Filmmaker's fave films

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Ernie

June 17, 2003, 02:28:44 PM
Hey, I have this wierd interest in finding out and reading about the favorite films of the filmmaker's I like...I just think it's fun to know which films they think are the best. I saw someone post Cameron Crowe's top ten of all time and Scorsese's top ten of the 90's so I just figured their might be some more floating around. Could somebody find any similar lists made by any of the filmmaker's below? - my favorites...this isn't something I need, I won't lie...just a little challenge, I wouldn't just read these once and forget about them forever, I would definitely save them. If you can't find actual lists maybe you could compile a list of films you know the filmmaker likes or have heard them talk about into a list, that I would like just as much. Thanks.

alexander payne
alfred hitchcock
billy wilder
cameron crowe
david gordon green
david o. russell
francis ford coppola
francois truffaut
howard hawks
jean-luc godard
joel coen
john ford
john huston
jonathan demme
martin scorsese
michael ritchie
orson welles
paul thomas anderson
quentin tarantino
robert altman
sidney lumet
spike jonze
spike lee
stanley kubrick
steven spielberg
steven soderbergh
terrence malick
tim burton
wes anderson

SHAFTR

#1
June 17, 2003, 02:31:14 PM
"Talking shit about a pretty sunset
Blanketing opinions that i'll probably regret soon"

Ernie

#2
June 17, 2003, 02:34:28 PM
Wow, thank you...that's really something. Is this 'Sight and Sound' a magazine or just a website? This is really really cool, thank you. That was really fast.

SoNowThen

#3
June 17, 2003, 02:38:07 PM
Here's some mentioned from interviews or books I've read:

Payne: Casino

Wes Anderson: Barry Lyndon, tons of Bunel (I assume That Obscure Object Of Desire...)

Tarantino: in this biography I have, he lists his top three as
1. Rio Bravo
2. Taxi Driver
3. Blow Out
Those who say that the totalitarian state of the Soviet Union was not "real" Marxism also cannot admit that one simple feature of Marxism makes totalitarianism necessary:  the rejection of civil society. Since civil society is the sphere of private activity, its abolition and replacement by political society means that nothing private remains. That is already the essence of totalitarianism; and the moralistic practice of the trendy Left, which regards everything as political and sometimes reveals its hostility to free speech, does nothing to contradict this implication.

When those who hated capital and consumption (and Jews) in the 20th century murdered some hundred million people, and the poster children for the struggle against international capitalism and America are now fanatical Islamic terrorists, this puts recent enthusiasts in an awkward position. Most of them are too dense and shameless to appreciate it, and far too many are taken in by the moralistic and paternalistic rhetoric of the Left.

Ernie

#4
June 17, 2003, 02:41:51 PM
Quote from: SoNowThenHere's some mentioned from interviews or books I've read:

Payne: Casino

Wes Anderson: Barry Lyndon, tons of Bunel (I assume That Obscure Object Of Desire...)

Tarantino: in this biography I have, he lists his top three as
1. Rio Bravo
2. Taxi Driver
3. Blow Out

Lol, Alexander Payne loves Casino? That's awesome...god, I love this...

Cool to see Tarantino mention Rio Bravo and Taxi Driver...haven't heard of Blow Out...

Sucks that Wes Anderson likes Bunuel though...I didn't like Discreet Charm or Diary of a Chambermaid.

AlguienEstolamiPantalones

#5
June 17, 2003, 02:49:39 PM
i got the hunch  from wes anderson that he was all about " the gradutate"

Dirk

#6
June 17, 2003, 03:05:29 PM
Sight and Sound is a UK film magazine. Check it
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#7
June 17, 2003, 03:17:32 PM
Last five films (theater)
-The Da Vinci Code: *
-Thank You For Smoking: ***
-Silent Hill: ***1/2 (high)
-Happy Together: ***1/2
-Slither: **

Last five films (video)
-Solaris: ***1/2
-Cobra Verde: ***1/2
-My Best Fiend: **1/2
-Days of Heaven: ****
-The Thin Red Line: ***

modage

#8
June 17, 2003, 03:37:25 PM
BILLY WILDERS TOP 5 AMERICAN PICTURES
-THE INFORMER
-THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI
-THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
-THE GODFATHER PART II
-THE MALTESE FALCON

(he also mentioned Grand Illusion as being one of his favorites, but thats not american, obviously).  he also mentioned Forrest Gump as one of his favorite movies he had seen recently (before he died).

01. The Best Years of Our Lives  
02. Bicycle Thieves  
03. The Bridge on the River Kwai  
04. The Conformist  
05. Les Diaboliques  
06. La Dolce Vita  
07. 42nd Street  
08. La Grande Illusion  
09. Seduced and Abandoned (Germi)  
10. The Shop Around the Corner

CAMERON CROWES TOP 10
-THE APARTMENT (Wilder)
-LA REGLE DU JEU (Renoir)
-LA DOLCE VITA (Fellini)
-MANHATTAN (Allen)
-THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (Wyler)
-TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Mulligan)
-HAROLD AND MAUDE (Ashby)
-PULP FICTION (Tarantino)
-QUADROPHENIA (Roddam)
-NINOTCHKA (Lubbisch)

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http://www.xixax.com/viewtopic.php?t=162

QUENTIN TARANTINOS TOP 10
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone)
Rio Bravo (Hawks)
Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
His Girl Friday (Hawks)
Rolling Thunder (Flynn)
They All Laughed (Bogdanovich)
The Great Escape (J. Sturges)
Carrie (De Palma)
Coffy (Hill)
Dazed and Confused (Linklater)
Five Fingers of Death (Chang)
Hi Diddle Diddle (Stone)

plus BLOW OUT which has already been mentioned.


On a side note, i think this is a good topic.  i had tried to start listing these in their individual folders, but i'm glad someone else has an interest in these filmmakers favorite films. this will be a good resource.  thanks, ebeaman.
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#9
June 17, 2003, 03:40:48 PM
I am reading Kieslowski on Kiewslowski now and just read where he talked about making a top ten list (one on Shanghai Orange's link) but really couldn't give it any credit because he immediately forgot what films he chose besides La Strada and another that he actually discredited when later seeing. He reminds me of Kubrick, who when gave his own top ten list in the early 1960s seemed like just a general list and of no importance to him at all by way of influence or anything. Kieslowski says he is really influenced by writing while Kubrick also is influenced by writing, but also the film career of Max Ophuls and Kieslowski. Those are the only two filmmakers I could pin point on any real influence or love, but for shits and giggles, here is Kubrick's top ten from the early 1960s:

1.) I Vitelloni (Fellini)
2.) Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
3.) Citizen Kane (Welles)
4.) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston)
5.) City Lights (Chaplin)
6.) Henry V (Olivier)
7.) La Notte (Antonioni)
8.) The Bank Dick (Fields)
9.) Roxie Hart (Wellman)
10.) Hell's Angels (Hughes)

~rougerum

SoNowThen

#10
June 17, 2003, 03:46:52 PM
Fellini once listed one of his own films on his top five list (Intervista, I believe), which I think is fucking classic.
Those who say that the totalitarian state of the Soviet Union was not "real" Marxism also cannot admit that one simple feature of Marxism makes totalitarianism necessary:  the rejection of civil society. Since civil society is the sphere of private activity, its abolition and replacement by political society means that nothing private remains. That is already the essence of totalitarianism; and the moralistic practice of the trendy Left, which regards everything as political and sometimes reveals its hostility to free speech, does nothing to contradict this implication.

When those who hated capital and consumption (and Jews) in the 20th century murdered some hundred million people, and the poster children for the struggle against international capitalism and America are now fanatical Islamic terrorists, this puts recent enthusiasts in an awkward position. Most of them are too dense and shameless to appreciate it, and far too many are taken in by the moralistic and paternalistic rhetoric of the Left.

modage

#11
June 17, 2003, 03:52:04 PM
ALEXANDER PAYNE SAID
"For example, Scorsese talks not about three acts in a script, but rather five sequences. Or you watch Fellini films -- you watch "Nights of Cabiria" or "La Dolce Vita" or "8 1/2" -- and you get a sense not of a three act structure, but of episodes with on character going through all these episodes. Then you get to the end of the film and there's a sudden realization or a moment that pulls a loose string suddenly taut through the whole movie you've been watching up until that point."

"We just enjoy dialogue," he says. "I can imagine the Coen brothers working in the same way, taking the light in dialogue, in mining the American vernacular."

Payne says he does write scripts with actors in mind, but not necessarily living ones. When he wrote "Citizen Ruth," he says, he was thinking of Giulietta Masina, Federico Fellini's celebrated collaborator, and with "Schmidt" he had William Holden and John Randolph ("Seconds," "Prizzi's Honor") in mind.

Now, is there anyone out there doing satire that you're influenced by?
Taylor: Harry Shearer.
Payne: Also, when we were growing up there was That Was the Week That Was, and The Smothers Brothers, and Richard Pryor. And then National Lampoon Radio Hour. But does it really influence us?
Payne: I'm a big Tex Avery fan.


THE COEN BROS
Ethans
01. Brother's Keeper  
02. Il Bidone  
03. Salesman  
04. The Bad News Bears  
05. The Fortune  
Joels
06. The Fortune  
07. High and Low  
08. Dames  
09. Separate Tables  
10. Where Eagles Dare
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

AlguienEstolamiPantalones

#12
June 17, 2003, 04:20:47 PM
see i would of picked the bad news bears breaking training, much better then part one, and yet missing a coked out of his brain tony cutis from  part 3

children with angels

#13
June 17, 2003, 06:31:02 PM
Quote from: SoNowThenWes Anderson: tons of Bunel

Yeah, you can tell. He totally ripped off that character being-drowned-out by-background-noise-at-an-important-moment-of-dialogue thing you get in Rushmore from The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousie.
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Ghostboy

#14
June 17, 2003, 07:09:26 PM
And in the behind the scenes thing, there's a moment where tells the DP that they're going to need to have a Bunuel night, just to get ideas on how to shoot staircases.
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