Ten Directors with Extraordinary Five-Film Runs
(After I made my five-albums list, I began wondering which of the directors I admire could pass a five-films test—that is to say, five consecutive releases of the very highest caliber: all A’s and no B’s. Some of these are the usual suspects, while some are not. I’ve arranged the list alphabetically by artist.)
Albert Brooks: Real Life - Modern Romance - Lost in America - Defending Your Life - Mother
Terry Gilliam: Time Bandits - Brazil - The Adventures of Baron Munchausen - The Fisher King - 12 Monkeys
Nicole Holofcener: Walking and Talking - Lovely and Amazing - Friends with Money - Please Give - Enough Said
Mamoru Hosoda: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time - Summer Wars - Wolf Children - The Boy and the Beast - Mirai
Hirokazu Kore-eda: Air Doll - I Wish - Like Father, Like Son - Our Little Sister - After the Storm
Terrence Malick: Badlands - Days of Heaven - The Thin Red Line - The New World - The Tree of Life
Hayao Miyazaki: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind - Castle in the Sky - My Neighbor Totoro - Kiki’s Delivery Service - Porco Rosso
John Sayles: Matewan - Eight Men Out - City of Hope - Passion Fish - The Secret of Roan Inish
Jim Sheridan: My Left Foot - The Field - In the Name of the Father - The Boxer - In America
Denis Villeneuve: Incendies - Prisoners - Enemy - Sicario - Arrival
— June 20, 2021