A list of directors’ impressive first movies, including Citizen Kane (Orson Welles), Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig), 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet), Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard), The 400 Blows (François Truffaut), and The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola).
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Here's another great list of first films.
https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/103-first-films
Some overlap, but not listed on the Letterboxd list are Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson) and Pariah (Dee Rees) which I'd put high on my list.
Ah thanks for sharing this. I'd noticed Bottle Rocket's absence and was like 🤔
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