Favorite Movies By Directors, Actors, Leaders, Musicians, Et

I tried to do a search for past posts, didn't see anything, unless it's worded differently. Most of these are from openculture.org (also a great place to download 700+ movies/documentaries)..

I know President Clinton and Eisenhower both loved "High Noon"

Christopher Hitchens has mentioned the movies "Battle of Algiers" and "Z" as great films. I don't think Noam Chomsky would ever admit to watching a movie...

Stanley Kubrick
1. i vitelloni (Fellini, 1953)
2. Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957)
3. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
4. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston, 1948)
5. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
6. Henry V (Olivier, 1944)
7. La notte (Antonioni, 1961)
8. The Bank Dick (Fields, 1940—above)
9. Roxie Hart (Wellman, 1942)
10. Hell's Angels (Hughes, 1930)


Woody Allen

The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1972)
The Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio de Sica, 1948)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel, 1972)
Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
Rashomon
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)


Martin Scorsese
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – Stanley Kubrick
8½ (1963) – Federico Fellini
Ashes and Diamonds (1958) – Andrzej Wajda
Citizen Kane (1941) – Orson Welles
The Leopard(1963) – Luchino Visconti
Paisan(1946) – Roberto Rossellini
The Red Shoes (1948) – Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger
The River (1951) – Jean Renoir
Salvatore Guiliano (1962) – Francesco Rosi
The Searchers (1956) – John Ford
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) – Mizoguchi Kenji
Vertigo (1958) – Alfred Hitchcock