best films by directors under 30

21.Director:Richard Kelly
Film: Donnie Darko (2001)
Age : 26
since then : Southland Tales (2007), The Box (2009)

20.Director:Amy Heckerling
Film: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Age : 28
since then : Johnny Dangerously (1984),Look Who's Talking(1989),Clueless (1995),

19.Director:Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Film: Handler der vier Jahreszeiten ( The Merchant of Four Seasons) - 1972
Age : 27
since then : Angst essen Seele auf(1974),Effi Briest (1974),Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel(1975)Despair(1978),Lola (1981)

18.Director:Baz Luhrmann
Film: Stricly Ballroom (1992)
Age : 29
since then : Romeo+Juliet (1996), Moulin Rouge (2001), Australia (2008)

17.Director:Spike Jonze
Film: Being John Malkovich (1999)
Age : 29
since then : Adaptation (2002), Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

16.Director:Alejandro Amenabar
Film: Abre los Ojos (Open Your Eyes) -1997
Age : 25
since then : The others (2001), Mar Adentro (2004), Agora (2009)

15.Director:David Gordon Green
Film: George Washington
Age : 24
since then : All the Real Girls (2003), Snow Angels (2007), Pineapple Express(2008)

14.Director:Stanley Kubrick
Film: Paths of Glory(1957)
Age : 29
since then : Spartacus (1960), Dr. Strangelove(1964),2001: A Space Odyssey (1968),A Clockwork Orange(1971),Full Metal Jacket(1987)

13.Director:Steve Soderbergh
Film: sex, lies and videotape(1989)
Age : 26
since then :Out of Sight (1998), Traffic (2000), Ocean's Eleven (2001), Che (2008)

12.Director:Spike Lee
Film: She's Gotta Have It(1986)
Age : 29
since then :Do The Right Thing (1989), Malcolm X (1992), 25th Hour (2002),When the Levees Broke (2006)

11.Director:Kevin Smith
Film: Clerks (1994)
Age : 24
since then :Dogma (1999), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), Clerks II(2006)

10. Director: Byran Singer
Film: The Usual Suspects (1995)
Age :29
since then: X-men (2000), Superman Returns (2006), Valkyrie (2008)

9.Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Film: Boogie Nights (1997) or Magnolia (1999)
Age : 27 or 29
since then: Punch -Drunk Love (2002), There Will Be Blood(2007)

8.Director: Quentin Tarantino
Film: Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Age : 29
since then: Pulp Fiction (1994), Kill Bill (2003), Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004), Inglourious Basterds(2009)

7..Director: George Lucas
Film: American Graffiti (1973)
Age : 29
since then: Star Wars IV(1977), Star Wars Episode I (1999),Star Wars Episode II(2002),Star Wars Episode III (2005)

6.Director: Christopher Nolan
Film:Memento (2000)
Age : 29
since then: Insomnia (2002), Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008)

5.Director:John Singleton
Film: Boyz N the Hood (1991)
Age : 23
since then : Poetic Justice (1993), Higher Learning (1995), Baby Boy (2001), 2fast 2Furious (2003)

4.Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Film:A bout de souffle (Breathless) -1960
Age : 29
since then: Les Carabiniers(1963),Tout va bien(1972),Sauve qui peut (la vie))1980),Éloge de l'amour(2001), Notre Musique(2004)

3.Director: Steven Spielberg
Film: Jaws (1975)
Age : 29
since then: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977),E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial(1982),Schindler's List (1993),Saving Private Ryan(1998), Munich(2005)

2.Director: Francois Truffaut
Film: Les Quatre Cents Coups (The 400 Blows) - 1959
Age : 27
since then:Jules et Jim(1962), Baisers voles(1968),La Nuit americaine(1974),Le Dernier Metro(1980)

1.Director: Orson Welles
Film:Citizen Kane (1941)
Age : 27
since then: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Macbeth (1948), Touch of Evil (1958)

Oscar Predictions-Film Awards (i)

Best Director Most likely winner : Steven Spielberg for Lincoln. Leaving out Ben Affleck, Kathryn Bigelow and Quentin Tarantino pretty much made this Spielberg's to lose. And doesn't reflect too well on the Academy either. Backup Pick : David O. Russell for Silver Linings Playbook. The production company of Weinstein have been campaigning hard for this and it's a good film with the acting performances set up well. The thing about best director is it's the easiest award to give to someone the academy likes because it's ambiguous and the academy doesn't really love Russell. Most deserving : Michel Haneke for Amour. Haneke has the most carefully crafted film here. All in all it is definitely his film in every scene. His presence is all around the film and it is an excellent film. If they give it for the greatest impact a director has on the film, this is it. Best Adapted Screenplay Most li...

a list about plays (post 1950)

The general perception is good plays stopped being written. That all the plays being performed which remain popular are classics and there is no place for the playwright in the current dramatic world. The role of the playwright has been diminished but good plays have not become extinct in the 20th and 21st century.This list will attempt to reflect that by giving a selection of excellent plays written (and performed) after 1950. 20. Prelude to a Kiss- Craig Lucas. Premiered in California in 1988. Quick Description: Thought to be a metaphor for AIDS. A story about the switching of bodies between a new bride and an old man and how the husband must find the old man while keeping his love alive. Something of a Sci-fi style and one of the most original works in recent times. 19. Long Day's Journey Into Night - Eugene O'Neill.premiered in Stockholm at the Royal Dramatic theatre in 1956. quick summary: A play about addiction and how it affects everyone around the addict.The characters ...

Travel Writings- Rome (I)

Rome is a cliché. Usually that isn’t a good thing but when the cliché is that a city is cool, full of life and gorgeous, the clichés can stay. Rome is possibly the only European capital that can claim to rival Paris in the popular imagination in terms of having an expectation around it. Even Paris is now succumbing to parallel narratives due to the sheer size of the city (much like London), with the immigrant experience less of an unknown story (to non-immigrants anyway. Immigrants always knew it wasn’t cities paved with gold they’d find). Some combination of smaller population, less immigration and the weight of centuries of civilization being still visible across the city has allowed Rome to actually deserve the tag of “The Eternal City”. My idea of Rome comes to me primarily from Italian films of the 1960s. Rome is black and white in my mind just as it is on Fellini’s film reel. I had low expectations. Months in London had allowed cynicism to set in...

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