Although it is just plain fun to rank a director's movies, it may also help me think about the director's oeuvre of work as a whole. Comparisons can help me to discover elements of film that I am drawn to, what the director finds value in revealing through his movies and possibly how the director has grown artistically.
Ramsay creates movies that reveal how harsh the world can be to live in for some people. This evil is presented matter-of-factly, something the characters are used to figuring out how to live with, with often only small glimmers of hope of anything beyond this kind of existence.
Ramsay is deeply interested in exploring the complex psychologies of her protagonists. Many have…
Although it is just plain fun to rank a director's movies, it may also help me think about the director's oeuvre of work as a whole. Comparisons can help me to discover elements of film that I am drawn to, what the director finds value in revealing through his movies and possibly how the director has grown artistically.
Ramsay creates movies that reveal how harsh the world can be to live in for some people. This evil is presented matter-of-factly, something the characters are used to figuring out how to live with, with often only small glimmers of hope of anything beyond this kind of existence.
Ramsay is deeply interested in exploring the complex psychologies of her protagonists. Many have experienced trauma, which has an incredible effect on their entire lives, often causing them to withdraw within themselves and block out other relationships.
Overall, through showing how characters cope with living in bleak circumstances or how they cope with having some kind of relationship with people who commit terrible evils, Ramsay reveals the resilience of people and how even small counters to this evil or small acts of hope or love can be enough for people to live.
Ramsay's characters are often at such desperate points in their lives that they have moments of raw breakdowns, outbursts, and deep internal moments that allow for some incredible acting from some amazing actors.
Other directors I have ranked:
JJ Abrams | PT Anderson | Wes Anderson | Judd Apatow | Darren Aronofsky | Ari Aster | Sean Baker | Bong Joon-ho | Jane Campion | Charlie Chaplin | Damien Chazelle | Coen Brothers | Sofia Coppola | Cameron Crowe | Andrew Dominik | Robert Eggers | David Fincher | Alex Garland | Greta Gerwig | Todd Haynes | Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu | Jim Jarmusch | Rian Johnson | Spike Jonze | Satoshi Kon | Stanley Kubrick | Sergio Leone | Richard Linklater | George Lucas | David Lynch | Martin McDonagh | Steve McQueen | Sam Mendes | Nancy Meyers | Hayao Miyazaki | Jeff Nichols | Christopher Nolan | Alexander Payne | Sarah Polley | Céline Sciamma | Ben Stiller | Quentin Tarantino | Andrei Tarkovsky | Taika Waititi | Edgar Wright | Chloé Zhao
