I would give just about anything to be able to write my own personal top 10 list for The Criterion Collection website. Since I'm obviously unable to do that at this time, I spend the majority of my time fawning over other people's lists.

Steve Buscemi

• Billy Liar
• Brute Force
• The Honeymoon Killers
• Man Bites Dog
• My Own Private Idaho
• Salesman
• Short Cuts
• Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
• The Vanishing
• A Woman Under the Influence

John Lurie

• The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
• The Last Temptation of Christ
• Naked
• Burden of Dreams
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
• Fishing With John
• The Naked Kiss
• Opening Night
• The Pornographers
• The Wages of Fear

James Franco

• The Spirit of the Beehive
• Murmur of the Heart/Lacombe, Lucien
• My Own Private Idaho/Mala Noche
• A Woman Under the Influence/Opening Night
• The Battle of Algiers
• Salesman/Gimme Shelter
• L'Eclisse/L'Avventura
• Il Posto
• 3 Women/Secret Honor

Paul Morrissey

• Richard III
• The Third Man
• The Leopard
• The Thief of Baghdad
• The White Sheik
• The Scarlett Empress
• The Earrings of Madame de...
• Summertime
• Under the Volcano
• The Bank Dick

Ricky Jay

• The 39 Steps
• Children of Paradise
• F For Fake
• Seven Samurai
• The Lady Eve
• Secret Honor
• Oliver Twist
• Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
• I Know Where I'm Going!
• Night and the City

Nicholas Roeg

• L'Avventura
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
• Beauty and the Beast (1946)
• Wild Strawberries
• 8 1/2
• Children of Paradise
• Schizopolis
• Contempt
• Straw Dogs
• The Leopard

Patton Oswalt

• Hard Boiled
• George Washington
• Amarcord
• The Baron of Arizona
• Blast of Silence
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
• Gimme Shelter
• The Honeymoon Killers
• Slacker
• The Spirit of the Beehive

Leanne Shapton

• Withnail and I
• The Rules of the Game
• A Night To Remember
• Mike Leigh's Naked
• L'Avventura
• Masculin Féminin
• Mamma Roma
• 3 Women
• Rebecca
• My Life As A Dog

Rian Johnson

• 8 1/2
• Brazil
• F For Fake
• Amarcord
• Fanny and Alexander
• M. Hulot's Holiday
• Scenes From A Marriage
• The Third Man
• The Bad Sleep Well
• Down By Law

Joe Swanberg

• Hoop Dreams
• By Brakhage: An Anthology
• The Red Shoes
• Gimme Shelter
• The Harder They Come
• Two-Lane Blacktop
• Straw Dogs
• À Nos Amours
• The Double Life of Veronique
• Fishing With John

Sonic Youth

• Floating Weeds (also Early Spring, Late Autumn, The End of Summer)
• Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
• Masculin Feminin
• Double Suicide
• The Vanishing
• Mamma Roma
• Black Orpheus
• Ace in the Hole
• Night On Earth
• Fat Girl
• Days of Heaven

Richard Linklater

• Andrei Rublev
• Au Hasard Balthazar
• The Flowers of St. Francis
• Day of Wrath
• Tokyo Story
• The Last Temptation of Christ
• Unfaithfully Yours
• Fanny & Alexander (TV version)
• Pickpocket
• I Know Where I'm Going!