The main selection criterion here, like always, is entertainment value - and for me, that's dictated by the craving for multiple viewings. I've watched almost all the movies here more than once; except for a few like Million Dollar Baby or A Beautiful Mind, where the ending or a sudden mid-movie revelation, while powerful, hindered the drive for a second attempt. The earliest movie on the list is a 1939 classic about a certain bogus wizard from Oz, and the most recent, a very relevant sci-fi horror from 2017.
And alas, after 10 years of blogging, this may be my last entry. I've posted reviews on nearly 1,600 films, and finally, it may be time to move on. When you sometimes don't even remember whether you've seen a movie, and you have to use your blog's search feature to check if you have ... maybe you've watched way too many.
Any crazy omissions? Fill me in. Maybe it'll be the first (and likely last) time you'll comment on Mo-View.
THE LIST:
Paul Thomas Anderson
Boogie Nights (1997), There Will Be Blood (2007)
Luc Besson
Léon: The Professional (1994)
Joon-ho Bong
Snowpiercer (2013)
Tim Burton
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
James Cameron
Aliens (1986), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Titanic (1997), Avatar (2009)
Frank Capra
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather (1972), The Godfather: Part II (1974)
David Cronenberg
Scanners (1981), A History of Violence (2005)
Alfonso Cuarón
Gravity (2013)
Frank Darabont
The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Green Mile (1999)
Brian De Palma
Scarface (1983), The Untouchables (1987)
Richard Donner
The Omen (1976), Superman (1978)
Clint Eastwood
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Asghar Farhadi
About Elly (2009), A Separation (2011)
David Fincher
Se7en (1995)
Victor Fleming
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Milos Forman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Amadeus (1984), Man on the Moon (1999)
William Friedkin
The Exorcist (1973)
Mel Gibson
Braveheart (1995)
Guy Hamilton
Goldfinger (1964)
Alfred Hitchcock
Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963)
Ron Howard
A Beautiful Mind (2001), Willow (1988)
Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Irvin Kirshner
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Stanley Kubrick
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Shining (1980), Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Akira Kurosawa
The Seven Samurai (1954), Rashomon (1950)
John Landis
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
John Lasseter
Toy Story (1995)
David Lean
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Sergio Leone
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Richard Linklater
Before Sunset (2004), Before Midnight (2013)
George Lucas
Star Wars (1977), Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Sidney Lumet
12 Angry Men (1957), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
David Lynch
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), Mulholland Drive (2001)
Richard Marquand
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983)
John McTiernan
Predator (1987), Die Hard (1988)
Nicholas Meyer
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Christopher Nolan
The Dark Knight (2008), Inception (2010), Interstellar (2014), Dunkirk (2017)
Jordan Peele
Get Out (2017)
Sam Raimi
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Rob Reiner
Misery (1990), A Few Good Men (1992)
Martin Scorsese
Taxi Driver (1976), Goodfellas (1990), Cape Fear (1991), Gangs of New York (2002)
Ridley Scott
Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Prometheus (2012)
M. Night Shyamalan
The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable (2000)
Steven Spielberg
Jaws (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Jurassic Park (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Minority Report (2002).
Oliver Stone
JFK (1991)
Quentin Tarantino
Pulp Fiction (1994), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Giuseppe Tornatore
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
The Lives of Others (2006)
Lars von Trier
Breaking the Waves (1996), Melancholia (2011)
Robert Zemeckis
Back to the Future (1985), Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988), The Walk (2015)
