Abel Ferrara
Abel Ferrara
Bad Lieutenant; The Addiction
US
Voted in the directors poll
US
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…