I also feel like Jeremy Saulnier should be included; though he’s only made two films (“Blue Ruin” and “Green Room”), he’s surely made a mark. Ditto Ryan Coogler (“Fruitvale Station” and “Creed”), Mike Mills (“Thumbsucker,” “20th Century Women,” and Beginners") and Ava DuVernay (“Middle of Nowhere,” “Selma” and “The 13th”). Another director I’m not sure about is Judd Apatow, whose best work (“The 40-Year-old Virgin,” Knocked Up," and “Trainwreck”) has been marred by disappointments as well (“Funny People,” and “This Is 40”).
That’s pretty much it. Am I missing anybody? The amount of new talent that has grown from the American studio system since the 2000s is pathetic when compared to the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Of course, I didn’t forget Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Christopher Nolan, Paul Greengrass, Yorgos Lanthimos, Denis Villeneuve, and Edgar Wright, but they’re not American!
So what does this all mean? It means that the directors who started in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s have to pick up the slack, and even they are not being given as many opportunities as possible these days, what with Hollywood’s current fascination with sequels and comic book movies. Also, they can’t live forever, and many of them are well into their late 60s and early 70s. It’s a very interesting time we’re living in at the movies. Who will pick up the slack? It’s not unrealistic to think that more foreign filmmakers will be coming in to pick up the slack, what with Cuaron, Del Toro, Inarritu, Joon-Ho Bong, James Wan, Martin McDonaugh andYorgos Lanthimos all having made the plunge to American cinema this decade.
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