The Essential...

[bankholdup]

Here's how it goes: Pick your favorite actors/actresses/directors and pick their top 5 (or more if you wish) films that people MUST see (i.e., their most important)

The reason I'm doing this is for people that need to see more films from classic stars; this way they can get off to a great start, and then see some of their lesser known stuff.


The Essential Al Pacino
1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather, Pt. II
3. Dog Day Afternoon
4. Scent Of A Woman
5. ...And Justice For All

The Essential Marilyn Monroe *
1. Some Like It Hot
2. The Seven Year Itch
3. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
4. The Misfits
5. How To Marry A Millionaire

The Essential Stanley Kubrick
1. A Clockwork Orange
2. 2001: A Spacey Odyssey
3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb
4. The Killing
5. The Shining



* - didn't include All About Eve, since it's not really a Monroe film, per-se

[Damned Martian]

The Essential Julianne Moore

1. Far From Heaven
2. Boogie Nights
3. The Hours
4. Short Cuts
5. Magnolia


The Essential Edward Norton

1. American History X
2. 25th Hour
3. Fight Club
4. Primal Fear
5. Everyone Says I Love You

[RickySlade]

The Essential Robert De Niro

1. GoodFellas
2. Casino
3. Taxi Driver
4. Heat
5. CopLand

The Essential Julianne Moore

1. Magnolia
2. The Big Lebowski
3. Boogie Nights
4. Nine Months
5. Far From Heaven

The Essential Martin Scorsese

1. GoodFellas
2. Casino
3. Taxi Driver
4. The King Of Comedy
5. Gangs Of New York

[Cosimo]

No particular order

Jack Nicholson

One Flew...
The Pledge
The Last Detail
The Shining
Five Easy Pieces

Gene Hackman

The Royal Tenenbaums
French Connection 1/2
The Conversation
Unforgiven
Get Shorty

Nick Nolte

The Thin Red Line
Affliction
The Good Thief
Q and A
48 Hours

Steve Buscemi

Fargo
Reservoir Dogs
Trees Lounge
Ghost World
Millers Crossing

Ray Winston

Face
The War Zone
Sexy Beast
Scum
Quadrophenia

[Cosimo]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by bankholdup
[B]

The Essential Al Pacino
1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather, Pt. II
3. Dog Day Afternoon
4. Scent Of A Woman
5. ...And Justice For All


Did you not enjoy Serpico, Scarface and Carlitos Way, i also think his restrained subtle performance in Insomnia deserves to be in his top 5 as his manic outbreaks were starting to get a little annoying and predictable.Great actor though

[Trinity]

Originally posted by bankholdup
The reason I'm doing this is for people that need to see more films from classic stars; this way they can get off to a great start, and then see some of their lesser known stuff.

Great idea! I know I'm always fishing for recommendations of this sort.

The essential Julianne Moore
1. Far From Heaven
2. The End of the Affair
3. The Hours
4. Magnolia
5. Boogie Nights

The essential Nicole Kidman
1. Moulin Rouge!
2. The Hours
3. The Others
4. To Die For
5. Potrait of a Lady

The essential Bette Davis
1. All About Eve
2. Jezebel
3. Now, Voyager
4. Dark Victory
5. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane

The essential Joan Fontaine
1. Rebecca
2. Letter from an Unknown Woman
3. Jane Eyre
4. Suspicion
5. The Women

[Lazy Boy]

The Essential Emily Watson
1. Breaking the Waves
2. Punch Drunk Love
3. Angela's Ashes
4. Hilary and Jackie
5. Cradle Will Rock

The Essential Jack Lemmon
1. Glengarry Glen Ross
2. Save the Tiger
3. The Apartment
4. Some Like It Hot
5. The China Syndrome

The Essential Stanley Kubrick
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. The Shining
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. Dr. Strangelove
5. Eyes Wide Shut

[Helter-Skelter]

Johnny Depp
1. Donnie Brasco
2. Blow
3. Pirates of the Caribean
4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
5. Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Steven Spielberg
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Schindler's List
3. Jaws
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Jurassic Park

[The 8 Ball]

THE ESSENTIAL GONG LI:

1. The Emperor and The Assassin
2. Farewell My Concubine
3. Raise The Red Lantern
4. To Live
5. Red Sorghum

THE ESSENTIAL WONG KAR-WAI

1. Ashes of Time
2. Fallen Angels
3. In The Mood For Love
4. Chungking Express
5. Happy Together

THE ESSENTIAL ZHANG YIMOU

1. Raise The Red Lantern
2. To Live
3. Red Sorghum
4. Shanghai Triad
5. Ju Dou

[zeppelin]

For the actors, I am going to do what I think are their best performances, and not necessarily their best movies.

The essential Robert De Niro
1. Raging Bull
2. Taxi Driver
3. The Godfather Part II
4. The Deer Hunter
5. Goodfellas

The essential Julianne Moore
1. Far From Heaven
2. Boogie Nights
3. Magnolia
4. The Hours
5. The End of the Affair

And I don't have a single favorite director (I can only narrow it down to 10), so I'll do all my favorites...and remember, I'm only doing most important, not necessarily best:

The essential Alfred Hitchcock
1. Vertigo
2. Psycho
3. Rear Window
4. Strangers on a Train
5. Notorious

The essential Billy Wilder
1. Sunset Boulevard
2. Some Like it Hot
3. Double Indemnity
4. The Apartment
5. Stalag 17

The essential Martin Scorsese
1. Raging Bull
2. Taxi Driver
3. Goodfellas
4. Mean Streets
5. The Age of Innocence

The essential Stanley Kubrick
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Dr. Strangelove
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. Barry Lyndon
5. Paths of Glory

The essential Akira Kurosawa
1. Rashomon
2. Seven Samurai
3. Yojimbo
4. Ikiru
5. Ran

The essential Charlie Chaplin
1. City Lights
2. The Gold Rush
3. Modern Times
4. The Great Dictator
5. The Circus

The essential Orson Welles
1. Citizen Kane
2. Touch of Evil
3. The Magnificent Ambersons
4. The Lady from Shanghai
5. The Stranger

The essential Federico Fellini
1. 8 1/2
2. La Strada
3. La Dolce Vita
4. Amarcord
5. Nights of Cabiria

The essential Ingmar Bergman
1. The Seventh Seal
2. Wild Strawberries
3. Persona
4. Fanny and Alexander
5. Cries and Whispers

The essential Francis Ford Coppola
1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather Part II
3. Apocalypse Now
4. The Conversation
5. The Godfather Part III

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Humphrey Bogart:
1T. Casablanca
1T. The Maltese Falcon
3. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
4. The African Queen
5. The Caine Mutiny

The Essential Bette Davis:
1. All About Eve
2. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
3. Jezebel
4. The Little Foxes
5. Now, Voyager

The Essential Orson Welles:
1. Citizen Kane
2. The Third Man
3. Touch of Evil
4. Macbeth
5. Jane Eyre

The Essential Marlon Brando:
1. On the Waterfront
2. A Streetcar Named Desire
3. The Godfather
4. Apocalypse Now
5. Viva Zapata!

The Essential Jimmy Stewart:
1. Vertigo
2. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
3. It's a Wonderful Life
4. Rear Window
5. Anatomy of a Murder

The Essential Alfred Hitchcock:
1. Vertigo
2. Rebecca
3. Spellbound
4. Psycho
5. North By Northwest

[randythetool]

The Essential Tim Roth:
1. Four Rooms, ***
2. Everyone Says I Love You, ****
3. Captives, **1/2
4. Reservoir Dogs, **1/2
5. Invincible, ****

The Essential Marlon Brando:
1. On the Waterfront, ****
2. Apocalypse Now, ****
3. The Godfather, ****
4. The Ugly American, ***1/2
5. Viva Zapata!, ***

The Essential Gary Oldman:
1. The Contender, ****
2. True Romance, ***1/2
3. Bram Stoker's Dracula, ***
4. The Fifth Element, ***
5. JFK, ****

The Essential Woody Allen:
1. Annie Hall, ****
2. Everyone Says I Love You, ****
3. Manhattan, ****
4. Broadway Danny Rose, ****
5. Radio Days, ****

The Essential Alfred Hitchcock:
1. Strangers on a Train, ****
2. Mr. & Mrs. Smith, ****
3. Rear Window, ****
4. The Trouble With Harry, ***1/2
5. To Catch a Thief, ***

The Essential Coen Brothers:
1. Fargo, ****
2. The Man Who Wasn't There, ****
3. Barton Fink, ****
4. The Big Lebowski, ***1/2
5. Miller's Crossing, ***1/2

The Essential Orson Welles:
1. Touch of Evil, ****
2. Citizen Kane, ****
3. The Third Man, ****
4. Macbeth, ***1/2
5. The Stranger, ***1/2

The Essential Tom Hanks:
1. Big, ****
2. Forrest Gump, ****
3. Toy Story 2, ****
4. Joe Vs. the Volcano, ****
5. Saving Private Ryan, ***1/2

The Essential Martin Scorsese:
1. GoodFellas, ****
2. Taxi Driver, ****
3. The Last Temptation of Christ, ****
4. Raging Bull, ****
5. Casino, ****

[syxxpac]

The Essential Kevin Spacey:
1) American Beauty
2) L.A. Confidential
3) The Usual Suspects
4) Se7en
5) The Negotiator

The Essential James Cameron:
1) T2: Judgment Day
2) Aliens
3) The Terminator
4) True Lies
5) Titanic

[BadCoverVersion]

The Essential...

Mike Leigh
1. Naked
2. Secrets & Lies
3. Topsy Turvy
4. Life Is Sweet
5. All Or Nothing

Ken Loach
1. Kes
2. Cathy Come Home
3. Sweet Sixteen
4. Up The Junction
5. Ladybird Ladybird

Nicolas Roeg
1. Don't Look Now
2. Performance
3. Walkabout
4. The Man Who Fell To Earth
5. Bad Timing

[Puck Bond]

I will name 4 plus one lesser known film that people should seek out.

The Essential Sean Connery
1. Goldfinger
2. The Untouchables
3. The Hunt for Red October
4. The Rock
5. The Great Train Robbery

The Essential Susan Sarandon
1. Dead Man Walking
2. Bull Durham
3. Thelma & Louise
4. Moonlight Mile
5. Safe Passage

The Essential Stanley Kubrick
1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Iearned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. The Shining
5. Paths of Glory

[Antonio]

THE ESSENTIAL ALFRED HITCHCOCK
1. PSYCHO (1960 A+
2. THE BIRDS (1963) A+
3. STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951) A
4. REAR WINDOW (1954) A
5. VERTIGO (1958) A

THE ESSENTIAL JACK NICHOLSON
1. CHINATOWN (1974) Roman Polanski (A+)
2. THE SHINING (1980) Stanley Kubrick (A+)
3. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975) Milos Forman (A)
4. PRIZZI'S HONOR (1985) John Huston (A)
5. FIVE EASY PIECES (1970) Bob Rafelson (A)

THE ESSENTIAL JULIANNE MOORE
1. MAGNOLIA (1999) Paul Thomas Anderson (A+)
2. BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997) Paul Thomas Anderson (A+)
3. FAR FROM HEAVEN (2002) Todd Haynes (A)
4. THE HOURS (2002) Stephen Daldry (A)
5. SAFE (1995) Todd Haynes (B+)

[Annie Hall]

The Essential Bill Murray
1. What About Bob
2. Rushmore
3. Caddyshack
4. Ed Wood
5. Ghostbusters

The Essential Al Pacino
1. The Godfather Part II
2. The Godfather
3. Glengarry Glenn Ross
4. Scent of a Woman
5. Dog Day Afternoon

The Essential John Cusack
1. Say Anything...
2. High Fidelity
3. Being John Malkovich
4. Bullets Over Broadway
5. Grosse Pointe Blank

[Indiana Sev]

The Essential Audrey Hepburn

1. Breakfast At Tiffany's
2. Roman Holiday
3. Charade
4. Wait Until Dark
5. Two For The Road

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Robert De Niro
1. Raging Bull
2. Taxi Driver
3. Goodfellas
4. The Godfather, Part II
5. The Deer Hunter

The Essential Kate Winslet
1. Titanic
2. Quills
3. Heavenly Creatures
4. Iris
5. Sense and Sensibility

The Essential Steven Spielberg
1. Schindler's List
2. Jaws
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
5. Saving Private Ryan

[Annie Hall]

The Essential Kevin Spacey
1. American Beauty
2. The Usual Suspects
3. L.A. Confidential
4. Swimming with Sharks
5. Glengarry Glen Ross

[bowieee]

The essential Werner Herzog
1. Fitzcarraldo
2. Aguirre the wrath of God
3. Nosferatu
4. THe Enigma of Kasper Hauser
5. My Best Fiend

The Essential Terry GIlliam
1. Brazil
2. The Fisher King
3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
4. TIme Bandits
5. Jabberwocky

The Essential Johnny Depp
1. Edward Scissorhands
2. Fear and Loathing in las Vegas
3. Pirates of the carribean
4. Whats eating Gilbert Grape
5. Arizona Dream

The Essential David Lynch
1. Blue Velvet
2. Wild at Heart
3. Twin Peaks FWWM
4. Mullholland Drive
5. Lost Highway

The essential Peter Weir
1. Picnic at Hanging Rock
2. The Mosquito Coast
3. Fearless
4. Dead Poets Society
5. Gallipoli

[Damned Martian]

Originally posted by bowieee
The essential Peter Weir
1. Picnic at Hanging Rock
2. The Mosquito Coast
3. Fearless
4. Dead Poets Society
5. Gallipoli WHAT? No Truman? Replace #2 for it, and we agree.

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Stanley Kubrick:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Dr. Strangelove
4. Spartacus
5. Paths of Glory

The Essential Ingrid Bergman:
1T. Casablanca
1T. Notorious
3. Gaslight
4. Autumn Sonata
5. Spellbound

The Essential Katharine Hepburn:
1. Stage Door
2. Bringing Up Baby
3. The Lion in Winter
4. The Philadelphia Story
5. Woman of the Year

The Essential Al Pacino:
1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather Part II
3. Dog Day Afternoon
4. Serpico
5. The Godfather Part III

The Essential Dustin Hoffman:
1. The Graduate
2. Lenny
3. Midnight Cowboy
4. Rain Man
5. Marathon Man

The Essential Orson Welles: (as a director)
1. Citizen Kane
2. The Magnificent Ambersons
3. Touch of Evil
4. The Lady From Shanghai
5. The Stranger

[bowieee]

Originally posted by damned martian
WHAT? No Truman? Replace #2 for it, and we agree.

Don't get me wrong, I love The Truman Show but those 5 just barely overshadow it :)

[Invincible]

Very good idea bank! it's helping me choose what I should see. Thanks.

[blankpage]

The Essential Steven Spielberg

1.) Jaws
2.) Schindler's List
3.) E.T.
4.) Raiders of the Lost Ark
5.) Saving Private Ryan

The Essential Woody Allen

1.) Annie Hall
2.) Manhattan
3.) Husbands and Wives
4.) Everything you Wanted to Know about Sex * but were afraid to Ask
5.) Deconstructing Harry

The Essential Al Pacino (PERFORMANCE)

1.) Dog Day Afternoon
2.) The Godfather part II
3.) The Godfather
4.) Scent of a Woman
5.) Heat

The Essential Robert DeNiro (Performance)

1.) Taxi Driver
2.) Raging Bull
3.) Goodfellas
4.) The Godfather part II
5.) Casino

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Jack Nicholson
1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2. Chinatown
3. The Shining
4. As Good As It Gets
5. Terms of Endearment

The Essential Faye Dunaway
1. Network
2. Chinatown
3. Bonnie and Clyde
4. The Thomas Crown Affair(1968)
5. Barfly

The Essential Alfred Hitchcock
1. Psycho(1960)
2. Vertigo
3. Rear Window
4. North by Northwest
5. Rebecca

[Trinity]

The Essential Alfred Hitchcok

1. Rebecca
2. Notorious
3. Spellbound
4. Vertigo
5. Psycho

I guess everyone has a different idea about this one.

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Gregory Peck:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Gentleman's Agreement
3. Roman Holiday
4. Spellbound
5. Cape Fear

The Essential Audrey Hepburn:
1. Roman Holiday
2. Breakfast at Tiffany's
3. Sabrina
4. My Fair Lady
5. Love in the Afternoon

The Essential Laurence Olivier:
1. Wuthering Heights
2. Hamlet
3. Rebecca
4. Henry V
5. Marathon Man

The Essential Billy Wilder:
1. Sunset Boulevard
2. Some Like it Hot
3. Double Indemnity
4. The Lost Weekend
5. The Apartment

The Essential Jack Nicholson:
1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2. Five Easy Pieces
3. The Shining
4. Chinatown
5. Prizzi's Honor

[Ripper1888]

The Essential PETER JACKSON
1.Lord of the Rings Trilogy
2.Dead Alive
3.Bad Taste
4.The Frightners
5.Heavenly Creatures

The Essential ALFRED HITCHCOCK
1.Psycho
2.Rebecca
3.Strangers on a Train
4.Rear Window
5.Vertigo

The Essential DARIO ARGENTO
1.Suspiria
2.Deep Red
3.Phenomena
4.Opera
5.Tenbre

The Essential JOHN CARPENTER
1.Halloween
2.The Thing
3.The Fog
4.Escape From New York
5.Big Trouble in Little China

The Essential TIM BURTON
1.Ed Wood
2.Sleepy Hallow
3.Batman
4.Edward Scissor Hands
5.Beetle Juice

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Kevin Spacey
1. American Beauty
2. The Usual Suspects
3. L.A. Confidential
4. The Negotiator
5. Swimming with Sharks

The Essential Annette Bening
1. American Beauty
2. The American President
3. The Grifters
4. Bugsy
5. The Siege

The Essential Martin Scorsese
1. Goodfellas
2. Taxi Driver
3. Raging Bull
4. Gangs of New York
5. Mean Streets

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Martin Scorsese:
1. Raging Bull
2. Taxi Driver
3. Goodfellas
4. The Age of Innocence
5. Mean Streets

The Essential Kathy Bates:
1. Misery
2. Dolores Claiborne
3. Fried Green Tomatoes
4. Primary Colors
5. Titanic

The Essential Charlie Chaplin:
1. City Lights
2. Modern Times
3. The Gold Rush
4. The Great Dictator
5. The Kid

The Essential Robert Mitchum:
1. The Night of the Hunter
2. Out of the Past
3. Cape Fear
4. Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
5. Two for the Seesaw

The Essential Barbara Stanwyck:
1. Double Indemnity
2. The Lady Eve
3. Meet John Doe
4. Stella Dallas
5. Sorry, Wrong Number

[Ripper1888]

The Essential JOHN CUSACK
1.Say Anything
2.High Fidelity
3.Better Off Dead
4.Identity
5.One Crazy Summer

The Essential TOM HANKS
1.Saving Private Ryan
2.Road to Perdition
3.Philadelphia
4.Bachelor Party
5.Forrest Gump

The Essential JODY FOSTER
1.The Silence of the Lambs
2.Taxi Driver
3.The Accussed
4.Contact
5.Panic Room

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Al Pacino
1. The Godfather
2. Scarface
3. Dog Day Afternoon
4. Scent of a Woman
5. Serpico

The Essential Jodie Foster
1. The Silence of the Lambs
2. Taxi Driver
3. The Accused
4. Contact
5. Panic Room

The Essential Oliver Stone
1. Platoon
2. JFK
3. Wall Street
4. Born on the Fourth of July
5. Natural Born Killers

[PorcheRacer]

THE ESSENTIAL JOHNNY DEPP

BLOW
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO

THE ESSENTIAL AL PACINO

SCARFACE
DOG DAY AFTERNOON
THE INSIDER

THE ESSENTIAL GUY PEARCE

L.A. CONFIDENTIAL
RAVENOUS
MEMENTO

[Cole666]

The essential John Turturro -

1. Miller's Crossing
2. Quiz Show
3. Box of Moonlight
4. The Truce
5. Barton Fink

[Damned Martian]

The Essential James Dean

Rebel Without a Cause
Giant
East of Eden




Sorry, I had to do it :D

[Hannibal21]

The Essential John Huston:
1. The African Queen
2. The Maltese Falcon
3. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
4. The Night of the Iguana
5. Key Largo

The Essential James Cagney:
1. White Heat
2. Angels with Dirty Faces
3. Yankee Doodle Dandy
4. The Public Enemy
5. The Roaring Twenties

The Essential Meryl Streep:
1. Sophie's Choice
2. Out of Africa
3. Silkwood
4. Ironweed
5. Kramer vs. Kramer

The Essential Steven Spielberg:
1. Schindler's List
2. E.T.
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. Jurassic Park
5. Jaws

[Michael_myers]

The essential Robert Duvall:
1 The Godfather Part II
2 Network
3 The Godfather
4 Apocalypse Now
5 Open Range

The Essential Johnny Depp:
1 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
2 Ed Wood
3 A Nightmare on Elm Street
4 Sleepy Hollow
5 Pirates of the Caribbean

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Gary Cooper:
1. High Noon
2. The Pride of the Yankees
3. Sergeant York
4. Meet John Doe
5. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

The Essential Robert De Niro:
1. Raging Bull
2. Taxi Driver
3. The Godfather Part II
4. The Deer Hunter
5. Mean Streets

The Essential Marilyn Monroe:
1. Some Like it Hot
2. The Misfits
3. The Seven Year Itch
4. Niagara
5. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Tom Hanks
1. Forrest Gump
2. Philadelphia
3. Big
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Cast Away

The Essential Cate Blanchett
1. Elizabeth
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
3. The Talented Mr. Ripley
4. Bandits
5. The Gift

The Essential Quentin Tarantino
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Jackie Brown

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Henry Fonda:
1. Once Upon a Time in the West
2. My Darling Clementine
3. The Grapes of Wrath
4. 12 Angry Men
5. The Lady Eve

The Essential Nicole Kidman:
1. Moulin Rouge!
2. Dogville
3. The Hours
4. To Die For
5. Dead Calm

The Essential Clark Gable:
1. It Happened One Night
2. The Misfits
3. Gone with the Wind
4. Mutiny on the Bounty
5. Saratoga

[night prowler]

The Essential Nicolas Cage
1. Windtalkers
2. Adaptation
3. Matchstick Men
4. Face/ Off
5. Snake Eyes

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Essential Kevin Costner
1. JFK
2. Open Range
3. Tin Cup
4. Bull Durham
5. The Untouchables

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Essential John Travolta
1. Face/ Off
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Saturday Night Fever
4. A Civil Action
5. Mad City

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Morgan Freeman
1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. Driving Miss Daisy
3. Se7en
4. Glory
5. Unforgiven

The Essential Julianne Moore
1. Far from Heaven
2. Magnolia
3. The End of the Affair
4. Boogie Nights
5. The Hours

The Essential David Fincher
1. Fight Club
2. Se7en
3. The Game
4. Panic Room
5. Alien 3

[Michael_myers]

The essential Donald O'Connor

1 Singin' in the Rain
2 There's No Business like Show Business
3 Walking My Baby Back Home
4 Francis The Talking Mule
5 Call me Madam

The essential Elia Kazan

1 On the Waterfront
2 A Streetcar Named Desire
3 America, America
4 Gentleman's Agreement
5 Baby Doll

[Trinity]

The essential Renee Zellweger
1. Bridget Jones's Diary
2. Jerry Maguire
3. Nurse Betty
4. Chicago
5. One True Thing

The essential Gwyneth Paltrow
1. Shakespeare in Love
2. Sliding Doors
3. The Royal Tenenbaums
4. Emma
5. The Talented Mr. Ripley

The essential Cate Blanchett
1. Elizabeth
2. The Gift
3. LOTR:FOTR
4. Oscar and Lucinda
5. The Talented Mr. Ripley

The essential Winona Ryder
1. Little Women
2. Girl, Interrupted
3. Night on Earth
4. Reality Bites
5. The Age of Innocence

The essential Olivia de Havilland
1. The Heiress
2. Gone with the Wind
3. The Snake Pit
4. To Each His Own
5. The Adventures of Robin Hood

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Gene Kelly:
1. Singin' in the Rain
2. Take Me Out to the Ball Game
3. Anchors Aweigh
4. On the Town
5. An American in Paris

The Essential Vivien Leigh:
1. Gone with the Wind
2. A Streetcar Named Desire
3. Waterloo Bridge
4. That Hamilton Woman
5. Ship of Fools

The Essential Jack Lemmon:
1. Some Like it Hot
2. The Apartment
3. Glengarry Glen Ross
4. The China Syndrome
5. The Fortune Cookie

[charliebobo]

The Essential Woody Allen
1.Manhattan *****
2.Hannah And her Sisters ****1/2
3.Annie Hall ****1/2
4.Everyone Says I Love You ****
5.Crimes And Misdemeanours ****

The Essential Gwyneth Paltrow (Movies)
1.Se7en *****
2.Shakespeare In Love ****
3.Sliding Doors ****
4.The Talented Mr. Ripley ***1/2
5.Possession ***1/2

The Essential Alfred Hitchcock
1.Vertigo *****
2.Psycho ****1/2
3.Dial M For Murder ****
4.Notorious ****
5.North By Northwest ****

The Essential Diane Keaton (Movies)
1.The Godfather *****
2.The Godfather Part II *****
3.Manhattan *****
4.Annie Hall ****1/2
5.The Godfather Part III ****

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The Essential Arnold Schwarzenegger:
1) Terminator 2: Judgment Day
2) The Terminator
3) True Lies
4) Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines
5) Predator

The Essential Al Pacino:
1) The Godfather: Part II
2) The Godfather
3) Heat
4) Insomnia
5) Serpico

The Essential Jamie Lee Curtis:
1) True Lies
2) Halloween
3) A Fish Called Wanda
4) Halloween H20
5) The Tailor Of Panama

The Essential Sean Connery:
1) Goldfinger
2) The Untouchables
3) Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade
4) The Rock
5) Rising Sun

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Humphrey Bogart
1. Casablanca
2. The Maltese Falcon
3. The African Queen
4. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
5. The Caine Mutiny

The Essential Grace Kelly
1. Rear Window
2. To Catch a Thief
3. Country Girl
4. Dial M for Murder
5. High Noon

The Essential Tim Burton
1. Edward Scissorhands
2. Ed Wood
3. Batman
4. Sleepy Hollow
5. Beetlejuice

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Paul Newman
1. Cool Hand Luke
2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
3. The Hustler
4. The Sting
5. The Verdict

The Essential Catherine Zeta-Jones
1. Chicago
2. Traffic
3. Entrapment
4. The Mask of Zorro
5. America's Sweethearts

The Essential Frank Darabont
1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. The Green Mile
3. The Majestic

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Johnny Depp
1. Edward Scissorhands
2. Ed Wood
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
4. Blow
5. Sleepy Hollow

The Essential Kirsten Dunst
1. Spider-Man
2. The Virgin Suicides
3. Bring It On
4. Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
5. The Cat's Meow

The Essential Kevin Smith
1. Clerks
2. Chasing Amy
3. Dogma
4. Mallrats
5. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Cary Grant
1. North by Northwest
2. The Philadelphia Story
3. Notorious
4. Bringing Up Baby
5. An Affair to Remember

The Essential Bette Davis
1. All About Eve
2. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
3. The Little Foxes
4. Now, Voyager
5. Jezebel

The Essential Akira Kurosawa
1. The Seven Samurai
2. Rashomon
3. Yojimbo
4. Ran
5. Dersu Uzala

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The Essential Stanley Kubrick:
1) Dr. Strangelove
2) A Clockwork Orange
3) Full Metal Jacket
4) 2001: A Space Odyssey
5) Eyes Wide Shut

The Essential John Travolta:
1) Pulp Fiction
2) Get Shorty
3) Broken Arrow
4) Swordfish
5) Carrie

The Essential Harrison Ford:
1) Raiders Of The Lost Ark
2) The Empire Strikes Back
3) The Fugitive
4) Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade
5) Star Wars

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Jimmy Stewart
1. It's a Wonderful Life
2. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
3. Rear Window
4. The Philadelphia Story
5. Vertigo

The Essential Audrey Hepburn
1. Breakfast at Tiffany's
2. Roman Holiday
3. My Fair Lady
4. Sabrina
5. Wait Until Dark

The Essential Billy Wilder
1. Some Like It Hot
2. Sunset Blvd.
3. The Apartment
4. Double Indemnity
5. Stalag 17

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Dustin Hoffman
1. The Graduate
2. Rain Man
3. Midnight Cowboy
4. All the President's Men
5. Tootsie

The Essential Katharine Hepburn
1. The Philadelphia Story
2. Bringing Up Baby
3. The African Queen
4. The Lion in Winter
5. On Golden Pond

The Essential David Lean
1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. The Bridge on the River Kwai
3. Doctor Zhivago
4. Great Expectations
5. A Passage to India

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Gene Hackman
1. The French Connection
2. The Conversation
3. Unforgiven
4. The Royal Tenenbaums
5. The Poseidon Adventure

The Essential Ingrid Bergman
1. Casablanca
2. Notorious
3. Anastasia
4. Murder on the Orient Express
5. Gaslight

The Essential Frank Capra
1. It's a Wonderful Life
2. It Happened One Night
3. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
4. You Can't Take It with You
5. Arsenic and Old Lace

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Russell Crowe
1. A Beautiful Mind
2. Gladiator
3. The Insider
4. L.A. Confidential
5. Romper Stomper

The Essential Meryl Streep
1. Sophie's Choice
2. Out of Africa
3. Kramer vs. Kramer
4. The Deer Hunter
5. Adaptation.

The Essential Francis Ford Coppola
1. The Godfather
2. Apocalypse Now
3. The Godfather, Part II
4. The Conversation
5. Bram Stoker's Dracula

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Joan Crawford:
1. Mildred Pierce
2. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
3. Johnny Guitar
4. Sudden Fear
5. The Women

The Essential Zhang Yimou:
1. Raise the Red Lantern
2. To Live
3. Red Sorghum
4. The Road Home
5. Shanghai Triad

The Essential Julianne Moore:
1. Boogie Nights
2. Far From Heaven
3. The End of the Affair
4. Magnolia
5. Short Cuts

The Essential Cary Grant:
1. North By Northwest
2. Bringing Up Baby
3. Notorious
4. The Philadelphia Story
5. His Girl Friday

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Olivia de Havilland:
I completely agree with Trinity's order

The Essential Edward Norton:
1. American History X
2. Primal Fear
3. Fight Club (for performance)
4. 25th Hour
5. Rounders

The Essential Gong Li:
1. Raise the Red Lantern
2. Farewell My Concubine
3. Shanghai Triad
4. Red Sorghum
5. The Emperor and the Assassin

The Essential Frank Capra:
1. It's a Wonderful Life
2. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
3. It Happened One Night
4. You Can't Take It With You
5. Meet John Doe

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Spencer Tracy:
1. Boys Town
2. Adam's Rib
3. Woman of the Year
4. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
5. The Old Man and the Sea

The Essential Diane Keaton:
1. Annie Hall
2. Manhattan
3. The Godfather
4. The Godfather Part II
5. The Godfather Part III

The Essential Ewan McGregor:
1. Trainspotting
2. Moulin Rouge!
3. Young Adam
4. Big Fish
5. Shallow Grave

*All the films I've listed for the actors are according to their best performances, not films.

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Michael Douglas
1. Wall Street
2. Fatal Attraction
3. Wonder Boys
4. The American President
5. Falling Down

The Essential Kathy Bates
1. Misery
2. Primary Colors
3. Titanic
4. Dolores Claiborne
5. Fried Green Tomatoes

The Essential Ridley Scott
1. Blade Runner
2. Alien
3. Gladiator
4. Black Hawk Down
5. Thelma & Louise

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Burt Lancaster:
1. Sweet Smell of Success
2. From Here to Eternity
3. The Killers
4. Elmer Gantry
5. Seven Days in May

The Essential Lauren Bacall:
1. To Have and Have Not
2. The Big Sleep
3. Key Largo
4. Dark Passage
5. Murder on the Orient Express

The Essential Joseph Cotten:
1. Shadow of a Doubt
2. Citizen Kane
3. The Third Man
4. The Magnificent Ambersons
5. Gaslight

[KornKidJedi]

The Essential Sergio Leone:
1.The Good The Bad and The Ugly
2.Once Upon A Time In The West
3.Once Upon A Time In America
4.A Fistful Of Dynamite
5.For A Few Dollars More

The Essential Al Pacino:
1.The Godfather Part II
2.Dog Day Afternoon
3.Scent of a Woman
4.Serpico
5.Scarface

The Essential John Woo:
1.Hard-Boiled
2.Windtalkers
3.The Killer
4.Face/Off
5.Last Hurrah For Chilvary

The Essential Robert De Niro:
1.The Godfather Part II
2.Taxi Driver
3.Raging Bull
4.The King Of Comedy
5.Goodfellas

The Essential Martin Scorsese:
1.Goodfellas
2.Gangs Of New York
3.Raging Bull
4.Taxi Driver
5.Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Brad Pitt
1. Fight Club
2. 12 Monkeys
3. Se7en
4. Legends of the Fall
5. Ocean's Eleven

The Essential Nicole Kidman
1. The Hours
2. Moulin Rouge!
3. The Others
4. To Die For
5. Eyes Wide Shut

The Essential Coen Brothers
1. Fargo
2. Blood Simple
3. The Big Lebowski
4. The Man Who Wasn't There
5. Miller's Crossing

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Edward Norton
1. American History X
2. Fight Club
3. Primal Fear
4. 25th Hour
5. Rounders

The Essential Renee Zellweger
1. Bridget Jones' Diary
2. Chicago
3. Nurse Betty
4. Jerry Maguire
5. Empire Records

The Essential M. Night Shyamalan
1. The Sixth Sense
2. Signs
3. Unbreakable

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Bruce Willis
1. Die Hard
2. The Sixth Sense
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Armageddon
5. The Whole Nine Yards

The Essential Jennifer Connelly
1. A Beautiful Mind
2. Labyrinth
3. Dark City
4. Requiem for a Dream
5. The Hulk

The Essential Paul Thomas Anderson
1. Magnolia
2. Boogie Nights
3. Punch-Drunk Love
4. Hard Eight

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Brad Pitt:
1. Fight Club
2. 12 Monkeys
3. Legends of the Fall
4. Kalifornia
5. Thelma and Louise

The Essential Grace Kelly:
1. The Country Girl
2. Rear Window
3. Dial M For Murder
4. To Catch a Thief
5. High Society

The Essential Elia Kazan:
1. On the Watrerfront
2. A Streetcar Named Desire
3. Gentleman's Agreement
4. Splendor in the Grass
5. Viva Zapata!

The Essential Kirk Douglas:
1. Spartacus
2. Paths of Glory
3. Out of the Past
4. Champion
5. The Bad and the Beautiful

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Harrison Ford:
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. The Fugitive
3. American Graffiti
4. Indiana Jones and the Lost Crusade
5. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

The Essential Michelle Pfeiffer:
1. Batman Returns
2. The Age of Innocence
3. Dangerous Liaisons
4. The Fabulous Baker Boys
5. Love Field

The Essential William Wyler:
1. Roman Holiday
2. The Best Years of Our Lives
3. The Little Foxes
4. Jezebel
5. The Heiress

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Frank Sinatra:
1. From Here to Eternity
2. The Manchurian Candidate
3. Ocean's Eleven
4. Guys and Dolls
5. High Society

The Essential Claudette Colbert:
1. It Happened One Night
2. Since You Went Away
3. Imitation of Life
4. Cleopatra
5. Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

The Essential William Holden:
1. Sunset Boulevard
2. The Bridge on the River Kwai
3. Stalag 17
4. Network
5. The Wild Bunch

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Francois Truffaut:
1. Jules and Jim
2. The 400 Blows
3. The Wild Child
4. Small Change
5. The Story of Adele H

The Essential Elizabeth Taylor:
1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
3. Giant
4. A Place in the Sun
5. National Velvet

The Essential Edward G. Robinson:
1. Scarlet Street
2. Double Indemnity
3. Key Largo
4. Little Caesar
5. The Stranger

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Ava Gardner:
1. The Night of the Iguana
2. The Killers
3. The Barefoot Contessa
4. On the Beach
5. Mogambo

The Essential Alec Guinness:
1. The Bridge on the River Kwai
2. Lawrence of Arabia
3. Star Wars
3. The Ladykillers
4. The Lavender Hill Mob

[Hannibal21]

The Essential John Ford:
1. My Darling Clementine
2. How Green Was My Valley
3. The Grapes of Wrath
4. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
5. The Informer

The Essential Judy Garland:
1. A Star is Born
2. Meet Me in St. Louis
3. The Wizard of Oz
4. Babes in Arms
5. Babes on Broadway

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Arnold Schwarzenegger
1. The Terminator
2. Predator
3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
4. Total Recall
5. True Lies

The Essential Eliza Dushku
1. Bring It On
2. Wrong Turn
3. Soul Survivors
4. City by the Sea
5. True Lies

The Essential Wes Anderson
1. Rushmore
2. The Royal Tenenbaums
3. Bottle Rocket

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Tim Robbins
1. The Shawshank Redempion
2. The Player
3. Bull Durham
4. Nothing to Lose
5. Arlington Road

The Essential Cameron Diaz
1. There's Something About Mary
2. Vanilla Sky
3. Charlie's Angels
4. Gangs of New York
5. Being John Malkovich

The Essential John Hughes
1. The Breakfast Club
2. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
3. Sixteen Candles
4. Planes, Trains & Automobiles
5. Weird Science

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Robert Redford(Actor)
1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
2. The Sting
3. The Natural
4. All the President's Men
5. Out of Africa

The Essential Michelle Pfeiffer
1. Batman Returns
2. White Oleander
3. Scarface
4. The Fabulous Baker Boys
5. Frankie and Johnny

The Essential John McTiernan
1. Die Hard
2. Predator
3. The Hunt for Red October
4. The Thomas Crown Affair(1999)
5. Die Hard with a Vengeance

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Ian Mckellan
1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2. Gods and Monsters
3. X-Men
4. Apt Pupil
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Essential Frances McDormand
1. Fargo
2. Almost Famous
3. The Man Who Wasn't There
4. Wonder Boys
5. Laurel Canyon

The Essential Michael Bay
1. Armageddon
2. The Rock
3. Bad Boys
4. Pearl Harbor
5. Bad Boys II

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Lionel Barrymore:
1. It's a Wonderful Life
2. Key Largo
3. You Can't Take it With You
4. Since You Went Away
5. Saratoga

The Essential Angela Lansbury:
1. The Manchurian Candidate
2. Gaslight
3. Beauty and the Beast
4. The Picture of Dorian Gray
5. The Lady Vanishes

The Essential Akira Kurosawa:
1. The Seven Samurai
2. Rashomon
3. Yojimbo
4. Throne of Blood
5. Stray Dog

[Hannibal21]

The Essenital Kevin Spacey:
1. The Usual Suspects
2. Seven
3. American Beauty
4. Glengarry Glen Ross
5. L.A. Confidential

The Essential Sharon Stone:
1. Casino
2. Basic Instinct
3. Total Recall
4. Sliver
5. The Quick and the Dead

The Essential James Dean:
1. Rebel Without a Cause
2. East of Eden
3. Giant

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Shirley Temple:
1. The Little Princess
2. The Littlest Rebel
3. Bright Eyes
4. Wee Willie Winkie
5. Little Miss Broadway

The Essential Kevin Costner:
1. Dances with Wolves
2. JFK
3. Field of Dreams
4. The Untouchables
5. Open Range

The Essential Joe Pesci:
1. Goodfellas
2. Raging Bull
3. My Cousin Vinny
4. Casino
5. The Public Eye

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Danny DeVito:
1. L.A. Confidential
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
3. Romancing the Stone
4. Jewel of the Nile
5. Batman Returns

The Essential Russell Crowe:
1. The Insider
2. A Beautiful Mind
3. L.A. Confidential
4. Romper Stomper
5. The Sum of Us

The Essential Renee Zellweger:
1. Nurse Betty
2. Bridget Jones's Diary
3. Chicago
4. Jerry Maguire
5. Cold Mountain

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Sean Astin
1. Rudy
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
3. The Goonies
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
5. Toy Soldiers

The Essential Jamie Lee Curtis
1. Halloween
2. Trading Places
3. A Fish Called Wanda
4. True Lies
5. The Tailor of Panama

The Essential Robert Aldrich
1. The Dirty Dozen
2. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
3. Kiss Me Deadly
4. The Longest Yard
5. The Flight of the Phoenix

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Charlie Sheen
1. Platoon
2. Wall Street
3. Major League
4. The Three Musketeers(1993)
5. Lucas

The Essential Barbara Stanwyck
1. Double Indemnity
2. The Lady Eve
3. Stella Dallas
4. Sorry, Wrong Number
5. Christmas in Connecticut

The Essential Woody Allen
1. Annie Hall
2. Manhattan
3. Crimes and Misdemeanors
4. Hannah and Her Sisters
5. Sleeper

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Peter Sellers
1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. Being There
3. The Pink Panther
4. Lolita
5. The Ladykillers

The Essential Kate Hudson
1. Almost Famous
2. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
3. The Four Feathers
4. Alex & Emma
5. 200 Cigarettes

The Essential Robert Altman
1. M*A*S*H
2. The Player
3. Nashville
4. Gosford Park
5. McCabe & Mrs. Miller

[Puck Bond]

The Essential George C. Scott
1. Patton
2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
3. The Hustler
4. The Changeling
5. Taps

The Essential Marilyn Monroe
1. Some Like It Hot
2. Gentleman Prefer Blondes
3. The Seven Year Itch
4. How to Marry a Millionaire
5. The Misfits

The Essential Ingmar Bergman
1. The Seventh Seal
2. Wild Strawberries
3. Cries and Whispers
4. Fanny and Alexander
5. Persona

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Joe Pesci
1. Goodfellas
2. Raging Bull
3. My Cousin Vinny
4. Casino
5. Lethal Weapon 2

The Essential Julia Stiles
1. 10 Things I Hate About You
2. The Business of Strangers
3. Save the Last Dance
4. O
5. A Guy Thing

The Essential Mel Brooks
1. The Producers
2. Blazing Saddles
3. Young Frankenstein
4. Spaceballs
5. Robin Hood: Men in Tights

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Ray Liotta
1. Goodfellas
2. Narc
3. Cop Land
4. Blow
5. Identity

The Essential Famke Janssen
1. GoldenEye
2. X-Men
3. Rounders
4. The Faculty
5. House on Haunted Hill

The Essential Luis Bunuel
1. Un Chien Andalou
2. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
3. Belle de Jour
4. The Exterminating Angel
5. Los Olvidados

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Marlon Brando
1. The Godfather
2. On the Waterfront
3. A Streetcar Named Desire
4. Apocalypse Now
5. The Freshman

The Essential Meg Ryan
1. Sleepless in Seattle
2. When Harry Met Sally...
3. Courage Under Fire
4. You've Got Mail
5. Kate & Leopold

The Essential James Cameron
1. Titanic
2. The Terminator
3. The Abyss
4. True Lies
5. Aliens

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The Essential Mel Brooks

1.) Young Frankenstein
2.) Spaceballs
3.) Blazing Saddles
4.) High Anxiety
5.) Dracula: Dead and Loving it

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Sigourney Weaver:
1. Aliens
2. The Ice Storm
3. Alien
4. The Year of Living Dangerously
5. Working Girl

The Essential Nicolas Cage:
1. Leaving Las Vegas
2. Adaptation
3. Matchstick Men
4. Moonstruck
5. Face/Off

The Essential Leonardo Dicaprio:
1. What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
2. The Aviator
3. This Boy's Life
4. Catch Me if You Can
5. Gangs of New York

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Claude Rains:
1. Notorious
2. Casablanca
3. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
4. Lawrence of Arabia
5. Now, Voyaget

The Essential Celeste Holm:
1. All About Eve
2. Gentleman's Agreement
3. The Snake Pit
4. High Society

The Essential Colin Farrell:
1. Tigerland
2. A Home at the End of the World
3. Phone Booth
4. Minority Report
5. The Recruit

The Essential Elijah Wood:
1. The Lord of the Rings
2. Paradise
3. Avalon
4. The Ice Storm
5. The War

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Orson Welles(Actor)
1. Citizen Kane
2. The Third Man
3. Touch of Evil
4. A Man for All Seasons
5. The Lady from Shanghai

The Essential Jennifer Lopez
1. Selena
2. Out of Sight
3. The Cell
4. The Wedding Planner
5. Maid in Manhattan

The Essential John Carpenter
1. Halloween
2. Escape from New York
3. Assault on Precinct 13
4. The Thing
5. Big Trouble in Little China

[Puck Bond]

The Essential James Caan
1. The Godfather
2. Thief
3. Misery
4. Rollerball(1975)
5. Eraser

The Essential Julia Roberts
1. Pretty Woman
2. Erin Brockovich
3. Steel Magnolias
4. Notting Hill
5. My Best Friend's Wedding

The Essential Charlie Chaplin(Director)
1. City Lights
2. Modern Times
3. The Gold Rush
4. The Great Dictator
5. The Circus

[Annie Hall]

The Essential Kiefer Sutherland

1. The Lost Boys
2. Phone Booth
3. Flatliners
4. Dark City
5. Stand by Me

[Puck Bond]

The Essential John Travolta
1. Saturday Night Fever
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Grease
4. Primary Colors
5. Face/Off

The Essential Elizabeth Hurley
1. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
2. Bedazzled
3. EdTV
4. Dangerous Ground
5. Serving Sara

The Essential Wes Craven
1. Scream
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street
3. The Serpent and the Rainbow
4. The Last House on the Left
5. Music of the Heart

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Samuel L. Jackson
1. Pulp Fiction
2. The Negotiator
3. Jackie Brown
4. Shaft(2000)
5. Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace

The Essential Charlize Theron
1. The Cider House Rules
2. 2 Days in the Valley
3. Trapped
4. The Legend of Bagger Vance
5. Reindeer Games

The Essential David Cronenberg
1. The Dead Zone
2. The Fly(1986)
3. Crash
4. Scanners
5. Videodrome

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Tim Roth
1. Four Rooms
2. Rob Roy
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. Planet of the Apes(2001)

The Essential Ashley Judd
1. Kiss the Girls
2. Double Jeopardy
3. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
4. Someone Like You
5. High Crimes

The Essential Cameron Crowe
1. Say Anything...
2. Almost Famous
3. Jerry Maguire
4. Vanilla Sky
5. Singles

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Ving Rhames
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Con Air
3. Entrapment
4. Mission: Impossible
5. Bringing Out the Dead

The Essential Reese Witherspoon
1. Election
2. Legally Blonde
3. Freeway
4. Pleasantville
5. Sweet Home Alabama

The Essential Joe Dante
1. Gremlins
2. The 'burbs
3. The Howling
4. Innerspace
5. Piranha

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Christopher Walken
1. The Deer Hunter
2. A View to a Kill
3. Catch Me If You Can
4. King of New York
5. True Romance

The Essential Gwyneth Paltrow
1. Shakespeare in Love
2. The Talented Mr. Ripley
3. The Royal Tenenbaums
4. Shallow Hal
5. Se7en

The Essential Brian De Palma
1. Scarface(1983)
2. The Untouchables
3. Carrie
4. Blow Out
5. Carlito's Way

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Steve McQueen
1. Bullitt
2. The Great Escape
3. The Thomas Crown Affair(1968)
4. The Sand Pebbles
5. Papillon

The Essential Liv Tyler
1. Armageddon
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
3. Empire Records
4. Stealing Beauty
5. Inventing the Abbotts

The Essential Richard Donner
1. Lethal Weapon
2. The Goonies
3. The Omen
4. Superman
5. Ladyhawke

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Kevin Costner(Actor)
1. Dances with Wolves
2. The Untouchables
3. JFK
4. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
5. Field of Dreams

The Essential Halle Berry
1. Monster's Ball
2. X-Men
3. Die Another Day
4. Swordfish
5. Bulworth

The Essential Federico Fellini
1. 81/2
2. La Dolce Vita
3. Nights of Cabiria
4. Amarcord
5. La Strada

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Harrison Ford
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Star Wars
3. The Fugitive
4. Witness
5. Blade Runner

The Essential Natalie Portman
1. Beautiful Girls
2. The Professional
3. Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace
4. Anywhere But Here
5. Where the Heart Is

The Essential John Ford
1. The Grapes of Wrath
2. Stagecoach
3. The Quiet Man
4. The Searchers
5. How Green Was My Valley

[Puck Bond]

The Essential John Cusack
1. Say Anything...
2. High Fidelity
3. Better Off Dead...
4. Being John Malkovich
5. Grosse Pointe Blank

The Essential Geena Davis
1. The Accidental Tourist
2. Thelma & Louise
3. A League of Their Own
4. The Long Kiss Goodnight
5. Beetlejuice

The Essential William Friedkin
1. The French Connection
2. The Exorcist
3. To Live and Die in L.A.
4. Rules of Engagement
5. The Hunted

[Puck Bond]

The Essential John Malkovich
1. In the Line of Fire
2. Being John Malkovich
3. Of Mice and Men
4. Con Air
5. Shadow of the Vampire

The Essential Lauren Bacall
1. To Have and Have Not
2. The Big Sleep
3. Key Largo
4. The Mirror Has Two Faces
5. The Shootist

The Essential Terry Gilliam
1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2. 12 Monkeys
3. Brazil
4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
5. Time Bandits

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Mel Gibson
1. Braveheart
2. Lethal Weapon
3. Mad Max
4. Gallipoli
5. Payback

The Essential Sandra Bullock
1. Speed
2. The Net
3. Two Weeks Notice
4. A Time to Kill
5. 28 Days

The Essential Curtis Hanson
1. L.A. Confidential
2. Wonder Boys
3. 8 Mile
4. The River Wild
5. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

What you got Hanbone? :p

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Henry Fonda
1. The Grapes of Wrath
2. 12 Angry Men
3. The Lady Eve
4. Once Upon a Time in the West
5. On Golden Pond

The Essential Rene Russo
1. The Thomas Crown Affair(1999)
2. Tin Cup
3. Outbreak
4. Major League
5. Get Shorty

The Essential Lasse Hallstrom
1. The Cider House Rules
2. What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
3. Chocolat
4. The Shipping News
5. My Life As a Dog

[Sugar Magnolia]

Daaaaaaaaaamn Puck, who don't you have a top 5 for?!

[Puck Bond]

The Essential David Niven
1. Around the World in 80 Days
2. The Guns of Navarone
3. Casino Royale
4. The Pink Panther
5. Death on the Nile

The Essential Angelina Jolie
1. Girl, Interrupted
2. Tomb Raider
3. Playing by Heart
4. The Bone Collector
5. Life, or Something Like It

The Essential Howard Hawks
1. Bringing Up Baby
2. To Have and Have Not
3. Rio Bravo
4. Sergeant York
5. Scarface(1932)

[RicochetShaw]

The Essential "Essential" posters

Puck Bond
Hannibal 21


:p

[Hannibal21]

Ok, I don't think I can ever beat Puck at this so I shall always play second fiddle to him in this thread. :p

The Essential Rita Hayworth:
1. Gilda
2. The Lady from Shanghai
3. Separate Tables
4. Only Angels Have Wings
5. You'll Never Get Rich

The Essential Ralph Fiennes:
1. Schindler's List
2. Quiz Show
3. The End of the Affair
4. Spider
5. The English Patient (bad movie, but I'm counting performances alone and he was simply superb in this)

The Essential Francis Ford Coppola:
1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather Part II
3. Apocalypse Now
4. The Conversation
5. The Godfather Part III

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Milos Forman:
1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2. Amadeus
3. Valmont
4. The People vs. Larry Flynt
5. Ragtime

The Essential Samuel L. Jackson:
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Jackie Brown
3. Eve's Bayou
4. Menace II Society
5. A Time to Kill

The Essential Howard Hawks:
1. Bringing Up Baby
2. To Have and Have Not
3. The Big Sleep
4. His Girl Friday
5. Ball of Fire

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Fred Astaire:
1. Swing Time
2. Top Hat
3. The Band Wagon
4. Follow the Fleet
5. You Were Never Lovelier

The Essential Mae West:
1. She Done Him Wrong
2. I'm No Angel
3. My Little Chickadee
4. Belle of the Nineties
5. Night After Night


The Essential Barbra Streisand:
1. The Way We Were
2. Yentl
3. Funny Girl
4. A Star is Born
5. Funny Lady

[Puck Bond]

Hehe Hannibal....its not a race to see who can make more of these...just a little competitive fun...I feel silly sometimes just putting down multiple posts in one thread by myself...good to have you a long to keep up! Hey we should make a book...call it "The Essential"...with all the stars we've done and 5 movies for each...actors and directors alike...a review of the film and why its essential for that person!

Anyway I was bored...and I wrote down a list of as many actors/actresses and directors from just looking at the movies I have in my room. That's why some of my names and the order of them seem weird...so I'm just basically going through that!

The Essential Joaquin Phoenix
1. Gladiator
2. Signs
3. Quills
4. To Die For
5. The Yards

The Essential Sigourney Weaver
1. Alien
2. Ghostbusters
3. Working Girl
4. A Map of the World
5. Heartbreakers

The Essential George Roy Hill
1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
2. The Sting
3. Slap Shot
4. Slaughterhouse-Five
5. The World According to Garp

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Warren Beatty(Actor)
1. Bonnie and Clyde
2. Bugsy
3. Splendor in the Grass
4. Dick Tracy
5. McCabe & Mrs. Miller

The Essential Heather Graham
1. Boogie Nights
2. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
3. License to Drive
4. Swingers
5. From Hell

The Essential Ron Howard
1. Apollo 13
2. A Beautiful Mind
3. Cocoon
4. Backdraft
5. Splash

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Matt Damon
1. Good Will Hunting
2. The Talented Mr. Ripley
3. Dogma
4. The Bourne Identity
5. The Legend of Bagger Vance

The Essential Kim Basinger
1. L.A. Confidential
2. Batman
3. 91/2 Weeks
4. Never Say Never Again
5. I Dreamed of Africa

The Essential John Huston
1. The Maltese Falcon
2. The African Queen
3. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
4. Key Largo
5. The Asphalt Jungle

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Ben Affleck
1. Chasing Amy
2. Armageddon
3. Good Will Hunting
4. Daredevil
5. Pearl Harbor

The Essential Mira Sorvino
1. Mighty Aphrodite
2. Romy and Michelle's High Scool Reunion
3. Mimic
4. The Replacement Killers
5. At First Sight

The Essential Norman Jewison
1. In the Heat of the Night
2. Fiddler on the Roof
3. Moonstruck
4. The Thomas Crown Affair(1968)
5. The Hurricane

[Trinity]

The Essential Jodie Foster
1. Contact
2. The Silence of the Lambs
3. The Accused
4. Nell
5. Maverick

The Essential Catherine Zeta-Jones
1. Chicago
2. Traffic
3. Titanic (TV)
4. America's Sweethearts
5. High Fidelity

The Essential Kate Winslet
1. Heavenly Creatures
2. Jude
3. Titanic
4. Iris
5. Hamlet

The Essential Uma Thurman
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Gattaca
3. Dangerous Liaisons
4. The Truth About Cats And Dogs
5. The Final Analysis

The Essential Toni Collette
1. Muriel's Wedding
2. The Hours
3. Velvet Goldmine
4. The Sith Sense
5. About a Boy

The Essential Sandra Bullock
1. Miss Congeniality
2. 28 Days
3. Speed
4. Two Weeks Notice
5. The Net

The Essential Julia Roberts
1. Erin Brokovich
2. Steel Magnolias
3. My Best Friend's Wedding
4. Pretty Woman
5. The Mexican

The Essential Angelina Jolie
1. Gia
2. Girl, Interruped
3. Playing by Heart
4. Tomb Raider
5. Foxfire

The Essential Claire Danes
1. Romeo & Juliet
2. Little Women
3. Igby Goes Down
4. Les Miserables
5. The Hours

Essential Jennifer Lopez
1. U-Turn
2. Selena
3. The Cell
4. Out of Sight
5. Angel Eyes

The Essential Kirsten Dunst
1. The Virgin Suicides
2. Spider-man
3. Interview with a Vampire
4. Crazy/Beautiful
5. Drop Dead Gorgeous

The Essential Cameron Diaz
1. My Best Friend's Wedding
2. There's Something About Mary
3. Shrek
4. Being John Malkovich
5. Charlie's Angels

The Essential George Clooney
1. Oh Brother Where Art Thou
2. Solaris
3. Out of Sight
4. Ocean's Eleven
5. One Fine Day

The Essential Hugh Grant
1. Bridget Jones's Diary
2. About a Boy
3. Four Weddings and a Funeral
4. Nine Months
5. Two Weeks Notice

The Essential Jude Law
1. The Talented Mr. Ripley
2. A.I.: Artificail Intelligence
3. eXistenZ
4. Gattaca
5. Enemy at the Gates

The Essential Ryan Phillippe
1. Playing by Heart
2. Cruel Intentions
3. Gosford Park
4. Studio 54
5. Igby Goes Down

The Essential Tobey Maguire
1. The Ice Storm
2. The Cider House Rules
3. Spider-man
4. Pleansantville
5. Wonder Boys

The Essential Joaquin Phoenix
1. Gladiator
2. To Die For
3. Return to Paradise
4. Signs
5. Quills

The Essential Nicolas Cage
1. Adaptation
2. Leaving Las Vegas
3. Matchstick Men
4. Moonstruck
5. Honeymoon in Vegas

The Essential Robert Zemeckis
1. Contact
2. Back to the Future
3. Cast Away
4. Forrest Gump
5. Death Becomes Her

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Robin Williams
1. Dead Poets Society
2. Good Will Hunting
3. Mrs. Doubtfire
4. One Hour Photo
5. Good Morning, Vietnam

The Essential Kathleen Turner
1. The War of the Roses
2. Body Heat
3. Romancing the Stone
4. Serial Mom
5. Peggy Sue Got Married

The Essential Neil Jordan
1. The Crying Game
2. The End of the Affair
3. The Company of Wolves
4. Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
5. Michael Collins

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Robert Duvall
1. The Godfather
2. Tender Mercies
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Secondhand Lions
5. Falling Down

The Essential Drew Barrymore
1. Charlie's Angels
2. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
3. Ever After
4. The Wedding Singer
5. Riding in Cars with Boys

The Essential Elia Kazan
1. On the Waterfront
2. A Streetcar Named Desire
3. Gentleman's Agreement
4. East of Eden
5. A Face in the Crowd

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Martin Sheen
1. "The West Wing"
2. Badlands
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Gettysburg
5. The American President

The Essential Demi Moore
1. Ghost
2. G.I. Jane
3. Indecent Proposal
4. St. Elmo's Fire
5. Striptease

The Essential John Landis
1. Animal House
2. Trading Places
3. The Blues Brothers
4. An American Werewolf in London
5. Coming to America

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Ed Harris
1. Pollock
2. The Truman Show
3. The Rock
4. Enemy at the Gates
5. The Abyss

The Essential Katie Holmes
1. Wonder Boys
2. Go
3. The Gift
4. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
5. Abandon

The Essential Fritz Lang
1. Metropolis
2. M
3. Dr. Mabuse
4. Man Hunt
5. Siegfried

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Gabriel Byrne
1. Miller's Crossing
2. The Usual Suspects
3. The Man in the Iron Mask
4. End of Days
5. Ghost Ship

The Essential Rachel Weisz
1. About a Boy
2. The Mummy
3. Confidence
4. Enemy at the Gates
5. The Mummy Returns

The Essential Spike Lee
1. Do the Right Thing
2. Malcolm X
3. 25th Hour
4. Clockers
5. Summer of Sam

[Puck Bond]

The Essential John Wayne
1. Stagecoach
2. The Quiet Man
3. The Searchers
4. True Grit
5. Sands of Iwo Jima

The Essential Monica Bellucci
1. Malena
2. Irreversible
3. Tears of the Sun
4. The Matrix Reloaded
5. Brotherhood of the Wolf

The Essential Barry Levinson
1. Rain Man
2. Bugsy
3. The Natural
4. Bandits
5. Wag the Dog

[Hannibal21]

The Essential John Cusack:
1. Say Anything
2. High Fidelity
3. Better Off Dead
4. Eight Men Out
5. Grosse Pointe Blank

The Essential James Caan:
1. The Godfather
2. Misery
3. Rollerball
4. Thief
5. Dogville

The Essential Reese Witherspoon:
1. Election
2. Pleasantville
3. Legally Blonde
4. Cruel Intentions
5. Vanity Fair

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Tony Curtis:
1. Some Like it Hot
2. Sweet Smell of Success
3. Spartacus
4. The Defiant Ones
5. Operation Petticoat

The Essential Faye Dunaway:
1. Chinatown
2. Bonnie and Clyde
3. Network
4. The Thomas Crown Affair
5. Little Big Man

[Hannibal21]

The Essential George C. Scott:
1. Patton
2. Dr. Strangelove
3. The Hustler
4. Anatomy of a Murder
5. The Changeling

The Essential Janet Leigh:
1. Psycho
2. The Manchurian Candidate
3. Touch of Evil
4. The Fog
5. Bye Bye Birdie

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Woody Allen:
1. Manhattan
2. Annie Hall
3. Hannah and Her Sisters
4. Radio Days
5. Everyone Says I Love You

The Essential Drew Barrymore:
1. Poison Ivy
2. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
3. Scream
4. Everyone Says I Love You
5. Firestarter

The Essential Richard Dreyfuss:
1. Jaws
2. American Graffiti
3. The Goodbye Girl
4. Always
5. The American President

[Puck Bond]

Originally posted by Hannibal21
[BI have GOT to see Close Encounters of the Third Kind. [/B]

:eek:This statement is blasphemous!!! How can you not have scene this classic?!?!:eek:

Hanbone you didn't respond to my offer?! Check the previous page...hehe

The Essential Alec Baldwin
1. Glengarry Glen Ross
2. The Hunt for Red October
3. Malice
4. Beetlejuice
5. Talk Radio

The Essential Jennifer Love Hewitt
1. I Know What You Did Last Summer
2. Heartbreakers
3. Can't Hardly Wait
4. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
5. The Tuxedo

The Essential Sidney Lumet
1. 12 Angry Men
2. Network
3. Dog Day Afternoon
4. Serpico
5. The Verdict

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Sam Neill
1. The Piano
2. Jurassic Park
3. Event Horizon
4. The Dish
5. The Hunt for Red October

The Essential Sarah Michelle Gellar
1. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
2. Cruel Intentions
3. Simply Irresistible
4. Scooby-Doo
5. Harvard Man

The Essential David Lynch
1. Blue Velvet
2. The Elephant Man
3. Mulholland Dr.
4. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
5. The Straight Story

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Vince Vaughn
1. Swingers
2. Old School
3. Psycho(1998)
4. Made
5. The Cell

The Essential Claire Danes
1. "My So-Called Life"
2. Romeo + Juliet
3. Igby Goes Down
4. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
5. Princess Mononoke

The Essential Michael Mann
1. The Insider
2. Heat
3. The Last of the Mohicans
4. Ali
5. Manhunter

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Charlton Heston
1. Ben-Hur(1959)
2. Planet of the Apes(1968)
3. The Ten Commandments(1956)
4. A Man for All Seasons
5. Soylent Green

The Essential Juliette Binoche
1. The English Patient
2. Three Colors Trilogy
3. Chocolat
4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
5. The Widow of Saint-Pierre

The Essential F.W. Murnau
1. Nosferatu
2. Sunrise
3. Faust
4. The Last Laugh

[Puck Bond]

The Essential William Holden
1. Sunset Blvd.
2. Stalag 17
3. The Bridge on the River Kwai
4. The Wild Bunch
5. Network

The Essential Ava Gardner
1. The Barefoot Contessa
2. Mogambo
3. On the Beach
4. Show Boat
5. The Night of the Iguana

The Essential Mike Nichols
1. The Graduate
2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
3. Working Girl
4. Carnal Knowledge
5. Primary Colors

[Puck Bond]

The Essential River Phoenix
1. Running on Empty
2. Stand by Me
3. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
4. My Own Private Idaho
5. Explorers

The Essential Sharon Stone
1. Basic Instinct
2. Casino
3. The Muse
4. Sliver
5. Total Recall

The Essential Paul Anderson
1. Resident Evil
2. Event Horizon
3. Mortal Kombat
4. Soldier

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Liam Neeson
1. Schindler's List
2. Rob Roy
3. Darkman
4. Star wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace
5. Les Miserables

The Essential Salma Hayek
1. Frida
2. Desperado
3. Dogma
4. Wild Wild West
5. From Dusk Til Dawn

The Essential George Lucas
1. Star Wars
2. American Graffiti
3. Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace
4. THX 1138
5. Star Wars Episode II-Attack of the Clones

[Hannibal21]

Originally posted by Puck Bond
Hehe Hannibal....its not a race to see who can make more of these...just a little competitive fun...I feel silly sometimes just putting down multiple posts in one thread by myself...good to have you a long to keep up! Hey we should make a book...call it "The Essential"...with all the stars we've done and 5 movies for each...actors and directors alike...a review of the film and why its essential for that person!

Hehe....that would work. But I'm not so used to writing reviews, I only post reviews on the films that I truly adore, hey man maybe you could give me some tips on how to write a good review, cause I always love to read yours. :)

The Essential Sidney Lumet:
1. Network
2. 12 Angry Men
3. Dog Day Afternoon
4. Serpico
5. The Verdict

The Essential Sharon Stone:
1. Casino
2. Basic Instinct
3. The Muse
4. Total Recall
5. Sliver

The Essential Jude Law:
1. Wilde
2. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
3. The Talented Mr. Ripley
4. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
5. Road to Perdition

[Hannibal21]

Originally posted by Puck Bond
:eek:This statement is blasphemous!!! How can you not have scene this classic?!?!:eek:

Out of all the Spielberg movies I've seen, I loved, I just regret the fact that I still haven't seen this one. :( Someday.....I will definitely see it.

The Essential Talia Shire:
1. The Godfather Part II
2. The Godfather
3. Rocky
4. The Godfather Part III
5. New York Stories

The Essential Jon Voight:
1. Midnight Cowboy
2. Deliverance
3. Coming Home
4. Rosewood
5. The Champ

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Natalie Wood:
1. Splendor in the Grass
2. Rebel Without a Cause
3. West Side Story
4. The Searchers
5. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

The Essential Karl Malden:
1. On the Waterfront
2. A Streetcar Named Desire
3. One-Eyed Jacks
4. Patton
5. The Cincinnati Kid

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Deborah Kerr:
1. Black Narcissus
2. From Here to Eternity
3. The Night of the Iguana
4. The King and I
5. An Affair to Remember

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Montgomery Clift:
1. From Here to Eternity
2. A Place in the Sun
3. The Search
4. The Heiress
5. Red River

The Essential Greta Garbo:
1. Ninotchka
2. Camille
3. Anna Christie
4. Grand Hotel
5. Anna Karenina

The Essential Joseph L. Mankiewicz:
1. All About Eve
2. A Letter to Three Wives
3. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
4. The Barefoot Contessa
5. Suddenly, Last Summer

The Essential Gene Tierney:
1. Leave Her To Heaven
2. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
3. Laura
4. The Razor's Edge
5. Night and the City

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Anthony Hopkins:
1. The Silence of the Lambs
2. The Remains of the Day
3. The Elephant Man
4. Shadowlands
5. Howard's End

The Essential Sally Field:
1. Norma Rae
2. Steel Magnolias
3. Places in the Heart
4. Smokey and the Bandit
5. Absence of Malice

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Leslie Howard:
1. Pygmalion
2. Of Human Bondage
3. The Petrified Forest
4. Gone with the Wind
5. Intermezzo

The Essential George Cukor:
1. Gaslight
2. The Philadelphia Story
3. Adam's Rib
4. The Women
5. A Star is Born

[Puck Bond]

Thanks for the kind words Hanbone, but I still think my reviews need a lot of work myself! Anyway back to essential madness!

The Essential Ben Kingsley
1. Gandhi
2. Sexy Beast
3. Schindler's List
4. Sneakers
5. Tuck Everlasting

The Essential Joan Crawford
1. Mildred Pierce
2. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
3. Sudden Fear
4. The Gorgeous Hussy
5. Johnny Guitar

The Essential Roland Emmerich
1. Independence Day
2. The Patriot
3. Stargate
4. Godzilla(1998)
5. Universal Soldier

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Jon Voight
1. Midnight Cowboy
2. Deliverance
3. Coming Home
4. Ali
5. Runaway Train

The Essential Rita Hayworth
1. Gilda
2. Separate Tables
3. The Lady from Shanghai
4. Tales of Manhattan
5. The Strawberry Blonde

The Essential Christopher Nolan
1. Memento
2. Insomnia
3. Following

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Billy Bob Thornton
1. Sling Blade
2. The Man Who Wasn't There
3. Bandits
4. Monster's Ball
5. A Simple Plan

The Essential Greta Garbo
1. Grand Hotel
2. Ninotchka
3. Camille
4. Anna Karenina
5. The Kiss

The Essential Wolfgang Petersen
1. Das Boot
2. The Perfect STorm
3. Air Force One
4. In the line of Fire
5. Outbreak

[Puck Bond]

The Essential James Gandolfini
1. "The Sopranos"
2. The Man Who Wasn't There
3. The Last Castle
4. The Mexican
5. True Romance

The Essential Joan Allen
1. The Contender
2. Nixon
3. Face/Off
4. Pleasantville
5. The Ice Storm

The Essential Sam Peckinpah
1. The Wild Bunch
2. Straw Dogs
3. The Getaway
4. Ride the High Country
5. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Donald Pleasance
1. Halloween
2. You Only Live Twice
3. The Great Escape
4. Escape from New York
5. The Eagle Has Landed

The Essential Judi Dench
1. Mrs. Brown
2. GoldenEye
3. Shakespeare in Love
4. Chocolat
5. The Shipping News

The Essential Roman Polanski
1. Chinatown
2. The Pianist
3. Rosemary's Baby
4. Frantic
5. The Ninth Gate

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Haley Joel Osment
1. The Sixth Sense
2. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
3. Pay It Forward
4. Secondhand Lions
5. Forrest Gump

The Essential Kate Beckinsale
1. Pearl Harbor
2. Underworld
3. Serendipity
4. Brokedown Palace
5. The Last Days of Disco

The Essential Clint Eastwood(Director...subject to change once I've seen Mystic River)
1. Unforgiven
2. The Outlaw Josey Wales
3. The Bridges of Madison County
4. Play Misty for Me
5. A Perfect World

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Thelma Ritter:
1. All About Eve
2. Rear Window
3. Pillow Talk
4. The Misfits
5. Titanic

The Essential Tom Hanks:
1. Toy Story 2
2. Toy Story
3. Philadelphia
4. The Terminal
5. Catch Me If You Can

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Barry Levinson:
1. Diner
2. Avalon
3. Bugsy
4. Rain Man
5. Wag the Dog

The Essential Sissy Spacek:
1. Carrie
2. Badlands
3. Coal Miner's Daughter
4. JFK
5. The Straight Story

The Essential Roman Polanski:
1. Chinatown
2. Rosemary's Baby
3. Tess
4. Macbeth
5. Knife in the Water

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Jennifer Lopez:
1. Out of Sight
2. The Cell
3. Selena
4. U-Turn
5. Angel Eyes

The Essential Morgan Freeman:
1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. Million Dollar Baby
3. Unforgiven
4. Glory
5. Se7en

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Nicolas Cage
1. Leaving Las Vegas
2. Adaptation.
3. Matchstick Men
4. The Rock
5. Bringing Out the Dead

The Essential Glenn Close
1. Fatal Attraction
2. 101 Dalmatians
3. Dangerous Liaisons
4. Air Force One
5. The Big Chill

The Essential Michael Curtiz
1. Casablanca
2. The Adventures of Robin Hood
3. Yankee Doodle Dandy
4. Mildred Pierce
5. Angels with Dirty Faces

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Kirk Douglas
1. Spartacus
2. Paths of Glory
3. The Vikings
4. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
5. Seven Days in May

The Essential Elizabeth Taylor
1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. Cleopatra
3. A Place in the Sun
4. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
5. Giant

The Essential Jean-Luc Godard
1. Breathless
2. Alphaville
3. Band of Outsiders
4. Week End
5. The Little Soldiers

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Burt Reynolds
1. Deliverance
2. Smokey and the Bandit
3. Boogie Nights
4. The Longest Yard
5. The Cannonball Run

The Essential Rebecca DeMornay
1. Risky Business
2. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
3. The Three Musketeers
4. Guilty As Sin
5. Identity

The Essential Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1. All About Eve
2. Cleopatra
3. The Barefoot Contessa
4. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
5. Sleuth

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Chris Cooper
1. Adaptation.
2. American Beauty
3. Lone Star
4. October Sky
5. Seabiscuit

The Essential Catherine Deneuve
1. Belle de Jour
2. Indochine
3. Tristana
4. 8 Women
5. The Musketeer

The Essential Sydney Pollack(Director)
1. Out of Africa
2. Tootsie
3. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
4. Three Days of the Condor
5. The Firm

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Denzel Washington
1. Malcolm X
2. Glory
3. Crimson Tide
4. Training Day
5. The Hurricane

The Essential Marlene Dietrich
1. Morocco
2. The Scarlet Empress
3. Shanghai Express
4. Witness for the Prosecution
5. Judgment at Nuremberg

The Essential Sam Raimi
1. Spider-Man
2. A Simple Plan
3. The Evil Dead
4. Darkman
5. The Gift

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Matthew Broderick
1. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
2. WarGames
3. Glory
4. Election
5. The Cable Guy

The Essential Sally Field
1. Norma Rae
2. Places in the Heart
3. Soapdish
4. Steel Magnolias
5. Eye for an Eye

The Essential Robert Redford(Director)
1. Ordinary People
2. Quiz Show
3. The Horse Whisperer
4. A River Runs Through It
5. The Legend of Bagger Vance

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Ewan McGregor
1. Trainspotting
2. Moulin Rouge!
3. Shallow Grave
4. Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom menace
5. Down with Love

The Essential Milla Jovovich
1. The Fifth Element
2. Resident Evil
3. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
4. Dazed and Confused
5. The Claim

The Essential Rob Reiner(Director)
1. Stand by Me
2. The Princess Bride
3. When Harry Met Sally...
4. The American President
5. This Is Spinal Tap

[RickySlade]

The Essential Quentin Tarantino (writer)

1. Jackie Brown - 10/10
2. Pulp Fiction - 10/10
3. Reservoir Dogs - 10/10
4. Kill Bill: Volume One - 10/10
5. True Romance - 8/10
6. Four Rooms - 7/10
7. Natural Born Killers - 6/10
8. From Dusk Till Dawn - 6/10

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Michael Curtiz:
1. Casablanca
2. Mildred Pierce
3. Yankee Doodle Dandy
4. Angels with Dirty Faces
5.

The Essential Kim Basinger:
1. L.A. Confidential
2. 9 1/2 Weeks
3. 8 Mile
4. Final Analysis
5. Batman

The Essential Denzel Washington:
1. Malcolm X
2. The Hurricane
3. Glory
4. Devil in a Blue Dress
5. Crimson Tide

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Agnes Moorehead:
1. The Magnificent Ambersons
2. Citizen Kane
3. Johnny Belinda
4. Since You Went Away
5. Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte

The Essential Gene Hackman:
1. The Conversation
2. Bonnie and Clyde
3. The French Connection
4. The Poseidon Adventure
5. Superman

The Essential Emily Watson:
1. Breaking the Waves
2. Hilary and Jackie
3. Punch-Drunk Love
4. Angela's Ashes
5. Red Dragon

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Daniel Day-Lewis:
1. My Left Foot
2. Gangs of New York
3. In the Name of the Father
4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
5. The Age of Innocence

The Essential Nick Stahl:
1. Bully
2. Sin City
3. In the Bedroom
4. The Man Without a Face
5. Terminator III: Rise of the Machines

The Essential Leo McCarey:
1. The Awful Truth
2. Duck Soup
3. Love Affair
4. Going My Way
5. The Bells of St. Mary's

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Clint Eastwood(Actor)
1. Dirty Harry
2. Unforgiven
3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
4. Escape from Alcatraz
5. Kelly's Heroes

The Essential Linda Fiorentino
1. The Last Seduction
2. Dogma
3. Where the Money Is
4. Men in Black
5. Jade

The Essential Jean Renoir
1. The Rules of the Game
2. La Grande Illusion
3. La Bete Humaine
4. La Marseillaise
5. The Elusive Corporal

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Richard Burton
1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
3. Cleopatra
4. Where Eagles Dare
5. Becket

The Essential Andie MacDowell
1. Four Weddings and a Funeral
2. Harrison's Flowers
3. Groundhog Day
4. Michael
5. Bad Girls

The Essential Kevin Reynolds
1. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
2. The Count of Monte Cristo
3. Waterworld
4. 187

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Robert Shaw
1. Jaws
2. The Sting
3. From Russia with Love
4. A Man for All Seasons
5. Battle of the Bulge

The Essential Carrie Fisher
1. Star Wars
2. Shampoo
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. The 'burbs
5. Return of the Jedi

The Essential Franklin J. Schaffner
1. Patton
2. Papillon
3. Planet of the Apes
4. The Boys from Brazil

[quoth_the_raven]

I will do something a little different with mine i think...


The Essential James Bond

1. From Russia with Love
2. Goldfinger
3. For your eyes only
4. Dr No
5. Tomorrow Never Dies



The Essential Vin Diesel...

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.


;):D

[syxxpac]

Originally posted by quoth_the_raven
The Essential Vin Diesel...

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.


;):D

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[quoth_the_raven]

i figured someone might appreciate that ;)

[syxxpac]

You figured correctly.

[quoth_the_raven]

Originally posted by syxxpac
You figured correctly.


i do keep saying i'm smarter than i let on ;)

[Puck Bond]

Hehe quoth! Good one!(Though your Bond list has issues)

The Essential Richard Dreyfuss
1. Jaws
2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
3. American Graffiti
4. The Goodbye Girl
5. Mr. Holland's Opus

The Essential Bridget Fonda
1. Single White Female
2. Point of No Return
3. It Could Happen to You
4. Jackie Brown
5. Singles

The Essential John Schlesinger
1. Midnight Cowboy
2. Marathon Man
3. The Falcon and the Snowman
4. The Day of the Locust
5. Sunday Bloody Sunday

[quoth_the_raven]

Originally posted by Puck Bond
[B]Hehe quoth! Good one!(Though your Bond list has issues)

]



actually, i disagree. those are probably the best films for a real newcomer. if someone sees that list, and now goes to watch those movies, they would be as hooked as you and i.

what issues were you thinking of?

[Grebdron]

Originally posted by quoth_the_raven
what issues were you thinking of?

That you like Bond films, obviously.

[Puck Bond]

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
What Grebdron said...




















...bastard ain't he?

Personally I'd pick The Spy Who Loved Me and GoldenEye over For Your Eyes Only and Tomorrow Never Dies....to each his own though.

The Essential Steve Buscemi
1. Trees Lounge
2. Ghost World
3. Fargo
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. Con Air

The Essential Janeane Garofalo
1. The MatchMaker
2. The Minus Man
3. The Truth About Cats & Dogs
4. Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion
5. Reality Bites

The Essential Joel Schumacher
1. The Lost Boys
2. Tigerland
3. Phonebooth
4. Batman Forever
5. A Time to Kill

[quoth_the_raven]

Originally posted by Puck Bond
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
What Grebdron said...

...bastard ain't he?

Personally I'd pick The Spy Who Loved Me and GoldenEye over For Your Eyes Only and Tomorrow Never Dies....to each his own though.





actually i'd say greb is the person on this site that makes the most sense, to me anyway. 99% of the time. he just needs to be educated in the noble tradition of Mr Bond. ;)

just to reason out my choices, i like For your eyes only, i like the whole tone of it. its a far more subtle movie than some of the other Moore movies. it hits a different kind of level, one that worked for me. the spy who loved me is probably the next in line. as for goldeneye and tomorrow never dies....TND has one of the best villains, period. again, it was closely run, but carver swung me around.

love your Steve Buscemi list by the way ;)

[Puck Bond]

lol quoth you bugga...the main reason I consider TND Brosnan's worst Bond film is because of Carver!...I like Jonathan Pryce but thought he was way to comical and over the top as a villian.

But yeah Greb needs a serious spankin'....I mean teaching on the "nobleness"(I like that) of Bond!

The Essential Peter O'Toole
1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. The Lion in Winter
3. My Favorite Year
4. The Ruling Class
5. King Ralph

The Essential Gina Gershon
1. Bound
2. Face/Off
3. The Insider
4. Palmetto
5. Out for Justice

The Essential Tony Scott
1. True Romance
2. Top Gun
3. Crimson Tide
4. Enemy of the State
5. Days of Thunder

[Puck Bond]

The Essential Anthony Hopkins
1. The Silence of the Lambs
2. The Remains of the Day
3. Nixon
4. Howards End
5. Shadowlands

The Essential Pam Grier
1. Foxy Brown
2. Coffy
3. Jackie Brown
4. Above the Law
5. Ghosts of Mars

The Esssential Bryan Singer
1. The Usual Suspects
2. X-Men
3. X2
4. Apt Pupil

[Hannibal21]

The Essential John Frankenheimer:
1. The Manchurian Candidate
2. Seconds
3. Seven Days in May
4. Ronin
5. Andersonville

The Essential Mike Nichols:
1. The Graduate
2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
3. Working Girl
4. Silkwood
5. Wolf

The Essential Robert Duvall:
1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather Part II
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Network
5. The Great Santini

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Michael Keaton:
1. Clean and Sober
2. Batman Returns
3. Batman
4. Beetlejuice
5. My Life

The Essential John Travolta: (pre Battlefield Earth, of course)
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Saturday Night Fever
3. Carrie
4. Face/Off

The Essential Kevin Bacon:
1. Murder in the First
2. A Few Good Men
3. Sleepers
4. Footloose
5. Apollo 13

[Hannibal21]

The Essential Charles Boyer:
1. Gaslight
2. Love Affair
3. Algiers
4. All This, and Heaven Too
5. Conquest

The Essential Judi Dench:
1. Iris
2. Shakespeare in Love
3. Mrs. Brown
4. Chocolat
5. The James Bond movies

The Essential Josh Hartnett:
1. O
2. Black Hawk Down
3. The Faculty
4. Halloween: H20
5. Pearl Harbor

[bankholdup]

speedbump.

[SAI]

The Essential...

Francois Ozon
5 X 2
Swimming Pool
8 Women
Criminal Lovers
Sitcom

Jennifer Jason Leigh
Rush
eXistenZ
Short Cuts
Single White Female
Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Cameron Crowe
Almost Famous: DC
Say Anything
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Jerry Maguire
Singles

[Trinity]

I'll just do the essentials for my three favorite actresses ( I don't think I did them before, though I could be wrong - but this thread's too long to check).

Gene Tierney
1. Laura
2. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
3. The Razor's Edge
4. Leave Her to Heaven
5. The Shanghai Gesture

Myrna Loy
1. The Thin Man
2. The Best Years of Our Lives
3. Libeled Lady
4. Test Pilot
5. Love Me Tonight

Carole Lombard
1. My Man Godfrey
2. Hands Across the Table
3. To Be Or Not To Be
4. Nothing Sacred
5. In Name Only

[bigred760]

The Essential Steven Spielberg
-Jaws
-Raiders of the Lost Ark
-Saving Private Ryan
-Schindler's List
-Jurassic Park

The Essential Clint Eastwood
-The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
-The Outlaw Josey Wales
-Unforgiven
-Million Dollar Baby
-Dirty Harry

The Essential Akira Kurosawa
-Seven Samurai
-Yojimbo
-Ran
-Ikiru
-Rashomon

[zeppelin]

Going not necessarily by "best of," but more by what movies/roles I think define the person:

The Essential Robin Williams:
1. Good Morning, Vietnam
2. Mrs. Doubtfire
3. The Fisher King
4. Aladdin
5. Good Will Hunting

The Essential Marx Brothers:
1. Duck Soup
2. A Night at the Opera
3. Animal Crackers
4. Horse Feathers
5. A Day at the Races

The Essential Woody Allen:
1. Manhattan
2. Annie Hall
3. Hannah and Her Sisters
4. Broadway Danny Rose
5. Love and Death

[jason statham]

My favourite actors/directors that havent been mentioned :

The essential Robert Carlyle :
1. Trainspotting
2. Face
3. The full monty
4. Riff Raff

The essential Ray Winstone :
1. The war zone
2. Nil by mouth
3. Scum
4. face

The essential Pedro Almodovar :
1. Talk to her
2. All about my mother
3. Live flesh
4. Tie me up, tie me down

The essential James Cagney :
1. White Heat
2. Angels with dirty faces
3. The Roaring twenties
4. The public enemy

[Gian-Sergio]

The Essential Robert De Niro
1.Once Upon A Time In America
2.Raging Bull
3.Taxi Driver
4.The Godfather Part II
5.The King Of Comedy

The Essential Sergio Leone
1.Once Upon A Time In America
2.The Good The Bad and The Ugly
3.Once Upon A Time In The West
4.A Fistful Of Dynamite
5.For A Few Dollars More

The Essential Martin Scorsese
1.Raging Bull
2.GoodFellas
3.Taxi Driver
4.The Aviator
5.Casino

The Essential Stanley Kubrick
1.2001:A Space Odyssey
2.Dr.Strangelove Or:How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb
3.Barry Lyndon
4.A Clockwork Orange
5.Eyes Wide Shut

The Essential Gangster Films
1.Once Upon A Time In America
2.The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
3.GoodFellas
4.City Of God
5.Scarface

The Essential Foreign Films
1.The Seven Samurai
2.La Dolce Vita
3.Andrei Rublev
4.The Battle Of Algiers
5.Amores Perros

[Gian-Sergio]

The Essential Classic American Films
1.The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
2.Citizen Kane
3.Schindler's List
4.2001:A Space Odyssey
5.Casablanca
6.Raging Bull
7.Gone With The Wind
8.Hoop Dreams
9.Vertigo
10.Pulp Fiction

[morricone]

Essential Jack Nicholson
01. Five Easy Pieces
02. Chinatown
03. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
04. The Shining
05. About Schmidt

Essential Stanley Kubrick
01. 2001: A Space Odyssey
02. A Clockwork Orange
03. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying...
04. Eyes Wide Shut
05. The Shining

Essential Akira Kurosawa
01. Ikiru
02. Seven Samurai
03. Kagemusha
04. Red Beard
05. Rashomon

[zeppelin]

I'm trying to think of really good people that haven't been mentioned yet...

The Essential Joseph Cotten:
1. The Third Man
2. Citizen Kane
3. Shadow of a Doubt
4. The Magnificent Ambersons
5. Gaslight

The Essential Anthony Hopkins:
1. The Silence of the Lambs
2. The Elephant Man
3. The Lion in Winter
4. Shadowlands
5. The Remains of the Day

The Essential Alec Guinness:
1. The Bridge on the River Kwai
2. Kind Hearts and Coronets
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. Star Wars
5. The Ladykillers

The Essential Michael Caine:
1. Alfie
2. Hannah and Her Sisters
3. The Quiet American
4. Sleuth
5. The Cider House Rules

The Essential Max von Sydow:
1. The Seventh Seal
2. Shame
3. The Emigrants
4. The Exorcist
5. Hour of the Wolf

The Essential Sissy Spacek:
1. Coal Miner's Daughter
2. Badlands
3. In the Bedroom
4. Carrie
5. Missing

The Essential George C. Scott:
1. Patton
2. Dr. Strangelove
3. The Hustler
4. The Changeling
5. Anatomy of a Murder