I find that a filmmaker's taste in movies is usually a whole magnitude "artier", or less accessible, than his own work. Just look at Woody Allen's obsession with Bergman. Or Zack Snyder's love for Kubrick (several magnitudes in fact). Unless the filmmaker is already rather inaccessible, in which case he probably champions surprisingly mainstream fair, like Truffaut's love for Hitchcock, or David Lynch on Billy Wilder.
Del Toro's Criterion Top 10 seems like a logically arty step up, but then again, it would be difficult to choose anything from the Criterion vaults that isn't "arty":
"In compiling his top ten Criterions, Cronos director Guillermo del Toro had a hell of a time limiting himself. Del Toro humorously bemoaned the “unfair, arbitrary, and sadistic top ten practice,” so instead he decided on ties or rather, “thematic/authorial pairings.”
I must see The Spirit of the Beehive!
Del Toro's Criterion Top 10 seems like a logically arty step up, but then again, it would be difficult to choose anything from the Criterion vaults that isn't "arty":
"In compiling his top ten Criterions, Cronos director Guillermo del Toro had a hell of a time limiting himself. Del Toro humorously bemoaned the “unfair, arbitrary, and sadistic top ten practice,” so instead he decided on ties or rather, “thematic/authorial pairings.”
I must see The Spirit of the Beehive!
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