Taking as a starting point 1992, the year that marked his film debut with Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino set out to make a list of the twenty best films, according to his particular vision of cinema.
The filmmaker reviewed the last 17 years of world cinema, choosing a lot of Asian, genre and action films. This is how masterpieces appear like Audition, by his friend Takashi Miike; Boogie Nights, by his compatriot Paul Thomas Anderson; the successful The Matrix, and the experimental Dogville and Lost In Translation, by Lars Von Trier and Sofia Coppola.
Reading the list you can see the huge influence of asian action cinema, at the same time that various Tarantino titles are understood.
What films of the time would you add or replace in those selected by Tarantino?
The complete list is as follows:
1- Battle Royale, by Kinji Fukasaku
2- Anything Else, by Woody Allen
3- Audition, by Takashi Miike
4- The Blade, by Tsui Hark
5- Boogie Nights: Pleasure Games, by Paul Thomas Anderson
6- Dazed & Confused, by Richard Linklater
7- Dogville, by Lars Von Trier
8- Fight Club, by David Fincher
9- Friday, by F. Gary Gray
10- The Host, by Bong Joon-ho
11- The Insider, by Michael Mann
12- Joint Security Area, by Park Chan-wook
13- Lost In Translation, by Sofia Coppola
14- The Matrix, by the Wachowski brothers
15- Memories of Murder, by Bong Joon-ho
16- Police Story 3, by Stanley Tong
17- Shaun of the Dead, by Edgar Wright
18- Speed, by Jan De Bont
19- Team America: World Police, by Trey Parker and Matt Stone
20- Unbreakable, by M. Night Shyamalan