I enjoy bringing to
attention and recommending great accomplishments – and here I’d like to do so
with movies. These are some of my favourites over the past decades; listed alphabetically, and with the director alongside. Hope you enjoy.
1930s
All Quiet On The Western
Front – Lewis Milestone
The Bride of Frankenstein
– James Whale
Bringing Up Baby – Howard
Hawks
Gone With The Wind –
Victor Fleming
La Grande Illusion – Jean
Renoir
It Happened One Night –
Frank Capra
M – Fritz Lang
Mr Smith Goes To
Washington – Frank Capra
Ninotchka - Ernst Lubitsch
Swing Time – George
Stevens
The 39 Steps – Alfred
Hitchcock
The Wizard of Oz – Mervyn
Leroy, King Vidor, Victor Fleming
Wuthering Heights –
William Wyler
1940s
The Bicycle Thief -
Vittorio De Sica
Casablanca - Michael
Curtiz
Citizen Kane - Orson
Welles
Les Enfants Du Paradis
(Children of Paradise) - Marcel Carné
The Grapes of Wrath - John
Ford
Great Expectations - David
Lean
It's a Wonderful Life -
Frank Capra
A Matter of Life and Death
- Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Miracle on 34th Street -
George Seaton
Orpheus - Jean Cocteau
Out of the Past - Jacques
Tourneur
The Philadelphia Story -
George Cukor
Rebecca - Alfred Hitchcock
The Third Man - Carol Reed
1950s
All About Eve - Joseph L.
Mankiewicz
The 400 Blows - François
Truffaut
High Noon - Fred Zinnemann
Night of the Hunter –
Charles Laughton
Rashomon - Akira Kurosawa
Seven Samurai - Akira
Kurosawa
Singin’ in the Rain –
Stanley Donen
The Seventh Seal – Ingmar
Bergman
Some Like It Hot – Billy
Wilder
Strangers on a Train –
Alfred Hitchcock
Sunset Boulevard - Billy
Wilder
Tokyo Story - Yasujiro Ozu
Twelve Angry Men - Sidney
Lumet
1960s
L’Avenntura - Michelangelo
Antonioni
A Bout De Souffle -
Jean-Luc Godard
Dr. Strangelove – Stanley
Kunbrick
The Good, The Bad and the
Ugly – Sergio Leone
Inherit The Wind – Staley
Kramer
In The Heat Of The Night -
Norman Jewison
Lawrence of Arabia – David
Lean
Psycho – Alfred Hitchcock
2001: A Space Odyssey –
Stanley Kubrick
West Side Story – Robert
Wise and Jerome Robbins
Z - Costa-Gavras
1970s
All The President's Men -
Alan J. Pakula
Annie Hall – Woody Allen
Apocalypse Now – Francis
Ford Coppola
Cabaret – Bob Fosse
Chinatown – Roman Polanski
The Discreet Charm of the
Bourgeoisie – Luis Bunuel
The Exorcist - William
Friedkin
Five Easy Pieces - Bob
Rafelson
The Godfather & The
Godfather Part II – Francis Ford Coppola
The Goodbye Girl - Herbert
Ross
Jaws – Steven Spielberg
Kramer vs. Kramer - Robert
Benton
Manhattan - Woody Allen
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s
Nest - Milos Forman
The Out-of-Towners –
Arthur Hiller
Taxi Driver – Martin
Scorsese
1980s
Airplane - David Zucker,
Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams
After Hours – Martin
Scorsese
Amadeus – Milos Forman
Back To The Future Trilogy
– Robert Zemeckis
Cinema Paradiso - Giuseppe Tornatore
Midnight Run – Martin
Brest
Once Upon A Time in
America – Sergio Leone
Raging Bull – Martin
Scorsese
Raiders of the Lost Ark -
Steven Spielberg
Ran - Akira Kurosawa
The Shining – Stanley
Kubrick
1990s
American Beauty - Sam
Mendes
Before Sunrise – Richard
Linklater
The Bridges of Madison
County - Clint Eastwood
The End of the Affair -
Neil Jordan
Fight Club – David Fincher
Forrest Gump - Robert Zemeckis
Glengarry Glen Ross -
James Foley
Goodfellas – Martin
Scorsese
Groundhog Day - Harold
Ramis
Magnolia - Paul Thomas
Anderson
Naked - Mike Leigh
Pulp Fiction – Quentin
Tarantino
Secrets and Lies – Mike
Leigh
The Silence of the Lambs –
Jonathan Demme
Six Degrees of Separation
- Fred Schepisi
2000-2021
About Schmidt – Alexander
Payne
Adaptation – Spike Jonze
Barney’s Version – Richard
J. Lewis
Before Sunset - Richard
Linklater
Closer - Mike Nichols
The Departed – Martin
Scorsese
The Descendants –
Alexander Payne
Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind – Michael Gondry
Ex Machina - Alex Garland
Happiness - Todd Solondz
I'm Thinking of Ending
Things – Charlie Kaufman
Little Miss Sunshine -
Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Lost in Translation –
Sofia Coppola
Memento - Christopher
Nolan
Million Dollar Baby –
Clint Eastwood
Mulholland Drive – David
Lynch
1917 - Sam Mendes
No County For Old Men –
Coen Brothers
Once - John Carney
The Pledge - Sean Penn
Sideways - Alexander Payne
The Social Network – David
Fincher
Stranger Than Fiction -
Marc Forster
21 Grams - Alejandro G.
Iñárritu
Tyrannosaur - Paddy
Considine
Films I need to watch that
I’ve heard are excellent: There Will Be Blood and Synecdoche, New York
