For over 50 years, Film at Lincoln Center’s programming and initiatives like New Directors/New Films, the New York Film Festival, and year-round artist panels and workshops have provided an important platform for promising new filmmaking talent. Our efforts to share and amplify bold new voices continue in the FLC Virtual Cinema with three essential directorial debuts: Bora Kim’s House of Hummingbird, Mounia Meddour’s Papicha, and a new 4K restoration of Ulrich Köhler’s Bungalow, opening this Friday.
To celebrate these remarkable first features, we asked the FLC community on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook to share some of their favorite directorial debuts with us. The selections included works by Ari Aster, Mati Diop, Bi Gan, Greta Gerwig, Mia Hansen-Løve, Barry Jenkins, Bong Joon Ho, David Lynch, Terrence Malick, Lucrecia Martel, Satyajit Ray, Hong Sangsoo, Céline Sciamma, Agnès Varda, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Orson Welles, Chloé Zhao, and more. Thank you to everyone who joined the conversation!
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Blood Simple. Breathless. Pather Panchali. This Is Spinal Tap. The 400 Blows. https://t.co/Aa8a2GVNUt
— Raja Sen (@RajaSen) June 26, 2020
This Is Spinal Tap-Reiner
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure-Burton
Fast Times at Ridgemont High-Heckerling
Animal Kingdom-Michod
The Witch-Eggers
Layer Cake-Vaughn
Primer-Carruth
Nightcrawler-Gilroy
40-Year-Old Virgin-Apatow
Shallow Grave-Boyle https://t.co/LUUkb1OftF— Burton Fisher (@FisherBurton) June 27, 2020
CITIZEN KANE, obviously. https://t.co/9RElJsi03K
— Kris Tapley (@kristapley) June 25, 2020
The Learning Tree (dir. Gordon Parks, 1969) https://t.co/JIiEoRtA6k pic.twitter.com/nWiG1wUR5V
— Brandon Ousley (@brandonousley) June 25, 2020
The Night Of The Hunter
Reservoir Dogs
La Ciénaga
Los 400 golpes
12 Angry Men
Blood Simple
Violent Cop
Blood Simple
Bottle Rocket
The Shawshank Redemption
The Virgin Suicides
Sex, lies and videotape
Night of The living dead https://t.co/zrxJxKymV0— Leo Martinelli (@leosadako) June 26, 2020
the 400 blows
american beauty
being john malkovich
the virgin suicides
citizen kane
12 angry men
lola
mustang
a single man
booksmart
the night of the hunter
divines
papicha
raw
lady bird
get out
little miss sunshine https://t.co/7U4BYcI3jb— anna (@daysfornight) June 26, 2020
https://t.co/EoBh3gkZqt pic.twitter.com/WATJfnMZwl
— rob trench (@robtrench) June 25, 2020
https://t.co/gUM7vNXzUa pic.twitter.com/jvCuwjXJ1E
— ícaro (@nyktomorpho) June 25, 2020
Distant Voices, Still Lives by Terence Davies
— John Oursler (@JMOursler) June 25, 2020
Sweetie by Jane Campion. 1000%.
— John Fecile (@JohnFecile) June 25, 2020
hiroshima, mon amour (1959) pic.twitter.com/vsFAPNI81A
— maya cade (@mayascade) June 25, 2020
Do you have more suggestions to add to the list? Share with us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, and stay tuned for more conversations on cinema.