10.9.2010

Citizen Kane (1941) - Orson Welles | |
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - Frank Capra | |
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - David Lean | |
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) - Sergio Leone | |
N | Deliverance (1972) - John Boorman |
Annie Hall (1977) - Woody Allen | |
Apocalypse Now (1979) - Francis Ford Coppola | |
Unforgiven (1992) - Clint Eastwood | |
Fearless (1993) - Peter Weir | |
Groundhog Day (1993) - Harold Ramis |

Modern Times (1936) - Charles Chaplin | |
↓ | The Third Man (1948) - Carol Reed |
The Searchers (1956) - John Ford | |
Vertigo (1958) - Alfred Hitchcock | |
↑ | Psycho (1960) - Alfred Hitchcock |
The Godfather (1972) - Francis Ford Coppola | |
↑ | Chinatown (1974) - Roman Polanski |
The Godfather Part II (1974) - Francis Ford Coppola | |
N | Barry Lyndon (1975) - Stanley Kubrick |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - Milos Forman | |
Taxi Driver (1976) - Martin Scorsese | |
Raging Bull (1980) - Martin Scorsese | |
N | Das Boot (1981) - Wolfgang Petersen |
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Steven Spielberg | |
Once Upon a Time in America (1984) - Sergio Leone | |
Ed Wood (1994) - Tim Burton | |
↑ | Fargo (1996) - Joel Coen |
Magnolia (1999) - Paul Thomas Anderson | |
Mulholland Drive (2001) - David Lynch | |
N | There Will Be Blood (2007) - Paul Thomas Anderson |

The Kid (1921) - Charles Chaplin | |
The Gold Rush (1925) - Charles Chaplin | |
The General (1926) - Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton | |
Casablanca (1942) - Michael Curtiz | |
To Be or Not to Be (1942) - Ernst Lubitch | |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) - John Huston | |
Sunset Boulevard (1950) - Billy Wilder | |
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - Robert Wise | |
Strangers On a Train (1951) - Alfred Hitchcock | |
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) - Vincente Minnelli | |
The Quiet Man (1952) - John Ford | |
Rear Window (1954) - Alfred Hitchcock | |
Rio Bravo (1958) - Howard Hawks | |
Touch of Evil (1958) - Orson Welles | |
↓ | Some Like It Hot (1959) - Billy Wilder |
N | The Apartment (1960) - Billy Wilder |
One, Two, Three (1961) - Billy Wilder | |
Dr. Strangelove (1964) - Stanley Kubrick | |
A Shot in the Dark (1964) - Blake Edwards | |
The Graduate (1967) - Mike Nichols | |
Midnight Cowboy (1969) - John Schlesinger | |
The Wild Bunch (1969) - Sam Peckinpah | |
↓ | A Clockwork Orange (1971) - Stanley Kubrick |
N | Mccabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) - Robert Altman |
N | Harold and Maude (1972) - Hal Ashby |
O Lucky Man! (1973) - Lindsay Anderson | |
The Deer Hunter (1978) - Michael Cimino | |
N | Alien (1979) - Ridley Scott |
Manhattan (1979) - Woody Allen | |
The Shining (1980) - Stanley Kubrick | |
↓ | Mad Max 2 (1981) - George Miller |
Amadeus (1984) - Milos Forman | |
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) - Rob Reiner | |
Stand By Me (1986) - Rob Reiner | |
Barfly (1987) - Barbet Schroeder | |
↓ | Raising Arizona (1987) - Joel Coen |
Robocop (1987) - Paul Verhoeven | |
Edward Scissorhands (1990) - Tim Burton | |
Goodfellas (1990) - Martin Scorsese | |
The Crying Game (1992) - Neil Jordan | |
Reservoir Dogs (1992) - Quentin Tarantino | |
The Piano (1993) - Jane Campion | |
Schindler's List (1993) - Steven Spielberg | |
↓ | Pulp Fiction (1994) - Quentin Tarantino |
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - Frank Darabont | |
Se7en (1995) - David Fincher | |
↓ | Smoke (1995) - Wayne Wang, Paul Auster |
Trainspotting (1996) - Danny Boyle | |
N | The Ice Storm (1997) - Ang Lee |
Gods and Monsters (1998) - Bill Condon | |
Happiness (1998) - Todd Solondz | |
↓ | The Truman Show (1998) - Peter Weir |
Being John Malkovich (1999) - Spike Jonze | |
The Matrix (1999) - Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | |
The Sixth Sense (1999) - M. Night Shyamalan | |
The Straight Story (1999) - David Lynch | |
O' Brother Where Art Thou? (2000) - Joel Coen | |
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) - Ang Lee | |
Amélie (2001) - Jean-Pierre Jeunet | |
N | Lantana (2001) - Ray Lawrence |
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) - Peter Jackson | |
Moulin Rouge (2001) - Baz Luhrmann | |
N | The Pledge (2001) - Sean Penn |
N | Cidade de Deus (City of God) (2002) - Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund |
N | Gangs of New York (2002) - Martin Scorsese |
N | Capturing the Friedmans (2003) - Andrew Jarecki |
N | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - Michel Gondry |
N | Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Ang Lee |
N | Into the Wild (2007) - Sean Penn |
N | WALL-E (2008) - Andrew Stanton |
THE SYMBOLS
N = New Entry
↑ = On an Upward Trend
↓ = On a Downward Trend
DROPPED OFF THE 2004 LIST:
How Green Was My Valley (1941) - John Ford | |
The Maltese Falcon (1941) - John Huston | |
The Killers (1946) - Robert Siodmak | |
The African Queen (1951) - John Huston | |
Seven Samurai (1954) - Akira Kurosawa | |
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966) - Sergio Leone | |
Dirty Harry (1971) - Don Siegel | |
The Man With Two Brains (1983) - Carl Reiner | |
Back to the Future (1985) - Robert Zemeckis | |
Witness (1985) - Peter Weir | |
Jacob's Ladder (1990) - Adrian Lyne | |
Wild at Heart (1990) - David Lynch | |
The Fisher King (1991) - Terry Gilliam | |
JFK (1991) - Oliver Stone | |
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) - James Foley | |
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) - Joel Coen | |
American Beauty (1999) - Sam Mendes | |
Memento (2000) - Christopher Nolan |
THE MOST PROMINENT DIRECTORS:
4 Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Billy Wilder
3 Charles Chaplin, Joel Coen, Francis Ford Coppola
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