The Favorite Movies of Directors

[raybia]

I was thinking this evening about some of my favorites movies and then I started wondering what are some of the favorite movies of some of my favorite directors and whether I have seen any of those movies.

So I'm listing the top ten of one of my favorite directors and I encourage you to do so as well.

Christopher Nolan.

His top ten favorite movies are: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Black Hole (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Chinatown (1974), The Hitcher (1986), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)), Star Wars (1977), The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and Topkapi (1964), as well as anything by Stanley Kubrick.

Of these I have not seen Chinatown and the Man Who Would Be King but I will be soon.

 

[Mister H.]

That's pretty cool. Some great movies on his list-- no real surprise.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Of these I have not seen Chinatown and the Man Who Would Be King but I will be soon.

Both great, great movies. Highly recommended flicks.

Rotten Tomatoes does these ''five favourite films with....'' lists. Coincidentially they did one with one of my absolute favourite directors, Werner Herzog:

Freaks (Todd Browning, 1932)
Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916)
Where is the Friend's Home (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922)

I've only seen Rashomon. I still want to see Freaks and Nosferatu though. Pretty interesting list I'd say.

 

[Commodore Schmidlapp]

Both great, great movies. Highly recommended flicks.

Rotten Tomatoes does these ''five favourite films with....'' lists. Coincidentially they did one with one of my absolute favourite directors, Werner Herzog:

Freaks (Todd Browning, 1932)
Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916)
Where is the Friend's Home (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922)

I've only seen Rashomon. I still want to see Freaks and Nosferatu though. Pretty interesting list I'd say.

Those are the only two on the list I HAVE seen. You need to check them out, required viewing for any horror or film buff. I still think that Nosferatu is the best vampire movie ever made....Also, that explains why Herzog remade it. His version was pretty awesome too

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Yeah, Freaks is rather legendary so I need to check it out. Same goes for Nosferatu. I'm rather crazy about Herog's remake. It's one of his best films.

 

[nite-owl]

Kubricks top ten.

I vitelloni (1953), Smultronstället (1957) (Wild Strawberries), Citizen Kane (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), City Lights (1931), The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France (1944) (Henry V), Cette nuit-là (1958), The Bank Dick (1940), Roxie Hart (1942) and Hell's Angels (1930).

Out of them I've only seen Citizen Kane and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

 

[YoungE808]

Chinatown should be on everyone's list. It's just that damn great. Since I just finished writing 70+ staggering pages of notes for film class I finally feel like I can go back and watch some of the old greats. Of the ones listed above I will definitely check out Sierra Madre, City Lights, Citizen Kane, anything by Kubrick, and Rashomon.

And Nosferatu (I remember that he was in that one episode of Spongebob but I didn't know who it was until I started film class)

 

[raybia]

Both great, great movies. Highly recommended flicks.

Rotten Tomatoes does these ''five favourite films with....'' lists. Coincidentially they did one with one of my absolute favourite directors, Werner Herzog:

Freaks (Todd Browning, 1932)
Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916)
Where is the Friend's Home (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922)

I've only seen Rashomon. I still want to see Freaks and Nosferatu though. Pretty interesting list I'd say.

I'm embarrassed to say that I have not seen any of these epecially Rashomon which I would say is required viewing since Hollywood mimicks some of the techniques in this movie since it came out and even today.

 

[raybia]

Chinatown should be on everyone's list. It's just that damn great. Since I just finished writing 70+ staggering pages of notes for film class I finally feel like I can go back and watch some of the old greats. Of the ones listed above I will definitely check out Sierra Madre, City Lights, Citizen Kane, anything by Kubrick, and Rashomon.

And Nosferatu (I remember that he was in that one episode of Spongebob but I didn't know who it was until I started film class)

Whats worse for me as that I actually own Chinatown. No excuse for me. I will watch it tonight.

I've been wanting to watch Sierra Madre for sometime now and I actually watch City Lights a couple of months ago for the first time. Its brilliant and I fell in love with it while watching it.

Of course what can I say about Citizen Kane. Saw it for the first time in a college film class years ago and the analysis of it by my instructor makes this one of the few movies that I can really appreciate for what it is. With that said my favorite movie of all time is Vertigo.

 

[Max J Power]

Quentin Tarantino's top 12 favorite movies, copied and pasted from Wikipedia (it had a citation).

In the 2002 Sight and Sound Directors' poll, Tarantino revealed his top-twelve films: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Rio Bravo; Taxi Driver; His Girl Friday; Rolling Thunder; They All Laughed; The Great Escape; Carrie; Coffy; Dazed and Confused; Five Fingers of Death; and Hi Diddle Diddle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino#cite_note-26

 

[Tacit Ronin]

James Cameron - the Wizard of Oz.

 

[raybia]

James Cameron - the Wizard of Oz.

That makes sense.

 

[Bunker]

Marty Scorsese's:

1. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
2. Duel in the Sun (Vidor, 1946)
3. Invaders from Mars (Menzies, 1953)
4. Leave Her to Heaven (Stahl, 1946)
5. Moby Dick (Huston, 1956)
6. Phantom of the Opera (Lubin, 1943)
7. The Red Shoes (Powell, 1948)
8. The Searchers (Ford, 1956)
9. Singin' in the Rain (Donen, 1952)
10. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

 

[[A]]

Christopher Nolan.

His top ten favorite movies are: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Black Hole (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Chinatown (1974), The Hitcher (1986), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)), Star Wars (1977), The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and Topkapi (1964), as well as anything by Stanley Kubrick.

The man knows.

 

[Polaris23]

How do you guys find out what their favourite films are?

 

[YoungE808]

Whats worse for me as that I actually own Chinatown. No excuse for me. I will watch it tonight.

I've been wanting to watch Sierra Madre for sometime now and I actually watch City Lights a couple of months ago for the first time. Its brilliant and I fell in love with it while watching it.

Of course what can I say about Citizen Kane. Saw it for the first time in a college film class years ago and the analysis of it by my instructor makes this one of the few movies that I can really appreciate for what it is. With that said my favorite movie of all time is Vertigo.

Nice to hear that City Lights is as great as I predict it to be. I actually found a 4 dvd set of Chaplin short films for only $6.99 with my lucky self t:. I still haven't seen Vertigo yet.

And to Polaris, they are most likely typing their favorite director's name into google and then adding "'s favorite films"

 

[Sarge 2.0]

Cameron Crowe:

1. The Apartment
2. La Regle du jeu
3. La Dolce Vita
4. Manhattan
5. The Best Years Of Our Lives
6. To Kill a Mockingbird
7. Harold and Maude
8. Pulp Fiction
9. Quadrophenia
10. Ninotchka

Richard Linklater:

1. Some Came Running
2. Pickpocket
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. Goodfellas
5. La Maman et la putain
6. Los Olvidados
7. In a Year with Thirteen Moons
8. Citizen Kane
9. Fanny and Alexander
10. Carmen Jones

Michael Mann:

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Battleship Potemkin
3. Citizen Kane
4. Dr. Strangelove
5. Faust
6. Last Year at Marienbad
7. My Darling Clementine
8. The Passion of Joan of Arc
9. Raging Bull
10. The Wild Bunch

Joel Shumacher (his list is actually excellent...)

1. Battleship Potemkin
2. Lawrence of Arabia
3. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
4. Bicycle Thieves
5. Breaking the Waves
6. A Clockwork Orange
7. The Conversation
8. Sunset Blvd.
9. Stalker
10. The Conformist

Seriously, Shumacher's list is impressive. I just wish that his films were as good as his favorites...

Quentin Tarantino:

1. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
2. Rio Bravo
3. Taxi Driver
4. His Girl Friday
5. Rolling Thunder
6. They All Laughed
7. The Great Escape
8. Carrie
9. Coffy
10. Dazed and Confused
11. Five Fingers of Death
12. Hi Diddle Diddle

 

[Drizzle]

"King Kong" (1933) is Peter Jackson's favorite film.

 

[Evil Twin]

Sight and Sound runs a poll once a decade. Here's how a bunch of notable directors voted in 2002.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/list.php?list=voters&votertype=director

 

[Gunga Diner]

Sam Raimi's top three are:

1) The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948)
2) The Big Lebowski (1998)
3) Psycho (1960)

 

[Drizzle]

Kevin Smith's favorite movies:

1. JFK (1991)
2. A Man For All Seasons (1966)
3. Jaws (1975)
4. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
5. Do The Right Thing (1989)

 

[Gunga Diner]

Kevin Smith's favorite movies:

1. JFK (1991)
2. A Man For All Seasons (1966)
3. Jaws (1975)
4. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
5. Do The Right Thing (1989)

A fine list. But are you sure they're in that order?

 

[[A]]

Kevin Smith's favorite movies:

1. JFK (1991)
2. A Man For All Seasons (1966)
3. Jaws (1975)
4. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
5. Do The Right Thing (1989)

..and he didn't learn a thing.

 

[gwynplaine]

Marty Scorsese's:

1. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
2. Duel in the Sun (Vidor, 1946)
3. Invaders from Mars (Menzies, 1953)
4. Leave Her to Heaven (Stahl, 1946)
5. Moby Dick (Huston, 1956)
6. Phantom of the Opera (Lubin, 1943)
7. The Red Shoes (Powell, 1948)
8. The Searchers (Ford, 1956)
9. Singin' in the Rain (Donen, 1952)
10. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

Wow. Just for that I will check out Shutter Island.t:

 

[Polaris23]

David Lynch's favourite films:

Sunset Boulevard
It's a Gift
Rear Window
and a bunch of Stanley Kubrick (of course!)