Quentin Tarantino’s all-time top 12 favorite movies

There are lists, and then there are lists. According to Sight & Sound (as read on The Playlist) a number of directors polled rank a number of really great movies among their top favorites again this year. You might remember our own exclusive list of Quentin’s favorite Spaghetti Westerns and our list of Quentin’s favorite grindhouse flicks. Quentin himself is a great fan of lists, you may find his annual lists as well as certain genre lists, and he has notoriously named top lists in interviews and magazine coverage. Here is an update in the form of Sight and Sound’s 2012 top 12 favorite movies according to Quentin Tarantino:

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) (Amazon.com)
• “Carrie” (1976, dir. Brian DePalma)
• “Dazed And Confused” (1993, dir. Richard Linklater) (Amazon.com)
• “The Great Escape” (1963, dir. John Sturges) (Amazon.com)
• “His Girl Friday” (1940, dir. Howard Hawks) (Amazon.com)
• “Jaws” (1975, dir. Steven Spielberg)
• “Pretty Maids All In A Row (1971, dir. Roger Vadim)
• “Rolling Thunder” (1977, dir. John Flynn) (Amazon.de)
• “Sorcerer” (1977, dir. William Friedkin) (Amazon.com)
• “Taxi Driver” (1976, dir. Martin Scorsese)

Ten years have passed since, and interestingly, we also have a list of Sight and Sound’s poll from 2002, which Quentin answered as follows (can you spot the differences?):

Top 12 from Sight & Sound Top 10 Poll 2002

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Leone)
• Rio Bravo (1959, Hawks)
• Taxi Driver (1976, Scorsese)
• His Girl Friday (1940, Hawks) (Amazon.com)
• Rolling Thunder (1977, Flynn) (Amazon.de)
• They All Laughed (1981, Bogdanovich) (Amazon.com)
• The Great Escape (1963, J. Sturges) (Amazon.com)
• Carrie (1976, De Palma)
• Coffy (1973, Hill)
• Dazed and Confused (1993, Linklater) (Amazon.com)
• Five Fingers of Death (1973, Chang)
• Hi Diddle Diddle (1943, Andrew L. Stone) (Amazon.com)

There are a few more of Quentin’s favorites lists, if you click here.