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15 Major Directors Whose Favorite Movies Aren’t What We Expected

Sometimes, great artists are into some totally odd art.

15 Major Directors Whose Favorite Movies Aren’t What We Expected

December 09, 2021

Sure, you might expect, say, horror directors to be into horror movies and rom-com directors to be into rom-coms … but sometimes, directors are into stuff totally at odds with their own art. For example:

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Halloween director David Gordon Green really likes The Night of the Hunter. That's a Robert Mitchum movie from 1955, and Green says it's the film from my youth that really opened the door. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mother! might be James Gunn's favorite movie of the 21st century, he says. اد NS OF THE KY Не said so in 2019, anyway - and also added that Parasite is his favorite 2019 movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wes Craven is a fan of the medieval-themed Swedish movie Virgin Spring. ORO OOL THE FANTIERS Не liked it so much, he based the first movie he directed, The Last House on the Left, on it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Network is an amazing movie with one of the best screenplays, says Jonah Hill. Arguably the greatest screenplay of all time by Paddy Chayefsky. It's just one of the best movies ever made, he says. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Heaven Knows What is one of James Gunn's favorite movies of 2014. I started watching it and I instantly was enraptured. It was a movie that was authentic, it was so alive, he said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Turns out, Stanley Kubrick really liked the movie White Men Can't Jump. Almost equally amazingly, he liked Steve Martin's The Jerk and the Albert Brooks movie Modern Romance. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Nicolas Winding Refn says one of the films that most inspires him is Cloverfield. No word on whether he finds the sequels equally influential and inspiring, though. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Paul Thomas Anderson

Paul Thomas Anderson is a really big fan of the movie Putney Swope. He's so into the Robert Downey Sr. movie that he gave Downey Sr. a cameo in Boogie Nights and named one of the characters Buck Swope. CRACKED.COM — Source

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David Fincher is a fan of one of George Lucas' very earliest movies. The movie is American Graffiti, starring Harrison Ford in his pre-Star Wars, pre-Indy days. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A Star is Born is one of Denis Villeneuve's favorite movies, it turns out. It is hard to believe that this movie is the work of a first-time director, Villeneuve said about it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bong Joon-Ho

Bong Joon-Ho is one of the biggest fans of the second Mad Max movie. I am a crazy fan of the film. I have watched it more than 20 times, he once said in an interview. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wes Anderson is very much into My Neighbor Totoro and other Miyazaki films. LALL LIN L Internation Filmfestspi Berlin There's a different kind of rhythm and emphasis than you'd find in American movies, he said, among other things. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Guillermo del Toro really, really likes the 1944 movie The Uninvited. It's one of the great movies that scared me when I was younger, he said. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Christopher Nolan loves "Greed"

Christopher Nolan is a massive fan of the 1924 silent movie Greed. Specifically, he says the film is a lost work of absolute genius. CRACKED.COM — Source: indiewire.com
Watch: ‘Greed’ (1924)

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Quentin Tarantino loves "The Bad News Bears"

Quentin Tarantino is a huge fan of the 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears. It's a movie about a former baseball player, and currently an alcoholic, who coaches little leaguers - and Quentin Tarantino loved actress Tatum O'Neal in that movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: indiewire.com
Watch: ‘Bad News Bears’ Trailer (1976)

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