Quentin Tarantino is a filmmaker. He's also a movie lover.
Beside making his own movies, there's nothing he likes more than talk about other movies. And make lists of those he especially liked.
So here's a few.
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Original Posted By Q.T.
Note: Movies are ranked only if Tarantino ranked them.
For example, in "Tarantino's Top 20 Movies He Admires The Most Since He Became a Director", only the first movie is rank because "it is actually my favorite movie that has come out in the last seventeen years. For all the others ones, I can't rate them, I can't judge them as 2, 3, 4, etc so I just made them all up above and all" (Q.Tarantino)
Tarantino's Top 12 from Sight & Sound Top 10 Poll (2002):
Spoiler for list:
1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
2. Rio Bravo (1959)
3. Taxi Driver (1976)
4. His Girl Friday (1940)
5. Rolling Thunder (1977)
6. They All Laughed (1981)
7. The Great Escape (1963)
8. Carrie (1976)
9. Coffy (1973)
10. Dazed and Confused (1993)
11. Tian xia di yi quan (1972) aka Five Fingers of Death
12. Hi Diddle Diddle (1943) aka Diamonds and Crime
Tarantino's Top 10 from The Independant (June 2005):
Spoiler for list:
1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
2. Rio Bravo (1959)
3. Taxi Driver (1976)
4. His Girl Friday (1940)
5. Rolling Thunder (1977)
6. They All Laughed (1981)
7. The Great Escape (1963)
8. Carrie (1976)
9. Coffy (1973)
10. Tian xia di yi quan (1972) aka Five Fingers of Death
Tarantino's Coolest Movies of All Time From Wensley Clarkson's Tarantino - The Man, the Myths and His Movies book (September 2007):
Spoiler for list:
1. Rio Bravo (1959)
2. Taxi Driver (1976)
3. Blow Out (1981)
One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
Breathless (1983)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Rolling Thunder (1977)
Badlands (1973)
Casualties of War (1989)
Used Cars (1980)
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Dip huet seung hung (1989) aka the Killer
The Driver (1978)
Blood Simple (1984)
The Long Good Friday (1980)
Mona Lisa (1986)
The Hit (1984)
The Killers (1964)
Comfort and Joy (1984)
Local Hero (1983)
Petit soldat, Le (1963) aka The Little Soldier
Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux (1962) aka My Life to Live