—UNFORGIVEN
—THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES
—LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA
francois truffaut
—THE GREEN ROOM
—SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER
—THE 400 BLOWS
eric rohmer
—MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S
—PAULINE AT THE BEACH
—CLAIRE’S KNEE
Nicholas Ray
1) In a Lonely Place
2) On Dangerous Ground
3) The Lusty Men
Elia Kazan
1) Viva Zapata
2) East of Eden
3) Baby Doll
Howard Hawks
1) To Have and Have Not
2) The Big Sleep
3) Rio Bravo
John Huston
1)Wise Blood
2) Treasure of Sierra Madre
3) Fat City
Alfred Hitchcock
1) Notorious
2) Shadow of a Doubt
3) Vertigo
Kurosawa
1 Thrown of Blood
2 The Seven Samuri
3 Dreams
Hitchcock
1 North by Northwest
2 Rear Window
3 The Birds
Scorsese
1 Raging Bull
2 Goodfellas
3 The Aviator
Kubrick
1 2001
2 Barry Lyndon
3 A Clockwork Orange
David Lynch
1 BLue Velvet
2 Lost Highway
3 Eraserhead
Billy Wilder:
1. Sunset Boulevard
2. Ace in the Hole
3. Double Indemnity
Pedro Almodóvar:
1. Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios
2. Volver
3. La mala educación
Ingmar Bergman:
1. Sommarnattens leende (Smiles of a Summer Night)
2. Det sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal)
3. Jungfrukällan (The Virgin Spring)
Ernst Lubitsch:
1. The Smiling Lieutenant
2. Heaven can Wait
3. To Be or Not to be
Robert Altman:
1. Gosford Park
2. Nashville
3. A Prairie Home Companion
Whatever, I’ve got 7.
John Ford:
1. The Searchers/Young Mr. Lincoln
3. The Man who Shot Liberty Valance
Jean-Luc Godard:
1. Notre Musique
2. Week-End
3. Hail Mary/ In Praise of Love
Jean Renoir:
1. The Southerner
2. The River
3. The Rules of the Game
Martin Scorsese:
1. The Age of Innocence
2. Raging Bull
3. Kundun
Bernardo Bertolucci:
1. The Conformist
2. The Last Emperor
3. Before the Revolution/1900
F.W. Murnau:
1. Tabu: A Story of Two Seas
2. Sunrise
3. Faust
Orson Welles:
1. Chimes at Midnight
2. Touch of Evil
3. The Trial
Actually, subsitute Welles’s The Trial for Mr. Arkadin.
Philippe Garrel
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Ming-liang Tsai
John Cassavetes
Josef von Sternberg
MIZOGUCHI
Sansho the Bailiff
Tales of the Taira Clan
Story of the Late Chrysanthemums/The Life of Oharu
TARKOVSKY
Mirror
Andrei Rublev
Stalker
RENOIR
Rules of the Game
A Day in the Country
Grand Illusion/The River
OZU
Late Spring
Tokyo Story
The End of Summer
HITCHCOCK
North by Northwest
Vertigo
Marnie
Bresson:
A Man Escaped
Au Hasard Balthazar
L’Argent
Dreyer:
Gertrud
Ordet
Passion of Joan of Arc
Rossellini:
Stromboli
Voyage in Italy
India
Antonioni:
L’Eclisse
The Passenger
Le Amiche
Kiarostami:
Close-Up
The Wind Will Carry Us
Five
Francois Truffaut:
The 400 Blows
Day For Night
Two English Girls
Steven Spielberg:
Schindler’s List
Raiders of the Lost Ark
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
Alfred Hitchcock:
Psycho
Rear Window
Rope
Billy Wilder:
Sunset Blvd.
The Apartment
Some Like It Hot
Martin Scorsese:
Raging Bull
The Departed
Taxi Driver
SubSickAlien
STANLEY KUBRICK
1) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2) A Clockwork Orange
3) Dr. Strangelove
TERRY GILLIAM
1) Brazil
2) 12 Monkeys
3) Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
1) Vertigo
2) Psycho
3) North By Northwest
LUIS BUñUEL
1) The Milky Way
2) Exterminating Angel
3) Los Olvidados
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
1) Apocalyse Now
2) The Godfather
3) Dementia 13