What I've Seen of...The 50+ Greatest Directors and Their Best Movies

Submitted by prslook on Sun, 04/18/2010 - 20:37
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  1. F. W. Murnau, 1888-1931
  2. Nosferatu (1922)

  3. Ernst Lubitsch, 1892-1947
  4. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
  5. To Be or Not to Be (1942)

  6. Fritz Lang, 1890-1976
  7. Metropolis (1927)
  8. M (1931)
  9. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
  10. The Big Heat (1953)

  11. Howard Hawks, 1896-1977
  12. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
  13. His Girl Friday (1940)
  14. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
  15. Rio Bravo (1959)

  16. Frank Capra, 1897-1991
  17. It Happened One Night (1934)
  18. You Can't Take It With You (1938)
  19. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  20. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

  21. Alfred Hitchcock, 1899-1980
  22. Strangers on a Train (1951)
  23. North by Northwest (1959)
  24. Psycho (1960)
  25. The Birds (1963)

  26. Sergei Eisenstein, 1898-1948
  27. Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)
  28. Alexander Nevsky (1938)
  29. Ivan Groznyy I (1944)
  30. Ivan Groznyy II: Boyarski zagovor (1958)

  31. Luis Bunuel, 1900-1983
  32. Un Chien Andalou (1928)
  33. L'Age d'Or (1930)
  34. Belle de Jour (1967)
  35. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
  36. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)

  37. John Huston, 1906-1987
  38. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  39. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  40. The African Queen (1951)
  41. The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

  42. Billy Wilder, 1906-2002
  43. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  44. The Seven Year Itch (1955)
  45. Some Like It Hot (1959)

  46. Jacques Tati, 1908-1982
  47. Mr.Hulot's Holiday (1953)
  48. Mon Oncle (1958)
  49. Playtime (1967)

  50. David Lean, 1908-1991
  51. Brief Encounter (1945)
  52. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

  53. Akira Kurosawa, 1910-1998
  54. Rashomon (1950)

  55. Ingmar Bergman, 1918-2007
  56. The Seventh Seal (1957)
  57. Wild Strawberries (1957)

  58. Federico Fellini, 1920-1993
  59. Le notti di Cabiria (1957)
  60. La Dolce Vita (1961)
  61. 8 1/2 (1963)
  62. Amarcord (1974)

  63. Robert Altman, 1925-2006
  64. M*A*S*H (1970)

  65. Stanley Kubrick, 1928-
  66. Dr.Strangelove (1964)
  67. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  68. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  69. The Shining (1980)

  70. François Truffaut, 1932-1984
  71. 400 Blows (1959)
  72. Jules and Jim (1962)
  73. Shoot the Piano Player (1962)

  74. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1932-1986
  75. Andrei Rublev (1969)
  76. Solaris (1972)
  77. The Mirror (1975)
  78. Stalker (1979)
  79. The Sacrifice (1986)

  80. Roman Polanski, 1933-
  81. Repulsion (1965)
  82. The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
  83. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
  84. Chinatown (1974)

  85. Woody Allen, 1935-
  86. Love and Death (1975)
  87. Annie Hall (1977)
  88. Manhattan (1979)
  89. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
  90. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
  91. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
  92. Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
  93. Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
  94. Match Point (2005)

  95. Francis Ford Coppola, 1939-
  96. The Godfather (1972)
  97. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
  98. The Godfather: Part III (1990)
  99. The Conversation (1974)

  100. Martin Scorsese, 1942-
  101. Raging Bull (1980)
  102. Goodfellas (1990)

  103. David Lynch, 1946-
  104. Eraserhead (1977)
  105. The Elephant Man (1980)
  106. Blue Velvet (1986)

  107. Pedro Almodóvar, 1951-
  108. All About My Mother (1999)
  109. Talk to Her (2002)
  110. Volver (2006)
Author Comments: 

From the Entertainment Weekly's "The 50 Greatest Directors and Their 100 Best Movies."

dashforcover07/08/2010

Where is your core list of who constitutes the 50+ Greatest Directors?

prslook07/11/2010

Initially, I relied on the The Entertainment Weekly's article, "The 50 Greatest Directors and Their 100 Best Movies", but slowly I've started adding (or will add) some of my own favorites - world's greats, really - like Kieslowski, Almodovar, Tarkovsky. So, it's an ecclectic Log. I've recently gotten into some of Lynch's stuff...although, still haven't seen Eraserhead, but it's at the top of my list.