Of the directors I care about- Woody Allen- Crimes and Misdemeanors Friedkin-To Live and Die in LA DePalma-Femme Fatale Capra-It Happened One Night Griffith-Broken Blossoms Malick-Tree of Life Coen Brothers-Miller’s Crossing Lang-Human Desire Tarkovsky-Mirror
Look like fun. Here's my picks: 50. Woody Allen - The Purple Rose of Cairo 49. Kathryn Bigelow - Near Dark 48. Tim Burton - Edward Scissorhands 47. Terry Gilliam - Brazil 46. Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel 45. Powell and Pressburger - A Matter of Life and Death 44. Lois Weber - ? 43. William Friedkin - Sorcerer 42. Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan 41. Spike Lee - Do The Right Thing 40. Pedro Almodovar - All About My Mother 39. Lars von Trier - Breaking the Waves 38. Abbas Kiarostami - Through the Olive Trees 37. Brian De Palma - Scarface 36. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Amores Perros 35. Satyajit Ray - The Apu Trilogy 34. Ridley Scott - Blade Runner 33. Alice Guy-Blache - ? 32. Frank Capra - It's a Wonderful Life 31. D.W. Griffith - ? 30. Terrence Malick - Days of Heaven 29. The Coen Brothers - Barton Fink 28. Fritz Lang - Metropolis 27. Andrei Tarkovsky - Stalker 26. David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia
Nice to see the love for Inside Llewyn Davis. Excellent movie and very rewatchable. The music is great too and did not expect to like it. Along w/The man who wasn't there are both very underrated Cohen bros favorites.
For Griffith, Way Down East is his most moving film, emotionally. Lang's two best IMO are Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (one of my 12 all time favorite films) and M
I have seen a few Alice Guy movies. She was the first female director and was along with Melies a pioneer in narrative cinema. Her best movie is The Birth, the Life, and the Death of Christ, from 1906. Highly recommended, probably the best silent passion play
Hello again from Medford Oregon. Here are a few more of my favorites; Terry Gilliam-The Holy Grail. I've probably seen this about 30 times and still find something I missed before. DePalma-Femme Fatale. Cohen Brothers- Raising Arizona. I love the chase scene in the grocery store. I'm surprised Luis Bunuel is not on the list. It's a three way tie for me- Simon of the Desert, The exterminating Angel, Sylvia Pinyal is absolutely amazing in both films. The Milky Way. The Catholic Church actually awarded Bunuel with some kind of Catholic movie of the year award. I guess the Church figured that any movie that could possibly make the audience think theologically for 2 hours was worthy of an award.
Well done, Dr. Matthews! This list gives me plenty to think about watching. For Terrence Malick, I'd have nominated Days of Heaven, which I've enjoyed watching several times since seeing it in a theatre in 1978.
I agree with your picks, most of them. Except Gilliam, Woody and Ray which are Brazil, Manhattan and Charulata. Also, Pedro's masterpiece is Tall to Her.
I agree that Aronofsky’s filmography is so good that it’s hard to pick one. I would have to go with mother! tho. It did something for me that I have never felt before.
Pedro Al-mo-DO-var: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is one the best crafted comedies ever, IMO. Replete with insane Euro '80s fashion. Tarkovsky: agreed with Mirror.
Woody Allen - Hannah and Her Sisters Katheryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty Tim Burton - no masterpieces Terry Gilliam - Brazil Alesandro Inaritu - Birdman Wes Andersen - The Grand Budapest Hotel Powell and Pressburger - A Canterbury Tale (they have about 10 masterpieces in all) William Friedkin - French Connection Spike Lee - Do The Right Thing Pedro Almodovar - All About My Mother, Talk To Her Lars Von Trier, Melancholia, The Idiots, Breaking The Waves, The Kingdom Abbas Kiarostami - Close Up , The Wind Will Carry Us Sayajit Ray - World of Apu Ridley Scott - Thelma and Louise Frank Capra - Mr Deeds Goes To Town Terence Malikc - Badlands DW Griffith - Intolerance Coen Brothers - No Country For Old Men Fritz Lang - M aNDREI tARKOVSKY - Mirror, Andrei Rublev, The Sacrifice David Lean - Great Expectations, Brief Encounter, Lawrence of Arabia, Bridge on The River KwAI
Love the explanations here and thanks for putting some respect of Wes Andersons latest. A lot of people say he keeps doing the same thing and his style never evolves. You could argue the same for Ozu or Vivaldi but some artists keep chiseling away and the same block and you get to see so many iterations along the way and theres nothing wrong with that. Also, Im starting to believe that A Serious Man is the greatest achievement of the Coen Bros. My personal favorite is still O Brother Where Art Thou but thats for personal reasons.
Big Fish and Ed Wood are my favorite Tim Burton. As a person who ran home from school in the 60's and early 70's , i loved the original Dark Shadows and Burton made a total mess of a show he professes to like.
For Ridley Scott I totally get why many people would pick Blade Runner. Personally, I think Alien is a better movie. Blade Runner 2049 to me is better than the original.
Just a few comments/observations. For Aronofsky, The Fountain is both technically brilliant and explores grand subjects like life and death in a refreshingly innovative way. It is a bit convoluted for most folks but I think if you give it a second (and maybe third chance) you might name The Fountain as his masterpiece. For Tarkovsky-- and I think this may be blasphemous, but Solaris is a better film than 2001; it may not be as technically gifted as the Kubrick masterpiece but it explores similar themes with more depth and nuance than the latter film. Coen Brothers--Not a mention of Fargo??? C'mon.
thank you. I prefer the Coens' later works, mostly. The Fountain is an awesome movie in my opinion, partly because my wife and I both really liked it at the same time, which happens not a lot.
yeah, the dislike of the actual list will come out in my third video in this series, which is on directors who didn't make their list. IMO it is a better list than theirs!
Mine (for now): -Allen: Manhattan -Bigelow: only seen Detroit so far. It was okay. -Burton: shouldn't be on this list, but... Ed Wood by a country mile. -Gilliam: haven't seen any movies yet -Anderson: The Grand Budapest Hotel -Powell and Pressburger: Black Narcissus -Weber: Haven't watched -Friedkin: The Exorcist -Aronofsky: Black Swan -Lee: Do the Right Thing -Almodovar: All About My Mother -von Trier: Breaking the Waves -Kiarostami: 24 Frames -De Palma: Carrie -Inarritu: Birdman -Ray: The Stranger -Scott: Blade Runner -Guy-Blaché: Consequenses of Feminism. -Capra: It's A Wonderful Life -Griffith: Overrated racist whose "inventor of cinematic techniques" legend is dubious when one examines his lesser known contemporaries. No picks. -Malick: Haven't watched yet. -Coen: No Country for Old Men -Lang: Metropolis -Tarkovsky: Stalker -Lean: A Brief Encounter
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Of the directors I care about-
Woody Allen- Crimes and Misdemeanors
Friedkin-To Live and Die in LA
DePalma-Femme Fatale
Capra-It Happened One Night
Griffith-Broken Blossoms
Malick-Tree of Life
Coen Brothers-Miller’s Crossing
Lang-Human Desire
Tarkovsky-Mirror
I love the French Dispatch. Agreed.
Lillian Gish titled her autobiography, "The Movie, Mr. Griffith and me". I think you get the point.
The great Director Billy Wilder had a sign above the door in his Hollywood office. It simply stated, "How Would Lubitsch have done it."
Lawrence of Arabia and Bridge on the River Kwai were both amazing films for Lean.
Look like fun. Here's my picks:
50. Woody Allen - The Purple Rose of Cairo
49. Kathryn Bigelow - Near Dark
48. Tim Burton - Edward Scissorhands
47. Terry Gilliam - Brazil
46. Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
45. Powell and Pressburger - A Matter of Life and Death
44. Lois Weber - ?
43. William Friedkin - Sorcerer
42. Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan
41. Spike Lee - Do The Right Thing
40. Pedro Almodovar - All About My Mother
39. Lars von Trier - Breaking the Waves
38. Abbas Kiarostami - Through the Olive Trees
37. Brian De Palma - Scarface
36. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Amores Perros
35. Satyajit Ray - The Apu Trilogy
34. Ridley Scott - Blade Runner
33. Alice Guy-Blache - ?
32. Frank Capra - It's a Wonderful Life
31. D.W. Griffith - ?
30. Terrence Malick - Days of Heaven
29. The Coen Brothers - Barton Fink
28. Fritz Lang - Metropolis
27. Andrei Tarkovsky - Stalker
26. David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia
Through the Olive Trees, A Matter of Life and Death and Amores Perros. Sir I need your letterboxd sir, excuse me
thank you.
Nice to see the love for Inside Llewyn Davis. Excellent movie and very rewatchable. The music is great too and did not expect to like it. Along w/The man who wasn't there are both very underrated Cohen bros favorites.
thanks. there's a video on Llewyn Davis on this channel.
I am so glad you appreciate French Dispatch . To me, it ties with Grand Budapest Hotel for the top
thanks, and thanks for the comments -- I appreciate them.
I would pick Stalker as Andrei Tarkovsky's masterpiece. Mirror is definitely great too!
For Griffith, Way Down East is his most moving film, emotionally. Lang's two best IMO are Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (one of my 12 all time favorite films) and M
I have seen a few Alice Guy movies. She was the first female director and was along with Melies a pioneer in narrative cinema. Her best movie is The Birth, the Life, and the Death of Christ, from 1906. Highly recommended, probably the best silent passion play
Thin Red Line is my favorite malick film.
For me the masterpiece of Almodóvar is the “the flower of my secret” even many people think “all about my mother”.
Hello again from Medford Oregon. Here are a few more of my favorites; Terry Gilliam-The Holy Grail. I've probably seen this about 30 times and still find something I missed before. DePalma-Femme Fatale. Cohen Brothers- Raising Arizona. I love the chase scene in the grocery store. I'm surprised Luis Bunuel is not on the list. It's a three way tie for me- Simon of the Desert, The exterminating Angel, Sylvia Pinyal is absolutely amazing in both films. The Milky Way. The Catholic Church actually awarded Bunuel with some kind of Catholic movie of the year award. I guess the Church figured that any movie that could possibly make the audience think theologically for 2 hours was worthy of an award.
thank you very much.
Pedro Almodovar's "Pain and Glory" is well worth the watch!
Loved Ed Wood. Couldn't stop laughing.
Can’t believe Carl Theodor Dreyer or Krzysztof Kieslowski weren’t anywhere in the top 50
Purple Rose is one of my favorite all time movies. A good list would be top 10 movies not on AFI's best 100 lists.
I mean, doesn’t The French Dispatch feel so similar to Jacques Tati’s films? Plus, my favourite from Wes Anderson is The Grand Budapest Hotel
I would probably go for Badlands for Terrance Malick.
Well done, Dr. Matthews! This list gives me plenty to think about watching. For Terrence Malick, I'd have nominated Days of Heaven, which I've enjoyed watching several times since seeing it in a theatre in 1978.
thank you.
I agree with your picks, most of them. Except Gilliam, Woody and Ray which are Brazil, Manhattan and Charulata. Also, Pedro's masterpiece is Tall to Her.
My choice for Almodovar's masterpiece is Volver, but I can see why you choose Talk to Her.
@@MarcusNunes Its been a while since I watched Volver, I have to watch it again. I think both are popular choices for Pedro. I am planning to a study.
If the bar your setting for choosing these movies is "Masterwork", then for the Coen Brothers it has to be O Brother Where Art Thou.
Almodovar has so many good ones but Pain and Glory is my favorite but Volver and All About My Mother are fantastic.
I agree that Aronofsky’s filmography is so good that it’s hard to pick one. I would have to go with mother! tho. It did something for me that I have never felt before.
Pedro Al-mo-DO-var: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is one the best crafted comedies ever, IMO. Replete with insane Euro '80s fashion.
Tarkovsky: agreed with Mirror.
Woody Allen - Hannah and Her Sisters
Katheryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty
Tim Burton - no masterpieces
Terry Gilliam - Brazil
Alesandro Inaritu - Birdman
Wes Andersen - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Powell and Pressburger - A Canterbury Tale (they have about 10 masterpieces in all)
William Friedkin - French Connection
Spike Lee - Do The Right Thing
Pedro Almodovar - All About My Mother, Talk To Her
Lars Von Trier, Melancholia, The Idiots, Breaking The Waves, The Kingdom
Abbas Kiarostami - Close Up , The Wind Will Carry Us
Sayajit Ray - World of Apu
Ridley Scott - Thelma and Louise
Frank Capra - Mr Deeds Goes To Town
Terence Malikc - Badlands
DW Griffith - Intolerance
Coen Brothers - No Country For Old Men
Fritz Lang - M
aNDREI tARKOVSKY - Mirror, Andrei Rublev, The Sacrifice
David Lean - Great Expectations, Brief Encounter, Lawrence of Arabia, Bridge on The River KwAI
Love the explanations here and thanks for putting some respect of Wes Andersons latest. A lot of people say he keeps doing the same thing and his style never evolves. You could argue the same for Ozu or Vivaldi but some artists keep chiseling away and the same block and you get to see so many iterations along the way and theres nothing wrong with that. Also, Im starting to believe that A Serious Man is the greatest achievement of the Coen Bros. My personal favorite is still O Brother Where Art Thou but thats for personal reasons.
Yes, A Serious Man is an excellent film.
Almodóvar’s’s best film - probably Pain and Glory
As much as I love Lawrence of Arabia, my favorite David Lean film is Doctor Zhivago
I'd pick Black Swan but I also loved The Wrestler
Big Fish and Ed Wood are my favorite Tim Burton. As a person who ran home from school in the 60's and early 70's , i loved the original Dark Shadows and Burton made a total mess of a show he professes to like.
Where was Louis Buñuel on this complete list?
Ed Wood is the bomb
Great vid.
thank you.
Pedro! Almodovar--and I think you pronounced it correctly. Start with "Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown," and include "All About My Mother."
He didn't tho haha. It's Almodóvar, he said Almódovar.
For Ridley Scott I totally get why many people would pick Blade Runner. Personally, I think Alien is a better movie. Blade Runner 2049 to me is better than the original.
Part 2?
Coming, I think in two weeks.
Just a few comments/observations. For Aronofsky, The Fountain is both technically brilliant and explores grand subjects like life and death in a refreshingly innovative way. It is a bit convoluted for most folks but I think if you give it a second (and maybe third chance) you might name The Fountain as his masterpiece.
For Tarkovsky-- and I think this may be blasphemous, but Solaris is a better film than 2001; it may not be as technically gifted as the Kubrick masterpiece but it explores similar themes with more depth and nuance than the latter film.
Coen Brothers--Not a mention of Fargo??? C'mon.
thank you. I prefer the Coens' later works, mostly. The Fountain is an awesome movie in my opinion, partly because my wife and I both really liked it at the same time, which happens not a lot.
Wes Anderson Royal Tannanbaums easy!
TBF I hate Studio binder's ranking . Tarkovsky is easily top 5 for me and he sure deserves top 10.Terrance Mallick too 🙃
yeah, the dislike of the actual list will come out in my third video in this series, which is on directors who didn't make their list. IMO it is a better list than theirs!
I would say for the ones you skipped
Louis Weber - Suspense 1913
Alice Guy Blache - The Birth, the life and the death of Christ 1906
Lois not Louis
thank you.
You look like Bird man
I think we are up to about a dozen lookalikes, with David Cross in a big lead for that.
Hurt Locker is an embarrassment to cinema. Cat Bigalow over Woody Allen? Get out of here.
Mine (for now):
-Allen: Manhattan
-Bigelow: only seen Detroit so far. It was okay.
-Burton: shouldn't be on this list, but... Ed Wood by a country mile.
-Gilliam: haven't seen any movies yet
-Anderson: The Grand Budapest Hotel
-Powell and Pressburger: Black Narcissus
-Weber: Haven't watched
-Friedkin: The Exorcist
-Aronofsky: Black Swan
-Lee: Do the Right Thing
-Almodovar: All About My Mother
-von Trier: Breaking the Waves
-Kiarostami: 24 Frames
-De Palma: Carrie
-Inarritu: Birdman
-Ray: The Stranger
-Scott: Blade Runner
-Guy-Blaché: Consequenses of Feminism.
-Capra: It's A Wonderful Life
-Griffith: Overrated racist whose "inventor of cinematic techniques" legend is dubious when one examines his lesser known contemporaries. No picks.
-Malick: Haven't watched yet.
-Coen: No Country for Old Men
-Lang: Metropolis
-Tarkovsky: Stalker
-Lean: A Brief Encounter
thank you very much.