Favorite Movies by One Hundred Directors
(a fairly random assortment of favorite movies by filmmakers whose work is meaningful to me, arranged alphabetically by director)
Woody Allen: Manhattan
Pedro Almodóvar: Pain and Glory
Robert Altman: The Player
Paul Thomas Anderson: Magnolia
Wes Anderson: Rushmore
Denys Arcand: Jesus of Montreal
Sean Baker: The Florida Project
Noah Baumbach: Mistress America
Ingmar Bergman: Wild Strawberries
Luc Besson: Léon: The Professional
Danny Boyle: 28 Days Later
Robert Bresson: Au Hasard Balthazar
Albert Brooks: Mother
Luis Buñuel: The Exterminating Angel
Tim Burton: Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
Juan José Campanella: Son of the Bride
Leos Carax: Holy Motors
John Carpenter: The Thing
Charlie Chaplin: City Lights
Joel and Ethan Coen: A Serious Man
Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather
Sofia Coppola: Lost in Translation
David Cronenberg: A History of Violence
Cameron Crowe: Say Anything…
Alfonso Cuarón: Children of Men
Frank Darabont: The Mist
Guillermo del Toro: The Devil’s Backbone
Brian De Palma: The Untouchables
Jacques Doillon: Ponette
Clint Eastwood: Unforgiven
Victor Erice: The Spirit of the Beehive
David Fincher: The Social Network
Bill Forsyth: Local Hero
Stephen Frears: The Grifters
Terry Gilliam: Twelve Monkeys
Jonathan Glazer: Sexy Beast
Michel Gondry: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Keith Gordon: The Chocolate War
Luca Guadagnino: Call Me By Your Name
Hal Hartley: Trust
Kore-eda Hirokazu: After Life
Alfred Hitchcock: Rear Window
Nicole Holofcener: Lovely and Amazing
Mamoru Hosoda: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Ron Howard: Splash
John Hughes: Planes, Trains & Automobiles
James Ivory: A Room with a View
Peter Jackson: Heavenly Creatures
Bong Joon-ho: Mother
Spike Jonze: Being John Malkovich
Mike Judge: Office Space
Miranda July: Me and You and Everyone We Know
Wong Kar-wai: In the Mood for Love
Elia Kazan: East of Eden
Ki-duk Kim: 3-Iron
Harmony Korine: Mister Lonely
Stanley Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Akira Kurosawa: Ikiru
Ang Lee: The Ice Storm
Spike Lee: Do the Right Thing
Richard Linklater: Dazed and Confused
Kenneth Lonergan: You Can Count On Me
David Lowery: A Ghost Story
Sidney Lumet: Running on Empty
David Lynch: The Straight Story
Guy Maddin: My Winnipeg
Louis Malle: Au revoir les enfants
Terence Malick: The Tree of Life
Anthony Minghella: The English Patient
Hayao Miyazaki: Kiki’s Delivery Service
Lukas Moodysson: Show Me Love
Mike Nichols: The Graduate
Christopher Nolan: The Prestige
Danny and Oxide Chung Pang: The Eye
Alexander Payne: Election
Sydney Pollack: Tootsie
Sam Raimi: A Simple Plan
Harold Ramis: Groundhog Day
Satyajit Ray: Apur Sansar
Rob Reiner: Stand by Me
Alain Resnais: Je t’aime, je t’aime
Nicolas Roeg: The Man Who Fell to Earth
John Sayles: City of Hope
Julian Schnabel: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Martin Scorsese: Goodfellas
Ridley Scott: Alien
Jim Sheridan: In America
Steven Soderbergh: Out of Sight
Steven Spielberg: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Quentin Tarantino: Reservoir Dogs
Joachim Trier: Reprise
François Truffaut: Small Change
Gus Van Sant: Elephant
Denis Villeneuve: Incendies
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Peter Weir: Picnic at Hanging Rock
Wim Wenders: Paris, Texas
James Whale: Bride of Frankenstein
Billy Wilder: The Apartment
Terry Zwigoff: Ghost World
— October 27, 2021