Phew! What a task... After much sweating and many many tough decisions, might I present to you my list. For convenience I have restricted myself to one film per director, which left me with some horrific ommissions: Wild Strawberries, Seven Samurai, Alien, Notorious, Vertigo, Raging Bull, La Strada to name but a very few...
A very quick biographical sketch: I'm a twentysomething writer in
Right, in chronological order:
- Metropolis (1927) .. Fritz Lang
- City Lights (1931) .. Charles Chaplin
- La Grande Illusion (1937) .. Jean Renoir
- The Wizard of Oz (1939) .. Victor Fleming
- Citizen Kane (1941) .. Orson Welles
- Ikiru (1952) .. Akira Kurosawa
- Singin' in the Rain (1952) .. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
- Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) .. Kenji Mizoguchi
- The Apartment (1960) .. Billy Wilder
- Psycho (1960) .. Alfred Hitchcock
- The Innocents (1961) .. Jack Clayton
- Il Posto (1961) .. Ermanno Olmi
- La Jetée (1962) .. Chris Marker
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962) .. David Lean
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) .. John Ford
- The Leopard (1963) .. Luchino Visconti
- Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) ..
- The Battle of Algiers (1966) .. Gillo Pontecorvo
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) .. Sergio Leone
- The French Connection (1971) .. William Friedkin
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) .. Werner Herzog
- Amarcord (1973) .. Federico Fellini
- Don't Look Now (1973) .. Nicolas Roeg
- Mean Streets (1973) .. Martin Scorsese
- The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice
- Chinatown (1974) .. Roman Polanski
- The Godfather: Part II (1974) .. Francis Ford Coppola
- Annie Hall (1977) .. Woody Allen
- Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) .. Terry Jones
- Airplane! (1980) .. Jim Abrahams & David Zucker & Jerry Zucker
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) .. Steven Spielberg
- Blade Runner (1982) .. Ridley Scott
- Fanny and Alexander (1982) .. Ingmar Bergman
- This Is Spinal Tap (1984) .. Rob Reiner
- Back to the Future (1985) .. Robert Zemeckis
- Brazil (1985) .. Terry Gilliam
- Come and See (1985) .. Elem Klimov
- Aliens (1986) .. James Cameron
- Wings of Desire (1987) .. Wim Wenders
- Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) .. Terence Davies
- Groundhog Day (1993) .. Harold Ramis
- Before Sunrise (1995) .. Richard Linklater
- La Haine (1995) .. Mathieu Kassovitz
- Show Me Love (1998) .. Lukas Moodysson
- Toy Story 2 (1999) .. John Lasseter
- Spirited Away (2001) .. Hayao Miyazaki
- Talk to Her (2002) .. Pedro Almodóvar
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) .. Michel Gondry
- Children of Men (2006) .. Alfonso Cuarón
- Pan's Labyrinth (2006) .. Guillermo del Toro
Argh! No Bresson, no Tarkovsky, no Truffaut, no Ozu, no David Lynch, no Ken Russell, no David Cronenberg - is it too late to change my mind???
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And no Bela Tarr...
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