| A lot of film buffs subscribe to the "auteur" theory of filmmaking, in which the director is the primary shaper of the final work. With that in mind, here is my ranking of The Best Work of the Great Directors |
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The Seven Samurai Yojimbo (Bodyguard) Rashomon Stray Dog High And Low The Hidden Fortress Red Beard Ran (Chaos) Ikiru (To Live) Throne Of Blood |
| BILLY WILDER Sunset Boulevard Some Like It Hot The Apartment Ace In The Hole The Seven Year Itch The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes One, Two, Three Double Indemnity Stalag 17  |
| STANLEY KUBRICK Dr. Strangelove Paths of Glory Barry Lyndon A Clockwork Orange 2001: A Space Oddesey The Killing Full Metal Jacket Lolita |
| ALFRED HITCHCOCK Rear Window The Birds Vertigo Psycho North By Northwest Shadow Of A Doubt Suspicion |
 FRITZ LANG M The Niebelungen Saga Metropolis Dr. Mabuse The Gambler The Big Heat While The City Sleeps Rancho Notorious The Testament Of Dr. Mabuse |
 HOWARD HAWKS His Girl Friday To Have And Have Not Bringing up Baby Ball Of Fire Red River Air Force The Big Sleep  |
| MARTIN SCORSESE Mean Streets Taxi Driver Raging Bull After Hours Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore |
 SAM PECKINPAH Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia The Wild Bunch The Getaway Cross Of Iron Pat Garret And Billy The Kid The Killer Elite |
 ORSON WELLES Citizen Kane Touch Of Evil Lady From Shanghai Chimes At Midnight Othello The Trial The Magnificent Ambersons It's All True The Stranger |
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 JOHN FORD How Green Was My Valley Stagecoach The Grapes Of Wrath The Searchers The Long Voyage Home She Wore A Yellow Ribbon The Quiet Man  |
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 MICHAEL CURTIZ Angels With Dirty Faces Casablanca The Sea Hawk Yankee Doodle Dandy The Adventures of Robin Hood Captain Blood Mildred Pierce Charge Of The Light Brigade |
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 RAOUL WALSH White Heat The Roaring Twenties The Big Trail Captain Horatio Hornblower High Sierra The Naked And The Dead The Thief Of Bagdad  |
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| FRANCIS COPPOLA The Godfather Part Two The Conversation The Godfather Apocalypse Now Cotton Club |
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 JOHN HUSTON The Man Who Would Be King The Treasure of Sierra Madre The Maltese Falcon Moulin Rouge Moby Dick Fat City |
 SAM FULLER The Big Red One Pickup on South Street Park Row House of Bamboo China Gate The Naked Kiss Shock Corridor  |
 WILLIAM WELLMAN The Public Enemy Wings Beau Geste Wild Boys of the Road Battleground Nothing Sacred A Star Is Born The Ox-Bow Incident Westward the Women  |
 NICHOLAS RAY They Live By Night On Dangerous Ground Rebel Without A Cause 55 Days At Peking In A Lonely Place  |
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Stanley Kubrick is my favorite director. I have put together a tribute page to my favorite Kubrick film: Barry Lyndon. |