All U.S. Films Ranked in the top 1000
509 Total Films
Some of these films were joint productions, such as A Clockwork Orange and Bridge on the River Kwai (US-UK), and Doctor Zhivago (US-Italy), and I listed all those that were in English, which eliminated Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (US-China-Taiwan). [No, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was thankfully not a U.S. production, it was a joint
Showing posts with label top ranked 1000 films. Show all posts
Showing posts with label top ranked 1000 films. Show all posts
Top Ranked Films of Douglas Sirk
Friday, December 30, 2011
Douglas Sirk
4 titles, 82nd in points with 10,048
Douglas Sirk made some well crafted films of what many would call soap opera, but if included in that class, then he made some of the best ones ever made during this era of the 50’s, dominated by Madison Avenue and a desire to conform.
These are all the films of American director Douglas Sirk that made the top 1000 in our 2011 update of the
4 titles, 82nd in points with 10,048
Douglas Sirk made some well crafted films of what many would call soap opera, but if included in that class, then he made some of the best ones ever made during this era of the 50’s, dominated by Madison Avenue and a desire to conform.
These are all the films of American director Douglas Sirk that made the top 1000 in our 2011 update of the
Top Ranked Films of Rob Reiner
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Rob Reiner: actor, director, dadRob Reiner
3 titles, 93rd in points with 9,078
Rob Reiner is best known as (a) the son of Carl Reiner, who played the producer on the Dick Van Dyke show (b) the Meathead on All in the Family on tv (c) a quality comedy director. Pick any letter, I first knew him as Meathead; at any rate, he’s far funnier than his dad.
These are all the films of American director
3 titles, 93rd in points with 9,078
Rob Reiner is best known as (a) the son of Carl Reiner, who played the producer on the Dick Van Dyke show (b) the Meathead on All in the Family on tv (c) a quality comedy director. Pick any letter, I first knew him as Meathead; at any rate, he’s far funnier than his dad.
These are all the films of American director
Top Ranked Films of Nicolas Roeg
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Nicolas Roeg
4 titles, 90th in points with 9,472
Roeg is a cinematographer turned director with some imaginative, stunning results, especially from a visual sense. A veteran of British cinema for 23 years before directing, he once worked on the second unit for David Lean on Lawrence of Arabia, one of my favorite films. Performance (1970) woke me up when I first saw it, with gangster James Fox
4 titles, 90th in points with 9,472
Roeg is a cinematographer turned director with some imaginative, stunning results, especially from a visual sense. A veteran of British cinema for 23 years before directing, he once worked on the second unit for David Lean on Lawrence of Arabia, one of my favorite films. Performance (1970) woke me up when I first saw it, with gangster James Fox
Top Ranked Films of Vincente Minnelli
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Vincente and Liza Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli
5 titles, 91st in points with 9,392
Minnelli is perhaps best known as the husband of Judy Garland that father Liza Minnelli, giving rise to one of the greatest Oscar® trivia facts ever: who is the only Oscar®-winner whose parents also won Oscars®? He is an underrated director, considered two of his films won best picture, and his most popular films
Vincente Minnelli
5 titles, 91st in points with 9,392
Minnelli is perhaps best known as the husband of Judy Garland that father Liza Minnelli, giving rise to one of the greatest Oscar® trivia facts ever: who is the only Oscar®-winner whose parents also won Oscars®? He is an underrated director, considered two of his films won best picture, and his most popular films
Top Ranked Films of Danny Boyle
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Danny Boyle
3 titles, 85th in points with 9,917
Danny Boyle is constantly surprising people. After a string of well-made films that still didn’t make him a household name, like Shallow Grave (reminiscent of Hitchcock), Millions, and the better-known Trainspotting, which I think has achieved cult status, Boyle made Slumdog Millionaire. This surpising film seemingly combined inspiration from
3 titles, 85th in points with 9,917
Danny Boyle is constantly surprising people. After a string of well-made films that still didn’t make him a household name, like Shallow Grave (reminiscent of Hitchcock), Millions, and the better-known Trainspotting, which I think has achieved cult status, Boyle made Slumdog Millionaire. This surpising film seemingly combined inspiration from
Top Ranked Films of Satyajit Ray
Monday, December 19, 2011
Satyajit Ray
5 titles, 84th in points with 9,953
Satyajit Ray is India’s most famous filmmaker, and might appropriately be called the Father of Indian Cinema. Just before his death, he received an honorary Oscar for his life’s work. After his death, hundreds of thousands of Indians gathered around his house in respect. Many other filmmakers outside of India are said to have been either
5 titles, 84th in points with 9,953
Satyajit Ray is India’s most famous filmmaker, and might appropriately be called the Father of Indian Cinema. Just before his death, he received an honorary Oscar for his life’s work. After his death, hundreds of thousands of Indians gathered around his house in respect. Many other filmmakers outside of India are said to have been either
Top Ranked Films of Darren Aronofsky
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Darren Aronofsky
3 titles, 86th in points with 9,885
For my money, Aronofsky is the best young director currently working - well, ok, it's a toss up between him and Christopher Nolan, who’s also very good, but I think Aronofsky is more creative and has a more diverse body of work so far – he seems to go more out on a limb, such as The Fountain, than most modern directors. Aronofsky's films
3 titles, 86th in points with 9,885
For my money, Aronofsky is the best young director currently working - well, ok, it's a toss up between him and Christopher Nolan, who’s also very good, but I think Aronofsky is more creative and has a more diverse body of work so far – he seems to go more out on a limb, such as The Fountain, than most modern directors. Aronofsky's films
Top Ranked Films of Henri-Georges Clouzot
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Henri-Georges Clouzot and Romy Schneider
Henri-Georges Clouzot
3 titles, 83rd in total points with 10,033
A formalist, Clouzot’s films adhere to plot and pacing much like Hitchcock, to whom he’s been compared. It’s a pity that there weren’t very many full-length titles in his life’s work, around fifteen total.
These are all the films of classic French director Clouzot that made the top 1000 in
Henri-Georges Clouzot
3 titles, 83rd in total points with 10,033
A formalist, Clouzot’s films adhere to plot and pacing much like Hitchcock, to whom he’s been compared. It’s a pity that there weren’t very many full-length titles in his life’s work, around fifteen total.
These are all the films of classic French director Clouzot that made the top 1000 in
Top Ranked Films of Jean-Pierre Melville
Friday, December 16, 2011
Jean-Pierre Melville
4 titles, 79th in points with 10,778
These are all the films of classic French director Melville that made the top 1000 in our 2011 update of the Top Ranked 1000 Films on the Net, all polls.
1. Army of Shadows (1969) #277 a small masterpiece
2. Le Samourai (1967) #299 Not as compelling for me as this ranking, a bit too slow
3. Le Cercle Rouge (1970) #378
4. Bob le
Top Ranked Films of Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders
4 titles, 77th in points with 11,082
These are all the films of German director (who made most of these in the U.S.) Wenders that made the top 1000 in our 2011 update of the Top Ranked 1000 Films on the Net, all polls.
1. Wings of Desire (1987) #165 A bit of modern magic has some angels mingling with the living
2. Paris, Texas (1984) #316 Interesting film, especially for the
4 titles, 77th in points with 11,082
These are all the films of German director (who made most of these in the U.S.) Wenders that made the top 1000 in our 2011 update of the Top Ranked 1000 Films on the Net, all polls.
1. Wings of Desire (1987) #165 A bit of modern magic has some angels mingling with the living
2. Paris, Texas (1984) #316 Interesting film, especially for the
Top Ranked Films of David Cronenberg
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
David Cronenberg
6 titles, 75th in points with 11,293
Cronenberg is a mixed bag. On the one hand he’s noted for over the top horror fantasy films like The Fly and Videodrome. On the other, he can make some serious dramas, albeit a bit disturbing, such as Dead Ringers, A History of Violence, and Eastern Promises, which lean toward the realistic. Dead Ringers is, in fact, based on a true story
Top Ranked Films of Nicholas Ray
Monday, December 12, 2011
Nicholas Ray
4 titles, 80th in points with 10,267
Nicholas Ray was a maverick and innovative American director who had great influence on other younger directors, especially in Europe. Before directing, Ray was close friends through radical theater in New York with Elia Kazan, and when Kazan got his first directing job for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, he hired Ray as first assistant director,
4 titles, 80th in points with 10,267
Nicholas Ray was a maverick and innovative American director who had great influence on other younger directors, especially in Europe. Before directing, Ray was close friends through radical theater in New York with Elia Kazan, and when Kazan got his first directing job for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, he hired Ray as first assistant director,
Top Ranked Films of Jonathan Demme
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Jonathan Demme
4 titles, 78th in points with 10,819
Some may say that Demme is more popular than talented but I think he can direct a variety of films well, as I like his concert documentaries as much as his feature films. The best picture winning Silence of the Lambs is a classic homicide mystery, mixing elements of film noir with horror to create two of the creepiest portraits of psycho
4 titles, 78th in points with 10,819
Some may say that Demme is more popular than talented but I think he can direct a variety of films well, as I like his concert documentaries as much as his feature films. The best picture winning Silence of the Lambs is a classic homicide mystery, mixing elements of film noir with horror to create two of the creepiest portraits of psycho
Top Ranked Films of Max Ophüls
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Max Ophüls
4 titles, 73rd in points with 11,419
Born in Germany in 1902, became a French citizen in 1938. How many filmmakers did the Nazis run out of Europe - has anyone kept the total? He actually returned to Germany after the war and died in Hamburg in 1957.
Classic films with an almost Baroque look, as Max Ophüls tried to show the aristocratic French lifestyle, usually with ornately
4 titles, 73rd in points with 11,419
Born in Germany in 1902, became a French citizen in 1938. How many filmmakers did the Nazis run out of Europe - has anyone kept the total? He actually returned to Germany after the war and died in Hamburg in 1957.
Classic films with an almost Baroque look, as Max Ophüls tried to show the aristocratic French lifestyle, usually with ornately
Top Ranked Films of Ernst Lubitsch
Friday, December 9, 2011
Ernst Lubitsch
5 titles, 72nd in points with 11,597
Born in Berlin, Germany in 1892, Lubitsch came to Hollywood in 1922 (contracted as director by Mary Pickford), then made his mark with a too short career of classic comedies, dying there in 1947 at age 55 after his sixth heart attack. What’s called The Lubitsch Touch is a sophisticated comedy of manners, a term applied after a few successful
5 titles, 72nd in points with 11,597
Born in Berlin, Germany in 1892, Lubitsch came to Hollywood in 1922 (contracted as director by Mary Pickford), then made his mark with a too short career of classic comedies, dying there in 1947 at age 55 after his sixth heart attack. What’s called The Lubitsch Touch is a sophisticated comedy of manners, a term applied after a few successful
Top Ranked Films of Leo McCarey
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Leo McCarey
4 titles, 70th in points with 11,916
McCarey had a great touch with comedy, directing the best Marx Brothers film, and his own top rated film, Duck Soup. He won a directing Oscar® for 37’s The Awful Truth, a sparkling comedy with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, then a 2nd for directing, and 1st for writing, for Going My Way (1944), which also netted Oscars® for best picture, and for
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Our Posts on Top Ranked Films by the Top 300 Directors
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Hitchcock and Truffaut
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1. Hitchcock, Alfred #14 [64881] Overrated [I'd have
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Hitchcock and Truffaut
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Top Ranked Films of Carol Reed
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Reed directing Mark Lester in Oliver!
Carol Reed
3 titles, 71st in points with 11,909
These are all the films of classic British director Carol Reed’s that made the top 1000 in our 2011 update of the Top Ranked 1000 Films on the Net, all polls.
1. The Third man (1949) bw#23
2. Fallen Idol, The (1948) #490
3. Odd Man Out (1947) bw #634
Mostly noted for the noirish The Third Man (which I found
Carol Reed
3 titles, 71st in points with 11,909
These are all the films of classic British director Carol Reed’s that made the top 1000 in our 2011 update of the Top Ranked 1000 Films on the Net, all polls.
1. The Third man (1949) bw#23
2. Fallen Idol, The (1948) #490
3. Odd Man Out (1947) bw #634
Mostly noted for the noirish The Third Man (which I found
Top Ranked Films of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini
4 titles, 76th in points with 11,149
Before entering films, Pier Paolo Pasolini was a published poet and novelist. His first film, Accatone! (1961), was an adaptation of his own novel. An atheist and a communist, he was once arrested for blasphemy for his contribution to the film Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963), and given a suspended sentence.
Pasolini’s controversial film career was
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