Rabbit-Proof Fence...2002...Phillip Noyce

Shiner...John Irvin 2000

My First Mister...Christine Lahti 2001

Road to Perdition ...Sam Mendes 2002 (Beware of darkness)

About a Boy...Chris & Paul Weitz 2002

Lantana...Ray Lawrence 2001

The Decalogue (1 & 2)... Kieslowski 1988

Training Day...Antoine Fuqua 2001

Sunshine...István Szabó 1999

Once Upon a Time in America ...Sergio Leone 1984

The Front...Martin Ritt 1976

Angels and Insects...Philip Hass 1995

Firelight...William Nicholson 1997

The Hurricane... Norman Jewison 1999

American Movie...Sam Nendes 1999

Three Kings...David O. Russell 1999

The Acid House...Paul McGuigan 1998

The Red Violin...François Girard 1998

Election...Alexander Payne 1999

Tea with Mussolini...Franco Zeffirelli 1999

Twice Upon a Yesterday...Maria Ripoll 1998

Shakespeare in Love...John Madden 1998

Waking Ned Devine...Kirk Jones 1998

Henry Fool...Hal Hartley 1997

The Horse Whisperer...Robert Redford 1998

Bulworth...Warren Beatty 1998

Trainspotting...Danny Boyle 1996

The English Patient...Anthony Minghella 1996

Faithful...Paul Mazursky 1996

G.I. Jane...Ridley Scott 1997

Dead Presidents...Allen & Albert Hughes 1995

Sabrina...Sidney Pollack 1995

Mr. Holland's Opus...Stephen Herek 1995

Carrington...Christopher Hampton 1995

Jumanji...Joe Johnston 1995

Clerks...Kevin Smith 1994

Crumb... Terry Zwigoff 1994

Ed Wood... Tim Burton 1994

Red Rock West...John Dahl 1993

Diner...Barry Levinson 1982

Raising Arizona...Joel Coen 1987

After Hours...Martin Scorsese 1985

The Commitments...Alan Parker 1991

Strictly Ballroom...Baz Luhrmann 1992

Putney Swope...Robert Downey 1969

Slaughterhouse Five...George Roy Hill 1972

A Great Day In Harlem...Kane/Peehl/Bach/Seig 1994

Amazon Women on the Moon...Joe Dante 1987

Auntie Mame...Morton DaCosta 1958

The Mouse that Roared...Jack Arnold 1959

The Madness of King George...1995

House of Games...David Mamet 1987

Prizzi's Honor...John Huston 1985

Four Weddings and a Funeral...Mike Newell 1994

The Witches of Eastwick...George (II) Miller 1987

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner...Tony Richardson 1962

Houdini...George Marshall 1953
(my first film idol...Tony Curtis...well I was nine!)

The Wanderers...Philip Kaufman 1979 (A Bronx thing)

Smooth Talk...Joyce Chopra 1985

Desperately Seeking Susan...Susan Sedilman 1985

That Man From Rio...Phillipe De Broca (French) 1964

Cartouche...Phillipe De Broca (French-Italian) 1964

Broadway Danny Rose...Woody Allen 1984

Casablanca...Michael Curtiz 1942

The Maltese Falcon...John Huston 1942

Brief Encounter...David Lean 1945

One Touch of Venus...William A Seiter 1948

Desk Set...Walter Lang 1957

Sweet Smell of Success...Alexander Mackendrick 1957

The Missouri Breaks...Arthur Penn 1976

Miller's Crossing ...Joel Coen 1990

A Place in the Sun...George Stevens 1951

Von Ryan's Express...Mark Robson 1965

1900...Bernardo Bertolucci 1977

The Conversation...Francis Ford Coppola 1974

The King of Comedy ...Martin Scorsese 1983

Being There...Hal Ashby 1979

Defending Your Life...Albert Brooks

Blithe Spirit...David Lean 1946

The Apartment...Billy Wilder 1960

My Favorite Year...Richard Benjamin 1982

Terms of Endearment...James L. Brooks 1983

The Turning Point...Herbert Ross 1977

If...Lindsey Anderson 1969

All The President's Men...Alan J. Pakula 1976

The Pelican Brief...Alan J. Pakula 1993

Duck Soup...Leo McCarey 1933

The China Syndrome...James Bridges 1979

Big...Penny Marshall 1988

The Sting...George Roy Hill 1973

Godspell...David Greene 1973

Heaven Can Wait...Warren Beatty 1978

Little Shop of Horrors...Frank Oz 1986

Invasion of the Body Snatchers...Philip Kaufman 1978

A Clockwork Orange...Stanley Kubrick 1971

The Buddy Holly Story...Steve Rash 1978

That's Entertainment!...Jack Haley 1974

Bonnie and Clyde...Warren Beatty 1967

Shampoo...Hal Ashby 1975

The Parallax View...Alan J. Pakula 1974

A Hard Day's Night...Richard Lester 1964

The Third Man...Carol Reed... (British) 1949

Goldfinger...Guy Hamilton 1964

Man Facing Southeast...Eliseo Subiela 1986

Tootsie...Sydney Pollack 1982

Kramer vs. Kramer...Robert Benton 1979

The Guns of Navarone...J. Lee Thompson 1961

The Gods Must Be Crazy...Jamie Uys 1981 (Botswana)

Stairway to Heaven...Michael Powell (British) 1946

Citizen Kane...Orson Wells 1941

Harold & Maude...Hal Ashby 1972

Cinema Paradiso...Giuseppe Tornatore 1988

Animal House...John Landis 1978

Blazing Saddles...Mel Brooks 1974

Funny Girl...William Wyler 1968

The Way We Were...Sydney Pollack 1973

The Good-by Girl...Herbert Ross 1977

Paper Moon...Peter Bogdanovitch 1973

Yankee Doodle Dandy...Michael Curtiz 1942

The Deer Hunter...Michael Cimino 1978

Repulsion...Roman Polanski 1965

Deliverance...John Boorman 1972

The Philadelphia Story...George Cukor 1940

Things Change...David Mamet 1988

Forbidden Planet...Fred McLeod Wilcox 1956

King Kong...Merian C. Cooper 1933

Dracula...Todd Browning 1931

Altered States...Ken Russell 1980

Metropolis...Fritz Lang 1926

War Games...John Badham 1970

Moonstruck...Norman Jewison 1987

Star Wars...George Lucas 1977

Raiders of the Lost Ark...Steven Speilberg 1981

Schlindler's List...Steven Speilberg 1994

The Last Emperor...Bernardo Bertolucci 1987

Raging Bull...Martin Scorsese 1980

Silver Streak...Arthur Hiller 1976

Dreamscape...Joseph Reuben 1984

Scanners...David Cronenberg 1981