Movie Directors' Top Films

[Dubrow555]

Looks good to me - a real shame that "Megalopolis" couldn't break into FFC's top ten...

[pauldrach]

Looks good to me - a real shame that "Megalopolis" couldn't break into FFC's top ten...

It was tempting though, to just add it at #2 or something and then lean back and enjoy the reactions.

[Dubrow555]

Paulo, that would have been COMEDY GOLD my friend....

[pauldrach]

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Michael Curtiz
1. Casablanca (1942)
2. The Adventures of Robin Hood [with William Keighley] (1938)
3. Mildred Pierce (1945)
4. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
5. Captain Blood (1935)
6. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
7. The Sea Hawk (1940)
8. White Christmas (1954)
9. The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
10. Life with Father (1947)

Stephen Daldry
1. The Hours (2002)
2. Billy Elliot (2000)
3. The Reader (2008)
4. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
5. Trash (2014)

Georgiy Daneliya
1. Afonya (1975)
2. Mimino (1977)
3. Walking the Streets of Moscow (1963)
4. Kin-dza-dza! (1986)
5. Autumn Marathon (1979)
6. Don't Grieve (1968)
7. Passport (1990)
8. Tears Were Falling (1983)
9. Splendid Days [with Igor Talankin] (1960)
10. Thirty Three (1965)

Joe Dante
1. Gremlins (1984)
2. The Howling (1981)
3. Piranha (1978)
4. The 'Burbs (1989)
5. Innerspace (1987)
6. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
7. Explorers (1985)
8. Matinee (1993)
9. Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
10. Small Soldiers (1998)

Frank Darabont
1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2. The Green Mile (1999)
3. Days Gone Bye [The Walking Dead pilot] (2010)
4. The Mist (2007)
5. Mob City [with Guy Ferland] (2013)

Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
1. Rosetta (1999)
2. The Son (2002)
3. L'enfant (2005)
4. The Kid with a Bike (2011)
5. Two Days, One Night (2014)
6. La promesse (1996)
7. Lorna's Silence (2008)
8. Tori and Lokita (2022)
9. The Unknown Girl (2016)
10. Young Ahmed (2019)

Jules Dassin
1. Rififi (1955)
2. Night and the City (1950)
3. The Naked City (1948)
4. Brute Force (1947)
5. Thieves' Highway (1949)
6. Topkapi (1964)
7. Never on Sunday (1960)
8. The Canterville Ghost (1944)
9. He Who Must Die (1957)
10. Uptight (1968)

Delmer Daves
1. 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
2. Dark Passage (1947)
3. Broken Arrow (1950)
4. Destinytion Tokyo (1943)
5. The Hanging Tree (1959)
6. Pride of the Marines (1945)
7. A Summer Place (1959)
8. Jubal (1956)
9. Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)
10. The Red House (1947)

Terence Davies (1945-2023)
1. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
2. The Long Day Closes (1992)
3. The House of Mirth (2000)
4. The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
5. A Quiet Passion (2016)
6. Of Time and the City (2008)
7. Benediction (2021)
8. Sunset Song (2015)
9. The Neon Bible (1995)
10. Death and Transfiguration (1983)

Roy Del Ruth
1. Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929)
2. Blonde Crazy (1931)
3. On Moonlight Bay (1951)
4. Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
5. Employees' Entrance (1933)
6. Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
7. The Desert Song (1929)
8. Born to Dance (1936)
9. The Maltese Falcon (1931)
10. Hold Everything (1930)

Cecil B. DeMille
1. The Ten Commnandments (1956)
2. The Cheat (1915)
3. Samson and Delilah (1949)
4. The Ten Commandments (1923)
5. Cleopatra (1934)
6. The King of Kings (1927)
7. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
8. Male and Female (1919)
9. Union Pacific (1939)
10. The Sign of the Cross (1932)

Jonathan Demme
1. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
2. Stop Making Sense (1984)
3. Philadelphia (1993)
4. Melvin and Howard (1980)
5. Rachel Getting Married (2008)
6. Something Wild (1986)
7. Married to the Mob (1988)
8. The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
9. Swing Shift (1984)
10. Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006)

Claire Denis
1. Beau travail (1999)
2. White Material (2009)
3. 35 Shots of Rum (2008)
4. Chocolat (1988)
5. The Intruder (2004)
6. Trouble Every Day (2001)
7. High Life (2018)
8. Let the Sunshine In (2017)
9. Bastards (2013)
10. Friday Night (2002)

Brian De Palma
1. Scarface (1983)
2. Carrie (1976)
3. The Untouchables (1987)
4. Blow Out (1981)
5. Carlito's Way (1993)
6. Dressed to Kill (1980)
7. Mission: Impossible (1996)
8. Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
9. Body Double (1984)
10. Sisters (1973)

If there are no further comments (ManPerson?), I'll send the page 8 updates to lew.

[ManPerson]

Page 8 lists look fine.

[Tim]

Luca Guadagnino
1. Call Me by Your Name (2017)
2. Challengers (2024)
3. I Am Love (2009)
4. Bones and All (2022)
5. A Bigger Splash (2015)
6. Suspiria (2018)
7. Queer (2024)
8. We Are Who We Are (2020)
9. Melissa P. (2005)
10. The Protagonists (1999)