Film Obsession author Kelly Alyse lends her knowledge of all things Tim Burton to Top 10 Films for a look at the eccentric director’s ten greatest characters.

Julia Kukiewicz takes an entertaining look at the ten best Woody Allen films.

Alfred Hitchcock is one of the most renowned and influential film directors. His career ushered in two key periods of cinema history – the arrival of sound and the introduction of colour. He perfected his art in both disciplines, reverting back to black and white when he felt the need, and mastering not only silent pictures but sound and colour ones too. Hitchcock, surprisingly, never won an Oscar for Best Director but he did lose out to John Ford and Billy Wilder twice so remained in good company. For many, however, he is the greatest director who ever lived. The following ten films are my picks for his best work. What are your favourite Hitchcock films?

Rodney Tweltree’s turn to look at the top 10 films of Steven Spielberg. In a list quite different from our editor Dan Srephens’s Top 10, Rodney sees Spielberg’s most recent films as deserving more credit. He says: Ever since he burst onto the scene in the mid 70′s with Duel, and more successfully with Jaws, audiences have flocked to see his films in droves. Whether it’s the popcorn munching thrills of the latest Indiana Jones adventure, the shocking and saddening wartime bravura of Schindler’s List, or the thunderous bass levels of Jurassic Park, it’s an undeniable fact that for over thirty years Mr Spielberg has been giving film fans the movies they’ve wanted to see.

The moment you’ve all been waiting for.

Erm…well I hope there’s been some anticipation anyway. Here at Top10Films the top 10 film list is our bread and butter and after a week long celebration of Steven Spielberg it was only right that we should end with our list of Spielberg’s finest achievements.

So here it is: the ten finest pieces of work by the genius that is Steven Spielberg…

Despite John Carpenter’s fall from grace you can’t help looking at his back catalogue with fond memories. Anyone with a knowledge of cinema only dating back to the middle 1990s would be forgiven for thinking Carpenter was a straight-to-video hack with little discernable talent. That’s understandable. There have been few worse films than “Escape From L.A.” or “Ghosts of Mars”, and Carpenter has gone into hibernation since. But cast your mind back to 1978 and the release of “Halloween” and you might think differently.

Cult director George A. Romero’s most accomplished works derive from the fact that his first film single-handedly created an entire horror sub-genre. With his pivotal debut “Night of the Living Dead” in 1968 Romero captured the world’s attention by presenting a terrifying and frightening film that used the horror genre to comment on current political and human issues. Here are a few of the highlights of his career.

Acclaimed British filmmaker Mike Leigh compiles his Top 10 films and includes some lesser-known titles than many of his contemporaries.
His favourite film of all time is the Ermanno Olmi-directed “The Tree of Wooden Clogs” (L’Albero degli zoccoli). Like Leigh’s films, which are often controversial and provocative, “The Tree of Wooden Clogs” concerns itself with class and religion, focusing on Italian peasant life in the late 19th century. It’s a difficult film to watch, and a film which is likely to alienate many viewers, especially with its graphic depiction of …