FUN FRIDAYS – DIRECTOR’S FAVOURITE FILMS – PAUL VERHOEVEN

Hi Film Folk!

This week’s Film Doctor Fun Fridays are with legendary Basic Instinct and Robocop director Paul Verhoeven. You can’t get a better weekend film recommendation than from one of the leading minds in popular cinema. So buy them, rent them or just take a look at what influenced the man whose reputed worst film, Showgirls, became one of MGM’s top 20 all-time bestsellers!

Here is Paul’s list of favourite films:

1. La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 1960)

2. Ivan the Terrible, Part II (Eisenstein, 1958)

3. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)

4. Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1951)

5. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

6. The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1956)

7. La Règle du Jeu (Renoir, 1939)

8. Metropolis (Lang, 1927)

9. Los Olvidados (Buñuel, 1950)

10. Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1959)