With my review of
'Darling' done, it's taken me over 3-months to get through
my last list of 25 films by 5 Directors. I think picking 20 subtitled films was a bit too much. I'm not always in the mood to concentrate that extra bit harder
.
Céline Sciamma,
Agnès Varda and
John Schlesinger are now my new favourite directors. It'll be no great surprise to many but Sciamma's
'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' is a modern masterpiece (
'Tomboy' too). I loved everything by Varda but her
'Faces Places' and
'Vagabond' were my favourites. Schlesinger's
'The Day of the Locust' blew my mind but
'Midnight Cowboy' and
'Marathon Man' are great too. I didn't positively love anything from
Mario Bava and
Jean-Luc Godard but I suppose
'Blood and Black Lace' and
'Band of Outsiders' would be my picks from them.
For my 8th 5x5 list of films I've never seen before (
https://letterboxd.com/tm2yc/list/5-directors-5-films-part-viii/) I'm going with:
Stanley Kubrick - I've watched all his other films multiple times but never seen these three. Plus two sequels to Kubrick movies. I plan to watch Kubrick's early short docs as well.
- Fear and Desire 1953
- Killer’s Kiss 1955
- Lolita 1962
- 2010 1984
- Doctor Sleep 2019
John Carpenter - The last 5 John Carpenter films I've never seen (including one he wrote). Hopefully there are some good movies in there.
- Eyes of Laura Mars 1978
- Someone’s Watching Me! 1978
- Memoirs of an Invisible Man 1992
- Body Bags 1993
- The Ward 2010
Ingmar Bergman - A more or less random selection of his more famous/acclaimed films.
- Through a Glass Darkly 1961
- Winter Light 1963
- Persona 1966
- Hour of the Wolf 1968
- Cries and Whispers 1972
Darren Aronofsky - I only really caught onto his work with 'The Wrestler', so I missed out on these other 5, which completes his filmography for me.
- Pi 1998
- Requiem for a Dream 2000
- The Fountain 2006
- Black Swan 2010
- Noah 2014
Francois Truffaut - Time to explore more of my Truffaut blu-ray boxset, plus I fancy seeing that 'Hitchcock/Truffaut' doc.
- Shoot the Piano Player 1960
- Jules and Jim 1962
- Day for Night 1973
- The Last Metro 1980
- Hitchcock/Truffaut 2015