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 their movies and possibly how the director has grown artistically.
Jarmusch has an offbeat vibe and crafts movies that run on a different wavelength than most of Hollywood. He lest viewers sit with characters and scenes as not much outwardly engaging happens or as they go about the business of their lives. He often depicts characters that do not speak much and utilizes are plenty of silences.
On the other hand, some…
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 their movies and possibly how the director has grown artistically.
Jarmusch has an offbeat vibe and crafts movies that run on a different wavelength than most of Hollywood. He lest viewers sit with characters and scenes as not much outwardly engaging happens or as they go about the business of their lives. He often depicts characters that do not speak much and utilizes are plenty of silences.
On the other hand, some of his characters can be quite talkative. He usually doesn't focus on one protagonist, but focuses on the tapestry of human life through many different characters. His characters are usually loners, outsiders, foreigners, or travelers to further depict an America that is not homogenous or popular and sets them not in the big, well-known cities ofAmerica, but in smaller cities that comprise the America not often shown in movies.
These overlooked kinds of settings and quirky characters color his depiction of America in a way that shows value and worth in everywhere and everyone, not just in what is culturally deemed great by society. He furthers this commitment to the non-mainstream by filling his movie with an eclectic collection of songs he clearly loves, as he also often casts musicians in his movies.
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 | 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 | Lynn Ramsay | Céline Sciamma | Ben Stiller | Quentin Tarantino | Andrei Tarkovsky | Taika Waititi | Edgar Wright | Chloé Zhao
