Top Hollywood directors reveal favourite films

What are the films that made filmmakers make films?

Or, to put it another way, which films have inspired some of our finest modern filmmakers?

Sight & Sound last week revealed that critics had declared 'Citizen Kane' had been knocked off the top spot as the greatest film of all time, to be replaced by Hitchcock's 'Vertigo'.

Now they've published the list of the favourite films of some of our best-known and best-loved directors, in order to deduce what the filmmakers themselves reckon are the best films of all time.

And rather than being endless reams of art-house films you've never heard of (sure, there are a few of those), the choices are often reassuringly recognisable.

The Italian master Fellini features often, unsurprisingly, as do Kubrick, Scorsese, Truffaut, Welles, De Sica, Ford and Kurosawa, but then 'Heat' director Michael Mann picks James Cameron's 'Avatar' for his all-time top ten. Now there's a curveball...

Let's see who likes what:

Woody Allen

'Bicycle Thieves' (1948, dir. Vittorio De Sica)
'The Seventh Seal' (1957, dir. Ingmar Bergman)
'Citizen Kane' (1941, dir. Orson Welles)
'Amarcord' (1973, dir. Federico Fellini)
'8 1/2' (1963, dir. Federico Fellini)
'The 400 Blows' (1959, dir. Francois Truffaut)
'Rashomon' (1950, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
'La Grande Illusion' (1937, dir. Jean Renoir)
'The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie' (1972, dir. Luis Bunuel)
'Paths Of Glory' (1957, dir. Stanley Kubrick)

Francis Ford Coppola

'Ashes And Diamonds' (1958, dir. Andrzej Wajda)
'The Best Years Of Our Lives' (1946, dir William Wyler)
'I Vitteloni' (1953, dir. Federico Fellini)
'The Bad Sleep Well' (1960, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
'Yojimbo' (1961, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
'Singin' In The Rain' (1952, dir. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
'The King Of Comedy' (1983, dir Martin Scorsese)
'Raging Bull' (1980, dir. Martin Scorsese)
'The Apartment' (1960s, dir. Billy Wilder)
'Sunrise' (1927, dir. F.W. Murnau)

Michael Mann

'Apocalypse Now' (1979, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
'Battleship Potemkin' (1925, dir. Sergei Eisenstein)
'Citizen Kane' (1941, dir. Orson Welles)
'Avatar' (2009, dir. James Cameron)
'Dr. Strangelove' (1964, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
'Biutiful' (2010, dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
'My Darling Clementine' (1946, dir. John Ford)
'The Passion Of Joan Of Arc' (1928, dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)
'Raging Bull' (1980, dir. Martin Scorsese)
'The Wild Bunch' (1969, dir. Sam Peckinpah)

Martin Scorsese

'8 1/2' (1963, dir. Federico Fellini)
'2001: A Space Odyssey' (1968, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
'Ashes And Diamonds' (1958, dir. Andrzej Wajda)
'Citizen Kane' (1941, dir. Orson Welles)
'The Leopard' (1963, dir. Luchino Visconti)
'Paisan' (1946, dir. Roberto Rossellini)
'The Red Shoes' (1948, dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
'The River' (1951, dir. Jean Renoir)
'Salvatore Giuliano' (1962, dir. Francesco Rosi)
'The Searchers' (1956, dir. John Ford)
'Ugetsu Monogatari' (1953, dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
'Vertigo' (1958, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

Quentin Tarantino

'The Good, The Bad & The Ugly' (1966, dir. Sergio Leone)
'Apocalypse Now' (1979, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
'The Bad News Bears' (1976, dir. Michael Ritchie)
'Carrie' (1976, dir. Brian DePalma)
'Dazed And Confused' (1993, dir. Richard Linklater)
'The Great Escape' (1963, dir. John Sturges)
'His Girl Friday' (1940, dir. Howard Hawks)
'Jaws' (1975, dir. Steven Spielberg)
'Pretty Maids All In A Row' (1971, dir. Roger Vadim)
'Rolling Thunder' (1977, dir. John Flynn)
'Sorcerer' (1977, dir. William Friedkin)
'Taxi Driver' (1976, dir. Martin Scorsese)