Favourite Movie(s) By Specific Director/Actor

[Ziggyman]

I thought this would be a cool thread to make...you can just list your favourite movies by a director or movies starring a specific actor...pretty simple...

Example...

Favourite Chris Nolan...
1) The Dark Knight
2) Memento
3) The Prestige
4/5) Insomnia
4/5) Batman Begins

Favourite Will Ferrell...
1) Anchorman
2) Stranger Than Fiction
3) Talladega Nights

 

[Homer J. Fong]

Favorite film by my favorite director, Tim Burton
Ed Wood

 

[childeroland]

Fav film by fav director: Terrence Malick - Days of Heaven
To pick up on the other directors already mentioned: Christopher Nolan - The Prestige
Tim Burton - Corpse Bride

 

[Homer J. Fong]

^Good pick, Corpse Bride is an underrated movie.

Favorite Alfred Hitchcock film
Psycho

Favorite Christopher Nolan film
The Dark Knight

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

To Pick up on others:

Christopher Nolan - (Tie) Dark Knight and Memento

Will Ferrell - Anchorman definitely. I still quote that movie once or twice a week. Step Brothers is Number 2.

Tim Burton - Edward Scissorhands

Terence Malick - Badlands

Hitchcock - (Tie) Dial M for Murder/Rear Window

New Ones: Directors:

Sergio Leone - Once Upon a Time in the West

James Cameron - Terminator 2

Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver

Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction. Jackie Brown is a close second.

Oliver Stone - Platoon

Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List

Stanley Kubrick - Full Metal Jacket

Coen Brothers - Big Lebowski

Actors:

Adam Sandler - Punch Drunk Love

Denzel Washington - Training Day

Will Smith - Hitch

Leonard DiCaprio - The Departed

Ryan Renolds - Van Wilder

Brad Pitt - Seven (same with Morgan Freeman)

Edward Norton - American History X

Phillip Seymour Hoffman - Before The Devil Knows You;re Dead

 

[Abraham]

Nolan:

Following
Memento
Batman Begins
The Prestige
The Dark Knight

Scorsese:

Taxi Driver
After Hours
The Last Temptation of Christ
Goodfellas
The Age of Innocence
Bringing out the Dead
The Aviator
The Departed

Brad Pitt:

Se7en
Twelve Monkeys
Fight Club
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Burn After Reading
Inglourious Basterds

Robert Downey Jr.:

Chaplin
Wonder Boys
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
A Scanner Darkly
Iron Man
Tropic Thunder
Sherlock Holmes
Iron Man 2

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Ridley Scott- Blade Runner
Stanley Kubrick- A Clockwork Orange
Quentin Tarantino- Reservoir Dogs

 

[gwynplaine]

Ridley Scott: Alien.
Verhoeven: Robocop.
Milos Forman: One flew over the cuckoo's nest.
De Palma: Phantom of the paradise.
Nolan: TDK.
Hawks: Rio Bravo
Lang: M
Scorcese: Goodfellas.
Hitchcock: Psycho.
Spielberg: Jaws.
Carpenter: The Thing.
Boorman: Deliverance.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Ridley Scott: Alien.
Verhoeven: Robocop.
Lang: M

Good picks! I love Robocop

 

[gwynplaine]

Jean Renoir: Grand Illusion.
Charles Laughton and Robert Mitchum: The Night Of The Hunter.
Richard Lester: Robin and Marian.
Hal Ashby: Being There/The Last Detail.
Georges Lucas: Star Wars. (A new Hope)
Tarantino: Pulp Fiction/Inglourious Basterds.
Fincher: Seven.
Kubrick: A Clockwork Orange/The Shining/Dr Strangelove/Barry Lyndon/Paths Of Glory/The 1st half of Full Metal Jacket.
Don Siegel: Escape from Alcatraz/Dirty Harry/Invasion Of The Body Snatchers.
Leone: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
Welles: Touch Of Evil.
Billy Wilder: Some Like It Hot/The Apartment.

 

[Squidboy]

For these directors, they're people whose movies are generally great to begin with, but I'll just be picking the one movie of theirs that I was most blown away by.

David Fincher - Fight Club
Chris Nolan - Memento
Steven Spielberg - Jaws
Wes Anderson - Life Aquatic
Bryan Singer - X-Men
Stanley Kubrick - The Shining

 

[ImWithTeamConan]

Chris Nolan- TDK but The Prestige is close behind.

Michael Mann- Heat, but this fluctuates almost every other week. Last week I was watching Collateral every day.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Spielberg - Jaws
Scorsese - Goodfellas or The Departed
Kubrick - The Shining
Hitchcock - Rear Window
Tarantino - Pulp Fiction or Inglourious Basterds
Bryan Singer - The Usual Suspects and X2
Sam Raimi - Spider-Man 2
Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight and The Prestige
Lynch - Mullholland Drive
The Coen Brothers - No Country For Old Men
Ritchie - Snatch
Jackson - Lord of the Rings (all three)

 

[childeroland]

Spielberg - Raiders
Scorsese - The Color of Money
Kubrick - Barry Lyndon and 2001
Hitchcock - The Lady Vanishes
Tarantino - Pulp Fiction and Basterds
Singer - The Usual Suspects
Lynch - Mulholland Drive
Jackson - Heavenly Creatures

 

[Dark Victory]

Kubrick - 2001
Hitchcock - Vertigo
Welles - Citizen Kane
Lang - M
Malick - Thin Red Line
Tarantino - I have to rewatch Pulp Fiction, but it's Inglorious Basterds for now
Cameron - Terminator 2
Boll - N/A
Scott - Alien
Speilberg - Jaws
Coen Brothers - No Country for Old Men
Bay - The Rock
Kurosawa - Seven Samurai/Throne of Blood
Truffaut - Jules and Jim
Gilliam - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Scorsese - Taxi Driver/Bringing Out the Dead
Carpenter - The Thing

 

[gwynplaine]

Truffaut: The 400 Blows/The Last Metro.
Godard: Breathless.
Coen Bros: The Big Lebowski/Fargo.
Raimi: Evil Dead 1 and 2.
Friedkin: The French Connection/The Exorcist.
Lynch: The Elephant Man.
Mel Brooks: Blazing Saddles/Young Frankenstein/The Producers.
Cronenberg: Dead Zone/The Fly/Videodrome.
De Palma: Phantom of the paradise/Blow Out/Carrie.
Pollack: Jeremiah Johnson/Tootsie/Three days of the condor.

 

[cerealkiller182]

Tarantino- Pulp Fiction
Scorsese- Taxi Driver
Spielberg- Raiders of the Lost Ark
Kubrick- 2001
Coen Brothers- O Brother Where Art Thou
Todd Phillips- Hangover
Del Toro- Pan's Labyrinth
Ritchie- Snatch
Cameron- Terminator 2
Carpenter- The Thing
Smith- Clerks 2
Nolan- The Dark Knight
Leone- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
Fincher- Se7en
Cronenberg- Dead Zone
Wes Anderson- Life Aquatic
Gilliam- Fisher King
Burton- Big Fish

 

[gwynplaine]

Nolan: Still TDK.

 

[Ziggyman]

Does anyone need to revise their Nolan list now?

 

[Original Spawn]

The only thing i have to say is that my favourite directors are Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino and Sam Raimi.

 

[gwynplaine]

Does anyone need to revise their Nolan list now?

No, I'm just consistent and still liked TDK much more than Inception.

 

[gwynplaine]

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[gwynplaine]

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[Mister H.]

Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo
Stanley Kubrick - 2001
Quentin Tarantino - Kill Bill, Vol. 2
Francis Ford Coppoloa - Apocalypse Now
David Lynch - Mulholland Dr.
Christopher Nolan - Batman Begins
Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
William Friedkin - The Exorcist
Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
Danny Boyle - 28 Days Later
The Coen Brothers - Miller's Crossing
Ingmar Bergman - Hour Of The Wolf
Martin Scorcese - Goodfellas
Roman Polanski - Repulsion

 

[ghostrider92]

alfonso cuaron
Sólo con tu pareja
A Little Princess
Great Expectations
Y tu mamá también
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Children of Men