FILM

My Favorite Directors. Click a director's name for the movies I've seen and enjoyed. Please note that movies listed are only those that I've seen and do not represent a comprehensive filmography.

• Pedro Almodóvar
• Talk to Her, 2002
• All About my Mother, 1999
• Live Flesh, 1997
• Kika, 1993
• High Heels, 1991
• Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, 1990
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, 1988
• Matador, 1986
• Dark Habits, 1983
• Bernardo Bertolucci
• The Dreamers, 2003
• Stealing Beauty, 1996
• Little Buddha, 1993
• The Sheltering Sky, 1990
• The Last Emperor, 1987
• Coen Brothers
• The Man Who Wasn't There, 2001
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?, 2000
• The Big Lebowski, 1998
• Fargo, 1996
• Miller's Crossing, 1990
• Blood Simple, 1984
• Jean Cocteau
• Orpheus, 1949
• Beauty and the Beast, 1946
• The Blood of a Poet, 1930
• David Cronenberg
• Spider, 2002
• eXistenZ, 1999
• Crash, 1996
• Naked Lunch , 1991
• Dead Ringers, 1988
• The Dead Zone, 1983
• Peter Greenaway
• 8 1/2 Women, 1999
• The Pillow book, 1996
• Prospero's Books, 1991
• The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her Lover, 1989
• Drowning by Numbers, 1988
• The Belly of an Architect, 1987
• A Zed and Two Naughts, 1985
• The Draughtsman's Contract, 1982
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Topaz, 1969
• Marnie, 1964
• The Birds, 1963
• Psycho, 1960
• North by Northwest, 1959
• Vertigo, 1958
• The Wrong Man, 1956
• The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1956
• The Trouble with Harry, 1955
• To Catch a Thief, 1955
• Rear Window, 1954
• Dial M for Murder, 1954
• Rope, 1948
• The Paradine Case, 1947
• Spellbound, 1945
• Lifeboat, 1944
• Sabetour, 1942
• Suspicion, 1941
• Rebecca, 1940
• The Lady Vanishes, 1940
• The 39 Steps, 1935
• Rich and Strange, 1931
• Jim Jarmusch
• Coffee and Cigarettes, 2003
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, 1999
• Dead Man, 1995
• Night on Earth, 1991
• Mystery Train, 1989
• Down by Law, 1986
• Stranger than Paradise, 1983
• Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro
• Amélie, 2001
• La Cité des Enfants Perdus, 1995
• Delicatessen, 1991
• David Lynch
• Mulholland Drive, 2001
• Lost Highway, 1997
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, 1992
• Wild at Heart, 1990
• Blue Velvet, 1986
• Dune, 1984
• The Elephant Man, 1980
• Eraserhead, 1977
• Philip Kaufman
• Quills, 2000
• Rising Sun, 1993
• Henry & June, 1990
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1988
• The Right Stuff, 1983
• Akira Kurosawa
• Dreams, 1990
• The Throne of Blood, 1961
• The Hidden Fortress, 1960
• The Seven Samurai, 1954
• Deepa Metha
• Bollywood/Hollywood, 2002
• Fire, 1996
• Mira Nair
• Monsoon Wedding, 2001
• Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, 1996
• Mississippi Masala, 1991
• Salaam Bombay!, 1988
• Lars von Trier
• Dogville, 2003
• Dancer in the Dark, 2000
• The Idiots, 1998
• Breaking the Waves, 1996
• Europa, 1991
• Wim Wenders
• The Million Dollar Hotel, 2000
• Buena Vista Social Club, 1999
• Wings of Desire, 1988

Some Individual Films. Worthwhile films from people who, for one reason or another, didn't make me list of favorite directors.

• After Dark, My Sweet, 1990, James Foley
• Being John Malkovich, 1999, Spike Jonze
• Blade Runner, 1982, Ridley Scott
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1919, Robert Wiene
• Diva, 1981, Jean-Jacques Beineix
• Dogma, 1999, Kevin Smith
• The Exorcist, 1973, William Friedkin
• Kafka, 1991, Steven Soderbergh
• Last Exit to Brooklyn, 1989, Uli Edel
• Mallrats, 1995, Kevin Smith
• Metropolis, 1927, Fritz Lang
• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, 1985, Paul Schrader
• Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, 1922, F.W. Murnau
• The Omen, 1976, Richard Donner
• One False Move, 1992, Carl Franklin
• Romeo is Bleeding, 1993, Peter Medak
• Schindler's List, 1993, Steven Spielberg
• Shine, 1996, Scott Hicks
• Times to Come, 1988, Gustavo Mosquera
• Tokyo Decadence, 1992, Ryu Murakami
• Too Beautiful for You, 1989, Bertrand Blier
• Touts les Matins du Monde, 1991, Alain Corneau
• The Usual Suspects, 1995, Bryan Singer
• Vampire's Kiss, 1989, Robert Bierman