All-Time Top 10 Lists from Coppola, Scorsese, Mann, Tarantino, & Allen

Time to fire up the ole DVD player. Although you may need to find a 35mm projector for some of these. Film critics have been recently abuzz about a new set of lists put together by the BFI's Sight & Sound that again tries to take a shot at the Greatest Films of All Time. You can find the filmmakers' list online here (#1 is Tokyo Story), which is unique from the actual Top 50 list they made. Sight & Sound polled 358 of the world's greatest living directors and also ranked their films by votes. Not all the individual lists are out yet, but The Playlist got their hands on five All-Time Greatest Top 10 films lists from some noteworthy people.

The current print issue of Sight & Sound contains the full set of lists for all their filmmakers, but in the meantime, Playlist has scored a batch of five that are some of the best anyway: Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Mann, Martin Scorsese and finally top-list master, Quentin Tarantino. If you call yourself a film lover or cinephile, you should already be expecting half of these that they've chosen, as they're well-regarded as the bests of the best—except for a few interesting outliers (see Michael Mann):

Francis Ford Coppola:
Ashes And Diamonds (1958, dir. Andrzej Wajda)
The Best Years Of Our Lives" (1946, dir William Wyler)
I Vitelloni (1953, dir. Federico Fellini)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
Yojimbo (1961, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
Singin' In The Rain (1952, dir. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
The King Of Comedy (1983, dir Martin Scorsese)
Raging Bull (1980, dir. Martin Scorsese)
The Apartment (1960s, dir. Billy Wilder)
Sunrise (1927, dir. F.W. Murnau)

Michael Mann:
Apocalypse Now (1979, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Battleship Potemkin (1925, dir. Sergei Eisenstein)
Citizen Kane (1941, dir. Orson Welles)
Avatar (2009, dir. James Cameron)
Dr. Strangelove (1964, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Biutiful (2010, dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
My Darling Clementine (1946, dir. John Ford)
The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928, dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Raging Bull (1980, dir. Martin Scorsese)
The Wild Bunch (1969, dir. Sam Peckinpah)

Martin Scorsese:
8 1/2 (1963, dir. Federico Fellini)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Ashes And Diamonds (1958, dir. Andrzej Wajda)
Citizen Kane (1941, dir. Orson Welles)
The Leopard (1963, dir. Luchino Visconti)
Paisan (1946, dir. Roberto Rossellini)
The Red Shoes (1948, dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
The River (1951, dir. Jean Renoir)
Salvatore Giuliano (1962, dir. Francesco Rosi)
The Searchers (1956, dir. John Ford)
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953, dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
Vertigo (1958, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

Quentin Tarantino:
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966, dir. Sergio Leone)
Apocalypse Now (1979, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
The Bad News Bears (1976, dir. Michael Ritchie)
Carrie (1976, dir. Brian DePalma)
Dazed And Confused (1993, dir. Richard Linklater)
The Great Escape (1963, dir. John Sturges)
His Girl Friday (1940, dir. Howard Hawks)
Jaws (1975, dir. Steven Spielberg)
Pretty Maids All In A Row (1971, dir. Roger Vadim)
Rolling Thunder (1977, dir. John Flynn)
Sorcerer (1977, dir. William Friedkin)
Taxi Driver (1976, dir. Martin Scorsese)

Woody Allen:
Bicycle Thieves (1948, dir. Vittorio De Sica)
The Seventh Seal (1957, dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Citizen Kane (1941, dir. Orson Welles
Amarcord (1973, dir. Federico Fellini
8 1/2 (1963, dir. Federico Fellini)
The 400 Blows (1959, dir. Francois Truffaut)
Rashomon (1950, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
La Grande Illusion (1937, dir. Jean Renoir)
The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (1972, dir. Luis Bunuel)
Paths Of Glory (1957, dir. Stanley Kubrick)

Any of them really stand out? There's many films on here I expected, and definitely some I did not expect. Personally, I'm surprised one of my favorites, Metropolis, wasn't mentioned by any of them, but every other choice is just as good anyway. Sight & Sound published not only the Top 10 filmmakers list, but also their Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time ranked by film critics. That list is topped by Vertigo and the likes of Citizen Kane and Tokyo Story as well. Other directors polled, though their individual lists haven't been posted yet, include Guillermo del Toro, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the Dardenne Brothers, Terence Davies, Olivier[..]ayas, Guy Maddin, Mike Leigh, Aki Kaurismäki and others (358 in total!). For more, visit Sight & Sound.

As always, it's exciting and fascinating to delve into these kind of lists, especially from filmmakers like Scorsese, Coppola and Tarantino. I may just have to pick up a copy of Sight & Sound to get all 358 lists. There's always a big debate to be had with this, so let's dive right into it. Which of these do you prefer?

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I'm feeling QT's list the most as its mostly down-to-earth. I'll probably catch Jaws blu-ray tonight. [pic]

be interesting to see what the generation below theirs lists would look like.

Can't wait to see da gawd's top 10 list.

No Dark Knight or Inception???? !!in bull!! bro

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Man all these old[..] movies. Aint no one trying to watch that !!. Try again mudda sucka.

Give me 1980 and up please. Ill even settle for 78.

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1985 and up [pic]

QT no kung fu flicks?

Ain't nobody trying to see these old[..] movies dog [pic]

The !! is this bull!! ?

Alien came out in 79 so I said !! it. [pic]

no robocop?...goonies?...gremlins?....the wizard?......ima get you sucka?........little monsters?.......wtf!!!! just playin. lol. thats my list tho

old[..] movies and damn they kind of !!ted on Steven Spielberg

You know that it's a list of director's greatest films of ALL TIME, right?
Y'all are some stupid mother!!ers.

I swear I thought I was one of the only people ever to have King of Comedy as one of my favorite films ever. Good to see.

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