How the directors and critics voted

Harold Becker
US

Top Ten

  1. L'avventura (Antonioni)
  2. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)
  3. Citizen Kane (Welles)
  4. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
  5. 8 1/2 (Fellini)
  6. The Grapes of Wrath (Ford)
  7. In Cold Blood (Brooks)
  8. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)
  9. Sunset Blvd. (Wilder)
  10. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston)

Comments

The only way to limit myself to ten was to choose those films which had the greatest impact on me as a film-maker.

Last Updated: 03 Aug 2011