Maybe not my most favourite directors, but really good ones.
Ozu:
Late Spring
Tokyo Story
Early Spring
Coppola:
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Apocalypse Now
Leone:
For a Few Dollars More
Once Upon a Time in America
Once Upon a Time in the West
Kar-Wai:
2046
In the Mood for Love
Happy Together
Scorsese:
Taxi Driver
The King of Comedy
Mean Streets
PRESTON STURGES
The Palm Beach Story
The Miracle at Morgan’s Creek
Unfaithfully Yours
ROBERT ALTMAN
Thieves Like Us
California Split
Nashville
BRIAN DEPALMA
The Fury
Blow Out
Casualties of War
SAM PECKINPAH
Ride the High Country
The Wild Bunch
Cross of Iron
PAUL GREENGRASS
Bloody Sunday
The Bourne Supremacy
United 93
JOSEF VON STERNBERG
The Scarlet Empress
Blonde Venus
Morocco
FRITZ LANG
The Big Heat
The Testamnt of Dr. Mabuse
M
ORSON WELLES
Touch of Evil
The Lady From Shanghai
Mr. Arkadin
GODARD
Pierrot le Fou
Contempt
Alphaville
ROBERT ALTMAN
The Long Goodbye
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
3 Women
KUBRICK
-The Shining
-Eyes Wide Shut
-2001
CRONENBERG
-The Fly
-Shivers
-Videodrome
SHYAMALAN
-Signs
-The Happening
-Sixth Sense
FRANÇOIS OZON
-Gouttes d’eau sur pierres brûlantes
-Swimming Pool
-8 femmes
STEVEN SODERBERGH
-Bubble
-Ocean’s Eleven
-Erin Brockovich
1. Jim Jarmusch
-Down By Law
– Mystery Train
– Dead Man
2. The Coens
-Fargo
-Barton Fink
-The Man Who Wasn’t There
3. Hal Hartley
-Henry Fool
– Simple Men
-The Unbelievable Truth
4. P. T. Anderson
-There Will Be Blood
-Punch Drunk Love
-Magnolia
5. Wes Anderson
-Bottle Rocket
-Rushmore
-Tennenbaums
The legend of 1900
Cinema paradiso
The unknown woman
Teorema
Porcile
Salo
A clockwork orange
2001
Full metal jacket
Casanova
I vitelloni
La dolce vita
Bennys video
Funny games
Time of the wolf
SEIJUN SUZUKI – Branded to Kill, Tokyo Drifter, Elegy of Violence
AKIRA KUROSAWA – Seven Samurai, Ran, Sanjuro
SHOHEI IMAMURA – Vengeance is Mine, The Pornographer, Eijanaika
TAKASHI MIIKE – Ichi the Killer, Dead or Alive, Audition
NAGISA OSHIMA – In the Realm of Senses, Empire of Passion, The Ceremony
Hayao Miyazaki
1. Kiki’s Delivery Service
2. Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro
3. Princess Mononoke
Jacques Tati
1. M. Hulot’s Holiday
2. Trafic
3. Jour de fete
Werner Herzog
1. Fitzcarraldo
2. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
3. Aguirre
Fritz Lang
1. Die Nibelungenlied
2. Destiny
3. M
F. W. Murnau
1.Nosferatu
2. Faust
3. Sunrise
Okay, I often get accused of being a hipster, and you’ll soon see why.
MICHEL GONDRY
1) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2) The Science of Sleep
3) Be Kind Rewind
WES ANDERSON
1) The Darjeeling Limited
2) The Royal Tennenbaums
3) Rushmore
GUS VAN SANT
1) Good Will Hunting
2) Milk
3) Paris, je t’aime
STANLEY KUBRICK
1) Dr. Strangelove
2) Full Metal Jacket
3) A Clockwork Orange
DAVID WAIN
1) Role Models
2) Wet Hot American Summer
3) The Ten
I suppose that’s the list I came up with. Remember, there’s a difference between your favorite movie ever and the best movie ever.
I’m sorry Audiosuede, but have you even seen any of Gus Van Sant’s films besides those three? Good Will Hunting is fine but overrated, Milk was at times fantastic, but patchy and uneven, and a ten minute vignette hardly qualifies as a “film.” Don’t get me wrong, I love Van Sant, but this is the man who made Mala Noche, Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho, Gerry, Elephant, Last Days, and Paranoid Park, which are all superior films.
CATHERINE BRELLIAT
1) A Real Young Girl
2) Fat Girl
3) Romance
TODD SOLONDZ
1) Happiness
2) Storytelling
3) Palindromes
STANLEY KUBRICK
1) The Shining
2) A Clockwork Orange
3) Eyes Wide Shut
ROY ANDERSSON
1) Songs from the Second Floor
2) You, the Living
3) (Haven’t seen Swedish Love Story yet, but I know it would be here)
LARS VON TRIER
1) Breaking the Waves
2) Dancer in the Dark
3) Manderlay
Woody Allen
1. Crimes and Misdemeanors
2. Hannah and Her Sisters
3. Manhattan
Alfred Hitchcock
1. Notorious
2. North by Northwest
3. Marnie
Stanley Kubrick
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Barry Lyndon
3. The Shining
Martin Scorsese
1. Taxi Driver
2. Raging Bull
3. The Aviator / Casino
Billy Wilder
1. Sunset Blvd.
2. Ace in the Hole
3. The Apartment
In Alphabetical Order
Coen Brothers
1] Fargo
2] No Country For Old Men
3] O Brother, Where Art Thou
Kubrick
1] A Clockwork Orange
2] Eyes Wide Shut
3] Full Metal Jacket
Kurosawa
1] Rashomon
2] Seven Samurai
3] Throne of Blood
Ray
1] Apu’s Trilogy
2] Ghare Baire
3] Nayak
WKW
1] Chungking Express
2] Happy Together
3] 2046
Satyajit Ray
Since I couldn’t begin to decide on five favorite directors in any larger sense, these are five that I have a thing for right now, well, four plus Lubitsch who is always one of my favorites.
ERNST LUBITSCH
The Shop Around the Corner
The Doll
The Wildcat
JOHNNIE TO
The Mad Detective
Wu Yen
Needing You
HIROSHI SHIMUZU
Ornamental Hairpin
Japanese Girls at the Harbor
The Masseurs and the Woman
APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL
Syndromes and a Century
Tropical Malady
Blissfully Yours
LEWIS MILESTONE
Hallelujah I’m a Bum
The Garden of Eden
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
5 of my favourite directors, but there’s more…
Peter Greenaway
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
Drowning by Numbers
A Zed and Two Noughts
Ingmar Bergman
Winter Light
Hour of the Wolf
Shame
Orson Welles
The Trial
Touch of Evil
F for Fake
Werner Herzog
Land of Silence and Darkness
Nosferatu
Woyzeck
John Cassavetes
Faces
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Husbands
@DECKARD Great selection of The Trial. Haunting film. A true experience.
Kubrick
A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Strangelove
Full Metal Jacket
Scorsese
Taxi Driver
Goodfellas
Gangs of New York
Aronofsky
The Wrestler
Requirem for a Dream
Pi
I’ll exclude my 5 favorite directors : Kurosawa, Ozu, Mizoguchi, Bergman and Bunuel.
Rohmer
My Night At Maud’s
Claire’s Knee
Chloe In The Afternoon
Zhang Yimou
Red Sorghum
Judou
Raise The Red Lantern
Tati
Mon Oncle
Playtime
Trafic
Lean
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
Lawrence Of Arabia
Chaplin
The Gold Rush
The Circus
City Lights
In No Particular Order.
Fassbinder.
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
Berlin Alexanderplatz
In a Year of 13 Moons
Rocha.
A Idade da Terra
Black God White Devil
The Lion Has Seven Heads
Godard.
Nouvelle Vague
Histoire(s) du cinema
Made in U.S.A.
Dreyer.
Gertrud
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Ordet
Antonioni.
The Mystery of Oberwald
Zabriskie Point
Red Desert
¤ J.L Mankiewicz
- Five Fingers
- The Ghost and Mrs Muir
- All About Eve
¤ Ernst Lubitsch
- To Be Or Not To Be
- Trouble In Paradise
- Cluny Brown
¤ Bertrand Tavernier
- Que La Fête Commence !
- Coup de Torchon
- La Vie et Rien D’Autre
¤ Joseph Losey
- The Go-Between
- The Criminal
- Accident
¤ Marco Ferreri
- La Grande Bouffe
- Touche Pas à la Femme Blanche
- L’Udienza
erm erm…
YASUJIRO OZU
1. Banshun/Late Spring
2. Hen in the wind
3. The Record of a Tenement Gentleman
SHIMIZU HIROSHI
1. Children in the Wind
2. The Masseurs and a Woman
3. Mr. Thank You
MING LIANG TSAI
1. What Time Is It There?
2. Vive L’Amour
3. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
BILL DOUGLAS
1. My Childhood
2. Comrades
3. My Way Home
HUMPHREY JENNINGS
1. Fires Were Started
2. Listen To Britain
3. Family Portrait
that hurt me so much :’(
ANDREI TARKOVSKY
Stalker
Mirror
Andrei Rublev
____________________
DAVID LYNCH
Mulholland Drive
The Elephant Man
Eraserhead
____________________
BÉLA TARR
Werckmeister Harmonies
Sátántangó
Damnation
____________________
KIM KI-DUK
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… And Spring
3-Iron
Samaritan Girl
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F. W. MURNAU
Faust
Nosferatu
Sunrise
Echoing the complaints of others… those are five of many. :P
Terrence Malick:
Days of Heaven
Badlands
The Thin Red Line
Ingmar Bergman:
The Seventh Seal
Winter Light
Persona
Paul Thomas Anderson:
Magnolia
There Will Be Blood
Boogie Nights
Francois Truffaut:
The 400 Blows
Shoot the Piano Player
Jules et Jim
David Cronenberg:
Videodrome
Naked Lunch
The Fly
John Huston:
1. The Night of the Iguana
2. The Asphalt Jungle
3. Wise Blood
Tony Richardson:
1. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
2. A Taste of Honey
3. Tom Jones
Jean-Luc Godard:
1. Pierrot le Fou
2. My Life to Live
3. Band of Outsiders
Guy Maddin:
1. My Winnepeg
2. Brand Upon the Brain!
3. Archangel
Federico Fellini:
1. 8 1/2
2. Nights of Cabiria
2. La Dolce Vita
Hayao Miyazaki
1. My Neighbor Totoro
2. Spirited Away
3. Princess Mononoke
Ingmar Bergman
1. Persona
2. Cries and Whispers
3. The Seventh Seal
Akira Kurosawa
1. Ikiru
2. Seven Samurai
3. Rashomon
Mike Leigh
1. Naked
2. Happy-Go-Lucky
3. Topsy Turvy
Billy Wilder
1. The Apartment
2. Some Like it Hot
3. Sunset Boulevard
Alfred Hitchcock
1. Rear Window
2. Notorious
3. Psycho
Ozu: EARLY SUMMER, An AUTIMN AFTERNOON, TOKYO STORY
SatYAJIT RAY: KATCHENJUNGHA, AGANTUK, DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST
Ford: THE SEARCHERS, MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, THE SUN SHINES BRIGHT
Dang Nhat Minh: WHEN THE TENTH MONTH COMES, NOSTALGIA FOR THE COUNTRYSIDE, THE GUAVA HOUSE
Hiroshi Shimizu: ARIGATO_SAN, THE ORNAMENTAL HAIRPIN, THE SHINOMI SCHOOL
Akira Kurosawa:
Ikiru
Yojimbo
Ran
Martin Scorsese:
Mean Streets
Raging Bull
GoodFellas
Yasujiro Ozu:
Tokyo Story
Floating Weeds
An Autumn Afternoon
Steven Spielberg:
Raiders of the Lost Ark
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Schindler’s List
Alfred Hitchcock:
Shadow of a Doubt
Rear Window
North by Northwest
Robert Altman:
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
The Long Goodbye
Nashville
Ingmar Bergman:
Smiles of a Summer Night
The Seventh Seal
Fanny and Alexander
Buster Keaton:
Sherlock, Jr.
Our Hospitality
The General
Charles Chaplin:
The Kid
The Gold Rush
Modern Times
Federico Fellini:
La Dolce Vita
8 1/2
Amarcord
Sam Peckinpah:
Ride the High Country
The Wild Bunch
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Francis Ford Coppola:
The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
Apocalypse Now
The Outsiders
John Ford:
Stagecoach
My Darling Clementine
The Searchers
Francois Truffaut:
The 400 Blows
Shoot the Piano Player
Jules et Jim
Jean-Luc Godard:
Breathless
Contempt
Weekend
Sergio Leone:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
Once Upon a Time in America
Jacques Tati:
Mr. Hulot’s Holiday
Playtime
Trafic
Jean Renoir:
Grand Illusion
Rules of the Game
The River
Ishiro Honda:
Godzilla
Rodan
War of the Gargantuas
Stanley Kubrick:
Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2001: A Space Odyssey
Barry Lyndon
David Lean:
Bridge on the River Kwai
Lawrence of Arabia
Doctor Zhivago
Robert Bresson:
Diary of a Country Priest
A Man Escaped
Pickpocket
Abbas Kiarostami :
Close-up
Where is the Friends home?
The Wind Will Carry Us
Luis Bunuel :
Nazarin
Los Olvidados
Belle deJour
Andrei Tarkovsky :
Zerkalo
Stalker
Andrei Rublev
Rober Bresson :
L’Argent
Au Hasard Balthazar
Pickpocket
Carl Th. Dreyer :
Ordet
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Gertrud
KUBRICK:
1) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2) The Shining
3) Dr. Strangelove
ALTMAN:
1) Nashville
2) McCabe and Mrs. Miller
3) The Player
SCORSESSE:
1) Taxi Driver
2) Raging Bull
3) Goodfellas
KUROSAWA:
1) Ran
2) Throne of Blood
3) Seven Samurai
HITCHCOCK:
1) Psycho
2) Vertigo
3) Notorious
Conor
Tarantino:
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Kill Bill Vol. 2
Fincher:
1. Fight Club
2. Se7en
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Hitchcock
1. Vertigo
2. The 39 Steps
3. Rear Window
Rodriguez
1. Planet Terror
2. Sin City
3. El Mariachi
Anderson (Wes)
1. Rushmore
2. The Darjeeling Limited
3. The Royal Tenebaums