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My Favorite Directors

These are Director's who at one time or another in my life occupied a position on my top 20-30. The top three on the list ARE my top three, and Hitchcock was my first Favorite Director as a kid. The displayed film is my favorite from each. My favorite works from each are in the notes.

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  • Peeping Tom
  • Rebecca
  • The Godfather
  • Straw Dogs
  • When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
  • The Elephant Man
  • Paths of Glory
  • Yojimbo
  • Baron Blood
  • Carrie
  • The Old Dark House
  • The Exterminating Angel
  • Dog Day Afternoon
  • Killer of Sheep
  • Wild Strawberries
  • Naked Lunch
  • Jaws
  • Dawn of the Dead
  • JFK
  • Piranha
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  • The Thing
  • Badlands
  • The Fisher King
  • The Insider
  • Once Upon a Time in the West
  • Fearless
  • Raging Bull
  • The Social Network
  • Barton Fink
  • Street Wars
  • Deep Red
  • 48 Hrs.
  • The Man Who Would Be King
  • Fitzcarraldo
  • Kafka
  • The Player
  • Alien
  • Mad Max
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • Superman
  • The Steel Helmet
  • Citizen Kane
  • The Hills Have Eyes
  • Men with Guns
  • Casablanca
  • Hell Up In Harlem
  • Edward Scissorhands
  • The Devil's Backbone
  • Coffy
  • The Dark Knight
  • Ace in the Hole
  • RoboCop
  • Heavenly Creatures
  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  • Stunt Rock
  • The Beguiled
  • Shoot First, Die Later
  • A Better Tomorrow II
  • Boy
  • Near Dark
  • The Commitments
  • Modern Times
  • In the Mood for Love
  • Happiness
  • Election
  • Great Expectations
  • Slacker
  • Raise the Red Lantern
  • Cooley High
  • J.D.'s Revenge
  • Petulia
  • Flirting with Disaster
  • Scum
  • Beyond the Lights
  • Sinners