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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 17, 2024 1:33:32 GMT
Rose Glass not only made a pacinoyes fave with her debut Saint Maud - but heck I loved her short films too.........but kind of let me down with Love Lies Bleeding - though it's a big critical hit - 92% on RT atm Who are some directors who stepped up on their 2nd movie and some who let you down? 
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Post by stephen on Mar 17, 2024 1:36:06 GMT
Ridley Scott, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Lynch and Terrence Malick all came out of the gate hot and had immediately legendary level-ups.
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Post by TheAlwaysClassy on Mar 17, 2024 2:03:58 GMT
Wes Anderson comes to mind- Rushmore is probably my favorite movie, and I had already loved Bottle Rocket. Add The Royal Tenenbaums and the man had a perfect trio of first movies. I haven't been able to connect with any of his other films the same way.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Mar 17, 2024 2:11:24 GMT
Nolan's Following is great, but Memento is the masterpiece he has yet to top. Fincher started with Alien 3, an admirable failure imo, but followed it up with Se7en, a genre classic.
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Mar 17, 2024 2:19:10 GMT
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Post by SZilla on Mar 17, 2024 2:22:45 GMT
John Carpenter’s 1st film was Dark Star, which he followed up with Assault on Precinct 13 and finally Halloween.
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Post by mhynson27 on Mar 17, 2024 2:48:44 GMT
Nolan's Following is great, but Memento is the masterpiece he has yet to top. Fincher started with Alien 3, an admirable failure imo, but followed it up with Se7en, a genre classic. Yep, (unsurprisingly) Nolan/Memento was my first thought. |
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Post by mhynson27 on Mar 17, 2024 2:50:07 GMT
Going the other way, even though I liked them, was still disappointed with Midsommar and Annihilation given how much I love Hereditary and Ex Machina.
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 17, 2024 8:57:27 GMT
His feature debut Knife In The Water (1962) was a masterpiece of a strict, at times (not always) formalist style...his 2nd film though revealed the full depth of his psychological template: Made in English (!) with co-conspirator, main man Gerard Brach #2 was a masterpiece that exploded any previous formalism into his own style......you could argue that "modern" film starts here in many ways - Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965) |
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