Movie Directors' Top Films

[pauldrach]

Done.

[Dubrow555]

Looks good to me.

[pauldrach]

Page 3! I suggest the following updates:

Héctor Babenco
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9. Foolish Heart (1998)
10. My Hindu Friend (2015)

(Two incorrect years.)

Lloyd Bacon
1. 42nd Street (1933)
2. Footlight Parade (1933)
3. Marked Woman (1937)
4. Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
5. The Fighting Sullivans (1944)
6. The Singing Fool (1928)
7. Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
8. A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
9. Wonder Bar (1934)
10. Larceny, Inc. (1942)

Roy Ward Baker
1. A Night to Remember (1958)
2. Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
3. Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
4. Asylum (1972)
5. The Vampire Lovers (1970)
6. The October Man (1947)
7. Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971)
8. Morning Departure (1950)
9. The One That Got Away (1957)
10. Inferno (1953)

Boris Barnet
1. By the Bluest of Seas (1936)
2. The Girl with the Hat Box (1927)
3. Okraina (1933)
4. The House on Trubnaya (1928)
5. Miss Mend [with Fedor Ozep] (1926)
6. Alyonka (1961)
7. Secret Agent (1947)
8. The Wrestler and the Clown [with Konstantin Yudin] (1957)
9. The Old Jockey (1940)
10. Dark Is the Night (1945)

Yevgeni Bauer​​​​​​​
1. The Dying Swan (1917)
2. Twilight of a Woman's Soul (1913)
3. After Death (1915)
4. Child of the Big City (1914)
5. A Life for a Life (1916)
6. Daydreams (1915)
7. For Happiness (1917)
8. Revolutionary (1917)
9. Children of the Age (1915)
10. Silent Witnesses (1914)

Noah Baumbach
1. Marriage Story (2019)
2. The Squid and the Whale (2005)
3. Frances Ha (2012)
4. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)
5. While We're Young (2014)
6. Greenberg (2010)
7. Mistress America (2015)
8. Kicking and Screaming (1995)
9. Margot at the Wedding (2007)
10. White Noise (2022)

Mario Bava
1. Black Sunday (1960)
2. Black Sabbath (1963)
3. Blood and Black Lace (1964)
4. A Bay of Blood (1971)
5. The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)
6. Kill, Baby, Kill (1966)
7. Planet of the Vampires (1965)
8. Danger: Diabolik (1968)
9. The Whip and the Body (1963)
10. Rabid Dogs (1974)

Michael Bay​​​​​​​
1. Transformers (2007)
2. Armageddon (1998)
3. The Rock (1996)
4. Bad Boys (1995)
5. Pearl Harbor (2001)
6. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
7. Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
8. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
9. The Island (2005)
10. Bad Boys II (2003)

Jacques Becker
1. Le trou (1960)
2. Casque d'or (1952)
3. Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)
4. Antoine et Antoinette (1947)
5. Edward and Caroline (1951)
6. Paris Frills (1945)
7. It Happened at the Inn (1943)
8. Rendezvous in July (1949)
9. The Lovers of Montparnasse (1958)
10. Rue de l'Estrapade (1953)

Marco Bellocchio
1. Fists in the Pocket (1965)
2. Vincere (2009)
3. The Traitor (2019)
4. Good Morning, Night (2003)
5. My Mother's Smile (2002)
6. Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara (2023)
7. Exterior Night (2022)
8. China Is Near (1967)
9. A Leap in the Dark (1980)
10. Devil in the Flesh (1986)

Bruce Beresford​​​​​​​
1. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
2. Tender Mercies (1983)
3. Breaker Morant (1980)
4. Black Robe (1991)
5. Don's Party (1976)
6. Crimes of the Party (1986)
7. Double Jeopardy (1999)
8. Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
9. The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972)
10. Money Movers (1978)

Ingmar Bergman​​​​​​​
1. Persona (1966)
2. The Seventh Seal (1957)
3. Wild Strawberries (1957)
4. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
5. Cries and Whispers (1972)
6. The Virgin Spring (1960)
7. Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
8. Winter Light (1963)
9. Autumn Sonata (1978)
10. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)

The rest can stay the same imo.

EDIT: I'll send the page 2 updates to lew.

[Dubrow555]

The entry for "The Meyerowitz Stories" should have a ")" after the word "selected"

Other than that....looks good!

[ManPerson]

I'm curious how Casque D'or and Le Trou compare.

[pauldrach]

I'm curious how Casque D'or and Le Trou compare.

You sure ask damn good questions.

"Casque d'or" takes critical acclaim. Or at least lasting critical acclaim, initial may be a tie. "Le trou" takes audience acclaim, or at least lasting audience acclaim, initial may be a tie. Industry acclaim seems to be about a tie as well.

"Le trou" takes lasting popularity. I don't find much about the initial popularity of either film but from the bits I found I assume "Le trou" takes initial popularity as well.

I don't think either film has that much influence.

I'll swap them.

[pauldrach]

Proposed page 4 updates:

Bernardo Bertolucci
1. The Conformist (1970)
2. Last Tango in Paris (1972)
3. The Last Emperor (1987)
4. 1900 (1976)
5. The Spider's Stratagem (1970)
6. Before the Revolution (1964)
7. The Dreamers (2003)
8. The Sheltering Sky (1990)
9. La luna (1979)
10. Besieged (1998)

Luc Besson​​​​​​​
1. Léon: The Professional (1994)
2. The Fifth Element (1997)
3. La femme Nikita (1990)
4. Lucy (2014)
5. The Big Blue (1988)
6. Subway (1985)
7. Le dernier combat (1983)
8. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
9. Dogman (2023)
10. Angel-A (2005)

Susanne Bier
1. After the Wedding (2006)
2. In a Better World (2010)
3. Open Hearts (2002)
4. The Night Manager [season 1] (2016)
5. Brothers (2004)
6. The Undoing (2020)
7. Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
8. Bird Box (2018)
9. The Perfect Couple (2024)
10. The One and Only (1999)

J. Stuart Blackton
1. The Enchanted Drawing (1900)
2. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906)
3. Princess Nicotine; or, the Smoke Fairy (1909)
4. The Haunted Hotel (1907)
5. The Life of Moses (1909)
6. The Thieving Hand (1908)
7. The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1898)
8. Tearing Down the Spanish Flag (1898)
9. Lady Godiva (1911)
10. The Automobile Thieves (1906)

Bertrand Blier
1. Going Places (1974)
2. Buffet froid (1979)
3. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)
4. Beau-père (1981)
5. Ménage (1986)
6. Too Beautiful for You (1989)
7. The Clink of Ice (2010)
8. Merci la vie (1991)
9. Our Story (1984)
10. 1, 2, 3, Sun (1993)

Budd Boetticher​​​​​​​
1. Ride Lonesome (1959)
2. Seven Men from Now (1956)
3. The Tall T (1957)
4. Comanche Station (1960)
5. Decision at Sundown (1957)
6. Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)
7. The Killer Is Loose (1956)
8. The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960)
9. Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)
10. The Man from the Alamo (1953)

Peter Bogdanovich
1. The Last Picture Show (1971)
2. Paper Moon (1973)
3. What's Up, Doc? (1972)
4. Targets (1968)
5. Mask (1985)
6. Noises Off (1992)
7. They All Laughed (1981)
8. Saint Jack (1979)
9. The Cat's Meow (2001)
10. Texasville (1990)

John Boorman
1. Deliverance (1972)
2. Point Blank (1967)
3. Excalibur (1981)
4. Hope and Glory (1987)
5. Hell in the Pacific (1968)
6. The Emerald Forest (1985)
7. The General (1998)
8. Zardoz (1974)
9. The Tailor of Panama (2001)
10. Beyond Rangoon (1995)

Frank Borzage
1. 7th Heaven (1927)
2. The Mortal Storm (1940)
3. Street Angel (1928)
4. Lucky Star (1929)
5. A Farewell to Arms (1932)
6. Humoresque (1920)
7. Three Comrades (1938)
8. History Is Made at Night (1937)
9. Man's Castle (1933)
10. Desire (1936)

The rest can stay the way they are imo. I'll also send the page 3 updates to lew.