Ten MUST-HAVE Director's in Your Collection
 

Every collector has a favorite director, whether it be Quentin Tarantino or Michael Mann.

The question I ask is which 10 directors are directors you HAVE to have in your collection. Also, list which of his/her films you own on DVD.

Mine are (in ABC order):

Tim Burton
- Beetlejuice
- Big Fish
- Ed Wood
- Edward Scissorhands
- Mars Attacks!
- Planet of the Apes
- Sleepy Hollow

Joel and Ethan Coen
- Blood Simple
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Francis Ford Coppola
- Apocalypse Now
- Apocalypse Now Redux
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula
- The Godfather Trilogy

Wes Craven
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
- The Scream Trilogy
- Wes Craven’s New Nightmare

Alfred Hitchcock
- Psycho
- Rear Window

David Lynch
- Mulholland Drive

Guy Ritchie
- Snatch.

Ridley Scott
- Alien (20th Anniversary and Quadrilogy)
- Black Hawk Down
- Gladiator
- Hannibal
- Legend

Steven Spielberg
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence
- Catch Me If You Can
- E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
- The Indiana Jones Trilogy
- Jaws
- Jurassic Park
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park
- Minority Report
- Saving Private Ryan
- Schindler’s List

Quentin Tarantino
- Jackie Brown
- Kill Bill: Vol. 1
- Pulp Fiction
- Reservoir Dogs

So, which 10 directors are your must-haves in the collection?

John Carpenter
The Thing
Halloween
Escape from NY
Big Trouble in LIttle China
The Fog
They Live
Prince of Darkness
Assault on Precint 13
Starman
village of the Damned
Vampires
Ghosts of Mars
In Mouth of Madness

David Fincher, QT and Scorcese.

Too lazy to name 10....

Alex Proyas - Dark City, The Crow
Christopher Nolan - Memento, Insomnia
Bryan Singer - Ususal Suspects, X-Men, X2

The Holy Four: Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Lang, and Chaplin

With an honorable shout out to: Welles, Keaton, and Tarkovsky.

Followed by list of newbies: Proyas, Fincher, and Boyle.

John Carpenter
Steven Spielberg
James Cameron
David Cronenberg
Richard Donner
John Hughes
Ridley Scott
Paul Verhoeven
Wes Craven
Alex Proyas
Dario Argento

Too lazy to type all that I have so I listed only my favorite from each:

-Steven Spielberg (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
-Alfred Hitchcock (North by Northwest)
-Martin Scorcese (Goodfellas)
-Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing)
-Akira Kurasawa (Seven Samaurai)
-Jonathan Demme (Stop Making Sense)
-Francis Ford Coppola (Godfather Collection)
-Francois Truffault (400 Blows)
-Quentin Tarrantino (Pulp Fiction)
-James Cameron (The Abyss)

Hitchcock - Vertigo, North by NW

Billy Wilder - The Apartment

Ernst lubitsch - Trouble in Paradise

Orson Welles - Citizen Kane

Patrice Leconte - Monsier Hire, Girl on a Bridge

Brian DePalma - Sisters

Kurosawa- High and Low

Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger- Life and death Colonel Blimp

David Lynch - Mulholland Drive

François Truffaut - 400 Blows

Coen Brothers
Quentin Tarrantino
Steven Spielberg
Martin Scorcese
Tim Burton
John Carpenter
Ridley Scott
Brian DePalma
Danny Boyle
Kevin Smith

Coen Brothers

Blood Simple
Miller's Crossing
Barton Fink
Fargo
Big Lebowski
Man Who Wasn't There
Intolerable Cruelty


David Fincher

Alien 3
Seven
The Game
Fight Club
Panic Room

Paul Thomas Anderson

Hard Eight
Boogie Nights
Magnolia
Punch Drunk Love

Wes Anderson

Rushmore
Royal Tenenbaums

I am working on getting the rest of the Coen Brother's films, Cronenberg films, Michael Mann films, Michael Bay films (no comment please), and anything Tarantino excluding Kill Bill.

Alfred Hitchcock
Steven Spielberg
Kevin Smith
Martin Scorcese
Ridley Scott
Clint Eastwood
Coen Brothers
James Cameron
Guy Ritchie
Spike Lee

Too many titles to list for each....

Honorable Mentions for me:
Quentin Tarantino
Oliver Stone
Barry Levinson
John Carpenter

C'mon guys, John Ford

When Orson Welles was asked to name the 3 greatest directors, he replied John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
Spielberg paid tribute to Ford in 1941 and ET.

Wolfgang Peterson

Peter Jackson

Steven Spielberg

Stanley Kubrick

James Cameron

Jan de Bont

Roland Emmerich

Paul Verhoeven

For me, I must own every title by these guys:

Akira Kurosawa
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
Sanjuro
High & Low
Rashomon
Red Beard
Hidden Fortress
Ikiru
Ran

Federico Fellini
8 1/2
Amarcord
La Strada
Juliet of the Spirits
Variety Lights
And the Ship Sails On
Nights of Cabria

Alfred Hitchcock
Vertigo
Rear Window
Psycho
North by Northwest
Notorious
Rebecca
Lady Vanishes
39 Steps

David Lean
Lawrence of Arabia
Doctor Zhivago
Bridge on the River Kwai
8-Movie Box Set on Pre-Order

Joel & Ethan Coen
Barton Fink
Miller's Crossing
Blood Simple
Fargo
Big Lebowski
O Brother Where Art Thou
Man Who Wasn't There
Hudsucker Proxy
Intolerable Cruelty (ehh...)

Steven Spielberg
Jaws
AI
E.T.
Close Encounters of Third Kind
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Jurassic Park
Catch Me If You Can
Saving Private Ryan
Minority Report
Schindler's List

Steven Soderberg
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Limey
Traffic
Ocean's Eleven
Out Of Sight
Schizopolis

Paul Thomas Anderson
Hard Eight
Boogie Nights
Magnolia
Punch Drunk Love

John Huston
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Misfits
Key Largo
The Maltese Falcon

Sergio Leone
Once Upon a Time in America
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Good, The Bad & the Ugly

John Ford
The Grapes of Wrath
My Darling Clementine
How Green Was My Valley

My collection is very director-driven, though I'm far from a completist---even for my favorite directors, I'm pretty selective about which of their films I own on DVD.


Pedro Almodóvar
What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Law of Desire
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Live Flesh
All About My Mother
Talk to Her

Ingmar Bergman
Smiles of a Summer Night
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Through a Glass Darkly
Winter Light
The Silence
Persona
Hour of the Wolf
Shame
The Passion of Anna
Cries and Whispers
Scenes from a Marriage
Autumn Sonata
The Serpent's Egg
Fanny and Alexander

Luis Buñuel
Los Olvidados
El Bruto
El
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Diary of a Chambermaid
Belle de jour
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
That Obscure Object of Desire
[On Order: Robinson Crusoe]

Howard Hawks
Only Angels Have Wings
His Girl Friday
To Have and Have Not
The Big Sleep
Red River
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Rio Bravo

Alfred Hitchcock
The 39 Steps
The Lady Vanishes
Rebecca
Shadow of a Doubt
Spellbound
Notorious
Strangers on a Train
Rear Window
To Catch a Thief
Vertigo
North by Northwest
Psycho
The Birds
Marnie

Buster Keaton (including some films credited to other directors)
The Best Arbuckle Keaton Collection
The Saphead
Our Hospitality
Sherlock, Jr.
Three Ages
The Navigator
Go West
Seven Chances
Battling Butler
College
The General
Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Krzysztof Kieslowski
Camera Buff
Blind Chance
No End
The Decalogue
A Short Film About Killing
A Short Film About Love
Three Colors: Blue
Three Colors: White
Three Colors: Red

Akira Kurosawa
Stray Dog
Rashomon
Ikiru
Seven Samurai
Throne of Blood
The Hidden Fortress
Yojimbo
Sanjuro
High and Low
Red Beard
Ran
[On Order: The Lower Depths]

David Lynch
Eraserhead
The Elephant Man
Blue Velvet
Twin Peaks: Pilot & Season 1
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
The Straight Story
Mulholland Dr.

Jean Renoir
Boudu Saved from Drowning
Partie de campagne
Grand Illusion
La Bête humaine
The Rules of the Game
The Southerner
[On Order: Les Bas-fonds, The Golden Coach, French Cancan, Elena and Her Men]

Godard
Bunuel
Welles
Hitchcock
Kubrick
Peckinpah
Greenaway
Coens
Lynch
Maddin

Wow... I'm the first to mention (my #1 favorite);

<b><u>Ingmar Bergman</u></b>

The Seventh Seal
Cries & Whispers
Autumn Sonata
Wild Strawberries
The Magic Flute
Through a Glass Darkly
Winter Light
The Silence
Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie
Scenes From a Marriage
Smiles of a Summer Night
Persona
Shame
The Serpent's Egg
Hour of the Wolf
The Passion of Anna
MGM's Ingmar Bergman Collection

Hitchcock
Kurosawa
Tarentino
Kubrick
Francis Ford Coppola
DAvid Fincher
Steven Soderberg
Kevin Smith
Jean Renoir
John Carpenter

Sam Peckinpah
John Ford
Arthur Penn
Robert Aldrich
Billy Wilder
Akira Kurosawa
Martin Scorsese
Brian dePalma
Howard Hawks
Sam Fuller
John Milius

Alfred Hitchcock
Orson Welles
Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
John Ford
Jean-Luc Godard
Martin Scorsese
Buster Keaton
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Sergio Leone

My Ten Must-Have Directors (and what I consider to be the quintessential DVD of their work)

Pedro Almodovar - Hable con ella

Ingmar Bergman (can't believe nobody has mentioned him yet!) ;) - The Seventh Seal: Criterion Collection

Michael Curtiz - The Adventures of Robin Hood

Terry Gilliam - Brazil: Criterion Collection

Alfred Hitchcock - Rebecca: Criterion Collection

Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey

Akira Kurosawa - Seven Samurai: Criterion Collection

David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia

Yasujiro Ozu - Tokyo Story: Criterion Collection (at least, until Sanma no aji comes out!)

Powell & Pressburger - The Red Shoes: Criterion Collection

Charlie Chaplin

The Gold Rush
Modern Times
The Great Dictator
Limelight

Jean Renoir

Boudu Saved From Drowning
The Grand Illusion
Rules of the Game

John Ford

How Green Was My Valley
My Darling Clementine
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Howard Hawks

His Girl Friday
Red River
I Was a Male War Bride
Rio Bravo

Yasujiro Ozu

The Story of Floating Weeds
Late Spring
Tokyo Story
Ealy Spring
Floating Weeds
Late Autumn

Ingmar Bergman

Through a Glass, Darkly
Winter Light
The Silence
Persona
Scenes From a Marriage

Michaelangelo Antonioni

L'Avventura
Red Desert
Blow-Up

Jean-Luc Godard

Breathless
Le Petit Soldat
A Woman Is a Woman
Contempt
Vivre Sa Vie
Band of Outsiders
Pierrot le Fou

Wim Wenders

The American Friend
Paris, Texas
Wings of Desire
Buena Vista Social Club

Wong Kar-Wai

Chungking Express
Fallen Angels
Happy Together
In the Mood For Love

well, I'm too beat to list everything...but click on the links below and see the titles I own. they are the only director folders I have made up at this time.

yes Mr. Bava....at least I love you.:D

Mario Bava

Dario Argento

Akira Kurosawa

David Cronenberg

Hitchcock...(I'm behind on titles)

Lucio Fulci

John Carpenter

Herschell Gordon Lewis...:lol:

better get that Jess Franco folder started.:thumbsup:

Larry Clark- Kids, Bully, teenage caveman, ken park, another day in paradise

Jack Hill - big bird cage, big doll house, pit stop, switchblade sisters, swining cheerleaders, spider baby, coffy, foxy brown

John Carpenter - halloween , assault on precinct 13, They Live, the Fog

Coen Bros- O Brother, Big Lebowski, Miller's crossing, raising arizona, blood simple, man who wasn't there, fargo

PT ANDERSON - hard eight, magnolia, punch drunk love, boogie nights

Raimi - Evil dead, eD 2, AOD, spiderman, simple plan, quick and the dead

Maysles' - gimme shelter, the salesman


Tarantino- kill bill, Reservoir dogs, pulp fiction, jackie brown, four rooms,

scorsese- casino ,goodfellas, raging bull, taxi driver, color of money

Romero- Night of Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, The crazies, Martin, Creepshow

honorable mention, Paul Schrader- i want rolling thunder and hardcore on DVD

My three favorites:

Lars von Trier
Jane Campion
Francois Ozon