Phillip Noyce
1. Rabbit-Proof Fence
2. The Quiet American
3. Salt
4. Clear and Present Danger
5. Patriot Games
6. Dead Calm
7. Newsfront
8. The Bone Collector
9. Catch a Fire
10. The Saint

Bruce Beresford
1. Driving Miss Daisy
2. Breaker Morant
3. Tender Mercies
4. Black Robe
5. Don's Party
6. Double Jeopardy
7. Mao's Last Dancer
8. And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
9. Crimes of the Heart
10. Evelyn

Mauritz Stiller
1. The Saga of Gosta Berling
2. Sir Arne's Treasure
3. Erotikon
4. Thomas Graal's Best Film
5. The Blizzard
6. Johan
7. Hotel Imperial
8. Thomas Graal's Best Child
9. Song of the Scarlet Flower
10. The Wings

Thomas Vinterberg
1. The Celebration
2. The Hunt
3. Submarino
4. Dear Wendy
5. The Boy Who Walked Backwards

Anders Thomas Jensen
1. Adam's Apples
2. Flickering Lights
3. The Green Butchers
4. Election Night
5. Ernst & lyset

My new lists (one of the directors was also included by erikk among the lists he posted today, so I'm going to just post my version first and then see how I can combine them):

Boris Barnet
1. By the Bluest of Seas
2. Okraina
3. The House on Trubnaya
4. Miss Mend [with Fyodor Otsep]
5. The Girl with the Hat Box
6. Secret Agent
7. Staryy naezdnik
8. The Wrestler and the Clown [with Konstantin Yudin]
9. Alyonka
10. Bountiful Summer

Kim Ki-Duk
1. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
2. 3-Iron
3. The Isle
4. Time
5. Samaritan Girl
6. The Bow
7. Pietà
8. Address Unknown
9. Bad Guy
10. Birdcage Inn

Phillip Noyce
1. Rabbit-Proof Fence
2. Clear and Present Danger
3. Patriot Games
4. The Quiet American
5. Dead Calm
6. Newsfront
7. Salt
8. The Bone Collector
9. Catch a Fire
10. The Saint

Guru Dutt
1. Pyaasa
2. Kaagaz Ke Phool
3. Baazi
4. Mr. & Mrs. '55
5. Aar Paar

Michael Apted
1. Up series [with Paul Almond]
2. Coal Miner's Daughter
3. Gorillas in the Mist
4. Stardust
5. Thunderheart
6. Gorky Park
7. P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
8. Nell
9. The World Is Not Enough
10. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

George Sidney
1. Anchors Aweigh
2. The Three Musketeers
3. Scaramouche
4. Bye Bye Birdie
5. Pal Joey
6. Show Boat
7. Annie Get Your Gun
8. Kiss Me Kate
9. Viva Las Vegas
10. The Harvey Girls

Mark Robson
1. The Seventh Victim
2. Peyton Place
3. Champion
4. Von Ryan's Express
5. The Bridges at Toko-Ri
6. The Harder They Fall
7. Home of the Brave
8. Valley of the Dolls
9. Earthquake
10. Isle of the Dead

So, Noyce...


I personally find it astonishing that we not only came up with the same set of films but that the only differences between our lists are, that you have "Salt" way higher and TQA a little higher than where I have them. Nice.

"Salt" is Noyce's most commercially successful movie so far. Yet its reception was mixed (Ebert isn't everything). Both "Clear and Present Danger" and "Patriot Games" were huge box office hits in their own right. Both held the top spot of the box office charts for two weeks while "Salt" never made it beyond #2. They were both more well received than "Salt", too.

"Dead Calm" wasn't as huge a hit though it did make Nicole Kidman a star and has very significant initial and lasting acclaim. It was also a crucial point in Noyce's career, being his international breakthrough. I'd have it ahead of "Salt" as well. I'm definitely ok with lowering "Newsfront" to #7 though.

Now the top 4: While we both agree that RPF > TQA and that C&PD > PG, I find it difficult to judge these pairs against each other. RPF and TQA clearly are Noyce's most acclaimed works. Yet C&PD (especially) and PG were very well-received, too. PG also has the distinction of being Noyce's first huge international box office success. RPF and TQA got very good press, yet they didn't appear in all that many critics' lists since then. They were also rather aimed at an arthouse audience, which means they didn't perform as well at the box office. TQA's ticket sales never even made its budget back. I'm not even sure RPF should be as high as it is, but I'm very positive TQA can't be higher than #4.

I'd move "Crimes of the Heart" up to #6. It easily beats "Double Jeopardy" in acclaim and was quite popular as well. Then I'd definitely get rid of "Evelyn" and possibly "Pancho Villa" as well in favor of some of his earlier Australian films, which have bigger lasting acclaim but were not as popular internationally. As "Pancho Villa" is very acclaimed in its own right I'm ok with keeping it at #10 but I'd at least have "The Adventures of Barry McKenzie" ahead of it, which kickstarted Beresford's career, was very popular in some countries and had some influence on the Crocodile Dundee films.

It's close between the top two but I'd probably have "Sir Arne's Treasure" at #1, which I think does slightly better in lasting acclaim and popularity and is considered to be the first true masterpiece of Swedish cinema. Then I'd raise "The Wings" to #7, which is one of the earliest films with a gay theme and I'd probably have "Song of the Scarlet Flower" above "Hotel Imperial". SotSF was way better received.

The top 3 are definitely right. "Dear Wendy" was a pretty huge commercial and critical disaster. I'd say TBWWB should at least be ahead of it, probably "The Biggest Heroes" (and theoretically "Last Round") as well.

Yes.

Just sent the following lists to lew: Akin, Amenábar, Andersson, Apted, Barnet, Beresford, Dutt, Kim Ki-Duk, McLaren, Mojica Marins, Noyce, Robson, Sidney, Stiller, Vinterberg

Michael Anderson
1. Logan's Run
2. Around the World in Eighty Days
3. The Dam Busters
4. The Quiller Memorandum
5. The Shoes of the Fisherman
6. Operation Crossbow
7. 1984
8. Sword of Gideon
9. Shake Hands With the Devil
10. Orca

Jack Arnold
1. The Incredible Shrinking Man
2. Creature From the Black Lagoon
3. It Came From Outer Space
4. Tarantula
5. The Mouse That Roared
6. High School Confidential!
7. Boss Nigger
8. No Name on the Bullet
9. Bachelor in Paradise
10. Revenge of the Creature

Lists! More Lists!

Edwin S. Porter
1. The Great Train Robbery
2. Life of an American Fireman [with George S. Fleming]
3. Tess of the Storm Country
4. Dream of a Rarebit Fiend [with Wallace McCutcheon]
5. Hearts Adrift
6. Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King
7. The Seven Ages
8. Jack and the Beanstalk [with George S. Fleming]
9. The Prisoner of Zenda [with Hugh Ford]
10. What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City [with George S. Fleming]

Peter Yates
1. Bullitt
2. Breaking Away
3. The Dresser
4. The Friends of Eddie Coyle
5. The Hot Rock
6. The Deep
7. Robbery
8. Eyewitness
9. Krull
10. Suspect

Philippe Garrel
1. Regular Lovers
2. J'entends plus la guitare
3. Le révélateur
4. Wild Innocence
5. The Inner Scar
6. L'enfant secret
7. Night Wind
8. Le lit de la vierge
9. Frontier of the Dawn
10. The Birth of Love

Dino Risi
1. Il sorpasso
2. Scent of a Woman
3. A Difficult Life
4. I mostri
5. Poveri ma belli
6. In the Name of the Italian People
7. Il vedovo
8. The Treasure of San Gennaro
9. The Sign of Venus
10. Il mattatore

Lynne Ramsay
1. We Need to Talk About Kevin
2. Morvern Callar
3. Ratcatcher
4. Small Deaths
5. Swimmer

Robert Wiene
1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
2. The Hands of Orlac
3. Raskolnikow
4. Fear
5. Der Rosenkavalier
6. Genuine
7. I.N.R.I.
8. The Other
9. Ultimatum [with Robert Siodmak]
10. Taifun

Jean Eustache
1. The Mother and the Whore
2. My Little Loves
3. A Dirty Story
4. Numéro zéro
5. Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes
6. Le cochon [with Jean-Michel Barjol]
7. Les photos d'Alix
8. Bad Company
9. Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Delights
10. The Virgin of Pessac [1968]

AtWi80D takes initial popularity, initial and lasting acclaim over LR. LR takes lasting popularity and maybe influence. I'd say the two should be swapped.

I don't see what it is that qualifies "Sword of Gideon" for the list and I'd replace it with "Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze". The rest looks fine.

Oh, hi paul! How it is going? Here's couple of suggestions:

Guy Ritchie
1. Snatch
2. Sherlock Holmes
3. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
4. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
5. RocknRolla

Terry Jones
1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail [with Terry Gilliam]
2. Monty Python's Life of Brian
3. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
4. The Wind in the Willows
5. Erik the Viking

I'm fine with this.

All's well. Thanks.

This is basically ok. Since MPatHG would be the first film to appear on two different lists, once I send this list to lew I'll ask him whether he's ok with that or whether he would rather include an "Also see Terry Gilliam"-note and "Personal Services" at #5.