Eggers. Robert Eggers has made two films: The Witch, a strong debut, in 2015 and his 2019 follow-up, The Lighthouse. He’s two for two in the archives—and both landed very close to the top 10
Gerwig. Greta Gerwig is a great comic actress—I often lament actors (especially great ones like her) going behind the camera because they’re usually not great as directors—and because it is a double blow as that
Shults. Trey Edward Shults debuted with Krisha in 2015. The film isn’t on that level but it introduces a talent like was shown in Who’s That Knocking at My Door from Scorsese or 1998’s Pi
Olivier. Laurence Olivier is, of course, a brilliant actor. However, he also directed five films and four of them are in the archives. The first three are his best and they’re Shakespeare adaptations (though it
Rob Reiner. Reiner has directed 22 films overall but it is his six films (including his big screen debut after a few tv movies) from This is Spinal Tap in 1984 to A Few Good
Bigelow. Bigelow has released ten films to date (2020) since her debut in 1981. Four of these have landed in the archives with The Hurt Locker, in 2008, as her single greatest work. It found
The end of an era for Kurosawa- his last film in black and white, his last film (sixteen total I believe) with Mifune, and last film of the 1960’s (it is my understanding there were
Not surprising that this wild tale is based on a true story (Fuller’s modus operandi usually) --- it is violent and charmingly crude Never released in the US in theater – and it does have
Kasdan. In the early 1980’s it must have felt that Lawrence Kasdan was going to be one of the next great auteurs. Coming off of writing parts of Empire Strikes Back in 1980 and the
Farhadi. I have five films in the archives already for Farhadi and I have yet to see his second highest rated film: About Elly (2009). There is absolutely a uniformity here in the realistic dramas
Denis. Denis is here because of the strength of her 1999 film – Beau travail- a gorgeously and rhythmically shot tone poem. Denis has thirteen films since her debut in 1988. I’ve seen seven of
Rivette’s fifth film- a 193 minute comedy shot in a grainy crude 16mm Mixes the comic whimsy of Juliet Berto and Dominique Labourier (they have an undeniable chemistry), mystery and magic, and an airy self-awareness
