List by Adam Cook Patron
100 Favourite Directors and Their Best Films
What started out as a good idea for a list soon become a monumental headache as I tried to rank the directors in order. It was a foolish task to undertake (how do you really rank directors with vastly different bodies of work?) but I have tried my best.
Please remember this is a deeply personal and subjective list. I am not stating these are the best directors merely they are my own favourites and that goes for the films I have used to represent the director's work.
The director names are in the list view.
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Well Coppola is so high on the list because his other films are classic too but for me The Conversation is as near to perfect as you can get. Hackman has never been better (which is impressive given his career) and Walter Murch's sound design is just stunning.
Agree 100% with Punch-Drunk Love. Definitely my favorite PT Anderson.
Damn straight.
If I did a list like this of my own (which I might), it would be suspiciously similar. You've highlighted nearly all of my favourite directors, and dozens more. Fantastic list with even better choices. Glad to see Ordet here instead of Passion of Joan of Arc. Both are perfect films, but Ordet is a hundred times better, if that's possible.
Yep, I've gone and done my own version: letterboxd.com/southernvision/list/great-directors-and-their-best-films/
I'm not sure it is statistically possible to make a film 100 times better than Passion of Joan of Arc but I do get what you mean.
is spielberg overated? don't get me wrong i love some of his movies, duel, the first three indiana jones movies, close encounters, schindlers list is his masterpiece. however i find a lot of his work cheap and sentimental.
Well it is a personal list and any man who made Raiders, Jurassic Park, Jaws, Close Encounters, ET, Last Crusade and Schindler's List deserves recognition. Is he sentimental? Certainly. But he is also the main reason I fell in love with film in the first place and he is responsible for the finest blockbusters ever made.
I don't love everything he has made and it has been over a decade since his last great film but it doesn't alter the fact he was responsible for some of my all time favourite movies.
whats your favourite spielberg moment. nice choice with dead mans shoes over this is england for shane meadows
Wow, that is a tough question. The whole of Raiders, the kitchen sequence from Jurassic Park or the opening in Jaws would be up there.
Dead Man's Shoes is a brilliant revenge movie with surprising heart. As much as I like This is England I'd even put A Room for Romeo Brass ahead of it.