Favourite Directors

Submitted by 1922 on Fri, 01/13/2006 - 03:32
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  1. Martin Scorsese (* 1942)
  2. What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing In a Place Like This? (1963), It's Not Just You, Murray! (1965), The Big Shave (1967), Who's That Knocking at my Door? (1968), Boxcar Bertha (1972), Mean Streets (1973), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Italianamerican (1974), Taxi Driver (1976), New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King of Comedy (1983), After Hours (1985), The Color of Money (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Goodfellas (1990), Cape Fear (1991), The Age of Innocence (1993), Casino (1995), Kundun (1997), Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Il mio viaggio in Italia (1999), Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004)
  3. John Cassavetes (1929-1989)
  4. Shadows (1959), A Child Is Waiting (1963), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), Opening Night (1977), Gloria (1980)
  5. Woody Allen (* 1935)
  6. Bananas (1972), Sleeper (1973), Love and Death (1975), Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979), Stardust Memories (1980), September (1987), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Everyone Says I Love You (1996), Small Time Crooks (2000), The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
  7. David Lynch (* 1946)
  8. The Elephant Man (1980), Dune (1984), Blue Velvet (1986), Lost Highway (1997), The Straight Story (1999), Mulholland Dr. (2001)
  9. Jim Jarmusch (* 1953)
  10. Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Down by Law (1986), Night on Earth (1991), Dead Man (1995), Ghost Dog (1999), Broken Flowers (2005)
  11. Sergio Leone (1929-1989)
  12. Il colosso di Rodi (1961), Per un pugno di dollari (1964), Per qualche dollaro in più (1965), Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966), C'era una volta il west (1968), Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
  13. Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999)
  14. Paths of Glory (1957), Spartacus (1960), Dr. Strangelove (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987), Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
  15. David Lean (1908-1991)
  16. Oliver Twist (1948), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), A Passage to India (1984)
  17. Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
  18. Rebecca (1940), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Notorious (1946), Dial M for Murder (1954), Rear Window (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963), Marnie (1964), Frenzy (1972), Family Plot (1976)
Author Comments: 

No order after the first two.

Unwatched:
Scorsese: New York Stories (1989), A Personal Journey Through American Movies with Martin Scorsese (1995)
Cassavetes: Faces (1968)
Allen: What You Always Wanted to Know About Sex... (1972), A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982), Zelig (1983), Broadway Danny Rose (1984), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Hannah and her Sisters (1986), New York Stories (1989), Alice (1990), Husbands and Wives (1992), Deconstructing Harry (1997), Celebrity (1998), Sweet and Lowdown (1999), Hollywood Ending (2002)
Lynch: Eraserhead (1977)
Jarmusch: Mystery Train (1989), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
Leone: Giù la testa (1972)
Kubrick: Killer's Kiss (1955), The Killing (1956), Lolita (1962)
Lean: Brief Encounter (1945), Great Expectations (1946), Ryan's Daughter (1970)
Hitchcock: The Lodger (1927), The Farmer's Wife (1928), Easy Virtue (1928), Juno and Paycock (1930), Number 17 (1932), The 39 Steps (1935), Secret Agent (1936), Young and Innocent (1937), Foreign Correspondent (1940), Suspicion (1941), Saboteur (1942), Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1942), Spellbound (1945), The Paradine Case (1947), Rope (1948), Stage Fright (1950), Strangers on a Train (1951), The Trouble with Harry (1955), The Wrong Man (1956), Torn Curtain (1966), Topaz (1969)

Potential additions (directors I like so far, but I'll only add as soon as I have seen the movies in parantheses):
Bergman (Cries and Whispers, Winter Light)
Kurosawa (Sanjuro, Ikiru)

Runners-Up: John Ford, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood