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Top Ten Dead Filmmakers and Favorite Film of Theirs

10. Orson Welles: Citizen Kane

Other films: The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil

9. Robert Altman: Short Cuts

Other films: Nashville, Gosford Park, McCabe & Mrs. Miller

8. David Lean: Lawrence of Arabia

Other films: Brief Encounter, The Bridge of the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago

7. John Huston: The Maltese Falcon

Other films: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Asphalt Jungle, The African Queen, The Misfits

6. Elia Kazan: On the Waterfront

Other films: A Streetcar Named Desire, East of Eden, Baby Doll, Splendor in the Grass

5. Frank Capra: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Other films: It's a Wonderful Life, It Happened One Night, Lost Horizon, Meet John Doe, Arsenic and Old Lace

4. Billy Wilder: Sunset Blvd

Other films: Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, The Seven Year Itch, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment

3. John Ford: The Grapes of Wrath

Other films: Stagecoach, How Green Was My Valley, My Darling Clementine, The Quiet Man, The Searchers

2. Stanley Kubrick: Clockwork Orange

Other films: 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangelove (to name a few)

1. Alfred Hitchcock: Psycho

Other films: Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Dial M for Murder (to name a few)

At 8:19pm on March 12th, 2008, bman08 said…: Kazan was not blacklisted. He named names for HUAC. That's what On the Waterfront is, a justification for narcing on your friends.

I would have liked to have seen Kurosawa and Howard Hawkes on the list but that's me.

At 10:16pm on March 12th, 2008, Tyrone Slothrop said…: I immediately thought of a couple names after finishing your list (Kurosawa, Bergman, Peckinpah, and Eisenstein to name a few), but the only way I could justify taking anyone you have on the list off would be in the interest of having some diversity in region or time period. I think 10 just might be way too short a list in this case.

At 7:00am on March 13th, 2008, zer0ed77 said…: Without Akira Kurosawa in at least the top three, your list has no credence, at all.

At 10:32am on March 13th, 2008, Brian said…: I know. Kazan and Brando made two of the greatest films together with A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront. I'll check out your sites too.