Director’s Choice:19 Great Directors’ Top 10 Favorite Films

Film directors are also film buffs as we are, do you want to know the personal choices of top 10 favorite films by masters like Luis Buñuel, Vittorio De Sica, Stanley Kubrick…? You will be satisfied here.

These lists are all real. They come from reliable sources and have circulated widely over the years. Directors have always been asked to name their favorite films. However, lists of favorites frequently change over time, so these might not be the ultimate top 10 lists of these directors.

Anyway, we got a hell of a collection of great films here, just have fun.

Steven Spielberg:
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) – D: David Lean
Fantasia (1940) – D: Walt Disney
Citizen Kane (1941) – D: Orson Welles
It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) – D: Frank Capra
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – D: Stanley Kubrick
A Guy Named Joe (1947) – D: Victor Fleming
War of the Worlds (1953) – D: Byron Haskin and George Pal
Psycho (1960) – D: Alfred Hitchcock
Day For Night (1973) – D: François Truffaut
The Godfather (1972) – D: Francis Ford Coppola

Bernardo Bertolucci:
1.La Règle du Jeu (Renoir, 1939)
2.Sansho Dayu (Mizoguchi, 1954)
3.Germany, Year Zero (Rossellini, 1947)
4.A Bout de Souffle (Godard, 1959)
5.Stagecoach (Ford, 1939)
6.Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
7.City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
8.Marnie (Hitchcock, 1964)
9.Accattone (Pasolini, 1961)
10.Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)

Luis Buñuel:
1.Underworld (Sternberg)
2.The Gold Rush (Chaplin)
3.The Bicycle Thief (De Sica)
4.Potemkin (Eisenstein)
5.Portrait of Jennie (Dieterle)
6.Cavalcade (Lloyd)
7.White Shadows in the South Seas (Van Dyke)
8.Dead of Night (Cavalcantin, etc.)
9.L’Age d’Or (Buñuel)
10.I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Le Roy)

Vittorio De Sica:
1.Man of Aran (Flaherty)
2.The Kid (Chaplin)
3.La Chienne (Renoir)
4.Le Million (Clair)
5.L’Atalante (Vigo)
6.Kameradschadt (Pabst)
7.Storm Over Asia (Pudovkin)
8.Potemkin (Eisenstein)
9.Hallelujah! (Vidor)
10.La Kermesse Heroique (Feyder)

Carl Dreyer:
1.Birth of a Nation(Griffith)
2.Arne’s Treasure (Stiller)
3.Potemkin (Eisenstein)
4.The Gold Rush (Chaplin)
5.Sous les Toits de Paris (Clair)
6.Quai des Brumes (Carne)
7.Brief Encounter (Lean)
8.Henry V (Olivier)
9.The Petrified Forest (Mayo)
10.Open City (Rossellini)

Milos Forman:
Amarcord (Fellini)
American Graffiti (Lucas)
Citizen Kane (Welles)
City Lights (Chaplin)
The Deer Hunter (Cimino)
Les Enfants du paradis (Carn?/a>
Giant (Stevens)
The Godfather (Coppola)
Miracle in Milan (De Sica)
Raging Bull (Scorsese)

Martin Scorcese’s Favorite Color Films:
English-Language:
1.Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
2.Duel in the Sun (Vidor, 1946)
3.Invaders from Mars (Menzies, 1953)
4.Leave Her to Heaven (Stahl, 1946)
5.Moby Dick (Huston, 1956)
6.Phantom of the Opera (Lubin, 1943)
7.The Red Shoes (Powell, 1948)
8.The Searchers (Ford, 1956)
9.Singin’ in the Rain (Donen, 1952)
10.Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

Foreign-Language:
1.Contempt (Godard, 1963)
2.Cries and Whispers (Bergman, 1972)
3.Gate of Hell (Kinugasa, 1953)
4.In The Mood For Love (Wong, 2000)
5.The Last Emperor (Betolucci, 1987)
6.Red Desert (Antonioni, 1964)
7.The River (Renoir, 1951)
8.Satyricon (Fellini, 1969)
9.Senso (Visconti, 1954)
10.Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Paradjanov, 1964)

Elia Kazan:
1.Potemkin (Eisenstein)
2.Aerograd (Dovzhenko)
3.The Gold Rush (Chaplin)
4.Flesh and the Devil (Brown)
5.Open City (Rossellini)
6.The Bicycle Thief (De Sica)
7.Shoulder Arms (Chaplin)
8.Target for Tonight (Watt)
9.La Femme du Boulanger (Pagnol)
10.Marius, Fanny, Cesar (Pagnol)

Stanley Kubrick:
1.Vitelloni, I (1953) (aka Vitelloni) – D: Federico Fellini
2.Smultronstället (1957) (aka Wild Strawberries) – D: Ingmar Bergman
3.Citizen Kane (1941) – D: Orson Welles
4.The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) – D: John Huston
5.City Lights (1931) – D: Charles Chaplin
6.Henry V (1944) – D: Laurence Olivier
7.La Notte (1960) (aka The Night) – D: Michelangelo Antonioni
8.The Bank Dick (1940) – D: Edward F. Cline
9.Roxie Hart (1942) – D: William A. Wellman
10.Hell’s Angels (1930) – D: Howard Hughes