Todd Solondz
1. Welcome to the Dollhouse
2. Happiness
3. Storytelling
4. Palindromes
5. Dark Horse

David Gordon Green
1. George Washington
2. Pineapple Express
3. All The Real Girls
4. Prince Avalanche
5. Snow Angels

.... eh. Why not?

Roland Emmerich
1. Independence Day
2. The Patriot
3. 2012
4. Stargate
5. Anonymous
6. Universal Solider
7. White House Down
8. The Day After Tomorrow
9. Godzilla
10. 10,000 B.C.

Baz Luhrmann
1. Moulin Rouge!
2. Strictly Ballroom
3. Romeo + Juliet
4. Australia
5. The Great Gatsby

Zack Snyder
1. 300
2. Dawn of the Dead
3. Watchmen
4. Man of Steel
5. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

M. Night Shyamalan
1. The Sixth Sense
2. Unbreakable
3. Signs
4. The Village
5. Wide Awake
6. Praying With Anger
7. Lady in the Water
8. The Happening
9. After Earth
10. The Last Airbender



Does anybody think a Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker list would be possible?

Wow, that guy made some of my least favorite movies ever. I know Godzilla has one of the worst reputations in the history of movies, but I suppose you have it above TDAT for box office reasons?

That was actually an accident. I meant to put Godzilla behind the Day After Tomorrow because while both terrible, the Day After Tomorrow is just it's own mess. It doesn't disgrace a great film like Godzilla. Fixed.

Feel free to give it go. I will look into all these lists eventually but possibly not before next year.

Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker
1. Airplane! (JA, JZ, DZ)
2. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (DZ)
3. Ruthless People (JA, JZ, DZ)
4. Top Secret! (JA, JZ, DZ)
5. Hot Shots! (JA)
6. Ghost (JZ)
7. Rat Race (JZ)
8. The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (DZ)
9. Hot Shots! Part Deux (JA)
10. BASEketball (DZ)

This is the only way I could think it where it makes sense.

Alex Proyas
1. Dark City
2. The Crow
3. I, Robot
4. Garage Days
5. Knowing

Maybe Frances Ha should be bumped up to #1 for Baumbach. It just got a Criterion release.

Abdellatif Kechiche
1. Blue Is The Warmest Color
2. The Secret of the Grain
3. Black Venus
4. Games of Love and Chance
5. Poetical Refugee

Adam McKay
1. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgondy
2. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
3. Step Brothers
4. The Other Guys
5. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Jay Roach
1. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
2. Meet the Parents
3. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
4. The Campaign
5. Austin Powers in Goldmember

Steve James
1. Hoop Dreams
2. The Interrupters
3. Stevie
4. At the Death House Door [with Peter Gilbert]
5. Head Games

Terry Zwigoff
1. Crumb
2. Louie Bluie
3. Ghost World
4. Bad Santa
5. Art School Confidential

Gore Verbinski
1. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2. Rango
3. The Ring
4. The Weather Man
5. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
6. Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End
7. The Mexican
8. Mousehunt
9. The Ritual (short film)
10. The Lone Ranger

Bo Widerberg
1. Raven's End
2. The Man on the Roof
3. Elvira Madigan
4. All Things Fair
5. The Man from Majorca
6. Ådalen 31
7. Joe Hill
8. The Wild Duck
9. The Serpent's Way
10. Love 65

Bille August
1. Pelle the Conqueror
2. Les misérables
3. Zappa
4. Goodbye Bafana
5. Twist & Shout
6. The House of the Spirits
7. The Best Intentions
8. Smilla's Sense of Snow
9. Night Train to Lisbon
10. Marie Krøyer

Matti Kassila
1. Inspector Palmu's Error
2. Gas, Inspector Palmu!
3. The Harvest Month
4. The Stars Will Tell, Inspector Palmu
5. Radio tekee murron
6. Blue Week
7. Hilmanpäivät
8. Vodkaa, komisario Palmu
9. Tulipunainen kyyhkynen
10. The Girl from Moon Bridge

Jan Troell
1. The Emigrants
2. Everlasting Moments
3. The New Land
4. Hamsun
5. Here's Your Life
6. Il Capitano
7. The Flight of the Eagle
8. The Last Sentence
9. Zandy's Bride
10. As White as in Snow

Jim Sheridan
1. My Left Foot
2. In The Name of the Father
3. The Boxer
4. In America
5. The Field

Neil Jordan
1. The Crying Game
2. Mona Lisa
3. The Company of Wolves
4. Michael Collins
5. Interview with the Vampire

Chris Smith
1. American Movie
2. Collapse
3. The Pool
4. Home Movie
5. The Yes Men

Ben Stiller
1. Tropic Thunder
2. Zoolander
3. Reality Bites
4. The Cable Guy
5. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Tarsem Singh
1. The Fall
2. Losing My Religion
3. The Cell
4. Mirror Mirror
5. Immortales

Nimród Antal
1. Kontroll
2. Metallica Through the Never
3. Predators
4. Vacancy
5. Armored

OK, off we go:


First of all I'd move IwtV up. It's his most popular film and its acclaim is fairly decent. Even though some of his output may be slightly more acclaimed I don't think any film below #2 has enough to overcome Iwtv's advantage in popularity.

Maybe there's something I'm not seeing, but I don't think "Michael Collins" should be top 5. "The Butcher Boy" is significantly more acclaimed (though less popular), which should secure it a place in the top 5.

For #'s 6-10 I'd say at least "Breakfast on Pluto" and possibly "The Borgias" should also be ahead of Collins and I'd round out the top ten with "The End of the Affair" and "The Good Thief" (though a case for "The Brave One" could probably be made as well).

Out of his shorts "Exodus" seems to be the most significant. It's the only one to appear in TSPDT's starting list (possibly due to a single vote in 2002's BFI poll) and it's his most popular at the IMDb. I'd add it at #4 and kick off Static.

"Signs" was slightly more acclaimed and popular than "Unbreakable" so these two should swap.

I don't see the significance of "Praying with Anger" at all. No significant acclaim, popularity or influence to speak of. Negative acclaim doesn't give a film a disadvantage towards unnoticed films so I don't see how PwA could possibly be any higher than #10.

Similarly "Wide Awake" does significantly worse than any of his other films (save PwA) in popularity. Its acclaim is poor though not as bad as some of the others. The advantage in acclaim might be enough to overcome "The Last Airbender", which was ridiculously unacclaimed, but none of the rest. It moves down to #8.

"Happiness" has the edge in popularity and lasting acclaim so I'll move that to #1. The rest is perfect.

Wtf? for the placement of "Louie Bluie". Very little popularity and no widespread acclaim means it can't be higher than #5. The rest is good.

Also, concerning the Pialat issue I've decided to stick with "À nos amours" as his #1 film until someone (i.e. probably PBR) has put forward a convincing argument to why any of his others should be higher. Other than that I'll go with the list I posted in the third post from the bottom on page 30.