Griff’s Favorite Directors

My first favorite director is Paul Thomas Anderson. My favorite films of his are:

• Hard Eight (1996)
• Boogie Nights (1997)
• Magnolia (1999)
• Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
• There Will Be Blood (2007) [On set pic above]
• The Master (2012)
• Inherent Vice (2014)
• Phantom Thread (2017)

My second favorite director (or I guess directors) is the Coen Brothers. My favorite films of theirs are:

• Blood Simple (1984)
• Raising Arizona (1987)
• Miller’s Crossing (1990)
• Barton Fink (1991)
• The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
• Fargo (1996)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
• The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
• No Country for Old Men (2007)
• Burn After Reading (2008)
• A Serious Man (2009)
• True Grit (2010)
• Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) [On set pic above]
• Hail, Caesar! (2016)
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

My third favorite director is Terrence Malick. My favorite films of his are:

• Badlands (1973)
• Days of Heaven (1978) [On set pic above]
• The Thin Red Line (1998)
• The New World (2005)
• The Tree of Life (2011)
• To the Wonder (2013)
• Knight of Cups (2016)
• Song to Song (2017)
• A Hidden Life (2019)

My fourth favorite director is David Lynch. My favorite films of his are:

• Eraserhead (1977)
• The Elephant Man (1980)
• Blue Velvet (1986) [On set pic above]
• Wild at Heart (1990)
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
• Lost Highway (1997)
• The Straight Story (1999)
• Mulholland Drive (2001)
• Inland Empire (2006)
• Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)

My fifth favorite director is Stanley Kubrick. My favorite films of his are:

• The Killing (1956)
• Paths of Glory (1957)
• Lolita (1962)
• Dr. Strangelove (1964)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) [On set pic above]
• A Clockwork Orange (1971)
• Barry Lyndon (1975)
• The Shining (1980)
• Full Metal Jacket (1987)
• Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

My sixth favorite director is Paul Schrader. My favorite films of his are:

• Blue Collar (1978)
• Hardcore (1979)
• American Giglio (1980)
• Cat People (1982)
• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) [On set pic above]
• The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
• Light Sleeper (1992)
• Affliction (1997)
• Auto Focus (2002)
• Adam Resurrected (2008)
• Dog Eat Dog (2016)
• First Reformed (2018)

My seventh favorite director is Martin Scorsese. My favorite films of his are:

• Mean Streets (1973)
• Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)
• Taxi Driver (1976)
• Raging Bull (1980)
• The King of Comedy (1982)
• After Hours (1985)
• The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
• Goodfellas (1990)
• Cape Fear (1991)
• The Age of Innocence (1993)
• Casino (1995)
• Kundun (1997)
• Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
• Gangs of New York (2002)
• The Aviator (2004)
• The Departed (2006) [On set pic above]
• Shutter Island (2010)
• Hugo (2011)
• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
• Silence (2016)
• Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019) [Documentary]
• The Irishman (2019)

My eighth favorite director is Ingmar Bergman. My favorite films of his are:

• The Seventh Seal (1957) [On set pic above]
• Wild Strawberries (1957)
• The Magician (1958)
• Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
• Winter Light (1963)
• The Silence (1963)
• Persona (1966)
• Shame (1968)
• Cries and Whispers (1972)
• Scenes from a Marriage (1974)
• Fanny and Alexander (1982)

My ninth favorite director is Denis Villeneuve. My favorite films of his are:

• Polytechnique (2009)
• Incendies (2010)
• Prisoners (2013)
• Enemy (2014) [On set pic above]
• Sicario (2015)
• Arrival (2016)
• Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

My tenth favorite director is Guillermo del Toro. My favorite films of his are:

• Cronos (1993)
• The Devil’s Backbone (2001)
• Blade II (2002)
• Hellboy (2004)
• Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
• Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
• Crimson Peak (2015)
• The Shape of Water (2017) [On set pic above. del Toro is on the right]

My eleventh favorite director is Lynne Ramsay. My favorite films of hers are:

• Ratcatcher (1999)
• Morvern Callar (2002)
• We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) [On set pic above]
• You Were Never Really Here (2018)

 

My twelfth favorite director is Claire Denis. My favorite films of hers are:

• Chocolat (1988)
• Beau Travail (1999)
• Trouble Every Day (2001)
• 35 Shots of Rum (2008)
• White Material (2010)
• Bastards (2013)
• Let the Sunshine In (2018) [On set pic above]
• High Life (2019)

My thirteenth favorite director is Quentin Tarantino. My favorite films of his are:

• Reservoir Dogs (1992)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Jackie Brown (1997)
• Kill Bill (2003-2004)
• Death Proof (2007)
• Inglourious Basterds (2009)
• Django Unchained (2012)
• The Hateful Eight (2015) [On set pic above]
• Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood (2019)

My fourteenth favorite director is Brian De Palma. My favorite films of his are:

• Greetings (1968)
• The Wedding Party (1969)
• Hi, Mom! (1970)
• Sisters (1972)
• Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
• Obsession (1976)
• Carrie (1976)
• The Fury (1978)
• Home Movies (1979)
• Dressed to Kill (1980)
• Blow Out (1981)
• Scarface (1983)
• Body Double (1984)
• The Untouchables (1987)
• Casualties of War (1989)
• Raising Cain (1992)
• Carlito’s Way (1993)
• Mission: Impossible (1996)
• Snake Eyes (1998)
• Femme Fatale (2002)
• Passion (2013)

My fifteenth favorite director is James Gray. My favorite films of his are:

• We Own the Night (2007)
• Two Lovers (2008)
• The Immigrant (2014)
• The Lost City of Z (2017)
• Ad Astra (2019)

My sixteenth favorite director (or I guess directors) is the Safdie brothers. My favorite films of theirs are:

• The Pleasure of Being Robbed (2008)
• Daddy Longlegs (2010)
• Heaven Knows What (2015)
• Good Time (2017) [On set pic above]
• Uncut Gems (2019)

My seventeenth favorite director is Andrei Tarkovsky. My favorite films of his are:

• Ivan’s Childhood (1962)
• Andrei Rublev (1966)
• Solaris (1972)
• The Mirror (1975)
• Stalker (1979)
• Nostalgia (1983)
• The Sacrifice (1986) [Set pic above]

My eighteenth favorite director is Yorgos Lanthimos. My favorite films of his are:

• Dogtooth (2010)
• The Lobster (2015) [On set pic above]
• The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
• The Favourite (2018)

My ninteenth favorite director is David Fincher. My favorite films of his are:

• Se7en (1995)
• The Game (1997)
• Fight Club (1999)
• Panic Room (2002)
• Zodiac (2007)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
• The Social Network (2010)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
• Gone Girl (2014) [On set pic above]

My twentieth favorite director is Christopher Nolan. My favorite films of his are:

• Following (1998)
• Memento (2001)
• Insomnia (2002) [On set pic above]
• Batman Begins (2005)
• The Prestige (2006)
• The Dark Knight (2008)
• Inception (2010)
• Interstellar (2014)
• Dunkirk (2017)

My twenty-first favorite director is Barry Jenkins. My favorite films of his are:

• My Josephine (Short) [2003]
• Medicine for Melancholy (2008)
• Moonlight (2016)
• If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) [On set pic above]

My twenty-second favorite director is David Cronenberg. My favorite films of his are:

• The Brood (1979)
• Scanners (1981)
• Videodrome (1983)
• The Dead Zone (1983)
• The Fly (1986)
• Dead Ringers (1988)
• Naked Lunch (1991)
• M. Butterfly (1993)
• Crash (1996) [On set pic above]
• ExistenZ (1999)
• Spider (2002)
• A History of Violence (2005)
• Eastern Promises (2007)
• A Dangerous Method (2011)
• Cosmopolis (2012)

My twenty-third favorite director is Spike Jonze. My favorite films of his are:

• Being John Malkovich (1999)
• Adaptation. (2002)
• Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
• Her (2013) [On set pic above]

My twenty-fourth favorite director is Wong Kar-Wai. My favorite films of his are:

• Days of Being Wild (1990)
• Chungking Express (1994)
• Fallen Angels (1995)
• Happy Together (1997)
• In the Mood for Love (2000)
• 2046 (2004)
• The Grandmaster (2013)

My twenty-fifth favorite director is Jacques Audiard. My favorite films of his are:

• Read My Lips (2001)
• The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
• A Prophet (2010)
• Rust and Bone (2012) [On set pic above]
• Dheepan (2015)
• The Sisters Brothers (2018)