Jonathan Bygraves

The Sole Arbiter of Good Taste

This turned out to be even more fun an exercise than the previous 50 Greatest Films poll.. here's a list of films I like to ramble on about, particularly after a few drinks! As before, I’ve restricted myself to one film per director.

• Monkey Buisness (1931) .. Norman Z. McLeod
• Toni (1935) .. Jean Renoir
• The Lady Vanishes (1938) .. Alfred Hitchcock
• Odd Man Out (1947) .. Carol Reed
• Saint Francis, God's Jester (1950) .. Roberto Rossellini
• Early Summer (1951) .. Ozu Yasujiro
• The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) .. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
• Glen or Glenda (1953) .. Edward D. Wood Jr.
• I Vitelloni (1953) .. Federico Fellini
• The Gold of Naples (1954) .. Vittorio De Sica
• Eyes Without a Face (1960) .. Georges Franju
• Hell (1960) .. Nakagawa Nobuo
• The Innocents (1961) .. Jack Clayton
• Il Posto (1961) .. Ermanno Olmi
• Carnival of Souls (1962) .. Herk Harvey
• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) .. Tony Richardson
• Mamma Roma (1962) .. Pier Paolo Pasolini
• Salvatore Giuliano (1962) .. Francesco Rosi
• The Trial (1962) .. Orson Welles
• The Silence (1963) .. Ingmar Bergman
• Alphaville (1965) .. Jean-Luc Godard
• It Happened Here (1965) .. Kevin Brownlow
• The Saragossa Manuscript (1965) .. Wojciech Has
• Branded to Kill (1967) .. Suzuki Seijun
• Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) .. Richard Attenborough
• Husbands (1970) .. John Cassavetes
• El Topo (1970) .. Alejandro Jodorowsky
• The Devils (1971) .. Ken Russell
• Duel (1971) .. Steven Spielberg
• Silent Running (1972) .. Douglas Trumbull
• American Graffiti (1973) .. George Lucas
• Flesh for Frankenstein (1973) .. Paul Morrissey
• The Long Goodbye (1973) .. Robert Altman
• Alice in the Cities (1974) .. Wim Wenders
• Dersu Uzala (1975) .. Kurosawa Akira
• Love and Death (1975) .. Woody Allen
• Cria Cuervos (1976) .. Carlos Saura
• The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) .. Nicolas Roeg
• The Tenant (1976) .. Roman Polanski
• Man of Marble (1977) .. Andrzej Wajda
• A Man Vanishes (1977) .. Imamura Shohei
• Being There (1979) .. Hal Ashby
• Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) .. Werner Herzog
• Airplane! (1980) .. Jim Abrahams & David Zucker & Jerry Zucker
• Radio On (1980) .. Christopher Petit
• The Evil Dead (1981) .. Sam Raimi
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) .. Carl Reiner
• The King of Comedy (1982) .. Martin Scorsese
• Missing (1982) .. Costa-Gavras
• Tenebrae (1982) .. Dario Argento
• Local Hero (1983) .. Bill Forsyth
• Rumble Fish (1983) .. Francis Ford Coppola
• This Is Spinal Tap (1984) .. Rob Reiner
• What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984) .. Pedro Almodóvar
• Down by Law (1986) .. Jim Jarmusch
• Hellraiser (1987) .. Clive Barker
• Hollywood Shuffle (1987) .. Robert Townsend
• Alice (1988) .. Jan Svankmajer
• Dead Ringers (1988) .. David Cronenberg
• Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) .. Terence Davies
• Grave of the Fireflies (1988) .. Takahata Isao
• Midnight Run (1988) .. Martin Brest
• The Vanishing (1988) .. George Sluizer
• A City of Sadness (1989) .. Hou Hsiao-hsien
• Jacob's Ladder (1990) .. Adrian Lyne
• A Brighter Summer Day (1991) .. Edward Yang
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) .. David Lynch
• Body Snatchers (1993) .. Abel Ferrara
• Groundhog Day (1993) .. Harold Ramis
• Clerks. (1994) .. Kevin Smith
• Ed Wood (1994) .. Tim Burton
• The Ice Storm (1997) .. Ang Lee
• Starship Troopers (1997) .. Paul Verhoeven
• The Sweet Hereafter (1997) .. Atom Egoyan
• Eternity and a Day (1998) .. Theo Angelopoulos
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) .. Terry Gilliam
• Rushmore (1998) .. Wes Anderson
• Show Me Love (1998) .. Lukas Moodysson
• Ratcatcher (1999) .. Lynne Ramsay
• Battle Royale (2000) .. Fukasaku Kinji
• Ghost World (2001) .. Terry Zwigoff
• Punch-Drunk Love (2002) .. Paul Thomas Anderson
• Team America: World Police (2004) .. Trey Parker
• Syndromes and a Century (2006) .. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• Times and Winds (2006) .. Reha Erdem
• United 93 (2006) .. Paul Greengrass
• My Winnipeg (2007) .. Guy Maddin
• Il Divo (2008) .. Paolo Sorrentino
• Martyrs (2008) .. Pascal Laugier