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Scott Klus

  1. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
  2. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
  3. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
  4. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
  5. The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer)
  6. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
  7. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
  8. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
  9. The Godfather Pt. 2 (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
  10. The Graduate (Micke Nichols, 1967)

Just missed: Bicycle Thieves, It Happened One Night, Seventh Seal, Sunset Blvd., 8 1/2, Annie Hall, Goodfellas, Sleeper, The Apartment and Singin' in the Rain.

Top 10 Directors:

  1. Billy Wilder
  2. Orson Welles
  3. Akira Kurosawa
  4. Federico Fellini
  5. Martin Scorsese
  6. Francois Truffaut
  7. Stanley Kubrick
  8. Howard Hawks
  9. John Ford
  10. Francis Ford Coppola (mainly for his 4 great films of the 70s)

Scott Klus is a 33 year old film enthusiast who has seen over 1600 films and is diligently working on the "They Shoot Pictures" list. He is an IT Director for an insurance company with a degree in Mathematics and Physics ("hardly qualified to be a film expert" says Mr. Klus). He has been making yearly lists of his all-time favorite movies for the last 4 years and averages watching about 150 movies a year.

tally after this list / April 12, 2008


Eli Fox

(chronological order)

  • Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson, 1950)
  • Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
  • Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
  • Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1964)
  • Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1969)
  • Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders, 1976)
  • A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989)
  • A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)
  • Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994)
  • Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
Top 10 Directors: Andrei Tarkovsky
The rest (in no order):
  • Yasujiro Ozu
  • Kenji Mizoguchi
  • Hou Hsiao-hsien
  • Edward Yang
  • Robert Bresson
  • Carl Theodor Dreyer
  • Federico Fellini
  • Jacques Rivette
  • Jean Renoir

Eli Fox is a 15 year old self-proclaimed film buff who aspires one day to become a director.

tally after this list / February 19, 2008


Brent Sallay

  1. Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998)
  2. Fargo (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1996)
  3. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
  4. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
  5. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
  6. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
  7. Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
  8. Adaptation (Spike Jonze, 2002)
  9. Happiness (Todd Solondz, 1998)
  10. All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green, 2003)
Top 10 Directors:
  1. Joel & Ethan Coen
  2. Akira Kurosawa
  3. David Lynch
  4. Robert Bresson
  5. Buster Keaton
  6. Andrei Tarkovsky
  7. Stanley Kubrick
  8. Terrence Malick
  9. Krzysztof Kieslowski
  10. Atom Egoyan

tally after this list / January 21, 2008


Domingo Peeters

  1. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
  2. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
  3. The Matrix (Wachowski Brothers, 1999)
  4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
  5. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
  6. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
  7. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
  8. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
  9. 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
  10. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)

"I am a Dutch history student with a passion for movies. Films are an important aspect (sometimes a little too important) of my life and my journey through the gigantic filmlandscape will most likely never end."

tally after this list / January 14, 2008


Andrew Horbal (revised list)

  1. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
  2. The Crowd (King Vidor, 1928)
  3. Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu, 1951)
  4. Lapis (James Whitney, 1966)
  5. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
  6. The Red Shoes (Powell/Pressburger, 1948)
  7. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
  8. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
  9. The Very Eye of Night (Maya Deren, 1958)
  10. The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967)

Note: The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928) is #11 on this list; there are individual scenes in Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly, 1952) and Earth (Alexander Dovzhenko, 1930) that I prefer to anything on this list; choosing between The Red Shoes and A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1944) gets harder all the time; Lonesome (Pál Fejös, 1928) would probably be on this list if I could see an even half-decent print of it.

Top 10 Directors:

  1. Robert Bresson
  2. David Cronenberg
  3. Jean-Luc Godard
  4. Hou Hsiao-hsien
  5. Chris Marker
  6. Hayao Miyazaki
  7. Michael Powell
  8. Jean Renoir
  9. Preston Sturges
  10. Orson Welles

Note: So far in my moviewatching life I've concentrated on seeing as wide a variety of films as possible, so a list like this one (Best Directors) is still hard for me to make. My next year's revised list will probably look considerably different.

See also Andrew's previous list: July 31, 2006

Andrew Horbal blogs about film at Mirror/Stage.

tally after this list / Dec 7, 2007


Josh Tschantret

  1. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
  3. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
  4. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
  5. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
  6. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
  7. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
  8. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
  9. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
  10. Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997)
Top 10 Directors:
  1. Stanley Kubrick
  2. Federico Fellini
  3. Akira Kurosawa
  4. Martin Scorsese
  5. Jean-Luc Godard
  6. Sergio Leone
  7. Orson Welles
  8. Ingmar Bergman
  9. Jean Renoir
  10. David Lean

"My name is Josh Tschantret. I'm 24 years old and I currently attend the LA Feature Film Academy. I direct movies and write screenplays and I hope to do them professionally sometime soon. Also, I consider myself a film historian since I know film history inside and out, it's a just a matter of finding a career where I can put this to good use."

tally after this list / December 2, 2007


Hans Lucas (revised list)

  1. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
  2. Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
  3. Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1924)
  4. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
  5. Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, 1974)
  6. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Cassavetes, 1976)
  7. L’eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)
  8. The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, 1973)
  9. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
  10. Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
Ten Favorite Filmmakers:
  1. Orson Welles
  2. Jean-Luc Godard
  3. Andrei Tarkovsky
  4. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  5. Stanley Kubrick
  6. Kenji Mizoguchi
  7. John Cassavetes
  8. Buster Keaton
  9. Jean Renoir
  10. Luis Buñuel


See also Han's previous lists: Nov. 9, 2006 & Nov. 6, 2005

Hans Lucas is a film student at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

tally after this list / November 18, 2007


Oskar Schöldström

  1. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
  2. Rashômon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
  3. Ladri Di Bicilette (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
  4. Les 400 Coups (François Truffaut, 1959)
  5. Tôkyô Monogatari (Yasujio Ozu, 1953)
  6. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
  7. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
  8. La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928)
  9. Det Sjunde Inseglet (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
  10. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Top 10 Directors:
  1. Stanley Kubrick
  2. Akira Kurosawa
  3. Alfred Hitchcock
  4. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  5. François Truffaut
  6. Orson Welles
  7. Ingmar Bergman
  8. Luis Buñuel
  9. Jean-Luc Godard
  10. Charles Chaplin

"Well my name is Oskar Schöldström and I'm a 19 year old film enthusiast from Finland. Watching and analyzing films is and has been my greatest hobby for the past years. I'm hoping this is something that I later can evolve into an occupation. Time will tell I guess, for now I just enjoy."

tally after this list / November 14, 2007


Javier Sanjurjo Cuesta

(chronological order)

  • Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
  • Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)
  • La Ronde (Max Opühls, 1950)
  • Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950)
  • La Strada (Federico Fellini, 1954)
  • Ordet (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1955)
  • Un condamné à mort s'est échappé (Bresson, 1956)
  • Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1956)
  • Smultronstället (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
  • Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Luchino Visconti, 1960)
Top 10 Directors (alphabetical order):
  1. Ingmar Bergman
  2. Robert Bresson
  3. John Ford
  4. Alfred Hitchcock
  5. Akira Kurosawa
  6. Max Opühls
  7. Yasujiro Ozu
  8. Satyajit Ray
  9. Luchino Visconti
  10. Billy Wilder

Javier Sanjurjo Cuesta is a Film Enthusiast from Madrid.

tally after this list / October 29, 2007


William Domanski

  1. Petulia (Richard Lester, 1968)
  2. Wagon Master (John Ford, 1950)
  3. Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)
  4. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967)
  5. Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles, 1965)
  6. Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)
  7. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)
  8. Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah, 1962)
  9. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
  10. Wild River (Elia Kazan, 1960)
Other films I considered: California Split (Robert Altman, 1974), Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967), Tom Horn (William Wiard, 1980), Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May, 1976), Rolling Thunder (John Flynn, 1977), Charley Varrick (Don Siegel, 1973).

Top 10 Directors:
  1. John Ford
  2. Orson Welles
  3. Roberto Rossellini
  4. Alain Resnais
  5. Carl Th. Dreyer
  6. John Cassavetes
  7. Kenji Mizoguchi
  8. Ingmar Bergman
  9. Akira Kurosawa
  10. Robert Aldrich
The others that I considered: Fellini, Bresson, Hawks, Ozu, Herzog and Leone.

William Domanski is a 45 year old movie fan in Virginia who hates the fact that the multiplex, video, and DVD killed the Art House, the Revival Theatre, the Midnight Show and the Drive-In. Going to the movies used to be like going to Mass and participating in a Sacrament. Now, with the Radical Reformation of the Home Entertainment system, we just make it up as we go along, and sit comfortably in the realm of the profane.

tally after this list / October 24, 2007


Horacio Anell

  1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
  2. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
  3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
  4. 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
  5. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
  6. The Godfather 2 (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
  7. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
  8. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
  9. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1969)
  10. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
Top 10 Directors:
  1. Orson Welles
  2. Stanley Kubrick
  3. Akira Kurosawa
  4. Federico Fellini
  5. Francis Ford Coppola
  6. Alfred Hitchcock
  7. Sergei Eisenstein
  8. Luis Buñuel
  9. Jean-Luc Godard
  10. John Ford

Horacio Anell is a Film Enthusiast.

tally after this list / October 14, 2007


Nick DuShane

To compose a personal list is one of those things that seperate plain "movie lovers" from true Cinephiles. And there is a conceived notion that it has to be from the point of view of a knowledgeable or sophisticated movie lover. Once more to weed down all the films made since the creation of the medium, down to "the ten" best is an act in futility. Still I think that I am fairly capable of putting in my two cents on the subject. The most common things I see when people make their own lists is that they often try to fill their lists up with critical or common sense "masterpieces", i.e. Citizen Kane, The Godfather, Vertigo etc. Not that these are bad films. Not in the slightest, for the three I just mentioned, and countless other titles that make the AFI or Sight & Sound Polls, are included on my own personal list of 100, but I do not think they are the only game in town. Other lists try to debunk those "intellectual" films with choices such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Airplane or Coffy, and these too are not unreasonable choices, but one has to ask oneself, where does real reconnection end and grandstanding begin. The point I'm trying to get at here is that I feel that a person composing a top 10 film list walks a very fine line between personal opinion and popular opinion.

I have come at my own list from both angles incorporating popular and critical choices with my own opinions. To help thin down and narrow my list I've decided to omit any silent and animated films, but don't worry I've also given my top ten in those categories as well.

  1. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
  2. Once Upon A Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
  3. 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
  4. Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
  5. Little Big Man (Arthur Penn, 1970)
  6. F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1974)
  7. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
  8. Brick (Rain Johnson, 2006)
  9. Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993)
  10. Being There (Hal Ashby, 1979)
Top 10 Directors:
  1. Stanly Kubrick
  2. Terry Gilliam
  3. Orson Welles
  4. Hal Ashby
  5. Mike Leigh
  6. Quentin Tarantino
  7. Federico Fellini
  8. David Lynch
  9. Frank Capra
  10. Sergio Leone
And just for the hell of it:

Top 10 Animated Films:
  1. Fantasia
  2. Akira
  3. Grave of the Fireflies
  4. The End of Evangelion
  5. The Secret of Nimh
  6. Ninja Scroll
  7. Princess Mononoke
  8. Memories
  9. The Lion King
  10. Metropolis
Top 10 Silent Films:
  1. City Lights
  2. The General
  3. Nosferatu
  4. Sunrise
  5. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  6. Intolerance
  7. The Thief of Bagdad
  8. Metropolis
  9. Battleship Potemkin
  10. Birth of a Nation

Nick DuShane is a writer, wannabe Director and all around film buff with too many opinions and too much time on his hands. Most of his works (that is, plays) have been performed around his community theaters. "Although I love the theater, my main passion is film or movies whichever one you want to call it. I do hope to make my own films in the future, most likely in the stile and make of Cassavetes.".

tally after this list / October 12, 2007


John Young (revised list)

  1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
  2. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
  3. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
  4. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
  5. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
  6. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
  7. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
  8. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
  9. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)
  10. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988)
Top 10 Directors:
  1. Stanley Kubrick
  2. Francis Ford Coppola
  3. Alfred Hitchcock
  4. Martin Scorsese
  5. Steven Spielberg
  6. Federico Fellini
  7. Billy Wilder
  8. Terrence Malick
  9. Akira Kurosawa
  10. Ingmar Bergman


See also John's previous list: June 16, 2006

John Young is a cinema studies and print journalism major at the University of Southern California. He currently works at Daily Variety, and has also worked for The Orange County Register, OC Weekly, Movieline's Hollywood Life, and the USC Daily Trojan.

tally after this list / September 8, 2007


Yoel Meranda

  1. Il Messia (Roberto Rossellini, 1975)
  2. What Goes Up (Robert Breer, 2003)
  3. The Lady from Musashino (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1951)
  4. Faust (F.W. Murnau, 1926)
  5. Sophie's Place (Larry Jordan, 1986)
  6. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
  7. El Dorado (Howard Hawks, 1966)
  8. The Art of Vision (Stan Brakhage, 1965)
  9. Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916)
  10. Mr. Frenhofer and the Minotaur (S. Peterson, 1949)
Top 10 Directors:
  1. Roberto Rossellini
  2. Robert Breer
  3. Kenji Mizoguchi
  4. F.W. Murnau
  5. Larry Jordan
  6. Robert Bresson
  7. Howard Hawks
  8. Stan Brakhage
  9. D.W. Griffith
  10. Sidney Peterson

Yoel Meranda's website Ways of Seeing includes his videos and his comments about favourite films/filmmakers. An article he wrote on Sirk's Imitation of Life was published by the Radikal newspaper in Turkey. Some of Yoel's videos are available at his website and YouTube.

tally after this list / September 6, 2007


Mitchell Seal (revised list)

  1. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
  3. The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel, 1974)
  4. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
  5. Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
  6. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
  7. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
  8. La Passion de Jeanne d'arc (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928)
  9. Aguirre, der Zorn gottes (Werner Herzog, 1972)
  10. Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1926)
Top Directors:
  1. Stanley Kubrick
  2. Luis Buñuel
  3. Ingmar Bergman
  4. Akira Kurosawa
  5. Alfred Hitchcock
  6. Werner Herzog
  7. Alejandro Jodorowsky


See also Mitchell's previous list: Dec. 27, 2005

tally after this list / August 16, 2007


David Nordmark

  1. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
  2. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969)
  3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman, 1988)
  4. Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
  5. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
  6. M*A*S*H (Robert Altman, 1970)
  7. Excalibur (John Boorman, 1981)
  8. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)
  9. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)
  10. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
Top 10 Directors:
  1. Jean-Pierre Melville
  2. Robert Altman
  3. Sergio Leone
  4. Terrence Malick
  5. Michael Mann
  6. Stanley Kubrick
  7. Orson Welles
  8. Alfred Hitchcock
  9. Wong Kar-Wai
  10. Hal Hartley

David Nordmark writes about film and music for the Whatcom Independent.

tally after this list / August 13, 2007


Eric Enders

  1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
  2. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
  3. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
  4. Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
  5. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)
  6. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)
  7. Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)
  8. Se7en (David Fincher, 1995)
  9. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
  10. JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991)
Top 10 Directors:
  1. Alfred Hitchcock
  2. John Ford
  3. John Huston
  4. John Sayles
  5. Billy Wilder
  6. Akira Kurosawa
  7. Elia Kazan
  8. Richard Linklater
  9. David Lean
  10. Howard Hawks

Eric Enders is a baseball writer and historian, and a dedicated cinephile.

tally after this list / August 10, 2007


Kevin Laforest (revised list)

  1. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
  2. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
  3. Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994)
  4. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
  5. Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
  6. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
  7. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
  8. Magnolia (P.T. Anderson, 1999)
  9. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
  10. The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1998)


See also Kevin's previous list: Sept. 23, 2005

Kevin Laforest is founder and editor of www.montrealfilmjournal.com, plays in a band on and off (mostly off) and has recently published his first (and probably last) novel. He insists he invented the question mark.

tally after this list / August 10, 2007


David Ehrenstein (revised list)

  1. Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (Patrice Chéreau, 1998)
  2. Out One (Jacques Rivette, 1971)
  3. La Commune (de Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins, 2000)
  4. 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
  5. Un condamné à mort s'est échappé (Robert Bresson, 1956)
  6. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
  7. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1949)
  8. Lola Montès (Max Ophuls, 1955)
  9. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
  10. Salo (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975)

Also: .**** (Andy Warhol, 1967), La Cicatrice Interieure (Philippe Garrel, 1972), Performance (Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, 1970), The Devils ( Ken Russell and Derek Jarman, 1971), Good News (Charles Walters, 1947), Star Spangled to Death (Ken Jacobs, 2004), A Movie (Bruce Conner, 1958), I Was Born But. . .(Yasujiro Ozu, 1932), The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963), If. . .(Lindsay Anderson, 1968), Muriel (Alain Resnais, 1963), Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell, 1936), The Last of England (Derek Jarman, 1988), Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983), F For Fake (Orson Welles, 1974), Singin? in the Rain (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, 1952), Funny Face (Stanley Donen, 1957), Le Mepris (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963), Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962) Der Tiger von Eschnapur / Das Indische Grabmal (Fritz Lang, 1959), Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984).

See also David's previous list: Oct. 18, 2005

Commenced writing career in 1965 with interview with Andy Warhol (his first) at the old "Silver" Factory; published in Film Culture magazine #40, Spring 1966. He has written for such publications as December, The Village Voice, Film Comment, Film Quarterly, San Francisco Examiner, Rolling Stone, Cahiers du Cinema, Arts, The Los Angeles Reader, Positif, Enclitic and Wide Angle. He has also worked as a film critic for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. In 1982 collaborated with Bill Reed on the book, Rock On Film (Delilah/G.P. Putnam's). Mr. Ehrenstein also wrote the book, Open Secret: Gay Hollywood 1928-1998 (William Morrow, 1998) and has appeared on numerous editions of E! True Hollywood Story.

tally after this list / August 10, 2007


Joe E. Graber

  1. Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
  2. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
  3. Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1946)
  4. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
  5. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
  6. The Vanishing (George Sluizer, 1988)
  7. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
  8. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman, 1960)
  9. Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman, 1961)
  10. Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1974)
Top 10 Directors:
  1. David Lynch
  2. Dario Argento
  3. Ingmar Bergman
  4. Woody Allen
  5. Luis Buñuel
  6. Federico Fellini
  7. Stanley Kubrick
  8. Tim Burton
  9. Quentin Tarrantino
  10. Jean Cocteau

Joe E. Graber is a seventeen year old cinephile from Philadelphia Pa, who will be attending Temple University after graduation.

tally after this list / May 28, 2007

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