Debut Feature Films (Directing)

David Berberian — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:46:12 +0000

Name the five books you would want on a desert island. How about albums or movies? Most of us have played that game with friends. This site takes it a step further. We love movies. We love talking about movies. This site is simply two guys musing over a three movie film fest. The idea is to watch a sub-category of three films once a month. Did they work as an evening’s entertainment? Was the order in which we watched them ideal? Did one of us fall asleep during the third film? Our hope is that once the movies, and the night, have been chosen others will join us on that same night to screen the three chosen films. Over time we hope to build an online community that can share ideas for categories and film choices.

-David & Raven

Since this is a new endeavor and a debut of sorts we have chosen debut directors as our first category.

Here is the list we came up with:

Maltese Falcon (Huston) 1941

Citizen Kane (Welles) 1941

Sanshiro Sugata (Kurosawa) 1943

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Kazan) 1945

12 Angry Men (Lumet) 1957

The Deadly Companions (Peckinpah) 1961

What’s Up Tiger Lilly? (Woody Allen) 1966

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? (Mike Nichols) 1966

The Producers (Mel Brooks) 1968

Who’s That Knocking At My Door? (Scorsese) 1969

THX-1138 (Lucas) 1971

Play Misty For Me (Eastwood) 1971

Sugarland Express (Spielberg) 1974

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Cimino) 1974

Hard Times (Walter Hill) 1975

The Duellists (Ridley Scott) 1977

Ordinary People (Redford) 1980

Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks) 1983

Blood Simple (Coen Brothers) 1984

Sixteen Candles (Hughes) 1984

Say Anything (Cameron Crowe) 1989

Sex, Lies and Videotape (Soderbergh) 1989

Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino) 1992

Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson) 19994

Shawshank Redemption (Darabont) 1994

The Virgin Suicides (Sophia Coppola) 1999

Iron Giant (Brad Bird) 1999

American Beauty (Sam Mendes) 1999

This is, by no means, a definitive list. It is an influential list. It is our list. It is a list that is commercially available. It’s a good list.

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