My Favorite Movies

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau: Sunrise
  • Abel Gance: Napoleon
  • Fritz Lang: M
  • Buster Keaton: The General
  • Leo McCarey: Duck Soup
  • Orson Welles: Touch of Evil
  • Marcel Carne: Children of Paradise
  • Howard Hawks: His Girl Friday
  • Jacques Tourneur: Out of the Past
  • Alfred Hitchcock: North By Northwest
  • Billy Wilder: Sunset Boulevard
  • Elia Kazan: On The Waterfront
  • Max Ophuls: Letter from an Unknown Woman
  • Vittorio DeSica: Miracle in Milan
  • Akira Kurosawa: Rashomon
  • Satyajit Ray: Apu Trilogy
  • Nicholas Ray: In a Lonely Place
  • Charles Chaplin: Limelight
  • Yasujiro Ozu: Tokyo Story
  • Kenji Mizoguchi: Ugetsu
  • Francois Truffaut: The 400 Blows
  • Jean-Luc Godard: Breathless
  • Ingmar Bergman: Persona
  • Federico Fellini: La Dolce Vita
  • Sergio Leone: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  • Stanley Kubrick: 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Roman Polanski: Chinatown
  • Robert Altman: Nashville
  • Andrei Tarkovsky: Stalker
  • Werner Herzog: Aguirre
  • Terry Jones: Life of Brian
  • Terrence Malick: Days of Heaven
  • Woody Allen: Annie Hall
  • Francis Ford Coppola: Apocalypse Now
  • John Carpenter: The Thing
  • Wim Wenders: Alice in the Cities
  • David Cronenberg: Videodrome
  • Ridley Scott: Blade Runner
  • Brian DePalma: Dressed to Kill
  • David Lynch: Blue Velvet
  • Peter Greenaway: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
  • Adrian Lyne: Jacob's Ladder
  • Jonathan Demme: The Silence of the Lambs
  • Ming liang Tsai: Rebels of the Neon God
  • Clint Eastwood: Unforgiven
  • Emir Kusturica: Underground
  • Steven Spielberg: Schindler's List
  • Atom Egoyan: Exotica
  • Quentin Tarantino: Pulp Fiction
  • Frank Darabont: The Shawshank Redemption
  • Krzysztof Kieslowski: Bleu
  • Hirokazu Kore-eda: Maboroshi
  • Jim Jarmusch: Dead Man
  • Theo Angelopulos: Ulysses' Gaze
  • Kar-Wai Wong: Chungking Express
  • Steven Spielberg: Schindler's List
  • Joel Coen: Miller's Crossing
  • Danny Boyle : Trainspotting
  • Sam Mendes: American Beauty
  • Bela Tarr: Werckmeister Harmonies
  • Christopher Nolan: Memento
  • Fernando Meirelles: City of God
  • Tom Tykwer: Run Lola Run
  • Hayao Miyazaki: Howl's Moving Castle
  • Paul Thomas Anderson: Magnolia
  • Ang Lee: Brokeback Mountain
  • Sion Sono: Love Exposure
  • Michel Gondry: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Kim Ki-duk: Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring
  • Jia Zhang-Ke: Still Life
  • Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck: The Lives of Others
  • Andrew Stanton: Wall-E
  • Charlie Kaufman: Synecdoche, New York
  • Darren Aronofsky: The Fountain
  • Michael Haneke: Amour
  • Thomas Vinterberg: The Hunt
  • Asghar Farhadi: A Separation
  • Shane Carruth: Upstream Color
  • Alejandro Inarritu: The Revenant
  • Richard Linklater: Boyhood
  • Nuri Bilge Ceylan: Winter Sleep
  • Bong Joon-Ho: Parasite

  • And since TV is technically just film in long form:
  • The Wire
  • The Singing Detective
  • Arrested Development
  • Breaking Bad
  • The Kingdom
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz