My Favorite Directors

A Dekalog of my favorite auteurs along with the films that did it for me

1. Jean-Luc Godard
A Woman is a Woman, Vivre Sa Vie, Bande A Parte, Pierrot Le Fou, Week End

2. Wes Anderson
Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited

3. Woody Allen
Bananas, Love and Death, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Zelig, Vicky Christina Barcelona

4. Jean Renoir
Bohdu Saved from Drowning, The Rules of the Game

5. Federico Fellini
La Strada, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2

6. Orson Welles,
Citizen Kane, The Magnficent Ambersons, Touch of Evil, Chimes at Midnight, F for Fake

7. Luis Bunuel
Viridiana, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgoisie,

8. Billy Wilder,
Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like it Hot, The Apartment,

9. Alfred Hitchcock
Notorious, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Vertigo

10. Howard Hawkes
Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday

Honorable mentions: Martin Scorsese, Ranier Werner Fassbinder, Robert Altman, Max Ophuls, Francois Truffaut, Akira Kurosawa, Jim Jarmusch, Stanley Kubrick, Alfonso Cuaron, Bernardo Bertolucci

A surprisingly easy list to create, I struggled with Hitchcock, almost replacing him with Scorsese and Fassbinder, rest assured that if the other Ophuls films I see are as good as Lola Montes he'll be on the next list like this.