Saturday, January 03, 2015

MOST-WATCHED DIRECTORS OF 2014

IN MY "ULTRA-FANDANGO MIND-BENDING FLICKERS PROJECT 2014" OVER AT MY LETTERBOXD.COM, I KEPT TRACK OF ALL THE MOVIES I WATCHED IN 2014.  This way I can also see which directors I watched the most last year.  In first place with the most movies watched with six movies:

ROY WARD BAKER
(AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS, DR JEKYLL & SISTER HYDE, DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK, THE MONSTER CLUB, THE SKULL, VAULT OF HORROR . . . and 7 if you count the MST3K version of MOON ZERO TWO!!!)
 
In second place with 5 movies watched each is a 3-way tie:
ROGER CORMAN
(THE HAUNTED PALACE, HOUSE OF USHER, THE PIT & THE PENDULUM, THE RAVEN and THE TOMB OF LIGEIA)
 
 
QUENTIN TARANTINO
(DEATH PROOF, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, KILL BILL VOL. 1, KILL BILL VOL. 2 and PULP FICTION)
 
 
MICHAEL CURTIZ
(CASABLANCA, DODGE CITY, MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM, THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH & ESSEX and WE'RE NO ANGELS)
 
In second place with 4 movies watched apiece are:
JACQUES DEMY
(BAY OF ANGELS, LOLA, UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG and YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT)
 
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
(DIAL M FOR MURDER, MARNIE, REAR WINDOW and THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY)
 
MICHAEL POWELL
(A CANTERBURY TALE, EDGE OF THE WORLD, I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING and A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH)
 
 
In third place with 3 movies watched apiece are:  Terence Fisher, Edgar G. Ulmer, Emeric Pressberger (as Powell & Pressberger), John Ford, Lloyd Bacon,  Howard Hawks, Roy William Neill, Richard Donner, Charles Lamont and Spike Jonze.

   

1 comment:

Weaverman said...

Eclectic to say the least. I only bother to list movies seen for the first time now.