Your Favorite Director's FAVORITE FILMS

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[aamirrazak]

This is pretty cool to see what films inspired famous directors. Would be neat to have a part 2 with filmmakers like Fincher, Christopher Nolan, Francis Ford Coppola James Cameron George Lucas etc

[Sylwan]

Quentin Tarantino: Blowout (1981) by Brian De Palma, Rio Bravo (1959) by Howard Hawks, Taxi Driver (1976) by Martin Scorsese;
Martin Scorsese: The Searchers (1956) by John Ford;
Damien Chazelle: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) by Jacques Demy;
David Lynch: Stanley Kubrick, Sunset Blvd. (1950) by Billy Wilder;
Denis Villeneuve: Apocalypse Now (1979) by Francis Ford Coppola;
Spike Lee: Chinatown (1974);
Greta Gerwig: Singin' in the Rain (1952), Red River (1948), Rio Bravo (1959);
Steven Spielberg: Lawrence of Arabia (1962);
Taika Waititi: Back to the Future (1985), The Graduate (1967), Star Wars

[giantes]

Greta Gerwig middle sentence remembers she's a director too ❤

[let_me_explain]

Explains why Malcolm X has that Chinatown noire sense to it

[debrachambers]

Lolita is Lynche's favorite Kubrick

[robquinnpc]

Well I can’t believe none of them mentioned any of the amazing Disney films made in the last 10 years.

[nerdock]

Leave it to Taika to throw a huge, clunky wrench in an otherwise moving, artful and interesting short.

[spacebase]

They don't make movies like that anymore, Greta... instead we get "Barbie" 🤢🤢🤢

[sneakykamon]

Jokes aside, I prefer Taika Waititi’s answer. Because its easy to try to be the cool guy in the room and throw out some auteur picks, but if you know in your heart that a blockbuster inspired you? Why not just say it?