Directors worth keeping an eye on, part 5
But wait, there’s more! A sequel to part 4.
Sylvain Chomet
Chomet is a French director who’s made 2 terrific animated movies.
- Masterpiece
- The Triplets of Belleville
- Great movie
- The Illusionist (2010)
Isabel Coixet
Coixet is a Spanish director who’s made 2 brilliant movies with Sarah Polley.
- Masterpieces
- My Life Without Me
- The Secret Life of Words
Cameron Crowe
Crowe has directed 2 amazing movies with Tom Cruise and 1 with Matt Damon.
- Masterpiece
- Jerry Maguire
- Great movies
- Vanilla Sky
- We Bought a Zoo
Paul Greengrass
Greengrass has directed 2 of the best action movies ever, both with Matt Damon.
- Masterpieces
- The Bourne Supremacy
- The Bourne Ultimatum
Doug Liman
Liman has directed some incredible action movies, one with a science fiction twist.
- Masterpieces
- The Bourne Identity (2002)
- Edge of Tomorrow
- Great movie
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith
James Mangold
Mangold’s masterpiece is a biography of Johnny Cash starring Joaquin Phoenix.
- Masterpiece
- Walk the Line
- Great movies
- Girl, Interrupted
- Knight and Day
- Mediocre movie
- The Wolverine
Deepa Mehta
Mehta was born in India and now lives in Canada. Her movie Water dramatizes the plight of Indian widows forced into poverty — of which there are many.
- Masterpiece
- Water
- Great movies
- Earth
- Fire
Michael Moore
Unlike the other directors on this list, Moore is a director of documentaries. If you haven’t seen them, you should do so immediately. He also has 2 TV shows, TV Nation and The Awful Truth. He did direct one work of fiction — Canadian Bacon.
- Masterpieces
- Bowling for Columbine
- Capitalism: A Love Story
- Fahrenheit 9/11
- Roger & Me
- Great movies
- The Big One
- Slacker Uprising
Lone Scherfig
Scherfig, a Danish director, has directed Anne Hathaway and Carey Mulligan in brilliant movies.
- Masterpiece
- One Day
- Great movie
- An Education
Steven Soderbergh
Soderbergh put together an amazing cast for Ocean’s Eleven and its sequels — the first two movies had terrific twists.
- Masterpieces
- Ocean’s Eleven
- Ocean’s Twelve
- Great movies
- Erin Brockovich
- Out of Sight
- Side Effects
- Solaris (2002)
- Good movie
- Ocean’s Thirteen