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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jul 23, 2018 18:50:42 GMT
All of these would be in my top 50 somewhere...
Hitchcock - Vertigo (top 15), Psycho (top 20)
Kubrick - 2001, Barry Lyndon
Scorsese - Goodfellas (top 20)
PTA - There Will Be Blood (top 15), The Master (top 15), Boogie Nights
Lynch - Mulholland Dr.
Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
Fincher - Zodiac (top 20), Se7en
Nolan - Memento and The Dark Knight (both top 10)
Malick - The Tree of Life (top 10), Days of Heaven
Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark (top 20), Jaws
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Jul 23, 2018 19:37:16 GMT
Hitchcock - Vertigo, Psycho, North By Northwest, Rope, Rear Window, Strangers on a Train, Rebecca
Kubrick - 2001, The Shining, Dr. Strangelove
Scorsese - Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Departed, After Hours
PTA - There Will Be Blood, Phantom Thread
Lynch - Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man
Tarantino - Django Unchained, Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds
Fincher - Seven, The Social Network, Gone Girl
Nolan - The Dark Knight, Memento, Dunkirk
Malick - Days of Heaven
Spielberg - E.T., Raiders, Schindler's List, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, Lincoln, Jaws, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, Saving Private Ryan - Bridge of Spies is also edging close to being an absolute favorite. Finding more to love about it on rewatches.
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Post by Martin Stett on Jul 23, 2018 19:43:26 GMT
Where does this list come from?
I'm going with a top 100 I just created a few days ago.
Hitchcock -- The Trouble with Harry (#17), Vertigo (#64)
Kubrick -- Zip
Scorsese -- Zip
PTA -- Zip
Lynch -- Zip
Tarantino -- Inglourious Basterds (#60)
Fincher -- Zip
Nolan -- Zip
Malick -- Zip
Spielberg -- Jurassic Park (#48), Duel (#62)
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Post by DeepArcher on Jul 23, 2018 20:27:49 GMT
Hitchcock: Vertigo is among my top ten or twenty of all-time. Rebecca might crack my top one-hundred but it needs a re-watch. Rope is also all-time stuff. Kubrick: Eyes Wide Shut, Barry Lyndon, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining -- all would make my top fifty-ish, probably. Paths of Glory and maybe A Clockwork Orange are top one-hundred material. Scorsese: Goodfellas, and that's basically it, though Silence is one of the best films of the decade and Gangs of New York is a strong personal favorite. PTA: There Will Be Blood is my favorite film of all-time. Phantom Thread, The Master, and Magnolia would all crack my top fifty, and Inherent Vice and Boogie Nights are probably within the top one-hundred pretty comfortably. Lynch: Mulholland Dr. is my second favorite film of all-time. Blue Velvet is definitely up there, and I'd say Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and Eraserhead are also among personal favorites. Hell, Wild at Heart may also be up there, but I need to give it another watch to see how it holds up. ( Lost Highway is also in desperate need of a second viewing.) Tarantino: Inglourious Basterds and Pulp Fiction *might* make my top one-hundred, but I'm really not as crazy about either as I used to be, and I'm really not big on anything else of his. Fincher: The Social Network and Zodiac would probably make my top one-hundred or so. Nolan: Memento is probably in the top one-hundred. The Dark Knight probably wouldn't be, but it's an all-time personal favorite for nostalgia reasons. Malick: The Tree of Life is one of my favorites of the decade but it wouldn't be *too* high on an all-time list of mine. The Thin Red Line and Badlands both desperately need to be re-watched. Spielberg: Jaws. And maybe Jurassic Park, depending on my mood.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jul 23, 2018 21:15:59 GMT
pulling from my top 200
Hitchcock: Psycho
Kubrick: A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Barry Lyndon, Eyes Wide Shut, Paths of Glory
Scorsese: After Hours, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Casino
Paul Thomas Anderson: Phantom Thread, The Master, There Will Be Blood, Boogie Night
Lynch: Mulholland Dr., Wild at Heart
Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds
Fincher: Zodiac
Nolan: Memento
Malick: Badlands
Spielberg: Schindler's List
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Post by countjohn on Jul 23, 2018 21:32:43 GMT
Most mentioned in what?
I have a big list of every movie I've given a 9 or better (about 130 or 140) which is essentially my favorite movie list, so I'll just do the 9/10's or better I've given them
Hitchcock (Rope, Vertigo, Psycho)
Kubrick (Paths of Glory, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, Barry Lyndon, Full Metal Jacket)
Scorsese (Age of Innocence, Taxi Driver)
PTA (There Will Be Blood, The Master, Phantom Thread)
Lynch (Eraserhead)
Tarantino (none)
Fincher (Fight Club, The Social Network)
Nolan (The Dark Knight)
Malick (The Tree of Life, Voyage of Time)
Spielberg (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, Catch Me If You Can, The Post)
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 23, 2018 21:36:39 GMT
Um....out of a top 100, which I don't actually "have": The List: Hitchcock - Vertigo would make my top 50-75, and I love him but I also don't think a lot of his work holds up actually - time isn't kind to all artists even great ones like him. His imitators surpassed him to me - there'd be a lot more Hitchcockian films made by others than by him actually. How's that for blasphemy!  Kubrick - The Shining would make my top 100 I guess Scorsese - Mean Streets, Taxi Driver at least top 20 PTA - TWBB top 50-75 Lynch - Mulholland Drive top 50-75 Tarantino - Pulp Fiction top 50-75 Fincher - None, like some of his work Nolan - Memento is among my all time favorite films - it's almost a pacinoyes textbook film in what interests me and what I like. Malick - Nothing like some of his work Spielberg - Nothing like some of his work |
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 23, 2018 21:58:50 GMT
Hitchcock is hurt by people being far more complex and logical after him and and also in what he can't show - like Vertigo is his best film and it's ridiculously plotted, far-fetched doesn't begin to describe it (and I love it, but.....). Someone had to break the mold and he did it brilliantly but I'd watch Tenebrae, Repulsion, Blow Out, Spoorloos, Tale Of Two Sisters etc. and others all over Hitch in 2018 and people can say his films are "helped" by what he couldn't show, but I don't think that's true either. I often use Tenebrae as the example with him - he'd have loved the idea of that film, he'd love to have made it or even just to see it but in the time he made films...........that would be like making a porn film to him, there's no way he'd do it like that and it's clearly inspired by him and in his style. The Hitchcock style got stolen in a way ......... I do love Se7en and that may crack the top 100 but this is hard to do because some of my favorites are gonna eat up a lot of spots on a list Coppola/Herzog/Allen/Bergman/Tarkovsky/Bresson/Fassbinder ...........it might help if I actually had a top 100 to refer to. I'm jealous of people who can do lists like that. My brain (lack thereof) doesn't work like that ..........  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2018 22:07:57 GMT
On a semi-related note, is anyone else surprised Coppola comes in at #6 on the TSPDT Greatest Directors list? I know his top four from the 70s are giants in the critical canon but I don't often see him held in the same light as others who are ranked lower, like Dreyer and Ozu.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 23, 2018 22:19:20 GMT
I think at this point in history those 4 films from the 70s sort of define him outside of all other Americans in a way so the question becomes how high do you want to include an American.
I consider him the greatest American director of all-time and all 4 of those films are about America and in genre films too (which is what American movies generally specialize in) and as time has gone on it's become clear no subsequent American is gonna top those 4 in total - they just aren't, no one has that ambition and films are lesser now than they were anyway.
I think to rank with him with Dreyer and Ozu (and Tarkovsky and Bresson and Fassbinder etc.) makes perfect sense because his films have the same attributes in cinematic, social and cultural language............on the other hand it's still only 4 films that his rep is based on so he's bound to be one of those guys where at times you could see him slip and at other times be more praised.
I guess Welles is the closest you'd have in American to how he's seen.......
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Post by Sharbs on Jul 23, 2018 22:20:10 GMT
based on my top-250, that is always changing Hitchcock: Rebecca, Rear Window, Psycho, Notorious, North by Northwest, Vertigo, The Lady Vanishes, Shadow of a Doubt, Strangers on a Train Kubrick: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Eyes Wide Shut, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Dr. Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket, Barry Lyndon Scorsese: Taxi Driver, GoodFellas, The Wolf of Wall Street, After Hours, Silence, Raging Bull, Gangs of New York PTA: There Will Be Blood, The Master, Magnolia, Inherent Vice, Phantom Thread, Boogie Nights, Punch-Drunk Love Lynch: Twin Peaks: The Return  , Mulholland Dr., Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, Eraserhead Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds, Jackie Brown Fincher: Se7en, The Social Network, Fight Club Nolan: Memento, Inception, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Interstellar, Dunkirk Malick: The Tree of Life, The Thin Red Line, Days of Heaven EDIT: Spielberg (lol, forgot him): Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List I'd probably scratch Malick from this list based on your criteria and replace w/ the Coens |
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Post by stephen on Jul 24, 2018 1:16:45 GMT
On a semi-related note, is anyone else surprised Coppola comes in at #6 on the TSPDT Greatest Directors list? I know his top four from the 70s are giants in the critical canon but I don't often see him held in the same light as others who are ranked lower, like Dreyer and Ozu. Those guys didn't make Jack, though. Coppola is generally seen, at least where I'm sitting, as an example of a godly talent that burned itself out. Had he stopped making movies after Apocalypse Now, he'd be rated much higher, in the vein of Malick circa The Tree of Life if not higher. |
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Post by moonman157 on Jul 24, 2018 1:26:54 GMT
Hitchcock - Vertigo would make my top 50-75, and I love him but I also don't think a lot of his work holds up actually - time isn't kind to all artists even great ones like him. His imitators surpassed him to me - there'd be a lot more Hitchcockian films made by others than by him actually. How's that for blasphemy! Ew |
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Post by moonman157 on Jul 24, 2018 1:27:51 GMT
On a semi-related note, is anyone else surprised Coppola comes in at #6 on the TSPDT Greatest Directors list? I know his top four from the 70s are giants in the critical canon but I don't often see him held in the same light as others who are ranked lower, like Dreyer and Ozu. Those guys didn't make Jack, though. Coppola is generally seen, at least where I'm sitting, as an example of a godly talent that burned itself out. Had he stopped making movies after Apocalypse Now, he'd be rated much higher, in the vein of Malick circa The Tree of Life if not higher. Lots of people stan hard for his late stuff bro |
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Post by stephen on Jul 24, 2018 1:38:36 GMT
Those guys didn't make Jack, though. Coppola is generally seen, at least where I'm sitting, as an example of a godly talent that burned itself out. Had he stopped making movies after Apocalypse Now, he'd be rated much higher, in the vein of Malick circa The Tree of Life if not higher. Lots of people stan hard for his late stuff bro For Coppola or Malick? When it comes to Coppola, his '80s run is admirable and I'd argue that he's still a very important filmmaker in that era (albeit a shadow of his former glory; things like Rumble Fish, The Outsiders and Tucker: The Man and His Dream are strong movies that nevertheless don't have the patina of "instant classic" that his '70s movies have). But he never again achieved that vaunted greatness again, which to be fair is pretty damned impossible for anyone; I'd argue no one dominated a decade the way FFC owned the 1970s. He's still got a pretty good eye for visuals, and I'm sure someone out there is a massive fan of Twixt and Tetro, but even the most die-hard Coppola fan would admit that he's lost his luster. As for Malick, there is definitely a breaking-off point for a lot of cinephiles when it comes to his career, and it starts with To the Wonder. Part of Malick's mystique was built on his reclusiveness and the long hiatus he took, which built his legend. His first two films are more or less straightforward but still have a poetic streak a mile wide; The Thin Red Line is really where Malick became "Malick", and the next two films after that more or less built upon that image. Malick "finds" his movies in the editing room, cutting huge swaths of plot out in favor of more emotionally resonant images that might otherwise be B-roll. It all came to a head with The Tree of Life. But then he started cranking movies out once every couple of years, and that did an awful lot to cut down that mystique. It didn't help that the films he made felt less "composed" than her earlier works, instead feeling so free-wheeling as to come off almost impulsive. Many Malick fans adore his newer films, but I've noticed a lot of people cooling on him in the last few years, which I don't think would happen if he hadn't made his last three movies. But then, you're only as good as your last movie, I guess. |
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Post by moonman157 on Jul 24, 2018 2:55:13 GMT
Lots of people stan hard for his late stuff bro For Coppola or Malick? When it comes to Coppola, his '80s run is admirable and I'd argue that he's still a very important filmmaker in that era (albeit a shadow of his former glory; things like Rumble Fish, The Outsiders and Tucker: The Man and His Dream are strong movies that nevertheless don't have the patina of "instant classic" that his '70s movies have). But he never again achieved that vaunted greatness again, which to be fair is pretty damned impossible for anyone; I'd argue no one dominated a decade the way FFC owned the 1970s. He's still got a pretty good eye for visuals, and I'm sure someone out there is a massive fan of Twixt and Tetro, but even the most die-hard Coppola fan would admit that he's lost his luster. As for Malick, there is definitely a breaking-off point for a lot of cinephiles when it comes to his career, and it starts with To the Wonder. Part of Malick's mystique was built on his reclusiveness and the long hiatus he took, which built his legend. His first two films are more or less straightforward but still have a poetic streak a mile wide; The Thin Red Line is really where Malick became "Malick", and the next two films after that more or less built upon that image. Malick "finds" his movies in the editing room, cutting huge swaths of plot out in favor of more emotionally resonant images that might otherwise be B-roll. It all came to a head with The Tree of Life. But then he started cranking movies out once every couple of years, and that did an awful lot to cut down that mystique. It didn't help that the films he made felt less "composed" than her earlier works, instead feeling so free-wheeling as to come off almost impulsive. Many Malick fans adore his newer films, but I've noticed a lot of people cooling on him in the last few years, which I don't think would happen if he hadn't made his last three movies. But then, you're only as good as your last movie, I guess. I appreciate your detailed response. I frankly have never been that hot on Coppola outside of The Conversation but I need to see more. I was referring to him with my post though because there are people who go very hard for stuff like Youth Without Youth and Tetro. He wasn't who I was talking about but generally I agree with your comments regarding Malick. There were a lot of people who lavished love on Knight of Cups but I wasn't one of them. Even though I like his last 3, especially To the Wonder, they'd definitely be my least 3 fave from him were I to do a ranking. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2018 3:01:29 GMT
Hitchcock - Vertigo would make my top 50-75, and I love him but I also don't think a lot of his work holds up actually - time isn't kind to all artists even great ones like him. His imitators surpassed him to me - there'd be a lot more Hitchcockian films made by others than by him actually. How's that for blasphemy! Ew Let me get your favorites from Hitch, I still have a lot more to explore from him and at least from what I've seen on your Letterboxd you've got pretty consistently great taste. |
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Post by mhynson27 on Jul 24, 2018 3:23:37 GMT
In my Top 100:
Hitchcock: Psycho
Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove, The Shining and Full Metal Jacket
Scorsese: The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street
PTA: There Will Be Blood and Phantom Thread
Lynch: No
Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Kill Bill: Vol. 2 and Reservoir Dogs
Fincher: The Social Network, Zodiac, Fight Club, Gone Girl and Se7en
Nolan: Inception, The Dark Knight, Memento, The Prestige, The Dark Knight Rises, Interstellar, Dunkirk, Batman Begins
Malick: No
Spielberg: Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park, Minority Report, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Schindler's List
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Post by moonman157 on Jul 24, 2018 3:41:02 GMT
Let me get your favorites from Hitch, I still have a lot more to explore from him and at least from what I've seen on your Letterboxd you've got pretty consistently great taste. I'm not going to be able to give you any recommendations that you aren't already aware of. There are plenty I still need to see but based on what I have seen he'd pretty easily be one of my favourite directors. There are not many directors I have come across who can lay claim to the force of these Hitch masterpieces: The Lodger, The 39 Steps, Rebecca, Shadow of a Doubt, Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo (arguably the greatest movie ever made), North By Northwest, Psycho, The Birds, Marnie, and Frenzy. And then stuff like Saboteur, The Wrong Man, Rope, and To Catch a Thief, absolutely rip. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2018 4:39:47 GMT
Let me get your favorites from Hitch, I still have a lot more to explore from him and at least from what I've seen on your Letterboxd you've got pretty consistently great taste. I'm not going to be able to give you any recommendations that you aren't already aware of. There are plenty I still need to see but based on what I have seen he'd pretty easily be one of my favourite directors. There are not many directors I have come across who can lay claim to the force of these Hitch masterpieces: The Lodger, The 39 Steps, Rebecca, Shadow of a Doubt, Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo (arguably the greatest movie ever made), North By Northwest, Psycho, The Birds, Marnie, and Frenzy. And then stuff like Saboteur, The Wrong Man, Rope, and To Catch a Thief, absolutely rip. Yeah, was just interested in hearing which ones you thought were best. Thanks! 6 of those you listed I haven't seen, and I need to rewatch Rebecca. Hitchcock is an odd case for me as he's one of those rare filmmakers I like but at the same time feel as though I'm not appreciating enough. I used to feel similarly about Tarkovsky until his work started to click for me during my second viewing of Stalker. I imagine something similar will happen the more from Hitch I watch, because right now as much as I love Vertigo and Psycho (especially the former) I'm not sure I'd call him one of my favorite directors. |
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Post by taranofprydain on Jul 24, 2018 4:43:13 GMT
I don't really have a list anymore, but if we were to round it off to 300...
Hitchcock-- NINE (Rebecca, Suspicion, Shadow of a Doubt, Rope, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo, Psycho)
Kubrick -- ONE (The Shining)
Scorsese -- ONE (Taxi Driver)
PTA -- ONE (Magnolia)
Lynch -- THREE (Blue Velvet, The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive)
Tarantino -- ZERO
Fincher-- ONE (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Nolan -- ZERO
Malick -- ZERO
Spielberg -- TWO (ET, The Color Purple)
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Jul 24, 2018 5:08:04 GMT
I don't keep a favorites list, so I'll just list off how many of each director's films I'd give an unqualified 10/10. I'm also sticking to non-documentary films.
Hitchcock (7) - The 39 Steps, Rebecca, Shadow of a Doubt, Notorious, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho
Kubrick (7) - Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut
Scorsese (6) - Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, The Wolf of Wall Street, Silence
PTA (3) - There Will Be Blood, The Master, Phantom Thread
Lynch (4) - Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Mulholland Dr.
Tarantino (1) - Pulp Fiction
Fincher (2) - Fight Club, The Social Network
Nolan (1) - Inception
Malick - None.
Spielberg (9) - Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Catch Me If You Can, Munich
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Post by eyebrowmorroco on Jul 25, 2018 4:19:25 GMT
Let's say top 100...
Hitch - 0
Kubrick - 2
Scorsese - 0
PTA - 0
Lynch - 0
QT - 0
Fincher - 0
Nolan - 0
Malick - 0
Spielberg - 0
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Post by jimmalone on Jul 25, 2018 12:58:19 GMT
Films of them that are probably in my current Top 100:
Hitchcock: 2 (Rear Window, North by Northwest)
Kubrick: 1 (Paths of Glory)
Scorsese: 0
PT Anderson: 1 (Magnolia)
Lynch: 0
Tarantino: 0
Fincher: 0 (but The Game, Zodiac and Seven could all be in my list of my next 100)
Nolan: 2 (Inception, Dunkirk)
Malick: 1 (The Thin Red Line)
Spielberg: 4 (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Lincoln, Saving Private Ryan - the last two are on the edge though and could drop out)
In general I rate Fincher and Scorsese higher than Kubrick, Malick and PT Anderson though.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2018 13:19:37 GMT
Hitchcock
Notorious
Psycho
Vertigo
Kubrick
Barry Lyndon
Scorsese
The King of Comedy
Taxi Driver
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