5 x 5: Five Favorite Films by Your Five Favorite Directors

[onetet]

Some more list-making for an overcast fall afternoon:
Pick your five favorite directors, and rank your five favorite films by them.

Note: favorite, not "best." The only criteria is your love of the given director and film.


Rainer Werner Fassbinder:
1) Martha
2) Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
3) Fox and His Friends
4) Satan's Brew
5) Third Generation

Frederick Wiseman:
1) Law and Order
2) High School
3) Hospital
4) Titicut Follies
5) Juvenile Court

Claire Denis:
1) Trouble Every Day
2) 35 Shots of Rum
3) I Can't Sleep
4) Beau Travail
5) Nenette and Boni

Billy Wilder:
1) Sunset Boulevard
2) Some Like It Hot
3) One, Two, Three
4) The Apartment
5) The Lost Weekend

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

[kurtis21]

My favorite directors and movies are.....................

David Fincher:
1) Se7en
2) The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
3) Zodiac
4) The Game
5) Fight Club

Chris Nolan:
1) The Dark Knight
2) Inception
3) The Dark Knight Rises
4) The Prestige
5) Batman Begins

Stephen Spielberg:
1) Jurassic Park
2) Jaws
3) Raiders Of The Lost Ark
4) Saving Private Ryan
5) Schlinder's List

Ridley Scott:
1) Gladiator
2) Alien
3) Kingdom Of Heaven
4) Black Hawk Down
5) Thelma & Louise

Martin Scorsese:
1) Goodfellas
2) The Departed
3) Gangs Of New York
4) Shutter Island
5) Raging Bull

[MechaGodzilla]

I think I'm satisfied with this list.


Andrei Tarkovsky:
1. Stalker
2. Solaris
3. The Mirror
4. Sacrifice
5. Ivan's Childhood

Béla Tarr:
1. Werckmeister Harmonies
2. Satantango
3. Damnation
4. The Turin Horse
5. The Man from London

Stanley Kubrick:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Barry Lyndon
3. The Shining
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. Full Metal Jacket

Steven Spielberg:
1. Jaws
2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
3. Jurassic Park
4. Schindler's List
5. Raiders of the Lost Ark

David Lynch:
1. Eraserhead
2. Inland Empire
3. Mulholland Drive
4. Blue Velvet
5. The Straight Story

[PopcornBandit]

David Gordon Green:
1. Prince Avalanche
2. Undertow
3. Snow Angels
4. George Washington
5. All the Real Girls

Sofia Coppola:
1. Lost in Translation
2. Somewhere
3. The Virgin Suicides
4. The Bling Ring
5. Marie Antoinette

Kevin Smith:
1. Chasing Amy
2. Clerks
3. Mallrats
4. Dogma
5. Clerks II

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

Martin McDonagh (sort of cheating here but he is one of my favorite directors):
1. Seven Psychopaths
2. In Bruges

[Hucksta G]

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

Martin Scorsese
1. Goodfellas
2. Gangs of New York
3. Raging Bull
4. Taxi Driver
5. The Departed

Cameron Crowe
1. Almost Famous
2. Vanilla Sky
3. PJ20
4. Say Anything
5. Jerry Maguire

Quentin Tarantino
1. Inglorious Basterds
2. Django Unchained
3. Kill Bill Vol. 2
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Kill Bill Vol. 1

David Fincher
1. Fight Club
2. Se7en
3. Zodiac
4. The Social Network
5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

[chris_sc77]

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

Sergio Leone
1. Once Upon A Time IN The West
2. Once Upon A Time In AMerica
3. The Good the Bad & The Ugly
4. For A Few Dollars More
5. Duck You Sucker

Spike Lee
1. Do The Right Thing
2. 25th Hour
3. Malcolm X
4. When The Levees Broke / If God is Willing and the Creek Dont Rise
5. He Got Game

P.T. Anderson
1. Magnolia
2. There WIll Be Blood
3. Boogie Nights
4. Hard Eight (AKA Sidney)
5. The Master


Oliver Stone
1. JFK
2. Any Given Sunday
3. Nixon
4. Born On The 4th of July
5. Heaven And Earth

[SilentDawn]

Martin Scorcese
1. Mean Streets
2. Raging Bull
3. Goodfellas
4. The King of Comedy
5. Hugo

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

Stanley Kubrick
1. Paths of Glory
2. Dr. Strangelove
3. The Shining
4. 2001
5. Barry Lyndon

Michael Mann
1. Miami Vice
2. Thief
3. Collateral
4. Heat
5. Manhunter

John Carpenter
1. Halloween
2. The Thing
3. The Fog
4. Assault on Precinct 13
5. They Live

[SimBelm]

Rainer Werner Fassbinder:
1. Chinese Roulette
2. In a Year with 13 Moons
3. Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven
4. Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
5. Martha

Edward Yang:
1. Yi Yi
2. The Terrorizers

Eric Rohmer:
1. Pauline at the Beach
2. The Aviator's Wife
3. My Night at Maud's
4. The Collector
5. Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

Tsai Ming-liang:
1. The Wayward Cloud
2. The Hole
3. Vive l'Amour
4. What Time Is It There?
5. Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Nagisa Oshima:
1. Death by Hanging
2. A Treatise on Japanese Bawdy Songs
3. The Ceremony
4. Three Resurrected Drunkards
5. Kyoto, My Mother's Place

[Abdrewes]

Michelangelo Antonioni:
1. Red Desert
2. L'Avventura
3. L'Eclisse
4. Blow Up
5. La Notte

Terrence Malick:
1. The New World
2. The Thin Red Line
3. Tree of Life
4. Days of Heaven
5. Badlands

Martin Scorsese:
1. The Last Temptation of Christ
2. Raging Bull
3. Goodfellas
4. Taxi Driver
5. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Andrei Tarkovsky:
1. Solaris
2. Andrei Rublev
3. Stalker
4. The Sacrifice
5. Ivan's Childhood

Paul Tomas Anderson:
1. Magnolia
2. There will be Blood
3. The Master
4. Boogie Nights
5. Punch Drunk Love

[JohnnyPresley21]

Christopher Nolan

1.The Dark Knight
2.Inception
3.The Prestige
4.The Dark Knight Rises
5.Insomnia

Martin Scorsese

1.The Departed
2.Goodfellas
3.The Aviator
4.Taxi Driver
5.Raging Bull

Quentin Tarantino

1.Pulp Fiction
2.Django Unchained
3.Reservior Dogs
4.Kill Bill Vol.1
5.Jakie Brown

Ridley Scott

1.Gladiator
2.Black Hawk Down
3.Alien
4.Black Rain
5.Blade Runner
Steven Spielberg

1.Saving Private Ryan
2.Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
3.Raiders of the Lost Ark
4.Jurassic Park
5.JAWS

[onetet]

Great lists! Glad to see love for Fassbinder, Bela Tarr, Tsai Ming-liang, and many other great directors.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by onetet

Great lists! Glad to see love for Fassbinder, Bela Tarr, Tsai Ming-liang, and many other great directors.

Fassbinder would make my 10X10

[SimBelm]

Originally Posted by onetet

Great lists! Glad to see love for Fassbinder, Bela Tarr, Tsai Ming-liang, and many other great directors.

I'm still pretty jealous that you've seen Stray Dogs already! It's been getting incredible reviews all over the place.

I liked your choices too, if I'd seen more of Denis' films then she would've had a great chance at making my list. I've loved the handful I've seen, particularly Beau Travail and Nenette and Boni.

[onetet]

Originally Posted by SimBelm

I'm still pretty jealous that you've seen Stray Dogs already! It's been getting incredible reviews all over the place.

I liked your choices too, if I'd seen more of Denis' films then she would've had a great chance at making my list. I've loved the handful I've seen, particularly Beau Travail and Nenette and Boni.

Stray Dogs delivers! The one thing I'll say: if you can, make it the only movie you see on the day that you see it. It's a marathon in and of itself, and I look forward to seeing it again when it isn't the 4th film at the end of a long festival day.

A lot of Claire Denis' films are hard to see on DVD, let alone blu. I really hope Trouble Every Day makes the leap, the viewing I had of it (at TIFF with her and Vincent Gallo both present) was just perfect.

[SimBelm]

Originally Posted by onetet

Stray Dogs delivers! The one thing I'll say: if you can, make it the only movie you see on the day that you see it. It's a marathon in and of itself, and I look forward to seeing it again when it isn't the 4th film at the end of a long festival day.

A lot of Claire Denis' films are hard to see on DVD, let alone blu. I really hope Trouble Every Day makes the leap, the viewing I had of it (at TIFF with her and Vincent Gallo both present) was just perfect.

I did find I Don't Want to Sleep Alone and Goodbye, Dragon Inn to both be quite hard going the first time around so that advice is duly noted, thanks.

I've always wondered about the fatigue that must set in for people on a 4 or 5 film a day festival diet. It must be a lot harder to watch something like Wang Bing's Three Sisters or other 2.5-5 hour slow films at the end of a day, which I imagine can affect subsequent reviews.

That Trouble Every Day screening sounds sensational, I'd like to see Gallo and Denis interact as from the interviews I've seen and read with them they appear to have such different personalities. Yeah I can imagine Trouble Every Day would look spectacular on Blu, I often find with her films, moreso than other directors, a desire to see them in better quality than the DVDs.

[cinemaphile]

Most of my favorite directors don't have 5 films yet!!!

But of the ones that DO, I'll go with:

Steven Spielberg:

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. E.T.
3. Jurassic Park
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5. Saving Private Ryan

David Fincher:

1. Fight Club
2. Seven
3. The Social Network
4. Panic Room
5. Alien 3

Tony Scott:

1. Crimson Tide
2. The Last Boy Scout
3. True Romance
4. Top Gun
5. Deja Vu

John McTiernan:

1. Die Hard
2. The Hunt for Red October
3. The Thomas Crown Affair
4. Die Hard with a Vengeance
5. Predator

James Cameron:

1. T2
2. Aliens
3. Titanic
4. True Lies
5. The Abyss

[Archedamian]

Ridley Scott
1. Blade Runner
2. Gladiator
3. The Duellists
4. 1492: Conquest of Paradise
5. Black Rain

David Lean
1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. The Bridge on the River Kwai
3. Brief Encounter
4. Doctor Zhivago
5. A Passage to India

Peter Weir
1. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2. The Mosquito Coast
3. Picnic at Hanging Rock
4. Green Card
5. Dead Poets Society

Wes Anderson
1. The Darjeeling Limited
2. Rushmore
3. The Royal Tenenbaums
4. Moonrise Kingdom
5. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

F. W. Murnau
1. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
2. City Girl
3. The Last Laugh
4. Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror
5. Faust

[Walts Ghost]

Steven Spielberg

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Jurassic Park
3. E.T.
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Minority Report

David Fincher

1. Zodiac
2. The Social Network
3. Fight Club
4. Se7en
5. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Alfred Hitchcock

1. Psycho
2. Vertigo
3. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
4. North By Northwest
5. Rear Window

Tony Scott

1. Enemy of the State
2. Crimson Tide
3. Top Gun
4. Deja Vu
5. True Romance

Quentin Tarantino

1. Inglorious Basterds
2. Django Unchained
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Jackie Brown
5. Kill Bill

[csdot]

this is gonna be tough

John Carpenter
Halloween
The Thing
They Live
Big Trouble in Little China
Escape from New York

Martin Scorsese
Taxi Driver
Goodfellas
Casino
Mean Streets
King of Comedy

Stephen Spielberg
Jaws
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Jurassic Park

Ridley Scott
Blade Runner
Alien
Gladiator
Legend
Prometheus

Stanley Kubrick
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Shining
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Paths of Glory
A Clockwork Orange

painful to leave out Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Billy Wilder, Sergio Leone, and quite a few others..

[spanky87]

Quentin Tarantino:
Kill Bill
Pulp Fiction
Django Unchained
Inglourious Basterds
Jackie Brown

Roman Polanski:
Rosemary's Baby
Tess
Chinatown
Repulsion
The Pianist

Alfred Hitchcock:
Psycho
Rebecca
Notorious
Dial M For Murder
The Birds

Richard Linklater:
Dazed and Confused
Before Sunset
Before Midnight
Tape
Suburbia

Pedro Almodovar:
The Skin I Live in
Volver
Tie Me Up Tie Me Down
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Live Flesh