Fourth in my ongoing Great Directors series is Darren Aronofsky, best known for Pi, and Requiem for a Dream. He was born February 12, 1969 in Brooklyn, NY, and has always had a love for movies. He attended Harvard University and his thesis film Supermarket Sweep is included on the list below as one I have not yet seen and do not feel myself fit to judge or review. That movie starred Sean Gullette, which has since become one of Aronofsky‘s frequent habits in his films.

Aronofsky is known to frequently employ very fast-paced, quick edited montages in his films to help the viewer get more of a feeling for the repeated action that the montage seeks to display. Additionally, he tend to use a camera which is strapped to one of his actors for at least one of the shots in his films and often features string instruments or techno in his movie’s soundtracks.

Third in my ongoing Great Directors series is Wes Anderson, best known for Rushmore, and The Royal Tenenbaums. Anderson has a very unique and discernible feel to his movies that gives him something of a significant cult following, but his movies are of a high enough caliber to be easily appreciable by anyone tempted to view one.

The second entry in my Great Directors series profiles David Fincher, director of Se7en and Fight Club, among others.  David Fincher’s directorial style seems to always incorporate novel approaches to film-making. When a film’s plot requires a gritty, realistic, but depressing feeling to it Fincher is able to deliver all of that with his directorial skill, as he had to do in making Se7en.   He is similar to Jean-Pierre Jeunet in his command of the visual elements and editing of a film to achieve his goals, but Fincher’s movies are far different than Jeunet’s.

This will be my first entry in a series of profiles of directors I believe have made a serious and consistent contribution of quality movies.  It is an annotated list of movies directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet which I have seen and which are available for purchase in DVD format, at the very least, and encoded properly for viewing in North America.  I have left off some titles mostly due to limited availability or in one case because he is still working on the project.  They are predominantly subtitled from French with the exception of Alien: Resurrection.   Jeunet is one of my favorite directors if for no other reason than when I see a movie he has directed, I have yet to find one I disliked.