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April 17th 2007 09:43
10 Favourite Films by Popular Directors
Apologies- Really busy at the moment and so John Doe can only do a short post today.
This is not a list of Johnnys Favourite Directors. instead he was inspired by Cib’s latest blog entitled Great Directors worst films.
JD just thought it would be fun to share his 10 favourite Films from each of the Directors mentioned over at 20/20 Filmsight.
Brian De Palma
1. Blow Out
2. Carrie
3. Scarface
4. The Untouchables
5. Carlito’s Way
6. Dressed To Kill
7. Greetings
8. The Fury
9. Home Movies
10. Hi Mom
Martin Scorsese
1. Mean Streets
2. Taxi Driver
3. Raging Bull
4. Goodfellas
5. The Last Waltz
6. After Hours
7. The King of Comedy
8. The Last Temptation of Christ
9. Bringing Out The Dead
10. Kundun
Alfred Hitchcock
1.Shadow of A Doubt
2. Spellbound
3. Vertigo
4. Psycho
5. Frenzy
6. Rebecca
7. The Lady Vanishes
8. Dial M For Murder
9. Rope
10. Lifeboat
Steven Spielberg
1. Jaws
2. Raiders of The Lost Ark
3. Close Encounters of The Third Kind
4. Empire of The Sun
5. Duel
6. Sugarland Express
7. Always
8. Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
9. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
10. A.I
Sam Peckinpah
1. The Wild Bunch
2. The Getaway
3.Straw Dogs
4. Bring me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
5. Cross of Iron
6. Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid
7. Ride the High Country
8. Major Dundee
9. The Killer Elite
10. Junior Bonner
Ridley Scott
1. Blade Runner
2. Alien
3. The Duellists
4. Black Rain
5. Hannibal
6. Someone to Watch Over Me
7. Black Hawk Down
8. White Squall
9. Matchstick Men
10. Gladiator
Akira Kurosawa
1. Seven Samurai
2. Yojimbo
3. Ran
4. Kagemusha
5. Throne of Blood
6. Stray Dog
7. Sanjuro
8. Ikiru
9. Heaven and Hell
10. Red Beard
Terry Gilliam
1. Brazil
2. Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
3. Monty Python and The Holy Grail
4. The Fisher King
5. Twelve Monkeys
6. The Adventures of Baron Munchassen
7. Time Bandits
8. Jabberwocky
9. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
10. Reserved for: Tideland
Here is an entertaining interview with Johnny Depp and Director Terry Gilliam talking about Fear and Loathing.
Stanley Kubrick
1. Clockwork Orange
2. 2001
3. The Shining
4. The Killing
5. Dr Stangelove
6. Sparticus
7. Paths of Glory
8. Lolita
9. Full Metal Jacket
10.Killers Kiss
Here is an informative little doco on visionary Director Stanley Kubrick.
So what are your faves?
Apologies- Really busy at the moment and so John Doe can only do a short post today.
This is not a list of Johnnys Favourite Directors. instead he was inspired by Cib’s latest blog entitled Great Directors worst films.
JD just thought it would be fun to share his 10 favourite Films from each of the Directors mentioned over at 20/20 Filmsight.
Brian De Palma
1. Blow Out
2. Carrie
3. Scarface
4. The Untouchables
5. Carlito’s Way
6. Dressed To Kill
7. Greetings
8. The Fury
9. Home Movies
10. Hi Mom
Martin Scorsese
1. Mean Streets
2. Taxi Driver
3. Raging Bull
4. Goodfellas
5. The Last Waltz
6. After Hours
7. The King of Comedy
8. The Last Temptation of Christ
9. Bringing Out The Dead
10. Kundun
Alfred Hitchcock
1.Shadow of A Doubt
2. Spellbound
3. Vertigo
4. Psycho
5. Frenzy
6. Rebecca
7. The Lady Vanishes
8. Dial M For Murder
9. Rope
10. Lifeboat
Steven Spielberg
1. Jaws
2. Raiders of The Lost Ark
3. Close Encounters of The Third Kind
4. Empire of The Sun
5. Duel
6. Sugarland Express
7. Always
8. Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
9. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
10. A.I
Sam Peckinpah
1. The Wild Bunch
2. The Getaway
3.Straw Dogs
4. Bring me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
5. Cross of Iron
6. Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid
7. Ride the High Country
8. Major Dundee
9. The Killer Elite
10. Junior Bonner
Ridley Scott
1. Blade Runner
2. Alien
3. The Duellists
4. Black Rain
5. Hannibal
6. Someone to Watch Over Me
7. Black Hawk Down
8. White Squall
9. Matchstick Men
10. Gladiator
Akira Kurosawa
1. Seven Samurai
2. Yojimbo
3. Ran
4. Kagemusha
5. Throne of Blood
6. Stray Dog
7. Sanjuro
8. Ikiru
9. Heaven and Hell
10. Red Beard
Terry Gilliam
1. Brazil
2. Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
3. Monty Python and The Holy Grail
4. The Fisher King
5. Twelve Monkeys
6. The Adventures of Baron Munchassen
7. Time Bandits
8. Jabberwocky
9. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
10. Reserved for: Tideland
Here is an entertaining interview with Johnny Depp and Director Terry Gilliam talking about Fear and Loathing.
Stanley Kubrick
1. Clockwork Orange
2. 2001
3. The Shining
4. The Killing
5. Dr Stangelove
6. Sparticus
7. Paths of Glory
8. Lolita
9. Full Metal Jacket
10.Killers Kiss
Here is an informative little doco on visionary Director Stanley Kubrick.
So what are your faves?
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Comment by yoda76
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Scorsese:
1. Goodfellas
2. Raging Bull
3. Taxi Driver
4. The Departed
5. Mean Streets
My #4 was notably missing from your list - you didn't dig The Departed?
;o)
Comment by JohnDoe
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I loved Infernal Affairs and thought the Departed was a worthy remake, but still not a patch on Scorsese's finest...It just seemed very generic and lacked the gravitas that drives most of his best work....for me not Top 10 material but still an OK film and better than Gangs of NY and The Aviator.
Thanks for the nod...
Comment by Bryn
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Game on.
Brian De Palma
1. Scarface
2. Blow Out
3. Carlito's Way
4. Dressed to Kill
5. Carrie
6. The Untouchables
7. Raising Cain
8. Femme Fatale
9. Sisters
10. Snake Eyes
Martin Scorsese
1. Goodfellas
2. Taxi Driver
3. Raging Bull
4. Afterhours
5. Mean Streets
6. The King of Comedy
7. The Departed
8. The Last Temptation of Christ
9. Bringing out the Dead
10. The Big Shave
Ridley Scott
1. Blade Runner (my fave film of all time)
2. Alien (in my top five of all time)
3. Hannibal
4. Gladiator
5. Thelma & Louise
(can only do a top five there ... but those top two are so huge they carry a lot of weight)
Steven Spielberg
1.Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Duel
3. The Lost World
4. Close Encounters of Third Kind
5. Jaws
6. Schindler's List
7. Empire of the Sun
8. Saving Private Ryan
9. Miniority Report
10. Jurassic Park
Stanley Kubrick
1. Lolita
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. The Shining
4. Dr. Strangelove
5. Sparticus
(could only do five ...)
Alfred Hitchcock
1. North by Northwest
2. Rear Window
3. The Man who Knew Too Much (1955)
4. Vertigo
5. Psycho
6. The 39 Steps
7. Rope
8. Spellbound
9. Rebecca
10. Lifeboat
Akira Kurasawa
1. Ran
2.Kugamusha
3. Throne of Blood
4. The Seven Samurai
5. Yojimbo
(sorry, only five)
Terry Gilliam
1. Brazil
2.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
4. Time Bandits
5. Twelve Monkeys
(could only do five here too ...)
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Stray Dog is good? I've got it at home, never got around to it.
Big expectations for Tideland, eh?
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Comment by JohnDoe
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Awesome effort Bryn,
I regret that I couldn't include Sisters in my De Palma list....crazy film....Raising Cain and Femme Fatale are guilty pleasures of mine, but way to cheesy to rank in the Top 10. I know it is a favourites list and not a best of, but I just couldn't do it.
Snakes Eyes I hated, a film that consumes itself with its own stylised conceit.It should have been 30 minutes long, cut out an hour and then it would have been a cracker.
I do love Goodfellas, but for me it's far to tongue in cheek to top my lists when looked at beside Mean Streets or Taxi Driver.
Seems you really liked Jurassic Kong, way too unoriginal for me to rank. Schindler and Private Ryan look good but are hindered by heavy handed moralising and childish devices that work in fantasy but are misplaced in gritty, real life fair. Having Steven Spielberg Direct Schindler's List is like having Oprah Winfrey make a film about racism, unobjective. Spielberg is great at escapist entertainment but his observations on the real world are very knee-jerk.
You like Hitchcock at the height of his financial cinematic excess, me too. Love Rear Window and North By Northwest, listing only 10 was hard with such a prolific director. I was trying to mix it up with Hitchcock and take slices from each era of his evolution so some of the big names got dropped...The original Man Who Knew to Much is a much more engrossing film than the Doris Day remake..
Have you seen Gilliam's The Fisher King?
Comment by JohnDoe
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These are the sort of Directors that I embraced as a kid. I still see most films based purely on the Director. (More than who stars usually).
Im not huge fan of all of the Directors listed anymore but I have managed to see most of the films by them, or at least tried.
Hi KylieW,
The secret is Bryn and I watch far to many films and place a large part of our mind aside for remembering such trivial matters.
For instance, I have no idea how to change a lightbulb
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Comment by yoda76
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A lot of self-proclaimed cinephiles I have met don't even know of it's existence, let alone have seen it!
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Worth it's weight in gold for any of these, let alone all of them!!
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Comment by yoda76
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I also saw a lot of his characters from his films in his parents! No wonder he used to get them to cameo!
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Check out the link.
This was fun...
;o)
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Someone's in a cheeky mood tonight!
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Well when was the last time you saw me out this late??? Or around at all. ; )
If you think I'm in a cheeky mood just for tonight, go and check out my post for today - you seem to have nothing better to do with your time tonight. ; )
Let me know when you're done! : )
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Unintentional FUBAR on the spelling, should really edit comments before posting. Though it does work in context by happenstance....
You got me shakin, so Im headin over to check out todays fun facts.
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