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Top 10 Directors w/ 3 of their Best Movies

posted 4 years ago by BillHicksFan (10091)
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(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

[–] BillHicksFan (10091) 4 years ago

no one? nothing? or not enough room due to the sexually frustrated threads?

[–] BillySlater (4096) 4 years ago

lol. I would post but I don´t know if I can come up with 10 directors I really like.

[–] BillHicksFan (10091) 4 years ago

Do whatever you can.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20413) 4 years ago

I could easily post a list of my “favorite” directors but only a couple of those would be worthy of being called the best. :)

[–] zephyr_cape (2979) 4 years ago

A lot of these I haven't seen and the rest are A1. Def adding them all to my watchlist. Thanks Bill. : )

[–] BillHicksFan (10091) 4 years ago

You're very welcome. I hope you enjoy! If you need help finding the movie and/or subtitles, send me a PM>

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20413) 4 years ago

These are my favorites but I could have listed more:

Fernando Di Leo
Caliber 9 (1972)
The Italian Connection (1972)
Il Boss (1973)

Steven Spielberg
Jaws (1975)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Umberto Lenzi
Man From Deep River (1972)
Nightmare City (1980)
Seven Blood Stained Orchids (1972)

Dario Argento
Suspiria (1977)
Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Phenomena (1985)

Stanley Kubrick
The Shining (1980)
Dr Strangelove (1964)
Full Metal Jacket (1997)

Werner Herzog
Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972),
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)

Sergio Leone
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966)
A Fistful of Dynamite (1972)

Quentin Tarantino
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Death Proof (2007)
Kill Bill (2003)

The Cohen Brothers
No Country for Old Men (2007)
The Big Lebowski (1997)
True Grit (2010)

John Carpenter
The Thing (1982)
Halloween (1978)
Starman (1984)

[–] BuckSwope (3511) 4 years ago

Wow this forum has people(such as you) that are just so far ahead of me in the film dept.

I'll drop a few...….

P.T. Anderson
1. Magnolia
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Boogie Nights

Spielberg
1. Duel
2. Jaws
3. Close Encounters

Side note-I met Richard Dreyfus once in an executives office on Paramount studios when I was 15. He was working on a script and read some stuff to the people in the room. He made it a point to engage me and ask my opinion. It was a kind gesture I will never forget. He was writing a comedy and I found his wit to be amazing.

Tarantino
1. Jackie Brown
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Reservoir Dogs

Scorsese
1. Goodfellas(my #1 movie of all-time)
2. Taxi Driver
3. Mean Streets

That's all I have off the top of my head. As I said I am not on your level.

Did a little looking up.....I'll drop these 2 directors in the mix...

Rob Reiner.
1. This Is Spinal Tap
2. Stand By Me
3. A Few Good Men

Frank Capra
1. Arsenic and Old Lace
2. It's a Wonderful Life
3. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20413) 4 years ago

Same here on BillHick’s list. It seems a tad more cultured than mine.

I have probably watched There Will be Blood at least once a year since 2007.

It seems like a lot of people really like Duel and I’ve yet to see it. I need to check it out. Welcome to the forums Buck. :)

[–] BuckSwope (3511) 4 years ago

Thanks. "Duel" really shows you that the unknown is the most frightening thing there is. Spielberg did the same thing in "Jaws", partly out of necessity. The shark wasn't operating well, so they had to improvise. The barrels disappearing and wondering where the shark was is the most intense part. Carpenter's "The Thing" is another example. Hell you don't even know during the final scene if Russell's and/or Keith David's characters were the "Thing" or not. I personally think they were both still human but that is another conversation. Tarantino used the same formula in "Reservoir Dogs".

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Thanks for sharing your favourites BHF, some titles I'm going to track down there. So glad to see you included The Misfits in your top Huston films, I think it's quite underrated.

As for mine:

The Coen Brothers
- Barton Fink
- Fargo
- No Country For Old Men

Quentin Tarantino
- Inglourious Basterds
- Jackie Brown
- Django Unchained

Ang Lee
- The Wedding Banquet
- Life of Pi
- Brokeback Mountain

Woody Allen
- Husbands and Wives
- Blue Jasmine
- Bullets Over Broadway

Mike Nichols
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- The Graduate
- Postcards From The Edge

Pedro Almodovar
- All About My Mother
- Bad Education
- Law of Desire

Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Delicatessen
- The City of Lost Children
- Amelie

James Mangold
- Cop Land
- Logan
- 3:10 to Yuma

Taika Waititi
- Boy
- What We Do In The Shadows
- Hunt For The Wilderpeople

Christopher Nolan
- Memento
- Inception
- The Dark Knight trilogy

Feel bad leaving out directors like Hitchcock, Cronenberg, Donaldson, Lynch, Boyle, Frears and Noyce, any of them could appear in my Top 10 depending on my mood.

[–] BillHicksFan (10091) 4 years ago

Underrated and unfortunately, the last films of 3 stars. One might have been released after...

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20413) 4 years ago

Cronenberg and Lynch could have appeared in mine also.

[–] lud (5927) 4 years ago

Leone:
1, FAF$M
2, GBU
3, OUATIA

Tarantino:
1, PF
2, THE
3, JB

Scorsese:
1, TD
2, RG
3, CAS

Hitchcock:
1, VERT
2, PSYC
3, TCAT

Bergman:
1, 7th SEAL
2, TWS
3, PERS

Spielberg:
1, DUEL
2, CMIYC
3, TCP

Eastwood:
1, HPD
2, APW
3, GT

Kurosawa:
1, RASH
2, RAN
3, TOB

Fincher:
1, GG
2, 7
3, ZOD

McTiernan:
1, LAH
2, PRED
3, DH