Top Films

This is a list found on listology.com about some known film makers favourite films.
 Like most lists "The Godfather", "Citizen Kane" and "Jaws" are often mentioned but the film that surprised me on the list that is frequently mentioned was "The Battleship Potemkin" which I have never watched. I may have to watch it one of these days since we have a copy of the film and also "Sunrise" directed by F.W. Murnau of "Nosferatu" fame. Even though it's an interesting list Im  not really sure about the authenticity of the list but even if it is not real most of the films are interesting enough to research and watch because some of them I have not even heard of.

So here is the list courtesy of listology.com:


Denys Arcand (circa 2002):

Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)

Citizen Kane (Welles)

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bu??)

8 1/2 (Fellini)

Il general Della Rovere (Rossellini)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford)

Partie de campagne (Renoir)

Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)

The Silence (Bergman)

Triumph of the Will (Riefenstahl)

 

 

George Armitage George Armitage (circa 2002):
1. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
   
2. Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick)
   
3. The Magnificent Seven (J. Sturges)
   
4. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
   
5. The Boy with Green Hair (Losey)
   
6. The Thing from Another World (Nyby)
   
7. A Canterbury Tale (Powell, Pressburger)
   
8. The Maltese Falcon (Huston)
   
9. Sullivan's Travels (P. Sturges)
   
10. Citizen Kane (Welles)
    
11. Local Hero (Forsyth)

 

Gillian Armstrong's Top 10 Films (circa 2002):
1. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
2. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
3. La Strada (Fellini, 1954)
4. The Godfather Part II (Coppola, 1974)
5. Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1951)
6. Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
7. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)
8. 8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963)
9. Singin' in the Rain (Kelly, Donen, 1952)
10. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

Harold Becker (circa 2002): L'avventura (Antonioni) Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder) Citizen Kane (Welles) A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick) 8 1/2 (Fellini) The Grapes of Wrath (Ford) In Cold Blood (Brooks) Lawrence of Arabia (Lean) Sunset Blvd. (Wilder) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston)

 

Andrew Bergman (circa 2002): 8 1/2 (Fellini) Jules et Jim (Truffaut) Citizen Kane (Welles) City Lights (Chaplin) The Godfather and The Godfather Part II (Coppola) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston) Brief Encounter (Lean) Jaws (Spielberg) Rear Window (Hitchcock) It Happened One Night (Capra) Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick) Some Like It Hot (Wilder) Double Indemnity (Wilder)

Bernardo Bertolucci's Top 10 Films (circa 2002):
1. La Règle du Jeu (Renoir, 1939)
2. Sansho Dayu (Mizoguchi, 1954)
3. Germany, Year Zero (Rossellini, 1947)
4. A Bout de Souffle (Godard, 1959)
5. Stagecoach (Ford, 1939)
6. Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
7. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
8. Marnie (Hitchcock, 1964)
9. Accattone (Pasolini, 1961)
10. Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)

Robert Bresson's Favorite Films (circa 1952):
1. The Gold Rush (Chaplin, ?)
2. City Lights (Chaplin, ?)
3. Potemkin (Eisentein, ?)
4. Brief Encounter (Lean, ?)
5. The Bicycle Thief (De Sica, ?)
6. Man of Aran (Flaherty, ?)
7. Louisiana Story (Flaherty, ?) 

Luis Buñuel's Favorite Films (circa 1952):
1. Underworld (Sternberg)
2. The Gold Rush (Chaplin)
3. The Bicycle Thief (De Sica)
4. Potemkin (Eisenstein)
5. Portrait of Jennie (Dieterle)
6. Cavalcade (Lloyd)
7. White Shadows in the South Seas (Van Dyke)
8. Dead of Night (Cavalcantin, etc.)
9. L'Age d'Or (Buñuel)
10. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Le Roy)

Yiwen Chen (circa 2002): Ashes of Time (Wong) A Brighter Summer Day (Yang) Citizen Kane (Welles) Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen) The Godfather (Coppola) Red Sorghum (Zhang) Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky) Thirty-two Short Films about Glenn Gould (Girard) Throne of Blood (Kurosawa) The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Hou)

Alex Cox (circa 2002): Citizen Kane (Welles) The Devils (K. Russell) The Exterminating Angel (Bu??) King Kong (Cooper, Schoedsack) The Mattei Affair (Rosi) O Lucky Man! (Anderson) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) Throne of Blood (Kurosawa) The Wages of Fear (Clouzot) The War Game (Watkins) 

 

Cameron Crowe (circa 2002): The Apartment (Wilder) La R?e 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 (Lubitsch)

John Dahl (circa 2002): Chinatown (Polanski) A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick) Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen) Double Indemnity (Wilder) The Godfather (Coppola) Once upon a Time in the West (Leone) Schindler's List (Spielberg) Sunset Blvd. (Wilder) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston) Unforgiven (Eastwood)

Joe Dante (circa 2002):
1. Citizen Kane (Welles)
2. City Lights (Chaplin)
3. 8 1/2 (Fellini)
4. Les Enfants du paradis (Carn?/a>
5. The Dead (Brakhage)
6. Rashomon (Kurosawa)
7. Psycho (Hitchcock)
8. Raging Bull (Scorsese)
9. The Searchers (Ford)
10. Once upon a Time in the West (Leone) 

Vittorio De Sica's Favorite Films (circa 1952):
1. Man of Aran (Flaherty)
2. The Kid (Chaplin)
3. La Chienne (Renoir)
4. Le Million (Clair)
5. L'Atalante (Vigo)
6. Kameradschadt (Pabst)
7. Storm Over Asia (Pudovkin)
8. Potemkin (Eisenstein)
9. Hallelujah! (Vidor)
10. La Kermesse Heroique (Feyder)

Carl Dreyer's Favorite Films (circa 1952):
1. Birth of a Nation (Griffith)
2. Arne's Treasure (Stiller)
3. Potemkin (Eisenstein)
4. The Gold Rush (Chaplin)
5. Sous les Toits de Paris (Clair)
6. Quai des Brumes (Carne)
7. Brief Encounter (Lean)
8. Henry V (Olivier)
9. The Petrified Forest (Mayo)
10. Open City (Rossellini)

Milos Forman (circa 2002): Amarcord (Fellini) American Graffiti (Lucas) Citizen Kane (Welles) City Lights (Chaplin) The Deer Hunter (Cimino) Les Enfants du paradis (Carn?/a> Giant (Stevens) The Godfather (Coppola) Miracle in Milan (De Sica) Raging Bull (Scorsese)

 

 

Terry Gilliam's 10 Favorite Films (circa January 1994) Citizen Kane Seven Samurai Seventh Seal 8 1/2 2001: A Space Odyssey Sherlock Jr Pinocchio Les Enfants du Paradis One-Eyed Jacks The Apartment Source: Sight and Sound Magazine Also: Birth of a Nation The Exterminating Angel Lawrence of Arabia Napoleon - D: Gance

Jonathan Glazer (circa 2002): Andrei Roublev (Tarkovsky) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) Throne of Blood (Kurosawa) The Godfather Part II (Coppola) Citizen Kane (Welles) Cries and Whispers (Bergman) 8 1/2 (Fellini) The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pasolini) Raging Bull (Scorsese) The Great Dictator (Chaplin) 

 

 

Mary Harron (circa 2002): Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein) Citizen Kane (Welles) La dolce vita (Fellini) Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick) Les Enfants du paradis (Carn?/a> The Exterminating Angel (Bu??) His Girl Friday (Hawks) The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) Raging Bull (Scorsese) World of Apu (S. Ray) 

 

Alfred Hitchcock Smokey and the Bandit (1977) - D: Hal Needham <---- Yeah right

Ann Hui (circa 2002): The Godfather Part II (Coppola) The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Hou) Viridiana (Bu??) Mirror (Tarkovsky) Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) Floating Clouds (Naruse) All about My Mother (Almod??) Vivre sa vie (Godard) ?oge de l'amour (Godard) Eternity and a Day (Angelopoulos)

Jim Jarmusch (circa 2002): L'Atalante (Vigo) Tokyo Story (Ozu) They Live by Night (N. Ray) Bob le flambeur (Melville) Sunrise (Murnau) The Cameraman (Sedgwick) Mouchette (Bresson) Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) Broken Blossoms (Griffith) Rome, Open City (Rossellini)

Asif Kapadia (circa 2002): Psycho (Hitchcock) Raging Bull (Scorsese) The Godfather and The Godfather Part II (Coppola) Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi) Do the Right Thing (Lee) Once upon a Time in the West (Leone) Don't Look Now (Roeg) The Hidden Fortress (Kurosawa) The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang) Straw Dogs (Peckinpah)

Jonathan Kaplan (circa 2002): Modern Times (Chaplin) Vertigo (Hitchcock) The Searchers (Ford) Bringing Up Baby (Hawks) Barry Lyndon (Kubrick) The Apartment (Wilder) To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan) The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah) Once upon a Time in the West (Leone) White Heat (Walsh) 

 

Aki Kaurism? (circa 2002): L'Age d'or (Bu??) L'Atalante (Vigo) Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson) Broken Blossoms (Griffith) Casque d'or (Becker) Greed (von Stroheim) Mon oncle (Tati) Nanook of the North (Flaherty) Rome, Open City (Rossellini) Tokyo Story (Ozu)

Elia Kazan's Favorite Films (circa 1952):
1. Potemkin (Eisenstein)
2. Aerograd (Dovzhenko)
3. The Gold Rush (Chaplin)
4. Flesh and the Devil (Brown)
5. Open City (Rossellini)
6. The Bicycle Thief (De Sica)
7. Shoulder Arms (Chaplin)
8. Target for Tonight (Watt)
9. La Femme du Boulanger (Pagnol)
10. Marius, Fanny, Cesar (Pagnol)

Stanley Kubrick's 10 Favorite Films (circa 1963):
1. Vitelloni, I (1953) (aka Vitelloni) - D: Federico Fellini
2. Smultronstället (1957) (aka Wild Strawberries) - D: Ingmar Bergman
3. Citizen Kane (1941) - D: Orson Welles
4. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) - D: John Huston
5. City Lights (1931) - D: Charles Chaplin
6. Henry V (1944) - D: Laurence Olivier
7. La Notte (1960) (aka The Night) - D: Michelangelo Antonioni
8. The Bank Dick (1940) - D: Edward F. Cline
9. Roxie Hart (1942) - D: William A. Wellman
10. Hell's Angels (1930) - D: Howard Hughes
    
    Source: Kubrick by Michael Ciment (1980)
    
    Also:
    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - D: Steven Spielberg
    Eraserhead (1977) - D: David Lynch
    Modern Romance (1981) - D: Albert Brooks
    La Ronde (1950) - D: Max Ophüls

Richard Linklater O Lucky Man! 

 

Clara Law (circa 2002): Mirror (Tarkovsky) Sacrifice (Tarkovsky) Tokyo Story (Ozu) Eternity and a Day (Angelopoulos) L'Argent (Bresson) Three Colours Blue (Kieslowski) L'eclisse (Antonioni) A City of Sadness (Hou) Ran (Kurosawa) Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais) 

 

David Lean's Favorite Films (circa 1952):
1. Intolerance (Griffith)
2. Variety (DuPont)
3. The Crowd (Vidor)
4. City Lights (Chaplin)
5. White Shadows in the South Seas (Van Dyke)
6. A Nous la Liberte (Clair)
7. Grand Illusion (Renoir)
8. Les Enfants du Paradis (Carne)
9. Le Jour se leve (Carne)
10. Citizen Kane (Welles)

Sidney Lumet (circa 2002): The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler) Fanny and Alexander (Bergman) The Godfather (Coppola) The Grapes of Wrath (Ford) Intolerance (Griffith) The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) Ran (Kurosawa) Roma (Fellini) Singin' in the Rain (Kelly, Donen) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) 

 

 

Kevin MacDonald (circa 2002): Atanarjuat The Fast Runner (Kunuk) Double Indemnity (Wilder) The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell, Pressburger) The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles) The Palm Beach Story (P. Sturges) Partie de campagne (Renoir) Rear Window (Hitchcock) Singin' in the Rain (Kelly, Donen) The Thin Blue Line (Morris) The Unseen (Janek) 

 

Michael Mann (circa 2002): Apocalypse Now (Coppola) Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) Citizen Kane (Welles) Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick) Faust (Murnau) Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais) My Darling Clementine (Ford) The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) Raging Bull (Scorsese) The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)

Scott McGehee (circa 2002): A Matter of Life and Death (Powell, Pressburger) The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler) Written on the Wind (Sirk) Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick) Touch of Evil (Welles) Vertigo (Hitchcock) When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Naruse) Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (Demy) The Conformist (Bertolucci) Chinatown (Polanski) 

 

Anurag Mehta (circa 2002): Star Wars (Lucas) Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg) Rocky (Avildsen) Jaws (Spielberg) Forrest Gump (Zemeckis) Superman (Donner) Jerry Maguire (Crowe) Casablanca (Curtiz) Back to the Future (Zemeckis) Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)

Lukas Moodysson The Chekist (1992) - D: Aleksandr Rogozhkin Steel Magnolias - D: Herbert Ross Geri - D: Molly Dineen Lamerica (1994) - D: Gianni Amelio Tarnation (2003)

 

Mira Nair (circa 2002):
1. An Angel at My Table (Campion)
   
2. The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)
   
3. Dekalog (Kieslowski)
   
4. The Double Life of V?nique (Kieslowski)
   
5. 8 1/2 (Fellini)
   
6. The Godfather (Coppola)
   
7. In the Mood for Love (Wong)
   
8. La Jet?(Marker)
   
9. The Music Room (S. Ray)
   
10. Pyaasa (Dutt)
    
11. Raging Bull (Scorsese)
    
12. Time of the Gypsies (Kusturica)

Babak Payami (circa 2002): Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) The White Nights (Visconti) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) Un Chien andalou (Bu??) Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais) Short Cuts (Altman) L'avventura (Antonioni) Still Life (Saless) Que Viva Mexico! (Eisenstein) Citizen Kane (Welles)

Sydney Pollack (circa 2002): Casablanca (Curtiz) Citizen Kane (Welles) The Conformist (Bertolucci) The Godfather Part II (Coppola) La Grande Illusion (Renoir) The Leopard (Visconti) Once upon a Time in America (Leone) Raging Bull (Scorsese) The Seventh Seal (Bergman) Sunset Blvd. (Wilder)

Alex Proyas (circa 2002):
1. Citizen Kane (Welles)
2. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
3. The Exorcist (Friedkin)
4. The Godfather (Coppola)
5. It's a Wonderful Life (Capra)
6. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)
7. North by Northwest (Hitchcock)
8. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Forman)
9. The Third Man (Reed)
10. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming)

Carol Reed's Favorite Films (circa 1952):
1. City Lights (Chaplin)
2. Ninotchka (Lubitsch)
3. Les Enfants du Paradis (Carne)
4. Gone With the Wind (Fleming)
5. La Ronde (Ophuls)
6. All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone)
7. La Kermesse Heroique (Feyder)
8. Variety (DuPont)
9. La Femme du Boulanger (Pagnol)
10. Pygmalion (Asquith) 

Karel Reisz (circa 2002): The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bu??) Earth (Dovzhenko) Fires Were Started (Jennings) The Lady Eve (P. Sturges) Nashville (Altman) Raging Bull (Scorsese) La R?e du jeu (Renoir) Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock) They Were Expendable (Ford) Tokyo Story (Ozu)

George A. Romero (circa 2002): The Brothers Karamazov (Brooks) Casablanca (Curtiz) Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick) High Noon (Zinnemann) King Solomon's Mines (Bennett) North by Northwest (Hitchcock) The Quiet Man (Ford) Repulsion (Polanski) Touch of Evil (Welles) The Tales of Hoffmann (Powell, Pressburger) 

 

 

 

Paul Schrader (circa 2002): La R?e du jeu (Renoir) Tokyo Story (Ozu) Pickpocket (Bresson) Citizen Kane (Welles) The Lady Eve (P. Sturges) La Belle et la B? (Cocteau) The Conformist (Bertolucci) Vertigo (Hitchcock) The Searchers (Ford) The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)

Barbet Schroeder (circa 2002):
1. Anatomy of a Murder (Preminger)
2. Bigger Than Life (N. Ray)
3. The Big Heat (Lang)
4. Europa '51 (Rossellini)
5. Gion Bayashi (Mizoguchi)
6. Late Spring (Ozu)
7. Ordet (Dreyer)
8. Rio Bravo (Hawks)
9. Sunrise (Murnau)
10. Vertigo (Hitchcock)

Joel Schumacher (circa 2002): Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) Lawrence of Arabia (Lean) The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Greenaway) Bicycle Thieves (De Sica) Breaking the Waves (von Trier) A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick) The Conversation (Coppola) Sunset Blvd. (Wilder) Stalker (Tarkovsky) The Conformist (Bertolucci) 

 

 

Martin Scorcese's Favorite Color Films (circa 2005): English-Language:
1. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
2. Duel in the Sun (Vidor, 1946)
3. Invaders from Mars (Menzies, 1953)
4. Leave Her to Heaven (Stahl, 1946)
5. Moby Dick (Huston, 1956)
6. Phantom of the Opera (Lubin, 1943)
7. The Red Shoes (Powell, 1948)
8. The Searchers (Ford, 1956)
9. Singin' in the Rain (Donen, 1952)
10. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958) Foreign-Language:
    
11. Contempt (Godard, 1963)
12. Cries and Whispers (Bergman, 1972)
13. Gate of Hell (Kinugasa, 1953)
14. In The Mood For Love (Wong, 2000)
15. The Last Emperor (Betolucci, 1987)
16. Red Desert (Antonioni, 1964)
17. The River (Renoir, 1951)
18. Satyricon (Fellini, 1969)
19. Senso (Visconti, 1954)
20. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Paradjanov, 1964) Source: Pigs and Battleships

Susan Seidelman (circa 2002): All about Eve (Mankiewicz) The Apartment (Wilder) Badlands (Malick) Blue Velvet (Lynch) Broadway Danny Rose (Allen) GoodFellas (Scorsese) Jules et Jim (Truffaut) Nights of Cabiria (Fellini) North by Northwest (Hitchcock) Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)

Mrinal Sen (circa 2002): The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) La Grande Illusion (Renoir) L'Age d'or (Bu??) Four Nights of a Dreamer (Bresson) Bicycle Thieves (De Sica) La dolce vita (Fellini) Aparajito (S. Ray) Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin) Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais)

Santosh Sivan (circa 2002): The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) Mirror (Tarkovsky) Tokyo Story (Ozu) Cries and Whispers (Bergman) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) Charulata (S. Ray) Aguirre, Wrath of God (Herzog) The Great Dictator (Chaplin) Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) Apocalypse Now (Coppola)

George Sluizer (circa 2002): Andrei Roublev (Tarkovsky) L'avventura (Antonioni) Voyage to Italy (Rossellini) Sunset Blvd. (Wilder) On the Waterfront (Kazan) Lacombe Lucien (Malle) Vertigo (Hitchcock) Death in Venice (Visconti) Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein) The Golden Coach (Renoir) 

 

Kevin Smith's Top Ten Films of 2006 (circa 2007): The Departed Little Children Half Nelson Clerks II Inside Man V for Vendetta The Last King of Scotland United 93 Perfume Borat

Iain Softley (circa 2002): Casablanca (Curtiz) Citizen Kane (Welles) The Godfather (Coppola) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) Don't Look Now (Roeg) Apocalypse Now (Coppola) Chinatown (Polanski) Lawrence of Arabia (Lean) Psycho (Hitchcock) Sunset Blvd. (Wilder)

Steven Spielberg's 10 Favorite Films: Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - D: David Lean Fantasia (1940) - D: Walt Disney Citizen Kane (1941) - D: Orson Welles It's A Wonderful Life (1946) - D: Frank Capra 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - D: Stanley Kubrick A Guy Named Joe (1947) - D: Victor Fleming War of the Worlds (1953) - D: Byron Haskin and George Pal Psycho (1960) - D: Alfred Hitchcock Day For Night (1973) - D: François Truffaut The Godfather (1972) - D: Francis Ford Coppola Source: Empire Magazine Also: Cartouche Ikiru Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) The Searchers Seven Samurai The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Quentin Tarantino (circa 2002):
1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone)
   
2. Rio Bravo (Hawks)
   
3. Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
   
4. His Girl Friday (Hawks)
   
5. Rolling Thunder (Flynn)
   
6. They All Laughed (Bogdanovich)
   
7. The Great Escape (J. Sturges)
   
8. Carrie (De Palma)
   
9. Coffy (Hill)
   
10. Dazed and Confused (Linklater)
    
11. Five Fingers of Death (Chang)
    
12. Hi Diddle Diddle (Stone)
    
    Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
    Chungking Express
    Iron Monkey
    'Manos' the Hands of Fate (1966)
    Revenge
    Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
    Switchblade Sisters
    Thriller: A Cruel Picture

Gore Verbinski (circa 2002): Chinatown (Polanski) The Conversation (Coppola) Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone) McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman) The Night of the Hunter (Laughton) Sacrifice (Tarkovsky) The Servant (Losey) The Tenant (Polanski) The Wages of Fear (Clouzot)

King Vidor's Favorite Films (circa 1952):
1. Intolerance (Griffith)
2. Sunrise (Murnau)
3. Der letze Mann (Murnau)
4. The Big Parade (Vidor)
5. Brief Encounter (Lean)
6. Red Shoes (Powell-Pressburger)
7. Open City (Rossellini)
8. City Lights (Chaplin)
9. Citizen Kane (Welles)
10. The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler)

 

Vincent Ward (circa 2002):
1. Andrei Roublev (Tarkovsky)
   
2. La strada (Fellini)
   
3. The General (Keaton)
   
4. The Navigator (Keaton)
   
5. The Apartment (Wilder)
   
6. Sunrise (Murnau)
   
7. The Wind (Sj??/a>
   
8. Metropolis (Lang)
   
9. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Riesner)
   
10. Blade Runner (Scott) 

Orson Welles's Favorite Films (circa 1952):
1. City Lights (Chaplin)
2. Greed (von Stroheim)
3. Intolerance (Griffith)
4. Nanook of the North (Flaherty)
5. Shoe Shine (De Sica)
6. Potemkin (Eisenstein)
7. La Femme du Boulanger (Pagnol)
8. Grand Illusion (Renoir)
9. Stagecoach (Ford)
10. Our Daily Bread (Vidor)

Billy Wilder's Favorite Films (circa 1952):
1. Potemkin (Eisenstein)
2. Greed (von Stroheim)
3. Variety (DuPont)
4. The Gold Rush (Chaplin)
5. The Crowd (Vidor)
6. Grand Illusion (Renoir)
7. The Informer (Ford)
8. Ninotchka (Lubitsch)
9. The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler)
10. The Bicycle Thief (De Sica)

Geoffrey Wright (circa 2002): Citizen Kane (Welles) Lawrence of Arabia (Lean) The Godfather (Coppola) The Godfather Part II (Coppola) Apocalypse Now (Coppola) Stray Dog (Kurosawa) Taxi Driver (Scorsese) Psycho (Hitchcock) The Exorcist (Friedkin) Jaws (Spielberg)