It's taken 2-months to complete my last 25 films list (
5 Directors, 5 Films (Part XIII)). There was a little bit of barrel scraping to complete some filmographies but some great discoveries too.
@mnkykungfu was right "I think you'll really like Empire of the Sun" and I really did but the other 4 Spielberg movies were probably some of his worst (aka least best). The Hitchcock movies were an uneven selection but I enjoyed them all, especially 'Dial M for Murder'. The David Lynch doc and 'Straight Story' were fantastic, his other 3 were almost physically painful to endure. The Scott films were mostly lacklustre but the best was actually one of his latest, 'The Last Duel'. The Kurosawa films suggest I need to explore more of his brilliant early, gritty, lower budget, non-Samurai stuff.
For the next 25 films I'm going with 5x5 I've watched already:
https://letterboxd.com/tm2yc/list/5-directors-5-films-part-xiv/ These are films I want to rewatch by famous directors because I love them but haven't reviewed them before, or films I hope are better than I remember. After the rather rum Spielberg selection on the last list, here are 5 to remind me how good he can be.
John Carpenter - I've reviewed all of JC's other films. I'm looking forward to seeing these again (except 'Dark Star').
Dark Star 1974
Elvis 1979
Escape from New York 1981
Starman 1984
Big Trouble in Little China 1986
Steven Spielberg - Some of my Spielberg favourites here but I've not seen Hook since I was nipper.
Hook 1991
A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2001
Munich 2005
War Horse 2011
Lincoln 2012
Martin Scorsese - Stone cold classics that I've not revisited in a while.
Raging Bull 1980
Cape Fear 1991
Casino 1995
Bringing Out the Dead 1999
The Wolf of Wall Street 2013
Woody Allen - Five of my favourite Allen movies. Hope they hold up.
Bananas 1971
Sleeper 1973
Manhattan 1979
Zelig 1983
The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985
Terry Gilliam - I love Gilliam when he's making stuff like these five.
Time Bandits 1981
The Fisher King 1991
Twelve Monkeys 1995
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998
Tideland 2005