by Total Film Magazine (in two parts) |
by Total Film Magazine (Part 2, Ranked Order) |
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"Picture-Perfect" Film |
"Picture-Perfect" Film |
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Robert Wise | The Curse of the Cat People (1944) | The Sound of Music (1965) |
| Michael Haneke | Hidden (2005) (aka Caché) | - | |
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Don Siegel | Dirty Harry (1971) | Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) |
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Brian DePalma | Scarface (1983) | Carrie (1976) |
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John Huston |  The Maltese Falcon (1941) |
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| Nicholas Ray | Bigger Than Life (1956) | Rebel Without a Cause (1955) | |
| Spike Lee | Do the Right Thing (1989) | - | |
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Hal Ashby | Harold and Maude (1971) | Being There (1979) |
| Jean-Luc Godard | Breathless (1960, Fr.) | - | |
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John Cassavetes | A Woman Under the Influence (1974) | - |
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Sam Raimi | Evil Dead II (1987) | Spider-Man (2002) |
| Robert Bresson | Pickpocket (1959) | - | |
| John Carpenter | Halloween (1978) | - | |
| Richard Linklater | Dazed and Confused (1993) | Waking Life (2001) | |
| Bryan Singer | The Usual Suspects | - | |
| Ken Loach | Kes (1969, UK) | - | |
| Federico Fellini | La Dolce Vita (1960, It.) | 8 1/2 (1963, It.) | |
| Pedro Almodovar | All About My Mother (1999, Sp.) | Talk to Her (2002, Sp.) | |
| Alexander Mackendrick | Sweet Smell of Success (1957) | - | |
| Michael Curtiz | Casablanca (1942) |
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| John Sayles | Lone Star (1996) | - | |
| Sergei Eisenstein | Battleship Potemkin (1925, USSR) | - | |
| Nicolas Roeg | Don't Look Now (1973) | - | |
| Tony Scott | The Last Boy Scout (1991) | True Romance (1993) | |
| Milos Forman | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) |
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| Kenji Mizoguchi | Ugetsu (1953, Jp.) | Legend of Bailiff Sansho (1954, Jp.) | |
| William Friedkin | The Exorcist (1973) | The French Connection (1971) | |
| Oliver Stone | Platoon (1986) | - | |
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George Romero | Dawn of the Dead (1978) | Night of the Living Dead (1968) |
| Satyajit Ray | The Lonely Wife (1964, India) | Pather Panchali (1955, India) | |
| Cameron Crowe | Jerry Maguire (1996) | Almost Famous (2000) | |
| James Whale | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) |
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| Wes Anderson | Rushmore (1998) | ||
| Carl Theodor Dryer | Ordet (1955, Fr.) | La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928) | |
| John Woo | The Killer (1989, HK) | - | |
| Lars von Trier | Breaking the Waves (1996) | Dogville (2003) | |
| Gus van Sant | Drugstore Cowboy (1989) | or Good Will Hunting (1997) | |
| Buster Keaton | The General (1927) |
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| Peter Weir | The Truman Show (1998) | Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) | |
| Curtis Hanson | L.A. Confidential (1997) | - | |
| D.W. Griffith | Intolerance (1916) |
The Birth of a Nation (1915) |
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| Paul Verhoeven | RoboCop (1987) | Basic Instinct (1992) | |
| Alan J. Pakula | All the President's Men (1976) | - | |
| Wong Kar-Wai | 2046 (2004) | - | |
| George Lucas | Star Wars (1977) |
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| M. Night Shyamalan | The Sixth Sense (1999) | - | |
| Baz Luhrmann | Moulin Rouge! (2001) | - | |
| John Sturges | The Magnificent Seven (1960) | Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) | |
| Sofia Coppola | Lost in Translation (2003) | - | |
| Abel Ferrara | Bad Lieutenant (1992) | - |
