SAM MENDES’ TOP 10 FILMS
1. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
2. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982)
3. The Godfather Part II (Coppola, 1974)
4. The Piano (Campion, 1993)
5. The Red Shoes (Powell, Pressburger, 1948)
6. Sunset Blvd (Wilder, 1950)
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
8. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
9. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
10. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939)

JOE DANTE’S TOP 10 FILMS
1. Citizen Kane (Welles)
2. City Lights (Chaplin)
3. 8 1/2 (Fellini)
4. Les Enfants du paradis (Carné)
5. The Dead (Brakhage)
6. Rashomon (Kurosawa)
7. Psycho (Hitchcock)
8. Raging Bull (Scorsese)
9. The Searchers (Ford)
10. Once upon a Time in the West (Leone)

MILOS FORMAN’S TOP 10 FILMS

1. Amarcord (Fellini, 1973)
2. American Graffiti (Lucas, 1973)
3. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
4. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
5. The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978)
6. Les Enfants du Paradis (Carné, 1945)
7. Giant (Stevens, 1956)
8. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
9. Miracle in Milan (De Sica, 1951)
10. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)

JOHN BOORMAN’S TOP 10 FILMS
1. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
2. The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1956)
3. 8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963)
4. That Obscure Object of Desire (Buñuel, 1977)
5. Dr Strangelove (Kubrick, 1963)
6. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
7. Sunset Blvd (Wilder, 1950)
8. Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)
9. La Roue (Gance, 1923)
10. The Birth of a Nation (Griffith, 1915)

JIM JARMUSCH’s TOP 10 FILMS
1. L’Atalante (Vigo, 1934)
2. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
3. They Live by Night (N Ray, 1949)
4. Bob le flambeur (Melville, 1955)
5. Sunrise (Murnau, 1927)
6. The Cameraman (Sedgwick, 1928)
7. Mouchette (Bresson, 1967)
8. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
9. Broken Blossoms (Griffith, 1919)
10. Rome, Open City (Rossellini, 1945)

CAMERON CROWE’S TOP 10 FILMS
Cameron Crowe has written two top 10 lists in the last few years – The first is the one he delivered to the British Film Institute. The second, a slightly different list, was given to Empire film magazine when they were polling the 500 greatest films of all time.
BFI list:
1. The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)
2. La Règle du Jeu (Renoir, 1939)
3. La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 1960)
4. Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
5. The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, 1946)
6. To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan, 1962)
7. Harold and Maude (Ashby, …

MIKE NEWELL’s TOP 10 FILMS
1. The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)
2. Bad Day at Black Rock (J Sturges, 1955)
3. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982)
4. La Grande Illusion (Renoir, 1937)
5. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer, 1949)
6. Lacombe Lucien (Malle, 1974)
7. The Leopard (Visconti, 1963)
8. My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946)
9. Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)
10. War and Peace (Vidor, 1956)

TIM ROBBINS’ TOP 10 FILMS
1. The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1965)
2. The Clowns (Fellini, 1971)
3. Don’t Look Back (Pennebaker, 1967)
4. The Lower Depths (Kurosawa, 1957)
5. McCabe & Mrs Miller (Altman, 1971)
6. My Man Godfrey (La Cava, 1936)
7. Nashville (Altman, 1975)
8. Network (Lumet, 1976)
9. Underground (Kusturica, 1995)
10. Waiting for Guffman (Guest, 1996)