#top50

Those tweeps are at it again, this time creating their top 50 films.
@luckycow0, @staggerlee30, @boxofpepper. @lennybun provided the inspiration for me to cobble together my own list.
The first rule of the 50 films list is we don't talk about the 50 films list. The second rule: only two films per director.

If I did this in ten years time I'm fairly confident that 40 or so of these films would make the list. Here's hoping I'm wrong and the next ten are a golden age of film-making :-)


 1. Once Upon a Time in America - Sergio Leone
 2. The Godfather Part II - Francis Ford Coppola
 3. Amelie - Jean Pierre Jeunet
 4. Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola
 5. Gran Torino - Clint Eastwood
 6. The Blues Brothers - John Landis
 7. Goodfellas - Martin Scorsese
 8. Angel Heart - Alan Parker
 9. Das Boot - Wolfgang Peterson
10. Gladiator - Ridley Scott
11. Gallipoli - Peter Weir
12. Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino
13. La Reine Margot - Patrice Chareau
14. Alien - Ridley Scott
15. Se7en - David Fincher
16. Trainspotting - Danny Boyle
17. The Shawshank Redemption - Frank Darabont
18. L'Appartement - Gilles Mimouni
19. The Big Lebowski - Joel Coen
20. Leon - Luc Besson
21. Raging Bull - Martin Scorsese
22. Memento - Christopher Nolan
23. 21 Grams - Alejandro González Iñárritu
24. The Thing - John Carpenter
25. Close Encounters of the Third kind - Stephen Spielberg
26. Manon Des Sources - Claude Berri
27. This is England - Shane Meadows
28. An American Werewolf in London - John Landis
29. Delicatessen - Marc Caro
30. The Deer Hunter - Michael Cimino
31. Chariots of Fire - Hugh Hudson
32. Fight Club - David Fincher
33. The Lord of the Rings/The Fellowship of the Ring - Peter Jackson
34. Don't Look Now - Nicholas Roeg
35. The Good the Bad and the Ugly - Sergio Leone
36. The Empire Strikes Back - Irvin Kershner
37. Schindler's List - Stephen Spielberg
38. Quadrophenia - Franc Roddam
39. Reservoir Dogs - Quentin Tarantino
40. In the Name of the Father - Jim Sheridan
41. Control - Anton Corbijn
42. JFK - Oliver Stone
43. The Shining - Stanley Kubrick
44. The Pianist - Roman Polanski
45. Dog Day Afternoon - Frank Pierson
46. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Milos Forman
47. The Sting - George Roy Hill
48. Some Like it Hot - Billy Wilder
49. The Usual Suspects - Bryan Singer
50. Dead Man's Shoes - Shane Meadows