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52 Weeks, 52 Directors 2025

Hosted by the great Doodlebarb, Smacklesmores, and Tom Saunders.
Concept is pretty simple our host has picked out 52 Directors that In some way has shaped cinema or has an important film in culture.

Each Director is listed in the notes.
If you’ve seen every film from a director just substitute them with someone else important.

Week 21 Frank Capra is subbing Christopher Nolan.
Week 48 Billy Wilder is subbing Brad Bird

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  • The Abyss

    1

  • Rosemary's Baby

    2

  • The Last of the Mohicans

    3

  • Oldboy

    4

  • Punch-Drunk Love

    5

  • Seven Samurai

    6

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

    7

  • Gran Torino

    8

  • Almost Famous

    9

  • Malignant

    10

  • Mulholland Drive

    11

  • Spartacus

    12

  • School of Rock

    13

  • Hook

    14

  • Little Women

    15

  • Naked

    16

  • Frankenweenie

    17

  • Chungking Express

    18

  • Requiem for a Dream

    19

  • Harakiri

    20

  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

    21

  • Red Eye

    22

  • Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

    23

  • Carrie

    24

  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    25

  • Suspiria

    26

  • Sorcerer

    27

  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

    28

  • Midnight in Paris

    29

  • Melancholia

    30

  • Kingdom of Heaven

    31

  • Pan's Labyrinth

    32

  • Network

    33

  • Incendies

    34

  • The Outsiders

    35

  • Point Break

    36

  • Live by Night

    37

  • Rush

    38

  • Here

    39

  • Panic Room

    40

  • A Fistful of Dollars

    41

  • Road to Perdition

    42

  • The Thing

    43

  • Girl, Interrupted

    44

  • Memories of Murder

    45

  • Vertigo

    46

  • After Hours

    47

  • Some Like It Hot

    48

  • Hot Fuzz

    49

  • My Neighbor Totoro

    50

  • Inside Llewyn Davis

    51

  • Do the Right Thing

    52