Directors Guilermo de Toro (Hellboy), Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim), Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man), Matthew Vaughn (X-Men: First Class), Sam Mendes (Skyfall), Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas) and others have shared their Top 10 movie lists from a poll by Sight & Sound magazine. You might be surprised with what's on them, but each list of films is respectable.
Every ten years, the film magazine Sight & Sound polls a number of critics, academics, and professionals and then tallies up the results for an ultimate list. Here are the individual lists of several directors that have been polled. Check them out, and let us know what you think about these directors' favorite films! Do any of these lists match your own?
Guilermo del Toro's list...
8½ (1963) - Federico Fellini
La Belle et la Bete (1946) - Jean Cocteau
Frankenstein (1931) - James Whale
Freaks (1932) - Tod Browning
Goodfellas (1990) - Martin Scorsese
Greed (1925) - Erich von Stroheim
Los Olvidados (1950) - Luis Bunel
Modern Times (1936) - Charles Chaplin
Nosferatu (1922) - F.W. Murnau
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) - Alfred Hitchcock
Edgar Wright's list...
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Stanley Kubrick
An American Werewolf in London (1981) - John Landis
Carrie (1976) - Brian de Palma
Dames (1934) - Busby Berkeley
Don't Look Now (1973) - Nicolas Roeg
Duck Soup (1933) - Leo McCarey
Psycho (1960) - Alfred Hitchcock
Raising Arizona (1987) - Joel & Ethan Coen
Taxi Driver (1976) - Martin Scorsese
The Wild Bunch (1969) - Sam Peckinpah
Marc Webb's list...
8½ (1963) - Federico Fellini
Annie Hall (1977) - Woody Allen
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) - David Lean
Children of Men (2006) - Alfonso Cuaron
City Lights (1931) - Charles Chaplin
Dead Poets Society (1989) - Peter Weir
The Graduate (1967) - Mike Nichols
Singin' in the Rain (1951) - Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly
Three Colours: Red (1994) - Krzysztof Kieslowski
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) - Peter Weir
Matthew Vaughn's list...
Back to the Future (1985) - Robert Zemeckis
Being There (1979) - Hal Ashby
The Deer Hunter (1977) - Michael Cimino
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (1966) - Sergio Leone
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - David Lean
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Steven Spielberg
Reservoir Dogs (1991) - Quentin Tarantino
Rocky III (1982) - Sylvester Stallone
Scarface (1983) - Brian De Palma
Star Wars (1977) - George Lucas
Sam Mendes' list...
The 400 Blows (1959) – Fracois Truffaut
Blue Velvet (1986) – David Lynch
Citizen Kane (1941) – Orson Welles
Fanny and Alexander (1984) – Ingmar Bergman
The Godfather: Part II (1974) – Francis Ford Coppola
Kes (1969) – Ken Loach
Rosemary’s Baby (1968) – Roman Polanski
Taxi Driver (1976) – Martin Scorsese
There Will Be Blood (2007) – Paul Thomas Anderson
Vertigo (1958) – Alfred Hitchcock
Martin Scorsese's list...
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – Stanley Kubrick
8½ (1963) – Federico Fellini
Ashes and Diamonds (1958) – Andrzej Wajda
Citizen Kane (1941) – Orson Welles
The Leopard (1963) – Luchino Visconti
Paisa (1946) – Roberto Rossellini
The Red Shoes (1948) – Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger
The River (1951) – Jean RenoirSalvatore Giuliano (1962) – Francesco Rosi
The Searchers (1956) – John Ford
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) – Mizoguchi Kenji
Vertigo (1958) – Alfred Hitchcock