Someone recently started a 'best directorial debuts' thread with the following three unimpeachables:
- Citizen Kane - Welles
- The Maltese Falcon - Huston
- 12 Angry Men - Lumet
I stumped for:
- They Live By Night - Ray
- Night of the Hunter - Laughton
- 400 Blows - Truffaut
- Breathless - Godard
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Nichols
- Badlands - Malick
- The Spirit of the Beehive - Erice
- Eraserhead -Lynch
- Blood Simple - Coens
- The Seventh Continent - Haneke
- Welcome to the Dollhouse - Solondz
- Gattaca - Niccol
- Synecdoche NY - Kaufman
- Son of Saul - Nemes
And a few other debuts seem to me to be a notch down from those but still spectacular:
- La Pointe Courte - Varda
- Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice - Mazursky
- Duel - Spielberg
- Texas Chainsaw - Hooper
- Risky Business - Brickman
- Heathers - Lehmann
- Reservoir Dogs - Tarantino
- Shallow Grave - Boyle
- Once Were Warriors - Tamahori
- Pi - Aronofsky
- Hunger - McQueen
- Get Out - Peele
Bottom Line: There have been so many spectacular debuts that the standard for making a big splash with your first film is the same standard as for making a big splash period (Welles, Godard, Malick, etc. have ruined the curve): Is your film one of the best films of its year/its decade/all-time?
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