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Which of these from Tim Out's list of 10 greatest directorial debuts of all time is your favorite?

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Here is the link for the full list of Time Out's 50 greatest directorial debuts of all time

Please vote only once in each poll.

Movies referenced in this poll:
The 400 Blows
L'Atalante
Badlands
Blood Simple
Citizen Kane
The Maltese Falcon
The Night of the Hunter
Night of the Living Dead
Performance
They Live By Night

Re:Which of these from Tim Out's list of 10 greatest directorial debuts of all time is your favorite?

What a great poll - really tough choices...  I had to review my ratings for the six that I have seen...  My vote is cast for The 400 Blows.

Tom

Re:Which of these from Tim Out's list of 10 greatest directorial debuts of all time is your favorite?

[Although I've only seen half the film, I'll go with Mr. Kane. I think the film had so much of the passion and intelligence that Wells brought to film making, usually for the good but not always.

JIMBELL

Re:Which of these from Tim Out's list of 10 greatest directorial debuts of all time is your favorite?

For me it was Badlands.   I've seen all of Malick's film (just four) so far, and while they are all good, I feel like he began with the perfect film and then went just slightly downhill from then on.

I found it interesting that three of these movies had "night" in the title and two of them had the phrase "night of the" in the title.  I'm not sure what that means, but maybe if you are a first time director you can put this phrase in the title of your film for some extra luck.

Re:Which of these from Tim Out's list of 10 greatest directorial debuts of all time is your favorite?

I've seen two, Citizen Kane and The Maltese Falcon, and I think the choice is obvious between the two of them.  Citizen Kane was pretty brilliant.

Incidentally, I saw this article too before a poll was made about it!

Re:Which of these from Tim Out's list of 10 greatest directorial debuts of all time is your favorite?

Risselada:

Please reference this thread for the rules of this group.

Here is the link for the full list of Time Out's 50 greatest directorial debuts of all time

Please vote only once in each poll.

Movies referenced in this poll:
The 400 Blows
L'Atalante
Badlands
Blood Simple
Citizen Kane
The Maltese Falcon
The Night of the Hunter
Night of the Living Dead
Performance
They Live By Night

   Obviously I could only vote for one movie out of that list...   George Romero is a GOD in the directing world and NOTLD is, quite simply, one of the best movies ever made...

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Re:Which of these from Tim Out's list of 10 greatest directorial debuts of all time is your favorite?

My favorite filmmakers of all time are The Coen brothers yet curiously enough, their first film is my least favorite!  I still love it, but it's the only one I would consider less than perfect for me.

Also interesting is that two fo these, Jean Vigo's L'Atalante and Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter are each othe only feature films that either of these guys ever made.  I wonder if they still would have been as high on this list if they had gone on to make further films, whether better ones or worse ones.

Re:Which of these from Tim Out's list of 10 greatest directorial debuts of all time is your favorite?

Ah dang -- there are so many movies I need to see....  Of this list, I've only seen two:  Citizen Kane (which got my vote) and Badlands.  Though maybe I shouldn't have voted at all.  I just liked the way Kane was put together.