Directors who make/made films I like

If he had done nothing else besides Casablanca, he could take credit for the greatest movie of all time. He also directed Mystery of the Wax Museum, Captain Blood, Angels With Dirty Faces, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Sea Hawk, Kid Galahad, Yankee Doodle Dandy, White Christmas, and much more.

Bringing Up Baby, Only Angels Have Wings, His Girl Friday, Sergeant York, To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Red River, I Was a Male War Bride, Rio Bravo, Ball of Fire, and more!

What an amazing career!

To this day, certain kinds of films are described as Hitchcockian. His great films include Vertigo, The Lady Vanishes, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Psycho, The Birds, Notorious and North by Northwest. But I enjoy many of his second tier films as well. (e.g. Stage Fright, Young and Innocent, Rope, etc.)

Dinner at Eight, Little Women, Holiday, The Philadelphia Story, Gaslight, Adam's Rib, Born Yesterday, My Fair Lady, The Women, and more.

Stagecoach, Rio Grande, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Fort Apache, The Searchers, The Quiet Man, The Horse Soldiers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance...that's just some of the films he shot with John Wayne. How about The Informer, The Grapes of Wrath, Sergeant Rutledge and How Green Was My Valley.

Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, It's a Gift, Topper, Merrily We Live, The Kid from Brooklyn, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Road to Rio, The Paleface, Casanova's Big Night. Yes, they are all comedies. I have no problem with that.

The Gay Divorcee, Top Hat, Follow the Fleet, Shall We Dance, Holiday Inn, and So Proudly We Hail. Not a long list, but all great films. He died of a sudden heart attack at age 43.

I probably disliked as many of his films as I liked, but there were plenty to like. Nashville, A Wedding, Fool for Love, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, The Player, A Prairie Home Companion, Cookie's Fortune. I know some of these are different films than most people would list, but they are the ones I liked best.

He would make the list for Jaws, Close Encounters, and Raiders of the Lost Ark and its sequels, but then he made Schindler's List. Wow! More recently, I loved Bridge of Spies and The Post!

Here's another director where I like a lot of his movies that other people don't. Obsession, Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Casualties of War, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Mission Impossible, Snake Eyes, The Untouchables. I even got a kick out of Phantom of the Paradise.

He is probably the most consistently great director on this list. His outstanding films include Seven Samurai, Sanjuro, Throne of Blood, Rashomon, Stray Dog, Yojimbo, Ran, Red Beard, and High and Low.

I like to see the Coen brothers films even when I don't like them. However, I especially liked Fargo, Blood Simple, O Brother Where Art Thou, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, True Grit, and Burn After Reading.

Metropolis and Siegfried (both silents), then M, followed by The Woman in the Window, Scarlet Street, Hangman Also Die, Man Hunt, Fury, The Big Heat, etc.

I always thought Ben-Hur was good but way too long. I really like Funny Girl, The Best Years of Our Lives, and The Big Country. Then there is Dead End, The Letter, The Westerner, Counsellor at Law, The Heiress, The Desperate Hours, Mrs. Miniver, etc.

He worked in so many different genres that I tend to forget about him. He directed A Letter to Three Wives, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, 5 Fingers, All About Eve, Sleuth, Julius Caesar, The Honey Pot, etc. I thought the first half of Cleopatra was commendable.

My favorite of his films is The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes which I'm sure is not typical. But I also enjoyed Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, Double Indemnity, Witness for the Prosecution, and several others.

The Thief of Baghdad, White Heat, Objective Burma!, They Drive By Night, Dark Command, High Sierra, Me and My Gal, etc. The widescreen compositions in The Big Trail were simply amazing!

I liked Agatha, Class Action, The World is Not Enough, Enigma and Amazing Grace. Not a long list, but I wanted to name one more guy who is still living. And Apted deserves more praise for his work.

His body of work is not large, but he has managed to make a decent number of films that I really like. (If I include Apted for a shorter list, I may as well mention Weir as well.) He made Green Card, The Truman Show, Master and Commander, The Mosquito Coast and Witness. All fine films.

Key Largo, The Maltese Falcon, Moulin Rouge, The Misfits, Annie, The African Queen, The Night of the Iguana, The Asphalt Jungle. Moby Dick and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre were good. I imagine most people would list more of his later work from the 70's and 80's, but I really like his older films.

He made Gumshoe way back in 1971. Since I love detective movies, maybe it is natural for me to like that one. The rest of his movies tend to sneak up on me with how good they are. I liked The Grifters, Dangerous Liaisons, Dirty Pretty Things, The Queen, Philomena, and Florence Foster Jenkins.

He has only made five feature films so far. He was also the writer on all five. I loved every one of them. Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco, Damsels in Distress, and Love & Friendship.

Sullivan's Travels, The Palm Beach Story, The Lady Eve, Christmas in July, Hail the Conquering Hero, Unfaithfully Yours!

"There's a lot to be said for making people laugh. Did you know that that's all some people have? It isn't much, but it's better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan." - John Sullivan

I've liked many films throughout his directing career. Among them are Gran Torino, Unforgiven, The Eiger Sanction, Changeling, A Perfect World, The Outlaw Josey Wales, American Sniper, Richard Jewell and High Plains Drifter.

The collapse of his career when sound came in is heartbreaking, but in the silent era, he directed or co-directed several wonderful films, some that rank among the very best films of all time. The General, Sherlock, Jr., The Cameraman, Our Hospitality, Seven Chances, The Navigator, Steamboat Bill, Jr. and Go West.

He worked in the studio system and hasn't had much attention from critics. True Grit, Niagara, Calling Northside 777, The Dark Corner, The Sons of Katie Elder, and Rawhide are favorites of mine. It's worth mentioning The Shepherd of the Hills, North to Alaska, Garden of Evil and The Lives of a Bengal Lancer.

Similar to Whit Stillman, he has a relatively small number of films to date, but I have liked every single one of them. Fireworks Wednesday, About Elly, A Separation, The Salesman, Everybody Knows and A Hero.

Breaker Morant, Double Jeopardy, Driving Miss Daisy, Mao's Last Dancer and Evelyn.