A few days ago, the British magazine Sight&Sound released its latest list of 100 most outstanding productions in the history of cinema; a selection that is updated every decade, based on the vote of various personalities involved in the criticism, study, conservation and dissemination of the seventh art. However, since 1992, every ten years several renowned filmmakers are invited to generate their own list, where they also choose the most outstanding films in the field. And in 2022, Guillermo del Toro, Martin Scorsese and Alejandro González Iñárritu were some of the directors who gathered to highlight what, in their particular opinion, are the best films in history.
See below the ten favorite films —15, in the case of Scorsese— by ten popular and acclaimed filmmakers (via World of Reels). With whom do you agree more in tastes?
Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The French Chronicle)
- the great illusion (Dir. Jean Renoir, 1937)
- crime in paris (Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1947)
- Madame de… (Dir. Max Ophuls, 1953)
- Live your life (Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)
- The man who loved women (Dir. François Truffaut, 1977)
- lulu (Dir. Maurice Pialat, 1980)
- without roof or law (Dir. Agnès Varda, 1985)
- Olivier, Olivier (Dir. Agnieszka Holland, 1992)
- it all starts today (Dir. Bertrand Tavernier, 1999)
- kings and queen (Dir. Arnaud Desplechin, 2004)
Ari Aster (The Devil’s Legacy, midsummer)
- Vertigo (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
- 8½ (Dir. Federico Fellini, 1963)
- Barry Lyndon (Dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
- Wild bull (Dir. Martin Scorsese, 1980)
- Play time (Dir. Jacques Tati, 1967)
- the quartermaster sansho (Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
- Person (Dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
- A serious man (Dir. Joel & Ethan Coen, 2009)
- shoah (Dir. Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
- songs from the second floor (Dir. Roy Andersson, 2000)
John Carpenter (Halloween, The thing from the other world)
- Only Angels Have Wings (Dir. Howard Hawks, 1939)
- midnight chimes (Dir. Orson Welles, 1965)
- Bravo River (Dir. Howard Hawks, 1959)
- The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie (Dir. Luis Buñuel, 1972)
- Chinatown (Dir. Roman Polanski, 1974)
- the adorable rambunctious (Dir. Howard Hawks, 1938)
- more heart than hate (Dir. John Ford, 1956)
- the exterminating angel (Dir. Luis Buñuel, 1962)
- Scarface (Dir. Howard Hawkes, 1932)
- Vertigo (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Guillermo del Toro (The Pan’s Labyrinth, the shape of water)
- Barry Lyndon (Dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
- Good boys (Dir. Martin Scorsese, 1990)
- City Lights (Dir. Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Dir. Steven Spielberg, 1977)
- Frankenstein (Dir. James Whale, 1931)
- 8½ (Dir. Federico Fellini, 1963)
- nazarin (Dir. Luis Buñuel, 1959)
- No place for wimps (Dir. Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007)
- The shadow of a doubt (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1943)
- Pride (Dir. Orson Welles, 1942)
Pete Doctor (Monsters Inc., Soul)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (Dir. David Hand, 1937)
- paper moon (Dir. Peter Bogdanovich, 1973)
- Living is beautiful! (Dir. Frank Capra, 1946)
- One Froggy Evening / Feed the Kitty (Dir. Chuck Jones, 1955)
- discovering friendship (Dir. Tom McCarthy, 2003)
- Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Dir. Steven Spielberg, 1981)
- my neighbor totoro (Dir. Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)
- City Lights (Dir. Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
- Dumbo (Dir. Ben Sharpsteen, 1941)
- White House (Dir. Michael Curtiz, 1942)
Robert Eggers (The witch, The Northman)
- Andrei Rublev (Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)
- The elephant Man (Dir. David Lynch, 1980)
- the seven samurai (Dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
- The treasure of the Sierra Madre (Dir. John Huston, 1948)
- apocalypse now (Dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
- Nosferatu (Dir. FW Murnau, 1922)
- fitzcarraldo (Dir. Werner Herzog, 1982)
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dir. Carl Th. Dreyer, 1927)
- Person (Dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu (loves dogs, Bard)
- Andrei Rublev (Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)
- The clog tree (Dir. Ermanno Olmi, 1978)
- you who are alive (Dir. Roy Andersson, 2007)
- The adventure (Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
- The word (Dir. Carl Th. Dreyer, 1955)
- Play time (Dir. Jacques Tati, 1967)
- Person (Dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
- contempt (Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
- The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie (Dir. Luis Buñuel, 1972)
- la dolce vita (Dir. Federico Fellini, 1960)
Luca Guadagnino (call me by your name, to the bone)
- Travel to Italia (Dir. Roberto Rossellini, 1954)
- Germany year zero (Dir. Roberto Rossellini, 1948)
- his great love (Dir. Roberto Rossellini, 1952)
- The last Tango in Paris (Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)
- shelter for love (Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci, 1990)
- the atalante (Dir. Jean Vigo, 1934)
- The empire of the senses (Dir. Nagisa Oshima, 1976)
- Jeanne Dielmann (Dir. Chantal Akerman, 1975)
- Samba Traore (Dir. Idrissa Ouedraogo, 1992)
- Sunrise (Dir. FW Murnau, 1927)
Bong Joon-ho (parasites, The fear express)
- Psychosis (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
- The maid (Dir. Kim Ki-young, 1960)
- Rock and his brothers (Dir. Luchino Visconti, 1960)
- Vengeance Is Mine (Dir. Shôhei Imamura, 1979)
- Wild bull (Dir. Martin Scorsese, 1980)
- A City of Sadness (Dir. Hsiao-Hsien Hou, 1989)
- cure (Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997)
- Zodiac (Dir. David Fincher, 2007)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (Dir. George Miller, 2015)
- happy lazzaro (Dir. Alice Rohrwacher, 2018)
Martin Scorsese (Good boys, Taxi Driver)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
- 8½ (Dir. Federico Fellini, 1963)
- ashes and diamonds (Dir. Andrzej Wajda, 1958)
- citizen kane (Dir. Orson Welles, 1941)
- Diary of a village priest (Dir. Robert Bresson, 1951)
- To live (Dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
- the leopard (Dir. Luchino Visconti, 1963)
- The word (Dir. Carl Th. Dreyer, 1955)
- paisa (Dir. Roberto Rossellini, 1946)
- the red slippers (Dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
- sacred river (Dir. Jean Renoir, 1951)
- Mafia (Dir. Francesco Rosi, 1962)
- more heart than hate (Dir. John Ford, 1956)
- Tales of the wandering moon after the rain (Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
- Vertigo (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Antonio G. Spindola I have very bad memory. Out of solidarity with my memories, I choose to lose myself too. Preferably in a movie theater.