Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton

5/14/2008 6:17:15 PM

I hope we can add Charlie Kaufman in this thread at the end of this year with Synecdoche, New York.

[Edited on May 14, 2008 at 6:25 PM. Reason : film]

5/14/2008 6:25:11 PM

Me too.

5/14/2008 6:28:46 PM

Not a big movie buff, but Reservoir Dogs was a pretty good first-go-round for Quentin Tarantino.

5/14/2008 6:31:04 PM

Into the Wild

Gone Baby Gone

5/14/2008 6:44:03 PM

^into the wild wasn't Penn's debut


obligatory Kevin Smith and Clerks post



and for my serious post


Ben Affleck - Gone Baby Gone

[Edited on May 14, 2008 at 6:48 PM. Reason : add]

5/14/2008 6:46:19 PM

^^ sean penn directed the indian runner over 15 years ago

orson welles - citizen kane
rob reiner - this is spinal tap

[Edited on May 14, 2008 at 6:50 PM. Reason : ^^]

5/14/2008 6:46:43 PM

Zhang Yimou: Red Sorghum

5/14/2008 6:51:28 PM

Are you talking only feature-length film, or shorts as well?

b/c there are a lot of great directors whose earlier shorts I've never seen.

5/14/2008 6:51:45 PM

^^damn whats that about, i loved raise the red lantern and to live but hadn't heard of that

5/14/2008 6:52:50 PM

Fuck a short

5/14/2008 6:53:01 PM

Braveheart?

5/14/2008 6:56:57 PM

all right then ...

Darren Aronofsky - Pi
Christopher Nolan - Following
Richard Kelly - Donnie Darko
George Clooney - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Wes Anderson - Bottle Rocket

5/14/2008 7:01:16 PM

^^ Great movie unfortunately not his first.

^Good list. That Bottle Rocket is great.

Blood Simple- Coen Brothers

5/14/2008 7:04:06 PM

whoopie goldberg - the English patient

5/14/2008 7:07:07 PM

Blood motherfucking Simple

GG

5/14/2008 7:07:11 PM

I'm only counting feature-lengths.

Mike Nichols - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Jean-Luc Godard - Breathless
the Coen Brothers - Blood Simple
Tim Burton - Pee-wee's Big Adventure


OMFG INDIE ELITIST FAGGOT

5/14/2008 7:07:43 PM

Sam Mendes- American Beauty

5/14/2008 7:16:39 PM

we could add some mainstream directors.

how about Michael Bay with Bad Boys?

yeah, I didn't think so.

I guess you could say George Lucas with THX 1138.

5/14/2008 7:17:47 PM

Rian Johnson Brick

5/14/2008 7:59:03 PM

The Cell (not counting music videos)

Gattaca

House of 1000 Corpses

Easy Rider

Say Anything

Amores Perros

Being John Malkovich

The Virgin Suicides

Garden State

etc...

5/14/2008 8:21:42 PM