Directors worth keeping an eye on, part 6
This continues from part 5. The list contains 60 directors (or directing teams), and I think I’m going to call it done for now.
Graham Annable & Anthony Stacchi
Annable previously worked on video games while Stacchi worked on movies — coming together they produced a masterpiece.
- Masterpiece
- The Boxtrolls
Susanne Bier
Bier is a Danish director, who has directed Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan in terrific movies.
- Masterpiece
- Things We Lost in the Fire
- Great movie
- Love is All You Need
Kenneth Branaugh
Branaugh may be more famous as an actor but he’s directed some brilliant movies, and done a lot to bring Shakespeare to modern audiences.
- Masterpiece
- Dead Again
- Great movies
- Henry V (1989)
- Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
- Good movies
- Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
- Thor
Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris
This directing team has also directed music videos, commercials, and TV shows.
- Masterpiece
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Great movie
- Ruby Sparks
Phil Lord & Christopher Miller
This directing team has produced two animated masterpieces.
- Masterpieces
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
- The Lego Movie
- Bad movie
- 22 Jump Street
George Nolfi
Nolfi has only directed one movie so far, but he’s also written screenplays for The Bourne Ultimatum and Ocean’s Twelve.
- Masterpiece
- The Adjustment Bureau
Nick Park
Park is the primary force behind the hilarious Wallace & Gromit shorts. Wallace & Gromit made a brilliant transition to movie length with The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
- Masterpiece
- Chicken Run
- Great movie
- The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Bryan Singer
The 3 movies in the X-Men series that Singer has directed are all worth watching.
- Masterpieces
- The Usual Suspects
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
- Great movie
- X-Men 2
- Good movies
- Superman Returns
- X-Men
The Spierig Brothers
I’ve only seen one movie directed by Michael and Peter Spierig, but it was an astonishing one.
- Masterpiece
- Predestination
The Wachowskis
Lana and Lilly Wachowski’s masterpiece The Matrix was way back in 1999, but their great movie Cloud Atlas was in 2012 — recent enough to hope that they may be back with a great movie despite their recent disaster Jupiter Ascending. They’ve also branched out into TV with Sense8.
- Masterpiece
- The Matrix
- Great movies
- Bound
- Cloud Atlas (with Tom Tykwer)
- Mediocre movie
- The Matrix Reloaded
- Bad movies
- Jupiter Ascending
- The Matrix Revolutions