What are your favorite movies directed by an actor/actress turned director?

Mystic River (i could list about 15 more from Eastwood)

Romance & Cigarettes

The Sopranos (Buscemi)

The Town

Braveheart

A Bronx Tale

Quiz Show

A Beautiful Mind

Easy Rider

Into the Wild

give me a minute to think of more

The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Key Largo, The African Queen, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, A Walk with Love and Death, The Man Who Would Be King and more ~ John Huston

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Jeremiah Johnson, The Way We Were, Tootsie and more ~ Sydney Pollack

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ~ Leonard Nimoy

Play Misty for Me and The Outlaw Josey Wales ~ Clint Eastwood

Tian Yu aka Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl ~ Joan Chen

Of Mice and Men ~ Gary Sinise (my favorite version!)

The Night of the Hunter ~ Charles Laughton

Can't Stop the Music ~ Nancy Walker

The Trouble with Angels ~ Ida Lupino

A Dog's Breakfast ~ David Hewlett

Gandhi ~ Richard Attenborough

Rocky ~ Sylvester Stallone

Hamlet ~ Laurence Olivier

Rage ~ George C. Scott

35 years ago my boss, who was also a movie lover, and I were discussing movies an Eastwood's name came up. My boss said that he thought Eastwood was limited as an actor. I said that I knew he would never play Hamlet, but that I thought he was some day going to be one of our most respected directors. My boss scoffed.

I have never seen a movie by Eastwood that I haven't loved. And only he could have made Gran Toreno and get me to watch it.

I think Ben Afflec is going to be in that same category. I knew that 10 minutes into Gone Baby Gone.Billy Bob Thornton has directed enough movies. He needs to do more.

Charles Laughton only directed one movie, but it's one of the greatest movies of all time.

I haven't seen any of the movies Jody Foster has directed, nor the movies made by Diane Keaton. Would like to.

Somebody mentioned the great John Huston, but he started his career a a screenwriter, turned to directing and then began acting. Another director turned actor was Donald Crisp.

I think, not sure, that Raoul Walsh started as an actor. He was on his way to a shoot and a jackrabbit ran in front of his car. I think he swerved to avoid it, wrecked, and one of his eyes got gouged out.So he turned to directing. He was a great director but two of his films are essential for any movie lover. The first is High Sierra. It's the movie that made Humphrey Bogart a star and had a plum role for the immortal Ida Lupino who became a great director.

The second is White Heat with James Cagney. But if you are going to see it, and you really should, you might want to watch Yankee Doodle Dandy first. Make sure you see it as it came out. Black and White.You won't believe it's the same actor.

I wish so much that I would have had a chance to see it in a theater. But it came out a few years before I was born. I've seen it twice in the last six months. I never miss a chance to see it. I don't any other actor, living or dead, could have played Cody Jarret.

Well, I do go on. Hope this helps.

I forgot Ron Howard. Ron Howard has never let me down. Wen I see a Ron Howard film I see it with high expectations. He has never let me down.

I would say so, yes. It's hard to distinguish the differences in my liking of Darren Aronofsky and Quentin Tarantino. The Fountain is probably my favorite film, and Kill Bill is up there. I don't really have a flat out favorite director, though, just ones that I really admire. BQ: Nope You really want Franco to win, huh? =p

Gran Torino

Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood.

Ben - Good Will Hunting. (I loved Gone Baby Gone, except he directed it and wasn't IN it.)

Clint - Gran Torino.

Clint Eastwood is the best example - "Million Dollar Baby"

also Anne Heche - "If These Walls Could Talk 2", one of my favs

didn't like Robert DeNiro's "The Good Shepherd", but it's not his fault, he didn't make the script worse

"Lost in translation" by Sofia Coppola

Ben Stiller's "Tropic Thunder" :]