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Notable Third Features

After one, after two, comes three. I thought looking at all of these in relation to one another as the third could be interesting. Is it interesting? Maybe. Gone is the wow factor of NEW DIRECTOR and at this point there’s (usually?) more ambition, experimentation, craft as they’ve established themselves or at least gone through the motions long enough to have the experience, the skill.

Chronological order.

(I didn’t count movies that some of these co-directed as 1, 2 or 3.)

Block or Report
  • The Killing
  • Le Bonheur
  • El Topo
  • Pink Flamingos
  • Solaris
  • Mean Streets
  • Jaws
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock
  • Star Wars
  • Halloween
  • Blade Runner
  • Dune
  • Aliens
  • Castle in the Sky
  • Down by Law
  • Manhunter
  • Shadows in Paradise
  • Terrorizers
  • High Hopes
  • Batman
  • Do the Right Thing
  • Miller's Crossing
  • Point Break
  • Raise the Red Lantern
  • The Living End
  • Dazed and Confused
  • Chungking Express
  • Eat Drink Man Woman
  • I Can't Sleep
  • La Promesse
  • The Game
  • Jackie Brown
  • After Life
  • Happiness
  • Magnolia
  • The Sixth Sense
  • t Security Area
  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • About Schmidt
  • Insomnia
  • Oasis
  • Unknown Pleasures
  • Tokyo Godfathers
  • Babel
  • The Fountain
  • The Host
  • Marie Antoinette
  • Dogtooth
  • Enter the Void
  • Polytechnique
  • The Raid
  • Starlet
  • 12 Years a Slave
  • Girlhood
  • Heaven Knows What
  • Green Room
  • 20th Century Women
  • Hunt for the Wilderpeople
  • Manchester by the Sea
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  • First Man
  • Leave No Trace
  • Long Day's Journey into Night
  • Under the Silver Lake
  • I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  • Nomadland
  • Nope
  • The Northman
  • Barbie
  • Beau Is Afraid