First Films

September - October 2009

Whereas some filmmakers cut their teeth on works they might rather forget, the artists whose films we’re presenting in this month’s festival burst out of the gate with panache. Marco Bellocchio, Jane Campion, Samuel Fuller, Roman Polanski, Lynne Ramsay, Agnès Varda—all of their debut features are elegant, fully formed expressions of their creators’ artistic and emotional worldviews, audacious, auspicious films like Fists in the Pocket and Sweetie. Take a look. Brought to you by The Criterion Collection.