Abel Ferrara

Bad Lieutenant; The Addiction

Voted in the directors’ poll

Voted for

Cul-de-Sac	1966	Roman Polanski
Devils, The	1971	Ken Russell
Hawks and Sparrows	1966	Pier Paolo Pasolini
Prison	1949	Ingmar Bergman
Lolita	1961	Stanley Kubrick
Los Olvidados	1950	Luis Buñuel
Ran	1985	Akira Kurosawa
Touch of Evil	1958	Orson Welles
Woman Under the Influence, A	1974	John Cassavetes
Zero de Conduite	1933	Jean Vigo

Comments

“You can't make films like the films that made you want to make films,” spoke Godard back when most of these films were made and inspired me to try – but why stop at 10? Add ALL the other films of the above directors to the list, plus ALL of the films of Godard, Hawks, Hitchcock, Bertolucci, Scorsese, Michael Snow, Rossellini, the other films of those above and Nicholas Ray, Milós Forman, Joseph Losey, Buster Keaton, Sam Fuller, Stan Brakhage, Woody Allen, Robert Bresson, Sam Peckinpah, David Lynch and and and…