Facets' top 10 favorite film lists from great movie lovers

Submitted by burneyfan on Sat, 05/23/2009 - 03:41
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  • Pedro Almodóvar

  • The Night of the Hunter (Laughton)
  • The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
  • All About Eve (Mankiewicz)
  • Leave Her to Heaven (Stahl)
  • North by Northwest (Hitchcock)
  • Out of the Past (Tourneur)
  • Midnight (Leisen)
  • Some Like It Hot (Wilder)
  • Touch of Evil (Welles)
  • Senso (Visconti

  • Allison Anders

  • All That Heaven Allows (Sirk)
  • Alice in the Cities (Wenders)
  • The Hours and Times (Munch)
  • The Man from Laramie (Mann)
  • Letter from an Unknown Woman (Ophuls)
  • A Hard Day’s Night (Lester)
  • Woman on the Beach (Renoir)
  • Naked (Leigh)
  • The Age of Innocence (Scorsese)
  • There’s Always Tomorrow (Sirk)

  • Denys Arcand

  • Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)
  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Buñuel)
  • 8-1/2 (Fellini)
  • General Della Rovere (Rossellini)
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford)
  • A Day in the Country (Renoir)
  • Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
  • The Silence (Bergman)
  • Triumph of the Will (Riefenstahl)

  • Gillian Armstrong

  • The Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)
  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • Casablanca (Curtiz)
  • The Godfather Part II (Coppola)
  • Jules et Jim (Truffaut)
  • Gone with the Wind (Fleming)
  • La Strada (Fellini)
  • Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
  • The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
  • The Wizard of Oz (Fleming)

  • Theo Angelopoulos

  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • Ivan the Terrible (Eisenstein)
  • Ordet (Dreyer)
  • 8-1/2 (Fellini)
  • Nosferatu (Murnau)
  • L’Avventura (Antonioni)
  • The Gold Rush (Chaplin)
  • Ugetsu (Mizoguchi)
  • Pickpocket (Bresson)
  • Persona (Bergman)

  • Olivier Assayas

  • Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
  • L’Argent (Bresson)
  • La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
  • We Spin Around the Night Consumed by the Fire (Debord)
  • Ludwig (Visconti)
  • A Man Escaped (Bresson)
  • Mirror (Tarkovsky)
  • Ordet (Dreyer)
  • Playtime (Tati)
  • Scenes from a Marriage (Bergman)

  • Clive Barker

  • Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
  • Fantasia (Sharpsteen)
  • The Exorcist (Friedkin)
  • Fellini Satyricon (Fellini)
  • Gone with the Wind (Fleming)
  • Ben-Hur (Wyler)
  • The Bride of Frankenstein (Whale)
  • Pinocchio (Sharpsteen)
  • Meet Me in St. Louis (Minnelli)
  • Blade Runner (Scott)

  • Alan Berliner

  • Lumiere Compilation (Lumiere Brothers)
  • Manhatta (Sheeler/Strand)
  • The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (Shub)
  • Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (Ruttman)
  • Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov)
  • Enthusiasm (Vertov)
  • Regen (Rain) (Ivens/Franken)
  • Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren)
  • A Movie (Conner)
  • Window Water Baby Moving (Brakhage)
  • Reminscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Mekas)

  • Joe Berlinger (10 documentaries, plus 12 influences)

  • Brother’s Keeper (Berlinger/Sinofsky)
  • Salesman (Maysles/Zwerin)
  • Gimme Shelter (Maysles/Zwerin)
  • Nanook of the North (Flaherty)
  • Sick (Dick)
  • Titicut Follies (Wiseman)
  • Night and Fog (Resnais)
  • Hearts and Minds (Davis)
  • Burden of Dreams (Blank)
  • The Thin Blue Line (Morris)
  • Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)
  • The Conformist (Bertolucci)
  • Planet of the Apes (Schaffner)
  • Stardust Memories (Allen)
  • Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
  • M (Lang)
  • Breathless (Godard)
  • Chopper (Dominik)
  • Come and See (Klimov)
  • The Third Man (Reed)

  • Bernardo Bertolucci

  • The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
  • Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)
  • Germany Year Zero (Rossellini)
  • Breathless (Godard)
  • Stagecoach (Ford)
  • Blue Velvet (Lynch)
  • City Lights (Chaplin)
  • Marnie (Hitchcock)
  • Accattone (Pasolini)
  • Touch of Evil (Welles)

  • Les Blank

  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder)
  • Miracle in Milan (De Sica)
  • La Strada (Fellini)
  • Viridiana (Buñuel)
  • The Apu Trilogy (Ray)
  • The Godfather Parts I & II (Coppola)
  • The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan)
  • Badlands (Malick)
  • Nanook of the North (Flaherty)

  • Ted Bonnitt

  • The Man Who Fell to Earth (Roeg)
  • Local Hero (Forsyth)
  • It’s a Wonderful Life (Capra)
  • Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
  • The Conversation (Coppola)
  • Atlantic City (Malle)
  • The Godfather (Coppola)
  • The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)
  • Baraka (Fricke)
  • For All Mankind (Reinert)

  • John Boorman

  • Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
  • The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
  • 8-1/2 (Fellini)
  • That Obscure Object of Desire (Buñuel)
  • Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • Sunset Boulevard (Wilder)
  • Solaris (Tarkovsky)
  • La Roue (Gance)
  • The Birth of a Nation (Griffith)

  • Catherine Breillat

  • In the Realm of the Senses (Oshima)
  • Sawdust and Tinsel (Bergman)
  • Baby Doll (Kazan)
  • Lost Highway (Lynch)
  • Vertigo (Hitchcock)
  • Salo (Pasolini)
  • L’Avventura (Antonioni)
  • Ordet (Dreyer)
  • Lancelot du Lac (Bresson)
  • Ten (Kiarostami)

  • Joe Bob Briggs

  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper)
  • Night of the Living Dead (Romero)
  • Black Sunday (Bava)
  • Hellraiser (Barker)
  • Demons (Bava)
  • Audition (Miike)
  • The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)
  • Drunken Master (Woo-Ping)
  • Vertigo (Hitchcock)
  • An American Werewolf in London (Landis)

  • Nick Broomfield

  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
  • Monsoon Wedding (Nair)
  • My Life as a Dog (Hallstrom)
  • The Pink Panther Strikes Again (Edwards)
  • Il postino (Radford)
  • Sunset Boulevard (Wilder)
  • Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick)
  • Titicut Follies (Wiseman)
  • Urga (Close to Eden) (Mikhalkov)

  • Ken Burns

  • Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
  • The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Buñuel)
  • Raging Bull (Scorsese)
  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
  • Last Tango in Paris (Bertolucci)
  • Pelle the Conqueror (August)
  • The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Olmi)
  • Chinatown (Polanski)
  • Vertigo (Hitchcock)

  • John Canemaker

  • Free Radicals (Lye)
  • Gertie the Dinosaur (McCay)
  • Felix the Cat Woos Whoopee (Messmer)
  • Allegretto (Fischinger)
  • Walt Disney’s Fantasia
  • Feed the Kitty (Jones)
  • Begone Dull Care (McLaren)
  • Gerald McBoing Boing (Cannon)
  • The Hand (Trnka)
  • Tender Game (John & Faith Hubley)

  • Jackie Chan

  • The General (Bruckman/Keaton)
  • City Lights (Chaplin)
  • Rocky (Avildsen)
  • War and Peace (Bondarchuk)
  • Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
  • Gone with the Wind (Fleming)
  • Jurassic Park (Spielberg)
  • My Fair Lady (Cukor)
  • Pocketful of Miracles (Capra)
  • Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)

  • Ethan and Joel Coen (Ethan top five, Joel bottom five)

  • Brother’s Keeper (Berlinger/Sidofsky)
  • Il Bidone (Fellini)
  • Salesman (Maysles/Zwerin)
  • The Bad News Bears (Ritchie)
  • The Fortune (Nichols)
  • The Fortune (Nichols; both brothers picked it)
  • High and Low (Kurosawa)
  • Dames (Enright)
  • Separate Tables (Mann)
  • Where Eagles Dare (Hutton)

  • Roger Corman

  • Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
  • Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)
  • The Godfather (Coppola)
  • The Grapes of Wrath (Ford)
  • Shane (Stevens)
  • On the Waterfront (Kazan)
  • Star Wars (Lucas)
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene)

  • Alex Cox

  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • The Devils (K. Russell)
  • The Exterminating Angel (Buñuel)
  • King Kong (Cooper/Schoedsack)
  • The Mattei Affair (Rosi)
  • O Lucky Man! (Anderson)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
  • Throne of Blood (Kurosawa)
  • The Wages of Fear (Clouzot)
  • War Game (Watkins)

  • Cameron Crowe

  • The Apartment (Wilder)
  • The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
  • La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
  • Manhattan (Allen)
  • The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan)
  • Harold and Maude (Ashby)
  • Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
  • Quadrophenia (Roddam)
  • Ninotchka (Lubitsch)

  • Joe Dante (no order)

  • Touch of Evil (Welles)
  • 8-1/2 (Fellini)
  • Hellzapoppin’ (Potter)
  • Pinocchio (Disney)
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford)
  • Psycho (Hitchcock)
  • Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone)
  • The Bride of Frankenstein (Whale)
  • Night of the Hunter (Laughton)
  • To Be or Not To Be (Lubitsch)

  • Jonathan Demme

  • Shoot the Piano Player (Truffaut)
  • The Conformist (Bertolucci)
  • Yojimbo (Kurosawa)
  • Nothing But a Man (Roemer)
  • Antonio das Mortes (Rocha)
  • Black Orpheus (Camus)
  • Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson)
  • Muriel (Resnais)
  • Coming Home (Ashby)
  • Ceddo (Sembene)

  • Charles Derry (top 10 suspense thrillers)

  • Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock)
  • The Wages of Fear (Clouzot)
  • North by Northwest (Hitchcock)
  • Marnie (Hitchcock)
  • Seconds (Frankenheimer)
  • Blow-Up (Antonioni)
  • Le Boucher (Chabrol)
  • State of Seige (Costa-Gavras)
  • The Conversation (Coppola)
  • Black Sunday (Frankenheimer)

  • Susan Doll (top 10 Elvis-related films)

  • King Creole (Curtiz)
  • Jailhouse Rock (Thorpe)
  • Loving You (Kanter)
  • Viva Las Vegas (Sidney)
  • Follow That Dream (Douglas)
  • Elvis ’56 (Raymond)
  • The ’68 Comeback Special
  • Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite
  • Elvis (Carpenter)
  • Bubba Ho-Tep (Coscarelli)

  • Harun Farocki (nine)

  • My Life to Live (Vivre sa vie) (Godard)
  • Not Reconciled (Straub/Huillet)
  • Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson)
  • Murder by Contract (Lerner)
  • Numero Deux (Godard)
  • Wanda (Loden)
  • La Rabbia (Pasolini)
  • Blood Simple (Coen Brothers)
  • Natural Born Killers (Stone)

  • Stanley Fish (favorite literary adaptations)

  • A Place in the Sun (Stevens)
  • Double Indemnity (Wilder)
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Kazan)
  • The Sea Wolf (Curtiz)
  • The Night of the Hunter (Laughton)
  • The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles)
  • All the King’s Men (Rossen)
  • Shane (Stevens)
  • The Man with the Golden Arm (Preminger)
  • Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock)

  • Russel Forster

  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • Gates of Heaven (Morris)
  • Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassssss Song (Van Peebles)
  • Burden of Dreams (Blank)
  • Notorious (Hitchcock)
  • Paris is Burning (Livingston)
  • Flaming Creatures (Smith)
  • The Decline of Western Civilization (Spheeris)
  • Scorpio Rising (Anger)
  • Marjoe (Kernochan/Smith)

  • Milos Forman

  • Amarcord (Fellini)
  • American Graffiti (Lucas)
  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • City Lights (Chaplin)
  • The Deer Hunter (Cimino)
  • Children of Paradise (Carné)
  • Giant (Stevens)
  • The Godfather (Coppola)
  • Miracle in Milan (De Sica)
  • Raging Bull (Scorsese)

  • James Fotopoulos (most important images of these times)

  • Daniel Pearl video
  • Video footage of Sept. 11th
  • Stephen Wolfram’s computer experiments
  • Local Public Access
  • 24 hour news channels
  • Home Video Games
  • Internet Pornography

  • Amos Gitai

  • Teorema (Pasolini)
  • Flowers of St. Francis (Rossellini)
  • Paisan (Rossellini)
  • Shock Corridor (Fuller)
  • Some Came Running (Minnelli)
  • The River (Renoir)
  • The Car (Ghatak)
  • The Music Room (S. Ray)
  • The Age of the Earth (Rocha)
  • The Quiet Man (Ford)

  • Jean-Luc Godard (top 10 American from Sound Era)

  • Scarface (Hawks)
  • The Great Dictator (Chaplin)
  • Vertigo (Hitchcock)
  • The Searchers (Ford)
  • Singin’ in the Rain (Donen/Kelly)
  • The Lady from Shanghai (Welles)
  • Bigger Than Life (Ray)
  • Angel Face (Preminger)
  • To Be or Not To Be (Lubitsch)
  • Dishonored (von Sternberg)

  • Jill Godmilow

  • A Man Escaped (Bresson)
  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder)
  • Hiroshima, mon amour (Resnais)
  • La Vie de Boheme (Kaurismaki)
  • Numero Deux (Godard)
  • Land Without Bread (Buñuel)
  • Il Posto (Olmi)
  • Talk to Her (Almodóvar)
  • Inextinguishable Fire (Farocki)
  • Dead Man (Jarmusch)

  • Peter Greenaway

  • Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais)
  • Breathless (Godard)
  • La Notte (Antonioni)
  • The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
  • The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
  • Strike (Eisenstein)
  • Throne of Blood (Kurosawa)
  • Fellini’s Casanova (Fellini)
  • 8-1/2 (Fellini)
  • The Marquise of O (Rohmer)

  • Stuart Gordon (top 10 that freaked me out)

  • Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Lamont)
  • The Tingler (Castle)
  • Psycho (Hitchcock)
  • The Last House on the Left (Craven)
  • Shivers (Cronenberg)
  • Cannibal Holocaust (Deodato)
  • Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino)
  • The Stendhal Syndrome (Argento)
  • Audition (Miike)
  • Irreversible (Noe)

  • James Gunn

  • Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone)
  • After Hours (Scorsese)
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry)
  • Rosemary’s Baby (Polanski)
  • Together (Moodysson)
  • Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Mazursky)
  • Audition (Miike)
  • City of God (Meirelles)
  • Jaws (Spielberg)
  • The Conversation (Coppola)

  • Peter Hames

  • Mirror (Tarkovsky)
  • A Tale of Tales (Norshteyn)
  • Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)
  • M. Hulot’s Holiday (Tati)
  • The Searchers (Ford)
  • Marketa Lazarova (Vlacil)
  • Yeelen (Cisse)
  • The Man in the White Suit (Mackendrick)
  • Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette)
  • The Trouble with Harry (Hitchcock)

  • Barbara Hammer

  • Meshes in the Afternoon (Deren)
  • Daisies (Chytilova)
  • The Films of Guvnor Nelson (Nelson)
  • Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov)
  • Privilege (Rainer)
  • ReAssemblage (Trin T. Minh-ha)
  • Angelic Conversation (Jarman)
  • The films of Chris Marker (Marker) (seen one, at least!)
  • The films of Marguerite Duras
  • Elasticity (Strand)

  • Michael Haneke

  • Au Hasard Balthazar
  • Lancelot du Lac (Bresson)
  • The Mirror (Tarkovsky)
  • Salo (Pasolini)
  • The Exterminating Angel (Buñuel)
  • The Gold Rush (Chaplin)
  • Psycho (Hitchcock)
  • A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)
  • Germany Year Zero (Rossellini)
  • L’Eclisse (Antonioni)

  • Mary Harron

  • Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein)
  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
  • Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
  • Children of Paradise (Carné)
  • The Exterminating Angel (Buñuel)
  • His Girl Friday (Hawks)
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
  • Raging Bull (Scorsese)
  • The World of Apu (S. Ray)

  • Hal Hartley

  • Hail Mary (Godard)
  • The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
  • Ordet (Dreyer)
  • Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson)
  • Ivan the Terrible Part I (Eisenstein)
  • Faces (Cassavetes)
  • A Hard Day’s Night (Lester)
  • Nosferatu (Murnau)
  • Badlands (Malick)
  • Kings of the Road (Wenders)

  • Todd Haynes

  • All That Heaven Allows (Sirk)
  • Un Chant d’Amour (Genet)
  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder)
  • Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman)
  • Nashville (Altman)
  • The Night of the Hunter (Laughton)
  • Performance (Cammell/Roeg)
  • The Reckless Moment (Ophuls)
  • Vertigo (Hitchcock)

  • Werner Herzog (nine)

  • Cane Toads: An Unusual History (Lewis)
  • Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control (Morris)
  • Forest of Bliss (Gardner)
  • Good News, Von Polpoprteuren, toten hunden und Andered Wienern (Seidl)
  • Letter from Siberia (Marker)
  • Les Maitres Fou (Rouch)
  • Nanook of the North (Flaherty)
  • Spend It All (Blank)
  • The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (Hara)

  • Agnieszka Holland (more than 10)

  • Pickpocket (Bresson)
  • 8-1/2 (Fellini)
  • Le Trou (Becker)
  • Le Bonheur (Varda)
  • Diamonds of the Night (Nemec)
  • Repulsion (Polanski)
  • The Godfather Part II (Coppola)
  • Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
  • The Mirror (Tarkovsky)
  • Breathless (Godard)
  • Jules and Jim (Truffaut)
  • Ordet (Dreyer)
  • Odd Man Out (Reed)
  • Persona (Bergman)
  • Silence (Bergman)
  • Promised Land (Wajda)

  • Andrew James Horton (underrated films)

  • Pictures of the Old World (Hanak)
  • The Cremator (Herz)
  • Sinbad (Huszarik)
  • Khrustalyov, My Car! (German)
  • Lord’s Lantern in Budapest (Jancso)
  • Joseph Kilian (Juracek)
  • By the Law (Kuleshov)
  • Happiness (Medvedkin)
  • Junk Movie (Szomjas)
  • The Way Through the Bleak Woods (Vojnar)

  • Jim Jarmusch

  • L’Atalante (Vigo)
  • Tokyo Story (Ozu)
  • They Live by Night (Ray)
  • Bob le Flambeur (Melville)
  • Sunrise (Murnau)
  • The Cameraman (Sedgwick/Keaton)
  • Mouchette (Bresson)
  • Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
  • Broken Blossoms (Griffith)
  • Open City (Rossellini)

  • Terry Jones

  • Fanny and Alexander (Bergman)
  • The Seven Chances (Keaton)
  • Mon Oncle (Tati)
  • Hold That Ghost (Lubin)
  • Kind Hearts & Coronets (Hamer)
  • Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
  • The General (Bruckman/Keaton)
  • The Navigator (Crisp/Keaton)
  • Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Reisner/Keaton)
  • Sherlock, Jr. (Arbuckle/Keaton)

  • Neil Jordan

  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • La Strada (Fellini)
  • The Exterminating Angel (Buñuel)
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
  • The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)
  • They Live by Night (Ray)
  • Rashomon (Kurosawa)
  • 8-1/2 (Fellini)
  • The General (Bruckman/Keaton)
  • Persona (Bergman)

  • Jon Jost

  • Them! (Douglas)
  • The Ernie Kovacs TV Show
  • The work of Peter Hutton
  • The Lady from Shanghai (Welles)
  • The films of Nathaniel Dorsky
  • Mouchette (Bresson)
  • Salvatore Giuliano (Rosi)
  • Il Grido (Antonioni)
  • La Notte (Antonioni)
  • L’Eclisse (Antonioni)
  • My Life to Live (Vivre sa vie) (Godard)
  • Godard 70s work in 16mm after splitting with Gorin
  • Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie) (Slow Motion) (Godard)

  • Philip Kaufman

  • Pather Panchali (S. Ray)
  • Bicycle Thief (De Sica)
  • Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
  • Belle de Jour (Buñuel)
  • The Asphalt Jungle (Huston)
  • The Wages of Fear (Clouzot)
  • I Vitteloni (Fellini)
  • Touch of Evil (Welles)
  • The Third Man (Reed)

  • Aki Kaurismaki

  • L’Age d’Or (Buñuel)
  • L’Atalante (Vigo)
  • Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson)
  • Broken Blossoms (Griffith)
  • Casque d’Or (Becker)
  • Greed (von Stroheim)
  • Mon Oncle (Tati)
  • Nanook of the North (Flaherty)
  • Open City (Rossellini)
  • Tokyo Story (Ozu)

  • Mika Kaurismaki

  • Ugetsu (Mizoguchi)
  • Sunrise (Murnau)
  • Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone)
  • Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)
  • Second Breath (Melville)
  • To Be or Not To Be (Lubitsch)
  • Only Angels Have Wings (Hawks)
  • The Misfits (Huston)
  • The Red Shoes (Powell/Pressburger)
  • Pickpocket (Bresson)

  • Takeshi Kitano

  • Children of Paradise (Carné)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
  • A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
  • Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
  • To Live and Die in L.A. (Friedkin)
  • Wild at Heart (Lynch)
  • Bring Me the Head of Alfredo García (Peckinpah)
  • Darkman (Raimi)
  • Crazy Thunder Road (Ishii)
  • The Railroad Man (Germi)

  • Greg Kot (great soundtracks)

  • The Harder They Come (Henzel)
  • Don’t Look Back (Pennebaker)
  • Gimme Shelter (Maysles)
  • A Hard Day’s Night (Lester)
  • Monterey Pop (Pennebaker)
  • Stop Making Sense (Demme)
  • Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
  • Boogie Nights (Anderson)
  • The Last Waltz (Scorsese)
  • Something Wild (Demme)

  • George Kuchar (most influential)

  • Baby Doll (Kazan)
  • Written on the Wind (Sirk)
  • Who Killed Teddy Bear? (Cates)
  • La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
  • L’Eclisse (Antonioni)
  • The Man with the Golden Arm (Preminger)
  • Youngblood Hawke (Daves)
  • Finding Nemo (Stanton/Unkrich)
  • Murders in the Zoo (Sutherland)
  • Devil is a Woman (von Sternberg)

  • Ed Lachman

  • Umberto D (De Sica)
  • The Conformist (Bertolucci)
  • Miracle in Milan (De Sica)
  • Close-Up (Kiarostami)
  • Maborosi (Hirokazu)
  • Four Nights of the Dreamer (Bresson)
  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • Oshima’s work
  • Kieslowski’s work (seen most of the big ones)
  • Time Stands Still (Gothar)

  • Ricky Leacock

  • Pather Panchali (S. Ray)
  • Moana (Flaherty)
  • I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (LeRoy)
  • Diary of a Lost Girl (Pabst)
  • Top Hat (Sandrich)
  • Kamaradschaft (Pabst)
  • Let There Be Light (Huston)
  • The Lady Eve (Sturges)
  • Cops (Keaton)
  • The Wizard of Oz (Fleming)

  • Jerry Lewis

  • An Affair to Remember (McCarey)
  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • The Fountainhead (Vidor)
  • All About Eve (Mankiewicz)
  • The Adventures of Robin Hood (Cutiz/Keighley)
  • On the Waterfront (Kazan)
  • Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Edwards)
  • Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock)
  • Harry and the Hendersons (Dear)
  • Casablanca (Curtiz)

  • Richard Linklater

  • Some Came Running (Minnelli)
  • Pickpocket (Bresson)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
  • GoodFellas (Scorsese)
  • The Mother and the Whore (Eustache)
  • Los Olvidados (Buñuel)
  • In a Year with 13 Moons (Fassbinder)
  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • Fanny and Alexander (Bergman)
  • Carmen Jones (Preminger)

  • Ken Loach

  • The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)
  • Breathless (Godard)
  • The Bicycle Thief (De Sica)
  • Closely Watched Trains (Menzel)
  • Firemen’s Ball (Forman)
  • Jules and Jim (Truffaut)
  • Loves of a Blonde (Forman)
  • The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
  • The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Olmi)
  • Wild Strawberries (Bergman)

  • Sidney Lumet

  • The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler)
  • Fanny and Alexander (Bergman)
  • The Godfather (Coppola)
  • The Grapes of Wrath (Ford)
  • Intolerance (Griffith)
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
  • Ran (Kurosawa)
  • Fellini’s Roma (Fellini)
  • Singin’ in the Rain (Donen/Kelly)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)

  • Kevin MacDonald

  • Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Kunuk)
  • Double Indemnity (Wilder)
  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell/Pressburger)
  • The Magnficent Ambersons (Welles)
  • The Palm Beach Story (Sturges)
  • A Day in the Country (Renoir)
  • Rear Window (Hitchcock)
  • Singin’ in the Rain (Donen/Kelly)
  • The Thin Blue Line (Morris)
  • The Unseen (Janek)

  • Guy Maddin (favorite film noir)

  • The Chase (Ripley)
  • They Won’t Believe Me (Pichel)
  • The Big Carnival / Ace in the Hole (Wilder)
  • The Face Behind the Mask (Florey)
  • Johnny Apollo (Hathaway)
  • Scarlet Street (Lang)
  • The Black Book / Reign of Terror (Mann)
  • Voice in the Wind (Ripley)
  • Nightmare Alley (Goulding)
  • D.O.A. (Maté)

  • Dusan Makavejev

  • L’Age d’Or (Buñuel)
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney)
  • Triumph of the Will (Riefenstahl)
  • The Asphalt Jungle (Huston)
  • Rashomon (Kurosawa)
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene)
  • Ecstasy (Machaty)
  • Ashes and Diamonds (Wajda)
  • The Earth (Dovzhenko)

  • Michael Mann

  • Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
  • The Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
  • Faust (Murnau)
  • Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais)
  • My Darling Clementine (Ford)
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
  • Raging Bull (Scorsese)
  • The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)

  • Albert Maysles

  • La Strada (Fellini)
  • Rocco and His Brothers (Visconti)
  • Salesman (Maysles)
  • Bicycle Thief (De Sica)
  • L’Avventura (Antonioni)
  • Fitzcarraldo (Herzog)
  • Bus 174 (Lacerda/Padhila)
  • Persona (Bergman)
  • A Woman is a Woman (Godard)
  • Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock)

  • Paul Mazursky

  • The Bridge on the River Kwai (Lean)
  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • City Lights (Chaplin)
  • Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
  • Jules et Jim (Truffaut)
  • Nights of Cabiria (Fellini)
  • Psycho (Hitchcock)
  • Rashomon (Kurosawa)
  • Sunset Boulevard (Wilder)
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston)

  • Sam Mendes

  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • Fanny and Alexander (Bergman)
  • The Godfather Part II (Coppola)
  • The Piano (Campion)
  • The Red Shoes (Powell/Pressburger)
  • Sunset Boulevard (Wilder)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
  • Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
  • Vertigo (Hitchcock)
  • The Wizard of Oz (Fleming)

  • Nina Menkes (top 10 favorite, then top 10 influential)

  • The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Reiniger)
  • Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson)
  • Metropolis (Lang)
  • Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman)
  • Shoah (Lanzmann)
  • Tokyo Story (Ozu)
  • L’Avventura (Antonioni)
  • Umberto D (De Sica)
  • Vagabond (Varda)
  • Les Enfants Terribles (Melville)
  • Fata Morgana (Herzog)
  • Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais)
  • Red Desert (Antonioni)
  • The Conformist (Bertolucci)
  • Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
  • 8-1/2 (Fellini)
  • The B&W short films of Peter Hutton
  • Stalker (Tarkovsky)
  • Broken Mirrors (Gorris)
  • The Thief of Bagdad (Walsh)

  • Isaac Mizrahi (top 10 for costuming)

  • The Wizard of Oz (Fleming; costumes by Adrian)
  • The Women (Cukor; costumes by Adrian)
  • Marie Antoinette (Van Dyke; costumes by Adrian/Steele)
  • The Red Shoes (Powell/Pressburger; costumes by Carven/Edwards)
  • The Band Wagon (Minnelli; costumes by Nyberg)
  • Roberta (Seiter; costumes by Newman)
  • Blow-Up (Antonioni; costumes by Rickards)
  • Auntie Mame (Da Costa; costumes by Orry-Kelly)
  • The Great Gatsby (Clayton; costumes by Aldredge/Lauren)
  • Imitation of Life (Sirk; costumes by Louis/Thomas)

  • Lukas Moodysson

  • Bicycle Thief (De Sica)
  • Fanny and Alexander (Bergman)
  • Gummo (Korine)
  • La Haine (Kassovitz)
  • Lamerica (Amelio)
  • The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich)
  • The Mirror (Tarkovsky)
  • On the Waterfront (Kazan)
  • Riff-Raff (Loach)
  • Secrets & Lies (Leigh)
  • Where Is My Friend’s House? (Kiarostami)

  • Michael Moore

  • Johnny Got His Gun (Trumbo)
  • A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
  • Lost in America (Brooks)
  • Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
  • Hearts and Minds (Davis)
  • The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (Hara)
  • This Is Spinal Tap (Reiner)
  • Shampoo (Ashby)
  • Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen)
  • M (Lang)

  • Markos Moulitsas

  • Brazil (Gilliam)
  • The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Jackson)
  • Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope (Lucas)
  • Amadeus (Forman)
  • The Matrix (Wachowski)
  • Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner)
  • Clerks (Smith)
  • Dark City (Proyas)
  • Moulin Rouge (Luhrmann)
  • Rudy (Anspaugh)

  • Errol Morris

  • Detour (Ulmer)
  • There’s Always Tomorrow (Sirk)
  • Make Way for Tomorrow (McCarey)
  • A Man Escaped (Bresson)
  • The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Renoir)
  • Stray Dog (Kurosawa)
  • The Rise to Power of Louis XIV (Rossellini)
  • Human Desire (Lang)
  • Ace in the Hole (Wilder)
  • Psycho (Hitchcock)

  • Paul Morrissey

  • Gone with the Wind (Fleming)
  • Richard III (Olivier)
  • On the Waterfront (Kazan)
  • How Green Was My Valley (Ford)
  • Tobacco Road (Ford)
  • Shane (Stevens)
  • The Heiress (Wyler)
  • The Third Man (Reed)
  • The Nun’s Story (Zinnemann)
  • La Dolce Vita (Fellini)

  • Justine Nagan

  • After Life (Hirokazu)
  • Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (Hirsch)
  • Brother’s Keeper (Berlinger/Sinofsky)
  • Buffalo ’66 (Gallo)
  • Croupier (Hodges)
  • Dark Days (Singer)
  • Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jarmusch)
  • Malcolm X (Lee)
  • Nobody Knows (Hirokazu)
  • Okie Noodling (Beesley)

  • Mira Nair

  • An Angel at My Table (Campion)
  • The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)
  • The Decalogue (Kieslowski)
  • The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski)
  • 8-1/2 (Fellini)
  • The Godfather (Coppola)
  • In the Mood for Love (Kar-wai)
  • La Jetée (Marker)
  • The Music Room (Ray)
  • Pyaasa (Dutt)
  • Raging Bull (Scorsese)
  • Time of the Gypsies (Kusturica)

  • Jan Nemec

  • La Strada (Fellini)
  • Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais)
  • Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Resnais)
  • Elevator to the Gallows (Malle)
  • The Lovers (Malle)
  • A Man Escaped (Bresson)
  • Breathless (Godard)
  • Viridiana (Buñuel)
  • Code Name Ruby (Nemec)
  • The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler)

  • Camille Paglia

  • Gone with the Wind (Fleming)
  • The Philadelphia Story (Cukor)
  • All About Eve (Mankiewicz)
  • The Ten Commandments (De Mille)
  • Auntie Mame (Da Costa)
  • North by Northwest (Hitchcock)
  • Ben Hur (Wyler)
  • La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
  • Persona (Bergman)
  • The Godfather Parts I & II (Coppola)

  • Alexander Payne (ten off the beaten path)

  • The Landlord (Ashby)
  • The Man from Laramie (Mann)
  • A Moment of Innocence (Mankiewicz)
  • La Notte (Antonioni)
  • Red Beard (Kurosawa)
  • Ride the High Country (Peckinpah)
  • Room at the Top (Clayton)
  • A Special Day (Scola)
  • Viridiana (Buñuel)
  • White Nights (Visconti)

  • D. A. Pennebaker (memorable films)

  • I Know Where I’m Going (Powell/Pressburger)
  • Nanook of the North (Flaherty)
  • The Battle of San Pietro (Huston)
  • La Vie Commence Demain (Vedres)
  • A Day in the Country (Renoir)
  • Le Million (Clair)
  • Stravinsky (Leacock)
  • Red River (Hawks)
  • La Chinoise (Godard)
  • The Band Wagon (Minnelli)

  • Sydney Pollack

  • Casablanca (Curtiz)
  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • The Conformist (Bertolucci)
  • The Godfather Part II (Coppola)
  • La Grande Illusion (Renoir)
  • The Leopard (Visconti)
  • Once Upon a Time in America (Leone)
  • Raging Bull (Scorsese)
  • The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
  • Sunset Boulevard (Wilder)

  • Robert Pollard (ten, followed by honorable mention)

  • King of Comedy (Scorsese)
  • Blue Velvet (Lynch)
  • Psycho (Hitchcock)
  • Husbands (Cassavetes)
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman)
  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper)
  • The Big Night (Losey)
  • Last Night at the Alamo (Pennell)
  • GoodFellas (Scorsese)
  • O Lucky Man! (Anderson)
  • Come and See (Klimov)
  • The Godfather Parts I & II (Coppola)
  • The Nutty Professor (Lewis)
  • Magnolia (Anderson)
  • Glengarry Glen Ross (Mamet)
  • Barton Fink (Coen)
  • Do the Right Thing (Lee)
  • Corndog Man (Shea)
  • One-Eyed Jacks (Brando)

  • Annie Proulx

  • Ivan and Abraham (Zauberman)
  • The Gun and Bible Club (Harris)
  • Down by Law (Jarmusch)
  • Chinatown (Polanski)
  • Rashomon (Kurosawa)
  • Trainspotting (Boyle)
  • What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Almodóvar)
  • Black Robe (Beresford)
  • The Last Wave (Weir)
  • Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote cartoons

  • Tim Robbins

  • The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)
  • The Clowns (Fellini)
  • Don’t Look Back (Pennebaker)
  • The Lower Depths (Kurosawa)
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman)
  • My Man Godfrey (La Cava)
  • Nashville (Altman)
  • Network (Lumet)
  • Underground (Kusturica)
  • Waiting for Guffman (Guest)

  • George A. Romero

  • The Brothers Karamazov (Brooks)
  • Casablanca (Curtiz)
  • Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
  • High Noon (Zinnemann)
  • King Solomon’s Mines (Bennett/Marton)
  • North by Northwest (Hitchcock)
  • The Quiet Man (Ford)
  • Repulsion (Polanski)
  • Touch of Evil (Welles)
  • The Tales of Hoffmann (Powell/Pressburger)

  • Alan Rudolph

  • The Godfather (1972)
  • Serpico (1973)
  • The Godfather: Part II (1974)
  • Scarface (1983)
  • Sea of Love (1989)
  • Dick Tracy (1990)
  • Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
  • Scent of a Woman (1992)
  • Carlito’s Way (1993)
  • Heat (1995)
  • City Hall (1996)
  • Donnie Brasco (1997)
  • The Devil’s Advocate (1997)
  • The Insider (1999)
  • Any Given Sunday (1999)
  • Insomnia (2002)
  • Gigli (2003)
  • Two for the Money (2005)
  • Ocean's Thirteen (2007)

  • Alan Rudolph

  • La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
  • Sunrise (Murnau)
  • The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman)
  • Ikiru (Kurosawa)
  • Persona (Bergman)
  • Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • Day for Night (Truffaut)
  • Block-Heads (Blystone)

  • Dan Savage

  • Cabaret (Fosse)
  • South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker)
  • All About Eve (Mankiewicz)
  • The Godfather (Coppola)
  • Dude, Where’s My Car? (Leiner)
  • The Opposite of Sex (Roos)
  • Election (Payne)
  • Mildred Pierce (Curtiz)
  • Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Mitchell)
  • The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer)

  • John Sayles

  • Yojimbo (Kurosawa)
  • Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
  • Sawdust and Tinsel (Bergman)
  • The Magnificent Seven (Sturges)
  • Two Women (De Sica)
  • The Organizer (Monicelli)
  • The Taxing Woman (Itami)
  • The Third Man (Reed)
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston)
  • The Wages of Fear (Clouzot)

  • Paul Schrader

  • The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
  • Tokyo Story (Ozu)
  • Pickpocket (Bresson)
  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • The Lady Eve (Sturges)
  • Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau)
  • The Conformist (Bertolucci)
  • Vertigo (Hitchcock)
  • The Searchers (Ford)
  • The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)

  • Barbet Schroeder

  • Anatomy of a Murder (Preminger)
  • Bigger Than Life (N. Ray)
  • The Big Heat (Lang)
  • Europa ’51 (Rossellini)
  • A Geisha (Mizoguchi)
  • Late Spring (Ozu)
  • Ordet (Dreyer)
  • Rio Bravo (Hawks)
  • Sunrise (Murnau)
  • Vertigo (Hitchcock)

  • Stephen Sondheim (less-often listed foreign films, then ten less-often listed American films)

  • Contract (Zanussi)
  • The Organizer (Monicelli)
  • Carnet de Bal (Duvivier)
  • Panique (Duvivier)
  • Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson)
  • The Nasty Girl (Verhoeven)
  • The Official Story (Puenzo)
  • The Oak (Pintilie)
  • Adam’s Rib (Kristofovich)
  • War and Peace (Bondarchuk)
  • Fresh (Yakin)
  • The More the Merrier (Stevens)
  • This Is Spinal Tap (Reiner)
  • Bang the Drum Slowly (Hancock)
  • The Elephant Man (Lynch)
  • The Sea Wolf (Curtiz)
  • To the Ends of the Earth (Stevenson)
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Werker)
  • The Enforcer (Windust)
  • Lone Star (Sayles)

  • Quentin Tarantino

  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone)
  • Rio Bravo (Hawks)
  • Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
  • His Girl Friday (Hawks)
  • Rolling Thunder (Flynn)
  • They All Laughed (Bodganovich)
  • The Great Escape (J. Sturges)
  • Carrie (De Palma)
  • Coffy (Hill)
  • Dazed and Confused (Linklater)
  • Five Fingers of Death (Chang)
  • Hi Diddle Diddle (Stone)

  • Bertrand Tavernier (overlooked/underrated westerns)

  • Day of the Outlaw (de Toth)
  • The Naked Dawn (Ulmer)
  • The Last Wagon (Daves)
  • Law and Order (Cahn)
  • Apache Drums (Fregonese)
  • Four Faces West (Green)
  • The Wonderful Country (Parrish)
  • Pursued (Walsh)
  • Ulzana’s Raid (Aldrich)
  • Manhunt or From Hell to Texas (Hathaway)
  • Silver Lode (Dwan)
  • Tennessee’s Partner (Dwan)
  • Ride Lonesome (Boetticher)
  • Hangman’s Knot (Huggins)
  • Chuka (Douglas)
  • The Man from the Alamo (Boetticher)
  • Will Penny (Gries)
  • Drumbeat (Daves)
  • Little Big Horn (Warren)
  • The Indian Fighter (de Toth)
  • Blood on the Moon (Wise)

  • Studs Terkel

  • City Lights (Chaplin)
  • The Bicycle Thief (De Sica)
  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • Ikiru (Kurosawa)
  • Grand Illusion (Renoir)
  • Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
  • The Apu Trilogy (Ray)
  • La Strada (Fellini)
  • Fame Is the Spur (Boulting)
  • Modern Times (Chaplin)
  • Baltic Deputy (Heifitz/Zharkhi)
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene)
  • The Last Laugh (Murnau)

  • Kenneth Turan (films that astonished and continue to do so)

  • Casque d’Or (Becker)
  • Children of Paradise (Carné)
  • The Day After Trinity (Else)
  • The Decalogue (Kieslowski)
  • The Dybbuk (Ansky)
  • The Earrings of Madame de … (Ophuls)
  • Eyes Without a Face (Franju)
  • First Contact (Anderson/Connolly)
  • I Was a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (LeRoy)
  • Leolo (Lauzon)
  • The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch)
  • Touch of Evil (Welles)

  • Liv Ullmann (less than 10)

  • Limelight (Chaplin)
  • Miracle in Milan (De Sica)
  • Umberto D (De Sica)
  • La Strada (Fellini)
  • The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
  • The Firemen’s Ball (Forman)

  • Gore Verbinski

  • Chinatown (Polanski)
  • The Conversation (Coppola)
  • Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone)
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman)
  • The Night of the Hunter (Laughton)
  • The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky)
  • The Servant (Losey)
  • The Tenant (Polanski)
  • The Wages of Fear (Clouzot)

  • Paul Verhoeven

  • La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
  • Ivan the Terrible Part II (Eisenstein)
  • Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)
  • Rashomon (Kurosawa)
  • Vertigo (Hitchcock)
  • The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
  • The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
  • Metropolis (Lang)
  • Los Olvidados (Buñuel)
  • Some Like It Hot (Wilder)

  • Wayne Wang

  • Sweet Movie (Makavejev)
  • All About Eve (Mankiewicz)
  • Tokyo Story (Ozu)
  • Le Gai Savoir (Godard)
  • The Kid (Chaplin)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
  • The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)
  • Jules and Jim (Truffaut)
  • To Live (Yimou)
  • Sunset Boulevard (Wilder)

  • John Waters

  • All That Heaven Allows (Sirk)
  • Baby Doll (Kazan)
  • Boom! (Losey)
  • Brink of Life (Bergman)
  • Chelsea Girls (Warhol)
  • 8-1/2 (Fellini)
  • Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Meyer)
  • The Mother and the Whore (Eustache)
  • The Tingler (Castle)
  • The Wizard of Oz (Fleming)

  • John Woo

  • Citizen Kane (Welles)
  • The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
  • The Godfather Part II (Coppola)
  • Le Samouraï (Melville)
  • Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
  • Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)
  • West Side Story (Wise/Robbins)
  • Raging Bull (Scorsese)
  • Mean Streets (Scorsese)

  • Jud Yalkut

  • The Trial (Welles)
  • Samsara (Belson)
  • Dog Star Man (Brakhage)
  • Paris Belongs to Us (Rivette)
  • Emak Bakia (Ray)
  • L’Avventura (Antonioni)
  • Alphaville (Godard)
  • Heaven and Earth Magic (Smith)
  • Lapis (Whitney)
  • Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais)

  • Donnie Yen (top 10 martial arts films)

  • Iron Monkey (Woo-ping)
  • Once Upon a Time in China II (Hark)
  • Enter the Dragon (Clouse)
  • Dragon Gate Inn (1992; Lee)
  • Hero (Yimou)
  • Drunken Master (Yuen)
  • 36 Shaolin Chamber (Liu)
  • Dragon Gate Inn (1966; Hu)
  • Fist of Fury (Shiu-Kee)
  • Prodigal Son (Hung)

  • Caveh Zahedi

  • My Life to Live (Godard)
  • Unsere Afrikareise (Kubelka)
  • Report (Conner)
  • Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
  • Freaks (Browning)
  • Family Life (Loach)
  • The Passion of Anna (Bergman)
  • The Man Who Left His Will on Film (Oshima)
  • Blue Velvet (Lynch)
  • Husbands (Cassavetes)

  • John Zorn

  • Rose Hobart (Cornell)
  • Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone; soundtrack by Morricone)
  • Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (Juran; soundtrack by Herrmann)
  • Body Heat (Kasdan; soundtrack by Barry)
  • The Sun’s Burial (Oshima; soundtrack by Manabe)
  • Histoire(s) du Cinema (Godard)
  • Chinatown (Polanski; soundtrack by Goldsmith)
  • Planet of the Apes (Schaffner; soundtrack by Goldsmith)
  • Pale Flower (Shinoda; soundtrack by Takemitsu & Takahashi)
  • One Eyed Jacks (Brando; soundtrack by Friedhofer)
  • Heaven and Earth Magic (Smith)
  • Spartacus (Kubrick; soundtrack by North)
Author Comments: 

The bulk of Facets' website is currently under renovation, so while I've been awaiting its reopening, I went through an old catalog with "top 10 favorite film lists from the world's greatest movie lovers." In cases where the lister deviates from a basic "top 10 favorites" concept (e.g., Bertrand Tavernier chose 12 underrated westerns, the Coen Brothers chose five films apiece), I tried to capture the specifics next to the lister's name. Listers whose names are not familiar are easily Googled.