{"id":38462,"date":"2016-05-03T23:05:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T03:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=38462"},"modified":"2018-11-13T22:51:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T03:51:46","slug":"dga-80-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/03\/dga-80-films\/","title":{"rendered":"DGA Celebrates 80th Anniversary With List Of The 80 Best Directed Films"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To celebrate its 80th anniversary, the Directors Guild of America has gone all Buzzfeed and published a list of what they consider the best-directed movies made since 1936, the year that the guild was founded.<\/p>\n

While I doubt that there is anyone who would argue that a number of these films don’t belong on such a list, the real discussion among film fans is going to be the ordering. Personally, I would swap The Godfather<\/strong> and The Godfather, Part II<\/strong>‘s position at numbers 1 and 6, putting the sequel at the top, as well as bumping up personal favorite Brazil<\/strong> from director Terry Gilliam to a spot higher than #70. Plus I would swap out the original Star Wars<\/strong> for its first sequel. The Empire Strikes Back<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

But beyond serving as a spark for discussion this list is also a good starting place for those wishing to expand their film horizons beyond just the blockbusters that play at their local cineplexes. I am proud to say that I have seen 79 of the 80 films on this list. (Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon<\/strong> is the one I have yet to see, if you must know.) How many have you seen?<\/p>\n

Here is the DGA’s complete list –<\/p>\n

1. The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola 1972
\n2. Citizen Kane Orson Welles 1941
\n3. Lawrence of Arabia David Lean 1962
\n4. 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick 1968
\n5. Casablanca Michael Curtiz 1942
\n6. The Godfather: Part II Francis Ford Coppola 1974
\n7. Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola 1979
\n8. Schindler\u2019s List Steven Spielberg 1993
\n9. Gone With the Wind Victor Fleming 1939
\n10. Goodfellas Martin Scorsese 1990
\n11. Chinatown Roman Polanski 1974
\n12. The Wizard of Oz Victor Fleming 1939
\n13. Raging Bull Martin Scorsese 1980
\n14. Jaws Steven Spielberg 1975
\n15. It\u2019s a Wonderful Life Frank Capra 1946
\n16. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Stanley Kubrick 1964
\n17. The Shawshank Redemption Frank Darabont 1994
\n18. The Graduate Mike Nichols 1967
\n19. Star Wars: Episode IV \u2014 A New Hope George Lucas 1977
\n20. Blade Runner Ridley Scott 1982
\n21. On the Waterfront Elia Kazan 1954
\n22. Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino 1994
\n23. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Steven Spielberg 1982
\n24. Annie Hall Woody Allen 1977
\n25. Saving Private Ryan Steven Spielberg 1998
\n26. Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa 1954
\n27. A Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick 1971
\n28. Raiders of the Lost Ark Steven Spielberg 1981
\n29. Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock 1958
\n30. Sunset Boulevard Billy Wilder 1950
\n31. To Kill A Mockingbird Robert Mulligan 1962
\n32. Psycho Alfred Hitchcock 1960
\n33. The Searchers John Ford 1956
\n34. Forrest Gump Robert Zemeckis 1994
\n35. Singin\u2019 in the Rain Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly 1952
\n36. 8 \u00bd Federico Fellini 1963
\n37. The Third Man Carol Reed 1949
\n38. The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler 1946
\n39. Rear Window Alfred Hitchcock 1954
\n40. The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean 1957
\n41. North by Northwest Alfred Hitchcock 1959
\n42. One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest Milo\u0161 Forman 1975
\n43. The Sound of Music Robert Wise 1965
\n44. Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese 1976
\n45. Titanic James Cameron 1997
\n46. The Shining Stanley Kubrick 1980
\n47. Amadeus Milo\u0161 Forman 1984
\n48. Doctor Zhivago David Lean 1965
\n49. West Side Story Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise 1961
\n50. Some Like it Hot Billy Wilder 1959
\n51. Ben-Hur William Wyler 1959
\n52. Fargo Ethan Coen, Joel Coen 1996
\n53. The Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme 1991
\n54. The Apartment Billy Wilder 1960
\n55. Avatar James Cameron 2009
\n56. The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow 2008
\n57. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre John Huston 1948
\n58. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu 2014
\n59. All About Eve Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1950
\n60. The Deer Hunter Michael Cimino 1978
\n61. There Will Be Blood Paul Thomas Anderson 2007
\n62. The Sting George Roy Hill 1973
\n63. The Wild Bunch Sam Peckinpah 1969
\n64. Alien Ridley Scott 1979
\n65. Rocky John G. Avildsen 1976
\n66. The Conformist Bernardo Bertolucci 1970
\n67. Gandhi Richard Attenborough 1982
\n68. The Bicycle Thief Vittorio De Sica 1948
\n69. Cinema Paradiso Giuseppe Tornatore 1988
\n70. Brazil Terry Gilliam 1985
\n71. The Grapes of Wrath John Ford 1940
\n72. All the President\u2019s Men Alan J. Pakula 1976
\n73. Barry Lyndon Stanley Kubrick 1975
\n74. Touch of Evil Orson Welles 1958
\n75. Once Upon a Time in America Sergio Leone 1984
\n76. Unforgiven Clint Eastwood 1992
\n77. The Usual Suspects Bryan Singer 1995
\n78. Network Sidney Lumet 1976
\n79. Rashomon Akira Kurosawa 1950
\n80. Once Upon a Time in the West Sergio Leone 1968<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How many of these films have you seen?<\/div>\n

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