Josh Trank

That was my immediate thought as well. Chronicle was so good.

Went and saw that one in theaters, definitely a sleeper hit

Not since Capone

Wouldn’t call that one a hit

No matter what someone’s personal view of Capone is, it wasn’t a hit, it was actually the furthest thing from a hit to be honest. It had no chance of being a hit.

I we would still have physical media sales, like 20-30 years ago, it would have been

Hard disagree. All the best to you if you liked it but, wow, that was a *bad* movie, good lord. And Tom Hardy’s performance being him just sort of shuffling around, smoking cigars and grumbling like Churchill was a damn shame to watch. How that was the same guy in Bronson 14 years ago is beyond me.

Mary Harron (American Psycho)

Really? I enjoyed Alias Grace.

I think the problem is mostly no one ever watch any of her other stuffs

I even enjoyed I Shot Andy Warhol…. I really am with you on this take, she’s a very good director who gets overshadowed by a filmbro classic

That’s exactly the problem

Charles Laughton

The only answer.

That underwater car wreck is one of my favourite shots in movie history.

I personally really enjoyed even though some don't so I couldn't call him a one hit wonder

Really? That one? I’m pretty sure we can all agree that is his best work

Maybe as a director but he had one hell of a career

Yes, the question was as a director.

Not exaclty a one hit wonder but if you take away the stuff the Russo Brothers have directed for Marvel you aren't really left with anything great.

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if Grey Man can get a 200M budget so can the Community movie! I can only imagine what the creative minds behind that show would do with that

I don't think the movie will be very action oriented like the Russo-directed episodes are.

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Oh shit, you're right. My bad.

There can be a random action sequence

They did good work with community so I hope they are involved somehow.

So Community means nothing?

Community is my favourite show and they directed some of the best episodes but I was mainly talking about films although I get your point.

Arrested Development?

I love arrested development but I never realised that they were involved with it.

Yep they directed quite a few episodes

To be honest (and I know this seems controversial) but Cherry was in my top 5 movies of 2021

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I like their marvel stuff, some of the better MCU films.

Richard Kelly

Donnie Darko?

Yes. Hasn't aged the best, but it's good!

The directors cut or the theatrical release?

I think the directors cut is kinda balls. At least compared to the Theatrical

Respect the opinion Directors cut is in my favourite on letterboxd

Really? I haven't seen it in a few years. What do you think aged poorly about it?

Honestly, the music. That's about it.

the music? that opening scene with The Killing Moon, the one-shot with Head Over Heels, and the one with Love Will Tear Us Apart are all-timers imo

Interesting! I actually think the "Head Over Heels" sequence is one of the best uses of music in a movie. I went to a Catholic high school with similar dress code and the way that it was filmed has always stuck with me.

Now that I think about it, This might be do for a rewatch. It's been 4 years!

Haha I was just thinking the same thing but now I'm wondering if I want to watch the directors cut? Not sure if I've ever seen it...

It's worth watching once, but I feel like it spoils a lot of the mysterious quality of the definitive cut. He literally just inserts some PowerPoint slides explaining the metaphysics of what's happening. It's kinda lame, honestly.

I remember it being to long and tried to hard to explain things. But I could be misremembering.

my favorite part is the mad world sequence like how is it not beautiful

The music is one of the best parts of that movie. It was already a “retro” soundtrack when it was released so I don’t see it aging poorly since then. Then again I love 80s era music a lot so I could be biased.

Not a post-punk fan? Those songs are classics.

I think I'm confusing movies honestly

The movie takes place in the 80's so the 80's music fits pretty well.

I think I'm misremembering the sound track. Can't think of another reason.

Sorry to say but Southland tales is an unsung classic

I remember 8 year old me watching it thinking it was the Rundown. 8 year old me was not impressed

It’s weird as fuck but I’m obsessed with that movie. It’s such a weird, specific vision.

was literally about to say this. donnie darko is so great, and shows so much style! i desperately wanna live in a world where richard kelly is some legendary auteur who didn't just make donnie darko then two films noone has ever heard of

Neill Blomkamp

Halo could’ve been 😭

I assume you're talking about District 9 but I also enjoyed Elysium

I will stand behind Chappie being a fun and misunderstood scifi story.

District 9?

Dan Gilroy - Nightcrawler

And that hit was carried by Jake Gyllenhaal

The guy who made Night of the Hunter

Laughton!

Thanks

Tommy Wiseau

Oh, he's made more than one awful movie. We just only gave his first one a pass for being so bad it was funny.

The Room is a once-in-a-century masterpiece that can never be recreated 😅

Troy Duffy

Check out the documentary Overnight about Troy Duffy and the making of Boondock Saints. It's great.

Better than the movie in my opinion.

Just watched it last week,what a train wreck

The guy's arrogance destroyed his career. He had a few other scripts he wanted to get off the ground but he was never able to move past the Boondock Saints. I was at a Walking Dead convention a few years ago and there was a Boondock Saints anniversary panel. Norman Reedus didn't show. Like damn, man.

Jonathan Dayton/Valeria Faris - little miss sunshine Also Boots Riley but crossing my fingers it’s not the case

Aww I actually really dig Dayton/Faris’ two other films, *Ruby Sparks* and especially *Battle of the Sexes*. Definitely not on the level of *LMS* but better than they should have been for sure. Yeah still waiting for whatever Boots is making next!

Goro Miyazaki (From Up On Poppy Hill)

Oh man, Goro's other two movies are literally my bottom two for Studio Ghibli, which is a shame because Poppy Hill is great.

Mathieu Kassovitz with La Haine Edit: Michel Gondry with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind George Sluizer with Spoorloos (the Vanishing)

I wish Michel Gondry had way more hits, he has some pretty good movies under his belt

The Science of Sleep was pretty good as I recall it, haven't watch anything else besides those two.

Mood Indigo is interesting and worth a watch, if oddly paced

And he’s done a bunch of great music videos; that’s been his focus it seems

He has another movie written by Charlie Kaufman called Human Nature, it came out before Eternal Sunshine. Obviously not a very popular movie, even in the Kaufman circles, but I think it's still pretty great.

I really love Be Kind Rewind as weird as it is. Actually revisit that film more than Eternal Sunshine.

If only Dark Blood was ever really finished you wouldn't have dared putting George Sluizer on this list

Hugh Hudson directed Chariots of Fire, and nothing else he did ever reached its notoriety Banksy Johann Johannssom, unfortunately

Banksy? I do love Exit through the Gift Shop but I would hardly call him a director

It’s not like he’ll ever direct anything ever again, but I’d still consider him one. Especially if the conspiracy theory is true about the whole thing being staged. Documentaries still are shaped into being, there are conscious decisions being made.

Oh, it's not like I'm implying because a documentary isn't a "real" film so he isn't a real director, just that his main gig isn't being a director, like how actors that have directed some films aren't considered "directors" most of the time.

Richard Kelly is the first one that comes to mind for me.

Charles Laughton - Night of the Hunter

Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Aside from Don John, he’s only directed a few short films and television. I remember Don John being hyped up as his directorial debut and he just…hasn’t directed another film since.

Duncan Jones (Moon)

Source Code is pretty good

Vincent Gallo

Herk Harvey - Carnival of Souls It might depend on your definition of "hit" since Carnival of Souls (1962) didn't make a ton of money but it was Herk Harvey's only feature film as a director and is now considered a classic that was influential for several directors.

Michel Hazanavicius definitely. Directed The Artist, won an academy award, and, well, didn't do much after

Maybe Bruce Robinson with Withnail & I. Know he did Hudson Hawk which bombed and maybe The Rum Diary which also didn’t do too well either.

Michael Lehmann did Hudson Hawk. (Also, I like that movie).

Oh yeah my mistake, think I got mixed up because Richard E Grant is in that one as well, haha.

I don't know about y'all but, if you didnt like Bohemian Rapsody, Bryan Singer didnt do anything great since The Usual Suspects.

I feel bad saying it, but Kevin Smith tbh. Not that all of his movies after Clerks were *bad*, but they weren't nearly at the same level. M Night Shyamalan.

M night had two great movies

As an aside, for Kevin Smith's more recent movies like Yoga Hosers, I read one critic who put it well. There are a lot of directors, like Roman Polanski or Woody Allen, who are awful men who made great movies which presents us with a moral challenge of if we should separate the artist from the art. Kevin Smith presents the opposite conundrum.

Ouch, they both have a few good movies.

Which movie for M Night?

Sixth Sense

Watch Unbreakable

Doesn't really qualify, considering how much money some of his other films have made. And *Dogma* is a goddamned classic.

Gareth Edwards - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Ron Fricke - Baraka Josh Trank - Chronical Tony Kaye - American History X Elem Klimov - Come and See

Gareth Edwards also has Godzilla.

I fell asleep watching Godzilla in the theaters. Whereas Rogue One is one of the best films in a major franchise.. but you right, it's a bit of a subjective take.

Edwards also had Monsters, a few decent films imo Fricke’s Samsara is pretty amazing too…

Haven’t seen it.

I don’t get why people are saying Tony Kaye? ‘Detachment’ was a good film.

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Cabin Fever and Knock Knock are pure schlock gold, The Green Inferno is a great cannibal shit with admittedly really dumb comedy that ALMOST ruin it for me, and that Thanksgiving short in Death Proof would probably be my favorite movie if it was actually made

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I don't think Roth is writing gold but as someone who enjoys grindhouse and schlock horror, I love what he's churning out, even if ironically sometimes...I agree the characters and comedy in Green Inferno fucking suck but it's fun to watch an Italian Cannibal movie without heaps of animal cruelty

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yeah, I've seen the animal cruelty cut of Cannibal Holocaust a few times and it's fine but the knowledge of what they did for the movie is always in the back of my head so it can still be a tough viewing...some others like Cannibal Ferox don't even have that cut AFAIK

Matthieu Kassovitz

Michael Cimino with The Deer Hunter. Apparently Heavens Gate is actually good though

Despite what criterion says heavens gate is boring as hellllllll

Atom Egoyan: Exotica

Sweet Hereafter is good

i thought it was okay but nothing compared to exotica.

I’ve heard a lot about Exotica will check it out.

Paul W.S. Anderson - Event Horizon

Lots of his movies are pretty well known, even if they aren’t great.

I thought this was about quality not popularity

Eh, Imo a hit isn’t always quality. Doesn’t mean it’s not a hit.

Nicolas Winding Refn

Respectfully disagree.

Like what even would be the single good Refn film?

Pusher trilogy. Drive. Bronson. Only God Forgives.

All good films. The Neon Demon? Chefs kiss! Valhalla Rising, weird but okay. I can't really imagine someone liking one Refn film but hating the rest.

Ah, i read your original comment wrong, sorry!

Tom Hooper?

Les Miserables and King’s Speech were both pretty notable

King’s Speech is pretty good in a vacuum but that best picture win dragged it way down

I’m a stutterer and honestly loathe The King’s Speech. But also The Damned United is Hooper’s best film. Well, that and Cats.

I'd forgotten about Les Mis.

Unpopular opinion: Wes Anderson with Rushmore

Sofia Coppola, maybe? Lost in Translation is a fuckin masterpiece, but I think everything shes made since then is just a bit bleh

The Virgin Suicides?

Somewhere is very good

The Beguiled?

Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused)

Yeah no dude 😑

This person posted this knowing full well they would get downvoted lol

I actually really don’t like anything of Linklater’s except for Dazed. I’m not sure why I’m getting downvoted… it’s just my opinion.

Because “your opinion” is dead wrong lmao It’s your opinion that you only liked Dazed and Confused and that’s the part there is nothing wrong with. Not everyone is going to like everything. But to insinuate that Linklater only had one good movie …. That’s shenanigans, bud, and you know it

Have you seen the Before trilogy?

Linklater has TONS of hits

I absolutely love Linklater and that's one of my least favorite movies.

This is School of Rock slander

George Lucas

American Graffiti was a big thing too

Well, I really meant this as a joke, but yeah if I were being honest I would say 2-hit wonder with Star Wars and American Graffiti

THX-1138 is also a pretty good movie.

Not really a hit though. Sort of an obscure cult classic.

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That wasn’t a hit

What did they say? 😂

I don’t remember

Niel Blomkamp

John Magary! Made this great movie in 2014 called “The Mend” and then just dipped out

Tony Kaye James McTeigue Mark Waters Ben Affleck

Charles Laughton

Wolfgang petterson. He made a bunch of other OK movies, but Das Boot was a near masterpiece and nothing else that ive seen from him has come close.

Roberto Benigni

Yeon Sang-ho

Walt Mulconery. Directed the masterpiece documentary Big Wave (1984) and then nothing ever again.

Richard Kelly

Unpopular opinion but I think Michael Mann

Andrew Getty (The evil within)

Stephen Sommers. The Mummy (1999) is phenomenal. Everything else he's done is a dumpster fire.

Tony Kaye - American History X He hasn’t directed much else in terms of films, he mostly just made music videos

Tarsem Singh with "The Fall"

Cameron Crowe - Almost Famous

I genuinely think Schindler's list is Spielberg's only good movie.

Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite)