Guillermo del Toro

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Barry Lyndon

Alternative title: The Shining

GoodFellas

Alternative title: Taxi Driver

City Lights

Alternative title: Modern Times

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Alternative title: Duel

Frankenstein

Alternative title: Bride of Frankenstein

8½

Alternative title: Amarcord

NAZARÍN

Alternative title: Los olvidados

No Country for Old Men

Alternative title: A Serious Man

Shadow of a Doubt

Alternative title: The Birds

The Magnificent Ambersons

Alternative title: Touch of Evil

Further remarks

Top Tens are impossible, yes – but they are revealing. They tell you were you are at that precise moment in your film life. As I compiled this list with solemn commitment, many alternate titles came and went: Greed, Sunrise, Great Expectations, Children of Men, High and Low, The General, All That Heaven Allows, Mad Max 2, Singin’ in the Rain, Eyes Without a Face, Freaks, The Unknown, Birdman, La Chienne, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, etc etc, and of course this list matters to no one but myself.

That said, I decided to just try it once, jot it all down and list one alternative title for each director's work. Even this proved difficult, but here they are. Ask me again on Friday and I'll give you a different list.