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Best 5 Directorial Debuts
Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle, 1958)
A low-budget French noir masterpiece. Malle shot it at the age of 24 and Jeanne Moreau leaves her first indelible impresion on the screen.
Performance (Nicholas Roeg, 1970)
Technically co-directed with Donald Cammell, but I couldn't ignore Roeg's explosive debut.
Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
Godard breaks all the rules at once and leaves a lasting impression.
Chocolat (Claire Denis, 1988)
Probably not the film you're thinking of, this is a gorgeous and well-wrought portrayal of race relations in Africa.
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
The best one-off ever directed. Robert Mitchum breathes chilling life into the scariest movie villain of all time.
"So many worthy choices that I couldn't fit: Citizen Kane, Reservoir Dogs, Eraserhead, Underworld, Blood Simple, Ivan's Childhood, etc."
- tristanj