Directing Inspiration

Roger Malcolm’s Top 10 Directors and the preferred films of each.

By: Roger Malcolm / Feb. 20, 2013

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Originally I posted this article with no words besides the directors names and the film titles.  There really isn’t much more needed than that, so I believe.  I just intend this to be an easy way to spread some attention on film directors.  Anyone with any appreciation knows film directors don’t always get the time of day that they deserve comparably with actors.  So I attempted to list my 10 picks, a truly impossible task inside those limits.  So I did the best I could with the first 10 and have another 10 on the way with more sure to follow.

1. John Carpenter

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Assault on Precinct 13

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They Live

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Escape from New York

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In the Mouth of Madness

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The Thing

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2. Sam Peckinpah

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The Wild Bunch

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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

The Getaway

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Ride the High Country

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Straw Dogs

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3. Quentin Tarantino

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Jackie Brown

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Death Proof

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Inglourious Basterds

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Django Unchained

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Pulp Fiction

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4. John McTiernan

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Die Hard: With a Vengeance

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Predator

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The 13th Warrior

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Die Hard

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5. Terrence Malick

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Badlands

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The New World

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The Tree of Life

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The Thin Red Line

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6. Sergio Leone

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Once Upon a Time in the West

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Once Upon a Time in America

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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A Fistful of Dollars

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For a Few Dollars More

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7. Akira Kurosawa

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Seven Samurai

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I Live in Fear

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The Hidden Fortress

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Yojimbo

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8. John Ford

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The Searchers

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The Grapes of Wrath

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

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Stagecoach

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3 Godfathers

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9. Howard Hawks

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El Dorado

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Rio Bravo

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The Thing from Another World

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Sergeant York

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Scarface

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10. Tim Burton

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Big Fish

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Ed Wood

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Beetlejuice

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Pee-wee’s Big Adventure

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Batman

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