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
Here is the best I can give you
//http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/list.php?list=voters&votertype=director
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.
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
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.
i got the hunch from wes anderson that he was all about " the gradutate"
Sight and Sound is a UK film magazine. Check it (http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/index.html)
http://home.attbi.com/~reckja1/timeout/directors.html :(
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.
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
Fellini once listed one of his own films on his top five list (Intervista, I believe), which I think is fucking classic.
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
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
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.
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.
Quote from: children with angelsQuote 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.
Actually, that was ripped off from
On the Waterfront, which was way before
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
http://us.imdb.com/Trivia?0128445
Quote from: themodernage02ALEXANDER 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
Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one that's interested in this stuff. Really, I was hoping someone else would care. One unrelated thing though, I take it you don't like Philadelphia? I go there every summer and I really love it.
Thanks to everybody for all the info, this is tons more than I expected, wow...thank you.
let's see. off the top of my head, ummm,... not much. i got books and stuff and know i know stuff but just can't remember at the moment, i'd have to look it all up. i do know what my main man oliver stone is all about. in many books about him he always makes references to kubrick. he said that growing up kubrick was his favorite, he used to go see his movies with his dad 'n all. a clockword orange is one of his all time favorites. i can't type anymore right now.
Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) listed a bunch of films, but the only one I can remember right now is a film called What Happened Was..... I'm dying to see this film; it's supposed to be a romantic comedy/drama....
Fuck, it's too early to think right now. Sorry.
Paul Schrader has cited Pickpocket, The Searchers, Vertigo, The Conformist and Lolita as some of his favorites.
Michael Cimino, back in the 70's, said he was influenced by Sam Peckinpah, especially Junior Bonner and Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid.
Martin Scorsese, as one of his guilty pleasures, cited Exorcist II.
Kael seemed to think Exorcist II was much better than the first Exorcist. I love the first one, and haven't seen II.
I often think certain filmmakers "made" me see the films that influenced them. Just by a director I love mentioning a film THEY loved, I often felt I had to see it.
-Woody Allen got me into Bergman and Fellini.
-Scorsese got me into so many, including Sirk and Godard (quite literally- first Godard experience was Scorsese's re-release of Contempt a few years back).
-Todd Haynes got me into Fassbinder.
...just as a very few examples.
I wonder if Charlie Kaufman really likes Dressed to Kill, or if that was supposed to be some kind of joke?
Quote from: punchdrunk23Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) listed a bunch of films, but the only one I can remember right now is a film called What Happened Was..... I'm dying to see this film; it's supposed to be a romantic comedy/drama....
Fuck, it's too early to think right now. Sorry.
i remember one was Mike Leigh's Naked, which i can't find anywhere.
Atom Egoyan's favourite films:
Egoyan's Favo's (http://theyshootpictures.com/egoyanatom.htm)
Looks GREAT:
L'Argent -Robert Bresson
The Colour of Pomegranates -Sergei Parajanov
8½ Federico -Fellini
The King of Comedy -Martin Scorsese
Mirror -Andrei Tarkovsky
La Notte -Michelangelo Antonioni
The Passion of Joan of Arc -Carl Dreyer
Persona I-ngmar Bergman
Teorema Pier -Paolo Pasolini
Vivre sa Vie -Jean-Luc Godard
(Source: 1992 Sight & Sound Directors' Poll)
I also saw Andrei Tarkovsky's favo's last week. Can't find them anymore, but the list included the most heavy material ever (of course):
Bresson, Bergman, Kurosawa, maybe Ozu..
I'll search for that later.