DIRECTORIAL DEBUTS
GREATEST:- Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
- The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
- A bout de soufflé (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
- Les Quatre Cents Coups (François Truffaut)
- Toy Story (John Lasseter)
- Badlands (Terrence Malick)
- 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
- Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais)
- The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
FAVOURITE:- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam)
- Clerks (Kevin Smith)
- Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson)
- This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
- The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi)
- The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Sellick)
- Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero)
- Eraserhead (David Lynch)
- Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
I found it difficult to have a list of 10 films and almost impossible to put them in order – it could easily have been a top 30 or 40 – and the reason for the two is because I (as I have said before) can see a difference between a film I objectively think is brilliant but don't particularly enjoy and wouldn't watch for fun and one I really enjoy but don't think is great in every respect.
If these lists were twice as long, there would be probably be a lot of crossover with films such as Alien, Toy Story, The Night of the Hunter and 12 Angry Men appearing on both.