Caleb Beecher

Favorite Film Directors

  1. Stanley Kubrick – Favorite Films: Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut
  2. Martin Scorsese – Favorite Films: Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Color Of Money, The Last Temptation Of Christ, Goodfellas, Bringing Out The Dead, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, Silence
  3. Wes Anderson – Favorite Films: Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle Of Dogs, The French Dispatch
  4. Paul Thomas Anderson – Favorite Films: Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood, The Master, Phantom Thread
  5. Federico Fellini – Favorite Films: La Strada, Nights Of Cabiria, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, City Of Women
  6. Francis Ford Coppola – Favorite Films: The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather: Part III
  7. Terrence Malick – Favorite Films: Badlands, Days Of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World, The Tree Of Life, Knight Of Cups
  8. Darren Aronofsky – Favorite Films: Pi, Requiem For A Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, Black Swan, mother!
  9. Ingmar Bergman – Favorite Films: The Seventh Seal, The Virgin Spring, Through A Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence, Persona, Hour Of The Wolf, The Passion Of Anna
  10. Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Favorite Films: The Merchant Of Four Seasons, Ali: Fear Eats The Soul, Fox And His Friends, Fear Of Fear, Chinese Roulette
  11. Robert Altman – Favorite Films: McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Long Goodbye, Nashville, 3 Women, Short Cuts, Gosford Park
  12. Quentin Tarantino – Favorite Films: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Kill Bill: Vol. 2, Inglourious Basterds, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
  13. Steven Spielberg – Favorite Films: Jaws, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, E.T., Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can, Minority Report, Munich, Bridge Of Spies
  14. Andrei Tarkovsky – Favorite Films: Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Stalker
  15. Oliver Stone – Favorite Films: Platoon, Wall Street, Born On The Fourth Of July, The Doors, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Nixon, U Turn, W. 
  16. David Fincher – Favorite Films: Seven, The Game, Fight Club, Zodiac, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The Social Network, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
  17. David Lynch – Favorite Films: Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire
  18. Terry Gilliam – Favorite Films: Brazil, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
  19. Ridley Scott – Favorite Films: Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator, Matchstick Men, A Good Year, American Gangster
  20. Sidney Lumet – Favorite Films: Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, The Verdict, Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead
  21. Christopher Nolan – Favorite Films: Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, Interstellar
  22. Richard Linklater – Favorite Films: Slacker, Dazed And Confused, Before Sunset, A Scanner Darkly, Before Midnight, Boyhood
  23. The Coen Brothers – Favorite Films: Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, No Country For Old Men, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, True Grit
  24. Steven Soderbergh – Favorite Films: Sex, Lies And Videotape, Out Of Sight, Traffic, Erin Brockovich, Ocean’s Eleven, Che
  25. Michael Mann – Favorite Films: Manhunter, Heat, The Insider, Collateral, Public Enemies
  26. Alfred Hitchcock – Favorite Films: Rear Window, To Catch A Thief, Vertigo, Psycho
  27. Orson Welles – Favorite Films: Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, F For Fake, The Other Side Of The Wind
  28. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu – Favorite Films: Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel, Biutiful, Birdman, The Revenant
  29. William Friedkin – Favorite Films: The French Connection, The Exorcist, Sorcerer, Bug
  30. Spike Jonze – Favorite Films: Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Her
  31. John Cassavetes – Favorite Films: A Woman Under The Influence, Opening Night
  32. David Cronenberg – Favorite Films: The Dead Zone, Crash, Existenz, Spider, A History Of Violence, Eastern Promises, A Dangerous Method
  33. Jonathan Glazer – Favorite Films: Sexy Beast, Birth, Under The Skin
  34. Gus Van Sant – Favorite Films: Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Ryan, Good Will Hunting, Gerry, Elephant, Milk
  35. Anthony Minghella – Favorite Films: The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain, Breaking And Entering
  36. Hal Ashby – Favorite Films: The Last Detail, Shampoo, Coming Home, Being There
  37. Clint Eastwood – Favorite Films: Bird, Unforgiven, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino
  38. Alexander Payne – Favorite Films: Election, About Schmidt, Sideways, The Descendants, Nebraska
  39. Aki Kaurismaki – Favorite Films: Shadows In Paradise, Ariel, La Vie De Boheme, The Man Without A Past, The Other Side Of Hope
  40. Spike Lee – Favorite Films: Do The Right Thing, Mo’ Better Blues, Clockers, He Got Game, 25th Hour
  41. Kenneth Lonergan – Favorite Films: You Can Count On Me, Margaret, Manchester By The Sea
  42. David O. Russell – Favorite Films: Flirting With Disaster, Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees, The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle
  43. Sofia Coppola – Favorite Films: The Virgin Suicides, Lost In Translation, Somewhere, The Bling Ring, Priscilla
  44. Roman Polanski – Favorite Films: Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown, The Pianist, The Ghost Writer
  45. James Ivory – Favorite Films: Howards End, The Remains Of The Day
  46. Cameron Crowe – Favorite Films: Say Anything…, Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, Vanilla Sky
  47. Michelangelo Antonioni – Favorite Films: L’Avventura, La Notte, Red Desert, Blow-Up, The Passenger
  48. Noah Baumbach – Favorite Films: The Squid And The Whale, Margot At The Wedding, Greenberg
  49. Jacques Audiard – Favorite Films: The Beat That My Heart Skipped, A Prophet, Dheepan
  50. Jane Campion – Favorite Films: An Angel At My Table, The Piano, Bright Star
  51. Wim Wenders – Favorite Films: The American Friend, Paris, Texas, Wings Of Desire
  52. Curtis Hanson – Favorite Films: L.A. Confidential, Wonder Boys
  53. Jim Jarmusch – Favorite Films: Down By Law, Mystery Train, Dead Man, Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai, Coffee And Cigarettes, Broken Flowers, Only Lovers Left Alive, Paterson
  54. Hayao Miyazaki – Favorite Films: Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, The Wind Rises
  55. Bennett Miller – Favorite Films: Capote, Moneyball, Foxcatcher
  56. Ron Howard – Favorite Films: Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, Frost/Nixon
  57. Paolo Sorrentino – Favorite Films: Il Divo, This Must Be The Place, The Great Beauty
  58. Sylvain Chomet – Favorite Films: The Triplets Of Belleville, The Illusionist
  59. Wong Kar Wai – Favorite Films: In The Mood For Love, 2046
  60. Peter Weir – Favorite Films: Picnic At Hanging Rock, Witness, Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show, Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World
  61. John Hughes – Favorite Films: Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Uncle Buck
  62. Bob Rafelson – Favorite Films: Five Easy Pieces, The King Of Marvin Gardens
  63. Terry Zwigoff – Favorite Films: Crumb, Ghost World
  64. Tomas Alfredson – Favorite Films: Let The Right One In, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  65. Penny Marshall – Favorite Films: Big, Awakenings
  66. Lisa Cholodenko – Favorite Films: High Art, Laurel Canyon, The Kids Are All Right
  67. Christian Petzold – Favorite Films: Barbara, Phoenix
  68. Yorgos Lanthimos – Favorite Films: The Lobster, The Favourite
  69. Milos Forman – Favorite Films: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Man On The Moon
  70. Mike Nichols – Favorite Films: The Graduate, Silkwood, Closer, Charlie Wilson’s War
  71. James Gray – Favorite Films: The Yards, We Own The Night, Two Lovers
  72. Todd Haynes – Favorite Films: I’m Not There, Carol
  73. Jonathan Demme – Favorite Films: Stop Making Sense, The Silence Of The Lambs, Philadelphia, Rachel Getting Married
  74. Paul Schrader – Favorite Films: Affliction, First Reformed
  75. Stephen Frears – Favorite Films: Dangerous Liaisons, The Grifters, High Fidelity
  76. Frank Darabont – Favorite Films: The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile
  77. Derek Cianfrance – Favorite Films: Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond The Pines
  78. Brian De Palma – Favorite Films: Carrie, Blow Out