Directors Giving Out Their Top Ten Lists

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Sight and Sound put out their top ten list of greatest films last week. Sorry Citizen Kane. Here are some individual lists from directors. Tarrantino must have been confused between greatest films of all time and movies you saw when you were a kid in the 70’s. How come “The Watchers” haven’t done a podcast on this yet ?

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Woody Allen

  • “Bicycle Thieves” (1948, dir. Vittorio De Sica)
  • “The Seventh Seal” (1957, dir. Ingmar Bergman)
  • “Citizen Kane” (1941, dir. Orson Welles
  • “Amarcord” (1973, dir. Federico Fellini
  • “8 1/2” (1963, dir. Federico Fellini)
  • “The 400 Blows” (1959, dir. Francois Truffaut)
  • “Rashomon” (1950, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
  • “La Grande Illusion” (1937, dir. Jean Renoir)
  • “The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie” (1972, dir. Luis Bunuel)
  • “Paths Of Glory” (1957, dir. Stanley Kubrick)

Francis Ford Coppola

  • “Ashes And Diamonds” (1958, dir. Andrzej Wajda)
  • “The Best Years Of Our Lives” (1946, dir William Wyler)
  • “I Vitteloni” (1953, dir. Federico Fellini)
  • “The Bad Sleep Well (1960, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
  • “Yojimbo” (1961, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
  • “Singin’ In The Rain (1952, dir. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
  • “The King Of Comedy” (1983, dir Martin Scorsese)
  • “Raging Bull” (1980, dir. Martin Scorsese)
  • “The Apartment” (1960s, dir. Billy Wilder)
  • “Sunrise” (1927, dir. F.W. Murnau)

Michael Mann

  • “Apocalypse Now” (1979, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
  • “Battleship Potemkin” (1925, dir. Sergei Eisenstein)
  • “Citizen Kane” (1941, dir. Orson Welles)
  • “Avatar” (2009, dir. James Cameron)
  • “Dr. Strangelove” (1964, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
  • “Biutiful” (2010, dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
  • “My Darling Clementine” (1946, dir. John Ford)
  • “The Passion Of Joan Of Arc” (1928, dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  • “Raging Bull” (1980, dir. Martin Scorsese)
  • “The Wild Bunch” (1969, dir. Sam Peckinpah)

Martin Scorsese

  • “8 1/2” (1963, dir. Federico Fellini)
  • “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
  • “Ashes And Diamonds” (1958, dir. Andrzej Wajda)
  • “Citizen Kane” (1941, dir. Orson Welles)
  • “The Leopard” (1963, dir. Luchino Visconti)
  • “Paisan” (1946, dir. Roberto Rossellini)
  • “The Red Shoes” (1948, dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
  • “The River” (1951, dir. Jean Renoir)
  • “Salvatore Giuliano” (1962, dir. Francesco Rosi)
  • “The Searchers” (1956, dir. John Ford)
  • “Ugetsu Monogatari” (1953, dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
  • “Vertigo” (1958, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

Quentin Tarantino

  • “The Good, The Bad & The Ugly” (1966, dir. Sergio Leone)
  • “Apocalypse Now” (1979, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
  • “The Bad News Bears” (1976, dir. Michael Ritchie)
  • “Carrie” (1976, dir. Brian DePalma)
  • “Dazed And Confused” (1993, dir. Richard Linklater)
  • “The Great Escape” (1963, dir. John Sturges)
  • “His Girl Friday” (1940, dir. Howard Hawks)
  • “Jaws” (1975, dir. Steven Spielberg)
  • “Pretty Maids All In A Row (1971, dir. Roger Vadim)
  • “Rolling Thunder” (1977, dir. John Flynn)
  • “Sorcerer” (1977, dir. William Friedkin)
  • “Taxi Driver” (1976, dir. Martin Scorsese)
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