Which films do you consider to be the best feature length directorial debuts?
My list is:(please excuse some spelling mistakes)
10/10s
Synecdoche, New York - Charlie Kaufman
House Of 1000 Corpses - Rob Zombie
9/10s
Bound - Wachowski Sisters
Reservoir Dogs - Quintin Tarantino
Donnie Darko - Richard Kelly
Shaun Of The Dead - Edgar Wright
12 Angry Men - Sydney Lumet
Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
Being John Malkovitch - Spike Jonze
The 400 Blows - Francois Truffaut
Badlands - Terence Malick
Primer - Shane Carruth
Bone Tomahawk - S. Craig Zhaler
Easy Rider - Dennis Hopper
Buffalo 66' - Vincent Gallo
Gummo - Harmony Korine
Koyaanisquatsi - Godfrey Reggio
Tetsuo The Iron Man - Shinya Tsukamoto
Hedwig And The Angry Inch - John Cameron Mitchell
The Eyes Of My Mother - Nicolas Pesce
Freddy Got Fingered - Tom Green
Performance - Nicolas Roeg
Lola - Jacques Demy
Knife In The Water - Roman Polanski
Element Of Crime - Lars Von Trier
Blast Of Silence - Allen Baron
The Falls - Peter Greenaway
8/10
Get Out - Jordan Peele
The Witch - Robert Eggers
American Beauty - Sam Mendes
Mid 90s - Jonnah Hill
The Terminator - James Cameron
Eraserhead - David Lynch
In Bruges - Martin McDounagh
Moon - Duncan Jones
The Blair Witch Project - Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick
The Evil Dead - Sam Raimi
The Virgin Suicides - Soffia Coppola
Breathless - Jean-Luc Godard
Blindspotting - Carlos Lopez Estrada
Gattaca - Andrew Niccol
A Fistful Of Dollars - Sergio Leone
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - Guy Ritchie
Brick - Rian Johnson
Hot Rod - Akiva Shaffer
Amores Perros - Alejandro Gonzalez Inaritu
Re-Animator - Stuart Gordon
Son Of Saul - Lazlo Nemes
Hunger - Steve McQueen
Hard Eight - Paul Thomas Anderson
I Killed My Mother - Xavier Dolan
The Kid - Charlie Chaplin
Brigsby Bear - Dave McCarey
Ivan's Childhood - Andrei Tarkovsky
Wet Hot American Summer - David Wain
Theif (he also made a tv movie called "Jeriko Mile, which I'd also consider an 8/10 so regardless of which you think is his debut he's on my list)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape - Steven Soderbergh
Thunder Road - Jim Cummings
Hardcore Henry - Ilya Naishuller
Slow West - John Maclean
Delicatessen - Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Crank - Nd&T
The Return Of The Living Dead - Dan O'Bannon
Kill List - Ben Wheatley
Sexy Beast - Johnathan Glazer
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure - Tim Burton
Shallow Grave - Danny Boyle
Last House On The Left - Wes Craven
Bad Taste - Peter Jackson
Point Blank - John Boorman
El Mariachi - Robert Rodriguez
The Return - Andrey Zvyaginstev
Excision - Ricky Bates Jr.
George Washington - David Gordon Green
Hobo With A Shotgun - Jason Eisner
Blue Collar - Paul Schrader
Living In Oblivion - Tom DiCillo
The Blood Of A Poet - Jean Cocteau
James White - Josh Mond
Who's Knocking At My Door - Martin Scorsese
Hardware - Richard Stanley
Amer - Cattete&Foranzi
Chopper - Andrew Dominik
Stagefright: Aquarius - Michael Soavi
Nancy - Christina Choe
Trees Lounge - Steve Buscemi
Boy Meets Girl - Leos Carax
Carne - Gaspar Noe
Ex Drummer - Koen Mortier
You And The Night - Yann Gonzalez
Chronos - Ron Fricke
Only The Dead - Michael Ware
Steak - Quentin Dupieux
Experience - Abbas Kiarostami
Submitted September 24, 2020 at 05:36AM by TomPynch https://ift.tt/365wL8C