List by Travis Lytle
The Directors' 50: My five favorite films from my ten favorite directors
As part one in a potential series celebrating filmmakers, here are my five favorite films from my ten favorite directors. The films are ranked (in their respective rows); the directors are not.
Honorable mention: Bird, The Coen Brothers, Costner, Gilliam, Soderbergh, and Wyler.
Nice list. Love the inclusion of Edward Zwick. He's got some solid fucking movies under his belt. You should have included the Coens though!
Thanks, Aaron. Zwick is very underappreciated, yet he has such a standout body of work; and the Coens will be on this when I expand it. I'd like to include all of the honorable mentions.
Wonderful list, I'm going to have a go at this myself.
Thank you, Dirk!
I almost included Soderbergh myself, but I'll need to check out a few of his earlier films first before he can make it. I love Out of Sight and the Limey.
I like the idea of Soderbergh more than I like his specific films, if that makes any sense. I love "Out of Sight," and "Erin Brockovich;" after those it's all stuff I appreciate, but don't get too excited over.
Makes total sense. I like him quite a bit but I get where you're coming from.
I can go a little deeper than you with Soderberg, but I have about the same reaction to Nolan: Batman was the beginning of the end for me.
Nolan is my favorite director working today. Love the Batman stuff, but I can't wait for projects outside of Gotham if you know what I mean.
Great list Travis. Mel Brooks is awesome, just wouldn't make my personal top directors list...Interesting that you don't have Fight Club in your Fincher top 5, are you not a fan? Seven is a VERY close second for me...in fact, probably will be my #1 after some rewatches.
I'm not a huge Nolan fan, although I love his Batman stuff. Loved The Prestige the first time I saw it, but didn't enjoy it as much down the road. Inception was the same way for me.
Goodfellas is my all time favorite movie, I LOVED Hugo, just couldn't work it into my top 5 for Scorsese.
No love for Blade Runner???? My third favorite movie of all time.
It's so hard to pick 5 for Spielberg...not to mention most of the directors on your list...great stuff! It's interesting to see we have similarities in our favorite directors but disagree on their top movies.
Thanks, Josh!
I have no love for "Fight Club." I couldn't connect with it when I saw it during its release. It's probably worth rewatching and reassessing.
For me, "The Prestige" is immensely rewatchable, but I understand how it might not work for some people.
"Blade Runner" is an icon; I just like the other five better...but that's a really tough one to leave out...second guessing myself now...
Nice picks Travis! Have you seen Taxi Driver?? I'm surprised you didn't include it on your list
Thanks! I'm afraid to admit that I've never seen TD all the way through.
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I noticed you said Nolan is your favorite and you can't wait for new work outside of Batma, did you hear he is prepping Interstellar about a space ship venturing into space in search of a black hole?
I hadn't heard that. That sounds very interesting!
Nice list. Are the films ranked favourite on the left or the right?
Thank you, Con Doyle. They move from left to right in order of highest favorite.
4 Batman films and no Dark Knight?!? Otherwise, nice list.
Yeah...well...