Griff’s Favorite Directors

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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)
coen

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)
Terrence Malick

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)
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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 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 sixth 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]
schrader

My seventh 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)
MARTIN SCORSESE, LEONARDO DICAPRIO

My eighth 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)
ingmar-bergman

My ninth 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)
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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)
ramsay

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)
claire-denis

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]
tarantino 1

My fourteenth 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)
de palma

My fifteenth 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)
James-Gray

My sixteenth 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 seventeenth 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]
safdie good time

My eighteenth 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)
tarkovsky

My nineteenth 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]
yorgos-lanthimos

My twentieth 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)
Insomnia - 2002

My twenty-first 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)
  • Tenet (2020)
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My twenty-second 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]
Cronenberg

My twenty-third 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)
her-05777r

My twenty-fourth 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]
wong_kar-wai_

My twenty-fifth 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)
audiard

My twenty-sixth 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)
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