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Al Stuart

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His first film was actually Student Body, also known as Getting In. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109893/

Sometimes you see it show up on Comedy Central, at least that's where I saw it. It's the very epitome of forgettable.

I agree that May is an extraordinary debut.

Soderbergh- Sex, Lies, and Videotape.
Wes Anderson - Bottle Rocket
PTA - Sydney/Hard Eight
Jonze- Being John Malkovich
Jarmusch - Permanent Vacation
Jonathan Glazer - Sexy Beast
Neil Labute - In the Company of Men
Luc Besson - Le Dernier Combat
Rob Reiner - This is Spinal Tap
Cameron Crowe - Say Anything
Albert Brooks - Real Life
Peter Bogdanovich - Targets
Alex Cox - Repo Man
Errol Morris - Gates of Heaven
Alejandro González Iñárritu - Amores Perros
Alexander Payne - Citizen Ruth
Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Delicatessen
Ridley Scott - The Duellists
Stuart Gordon - Re-Animator
Bruce Sinofsky - Brother's Keeper
Agustín Villaronga - In a Glass Cage
Godfrey Reggio - Koyaanisqatsi
Henry Bromell - Panic
David O. Russell - Spanking the Monkey
Noah Baumbach - Kicking and Screaming
 

Gregg Shiu

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Tom Dey - Shanghai Noon

I really thought this guy would be going places until he had to go and direct Showtime.
 

Brook K

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Jean Luc-Godard - Breathless
Agnes Varda - Cleo From 5 To 7
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Love Is Colder Than Death
John Cameron Mitchell - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Bruno Dumont - The Life Of Jesus
Lynne Ramsey - Ratcatcher
 

Lew Crippen

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Good catch with Jean-Luc Godard and Agnès Varda, Brook. I’m not sure how I could have listed The 400 Blows and not included some other first New Wave films.
 

Brook K

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I think Week-End is fantastic, though my favorite is My Life To Live. However, I didn't think this thread referred to directors whose first film was their best, simply to good 1st films or in Godard's case, a great 1st film.
 

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