Top 5 Directors, Top 5 Films

Akira Kurosawa
1. Seven Samurai
2. Yojimbo
3. Dreams
4. Ran
5. The Hidden Fortress

Park Chan-wook
1. Oldboy
2. JSA
3. Thirst
4. Lady Vengeance
5. Sympathy for Mister Vengeance

Alfred Hitchcock
1. North by Northwest
2. Rear Window
3. Psycho
4. Rope
5. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

John Carpenter
1. The Thing
2. Escape from New York
3. They Live
4. Starman
5. Big Trouble in Little China

Quentin Tarantino
1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Jackie Brown
3. Reservoir Dogs
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

Quentin Tarantino
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Jackie Brown
5. Kill Bill

Martin Scorsese
1. Goodfellas
2. Taxi Driver
3. Casino
4. The Color of Money
5. Raging Bull

Coen Brothers
1. The Big Lebowski
2. Fargo
3. Barton Fink
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
5. No Country for Old Men

Stanley Kubrick
1. The Shining
2. Eyes Wide Shut
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. 2001: A Space Oddisey
5. Full Metal Jacket

Oliver Stone
1. Born on the Fourth of July
2. JFK
3. Wall Street
4. Platoon
5. Natural Born Killers

Here's a 6th

Steven Speilberg
1. Saving Private Ryan
2. E.T. Extra Terrestrial
3. Catch Me If You Can
4. Duel
5. Raiders of the Lost Ark

Cheat! Cheat! He is a Cheater! ^^^^^^^

Federico Fellini

La Strada
Eight and Half
Nights of Cabiria
La Dolce Vita
Juliette of the Spirits


Luis Bunuel

That Obscure Object of Desire
Nazarine
Viridiana
Discreet Charm of Bourgeoisie
Un Chien Andalou


Andrei Tarkovsky

Ivan's Childhood
Mirror
The Stalker
Andrei Rublev
Sacrifice


Jean Luc Godard

Breathless
Band of Outsiders
Weekend
Pierrot Le Fou
Vivre Sa Vie


Abbas Kiarostami

Ten
Wind Will Carry US
And Life Goes On
Through the Olive Trees
A Taste of Cherry

New list:

Hitchcock
1) Vertigo
2) Psycho
3) Rear Window
4) Rope
5) Notorious

Bergman
1) Fanny and Alexander
2) Persona
3) Cries and Whispers
4) Scenes From a Marriage
5) Wild Strawberries

Altman
1) McCabe & Mrs. Miller
2) Nashville
3) Short Cuts
4) 3 Women
5) The Long Goodbye

Lynch
1) Blue Velvet
2) Twin Peaks
3) Mulholland Drive
4) Inland Empire
5) Wild at Heart

Kubrick
1) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2) The Shining
3) Eyes Wide Shut
4) A Clockwork Orange
5) Full Metal Jacket

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"Puns are the highest form of literature." -Alfred Hitchcock

I don't know that many different directors, but currently the ones who I admire the most would be:

Andrei Tarkovsky
1. Stalker
2. The Mirror
3. Andrei Rublev
4. Solaris
5. Nostalghia

Akira Kurosawa
1. Seven Samurai
2. Ikiru
3. Red Beard
4. Dreams
5. Hidden Fortress

Hayao Miyazaki
1. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
2. Princess Mononoke
3. Spirited Away
4. My Neighbor Totoro
5. Porco Rosso

Isao Takahata
1. Only Yesterday
2. Grave of the Fireflies
3. Gauche the Cellist
4. Horus: Prince of the Sun
5. My Neighbors The Yamadas

Stanley Kubrick
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Barry Lyndon
3. Dr. Strangelove
4. Paths of Glory
5. A Clockwork Orange

Let's see how these lists would look in 5 years.

Interesting thread, so I decided to bump it.

I have some favorite directors in progress (such as Fellini, Von Trier, Welles, etc.), from who I've only seen 2 or 3 movies, so they will probably join the gang of my favorite directors, when I've seen more of their work. I also never saw movies from Kurosawa, Bergman, Tarkovsky or Ozu at this moment. They may also feature in my list of absolute favorite directors in the future.

Right now, these are the top 5 films of my absolute favorite directors so far (directors not in order):


Stanley Kubrick (Seen 9 of his movies so far)



1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
3. The Shining
4. 2001: A Space Oddysey
5. Eyes Wide Shut


Martin Scorsese (Seen 13 of his movies so far)



1. Goodfellas
2. After Hours
3. Raging Bull
4. Taxi Driver
5. Casino


Alfred Hitchcock (Seen 19 of his movies so far)



1. Vertigo
2. Rear Window
3. Notorious
4. Psycho
5. North By Northwest/Rebecca

Number Five depends on the mood I'm in.


Woody Allen (Seen 20 of his movies so far)



1. Crimes and Misdemeanors
2. Bullets Over Broadway
3. Midnight in Paris
4. Manhattan
5. Purple Rose of Caïro/Match Point

Number Five depends on the mood I'm in.


Coen Brothers (Seen 15 (ALL) of their movies so far)



1. Fargo
2. The Man Who Wasn't There
3. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
4. Barton Fink
5. Miller's Crossing

This is probably the hardest top five I've ever made. Ten of their films have the quality and potential to be on it. I just went with my personal feelings right at this moment.


Quentin Tarantino (Seen 8 (ALL) of his movies so far)



1. Pulp Fiction
2. Django Unchained
3. Reservoir Dogs
4. Inglourious Basterds
5. Kill Bill Vol. 1


Paul Thomas Anderson (Seen 6 (ALL) of his movies so far)



1. Boogie Nights
2. Magnolia
3. There Will be Blood
4. The Master
5. Hard Eight


Billy Wilder (Seen 6 of his movies so far)



1. The Apartment
2. Sunset Boulevard
3. Double Indemnity
4. Some Like It Hot
5. The Lost Weekend

I like them all five extremely much!


Hayao Miyazaki (Seen 8 of his movies so far)



1. Spirited Away
2. My Neighbor Totoro
3. Porco Rosso
4. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
5. Princess Mononoke


Sergio Leone (Seen 5 of his movies so far)



1. Once Upon a Time in America
2. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
3. Once Upon a Time in the West
4. For a Few Dollars More
5. A Fistful of Dollars


Robert Altman (Seen 8 of his movies so far)



1. The Player
2. The Long Goodbye
3. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
4. Gosford Park
5. Nashville

It's extremely hard to choose my numbers 4 and 5, as I love some of his other movies almost equally much.


I'll update this post once in a while!

Directors aren't ranked for me, just the first five that come to mind

Quentin Tarantino
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Kill Bill Vol. 1-2
4. Jackie Brown
5. Inglourious Basterds
Underrated: Death Proof

Akira Kurosawa
1. Yojimbo
2. Ikiru
3. Seven Samurai
4. High and Low
5. The Bad Sleep Well
Underrated: Sanjuro

Alfred Hitchcock
1. Rear Window
2. Psycho
3. Shadow of a Doubt
4. Vertigo
5. North by Northwest


Coens
1. No Country For Old Men
2. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
3. The Big Lebowski
4. True Grit
5. Fargo
Underrated: The Hudsucker Proxy

Stanley Kubrick
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. The Shining
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. Dr. Strangelove
5. Full Metal Jacket
Underrated: Eyes Wide Shut & Killer's Kiss

I completely agree. I really enjoyed the scene with the flowers in the river and who could forget that final battle?

Martin Scorsese
1. Taxi Driver
2. Goodfellas
3. The King of Comedy
4. Cape Fear
5. The Departed


Akira Kurosawa
1. Seven Samurai
2. Rashomon
3. Ikiru
4. Red Beard
5. Throne of Blood


Kevin Smith
1. Clerks II
2. Clerks
3. Dogma
4. Chasing Amy
5. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back


Mel Brooks
1. Blazing Saddles
2. The Producers
3. Space Balls
4. History of the World Part One
5. Young Frankenstein


Stanley Kubrick
1. Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. The Shining
4. Full Metal Jacket
5. The Killing

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Fear and Loathing in MoFo... The Gunslinger 45's Top 50 Favorite Films

In the 10 Ring: Gunslinger45's reviews

I will pick five for the sake of this thread. Ask me tomorrow, however, and this list changes.

Lynch
1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
2. Mulholland Drive
3. Blue Velvet
4. The Elephant Man
5. The Straight Story

Kurosawa
1. Yojimbo
2. Ikiru
3. Dersu Uzala
4. The Bad Sleep Well
5. Sanjuro

Ozu
1. Late Spring
2. Tokyo Story
3. Early Summer
4. An Autumn Afternoon
5. Tokyo Twilight

Charlie Chaplin
1. The Kid
2. Modern Times
3. The Gold Rush
4. The Great Dictator
5. City Lights

Bergman

1. The Silence
2. Fanny and Alexander
3. Wild Strawberries
4. The Virgin Spring
5. Scenes From a Marriage

And some others for the sake of it:

Kubrick
1. Paths of Glory
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Eyes Wide Shut
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. Dr. Strangelove

Wilder
1. The Apartment
2. Sunset Blvd.
3. The Front Page
4. Some Like it Hot
5. Ace in the Hole

Gilliam
1. 12 Monkeys
2. The Fisher King
3. Brazil
4. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
5. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Scorsese
1. The King of Comedy
2. Raging Bull
3. Casino
4. The Departed
5. Casino

The Coen Brothers
1. The Big Lebowski
2. Barton Fink
3. Fargo
4. No Country for Old Men
5. The Man Who Wasn't There

Martin Scorcese

1. Taxi Driver
2. The King of Comedy
3. Goodfellas
4. Casino
5. The Aviator

Stanley Kubrick

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. The Shining
3. Full Metal Jacket
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. Eyes Wide Shut

Paul Thomas Anderson

1. There Will Be Blood
2. The Master
3. Magnolia
4. Punch Drunk Love
5. Hard Eight

Coen Brothers

1. Burn After Reading
2. The Big Lebowski
3. Raising Arizona
4. True Grit
5. A Serious Man

Alfred Hitchcock

1.North by Northwest
2.Psycho
3.Vertigo
4.Dial M For Murder
5.Birds

mmmm picking just 5 is hard but here goes:

Christopher Nolan:

Hitch
Vertigo
Rear Window
Psycho
North by Northwest
Shadow of a Doubt

Marty
Raging Bull
Taxi Driver
Goodfellas
The Departed
Mean Streets


Kubrick
Barry Lyndon
Full Metal Jacket
2001. A Space Odyssey
The Shining
Dr Strangelove


Spielberg
Schindler's List
E.T
A.I Artificial Intelligence
Jaws
Saving Private Ryan


Lynch
The Elephant Man
Mulholland Drive
Blue Velvet
Erasarhead
The Straight Story

Lean
Brief Encounter
Lawrence of Arabia
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Doctor Zhivago
Great Expectations

Wilder
The Apartment
Double Indemnity
Some Like it Hot
Sunset Boulevard
The Lost Weekend

Ford
The Searchers
My Darling Clementine
The Grapes of Wrath
Stagecoach
The Man who Shot Liberty Valance

John Carpenter



1) the Thing
2) Halloween
3) Big Trouble in Little China
4) They Live
5) Escape From New York

Ridley Scott



1) Alien
2) Blade Runner
3) Gladiator
4) Prometheus
5) Legend

Michael Curtiz



1) Angels With Dirty Faces
2) Casablanca
3) Captain Blood
4) the Adventures of Robin Hood
5) the Sea Hawk

Steven Spielberg



1) Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom
2) Raiders of the Lost Ark
3) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
4) Jurassic Park
5) Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade

Wes Craven



the original Nightmare on Elm Street (x5)

This is a pretty good question. Let me see...

Martin Scorcesse
1. Shutter Island
2. Cape Fear
3. Goodfellas
4. Taxi Driver
5. The Departed

Quentin Tarantino
1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Kill Bill, Vol. 1
4. Django Unchained
5. Reservoir Dogs

Robert Rodriguez
1. Sin City
2. Planet Terror
3. Spy Kids
4. Desperado
5. From Dusk Till Dawn

Tim Burton
1. Sleepy Hollow
2. Batman Returns
3. Batman
4. Edward Scissorhands
5. Corpse Bride

Kevin Smith
1. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
2. Clerks 2
3. Clerks
4. Mallrats
5. Dogma

As much as I am a fan of the horror genre, there aren't any horror directors out there who have made enough great films, imo.

I just remembered these two, and almost slapped myself in the face for forgetting about them.

Peter Jackson
1. Bad Taste
2. Dead Alive
3. The Fellowship of the Ring
4. The Return of the King
5. The Two Towers

Guillermo Del Toro
1. The Devil's Backbone
2. Pan's Labyrinth
3. Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
4. Hellboy
5. Cronos

In the latter's case, the top two movies are interchangeable. I really can't decide on which one I like more.

Paul Thomas Anderson
1. Magnolia
2. The Master
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Punch-Drunk Love
5. Boogie Nights

Coen Brothers
1. Barton Fink
2. Fargo
3. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
4. True Grit
5. The Big Lebowski

David Fincher
1. The Social Network
2. SE7EN
3. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
4. Zodiac
5. Fight Club

Alfred Hitchcock
1. Vertigo
2. Psycho
3. North by Northwest
4. Dial M for Murder
5. Rear Window

Quentin Tarantino
1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Django Unchained
3. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Reservoir Dogs

My other top five favorite directors


David Lynch

Blue Velvet
Eraserhead
Mulholland Drive
Lost Highway
The Elephant Man


Stephen Spielberg
Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom
Jaws
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones: Last Crusade
Jurassic Park


Clint Eastwood
Gran Torino
Absolute Power
Unforgiven
Sudden Impact
Mystic River


John McTiernan
The Hunt for Red October
Die Hard
Predator
Die Hard with a Vengeance
The 13th Warrior


Lloyd Kaufman
The Toxic Avenger
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
Tromeo and Juliet
Troma’s War

1: Coen Brothers
1. The Big Lebowski
2. Fargo
3. No Country for Old Men
4. Raising Arazona
5. A Serious Man

2: Stanley Kubrick(So hard to decide where each went)
1.The Shining
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. The Paths of Glory
4. Full Metal Jacket
5. Dr. Strangelove

3: Christopher Nolan
1. Memento
2. The following
3. The Dark Night
4. Inception
5. The Prestige

4: David Fincher
1. Fight Club
2. Se7en
3. The Game
4. The Social Network
5. Zodiac

5:Alfred Hitchcock
1. Phsyco
2. North By Northwest
3. The Birds
4. Vertigo(even though I thought the end was a little silly.. Stupid Nun)
5.The Man Who Knew Too Much