Favourite Directors

Favourite films: Limey, Contagion, Lucky Logan, Ocean’s Eleven, Sex, Lies, and Videotapes, Behind the Candelabra, Erin Brockovich, Traffic, and Out of Sight

Favourite films: The Italian Job, Straight Outta Compton, Friday, The Negotiator, Friday, and A Man Apart

Favourite films: Big, A League of Her Own, Awakenings, and The Preacher’s Wife

Favourite films: The Road to Perdition, American Beauty, Jarhead, Casino Royale, Skyfall, and Spectre

Favourite films: Splash, Backdraft, Willow, A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, Cocoon, Cinderella Man, Rush, Frost/Nixon, In the Heart of the Sea, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Parenthood, and The Beatles: Eight Days a Week

Favourite films: Clueless, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Look Who’s Talking, and Johnny Dangerously

Favourite films: Good Will Hunting, Milk, My Own Private Idaho, Drugstore Cowboy, To Die For, and Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

Favourite films: Argo, The Town, and Gone Baby, Gone

Favourite films: Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, Thd Company of the Wolves, Michael Collins, The Brave One, and The Crying Game

Favourite films: Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire, Singles, and Say Anything

Favourite films: Roger and Me, Bowling for Columbine, Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11 , and Canadian Bacon

Favourite films: This is Spinal Tap, Misery, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, The American President, The Sure Thing, and A Few Good Men

Along with Ethan Coen

Favourite films: Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, Hail Caesar, O Brother, Where Art, Thou?, No Country for Old Men, True Grit, Blood Simple, The Hudsucker Proxy, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, Fargo, Miller’s Crossing, Inside Llewyn Davis, and Barton Fink

Favourite films: Scream 2, Scream 4, Swamp Thing, Scream, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Red Eye, The People Under the Stairs, The Serpent and the Rainbow, and Wes Craven’s A Nee Nightmare

Favourite films: The Silence of the Lambs, Married to the Mob, Something Wild, Philadelphia, and Stop Making Sense

Favourite films: Pink Floyd: The Wall, The Commitments, Angel Heart, Mississippi Burning, Fame, Angela’s Ashes, and Midnight Express

Favourite films: Oculus, Ouija: the Origin of Evil, Hush, Doctor Sleep, and Gerald’s Game

Favourite films: Dog Soldiers, Centurion, and The Descent

Favourite films films: Serial Mom, Cecil B. Demented, Hairspray, and Cry Baby

Favourite films: Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Time Bandits, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Meaning of Life, and The Fisher King

Favourite films: Lethal Weapon 2, Ladyhawke, Scrooged, Superman, The Goonies, The Omen, and Lethal Weapon

Favourite films: Empire of the Sun, Minority Report, Amistad, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, The Colour Purple, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Saving Private Ryan, and Schindler’s List

Directed by: Phenomena, Suspiria, Inferno, Tenebre, and Opera

Favourite films: Back to the Future, Back to the Future: Part II, Back to the Future: Part III, Cast Away, Forest Gump, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Death Becomes Her, and Romancing the Stone

Favourite films: The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People, This is 40, Trainwreck, and The King of Staten Island

Favourite films: Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette, The Beguiled, and Virgin Suicides

Favourite film: Home Alone, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Adventurous in Babysitting

Favourite films: Black Rain, Legend, Blade Runner, Alien, Thelma & Louise, Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven, American Gangster, The Martian, Prometheus, and Alien Convent

Favourite films: The Hunger, Top Gun, Man on Fire, Enemy of the State, True Romance, Crimson Tide, Spy Game, and The Last Boy Scout

Favourite films: The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman, The Ice Storm, Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Sense and Sensibility, and Life of Pi

Favourite films: La La Land, First Man, and Whiplash

Favourite films: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Sherlock Holmes, and Snatch

Favourite films: El Mariachi, Desperado, Planet Terror, From Dusk ‘Till Dawn, The Faculty, and Sin City

Favourite films: Mullholland Drive, The Elephant Man, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Blue Velvet, Dune, Wild At Heart, and Lost Highway

Favourite films: Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven, Gran Turino, Mystic River, Letters From Iwo Jima, Flags of Our Fathers, The Bridges of Madison County, Pale Rider, Play Misty For Me, Heartbreak Ridge, and White Hunter, Black Heart

Favourite films: The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, Apocalypse Now, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Outsiders, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Peggy Sue Got Married, and Rumble Fish

Favourite films: Independence Day, Stargate, Universal Soldier, and Anonymous

Favourite films: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Monuments Men, Ides of March, and Good Night, Good Luck

Favourite films: Fright Night and Child’s Play

Favourite films: Jason Bourne, Captain Phillips, Green Zone, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Supremacy, and United 93

Favourite films: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Ring, Rango, Mouse Hunt, and The Mexican

Favourite films: Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler, Black Swan, and The Fountain

Favourite films: Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Ponyo, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and The Wind Rises

Favourite films: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, The Funhouse, Lifeforce, and Poltergeist

Favourite films: Layer Cake, Kick Ass, Stardust, Kingsman: The Secret Service, and X-Men: First Class

Favourite films: The Neverending Story, Das Boot, The Perfect Storm, Troy, In the Line of Fire, Outbreak, Air Force One, Shattered, and Enemy Mind

Favourite films: The Crow, Dark City, and Garage Days

Favourite films: Legend of the Guardians, Dawn of the Dead, and Watchmen

Favourite films: Analyze This, Ice Harvest, Groundhog, Day, Caddyshack, and National Lampoon’s Vacation