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3 Favourite Movies From 5 Favourite Directors

Ange Friesen

about 3 years ago

Woody Allen
1) Annie Hall
2) Manhattan
3) Radio Days

Douglas Sirk
1) Imitation of Life
2) Written on the Wind
3) All that Heaven Allows

Quentin Tarantino
1) Jackie Brown
2) Kill Bill
3) Pulp Fiction

Michel Gondry
1) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2) The Science of Sleep
3) Dave Chapelle’s Block Party

Richard Linklater
1) Dazed and Confused
2) Before Sunrise
3) Before Sunset

Jose Sarmien​to Hinojos​a

about 3 years ago

Sharunas Bartas
1) Trys Dienos
2) A Casa
3) Koridorus

Claire Denis
1) L’Intrus
2) Trouble Every Day
3) J’ai pas Sommeil

Jean Luc Godard
1) Vivre sa Vie
2) Band a Part
3) Passion

Bruno Dumont
1) Twentynine Palms
2) La Humanite
3) Flandres

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1) Chnese Roulette
2) A Year With 13 Moons
3) Berlin Alexanderplatz

Buffalo

about 3 years ago

ROBERT BRESSON

1) The Devil Probably

2) Diary of a Country Priest

3) Au hasard Balthazar

JIM JARMUSCH

1) Down By Law

2) Mystery Train

3) Strangers Than Paradise

BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

1) Last Tango In Paris

2) La Commare Secca

3) Il Conformista

JEAN LUC-GODARD

1) Pierrot Le Fou

2) Band of Outsiders

3) Weekend

MARTIN SCORCESE

1) Mean Streets

2) Casino

3) Taxi Driver

Anubhav Bist

about 3 years ago

Akira Kurosawa:
The Seven Samurai
Rashomon (1950)
Ikiru (1952) (1954)
(4th spot: Ran (1985), Drunken Angel (1948),
Stray Dog (1949), Throne of Blood (1957),
Yojimbo (1961), Sanjuro (1962))

Stanley Kubrick:
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
(4th spot: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, (1964)
The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987),
Paths of Glory (1957))

Alfred Hitchcock:
Vertigo (1958)
Rope (1948)
Psycho (1960)
(4th spot: Rear Window (1954), Notorious (1946))

Luis Buñuel:
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Un chien andalou (1928)
(4th spot: Belle de jour (1967))

John Cassavetes:
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Faces (1968)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

Others just for the hell of it:

Werner Herzog:
Stroszek (1977)
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
(4th spot: Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Grizzly Man (2004))

Michelangelo Antonioni:
L’Avventura (1960)
La Notte (1961)
The Passenger (1975)
(4th spot: Blow-Up (1966))

Ingmar Bergman:
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Wild Strawberries (1957)

David Cronenberg:
Dead Ringers (1988)
Videodrome (1983)
Naked Lunch (1991)
(4th spot: The Fly (1986), The Dead Zone (1983),
eXistenZ (1999), Spider (2002) A History of Violence (2005),
Eastern Promises (2007), Crash (1996))

Federico Fellini:
8½ (1963)
La Strada (1954)
La Dolce vita (1960)

David Lynch:
Blue Velvet (1986)
Eraserhead (1978)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
(4th spot: Wild at Heart (1990))

Satyajit Ray:
Pather Panchali (1955)
The World of Apu (1959)
Aparajito (1956)

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Fargo (1995)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Barton Fink (1991)
(4th spot: The Big Lebowski (1998))

Terrence Malick:
Days of Heaven (1978)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Badlands (1973)

Sergio Leone:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

Evan

about 3 years ago

Derek Jarman
-Caravaggio
-Edward II
-The Tempest

Stanley Kubrick
-A Clockwork Orange
-Dr.Strangelove
-2001: A Space Odyssey

Martin Scorcese
-Age of Innocence
-Casino
-Raging Bull

Joel & Ethan Coen
-Barton Fink
-Fargo
-Miller’s Crossing

David Lynch
-Eraserhead
-Mulholland Drive
-The Straight Story

patrick

about 3 years ago

Stanley Kubrick
1. The Shinning
2. 2001
3. A Clockwork Orange
David Cronenberg
1. Dead Ringers
2. Naked Lunch
3. Videodrome
Dario Argento
1. Susperia
2. Inferno
3. Tenebre
Quentin Tarantino
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Kill Bill Vol. 1
3. Reservoir Dogs
Igmar Bergman
1. The Seventh Seal
2. Fanny and Alexander
3. Wild Strawberries

WELLES
1. The Magnificent Ambersons
2. Citizen Kane
3. Othello

KUBRICK
1. 2001
2. Barry Lyndon
3. Paths of Glory

ALTMAN
1. McCabe & Mrs Miller
2. Nashville
3. Thieves Like Us

SPIELBERG
1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
2. Jaws
3. A.I.

SCORSESE
1. The King of Comedy
2. Taxi Driver
3. Mean Streets

Doinel

about 3 years ago

BUSTER KEATON

1) The General
2) Sherlock Jr.
3) Steamboat Bill Jr.

FRITZ LANG

1) M
2) Die Nibelungen
3) Scarlet Street

JOHN FORD

1) Stagecoach
2) The Seekers
3) The Grapes of Wrath

OZU YASUJIRO

1) Late Spring
2) Tokyo Story
3) Floating Weeds

JEAN-LUC GODARD

1) Band of Outsiders
2) 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
3) Pierrot le Fou

Scout

about 3 years ago

Krzysztof Kieslowski
1. The Double Life Of Veronique
2. Decalogue
3. Camera Buff

Jacques Tati
1. Mon Oncle
2. M. Hulot’s Holiday
3. Trafic

Jean Pierre Melville
1. Le Circle Rouge
2. Army of Shadows
3. Le Duxieme Souffle

Luis Buñuel
1. Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
2. Milky Way
3. Exterminating Angel

Danny Boyle
1. 28 Days Later
2. Trainspotting
3. Shallow Grave

Rossone​ri Ultra

about 3 years ago

Stanley Kubrick
1. Full Metal Jacket
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. The Killing

Alfred Hitchcock
1. Psycho
2. Rear Window
3. Vertigo

Martin Scorsese
1. Goodfellas
2. Taxi Driver
3. Casino

John Ford
1. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
2. My Darling Clementine
3. The Grapes of Wrath

Sergio Leone
1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2. Once Upon A Time In The West
3. Once Upon A Time In America

NEONBEA​R

about 3 years ago

Quentin Tarantino:
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Kill Bill

Stanley Kubrick:
1. Dr. Strangelove
2. 2001 A Space Odyssey
3. Eyes Wide Shut

Wes Anderson:
1. The Life Aquatic
2. The Royal Tenenbaums
3. The Darjeeling Limited

Terry Gilliam:
1. Time Bandits
2. Brazil
3. The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen

Joel & Ethan Coen:
1. No Country For Old Men
2. Raising Arizona
3. Barton Fink

Cahiers

about 3 years ago

Robert Altman
1. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
2. M*A*S*H
3. Brewster McCloud

Woody Allen
1. Manhattan
2. Crimes and Misdemeanors
3. Radio Days/Annie Hall

Yasujuro Ozu
1. Late Spring
2. Tokyo Story
3. Early Summer

Ingmar Bergman
1. Cries and Whispers
2. Fanny and Alexander (Television Cut)
3. Persona

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
2. The Red Shoes
3. A Matter of Life and Death

edit

Because these are all Old (Mostly) White Men, I’ll add some newer people.

Sofia Coppola
1. Lost in Translation
2. Marie Antoinette
3. The Virgin Suicides

David Gordon Green
1. All the Real Girls
2. George Washington
3. Undertow/Snow Angels/Pineapple Express

Spike Lee
1. Do The Right Thing
2. The 25th Hour
a distant 3. Malcolm X

Jim Jarmusch
1. Stranger Than Paradise
2. Broken Flowers
3. Down By Law

Wes Anderson
1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. Rushmore/ The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
3. The Darjeeling Limited/Bottle Rocket

Paul Thomas Anderson
1. Magnolia
2. Punch-Drunk Love
3. There Will Be Blood

bellwhe​ther

about 3 years ago

David Lynch
1. Lost Highway
2. Eraserhead
3. Inland Empire

Ingmar Bergman
1. Winter Light
2. Fanny and Alexander
3. Persona

Billy Wilder
1. Ace in the Hole
2. Sunset Blvd.
3. The Apartment

Coen Brothers
1. Millers Crossing
2. Barton Fink
3. Hudsucker Proxy

A. Tarkovsky
1. Solaris
2. Stalker
3. The Mirror

David Ehrenst​ein

about 3 years ago

PATRICE CHEREAU
1) Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train
2) L’Homme Blesse
3) Queen Margot

JACQUES RIVETTE
1) Out 1
2) Celine et Julie vont en bateau/Phantom Ladies Over Paris
3) Don’t Touch the Axe

FEDERICO FELLINI
1) 8 1/2
2) La Dolce Vita
3) Nights of Cabriria

CHARLES LAUGHTON
The Night of the Hunter

PETER WATKINS
1) La Commune (de Paris 1871)
2) Privilege
3) Punishment Park

Andre Rehal

about 3 years ago

Michael Mann
1. Heat
2. Collateral
3. Thief

Steven Soderbergh
1. Out of Sight
2. The Limey
3. Traffic

Jean-Pierre Melville
1. Le Samourai
2. Le Cercle Rouge
3. Un Flic

John Woo
1. Hard Boiled
2. The Killer
3. Better Luck Tomorrow

Akira Kurosawa
1.Yojimbo
2. Seven Samurai
3. Rashomon

Petroni​us

about 3 years ago

Ridley Scott
1. Alien
2. Legend
3. Blade Runner
Woody Allen
1. A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy
2. Manhattan Murder Mystery
3. Love and Death
Luc Besson
1. The Big Blue
2. Nikita
3. Léon
Howard Hawks
1. The Big Sleep
2. His Girl Friday
3. To Have and Have Not
Akira Kurosawa
1. Yojimbo
2. Hakuchi
3. Seven Samurai

tros

about 3 years ago

1. Fritz Lang
a) M
b) Testament of Dr. Mabuse
c) Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

2. Mario Bava
a) Black Sabbath
b) Black Sunday
c) I Vampiri

3. David Lynch
a) Lost Highway
b) Mullholland Dr.
c) Inland Empire

4. Coen Brothers
a) Big Lebowski
b) Fargo
c) No Country For Old Men

5. Stanley Kubrick
a) Paths of Glory
b) Dr. Strangelove
c) The Shining

Trent

about 3 years ago

HOWARD HAWKS
1. Monkey Business
2. Only Angels Have Wings
3. Rio Bravo

ROBERTO ROSSELLINI
1. Voyage in Italy
2. Europa ’51
3. Paisan

BRIAN DE PALMA
1. Carlito’s Way
2. The Black Dahlia
3. Casualties of War

JEAN-LUC GODARD
1. Contempt
2. My Life to Live
3. Notre Musique

CLINT EASTWOOD
1. The Bridges of Madison County
2. Gran Torino
3. Honkytonk Man

Patapon

-moderator-
about 3 years ago

STEPHEN SPIELBERG

1) Schindler’s List
2) Raiders of the Lost Ark
3) Saving Private Ryan

TONY SCOTT

1) True Romance
2) Crimson Tide
3) Man on Fire

DAVID FINCHER

1) Fight Club
2) Seven
3) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

DANNY BOYLE

1) 28 Days Later
2) Sunshine
2) Slumdog Millionaire

QUENTIN TARANTINO

1) Reservoir Dogs
2) Pulp Fiction
3) Kill Bill Vol. 1/2

Jack Lehtone​n

about 3 years ago

-Stanley Kubrick
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Dr. Strangelove

-Akira Kurosawa
1. Seven Samurai
2. Rashomon
3. Ran

-Jean-Luc Godard
1. Pierrot le Fou
2. Breathless
3. Contempt

-Terrence Malick
1. The Thin Red Line
2. Days of Heaven
3. Badlands

-Martin Scorsese
1. GoodFellas
2. Taxi Driver
3. Raging Bull

Zachary Phillip Brailsf​ord

about 3 years ago

INGMAR BERGMAN

1. Winter Light
2. The Silence
3. Cries and Whispers

FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT

1. The 400 Blows
2. Day for Night
3. Stolen Kisses

WES ANDERSON

1. The Royal Tenebaums
2. The Darjeeling Limited
3. Bottle Rocket

RICHARD LINKLATER

1. Waking Life
2. Tape
3. Dazed and Confused

FEDERICO FELLINI

1. 8 1/2
2. La Dolce Vita
3. Juliet of the Spirits

Savvy

Chris Knudsen

about 3 years ago

Woody Allen
1. Crimes and Misdemeanors
2. Annie Hall
3. Sweet and Lowdown

John Waters
1. Pink Flamingos
2. Desperate Living
3. Female Trouble

Guy Maddin
1. My Winnipeg
2. Saddest Music in the World
3. Brand Upon the Brain

Krzysztof Kieślowski
1. The Double Life of Veronque
2. Three Colors: Blue
3. The Decalogue

Jim Jarmusch
1. Down by Law
2. Dead Man
3. Night on Earth

Christopher Langford

about 3 years ago

Charlie Chaplin
1. The Gold Rush
2. The Immigrant
3. Easy Street

Francois Truffaut
1. The 400 Blows
2. Jules & Jim
3. Stolen Kisses

Louis Malle
1. The Fire Within
2. The Lovers
3. Elevator to the Gallows

Akira Kurosawa
1. Yojimbo
2. Seven Samurai
3. High & Low

Jean-Luc Godard
1. Pierrot Le Fou
2. Breathless
3. Band of Outsiders

User de Faux-Fuyants

about 3 years ago

ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
1) The Wind Will Carry Us
2) Close-Up
3) Taste of Cherry

TERRENCE MALICK
1) Badlands
2) The Thin Red Line
3) Days of Heaven

WERNER HERZOG
1) Woyzeck
2) Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
3) Fitzcarraldo

MARTIN SCORESE
1) Taxi Driver
2) Raging Bull
3) The King of Comedy

JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE
1) Le Samourai
2) Le Doulos
3) Bob le Flambeur

Brian Conlon

about 3 years ago

1) STANLEY KUBRICK
1a) 2001: A Space Odyssey
1b) A Clockwork Orange
1c) Dr. Strangelove OR: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

2) AKIRA KUROSAWA
2a) The Seven Samurai
2b) Yojimbo
2c) Throne of Blood

3) DAVID LYNCH
3a) Blue Velvet
3b) Inland Empire
3c) Eraserhead

4) JOHN CARPENTER
4a) Halloween
4b) The Thing
4c) Assault on Precinct 13

5) JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE
5a) Army of Shadows
5b) Le Samourai
5c) Bob Le Flambeur

sakurag​en

about 3 years ago

Hiroshi Teshigahara
1. Pitfall
2. Woman of the Dunes
3. Antonio Gaudí

Yasujiro Ozu
1. Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
2. Tokyo Story
3. Floating Weeds (’59)

Takeshi Kitano
1. Sonatine
2. Zatoichi
3. Dolls

Andrei Tarkovsky
1. Stalker
2. Solaris
3. Andrei Rublev

Werner Herzog
1. Aguirre Wrath of God
2. Fata Morgana
3. Fitzcarraldo

howard curtis

about 3 years ago

BILLY WILDER
Double Indemnity
Some Like It Hot
The Apartment

ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Notorious
Vertigo
North by Northwest

MARTIN SCORSESE
New York New York
Goodfellas
The Age of Innocence

JEAN RENOIR
Une Partie de Campagne
La Grande Illusion
La Regle du Jeu

INGMAR BERGMAN
Winter Light
Persona
Fanny and Alexander

But then what about Welles (for Touch of Evil), Melville (for Army of Shadows), or Ford, or Ozu, or Mizoghuchi, etc. etc….?

SpiderG​od

about 3 years ago

A) ALFRED HITCHCOCK

1) Vertigo
2) Notorious
3) Shadow of a Doubt

B) INGMAR BERGMAN

1) The Seventh Seal
2) Wild Strawberries
3) Cries and Whispers

C) ROBERT WISE

1) The Day the Earth Stood Still
2) The Sand Pebbles
3) Star Trek: The Motion Picture

D) HOWARD HAWKS
1) His Girl Friday
2) The Big Sleep
3) Bringing Up Baby
4) Rio Bravo
5) Come and Get It (co-directed with William Wyler)

E) AKIRA KUROSAWA
1) Dreams
2) Ran
3) The Seven Samurai
4) Madadayo
5) Ikiru

Brandon Ingle

about 3 years ago

Double post. Sorry computer is acting up.

Brandon Ingle

about 3 years ago

Kurosawa
1. Seven Samurai
2. Ikiru
3. Rashomon

Wilder
1. Sunset Boulevard
2. The Apartment
3. Ace in the Hole

Hitchcock
1. Psycho
2. Rear Window
3. The Birds

Ozu
1. Tokyo Story
2. The Story of Floating Weeds
3. Early Summer

Allen
1. Annie Hall
2. Manhatten
3. Crimes and Misdemeanors