I was wondering about some of those hyped first timer directors who seem to be having trouble getting new projects off the ground.

One good example of this is the director of "the slums of beverly hills" tamara jenkins.

That was an excellent debut film, and I've been looking out for any new projects of hers, but nothing.

Any other directors you can think of like this?

I don't know exactly what's he's up to but Richard Kelly I suppose....

Billy Morrissette did a great job on Scotland, PA, and has not been heard from since. Helllllooo, Hollywood!

Knowing (2004) is his next project.

Plot Summary from IMDB.com:

A water main breaks, resulting in repair crews unearthing an elementary school's time capsule. But when the chairman of the town's historical society opens the capsule, he finds more than he bargained for. Full of children's drawings, the sketches are predictions of the future. But one child's pictures are much more than ridiculous future worlds. Each sketch accurately predicts some of the greatest tragedies from the past fourty years. Only one of the drawings has yet to come true. In a race against time, the chairman sets out to prevent the last drawing from becoming a reality.

That sounds really interesting. Should be a good movie.

That would make a great TV show, only I would replace the time capsule with tomorrow's newspaper.

Eric Mendelsohn (Judy Berlin)

Groucho, I think you're on to something, and we could have a cat bring the paper

Neil "Dog Soldiers" Marshall.

Justin "Human Traffic" Kerrigan.

I don't know about first timers but a couple I keep my eye on for future works.

Alex Proyas: Released 2 films in 9 years. Both 4 star films, the Crow and Dark City

Christopher Nolan: Excellent first film, memento but Insomnia was so, so.

corvin, i meant along the lines of director's who have made only 1 film, a debut film, and nothing since.

nolan's first film was "following" by the way.

This is an in-joke, no? I know I recognize this plotline, but I can't place it. What is it?

I'm also looking forward to Knowing. Donnie Darko was one of my favorite movies of 2001, and if he can prove he's not a one-"hit" wonder, he might have what it takes to get much sought after placement on the list of directors K will go see a movie based almost solely on the director (Fincher, Spielberg, Linklater, Burton, etc.).

K

I think the show was "Early Edition" it was some show on...CBS(?)

A guy got tomorrow's paper and he had to try and stop some bad events from happening

I know what was meant, I can't think of any first timers though.

I look forward to sophomore efforts from these folks:

David Maquiling - Too Much Sleep (2000)
Michael Gilio - Kwik Stop (2001)
Cory McAbee - The American Astronaut (2000)
Roman Coppola - CQ (2001)
Hilary Birmingham - Tully (2000)

Alejandro González Iñárritu's 21 Grams

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Tut-tut. Bumping a thread.

Michael J Bassett. He did Deathwatch, and that's a badass debut. If only the ending made a little more sense...

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Love and Basketball-Loved it.
Disappearing Acts-Pretty good (Made for HBO)

I wanna see more!

ALex Proyas has a movie that in some countries has already been released and will be released in the US really soon....it called Garage Days

Comes out next week IIRC, and getting mixed reviews, too.
http://us.imdb.com/ReleaseDates?0280696

Trailer here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_se...t/garage_days/

I saw the trailer for Garage Days last week, and it looked very funny, a change of pace for Alex Proyas.

I've been waiting for Sofia Coppola to come up with something after '99s Virgin Suicides.

Off topic, but seen Garage Days. It's already out here on DVD and it's a great little film. Proyas also has the big-budget Will Smith flick "I, Robot" being released next year.

http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id...938&cf=trailer

The trailer to Sofia Coppola's upcoming Lost In Translation.