Steven Spielberg's 20 Favorite Films...

[Ernest Rister]

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/steven-...s-of-all-time/

Here are Spielberg’s 20 favorite movies. I guessed his #1, because he typically screens it for the crew the night before principal photography. I didn't guess his #3, but as it's my personal favorite film of all time, I am understandably delighted. Some other surprises...here you go...

1. It’s a Wonderful Life – Frank Capra (1946)
2. The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola (1972)
3. Fantasia -Walt Disney (1940)
4. A Guy Named Joe – Victor Fleming (1943)
5. Guardians of the Galaxy – James Gunn (2014)
6. War of the Worlds – Byron Haskin (1953)
7. Psycho – Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick (1968)
9. Lawrence of Arabia – David Lean (1962)
10. Untouchable – Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano (2011)
11. The Dark Knight – Christopher Nolan (2008)
12. The 400 Blows – François Truffaut (1959)
13. Day for Night – François Truffaut (1973)
14. Citizen Kane – Orson Welles (1941)
15. Captains Courageous – Victor Fleming (1937)
16. The Best Years of Our Lives – William Wyler (1946)
17. The Searchers – John Ford (1956)
18. Tootsie – Sydney Pollack (1982)
19. Seven Samurai – Akira Kurosawa (1954)
20. Dumbo – Walt Disney (1941)

[dallywhitty]

No Blade Runner? What a hack. Cancel Spielberg.

[DanTheMan]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

No Blade Runner? What a hack. Cancel Spielberg.

Delete this.

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/steven-...s-of-all-time/

1. It’s a Wonderful Life – Frank Capra (1946)

Sorry, Stevie. You too. Delete this.

[slumcat]

That's a surprisingly garbage list.

[s2mikey]

Originally Posted by slumcat

That's a surprisingly garbage list.

Well, cmon, garbage is a tad harsh. Some on there are iffy, yes. But he’s entitled to his opinions, right?

[Canada]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

No Blade Runner? What a hack. Cancel Spielberg.

I just watched Blade Runner: The Final Cut in theatre last night, it was so boring.

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by Canada

I just watched Blade Runner: The Final Cut in theatre last night, it was so boring.

You should watch more Tarkovsky instead.

[steel_breeze]

Interesting. Some real surprises on here. Guardians of the Galaxy at #5?? What the what???

Never seen "Untouchable", so I'll have to remedy that immediately. Seen the rest, of course, but only 2001: A Space Odyssey makes it definitively onto my own "Top Ten Faves of All Time" -- which is all I ever calculate for sure, since I love so many flicks and it gets muddy from #10-20... but Citizen Kane, Seven Samurai, Lawrence of Arabia, and The Godfather would certainly be in the running for some of those slots.

My own Top Twenty would include four Spielberg-directed flicks: Raiders of the Lost Ark at #1, Close Encounters of the Third Kind at #3, Empire of the Sun at #5, and Jaws probably at #13-ish... and then the Spielberg-produced Back to the Future might just squeeze in there too, around #18-ish?

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by slumcat

That's a surprisingly garbage list.

Spielberg is an emotional guy, he communicates via emotions in his films. He quotes a lot of those filmmakers in his own work...Fleming, Ford, Wyler, Kubrick, Lean, Disney...None of those films surprise me to find on his list. I'd love to see his top 50 favorites. I imagine Curtiz and Tati would make the cut.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by steel_breeze

My own Top Twenty would include four Spielberg-directed flicks: Raiders of the Lost Ark at #1, Close Encounters of the Third Kind at #3, Empire of the Sun at #5, and Jaws probably at #13-ish... and then the Spielberg-produced Back to the Future might just squeeze in there too, around #18-ish?

Empire of the Sun would be in my top 10, easily.

[Whirlybird fan]

Ummm... I thought he loved Pinocchio? I'm surprised it's not on the list.

[Poya]

No Deadpool?

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by Whirlybird fan

Ummm... I thought he loved Pinocchio? I'm surprised it's not on the list.

"When You Wish Upon a Star" is his favorite song from a film, so figure Pinocchio is high up there.

[Hellraiserfan]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

Spielberg is an emotional guy, he communicates via emotions in his films. He quotes a lot of those filmmakers in his own work...Fleming, Ford, Wyler, Kubrick, Lean, Disney...None of those films surprise me to find on his list. I'd love to see his top 50 favorites. I imagine Curtiz and Tati would make the cut.

Hell, I wouldn't have even bothered replying to that person's post. Spielberg's list is actually pretty varied and I like most of his picks.

[Jay H.]

This isn't different from any other "best of" list I've seen. Some I like, some I don't, some I haven't seen.

This won't affect my opinion of a Spielberg movie in the slightest.

[moreorless]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

No Blade Runner? What a hack. Cancel Spielberg.

I'm actually interested to see how Blade Runner does on the Sight and Sound poll next year, you could argue the last decade has further shifted it from cult favourite to "classic" status.

[Lee A Stewart]

LOL - did any of you really expect to see one of his own films on his list?

[fettuciné]

if he chose those as his 20 favorite films then why is he sucha bad filmmaker?

[dkelly26666]

There's three on there that seem woefully out of place with the others, but what the heck, it's his list.

Every favorite movie list is always like that. There'll be some obvious choices that everyone expects, and then there's some out of left field, personal choices that surprise.

My own lists always baffle people, too, because among obvious stuff like "Citizen Kane", "The Godfather", "Jaws", "GoodFellas", or "Psycho", there's always something odd, too, like "An American Werewolf in London" or "The Last Temptation of Christ".

I'll see someone with a list that has Kubrick and Kurosawa but also "Anchorman" or something like that, LOL.

Whatever, we like what we like. And Spielberg's no different.

[CreasyBear]

Guardians of the Galaxy above 2001?

Rest is gold though and pretty spot on for him. I expected Lawrence of Arabia to be higher.