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 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 fifth favorite director is Charlie Kaufman. My favorite films of his are:

• Synecdoche, New York (2008)
• Anomalisa (2015)
• I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020) [On set pic above]

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)
• 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)
• 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 David Lynch. My favorite works 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 tenth 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 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]
• Swimmer (Short) [2012]
• 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 David Fincher. My favorite works 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) [on set pic above]
• Gone Girl (2014)
• Mindhunter (TV Series) [2017-19/ 7 episodes]
• Mank (2020)

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

• We Own the Night (2007)
• Two Lovers (2009)
• The Immigrant (2014)
• The Lost City of Z (2017)
• Ad Astra (2019)

My fifteenth 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]