Top 10 Directors w/ 3 of their Best Movies

(in order)


Vittorio De Sica
-Umberto D
-Shoeshine
-Bicycle Thieves

Luchino Visconti
-La Terra Trema
-Bellissima
-Rocco and His Brothers

Robert Bresson
-Pickpocket
-A Man Escaped
-Au hasard Balthazar

Frank Capra
-Mr. Deeds Goes To Town
-You Can't Take It With You!
-Mr. Smith Goes To Washington

John Cassavetes
-A Woman Under The Influence
-A Child Is Waiting
-Minnie and Moskowitz

Ingmar Bergman
-The Seventh Seal
-Wild Strawberries
-Persona

Ken Loach
-I, Daniel Blake
-Riff-Raff
-Looks and Smiles

Mike Leigh
-All or Nothing
-Naked
-Nuts in May

John Huston
-The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
-Fat City
-The Misfits

Hal Ashby
-Harold and Maude
-The Last Detail
-The Landlord

 

Did you mean to put this in a different part of the forum?

 

Oops! And I just missed the delete deadline. Sorry.

 

Oh, I don't mind ... I was just scratching my head a little.
A gort should be able to move it!

 

For Alfred Hitchcock I 'm not going with the usual suspect ' Vertigo '
My top three of his :
' Lifeboat'--- great movie with one location.
'Psycho'---because it's 'Psycho '
' Frenzy '--- one of his last and a great film.

 

I seem to like/love movies made in one location and liked "Lifeboat". I also like "Frenzy", but my 3rd would probably be "Dial M For Murder" (I like Milland, too) or maybe "Strangers On a Train"

 

Richard Lester -

A Hard Day's Night (1964)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
How I Won the War (also producer, 1967)

 

' Dial M For Murder ' is another great one. That Grace Kelly --- hey now!
Since you mentioned ' Strangers on a Train ' I have a slight beef with something that happens in that movie...
I don't quite recall the details but the character drops something down a manhole sewer and has to retrieve it . He sticks his arm in and struggles and struggles to pick it up. And he does but it falls out of his fingers and lands even farther down. He again struggles and struggles to get it and finally does. There is something wonky about this whole scene. If you've seen it you know what I mean.

 

I am not a Director kind of watcher, but Wes Anderson makes quirky interesting movies.

 

Woody Allen:
Manhattan (1979)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

Limiting it to three was a dilemma.

 

I think that was the first Hitchcock I'd seen, and it was one of a few times I watched a movie in the late evening (and was pretty buzzed 30 minutes into it).. I'll definitely re-watch it once I finish a few I haven't seen of his. "Marnie" is one that comes to mind.

Where does "Annie Hall" rank in your list?

 

Stanley Kubrick:
Paths of Glory (1957)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

 

Great Kubrick movie. Great Kirk Douglas movie. Great anti-war movie. Great black and white movie. Great movie!

 

Surprisingly low. Although I enjoy it ("That's okay -- we'll walk to the curb from here") and appreciate it introduced his more sophisticated (and satisfying) style, I rate all of these higher:
Interiors (1978) Extremely well done but certainly no fun!
Broadway Danny Rose (1984) The subplot with Nick Apollo Forte is funny, sad and beautifully observed, all at the same time.
Bullets Over Broadway (1994) That the gangster turns out to be a better writer than the playwright is one of his greatest (and most productive) plot devices.
Match Point (2005) A tight thriller -- unusual for Allen.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) Enchanting, funny and sad all at the same time, like all of his best work.
Midnight in Paris (2011) A literary, name-dropping, time-traveling fantasy only Allen could make.
Blue Jasmine (2013) Cate Blanchett portrays the most tragic figure of any Allen movie -- and she brought it all upon herself.

 

Time flies. I just realized the most recent movie of his is 30 years old. I love conversational movies, and I'd probably wanna see one with him in it, but I did like "Another Woman" (Gena Rowlands is one of my favorites).

 

Same here. Hard for me to think of directors I've enjoyed many movies from.

 

Good one. Nice twist ending.

 

There are probably some obvious ones like Scorcese, Eastwood, Kubrik and Tarantino, but it is outside my wheelhouse. I like a good movie, and the ground for that is always changing lol

 

John Waters: Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos, Polyester
Werner Herzog: Kaspar Hauser, Aguierre, Fitzcarraldo
John Ford: Fort Apache, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, My Darling Clementine
Kubrick: Barry Lyndon, The Killing, Dr. Strangelove
Verhoven: Starship Troopers, Robocop, Total Recall
Linklater: School of Rock, Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise
Roger Corman: A Bucket of Blood, The Trip, The Raven
Scorsese: King of Comedy, GoodFellas, The Last Waltz
F.F. Coppola: Godfather, G II, Apocalpyse Now
Paul Bartel: Death Race 2000, Eating Raoul, Scenes from the Class Strubb

 

Scorcese (Casino, GoodFellas, and a couple of others) is an exception, as is Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Back To The Future, and CastAway). Spielberg & Lucas for the Indiana Jones and original Star Wars movies.

 

Yea they may not be hip, but they are great movies.
I am a Lord Of The Rings nerd. I loved the books when I was a kid, and when I heard they were making a movie/s I was pretty rapped. So I could probably say Jackson, because he did a good job... I reckon, anyway lol

 

I have many favorite directors so this will be fun.

Akira Kurosawa
Thorn of Blood
Ran
Ikiru

Luis Bunuel
Exterminating Angel
Viridiana
The Phantom of Liberty

Stanley Kubrick
The Shining
Dr. Strangelove
Lolita

Charlie Chaplin
City Lights
Modern Times
The Gold Rush

Woody Allen
Bananas
Love and Death
Broadway Danny Rose

Jean-Pierre Melville
Le Silence de la Mer
Le Cercle Rouge
Le Doulos

Martin Scorsese
Raging Bull
Taxi Driver
Casino

Rainier Werner Fassbinder
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Veronika Voss
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Fritz Lang
Scarlett Street
The Woman in the Window
M

Alfred Hitchcock
Strangers on a Train
Vertigo
Rope

other top favorites that almost made the list are: Orson Welles, Federico Fellini, John Huston, Sergio Leone, Francis Ford Coppola, David Lynch, Roger Corman

 

Nice! Totally underrated as a director. One of my favorites. My three would be: X- The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, Bucket of Blood, The Intruder

 

Great list. All different from mine, but all excellent directors. I will be adding a few of these movies I haven't seen to my watch list.

 

Not sure what you mean when you say "I just realized the most recent movie of his is 30 years old."

I must not be reading it correctly -- care to clarify?