Movie Directors' Top Films

[Tim]

Think this breakdown slightly favors Gentlemen Prefer Blondes even though Sergeant York is ranked higher on the 1940s list (#65) than Gentlemen Prefer Blondes on the 1950s list (#87).

[pauldrach]

Think this breakdown slightly favors Gentlemen Prefer Blondes even though Sergeant York is ranked higher on the 1940s list (#65) than Gentlemen Prefer Blondes on the 1950s list (#87).

How so? With acclaim going to SY, popularity about a draw and influence going to GPB, this seems to be a toss-up. I'm ok with giving the edge to GPB though if we think the influence win is bigger than the acclaim one.

[ManPerson]

I'd say the influence win is larger than the win in acclaim.

[pauldrach]

I did swap.

[ManPerson]

Oh, I didn't notice that. Lists all look good now.

[pauldrach]

Updates for page 16:

King Hu
1. A Touch of Zen (1971)
2. Dragon Inn (1967)
3. Come Drink with Me (1966)
4. Raining in the Mountain (1979)
5. Legend of the Mountain (1979)
6. The Fate of Lee Khan (1973)
7. The Valiant Ones (1974)
8. The Swordsman (1990)
9. All the King's Men (1983)
10. Sons of the Good Earth (1965)

John Huston
1. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
2. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
3. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
4. The African Queen (1951)
5. The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
6. Key Largo (1948)
7. The Dead (1987)
8. Fat City (1972)
9. The Misfits (1961)
10. Moby Dick (1956)

Kon Ichikawa
1. The Burmese Harp (1956)
2. Fires on the Plain (1959)
3. An Actor's Revenge (1963)
4. Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
5. Enjō (1958)
6. Odd Obsession (1959)
7. The Makioka Sisters (1983)
8. Her Brother (1960)
9. The Inugami Family (1976)
10. The Heart (1955)

Shōhei Imamura
1. The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
2. Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
3. Black Rain (1989)
4. Intentions of Murder (1964)
5. The Insect Woman (1963)
6. Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)
7. Pigs and Battleships (1961)
8. The Eel (1997)
9. The Pornographers (1966)
10. A Man Vanishes (1967)

Rex Ingram
1. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
2. Scaramouche (1923)
3. The Prisoner of Zenda (1922)
4. Mare nostrum (1926)
5. The Conquering Power (1921)
6. The Magician (1926)
7. The Garden of Allah (1927)
8. Trifling Women (1922)
9. The Arab (1924)
10. Black Orchids (1917)

Joris Ivens
1. Rain [with Mannus Franken] (1929)
2. A Tale of the Wind (1988)
3. Valparaiso (1963)
4. The Spanish Earth (1937)
5. De brug (1928)
6. Misère au Borinage [with Henri Storck] (1934)
7. The Seine Meets Paris (1957)
8. 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War [with Marceline Loridan Ivens] (1968)
9. How Yukong Moved the Mountains [with Marceline Loridan Ivens] (1976)
10. Pour le mistral (1966)

Peter Jackson
1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
4. Braindead (1992)
5. Heavenly Creatures (1994)
6. King Kong (2005)
7. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
8. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
9. Bad Taste (1987)
10. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

Wilfred Jackson
1. The Old Mill (1937)
2. The Band Concert (1935)
3. Song of the South [with Harve Foster] (1946)
4. The Wise Little Hen (1934)
5. The Tortoise and the Hare (1935)
6. The Goddess of Spring (1934)
7. The Grasshopper and the Ants (1934)
8. Music Land (1935)
9. The Coutnry Cousin (1936)
10. Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938)

Steve James
1. Hoop Dreams (1994)
2. Life Itself (2014)
3. The Interrupters (2011)
4. Stevie (2002)
5. Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2016)
6. No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson (2010)
7. America to Me (2018)
8. City So Real (2020)
9. At the Death House Door [with Peter Gilbert] (2008)
10. Head Games (2012)

Miklós Jancsó
1. The Round-Up (1966)
2. The Red and the White (1967)
3. Red Psalm (1972)
4. My Way Home (1965)
5. Silence and Cry (1968)
6. Electra, My Love (1974)
7. The Lord's Lantern in Budapest (1998)
8. The Confrontation (1969)
9. Cantata (1963)
10. Hungarian Rhapsody (1979)

Derek Jarman
1. Blue (1993)
2. Caravaggio (1986)
3. Jubilee (1978)
4. Edward II (1991)
5. Sebastiane [with Paul Humfress] (1976)
6. The Last of England (1987)
7. Wittgenstein (1993)
8. The Garden (1990)
9. The Angelic Conversation (1985)
10. The Tempest (1979)

Jim Jarmusch
1. Stranger than Paradise (1984)
2. Down by Law (1986)
3. Dead Man (1995)
4. Paterson (2016)
5. Night on Earth (1991)
6. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
7. Mystery Train (1989)
8. Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
9. Broken Flowers (2005)
10. Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)

Humphrey Jennings
1. Listen to Britain [with Stewart McAllister] (1942)
2. Fires Were Started (1943)
3. A Diary for Timothy (1949)
4. London Can Take It! [with Harry Watt] (1940)
5. Spare Time (1939)
6. The Silent Village (1943)
7. Words for Battle (1941)
8. Family Portrait (1950)
9. The First Days [with Pat Jackson & Harry Watt] (1939)
10. The Heart of Britain (1941)

Anders Thomas Jensen
1. Riders of Justice (2020)
2. Adam's Apples (2005)
3. Flickering Lights (2000)
4. The Green Butchers (2003)
5. Men & Chicken (2015)

Jean-Pierre Jeunet
1. Amélie (2001)
2. Delicatessen [with Marc Caro] (1991)
3. The City of Lost Children [with Marc Caro] (1995)
4. A Very Long Engagement (2004)
5. Alien Resurrection (1997)
6. Micmacs (2009)
7. The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet (2013)
8. BigBug (2022)
9. Things I Like, Things I Don't Like (1989)
10. The Bunker of the Last Gunshots [with Marc Caro] (1981)

And the new list, which also remains unchanged compared to what had originally been posted on the forum:

Martin McDonagh (1970-)
1. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
2. The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
3. In Bruges (2008)
4. Seven Psychopaths (2012)
5. Six Shooter (2004)

I'll send the page 15 updates and the Chazelle list to lew.

[Area Man]

Dumb question, but is the World War I documentary They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) eligible for the Peter Jackson list?

[Tim]

Sure it is.

[pauldrach]

Dumb question, but is the World War I documentary They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) eligible for the Peter Jackson list?

Of course, but its niche acclaim surely isn't enough to beat hobbit-schlock's mainstream popularity.

[ManPerson]

Speaking of Peter Jackson documentaries, I was actually thinking Get Back could be somewhere on his list.

[Tim]

Speaking of Peter Jackson documentaries, I was actually thinking Get Back could be somewhere on his list.

Guess I can see it beating his current #9-10 entries.

[pauldrach]

Speaking of Peter Jackson documentaries, I was actually thinking Get Back could be somewhere on his list.

Guess I can see it beating his current #9-10 entries.

Gotta say I disagree. The popularity of the Hobbit franchise was so big that I don't see how the acclaim of his documentaries can be considered to even approach that. As of yet, TSNGO is more popular at the IMDb and higher on TSPDT than TB:GB.

[Dubrow555]

Speaking of Jackson...curious about the justification for having Bad Taste above the 3rd Hobbit movie. Is BT considered an influential movie in any way? Wasn't really particularly successful or acclaimed. IDK if I'd even call it Jackson's "break out" - doesn't feel top ten worthy to me.

[Tim]

Here's what wiki has to say (not necessary contradicting what you said)

The film was shot in Northern Wellington over the course of four years, and eventually received nearly a quarter of a million dollars in New Zealand Film Commission assistance, providing Jackson with the leverage necessary to advance in the film industry.

Since its release, Bad Taste has become a cult film and has received stronger reviews. It is regarded as a classic of New Zealand indie cinema. In 2008, British film magazine Empire ranked Bad Taste as the 416th greatest film ever made.

[pauldrach]

Speaking of Jackson...curious about the justification for having Bad Taste above the 3rd Hobbit movie. Is BT considered an influential movie in any way? Wasn't really particularly successful or acclaimed. IDK if I'd even call it Jackson's "break out" - doesn't feel top ten worthy to me.

Yeah, cult acclaim and influence for helping Jackson break through. I don't necessarily object to swapping it with Hobbit 3. What do others think?

[Sherick]

Films designed scientifically to make money make money, all the scoops on DDD.