Favorite Directors

The men and women that inspire me to make a career in film.I included my personal top 3 favorite films from each one of them.

1. Quentin Tarantino

1.Pulp Fiction 2. Inglorius Basterds 3.Kill Bill

2. Stanley Kubrick

The greatest director that ever lived. It's not an opinion it's a fact. Top three:1.2001:A Space Odyssey 2.A Clockwork Orange 3.Barry Lyndon

3. Martin Scorsese

1.Taxi Driver 2.Goodfellas 3.The Last Temptation of Christ

4. Terrence Malick

Quality over quantity. 1.Tree of Life 2.Days of Heaven 3.Thin Red Line

5. Federico Fellini

1. 8 1/2 2.Amarcord

6. Alfred Hitchcock

The definition of suspense. 1.Psycho 2.Vertigo 3.North by Northwest

7. Woody Allen

1.Annie Hall 2.Manhattan 3.Husbands and Wives

8. Jean-Pierre Melville

1. Le Cercle Rouge 2.Bob Le Flambeur 3.Le Samurai

9. Mike Leigh

1.Happy Go Lucky 2.Naked 3.Life is Sweet

10. David Cronenberg

1.Eastern Promises 2.A History of Violence 3. Videodrome

11. Ethan Coen

The Coens are number ten. 1.Barton Fink 2.A Serious Man 3.The Big Lebowski

12. Paul Thomas Anderson

1.There Will Be Blood 2.The Master 3.Magnolia

13. Roman Polanski

1.Chinatown 2.Repulsion 3.The Pianist

14. Akira Kurosawa

Japan's greatest contribution to film. 1.Rashomon 2.Yojimbo/Sanjuro 3.Throne of Blood

15. Wes Anderson

1.Moonrise Kingdom 2.Rushmore 3.Bottle Rocket

16. Krzysztof Kieslowski

1.Double Life of veronique 2.Red 3.White

17. Charles Chaplin

1.City Lights 2.The Gold Rush 3. Modern Times

18. Michael Powell

and Emeric Pressburger. 1.The Red Shoes 2.The life and death of colonel blimp 3.Thief of baghdad

19. Luis Buñuel

Spain's greatest filmmaker.

20. Jean-Luc Godard

1.Vivre Sa Vie 2.Breathless 3.Le Mepris

21. Pedro Almodóvar

1.Abrazos Rotos 2.Matador 3.Volver

22. Brian De Palma

1.Blow Out 2.Carrie 3.Scarface

23. François Truffaut
24. Ingmar Bergman
25. Robert Altman

1.The Player 2.Nashville 3.McCabe and Mrs.Miller

26. Jim Jarmusch
27. David Fincher

A true "devotee of darkness". 1.Fight Club 2.Se7en 3.Zodiac

28. Christopher Nolan

1.Memento 2.The Prestige 3.Inception

29. David Lynch

1.M.Drive 2.

30. Terry Gilliam

1.Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas 2.Brazil 3.Time Bandits

31. Tim Burton

1.Sweeny Todd 2.Ed Wood 3.Corpse Bride

32. Steven Spielberg

1.Raiders of the lost ark 2.Close encounters of the third kind 3.Minority Report

33. Louis Malle
34. Nicolas Winding Refn

1.Valhalla Rising 2.Drive 3.Bronson

35. Steven Soderbergh

1.Che 2.Traffic 3.Ocean's Eleven

36. Sidney Lumet

1.Dog Day Afternoon 2.Network 3.The Fugitive Kind

37. Billy Wilder
38. Guillermo del Toro

1.El Laberinto del Fauno 2.Cronos 3.Hellboy II: THe Golden Army

39. Sofia Coppola
40. Alexander Payne
41. Sergio Leone
42. Richard Linklater
43. Darren Aronofsky

1.Requiem for a dream 2.The Fountain 3.The Wrestler

44. Jason Reitman

1.Young Adult 2.Thank You for smoking 3.Juno

45. Edgar Wright
46. Jonathan Demme
47. Lars von Trier
48. Samuel Fuller
49. Francis Ford Coppola

1.Apocalypse Now 2.The Conversation 3.The Godfather

50. David Mamet

1.Homicide 2.House Of Games 3.Heist

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