FILMOGRAPHY The Childhood of a Leader (2015)Vox Lux (2018)The Brutalist (2024) FILMOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Brady Corbet, born in Scottsdale, AZ, in 1988, began his career as a television actor, pivoting at a still-tender age into films of increasing art-house rarification, such as Greg Araki’s Mysterious Skin, and the American version of Michael Haneke’s intentionally unwatchable Funny… Continue reading Brady Corbet (b. 1988)
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Atom Egoyan (b. 1960)
FILMOGRAPHY Next of Kin (1984)Family Viewing (1987)Speaking Parts (1989)The Adjuster (1991)Exotica (1994) WORKS Intriguing, but subject to all the expected shortcomings one would expect of a shoestring feature made at the tender age of 24, Next of Kin (1984) is the debut of Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan. The film is essentially split into two distinct aesthetics.… Continue reading Atom Egoyan (b. 1960)
Quentin Tarantino (b. 1963)
FILMOGRAPHY Reservoir Dogs (1992)Pulp Fiction (1994)Jackie Brown (1997)Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)Death Proof (2007)Inglourious Basterds (2009)Django Unchained (2012)The Hateful Eight (2015)Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019) FILMOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Quentin Tarantino, born in 1963 in Knoxville, TN but raised in a 1970s Los Angeles teeming with new cinematic energies, became the… Continue reading Quentin Tarantino (b. 1963)
Woody Allen (b. 1935)
FILMOGRAPHY Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* *But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)Love and Death (1975)Annie Hall (1977)Interiors (1978)Manhattan (1979)Stardust Memories (1980)A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (1982)Broadway Danny Rose (1984)The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)Radio Days (1987)September (1987)Another Woman (1988)Alice (1990)Shadows and Fog (1991)Husbands and Wives (1992)Manhattan Murder Mystery… Continue reading Woody Allen (b. 1935)
Noah Baumbach (b. 1969)
FILMOGRAPHY Kicking and Screaming (1995) Mr. Jealousy (1997)The Squid and the Whale (2005) Margot at the Wedding (2007) Greenberg (2010) Frances Ha (2012) While We’re Young (2014) Mistress America (2015) The Meyerowitz Stories (2017)Marriage Story (2019) White Noise (2022) SUMMARY There have been few filmmakers in the history of the cinema more effective in lending moviegoing… Continue reading Noah Baumbach (b. 1969)
Whit Stillman (b. 1952)
FILMOGRAPHY Metropolitan (1990) Barcelona (1994) The Last Days of Disco (1998)Damsels in Distress (2011)Love & Friendship (2016) FILMOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Whit Stillman, born in 1952 in upstate New York, began by riding a wave started by Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch, Hal Hartley, and many others with a loose trilogy of films, Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last… Continue reading Whit Stillman (b. 1952)
Brian De Palma (b. 1940)
FILMOGRAPHY Greetings (1968)Hi, Mom! (1970)Sisters (1973) The Phantom of the Paradise (1974)Obsession (1976) Carrie (1976)The Fury (1978) Dressed to Kill (1980) Blow Out (1981) Scarface (1983)Body Double (1984) The Untouchables (1987)Casualties of War (1989)Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)Raising Cain (1992)Carlito’s Way (1993) Mission: Impossible (1996) Snake Eyes (1998)Mission to Mars (2000) The Black Dahlia (2006)Redacted… Continue reading Brian De Palma (b. 1940)
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