Favourite Films

Ordered alphabetically, by the director's first name...

Adrian Lyne
Jacob's Ladder

Alan J. Pakula
The Parallax View

Alejandro González Iñárritu
Amores Perros

Alexander Mackendrick
The Ladykillers

Alfred Hitchcock
Psycho
North by Northwest
Rear Window
Notorious

Anthony Minghella
The English Patient

Billy Wilder
Some Like It Hot

Blake Edwards
(half of) The Pink Panther series
The Party

Bob Rafaelson
Five Easy Pieces

Brad Bird
The Iron Giant

Brian De Palma
Scarface
Carlito's Way

Bruce Robinson
Withnail & I

Charles Crichton
A Fish Called Wanda

The Cohen Brothers
Fargo
The Big Lebowski

Danny Boyle
Trainspotting

Darren Aranofsky
Pi

David Cronenberg
The Dead Zone

David Fincher
Seven

David Lean
Lawrence of Arabia

David Lynch
Blue Velvet
Wild At Heart
The Elephant Man
The Straight Story

Dennis Hopper
Easy Rider

Don Siegel
Dirty Harry

Douglas Trumbull
Silent Running

Franc Roddam
Quadrophenia

Francis Coppola
Apocalypse Now (original edit)
The Godfather
Godfather 2
Bram Stoker's Dracula

Franklin J. Schaffner
Papillon

Fred Zinneman
High Noon

George Cukor
The Philadelphia Story

George Lucas
Star Wars

George Miller
Mad Max
Mad Max 2

George Roy Hill
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid

Gus Van Sant
Drugstore Cowboy

Guy Hamilton
Goldfinger

Hal Ashby
Coming Home
The Last Detail
Being There

Howard Hawks
The Thing From Outer Space

Jim Sheridan
The Field

John Badham
Saturday Night Fever

John Boorman
Excalibur
Deliverance

John Carpenter
Halloween
The Thing
Escape From New York

John Frankenheimer
The French Connection 2

John Landis
An American Werewolf In London
The Blues Brothers
Trading Places

John Mackenzie
The Long Good Friday

John Schlesinger
Midnight Cowboy
Marathon Man

Jonathan Demme
Silence of The Lambs

Kátia Lund & Fernando Meirelles
City Of God

Louis Malle
Zazie Dans Le Metro

Martin Scorcese
The King of Comedy
Goodfellas
Taxi Driver
Mean Streets
Cape Fear
Raging Bull
After Hours

Mel Stuart
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory

Michael Cimino
The Deer Hunter

Mike Hodges
Get Carter

Mike Nichols
The Graduate

Milos Forman
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Amadeus

Nic Roeg
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Performance

Nicholas Ray
Rebel without a Cause

Oliver Stone
Natural Born Killers
The Doors
Wall Street

P T Anderson
Boogie Nights

Peter Bogdanovich
Paper Moon
What's Up, Doc?

Peter Greenaway
The Belly of an Architect

Peter Hunt
On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Peter Jackson
The Fellowship of The Ring

Peter Weir
Dead Poet's Society

Powell & Pressburger
A Matter of Life And Death

Quentin Tarantino
Reservoir Dogs

Raoul Walsh
The Roaring Twenties

Richard Donner
The Omen
Superman

Richard Kelly
Donnie Darko

Richard Linklater
Dazed and Confused

Ridley Scott
Alien
Blade Runner

Rob Reiner
This is Spinal Tap
Misery

Robert Altman
MASH
The Player
Short Cuts

Robert Wise
The Day The Earth Stood Still

Roman Polanski
Rosemary's Baby

Ron Clements & John Musker
Aladdin

Sidney J. Furie
The Ipcress File

Spike Jonze
Being John Malkovich

Spike Lee
Do The Right Thing

Stanley Kubrick
2001 A Space Odyssey
The Shining
Dr Strangelove

Stephen Surjik
Wayne's World 2

Steven Lisberger
Tron

Steven Spielberg
Jaws
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
E.T.

Terry Gilliam
Brazil
Time Bandits

Tim Burton
Ed Wood
Edward Scissorhands

Tony Richardson
Tom Jones

Tony Scott
True Romance

Walter Huston
The African Queen

William Friedkin
The French Connection

Woody Allen
Hannah and her Sisters