by Total Film Magazine (in two parts) |
by Total Film Magazine (Part 2, Ranked Order) |
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"Picture-Perfect" Film |
"Picture-Perfect" Film |
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Robert Wise | The Curse of the Cat People (1944) | The Sound of Music (1965) |
Michael Haneke | Hidden (2005) (aka Caché) | - | |
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Don Siegel | Dirty Harry (1971) | Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) |
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Brian DePalma | Scarface (1983) | Carrie (1976) |
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John Huston | The Maltese Falcon (1941) | - |
Nicholas Ray | Bigger Than Life (1956) | Rebel Without a Cause (1955) | |
Spike Lee | Do the Right Thing (1989) | - | |
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Hal Ashby | Harold and Maude (1971) | Being There (1979) |
Jean-Luc Godard | Breathless (1960, Fr.) | - | |
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John Cassavetes | A Woman Under the Influence (1974) | - |
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Sam Raimi | Evil Dead II (1987) | Spider-Man (2002) |
Robert Bresson | Pickpocket (1959) | - | |
John Carpenter | Halloween (1978) | - | |
Richard Linklater | Dazed and Confused (1993) | Waking Life (2001) | |
Bryan Singer | The Usual Suspects | - | |
Ken Loach | Kes (1969, UK) | - | |
Federico Fellini | La Dolce Vita (1960, It.) | 8 1/2 (1963, It.) | |
Pedro Almodovar | All About My Mother (1999, Sp.) | Talk to Her (2002, Sp.) | |
Alexander Mackendrick | Sweet Smell of Success (1957) | - | |
Michael Curtiz | Casablanca (1942) | - | |
John Sayles | Lone Star (1996) | - | |
Sergei Eisenstein | Battleship Potemkin (1925, USSR) | - | |
Nicolas Roeg | Don't Look Now (1973) | - | |
Tony Scott | The Last Boy Scout (1991) | True Romance (1993) | |
Milos Forman | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) | - | |
Kenji Mizoguchi | Ugetsu (1953, Jp.) | Legend of Bailiff Sansho (1954, Jp.) | |
William Friedkin | The Exorcist (1973) | The French Connection (1971) | |
Oliver Stone | Platoon (1986) | - | |
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George Romero | Dawn of the Dead (1978) | Night of the Living Dead (1968) |
Satyajit Ray | The Lonely Wife (1964, India) | Pather Panchali (1955, India) | |
Cameron Crowe | Jerry Maguire (1996) | Almost Famous (2000) | |
James Whale | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | - | |
Wes Anderson | Rushmore (1998) | ||
Carl Theodor Dryer | Ordet (1955, Fr.) | La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928) | |
John Woo | The Killer (1989, HK) | - | |
Lars von Trier | Breaking the Waves (1996) | Dogville (2003) | |
Gus van Sant | Drugstore Cowboy (1989) | or Good Will Hunting (1997) | |
Buster Keaton | The General (1927) | - | |
Peter Weir | The Truman Show (1998) | Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) | |
Curtis Hanson | L.A. Confidential (1997) | - | |
D.W. Griffith | Intolerance (1916) | The Birth of a Nation (1915) | |
Paul Verhoeven | RoboCop (1987) | Basic Instinct (1992) | |
Alan J. Pakula | All the President's Men (1976) | - | |
Wong Kar-Wai | 2046 (2004) | - | |
George Lucas | Star Wars (1977) | - | |
M. Night Shyamalan | The Sixth Sense (1999) | - | |
Baz Luhrmann | Moulin Rouge! (2001) | - | |
John Sturges | The Magnificent Seven (1960) | Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) | |
Sofia Coppola | Lost in Translation (2003) | - | |
Abel Ferrara | Bad Lieutenant (1992) | - |