Your favorite three-movie run by a director?

Lots of great films listed.
Here's a shout out to Jim Jarmusch:

Stranger Than Paradise
Down By Law
Mystery Train

 

Hitchcock six in a row:

The Man Who Knew Too Much
The 39 Steps
Secret Agent
Sabotage
Young and Innocent
The Lady Vanishes

Whew!

 

I quite liked Peter Jackson's Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and Return of the King. Chris Nolan had a good run with Dark Knight Rises, Interstellar and Dunkirk probably others will think he had a better 3 movie run. I think I'm going more for the ones I liked the most. I haven't decided about Steven Spielberg.

 

Can you get it down to three, though?

Several of the directors I’ve mentioned I could’ve listed longer runs for, but the challenge is to list just your three favourites, which can involve making some tough choices.

 

Werner Herzog:



Grizzly Man
The Wild Blue Yonder
Rescue Dawn
Encounters at the End of the World
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

 

I have never seen Doctor Zhivago, so for me, the only one that beats out Hitchcock is Sergio Leone with my three favorite westerns:
A Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

 

Andrew Dominik. He is sooooo underrated: "The Assassination of Jesse James, etc"... "Killing Them Softly", "Once More with Feeling (Nick Cave Doc). Someone give this guy a budget or a Godzilla movie or something. He is truly a visual poet who places his gifts at the service of the story, and the narrative themes.

 

Kurasawa - Yojimbo, Sanjuro, High and Low

 

Mike Nichols
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
The Graduate
Catch-22
(had a short, Teach Me, in there)

 

I haven't seen Miracle in Milan. Want to see it now.

 

Sam Raimi: Evil Dead II, Darkman, Army of Darkness
John Landis: Animal House, The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London
Bob Fosse: Cabaret, Lenny, All That Jazz

 

Sergio Leone

A Fistful of Dollars - For a Few Dollars More - The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly - Bonus: Once Upon A Time in the West

Alfred Hitchcock

Vertigo - North by Northwest - Psycho - Bonus: The Birds

M Night Shyamalan

Sixth Sense - Unbreakable - Signs - Bonus: The Village

Christopher Nolan

The Prestige - The Dark Knight - Inception

Russo Brothers

Captain America: The Winter Soldier - Captain America: Civil War - Avengers: Infinity War

Tim Burton

Pee Wee's Big Adventure - Beetlejuice - Batman

 

Yeah, this was my answer. Walter Hill caught lightning a bottle for a good stretch there. I don't really have a favorite director any longer, and these films wouldn't make my top-10, but I grew up with these. In fact, when I was a kid, I had no idea that they were all directed by the same guy. They were simply on VHS rotation in my home, so I watched them whenever they were on.

That's so cool that I naturally gravitated to Hill's films, with no idea that they were connected.

 

John Carpenter

The Fog
Escape from New York
The Thing

Hal Ashby

Harold & Maude
The Last Detail
Shampoo

 

Woody Allen - Love and Death, Annie Hall, Manhattan
Mel Brooks - Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie
William Friedkin - The French Connection, The Exorcist, Sorcerer
Charlie Chaplin - City Lights, Modern Times, The Great Dictator
Billy Wilder - Witness for the Prosecution, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment
Sidney Lumet - Murder on the Orient Express, Dog Day Afternoon, Network
Francis Ford Coppola - Godfather, The Conversation, Godfather 2

 

Probably mentioned before, but one of my personal favorites:

Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight

 

Alexander Payne

Election
About Schmidt
Sideways

 

Terry Gilliam

Time Bandits
Brazil
The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen

 

Great thread. Not sure we've have seen Malick yet :

Badlands
Days of Heaven
The Thin Red Line

 

My favorite Woody Allen run would be Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose and The Purple Rose of Cairo.

 

Carol Reed: Odd Man Out; The Fallen Idol; The Third Man

 

Howard Hawks:
Bringing Up Baby, Only Angels Have Wings, His Girl Friday

If I could erase The BFG from history I would say Spielberg was on a late period roll with Lincoln, Bridge of Spies and The Post.

 

Woody Allen - interiors / manhatten / stardust memories

Another shoutout to bob fosse! - caberet / lenny / all that jazz

Krzysztof kieslowski - Three colors: blue / white / red

Francis Ford Coppola - the godfather / the conversation / the godfather part II

Federico Fellini - 8 1/2 - juliet of the spirits - fellini’s satyricon

Polanski mach I - knife in the water / repulsion / cul-de-sac

Polanski mach II - chinatown / the tenant / tess

Paul Thomas Anderson - there will be blood / the master / inherent vice

Quentin Tarantino - resevoir dogs / pulp fiction / jackie brown

Andrei Tarkovsky - solaris - the mirror - stalker

Stanley Kubrick - dr.strangelove .... / 2001 ..../ a clockwork orange

David Lean - bridge .... / Lawrence .... / Doctor ....

William Friedkin - the french connection / the exorcist / sorcerer

Ridley Scott - the duellists / alien / blade runner

Denis Villeneuve - sicario / arrival / blade runner 2049

Wong Kar-Wai - chungking express / ashes of time / fallen angels

George Lucas - thx 1138 / american graffiti / star wars

Steven Spielberg - saving private ryan / a.i. Artificial intelligence / minority report

David Fincher - se7en / the game / fight club

Steven Soderbergh - the limey / erin brockovich / traffic

David Cronenberg - the fly / dead ringers / naked lunch

Alphonso cuaron - y tu mama tambien / children of men / gravity

Darren Aronofsky - the fountain / the wrestler / black swan

Clint Eastwood - the outlaw josey wales / the gauntlet / bronco billy

Steve McQueen - hunger / shame / 12 years a slave

David Lynch - lost highway / the straight story / mulholland dr.

Michael Haeneke - cache / funny games / the white ribbon

Powell & Pressburger - a matter of life and death / black narcissus / the red shoes

Terrence Malick - the thin red line / the new world / the tree of life



I have some bizarre love of making lists that is really showing itself today ..... Time to return to reality i think lol

 

Hitchcock

Vertigo/North By Northwest/ Psycho

 

Yorgos Lanthimos:
The Lobster
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The Favourite