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Post by jakesully on Feb 6, 2021 19:07:31 GMT
S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk , Brawl in Cell Block 99 and Dragged Across Concrete) is another rising talented director that I'd like to talk about. I dug the hell out of 3 films so far!
Just an unflinching / uncompromising director that gets it.
Can't wait to see what is next from him.
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 6, 2021 19:36:25 GMT
Elaine May #1 by quite a distance - I love all four of her films.
Michael Reeves - for a "what if" pick - died in 1969 at 25y/o after making, back to back, The Sorcerers (Boris Karloff) and Witchfinder General (Vincent Price).
Seth Holt - underrated pick - whose first four films show a dynamite talent (Nowhere to Go, Scream of Fear, Station Six Sahara, The Nanny). I haven't seen his fifth movie (Danger Route, a Bond riff) and, to cheat, I'm not counting his sixth bc he died during production.
Lotta others, sticking with just feature films - Victor Erice, Shirley Clarke, Euzhan Palcy, Ivan Dixon, etc. Trying not to pick working directors.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Feb 6, 2021 20:09:50 GMT
Martin McDonagh. Taylor Sheridan.
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Post by isabelaolive on Feb 6, 2021 22:21:32 GMT
Spike Jonze Na Hong-jin Damien Chazelle Lynne Ramsay Debra Granik Kenneth Lonergan Jeff Nichols Jonathan Glazer Marielle Heller Ryan Coogler
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Feb 6, 2021 22:28:38 GMT
Martin McDonagh. Taylor Sheridan. Co-sign
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Feb 6, 2021 22:30:33 GMT
Alex Garland too.
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Post by eyebrowmorroco on Feb 7, 2021 10:25:43 GMT
Victor Erice
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Post by jakesully on Feb 7, 2021 16:13:25 GMT
Martin McDonagh. Taylor Sheridan. Outstanding choices ! In Bruges is top 3 of 2008 for me and I can't wait to see what is next from him. Also great choice on Taylor Sheridan. Can't wait for Those Who Wish Me Dead & the next season of Yellowstone. He is a superb talent.
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Post by jakesully on Feb 7, 2021 16:22:28 GMT
I will add Alex Garland to my list. He isn't perfect by any means but his two films that he directed (Ex Machina & Annihilation ) imo were superb and definitely refreshing / smart sci fi films. Still need to see DEVS though.
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Post by avnermoriarti on Feb 7, 2021 19:38:46 GMT
Andrey Zvyagintsev and Cristian Mungiu ( imo top directors working right now ).
Also Victor Erice and Lucrecia Martel, even though I always end of sort of conflicted by her films, I appreciate the inner wrestling...
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Post by hugobolso on Feb 8, 2021 4:21:07 GMT
Uruguaya director Narciso Ibáñez serrafor
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Post by dadsburgers on Feb 8, 2021 5:05:21 GMT
Some rising stars who haven't been mentioned yet: Robert Eggers, Trey Edward Schults, Boots Riley, Ari Aster, Ruben Ostlund, Barry Jenkins, Andrea Arnold, Cary Fukunaga, Derek Cianfrance, Benh Zeitlin.
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 16, 2022 21:25:51 GMT
Michael Roemer (Nothing but a Man, The Plot Against Harry)
and quite a few actors for their directed work...
Tommy Lee Jones (The Homesman, Sunset Limited especially.....)
Al Pacino aka DGA winner Big Al (Looking for Richard, Wilde Salome, Chinese Coffee, arguably Local Stigmatic)
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Post by Film Socialism on Feb 17, 2022 2:40:36 GMT
lawrence lek, patrick wang
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Post by pendragon on Feb 17, 2022 7:28:50 GMT
Larisa Shepitko made just 5 films before her untimely death, but The Ascent is a masterpiece and Wings is very good.
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Post by jimmalone on Feb 17, 2022 9:17:00 GMT
Ben Affleck Greta Gerwig
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Post by chris3 on Feb 21, 2022 14:55:44 GMT
Jennifer Kent
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 21, 2022 15:10:15 GMT
She has no 3rd film listed on IMDB (a TV series though) and I think if you showed someone her 2 films they may not believe they were by the same director - or have any idea what she might do next on the basis of them. She could literally do anything and it would be believable.
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 24, 2022 1:33:51 GMT
William Peter Blatty - I'm a defender of The Exorcist III (1990). It's atmospheric, with a building mystery, some big scares, good perfs, the hilarious carp story. What's the problem! His only other movie, his debut, was The Ninth Configuration (1980) and if you've seen it you can't really forget it. It's strange in a way I didn't know if I liked while watching but it's uniquely funny and thought provoking and I love the cast. Peter Travers called it "the finest large-scale American surrealist film ever made." And it won Blatty a Golden Globe for Screenplay, beating Raging Bull, Ordinary People, Elephant Man. These movies had botched and controversial releases and re-edits. But he didn't lack imagination behind the camera and I would've watched anything else he made. He at least could've stuck to the schedule with another movie in 2000!
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Post by Mattsby on May 4, 2022 17:15:30 GMT
How about Depardieu........ Le Tartuffe (1984) — The Bridge (1999) — and the best segment of Paris je t'aime (2006), the one with Gena Rowlands. He also did a coming-of-age movie in Kazakhstan called La voix des steppes (2014) that I can't find anyway. But he's another, a movie star but underrated director too, like Pacino who's the ultimate example bc no one else has followed thru on the film-essay ardor of Orson Welles like Pacino. I'm serious!
Also, how about David Mirkin...... Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997) — Heartbreakers (2001). And that's it! Well-played comedies. He's also produced over 600 eps of The Simpsons; he was the showrunner for S5 & 6.
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