.JA from
MNPP here - have y'all seen
The New York Times' list of 20 Young Directors To Watch? I only stumbled upon it with the news that
Beasts of the Southern Wild director Benh Zeitlin tells them what his next movie's going to be about therein, and seeing as how I'm not a
Beasts of the Southern Wild fan that was a strange way for me to come upon it, especially when there are names therein I'm much more interested in.
My personal favorite picks of theirs would be Sarah Polley (who I fell in love with in
The Sweet Hereafter and then really fell in love with, like squared, in
Go, and then you just keep on multiplying that love every single time she does anything - I think me and her and our love affair are pretty much at infinity about now here in the wake of
Stories We Tell), Yorgos Lanthimos (
Dogtooth is what the inside of my head looks like, which yeah, I know, steer clear), Andrew Haigh and Na Hong-jin (both
Chaser and
The Yellow Sea gave me straight up heart palpitations), but I must admit there are several names I'm not familiar with - which is awesome! I'm always up for some learnin', and excited to check the less familiar folks out. Who do you love? And who do you think's missing? I'm personally sad to see a lack of genre moviemakers - whither Ti West?