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Considering the amount of work I don't put into this, I'm pretty happy that if you Google for "underrated directors", The Forager Blog is the number one result.

5x5 Favorites: Underrated Directors Edition

My 5 Favorite Philip Kaufman Movies

1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
2. The Right Stuff
3. The Wanderers
4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
5. Rising Sun

My 5 Favorite Fred Schepisi Movies

1. Six Degrees of Separation
2. Last Orders
3. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
4. The Russia House
5. Roxanne

My 5 Favorite John Boorman Movies

1. Where the Heart Is
2. Hope and Glory
3. Beyong Rangoon
4. Excalibur
5. The Tailor of Panama

My 5 Favorite Irvin Kershner Movies

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Loving
3. The Luck of Ginger Coffey
4. The Return of a Man Called Horse
5. Hoodlum Priest

My 5 Favorite Johnny To Movies

1. Running Out of Time
2. Throwdown
3. PTU
4. Where a Good Man Goes
5. The Mission

5x5 Favorites: Clint and Friends Edition

My 5 Favorite Clint Eastwood Peformances

1. A Perfect World
2. Unforgiven
3. Coogan's Bluff
4. The Bridges of Madison County
5. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

My 5 Favorite Clint Eastwood-Directed Movies

1. A Perfect World
2. Unforgiven
3. The Outlaw Josey Wales
4. High Plains Drifter
5. White Hunter Black Heart

My 5 Favorite Don Siegel Movies

1. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
2. Charley Varrick
3. Coogan's Bluff
4. The Killers
5. Madigan


My 5 Favorite Sergio Leone Movies

1. Once Upon a Time in the West
2. Once Upon a Time in America
3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
4. A Fistful of Dollars
5. A Fistful of Dynamite

5 Directors Clint Should Have Worked With (or Should Work With Now in the Case of 4 and 5)

1. Sam Peckinpah
2. Francois Truffaut
3. Howard Hawks
4. Johnny To
5. Steven Soderbergh

5 x 5 Favorites: "War Nerd" Edition

My 5 Favorite WWI Movies

1. Grand Illusion
2. The Big Parade
3. Gallipoli
4. The Lost Patrol
5. A Very Long Engagement

My 5 Favorite WWII Movies

1. The Night of the Shooting Stars
2. Fires on the Plain
3. Story of G.I. Joe
4. Hail the Conquering Hero
5. Saving Private Ryan

My 5 Favorite Vietnam Movies

1. Casualties of War
2. A Bullet in the Head
3. Hamburger Hill
4. We Were Soldiers
5. Platoon

My 5 Favorite "Other" 20th Century War Movies

1. Men in War
2. Three Kings
3. MASH
4. Black Hawk Down
5. Salvador

My 5 Favorite Non-20th Century War Movies

1. Ran
2. The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
3. Master and Commander
4. Zulu
5. Glory

5x5 Favorites: Random Movie Edition

My 5 Favorite John Carpenter Movies

1. Assault on Precinct 13
2. Escape from New York
3. The Fog
4. Big Trouble in Little China
5. The Thing

My 5 Favorite Adam Sandler Movies

1. Punch-Drunk Love
2. The Wedding Singer
3. Happy Gilmore
4. 50 First Dates
5. Billy Madison

My 5 Favorite Joel Schumacher Movies

1. Falling Down
2. D.C. Cab
3. Phone Booth
4. The Client
5. Tigerland

My 5 Favorite W.C. Fields Movies (Feature Length Only)

1. The Big Broadcast of 1938
2. Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
3. International House
4. The Bank Dick
5. It's a Gift

My 5 Favorite Sam Peckinpah Movies (Non-Western/Non-Rodeo Only)

1. The Osterman Weekend
2. Convoy
3. The Getaway
4. The Killer Elite
5. Straw Dogs