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A list of directors’ impressive first movies, including Citizen Kane (Orson Welles), Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig), 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet), Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard), The 400 Blows (François Truffaut), and The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola).

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Bob Clewell

Here's another great list of first films.

https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/103-first-films

Some overlap, but not listed on the Letterboxd list are Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson) and Pariah (Dee Rees) which I'd put high on my list.

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Jason KottkeMOD

Ah thanks for sharing this. I'd noticed Bottle Rocket's absence and was like 🤔

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