>>Now I'm looking for a great director (whom I don't know yet) with a dozen or so movies to dedicate to collect this year. I'm mostly searching around Asia where they have a lot of stuff we don't generally see and they are really productive (with mixed results, of course).
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>Kurosawa of course, but then you probably have seen most of his stuff already.

Oh... Easy guess... 8-)

I've seen most of Kurosawa for sure. Some of the interesting directors I tracked last year were: Johnny To, Oxide and Danny Pang, Jan Svankmajer, Takashi Miike, Chan-wook Park, but also completed my colection with somw missing works from favorites like David Cronenberg, Luis García Berlanga, Elia Kazan, François Truffaut, John Cassavettes, and of course, Hitchcock.

Have a great year, Alex!