21st century directors: any great ones?
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Re: 21st century directors: any great ones?
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
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
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.
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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Re: 21st century directors: any great ones?
To be honest... Ben Affleck. I've given all three of his films 90s.
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Re: 21st century directors: any great ones?
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).
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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Re: 21st century directors: any great ones?
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.
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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Re: 21st century directors: any great ones?
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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Re: 21st century directors: any great ones?
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.
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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