Alfred Hitchcock:
1) North by Northwest
2) Psycho
3) Vertigo
Stanley Kubrick:
1) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2) A Clockwork Orange
3) Full Metal Jacket
Danny Boyle:
1) Slumdog Millionaire
2) Trainspotting
3) 127 Hours
Quentin Tarantino:
1) Pulp Fiction
2) Kill Bill Vol. 2
3) Reservoir Dogs
Joel and Ethan Coen:
1) The Big Lebowski
2) Fargo
3) Miller’s Crossing
Ok what the hell… before it changes:
Bela Tarr
The Turin Horse
Satantango
Werckmeister Harmonies
Andrei Tarkovsky
Mirror
Andrei Rublev
Stalker
Yasujiro Ozu
Tokyo Story
Tokyo Twilight
Early Summer
Jean Rollin
Requiem for a Vampire
Lips of Blood
The Living Dead Girl
Kenji Mizoguchi
Ugetsu
Sansho the Bailiff
Life of Oharu
Ok more:
Claire Denis
the intruder
Beau travail
35 shots of rum
Kaurismaki
Man without a past
Match factory girl
Ariel
Franco
A Virgin Among the Living Dead
Succubus
Venus in Furs
I’m already second guessing so I’ll call it a day.
My post from over 2 years ago :
“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"
…………………………………….
Now :
Kurosawa
Seven Samurai
Ran
High and Low
Bergman
Persona
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Bunuel
L’Age d’or
Viridiana
The Exterminating Angel
Antononi
Il Grido
L’ eclisse
Red Desert
Fellini
La Strada
Nights of Cabiria
Roma
Nice! Those are my three favorites by Antonioni in the same order. Good to see Il Grido at the top. That one gets ignored too much.
Stanley Kubrick
A Clockwork Orange
Lolita
The Shining
Alfred Hitchcock
Shadow Of A Doubt
Rebecca
Pyscho
Woody Allen
Annie Hall
Hannah And Her Sisters
The Purple Rose Of Cairo
Francois Traffaut
The 400 Blows
The Last Metro
The Story Of Adele H
Jules And Jim
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressberger
The Red Shoes
A Matter Of Life And Death
I Know Where I’m Going
Ingmar Bergman
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Smiles Of A Summer Night
Stanley Kubrick
- A Clockwork Orange
- 2001: a space odyssey
- Full metal jacket
Satyajit Ray
- Aparajito
- Apur Sansar
- The adversary
Sergio Leone
- Once upon a time in America
- Once upon a time in the west
- The second part of the dolar trilogy
Roman Polanski
- The tenant
- Death and the maiden
- Bitter moon
Zhang Yimou
- Not one less
- The road home
- To live
Lynch: Mulholland Drive, Elephant man, Lost highway.
Haneke: The piano teacher, Cache, Funny Games
Stanley Kubrick
- A Clockwork Orange
- 2001: a space odyssey
- Full metal jacket
Satyajit Ray
- Aparajito
- Apur Sansar
- The adversary
Sergio Leone
- Once upon a time in America
- Once upon a time in the west
- The second part of the dolar trilogy
Roman Polanski
- The tenant
- Death and the maiden
- Bitter moon
Zhang Yimou
- Not one less
- The road home
- To live
Lynch: Mulholland Drive, Elephant man, Lost highway.
Haneke: The piano teacher, Cache, Funny Games
BRIAN DE PALMA
1. Carrie (1976)
2. Sisters (1973)
3. Blow Out (1981)
DAVID CRONENBERG
1. Videodrome (1983)
2. The Brood (1979)
3. The Fly (1986)
JOHN WATERS
1. Serial Mom (1994)
2. Polyester (1981)
3. Female Trouble (1974)
DARIO ARGENTO
1. Tenebre (1982)
2. Suspiria (1977)
3. Deep Red (1975)
WOODY ALLEN
1. Interiors (1978)
2. Deconstructing Harry (1997)
3. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
I already contributed to this a few months ago. Nonetheless, five more suggestions…
Jacques Rivette:
-Gang of Four (1989)
-Le Pont du Nord (1981)
-Histoire de Marie et Julien (2003)
Neil Jordan:
-The Butcher Boy (1997)
-Ondine (2009)
-Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
Steven Soderbergh:
-Solaris (2002)
-King of the Hill (1993)
-Kafka (1991)
Leos Carax:
-Pola X (1999)
-Mauvais sang (1986)
-Boy Meets Girl (1984)
Lars von Trier:
-Dogville (2003)
-Dancer in the Dark (2000)
-The Idiots (1998)
ORSON WELLES:
1. The Lady From Shanghai (1947)
2. The Trial (1962)
3. Falstaff (1965)
STANLEY KUBRICK:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
2. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
ANDREI TARKOVSKY:
1. Stalker (1979)
2. Andrei Rublev (1966)
3. The Sacrifice (1986)
FRITZ LANG:
1. Metropolis (1927)
2. M (1931)
3. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
JEAN-LUC GODARD:
1. À Bout de Souffle (1960)
2. Pierrot le Fou (1965)
3. Vivre sa vie : film en douze tableaux (1962)
Bernardo Bertolucci
1). The Conformist
2). Last Tango in Paris
3). The Dreamers
Andrei Tarkovsky
1). The Mirror
2). The Sacrifice
3). Nostalghia
Carl Theodor Dreyer
1). Ordet
2). Leaves From Satan’s Book
3). Day of Wrath
Ingmar Bergman
1). Through a Glass Darkly
2). Persona
3). The Silence
David Lynch
1). Lost Highway
2). Blue Velvet
3). Fire Walk With Me
Naruse Mikio
Flowing
Floating Clouds
Sound of the Mountain
Maurice Pialat
À nos amours
We Won’t Grow Old Together
The House in the Woods
Hou Hsiao-hsien
A Time to Live and a Time to Die
Flowers of Shanghai
Café Lumière
Sohrab Shahid Saless
Utopia
Grabbe’s Last Summer
Still Life
Frank Borzage
The Mortal Storm
7th Heaven
Lucky Star
*subject to change without notice…
WIM WENDERS
kings of the road
paris, texas
wings of desire
CARL THEODOR DREYER
the passion of joan of arc
gertrud
maybe someday i’ll watch a third. probably i will watch a vampyr/day of wrath double-bill near halloween. how spooky
AKIRA KUROSAWA
yojimbo
seven samurai
dreams
MASAKI KOBAYASHI
kwaidan
harakiri
samurai rebellion
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT
small change
jules and jim
shoot the piano player
hitch
strangers on a train
vertigo
notorious
lang
M
the big heat
the testament of dr. mabuse
wilder
sunset blvd
ace in the hole
double indemnity
huston
treasure of the sierra madre
the maltese falcon
the man who would be king
welles
chimes at midnight
touch of evil
citizen kane
Scorsese
Raging Bull
The Departed
Taxi Driver
Kurosawa
Seven Samurai
Dersu Uzala
Ran
Malick
The Thin Red Line
The Tree of Life
Days of Heaven
Tarkovsky
Andrei Rublev
Stalker
Solaris
Bergman
Persona
Through a Glass Darkly
Winter Light
1. Woody Allen
1) Annie Hall
2) Hannah and Her Sisters
3) Love and Death
2. Coen Brothers
1) The Big Lebowski
2) Fargo
3) The Man Who Wasn’t There
3. Steven Spielberg
1) A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2) Munich
3) Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. Steven Soderbergh
1) Traffic
2) Ocean’s Eleven
3) Out of Sight
5. Tim Burton
1) Big Fish
2) Batman
3) Edward Scissorhands
Mike Leigh
Naked
Another Year
All or Nothing
Hayao Miyazaki
My Neighbor Totoro
Howl’s Moving Castle
Spirited Away
David Lynch
Mulholland Dr.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Lost Highway
Alfred Hitchcock
Shadow of a Doubt
Rebecca
Notorious
Terrence Malick
The New World
The Thin Red Line
Badlands
1)Orson Welles:
Touch Of Evil
Citizen Kane
F For Fake
2)Werner Herzog:
Nosferatu
Aguirre, The Wrath Of God
Bad Lieutenant
3)Ingmar Bergman:
Fanny And Alexander
Persona
Through A Glass Darkly
4)Steven Spielberg:
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Jaws
Schindler’s List
5)Buster Keaton:
The General
Sherlock Jr.
Our Hospitality
And of course the list will change someday….
Neil McCauley's Cooler Brother
I did this 2 years ago… I’ve changed a bit.
Michelangelo Antonioni
L’Avventura
Red Desert
L’Eclisse
Robert Bresson
A Man Escaped
Au Hasard Balthazar
Pickpocket
Stanley Kubrick
2001: A Space Odyssey
Barry Lyndon
Dr Strangelove
John Ford
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Searchers
My Darling Clementine
Jean Renoir
La Grande Illusion
The Golden Coach
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