21st century directors: any great ones?

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21st century directors: any great ones?

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I'm with you on Dominik, Glazer, and Nichols.

Zal Batmanglij
J.C. Chandor
George Clooney (Don't laugh.)
Anton Corbijn
Quentin Dupieux
Fleck & Boden
Cary Fukunaga
Rian Johnson
Giorgos Lanthimos
Pablo Larrain
James Marsh
Martin McDonagh
Steve McQueen
Kelly Reichardt
Joe Swanberg

On the documentary side:
Alex Gibney
Eugene Jarecki

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None meeting your criteria

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https://www.criticker.com/people/Hogg_Joanna/
https://www.criticker.com/people/Andrea_Arnold/
https://www.criticker.com/people/Duane_Hopkins/

some more names for your scoff and awe (some starting in the '90s)

Zhang Ke Jia
Michel Gondry
Alfonso Cuaron
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Iñárritu
+1 Steve McQueen
Edgar Wright
Ben Wheatley
+1 Kenneth Lonergan
Charlie Kaufman
Chan-wook Park
Shane Meadows (probably the closest to meeting the criteria)
Wes Anderson (ditto)
Masaaki Yuasa
Peter Strickland
Carlos Reygadas

probably some tv directors worthy of such company.

I just remember how satisfying Drive and Shame were. Good year.
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To be honest... Ben Affleck. I've given all three of his films 90s.

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No.

There are none who meet the exact criteria. The closest are some who began in the late 90s, or those who have one tier-10 and one tier-9. But no one who began 2000+ has 3 tier 9 or higher (including a tier 10).

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Fit the criteria:
Tom McCarthy
Adam McKay

Almost fit the criteria:
Cary Fukunaga
Bennett Miller

Out of those four I have the highest hopes for Cary Fukunaga.

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djross wrote:
jeff_v wrote:But no one who began 2000+ has 3 tier 9 or higher (including a tier 10).


Criteria are two tier 9 or higher, including at least one tier 10. Sorry if that wasn't clear. But thanks for actually paying some attention to the criteria!


Ok, that lets in a few:

Ken Lonergan - Margaret (t10), You Can Count on Me (t10)
Michel Gondry - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (t10), Dave Chapelle's Block Party (t9)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul - Tropical Malady (t10), Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (t9)
David Gordon Green - All the Real Girls (t10), George Washington (t9)
Cristian Mungiu - 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days (t10), Beyond the Hills (t9)
Rian Johnson - Brick (t10), Looper (t9)
Carlos Reygadas - Japon (t10), Stellet licht (t9)
Shane Carruth - Primer (t10), Upstream Color (t9)

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Filmmakers with multiple notable films that have started since 2000 that are very good:

Alfredson, Tomas (Let the Right One In, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)*
Bong Joon-Ho (Memories of Murder, The Host, Mother)
Castaing-Taylor, Lucien (Leviathan, Sweetgrass)
Dominik, Andrew (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Killing Them Softly)
Glazer, Johnathan (Under the Skin, Birth)*
Green, David Gordon (George Washington, All the Real Girls)*
Kaufman, Charlie (Synecdoche New York, Anomalisa)
Lanthimos, Giorgos (Dogtooth, Alps, The Lobster)*
Madsen, Michael (Into Eternity, The Visit)*
Oppenheimer, Joshua (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence)*
Paravel, Verena (Leviathan, Foreign Parts)
Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Stoker)*
Perry, Alex Ross (The Color Wheel, Listen Up Philip, Queen of Earth)
Strickland, Peter (Berberian Sound Studio, The Duke of Burgundy)
Weerasethakul, Apatchitpong (Tropical Malady, Syndromes and a Century, Uncle Boonmee)*
West, Ti (The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers)
Wright, Edgar (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim, The World's End)

* = meets your criteria for me

The 2000 cut-off seems arbitrary, as it ignores people who just started a few years earlier but have produced their best stuff in the 21st century: Paul Thomas Anderson, Spike Jonze, Noah Baumbach, Kim Ki-Duk, Kim Ji-Woon, Wes Anderson, Nicholas Winding Refn, Lynne Ramsay, the Dardennes, Kelly Reichardt, Jafar Panahi, off the top of my head.

If I had to put money down on which will have the most relevance in the future, I'd go Weerasethakul, Kaufman, Perry.

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