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Hi there,

My name is Dave and I am a young filmmaker from Belgium who has started a quite popular Dutch FilmBlog "Boy Meets Girl" a.k.a. "De Ultieme FilmBlog". You might of heard of it.

Since I wrote everything in Dutch, I was thinking to make another version of the filmblog in English. But I am still testing this blogspot system. What do you think about it? Have you heard or seen my previous blog (http://boy-meets-girl.skynetblogs.be) ?

A week ago I saw a list on Cinematical, from some influential directors who made up a top 10 list of their greatest films. Of course, those lists change from time to time. I remember Quentin Tarantino giving up films like: Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Chungking Express, Iron Monkey, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Switchblade Sisters. But of course, this depend for which magazine you are writing the article.

I am still young, and I was not yet born while those directors were making movies, but I ended the list with my personal top 10 list. I am curious to know yours. Please tell me. If I have any reaction, I would consider to write more filmrelated news on this system. There is however one thing that already bugs me. There is no undo-button, and the lay-out possibilities are limited. Anyway, enjoy the list and post some comments.

Cheers,

Dave

Filmmakers choose their Favorite Films

STEVEN SPIELBERG
1. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
2. Fantasia (Walt Disney, 1940)
3. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
4. It's A Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
6. A Guy Named Joe (Fleming, 1947)
7. War of the Worlds (Haskin & Pal, 1953)
8. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
9. Day For Night (Truffaut, 1973)
10. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)

QUENTIN TARANTINO
1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone, 1966)
2. Rio Bravo (Hawks, 1959)
3. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
4. His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1939)
5. Rolling Thunder (Flynn, 1977)
6. They All Laughed (Bogdanovich, 1981)
7. The Great Escape (J Sturges, 1963)
8. Carrie (De Palma, 1976)
9. Coffy (Hill, 1973)
10. Five Fingers of Death (Chang, 1973)

TIM ROBBINS
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)

PAUL VERHOEVEN
1. La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 1960)
2. Ivan the Terrible, Part II (Eisenstein, 1958)
3. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
4. Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1951)
5. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
6. The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1956)
7. La Règle du Jeu (Renoir, 1939)
8. Metropolis (Lang, 1927)
9. Los Olvidados (Buñuel, 1950)
10. Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1959)

TERRY GILLIAM
1. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
2. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
3. Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1957)
4. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
6. Sherlock Jr (Keaton, 1924)
7. Pinocchio (Luske & Sharpsteen, 1940)
8. Les Enfants du Paradis (Carné, 1945)
9. One-Eyed Jacks (Brando, 1961)
10. The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)

BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI
1. La Règle du Jeu (Renoir, 1939)
2. Sansho Dayu (Mizoguchi, 1954)
3. Germany, Year Zero (Rossellini, 1947)
4. A Bout de Souffle (Godard, 1959)
5. Stagecoach (Ford, 1939)
6. Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
7. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
8. Marnie (Hitchcock, 1964)
9. Accattone (Pasolini, 1961)
10. Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)

JOHN BOORMAN
1. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
2. The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1956)
3. 8 ½ (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
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)

MILOS FORMAN
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)

CAMERON CROWE
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, 1971)
8. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
9. Quadrophenia (Roddam, 1979)
10. Ninotchka (Lubitsch, 1939)

SAM MENDES
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)

MIKE NEWELL
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)

MICHAEL MANN
1. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
2. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925)
3. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
4. Dr Strangelove (Kubrick, 1963)
5. Faust (Murnau, 1926)
6. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
7. My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946)
8. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
9. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
10. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)

KEN LOACH
1. A Bout de Souffle (Godard, 1959)
2. The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1965)
3. A Blonde in Love (Forman, 1965)
4. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)
5. Closely Observed Trains (Menzel, 1966)
6. Fireman's Ball (Forman, 1967)
7. Jules et Jim (Truffaut, 1962)
8. La Règle du Jeu (Renoir, 1939)
9. The Tree of the Wooden Clogs (Olmi, 1978)
10. Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957)

SIDNEY LUMET
1. The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, 1946)
2. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982)
3. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
4. The Grapes of Wrath (Ford, 1940)
5. Intolerance (Griffith, 1916)
6. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
7. Ran (Kurosawa, 1985)
8. Roma (Fellini, 1972)
9. Singin' in the Rain (Kelly, Donen, 1952)
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)

THE ULTIMATE FILMBLOG (DAVE)
1. The Godfather part II (Coppola, 1974)
2. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)
3. North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)
4. Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)
5. Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
6. Heat (Mann, 1995)
7. Blood Simple (Coen, 1984)
8. Se7en (Fincher, 1995)
9. Les 400 Coups (Truffaut, 1959)
10. Alien (Scott, 1979)