The Favorite Directors Blogathon

Since I had so much fun with Hitchcock, I'm going to plow on. Each month I'll spotlight the work of a favorite film artist. In cases where he has many films to his name (usually 20 or more), I'll do a "top" list which ranks his very best. In cases where he has few (usually 10 or less), I'll do a "full" list which ranks all of them from best to worst. As with Hitchcock, my rankings won't kow-tow to critical consensus or wide opinion; this exercise will be narcissistic to the core.

Here are my favorite film directors, and what I have planned for them. I encourage other bloggers to write up their own lists, and I already know one sharp cinephile waiting in the wings: Carson Lund, who drops in occasionally, and whose critical acumen always inspires.

July -- Alfred Hitchcock. The Top 10 (out of 53).

August -- David Lynch. The Full 10.

September -- Ingmar Bergman. The 22 (out of 45) that I've seen.

October -- Stanley Kubrick. The Full 10 (from Paths of Glory and beyond).

November -- William Friedkin. The Top 10 (out of 20).

December -- Terrence Malick. The Full 5.

January -- David Cronenberg. The Top 10 (out of 20).

UPDATE: See what Jake Cole has in store.