Paul Thomas Anderson’s favourite films

Paul Thomas Anderson’s favourite films:

• Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa – 1949)
• The Complete Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles – 1955)
• Popeye (Robert Altman – 1980)
• A Prarie Home Companion (Robert Altman – 2006)
• Network (Sidney Lumet – 1976)
• Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding – 1947)
• North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock – 1959)
• Ordinary People (Robert Redford – 1980)
• Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur – 1947)
• The Complete Jacques Tati
• Repo Man (Alex Cox – 1984)
• Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges – 1955)
• Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff – 2003)
• Baraka (Ron Fricke – 1993)
• The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler – 1946)
• The Black Stallion (Carroll Ballard – 1979)
• Bob Le Flameur (Jean-Pierre Melville – 1982)
• Breaking Away (Peter Yates – 1979)
• Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul – 2006)
• Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul – 2004)
• You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan – 2000)
• White Heat (Raoul Walsh – 1949)
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul – 2010)
• Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick – 1957)
• Secret Honor (Robert Altman – 1984)
• Cabin Fever (Eli Roth – 2003)
• Carefree (Mark Sandrich – 1938)
• Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier – 2000)
• The Dark Corner (Henry Hathaway – 1946)
• Dark Star (John Carpenter – 1974)
• Nashville (Robert Altman – 1975)
• This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner – 1984)
• Homicide (David Mamet – 1991)
• The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme – 1991)
• The Beatles: Help! (Richard Lester – 1965)
• The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles – 1948)
• The Killing (Stanley Kubrick – 1956)
• Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick – 1960)
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman – 1971)
• Meet the Parents (Jay Roach – 2000)
• Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme – 1980)
• Mystic River (Clint Eastwood – 2003)
• Destination Tokyo (Delmer Daves – 1943)
• Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick – 1964)
• The Earrings of Madame de… (Max Ophüls – 1953)
• Sid & Nancy (Alex Cox – 1986)
• Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe – 2000)
• East of Eden (Elia Kazan – 1955)
• Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick – 1999)
• The Gay Divorcee (Mark Sandrich – 1934)
• Giant (George Stevens – 1956)
• Grindhouse (Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez – 2007)
• Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino – 1994)
• Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese – 1980)
• Ted (Seth MacFarlane – 2012)
• The Ballad of Jack and Rose (Rebecca Miller – 2005)
• Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin – 2012)
• The Big Lebowski (The Coen Brothers – 1998)
• Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen – 1999)
• Speed (Jan de Bont – 1994)
• GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese – 1990)
• I’m Still Here (Casey Affleck – 2010)
• Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola – 2003)
• Moonlight (Barry Jenkins – 2016)
• A Quiet Place (John Krasinski – 2018)