4 Maverick Filmmakers You Should Stalk

Screw McG. The most alarming vision of five moment from now are coming from a handful of filmmakers who bring their weird imaginations to take after flick . Here ’s a list of four creators you should be obsessing about . Stuff your Netflix queue with their past movies . hound down the obscure dickhead . Show up for their new releases on gap nighttime . Make their movies take out a restraining order on you .

Danny Boyle take to make Sunshine instead of the sequel to 28 Days Later , because he ’s not a keeper , he ’s an innovator . ( Although he ’s suggest lately he may make 28 Years Later . ) Boyle has alternate between science fable movies and “ naturalistic ” cinema with surreal mite . Trainspotting and Shallow Grave are both set in the real world , but a veil of unreality clings to both of them . ( Not just the roof child , but Ewan McGregor ’s unraveling characters in both movie . ) Zombie pic 28 Days Latermanages the almost - unsufferable : it really negociate to find post - revelatory without killing off its entire cast in the first half hour . But Sunshine is Boyle ’s greatest accomplishment . The chronicle of a diminished work party on a heroic charge tor reignite the sunshine , it manages to blend the horror thriller with the trippy cosmic film . But both genres have a sword underpinning of hard science and psychological complexness , and everything feels like it ’s happening for a real reason . coming task : Boyle ’s next film is Slumdog Millionaire , about an ignorant kid who render to become a objector on a Hindi game show .

Guillermo Del Toro is well known for the acclaimed Pan ’s Labyrinth , one of the most powerful — and darkest — explorations of escape ever filmed . But he also made two of the best genetic - applied science thrillers of all time : Blade II and Mimic . ( Mimic was to begin with supposed to be a 30 - instant segment in an “ anthology ” film have a segment from Boyle . ) Both picture show feature teras created by science . In Mimic , a scientist creates a super - insect to destroy cockroach that are carrying disease . But the super - insect evolves into a elephantine devil that can assume human frame . And in Blade , vampires hack on their own genome to make nigh - invincible creatures . Upcoming projection : Del Toro is take Hellboy 2 . He ’s also work on 3993 , a spectre story about the backwash of the Spanish Civil War , and At The Mountains Of Madness , an HP Lovecraft adaptation countersink in Antarctica .

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Charlie Kaufman has only been a author up to now . But he ’s bring off to create a more uniform vision in his film than most theatre director . Films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovitch have a share set of surreal concerns : character travel into someone ’s head and discover , to your repugnance , that identity is always a first draught . Kaufman ’s case are always retool their personal narratives and confronting different versions of themselves , like Kaufman and his twin in Adaptation . It ’s also worth hunt down the little - known Human Nature ( point by Eternal Sunshine ’s Michel Gondry ) in which a sick scientist tries to discipline a computer mouse to expend a salad fork . Upcoming labor : Kaufman ’s directing his first film , Synecdoche , New York , due out next yr . ( It ’s about a theater director ( Philip Seymour Hoffman ) and his mould , make ever - stranger New York tarradiddle inside a theater which is a scale model of New York . )

Kathryn Bigelow . Her best - jazz skill fiction film is 1995 ’s Strange Days , about a former cop who sell bootlegs of masses ’s memories on data discs . And then one of those phonograph record turns out to contain someone ’s memories of mutilate a lady of pleasure . But Bigelow ’s curriculum vitae is full of claustrophobic thriller with weird touches , from 1987 ’s lamia romp Near Dark and 1990 ’s pig drama Point Blank to 2002 ’s K19 : The Widowmaker . As with Boyle , even her actual - world narration are so unnerving they palpate like alternating reality . coming project : Her next film is an Iraq war drama , The Hurt Locker .

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