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Steven Spielberg
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My first crush. The guy who taught me that the excitement of my childhood imagination is not something I'm…
Kim Ki-duk
Misanthropic.
Misogynistic.
Exploitative.
Crudely sensational.
You're gonna hear all these buzz words about this bad boy iconoclast. These criticisms aren't…
Sergio Leone
Fans of Tarantino who’ve never seen Sergio Leone’s work will do well to check his stuff out. Grandiose, operatic, violent,…
Luis Buñuel
The surrealist mad man of Spain
I strongly recommend Buñuel if you’re into insightful cinematic takes on repression, fantasy, sexuality,…
Ingmar Bergman
Having finished all 44 of his feature films, I can say Bergman speaks my language. He gets at things that…
Federico Fellini
Fellini's strongest period of filmmaking was during the 50s, when postwar Italy sunk deep on the auteur's shoulders. He was…
Darren Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky is the greatest contemporary filmmaker working today. Hands down. I know a lot of really smart people who…
Yorgos Lanthimos
Farcical allegories. Stilted dialogue. Weird sex stuff. Absurdist idiosyncrasies. Dark brand of surrealist humor. What else is there to say…
Chloé Zhao
Hot Take: Chloé Zhao does Malick better than Malick does Malick. This is a statement of taste, by which I…
Stanley Kubrick
Kubrick does something no one else does. He combines hyper-controlled clarity with a variety of ambiguous cinematic meanings, and he…
SXSW 2021
20-year Sundance veteran taking his first spin at SXSW this year because...the plague has us all in doors and the…