{"id":10225,"date":"2015-09-30T20:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T01:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=10225"},"modified":"2018-01-04T12:21:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T18:21:04","slug":"film-fest-faves-festifest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/10225","title":{"rendered":"Film Fest Faves (FESTIFEST)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I happened to watch my first Hong Sang-soo movie<\/a> right before his new one premiered, won the Golden Leopard and was featured on Cinema Scope’s front page, which gave me more emotional investment in all this. Before recently he was just a name – a repeatedly championed name, but still. So I’ve made a list of other currently-working(?) filmmakers whose names come up in magazines and festival reports but I’ve never checked out – including a few lingering overlaps with the 50 Under 50 list<\/a> (Rodrigues, Alonso, Pereda) and a few overlaps with a similar list<\/a> I made five years ago (Suleiman, Iosseliani, Lee). The goal: to watch at least one film by each, so next time I see their name I’ll have some context.<\/p>\n

Lisandro Alonso<\/del> (La Libertad<\/em>, Los Muertos<\/a><\/em>, Liverpool<\/em>, Jauja<\/a><\/em>)
\nJacques Audiard<\/del> (A Prophet<\/a><\/em>, Rust & Bone<\/em>, Dheepan<\/a><\/em>)
\nMarco Bellocchio<\/strong> (Good Morning Night<\/em>, Vincere<\/em>, Blood of My Blood<\/em>)
\nRachid Bouchareb<\/strong> (Days of Glory<\/em>, Outside the Law<\/em>)
\nJean-Claude Brisseau<\/del> (Exterminating Angels<\/em>, Girl From Nowhere<\/a><\/em>, Secret Things<\/em>)
\nAntonio Campos<\/del> (Afterschool<\/em>, Simon Killer<\/a><\/em>)
\nJ.C. Chandor<\/strong> (A Most Violent Year<\/em>, All Is Lost<\/em>, Margin Call<\/em>)
\nIsabel Coixet<\/strong> (Elegy<\/em>, Secret Life of Words<\/em>, My Life Without Me<\/em>)
\nAnton Corbijn<\/strong> (Control<\/em>, The American<\/em>)
\nLav Diaz<\/del> (Norte<\/a><\/em>, From What Is Before<\/em>, Century of Birthing<\/em>)
\nMati Diop<\/strong> (Atlantiques<\/em>, Snow Canon<\/em>, A Thousand Suns<\/em>)
\nJacques Doillon<\/strong> (Just Anybody<\/em>, Ponette<\/em>, Le petit criminel<\/em>)
\nXavier Dolan<\/del> (Mommy<\/em>, Tom at the Farm<\/a><\/em>, Heartbeats<\/em>, I Killed My Mother<\/em>)
\nBruno Dumont<\/del> (Lil Quinquin<\/a><\/em>, Hors Satan<\/a><\/em>, Hadewijch<\/em>, L’Humanite<\/em>)
\nPascale Ferran<\/del> (Bird People<\/a><\/em>, Lady Chatterley<\/em>)
\nBahman Ghobadi<\/del> (Nobody Knows About Persian Cats<\/a><\/em>, Turtles Can Fly<\/em>, Half Moon<\/em>)
\nAmos Gitai<\/strong> (Kadosh<\/em>, Kippur<\/em>, Free Zone<\/em>)
\nPhilippe Grandrieux<\/strong> (Un Lac<\/em>, A New Life<\/em>, Sombre<\/em>)
\nJames Gray<\/del> (Two Lovers<\/em>, The Immigrant<\/em>, Lost City of Z<\/a><\/em>)
\nEugene Green<\/del> (Portuguese Nun<\/em>, La Sapienza<\/a><\/em>, Le Pont des Arts<\/em>, Toutes les nuits<\/em>)
\nJose Luis Guerin<\/del> (Memories of a Morning<\/em>, Guest<\/em>, In the City of Sylvia<\/a><\/em>)
\nLucile Hadzihalilovic<\/del> (Innocence<\/a><\/em>, Evolution<\/a><\/em>)
\nAndrew Haigh<\/strong> (Weekend<\/em>, 45 Years<\/em>)
\nMia Hansen-Love<\/del> (Father of My Children<\/em>, Goodbye First Love<\/a><\/em>, Things To Come<\/a><\/em>)
\nOtar Iosseliani<\/strong> (Adieu plancher des vaches<\/em>, Jardins en automne<\/em>, Chantrapas<\/em>, Winter Song<\/em>)
\nBenoit Jacquot<\/strong> (School of Flesh<\/em>, A Single Girl<\/em>, A Tout de Suite<\/em>, Diary of a Chambermaid<\/em>)
\nJiang Wen<\/strong> (Devils on the Doorstep<\/em>, Let the Bullets Fly<\/em>, The Sun Also Rises<\/em>)
\nMiranda July<\/strong> (The Future<\/em>, Me and You and Everyone We Know<\/em>)
\nNaomi Kawase<\/strong> (The Mourning Forest<\/em>, Shara<\/em>)
\nAndrei Konchalovsky<\/strong> (The Postman’s White Nights<\/em>, Inner Circle<\/em>)
\nNadav Lapid<\/strong> (Policeman<\/em>, The Kindergarten Teacher<\/em>)
\nPablo Larrain<\/del> (Tony Manero<\/em>, Post Mortem<\/em>, No<\/em>, The Club<\/a><\/em>)
\nLee Chang-dong<\/del> (Poetry<\/em>, Secret Sunshine<\/a><\/em>, Oasis<\/em>, Peppermint Candy<\/em>)
\nSergei Loznitsa<\/del> (Maidan<\/em>, In the Fog<\/em>, Austerlitz<\/a><\/em>)
\nJodie Mack<\/strong> (a bunch of shorts<\/em>)
\nLech Majewski<\/del> (Onirica<\/em>, The Mill and the Cross<\/a><\/em>, Glass Lips<\/em>)
\nBrillante Mendoza<\/strong> (Captive<\/em>, Kinatay<\/em>, Serbis<\/em>)
\nBennett Miller<\/del> (Capote<\/em>, Moneyball<\/a><\/em>, Foxcatcher<\/em>)
\nLukas Moodysson<\/strong> (We Are The Best<\/em>, Hole In My Heart<\/em>, Lilya 4ever<\/em>, Container<\/em>)
\nDarezhan Omirbayev<\/del> (Student<\/a><\/em>, Kairat<\/em>)
\nRuben Ostlund<\/del> (Force Majeure<\/a><\/em>, Play<\/em>, Involuntary<\/em>)
\nNicolas Pereda<\/del> (Summer of Goliath<\/em>, Greatest Hits<\/a><\/em>, Minotaur<\/em>)
\nNicolas Philibert<\/strong> (To Be and To Have<\/em>, Nenette<\/em>, In the Land of the Deaf<\/em>)
\nJoaquim Pinto<\/strong> (What Now? Remind Me<\/em>, Fish Tail<\/em>)
\nRafi Pitts<\/strong> (The Hunter<\/em>, It’s Winter<\/em>)
\nJoao Pedro Rodrigues<\/del> (Last Time I Saw Macao<\/a><\/em>, To Die Like a Man<\/em>)
\nIra Sachs<\/del> (Love is Strange<\/em>, Keep the Lights On<\/em>, Little Men<\/a><\/em>)
\nBen & Joshua Safdie<\/del> (Heaven Knows What<\/a><\/em>, Good Time<\/a><\/em>)
\nSo Young Kim<\/strong> (Treeless Mountain<\/em>, In Between Days<\/em>)
\nPaolo Sorrentino<\/strong> (Il Divo<\/em>, This Must Be The Place<\/em>, The Great Beauty<\/em>, Youth<\/em>)
\nElia Suleiman<\/strong> (The Time That Remains<\/em>, Divine Intervention<\/em>)
\nBertrand Tavernier<\/strong> (Coup de torchon<\/em>, Sunday in the Country<\/em>, Life and Nothing But<\/em>)
\nNawapol Thamrongrattanarit<\/strong> (Mary is Happy<\/em>, 36<\/em>)
\nTran Anh Hung<\/strong> (Norwegian Wood<\/em>, Cyclo<\/em>, Scent of Green Papaya<\/em>)
\nJoachim Trier<\/strong> (Oslo August 31<\/em>)
\nDenis Villeneuve<\/del> (Polytechnique<\/em>, Incendies<\/em>, Prisoners<\/em>, Sicario<\/a><\/em>)
\nPeter Von Bagh<\/strong> (Socialism<\/em>, Helsinki Forever<\/em>) edit: R.I.P.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh man, this list is longer than I thought it’d be.
\nI may have no choice but to tackle ’em film-fest style.
\nA festival of filmmakers who show up regularly at festivals… a FESTIFEST.<\/p>\n

EDIT Dec. 2015:<\/strong> I still like the FESTIFEST idea, and am keeping the name, but when this season’s Sundance slate was announced I changed focus from the above list. Now when a new film is announced by a director I’ve heard about but never seen, I’m prioritizing watching one of his\/her previous films. For example, Robert Greene’s Kate Plays Christine<\/em> was announced, and I haven’t seen anything by Greene as director, so I watched his Actress<\/a><\/em> from last year. Don’t think I’ll add those to the bottom of this list as the year goes on, because I have enough trouble keeping track of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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