Friday, June 15, 2007

Directors' most favorite

There are lists of directors' favorite films at Listology. I'm not sure how accurate the lists are, but I compiled a tallied list from them. The number in parenthesis indicated the number of times the film appears in the lists.
  1. Citizen Kane (22)
  2. The Godfather (11)
  3. Raging Bull (10)
  4. Battleship Potemkin (10)
  5. City Lights (10)
  6. Seven Samurai (8)
  7. 2001 - A Space Odyssey (8)
  8. 8 1/2 (8)
  9. Bicycle Thieves (8)
  10. Vertigo (7)
  11. The Godfather Part II (7)
  12. Lawrence of Arabia (7)
  13. Dr. Strangelove (7)
  14. Tokyo Story (6)
  15. Sunset Boulevard (6)
  16. Les Enfants du Paradis (6)
  17. La Grande Illusion (6)
  18. The Searchers (5)
  19. The Passion of Joan of Arc (5)
  20. The Gold Rush (5)
  21. The Apartment (5)
  22. Psycho (5)
  23. Open City (5)
  24. Chinatown (5)
  25. Variety (4)
  26. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (4)
  27. The Conformist (4)
  28. The Best Years of Our Lives (4)
  29. Singin' in the Rain (4)
  30. Once Upon a Time in the West (4)
  31. La Regle du Jeu (4)
  32. Intolerance (4)
  33. Casablanca (4)
  34. Brief Encounter (4)
  35. Apocalypse Now (4)
  36. Touch of Evil (3)
  37. Throne of Blood (3)
  38. The Wild Bunch (3)
  39. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (3)
  40. Pulp Fiction (3)
  41. North By Northwest (3)
  42. Ninotchka (3)
  43. The Mirror (3)
  44. Last Year at Marienbad (3)
  45. La Femme du Boulanger (3)
  46. La Dolce Vita (3)
  47. L' Atalante (3)
  48. L'Age d'Or (3)
  49. Greed (3)
  50. Double Indemnity (3)
  51. Cries and Whispers (3)
  52. Andrei Rublev (3)
  53. A Clockwork Orange (3)
All the other movies in the directors' lists had less than three common occurances. No doubt this list could look very different if it was drawn from a different set of directors, but interesting.

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