Favourite Directorial Debut

Quentin Tarantino - Reservoir Dogs

Rob Reiner -This is Spinal Tap

Sam Raimi - The Evil Dead

George A Romero - Night of the Living Dead

Charles Laughton - Night of the Hunter

Yours?

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Terence Malick - Badlands

Francois Truffaut - The 400 Blows

Spike Jonze - Being John Malkovich

Orson Welles - Citizen Kane

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Of the ones not mentioned so far:

Mike Nichols - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Barry Levinson - Diner

John Huston - The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Marlon Brando - One-Eyed Jacks

Frank Darabont - The Shawshank Redemption

Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise - Beauty and the Beast (1991)

James Brooks - Terms of Endearment

Brad Bird - The Iron Giant

Charles Chaplin - The Kid (1921)

Elia Kazan - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Tim Robbins - Bob Roberts

John Lasseter - Toy Story

Ridley Scott - The Duellists

Colin Higgins - Foul Play

Franco Zeffirelli - The Taming of the Shrew (1967)

Martin McDonagh - In Bruges

Neill Blomkamp - District 9

The Hughes Bros. - Menace II Society

Preston Sturges - The Great McGinty

David Mamet - House of Games

Mel Brooks - The Producers (1968)

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M Night Shyamalan for The Sixth Sense

And the oscar goes to...? I agree with you, even though "The Sixth Sense" was "only" his breaktrough, not his debut.


Also rep for Bob Roberts and Menace II Society.

Same thread HERE.

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Anyway, as for ones that haven't been mentioned...

Kevin Smith - Clerks

Alex Cox - Repo Man

David Cronenberg - Shivers

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Pfft, I put Director and Debut in the search field and nothing came up.

so sue me.

Two great directoral debuts: Laughton's Night of the Hunter, Brando's One-Eyed Jacks. And neither one ever directed a movie again.

Surely it'll be this, won't it?




She's also starring in it.



I know she's also in the first pic, but any excuse.

Sure it will, honey. Sure it will.

No surprise. She looks sweet with the headphones on - director-style.

Orson Welles; Citizen Kane
Terrence Malick; Badlands
Darren Aronofsky; Pi

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Also going to throw in...

John Carpenter - Dark Star

Following hasn't been mentioned, so i'll go with that. But nothing will beat Citizen Kane as far as great debuts goes. NOTHING!

Incomplete obviously the list for the Favourite Directorial Debut will ever be. Still it appears to me I should not forget to mention 'The Kid' and 'Who's knocking at my door'.
Anyway--


The Kid
Charles Chaplin

Une Visite
Francois Truffaut

Lo Sceicco Bianco
Federico Fellini

Pather Panchali (Songs of the Road)
Satyajit Ray

Who's That Knocking at My Door
Martin Scorsese