Director                               Films that I like most by the director

Stanley Kubrick                      Dr. Strangelove; 2001: A Space Odyssey; Barry Lyndon; The Shining; Full Metal Jacket; Eyes Wide Shut

Ingmar Bergman                     Persona; Hour of the Wolf; Shame

Martin Scorsese                      Taxi Driver; Goodfellas; Cape Fear; The Age of Innocence; Casino; Gangs of New York

Andrei Tarkovsky                   Solaris; Mirror; Stalker; Nostalghia; The Sacrifice

Francis Ford Coppola             The Godfather; The Godfather Part II; The Conversation; Apocalypse Now

Orson Welles                          Citizen Kane; Touch of Evil; The Trial; F for Fake

Jan Svankmajer                      Alice; Faust; Conspirators of Pleasure

Joel & Ethan Coen                 The Big Lebowski; The Man Who Wasn’t There; Intolerable Cruelty

Peter Weir                              Picnic at Hanging Rock; The Last Wave; Dead Poets Society; Fearless; The Truman Show

David Lynch                           The Elephant Man; Lost Highway; The Straight Story; Mulholland Drive

Carl Th. Dreyer                      The Passion of Joan of Arc; Day of Wrath; Gertrud

Nicolas Roeg                          Walkabout; Don’t Look Now; Insignificance

Federico Fellini                      8 ½; Juliet of the Spirits; Amarcord

Woody Allen                          Love and Death; Annie Hall; Stardust Memories; Zelig; Crimes and Misdemeanors; Bullets over Broadway; Deconstructing Harry; Sweet and Lowdown; Small Time Crooks

Werner Herzog                       Aguirre, Wrath of God; Heart of Glass; Nosferatu

Robert Altman                        McCabe & Mrs. Miller; Images; The Player; Short Cuts

Krzysztof Kieslowski             Decalogue; The Double Life of Veronique; Three Colors: Blue

R.W. Fassbinder                     Martha; Fox and his Friends; The Marriage of Maria Braun

Robert Bresson                       Diary of a Country Priest; A Man Escaped; Mouchette

Wim Wenders                        Alice in the Cities; Paris, Texas; Wings of Desire

Steven Soderbergh                 King of the Hill; Schizopolis

Mike Nichols                          Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Graduate; Catch-22; Biloxi Blues; Working Girl; Wit; Closer

John Cassavetes                      Shadows; The Killing of a Chinese Bookie; Gloria

Roman Polanski                     Repulsion; The Fearless Vampire Killers; Chinatown; The Tenant; The Pianist

Sidney Lumet                         The Pawnbroker; Network; Equus; Running on Empty

Lars von Trier                         The Element of Crime; Medea; Breaking the Waves; Dancer in the Dark

Ridley Scott                            The Duellists; Gladiator

Jean-Luc Godard                    Breathless; Band of Outsiders; Pierrot le fou

Todd Haynes                          [Safe]; Velvet Goldmine; Far From Heaven

Alexander Payne                    Election; About Schmidt; Sideways

Hal Ashby                              Harold and Maude; The Last Detail

Milos Forman                         One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Amadeus

Cameron Crowe                     Say Anything; Jerry Maguire; Almost Famous; Vanilla Sky

Rob Reiner                             This is Spinal Tap; Stand by Me; The Princess Bride; A Few Good Men

Hal Hartley                             Trust; Simple Men; Henry Fool

Quentin Tarantino                  Reservoir Dogs; Pulp Fiction

Jim Jarmusch                          Dead Man; Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

George Roy Hill                     Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Slaughterhouse Five; The Sting

Stanley Donen                        Singin’ in the Rain; Charade; Two for the Road

Samuel Fuller                         Pickup on South Street; Shock Corridor; The Big Red One

Ernst Lubitsch                        Trouble in Paradise; The Shop Around the Corner; To Be or Not to Be

Luis Bunuel                            Tristana; The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise; The Phantom of Liberty; That Obscure Object of Desire

Terence Malick                       Days of Heaven; The Thin Red Line

Barry Levinson                       Tin Men; Rain Man; Jimmy Hollywood; Wag the Dog; Bandits

David Cronenberg                  Videodrome; Dead Ringers; Spider

Brian De Palma                      Scarface; Carlito’s Way; Femme Fatale

David Mamet                          House of Games; The Spanish Prisoner; The Winslow Boy; Spartan

John Frankenheimer               The Manchurian Candidate; Seconds

Frank Darabont                       The Shawshank Redemption; The Green Mile

Robert Zemeckis                    Who Framed Roger Rabbit; Forrest Gump; Cast Away

Sam Peckinpah                       Straw Dogs; Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia; Cross of Iron

Alan Pakula                            Klute; The Parallax View; Sophie’s Choice

Francois Ozon                        Sitcom; Swimming Pool

Steven Spielberg                     Schindler’s List; A.I.: Artificial Intelligence

Terry Gilliam                          The Fisher King; Twelve Monkeys

Sofia Coppola                         The Virgin Suicides; Lost in Translation

Peter Jackson                          Dead Alive; Forgotten Silver

John Hughes                           Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; Planes, Tranes, and Automobiles

Oliver Stone                           Talk Radio; The Doors

Sam Mendes                           American Beauty; Road to Perdition

Mike Leigh                             Naked; Secrets & Lies

Ron Shelton                            Bull Durham; White Men Can’t Jump