100 Greatest Directors

This may be sort of fun. It's just an list someone came up with, but I'd like to play along and give my favorite film for each director listed versus their favorite film.

To be continued....

1. Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho) [Agree, but also check out - The Lodger]
2. Stanley Kubrick (Dr Strangelove) [Agree, but also check out - The Killing]
3. Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull) [Taxi Driver]
4. Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai) [Rashoman]
5. Orson Welles (Citizen Kane) [Agree]
6. Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List) [Raiders of the Lost Ark]
7. Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard) [Agree]
8. Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal) [?]
9. Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita) [? - check out I Vittolini]
10. John Ford (The Searchers) [Agree]
11. Frank Capra (It's A Wonderful Life) [Agree]
12. Elia Kazan (On The Waterfront) [Agree]
13. Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather) [Godfather Part II]
14. John Huston (African Queen) [?]
15. Oliver Stone (Platoon) [Agree]
16. Sergio Leone (The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly) [Agree - although Once Upon a Time in the West is pretty cool]
17. David Lean (Bridge On The River Kwai) [?]
18. William Wyler (Ben Hur) [?]
19. David Lynch (Blue Velvet) [Mullholland Drive or Lost Highway]
20. Luis Bunuel (The Golden Age) [?]
21. Ridley Scott (Gladiator) [Blade Runner]
22. Sydney Lumet (Network) [?]
23. Francois Truffaut (The 400 Blows) [?]
24. Roman Polanski (Chinatown) [Agree]
25. Laurence Olivier (Hamlet) [?]
26. George Lucas (Star Wars) [Agree]
27. Jean Luc Godard (Breathless) [Agree]
28. D.W. Giffith (Birth Of A Nation) [?]
29. Sergei Eisenstein (Battleship Potemkin) [October]
30. John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate) [Black Sunday]
31. Charlie Chaplin (City Lights) [Agree]
32. Milos Forman (Amadeus) [One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest]
33. Robert Altman (Nashville) [McCabe and Mrs. Miller]
34. Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch) [Straw Dogs]
35. Cecil B. De Mille (Cleopatra) [?]
36. Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands) [Batman]
37. Spike Lee (Do The Right Thing) [Agree, but 25th Hour is close]
38. Woody Allen (Annie Hall) [Agree, but there are a couple of other noteable ones]
39. Jean Renoir (The Rules Of The Game) [Agree!]
40. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) [Agree!]
41. Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump) [Agree]
42. Steven Soderbergh (Traffic) [Sex Lies and Videotape or Out of Sight]
43. Erich Von Stroheim (Greed) [?]
44. Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights) [Agree, reluctantly]
45. Alan J Pakula (Sophie's Choice) [Agree, but I don't really know]
46. Michael Mann (Heat) [Agree - Collateral is pretty damn cool]
47. Joel Cohen (Fargo) [Agree - Raising Arizona is pretty damn cool - as is Miller's Crossing]
48. F.W. Murnau (Sunrise) [?]
49. Jim Jarmusch (Night On Earth) [?]
50. Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven) [Agree]
51. Terry Gilliam (Brazil) [Agree]
52. John Cassavetes (Opening Night) [?]
53. David Fincher (Seven) [Fight Club]
54. James Cameron (Titanic) [Terminator II]
55. Darren Aronofsky (Requiem For A Dream) [Pi]
56. George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid) [Agree]
57. Sydney Pollack (Out Of Africa) [Tootsie]
58. Howard Hawks (His Girl Friday) [Rio Bravo]
59. John Carpenter (Halloween) [Escape From New York]
60. Fred Zinneman (High Noon) [Day of the Jackel]
61. George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story) [?]
62. John Schlessinger (Midnight Cowboy) [Agree]
63. Norman Jewison (In The Heat Of The Night)
64. Robert Aldrich (Kiss Me Deadly)
65. Buster Keaton (Our Hospitality)
66. Anthony Minghella (The English Patient)
67. Mike Nichols (The Graduate)
68. Lewis Milestone (All Quiet On The Western Front)
69. Rob Reiner (When Harry Met Sally)
70. Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects)
71. Christopher Nolan (Insomnia)
72. Jonathan Demme (The Silence Of The Lambs)
73. Brian De Palma (Scarface)
74. William Friedkin (The Exorcist)
75. Michael Curtiz (Casablanca)
76. Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line)
77. Victor Fleming (Gone With The Wind)
78. Joseph L Mankiewicz (All About Eve)
79. Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter)
80. Peter Jackson (Lord Of The Rings)
81. Mel Brooks (Blazing Saddles)
82. Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet)
83. Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without A Cause)
84. Arthur Penn (Bonnie And Clyde)
85. Clarence Brown (Anna Christie)
86. Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show)
87. Blake Edwards (A Shot In The Dark)
88. Curtis Hanson (LA Confidential)
89. Sam Mendes (American Beauty)
90. Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter)
91. Vincente Minnelli (An American In Paris)
92. Robert Wise (The Sound Of Music)
93. John Woo (Face Off)
94. Sam Wood (A Night At The Opera)
95. Carol Reed (The Third Man)
96. Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind)
97. Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy)
98. Don Siegel (Dirty Harry)
99. Harold Ramis (Groundhog Day)
100. George Romero (Night Of The Living Dead)