Nicholas Stoller directed the comedies Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek, and The Five-Year Engagement and was a writer and executive producer on The Muppets. While his list—which goes to eleven—tends toward some of the funnier films in the collection, Stoller’s top spot goes to a New Wave classic.
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The List
1
Alphaville
UnavailableJean-Luc Godard
1965
99 min
2
Rushmore
UnavailableWes Anderson
1998
93 min
3
Broadcast News
UnavailableJames L. Brooks
1987
133 min
4
Time Bandits
Terry Gilliam
1981
116 min
5
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
UnavailableTerry Jones
1979
94 min
6
The Ice Storm
UnavailableAng Lee
1997
113 min
7
Amarcord
Federico Fellini
1973
123 min
8
Scenes from a Marriage
Ingmar Bergman
1973
9
Paths of Glory
UnavailableStanley Kubrick
1957
88 min
10
Being John Malkovich
UnavailableSpike Jonze
1999
113 min
11
This Is Spinal Tap
UnavailableRob Reiner
1984
82 min