Great First Films?
Knife in the water
Ivan’s childhood
Chocolat
Into eternity
Je tu ill elle
Night of the hunter, derp
One Week (Keaton)
Un Chien Andalou (Bunuel)
Citizen Kane (Welles)
Story of a Love Affair (Antonioni)
Libelei (Ophuls)
Breathless (Godard)
La Silence de Mar (Melville)
The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa)
Strike (Eisenstein)
Eraserhead (Lynch)
Knife in the Water (Polanski)
Well, in my honest opinion…
Bound (The Wachowski Brothers)
Pi (Aronofsky)
Following (Nolan)
Performance (Roeg/Cammell)
Blue Collar (Schrader)
Eraserhead (Lynch)
I Shot Andy Warhol (Harron)
Brick (Johnson)
Elevator to the Gallows (Malle)
House of Games (Mamet)
Love is Colder Than Death (Fassbinder)
The Blood of a Poet (Cocteau)
The 400 Blows (Truffaut)
Violent Cop (Kitano)
Of What I’ve Seen:
Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski, 2002)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941)
The Puffy Chair (Jay & Mark Duplass, 2005)
Les Quatre Cents Coups (François Truffaut, 1959)
Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang, 1992)
Der Siebente Kontinent (Michael Haneke, 1989)
Le Silence de la Mer (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1949)
Of What I’d Like to See:
L’Âge d’Or (Luis Buñuel, 1930)
Blizna (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1976)
Dance Party USA (Aaron Katz, 2006)
Je Tu Il Elle (Chantal Akerman, 1974)
Los Motivos de Berta (José Luis Guerín, 1985)
Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2000)
Paris Nous Appartient (Jacques Rivette, 1960)
Præsidenten (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1919)
O Sangue (Pedro Costa, 1989)
Die Spinnen (Fritz Lang, 1919-20)
Straight Shooting (John Ford, 1917) [Not first, but I believe the earliest surviving.]
Amores Perros by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Amores Perros
The Duellists
Electra Glide in Blue
Night of the Living Dead
Nine Queens
Performance
The Scent of Green Papaya
See How They Fall
THX 1138
Violent Cop
A Hell of a Note by Eagle Pennell
Un Chien Andalou by Luis Bunuel
I Stand Alone – Gaspar Noé
The Whole Shooting Match – Eagle Pennell
Trivia: Robert Redford said he was inspired by Pennell’s work to create the Sundance Institute.
Wanda – Barbara Loden
Maborosi – Hirokazu Kore-eda
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks – Wang Bing
Dear Pyongyang – Yang Yonghi
Shilde/Kairat – Darezhan Omirbaev
Reassemblage – Trinh T. Minh-ha
Finisterrae – Sergio Caballero
On the Road: The Document – Noriaki Tsuchimoto
Qu’ils reposent en révolte (Des figures de guerre) – Sylvain George
Christmas in August – Heo Jin-ho
A lot more…
Robert wins with the Eagle Pennell. You want to talk about Texas…
@ JJ
A Hell of a Note – 28 min – Short
Robert, you forgot, La Pointe Courte. :)
Ooooo haha Thanks Jazz !
From CC:
The great Agnès Varda’s film career began with this graceful, penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Varda’s discursive, gorgeously filmed debut was radical enough to later be considered one of the progenitors of the coming French New Wave.
The Whole Shooting Match – Eagle Pennell
Texas, fuck yeah!
Whoops, didn’t read the 45 min. requirement. Both of them are damn good films, Whole Shootin’ Match the better of the two. It’s great to see Eagle’s presence as a great auteur resurging in the four years since its theatrical rerelease and the two years since its DVD release.
One Week
Meshes of the Afternoon
They Live by Night
Pather Panchali
The House Is Black
Black Girl
The Third Part of the Night
Titicut Follies
Maborosi
Chopper
George Washington
Badlands
Ratcatcher
My favourite first film is Badlands
This thread has been done a million times, so I’ll only post my favourite here:
NEXT!!!
Nil By Mouth (Dir: Gary Oldman)
The War Zone (Dir: Tim Roth)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Dir: Tom Stoppard)
Tyrannosaur (Dir: Paddy Considine)
Michael Convery
I’m interested in great films that were the director’s first full-length feature film.
Of course there is the golden-calf of this category, Citizen Kane, but I have reserved feeling about the so-called greatest film ever made.
I haven’t seen many first film, but others that I’ve seen that I think can fit into this category are:
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Breathless
Reservoir Dogs
The Return
Synechdoche, New York
Which would you pick?