Notable Directors and My Favorite Films of Theirs
Submitted by AJDaGreat on Tue, 09/03/2002 - 10:38
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- Woody Allen - Annie Hall / Zelig
- Robert Altman - The Long Goodbye / The Player (I may break this tie in the future)
- Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood
- Ingmar Bergman - Persona
- Robert Bresson - Pickpocket
- Mel Brooks - Young Frankenstein
- Luis Bunuel - Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
- Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- James Cameron - Terminator 2: Judgement Day
- Frank Capra - Arsenic and Old Lace
- Charlie Chaplin - Modern Times
- Coen Bros. - Miller's Crossing
- Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part II
- George Cukor - Adam's Rib
- Michael Curtiz - Casablanca (but this was no easy victory; The Adventures of Robin Hood was seriously considered)
- Stanley Donen - Singin' in the Rain
- Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
- Blake Edwards - A Shot in the Dark
- Federico Fellini - 8 1/2
- John Ford - My Darling Clementine
- Milos Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Terry Gilliam - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Jean-Luc Godard - Breathless
- Howard Hawks - Bringing Up Baby
- George Roy Hill - The Sting
- Alfred Hitchcock - North by Northwest
- John Huston - The Maltese Falcon
- Elia Kazan - A Streetcar Named Desire
- Buster Keaton - Steamboat Bill, Jr. (but I need to rewatch The General)
- Krzyszstof Kieslowski - The Decalogue
- Stanley Kubrick - Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Akira Kurosawa - Rashomon
- David Lean - Bridge on the River Kwai (but Lawrence of Arabia is a very close second)
- Sergio Leone - Once Upon a Time in the West
- Barry Levinson - Diner (though on a different day I might choose Good Morning, Vietnam)
- Ernst Lubitsch - To Be or Not to Be
- George Lucas - Star Wars
- Sidney Lumet - 12 Angry Men
- David Lynch - Mulholland Drive
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz - All About Eve
- Hayao Miyazaki - Princess Mononoke
- Michael Moore - Bowling for Columbine
- Errol Morris - The Thin Blue Line
- F.W. Murnau - Sunrise
- Christopher Nolan - Memento
- Michael Powell / Emeric Pressburger - A Matter of Life and Death
- Carl Reiner - The Jerk
- Rob Reiner - When Harry Met Sally...
- Alain Resnais - Hiroshima Mon Amour
- Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver
- Ridley Scott - Alien
- Steven Soderbergh - sex, lies, and videotape
- Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
- Oliver Stone - JFK
- Preston Sturges - Hail the Conquering Hero
- Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
- Andrei Tarkovksy - Stalker
- Francois Truffaut - Jules and Jim
- Orson Welles - Citizen Kane
- Billy Wilder - Sunset Boulevard
- William Wyler - The Best Years of Our Lives
- Robert Zemeckis - Back to the Future
- David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker (all the work the three have done individually and together) - Ruthless People
Author Comments:
To qualify for this list, I have to have seen at least three of their films. The following great directors could not make the cut:
2 Films Only:
Michelangelo Antonioni, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Sergei Eisenstein, D.W. Griffith, Fritz Lang, Leo McCarey, Yasojiro Ozu, Roman Polanski, Peter Weir
1 Film Only:
Werner Herzog, Kenji Mizoguchi, Sam Peckinpah, Jean Renoir
Note that I have many holes in my viewing.
I thought this list needed a facelift.
great list mate. do you know how to make misc.posts i cant find how to do it. if you could help, i would appreciate it. thx.
I'm sorry, I'm not quite sure what you're talking about. Try asking Jim, he operates the site.
I'm afraid I'm not sure either. What do you mean by a "misc. post"?
its ok ive figured it out now mate. what i ment was that some how people made their own genres but i know now is in the 'My menu' bit. but ty anyway
Don't bother seeing The Treasure of the Sierra Madre again. To me, it feels like four hours spent with three cardboard characters in the freakin' desert learning a simple lesson about greed.
Have you seen David Lean's Great Expectations? It's not better than LoA, but it's definitely worthwhile.
I actually loved Treasure of the Sierra Madre when I first watched it. My need to rewatch it is not because I felt like I didn't appreciate it the first time, but because I don't remember it as well as I would like.
I have not seen Great Expectations, but I probably should.
Yes, definitely see Great Expectations if you're a David Lean fan.
Do you remember what you liked about Treasure of the Sierra Madre? I have it on video, so I might give it a second shot myself.
Hmm... sorry, not really. It's been a while. I will admit to being a huge Humphrey Bogart fan, so that might've helped me enjoy the film. I also thought the story was strong enough to not feel like it was just a heavy-handed comment on greed.
- quoth the unhealthy, unwise, late-to-bed college freshman
Treasure of the Sierra Madre is freakin' awesome.
Mine, so far (won't bother making a list because I won't keep it updated):
Woody Allen - Annie Hall
Robert Altman - The Player
Paul Thomas Anderson - Punch Drunk Love
Ingmar Bergman - The Seventh Seal
Mel Brooks - Spaceballs
Luis Bunuel - Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Frank Capra - It's a Wonderful Life
Charlie Chaplin - City Lights
Coen Bros. - Fargo
Francis Ford Coppola - Ummmm...
Michael Curtiz - Casablanca
Federico Fellini - La Strada
John Ford - The Informer
Milos Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Terry Gilliam - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Howard Hawks - Bringing Up Baby
George Roy Hill - The Sting
Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window
John Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Buster Keaton - One Week
Krzyszstof Kieslowski - White
Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey
Akira Kurosawa - Rashomon
David Lean - Brief Encounter
Sidney Lumet - Network
David Lynch - Mulholland Drive
Michael Moore - Bowling for Columbine
Christopher Nolan - Memento
Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver
Steven Spielberg - Jaws
Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
Billy Wilder - Sunset Boulevard
Robert Zemeckis - Back to the Future
Mel Brooks Spaceballs
Kubrick A Space Odyssey
Milos Forman Amadeus
Terry Gilliam Brazil
David Lynch Eraserhead
Chaplin The Dictator or City Lights or Modern Times
Joel & Ethan The Big Lebowski
Spielberg Close Encounters
Truffaut ah, most of them but definitely not L'Enfant Sauvage
Hitchcock Rear Window or The Birds
and they're not in your list but well,
David Cronenberg Dead Ringers
John Carpenter They Live
Hal Hartley Flirt
Bille August Zappa
Atom Egoyan Next of Kin
Jean-Luc Godard A Bout de Souffle
Jean-Jacques Annaud La Guerre du Feu