Favorite Movies

1. A Brighter Summer Day

2. The Rules of the Game
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Vertigo
5. Taxi Driver
6. Mulholland Drive
7. In the Mood for Love
8. Playtime
9. Red Desert
10. Ran
11. La Strada
12. The 400 Blows
13. A City of Sadness
14. Andrei Rublev
15. Breathless
16. Ugetsu
17. Stalker
18. Chungking Express
19. The Leopard
20. Seven Samurai
21. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
22. Landscape in the Mist
23. The Night of the Hunter
24. Still Life
25. Hiroshima Mon Amour
26. Harakiri
27. 8½
28. Tokyo Story
29. City Lights
30. 2001: A Space Odyssey
31. Journey to Italy
32. Once Upon a Time in America
33. The Tree of Life
34. Citizen Kane
35. L’Eclisse
36. I Vitelloni
37. Blade Runner: The Final Cut
38. Close-Up
39. Le Mepris (Contempt)
40. La Dolce Vita
41. Yi Yi: A One or a Two
42. Touch of Evil
43. Floating Clouds
44. Barry Lyndon
45. Solaris (1972)
46. L’Atalante
47. Rebels of the Neon God
48. Taste of Cherry
49. The Puppetmaster
50. The Searchers
51. Goodbye Dragon Inn
52. Trouble in Paradise
53. Syndromes and a Century
54. The Double Life of Veronique
55. Persona
56. Platform
57. Burning
58. There Will Be Blood
59. The Godfather/The Godfather Part II
60. The Red Shoes
61. Three Colors Blue
62. Some Like It Hot
63. Johnny Guitar
64. Blue Velvet
65. Only Angels Have Wings
66. Videodrome
67. Rear Window
68. Paths of Glory
69. Battleship Potemkin
70. Ali: Fear Eats The Soul
71. Bicycle Thieves
72. The Hole
73. Aguirre, The Wrath of God
74. Through the Olive Trees
75. Three Colors Red
76. Le Samourai
77. Goodbye South, Goodbye
78. Out of the Past
79. Day For Night
80. High and Low
81. The Conversation
82. Le Trou
83. Millennium Mambo
84. Xiao Wu
85. Rio Bravo
86. Stray Dogs
87. In a Lonely Place
88. A Clockwork Orange
89. Blow-Up
90. Under the Skin
91. Raging Bull
92. The Master
93. Vive L’Amour
94. Mean Streets
95. Once Upon a Time in the West
96. The Terrorizers
97. The River
98. And Life Goes On
99. Late Spring
100. King Kong (1933)
101. It’s a Wonderful Life
102. Sunset Boulevard
103. All About Eve
104. The Conformist
105. Casablanca
106. Brazil
107. The Wizard of Oz
108. Days of Heaven
109. The Assassin
110. The Passenger
111. Chinatown
112. Goodfellas
113. Flowers of Shanghai
114. In the Heat of the Sun
115. The Apartment
116. La Grande Illusion
117. Jules et Jim
118. Two-Lane Blacktop
119. Ash is Purest White
120. Last Year At Marienbad
121. Where is the Friend’s House
122. Singin’ in the Rain
123. Boogie Nights
124. Unknown Pleasures
125. Sansho the Bailiff
126. A Day in the Country
127. L’Avventura
128. Good Men, Good Women
129. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
130. Three Times
131. Memories of Murder
132. Rebel Without A Cause
133. The Deer Hunter
134. What Time Is It There?
135. Dr. Strangelove
136. Notorious
137. The Last Picture Show
138. Fargo
139. Vivre Sa Vie
140. The Thin Red Line
141. A Confucian Confusion
142. Boyhood
143. A Touch of Sin
144. Yojimbo
145. Pierrot Le Fou
146. My Darling Clementine
147. La Notte
148. Wild Strawberries
149. The Third Man
150. On The Waterfront
151. Parasite
152. No Country for Old Men
153. Dust in the Wind
154. Gone With The Wind
155. A Place In The Sun
156. Week End
157. The Elephant Man
158. Eyes Wide Shut
159. Sans Soleil
160. 12 Angry Men
161. A Woman is a Woman
162. American Graffiti
163. After Hours
164. Lawrence of Arabia
165. Nights of Cabiria
166. Bigger Than Life
167. The Killing
168. Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
169. Stagecoach
170. Rashomon
171. The French Connection
172. The Long Goodbye
173. Ace in the Hole
174. The Sound of Music
175. Ex Machina
176. Children of Men
177. Tropical Malady
178. Ikiru
179. North By Northwest
180. Three Colors White
181. The Terminator
182. Mahjong
183. A Time To Live, A Time To Die
184. Full Metal Jacket
185. Ivan’s Childhood
186. Psycho
187. Star Wars IV: A New Hope
188. Twelve Monkeys
189. High Noon
190. Double Indemnity
191. Floating Weeds
192. Heat
193. A Summer at Grandpa’s
194. Manhattan
195. The Florida Project
196. Dazed and Confused
197. Badlands
198. Platoon
199. Detour
200. Lost in Translation
201. Risky Business
202. Witness For The Prosecution
203. The Boys From Fengkuei
204. His Girl Friday
205. Jaws
206. Almost Famous (Untitled Bootleg Cut)
207. The World
208. Safe
209. Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
210. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
211. Inside Llewyn Davis
212. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
213. Band of Outsiders
214. Taipei Story
215. The Lady From Shanghai
216. Pulp Fiction
217. Umbrellas of Cherbourg
218. That Day On The Beach
219. Memento
220. Total Recall
221. Cache
222. American Beauty
223. La La Land
224. Phantom Thread
225. Days of Being Wild
226. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
227. Lost Highway
228. The Player
229. Scarface (1983)
230. Robocop
231. Paris, Texas
232. L.A. Confidential
233. Repo Man
234. Laura
235. The Big Lebowski
236. Reservoir Dogs
237. Fallen Angels
238. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
239. Wild At Heart
240. Punch Drunk Love
241. Mystery Train
242. The Shop Around the Corner
243. The Maltese Falcon
244. The Big Sleep
245. Jackie Brown
246. Dark City
247. Whiplash
248. Hard-Boiled
249. Blade Runner 2049
250. Mad Max: Fury Road
251. Moonlight
252. The Departed
253. They Live By Night
254. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
255. Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade
256. The Shawshank Redemption
257. eXistenZ
258. Inception
259. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
260. Shutter Island
261. Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi
262. Top Gun
263. The Game
264. Bonnie and Clyde
265. WALL-E
266. Up
267. Old Boy (2003)
268. The Revenant
269. Birdman
270. The Graduate
271. The Truman Show
272. Back to the Future
273. Daughter of the Nile
274. Zabriskie Point
275. Escape From New York
276. Die Hard
277. Minority Report
278. Jurassic Park
279. Grease
280. The Wayward Cloud
281. To Live
282. Arrival
283. Dunkirk
284. The Dark Knight
285. Catch Me If You Can
286. Say Anything…
287. Zodiac
288. The Matrix
289. Baby Driver
290. Kiss Me Deadly
291. Roman Holiday
292. My Man Godfrey
293. It Happened One Night
294. The Lion King
295. Lady Bird
296. Strange Days
297. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
298. Dirty Harry
299. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
300. To Kill a Mockingbird
301. A Beautiful Mind
302. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
303. Dune Part I
304. Eat Drink Man Woman
305. Personal Shopper
306. Leon the Professional
307. The Stranger
308. Strangers on a Train
309. To Have and Have Not
310. Amarcord
311. Blow Out
312. The Prestige
313. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
314. Pan’s Labyrinth
315. The Batman (2022)
316. Fast Times At Ridgemont High
317. Eighth Grade
318. The Social Network
319. Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse
320. Annie Hall
321. John Wick
322. Suzhou River
323. The Usual Suspects
324. Thelma & Louise
325. The African Queen
326. Midnight In Paris
327. Good Will Hunting
328. Indiana Jones: The Temple of Doom
329. Mean Girls
330. Peninsula
331. Hackers
332. Dead Poets Society
333. Top Gun: Maverick
334. Tenet
335. The Thirteenth Floor
336. To Catch a Thief
337. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
338. Pacific Rim
339. Her
340. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
341. Ghostbusters
342. Fight Club
343. Charade
344. Dial M for Murder
345. Lust, Caution
346. Get Out
347. Forrest Gump
348. The Avengers
349. Ready Player One
350. 2012
351. The Breakfast Club
 352. In Time
353. Room
354. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
355. Superbad
356. How It Ends

Favorite Films of the 2010s

1. Burning
2. The Assassin
3. Stray Dogs
4. Under The Skin
5. The Tree of Life
6. The Master
7. Boyhood
8. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
9. Phantom Thread
10. The Florida Project
11. Inside Llewyn Davis
12. Parasite
13. Moonlight
14. Mad Max: Fury Road
15. Ash is Purest White
16. La La Land
17. Blade Runner 2049
18. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
19. The Revenant
20. Inception
21. Ex Machina
22. Arrival
23. The Wolf of Wall Street
24. Personal Shopper
25. Dunkirk
26. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
27. Whiplash
28. The Social Network
29. Lady Bird
30. Her
31. Get Out

Favorite Filmmakers

1. Michelangelo Antonioni
 2. Hou Hsiao Hsien
3. Tsai Ming-Liang
4. Edward Yang
5. Federico Fellini
6. Orson Welles
7. Jean-Luc Godard
8. Andrei Tarkovsky
9. David Lynch
10. Kenji Mizugochi
11. Akira Kurosawa
12. Stanley Kubrick
13. Wong Kar-Wai
14. Nicholas Ray
15. John Ford
16. Terence Malick
17. Alfred Hitchcock
18. Howard Hawks
19. Jia Zhangke
20. Theodoros Angelopoulos
21. Paul Thomas Anderson
22. Martin Scorcese
23. Francis Ford Coppola
24. Billy Wilder

Francis Ford Coppola Films Ranked

1. Apocalypse Now (10/10)

2. The Godfather (10/10)
3. The Conversation (10/10)
4. The Godfather Part II (10/10)

Billy Wilder Films Ranked

1. The Apartment (10/10)

2. Sunset Boulevard (10/10)
3. Double Indemnity (9.5/10)
4. Some Like It Hot (9.4/10)
5. Ace in the Hole (9.3/10)
6. Witness For The Prosecution (9.0/10)

Terrence Malick Films Ranked

1. Days of Heaven (9.4/10)

2. Badlands (9.3/10)
3. The Tree of Life (9.6/10)
 4. The Thin Red Line (9/10)

Alain Resnais Films Ranked

1. Hiroshima Mon Amour (10/10)

2. Last Year at Marienbad (9.6/10)

Apichatpong Weerasethakul Films Ranked

1. Syndromes and a Century (9.2/10)

2. Tropical Malady (9/10)

Howard Hawks Films Ranked

1. Rio Bravo (10/10)

2. Only Angels Have Wings (10/10)
3. The Big Sleep (9/10)
4. His Girl Friday (9/10)
5. To Have and Have Not (7/10)

Nicholas Ray Films Ranked

1. Johnny Guitar (10/10)

2. In a Lonely Place (10/10)
3. Rebel Without A Cause (9.3/10)
4. Bigger Than Life (9.5/10)
5. They Live by Night (7/10)

Edward Yang Films Ranked

1. A Brighter Summer Day (10/10)

2. Yi Yi (10/10)
3. The Terrorizers (9.7/10)
4. Taipei Story (9.0/10)
5. That Day On The Beach (8.6/10)
6. A Confucian Confusion (8.5/10)
7. Mahjong (8.4/10)

Hou Hsiao Hsien Films Ranked

1. A City of Sadness (10/10)

2. The Puppetmaster (10/10)
3. Goodbye, South Goodbye (9.5/10)
4. Flowers of Shanghai (9.7/10)
5. The Assassin (9.5/10)
6. Millennium Mambo (9/10)
7. Dust in the Wind (9.3/10)
8. Good Men, Good Women (9.3/10)
9. Three Times (8.8/10) (1st segment is 10/10, 2nd segment is 8/10, 3rd segment is 9/10)
10. A Time To Live, A Time To Die (9/10)
 11. A Summer at Grandpa’s (9/10)
12. The Boys From Fengkuei (8.2/10)
13. Daughter of the Nile (7.9/10)

Jia Zhangke Films Ranked

1. Still Life (10/10)

2. Platform (10/10)
3. Xiao Wu (9/10)
4. Unknown Pleasures (9.2/10)
5. Ash is Purest White (9.5/10)
6. The World (9.6/10)
7. A Touch of Sin (8.6/10)

Wong Kar-Wai Films Ranked

1. In the Mood for Love (10/10)

2. Chungking Express (10/10)
3. Fallen Angels (8.6/10)
4. Days of Being Wild (8.6/10)

David Lynch Films Ranked

1. Mulholland Drive (10/10)

2. Blue Velvet (10/10)
3. The Elephant Man (9.2/10)
4. Lost Highway (8/10)
5. Wild at Heart (7.2/10)

Francois Truffaut Films Ranked

1. The 400 Blows (10/10)

2. Day For Night (9.4/10)
3. Jules et Jim (8.9/10)

Michelangelo Antonioni Films Ranked

1. Red Desert (10/10)

2. The Passenger (10/10)
3. L’Avventura (10/10)
4. L’Eclisse (10/10)
5. Blow-Up (10/10)
6. La Notte (10/10)
7. Zabriskie Point (7.9/10)

Federico Fellini Films Ranked

1. 8 ½ (10/10)
2. La Strada (10/10)
3. La Dolce Vita (10/10)
 4. I Vitelloni (9.2/10)
5. Nights of Cabiria (8/10)
6. Amarcord (7/10)

Tsai Ming-Liang Films Ranked

1. Goodbye Dragon Inn (10/10)

2. The Hole (10/10)
3. The River (10/10)
4. Rebels of the Neon God (9/10)
5. Stray Dogs (9.6/10)
6. Vive L’Amour (9.6/10)
7. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (9.1/10)
8. What Time Is It There? (9.2/10)
9. The Wayward Cloud (8/10)

Abbas Kiarostami Films Ranked

1. Close-Up (10/10)
2. Taste of Cherry (9.6/10)
3. And Life Goes On (9.3/10)
4. Where is the Friend’s House (9.2/10)
5. Through the Olive Trees (9.0/10)

Jean-Luc Godard Films Ranked

1. Breathless (10/10)
2. Contempt (10/10)
3. Pierrot Le Fou (10/10)
4. Week End (10/10)
5. Vivre Sa Vie (9.5/10)
6. A Woman Is a Woman (9/10)
7. Band Of Outsiders (8.7/10)
8. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (8.5/10)

Andrei Tarkovsky Films Ranked

1. Andrei Rublev (10/10)

2. Stalker (10/10)
3. Solaris (9.5/10)
4. Ivan’s Childhood (8.5/10)

Martin Scorcese Films Ranked

1. Taxi Driver (10/10)

2. Raging Bull (10/10)
3. Mean Streets (9.0/10)
4. Goodfellas (9.2/10)
5. After Hours (9/10)
 6. The Departed (8.3/10)
7. The Wolf of Wall Street (7.9/10)
8. Shutter Island (7.7/10)

Quentin Tarantino Films Ranked

1. Pulp Fiction (10/10)

2. Reservoir Dogs (10/10)
3. Jackie Brown (9.5/10)
4. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (8.5/10)

Stanley Kubrick Films Ranked

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (10/10)

2. Barry Lyndon (10/10)
3. Paths of Glory (10/10)
4. A Clockwork Orange (9.3/10)
5. Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Love the Bomb (9.3/10)
6. Eyes Wide Shut (8.9/10)
7. The Killing (9.0/10)
8. Full Metal Jacket (8.5/10) (1st half is genius)

Paul Thomas Anderson Films Ranked

1. There Will Be Blood (9.6/10)

2. The Master (9/10)
3. Boogie Nights (8.8/10)
4. Phantom Thread (8.6/10)
5. Punch-Drunk Love (7.9/10)

Alfred Hitchcock Films Ranked

1. Vertigo (10/10)
2. Rear Window (10/10)
3. North by Northwest (9.5/10)
4. Notorious (9.6/10)
5. Psycho (9.2/10)
6. Strangers On A Train (8.5/10)
7. Dial M For Murder (7.5/10)
8. To Catch a Thief (7.0/10)

Akira Kurosawa Films Ranked

1. Ran (10/10)
2. Seven Samurai (10/10)
3. High and Low (10/10)
4. Ikiru (9.5/10)
5. Rashomon (9/10)
6. Yojimbo (9/10)
Krzysztof Kieślowski Films Ranked

1. The Double Life of Veronique (9.8/10)

2. Three Colors Blue (10/10)
3. Three Colors Red (9/10)
4. Three Colors White (8/10)

Jean Renoir Films Ranked

1. The Rules of the Game (10/10)

2. La Grande Illusion (9.8/10)
3. A Day in the Country (9.4/10)

Orson Welles Films Ranked

1. Citizen Kane (10/10)

2. Touch Of Evil (10/10)
3. The Lady From Shanghai (8.8/10)
4. The Stranger (7.5/10)

Sergio Leone Films Ranked

1. Once Upon a Time in America (10/10)

2. Once Upon a Time in the West (10/10)
3. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (8.7/10)

Coen Brothers Films Ranked

1. No Country For Old Men (9.5/10)

2. Fargo (9.1/10)
3. Inside Llewyn Davis (9/10)
4. The Big Lebowski (8.8/10)

Christopher Nolan Films Ranked

1. Memento (9.0/10)
2. Inception (8.7/10)
3. The Dark Knight (8.7/10)
4. Dunkirk (8.6/10)
5. Interstellar (8.5/10)
6. The Prestige (8.4/10)
7. Tenet (6/10)

William Friedkin Films Ranked

1. The French Connection (9.4/10)

Cameron Crowe Films Ranked

1. Almost Famous: Untitled Bootleg Cut (8.9/10)

2. Say Anything… (8.5/10)
 3. Fast Times At Ridgemont High (8/10) (as Writer)

Michael Mann Films Ranked

1. Heat (9.3/10)

John Ford Films Ranked

1. The Searchers (10/10)

2. My Darling Clementine (10/10)
3. Stagecoach (10/10)

David Cronenberg Films Ranked

1. Videodrome (10/10)
2. eXistenZ (8.8/10)

Paul Verhoeven Films Ranked

1. Total Recall (9.2/10)

2. Robocop (9/10)

Steven Spielberg Films Ranked

1. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (10/10)

2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (9/10)
3. Jaws (9/10)
4. Jurassic Park (8.8/10)
5. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (8.7/10)
6. Minority Report (8.5/10)
7. Catch Me if You Can (8.1/10)
8. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (8/10)
9. Lincoln (7.8/10)
10. Ready Player One (6/10)

George Lucas Films Ranked

1. American Grafitti (9/10)

2. Star Wars (9/10)

Ingmar Bergman Films Ranked

1. Persona (10/10)
2. Wild Strawberries (9.5/10)

John Carpenter Films Ranked

1. Escape From New York (8.3/10)

Best Teen/Teen Disaffection Movies

 1. A Brighter Summer Day
2. Rebels of the Neon God
3. Rebel Without a Cause
4. The Last Picture Show
5. Badlands
6. American Graffiti
7. Dazed and Confused
8. Risky Business
9. Say Anything…
10. Grease
11. Fast Times At Ridgemont High
12. Mean Girls
13. Lady Bird
14. Eighth Grade

Best War Movies

1. Apocalypse Now
2. La Grande Illusion
3. The Deer Hunter
4. Full Metal Jacket
5. Platoon
6. The Thin Red Line

Best Scriptwriters

1. Lawrence Kasdan