Film critic Justin Chang looks ahead to some of 2023's most anticipated movies and offers his guide to immersing yourself in their directors' past work.
I often tell my film criticism students, as they prepare to review a new movie, that it’s always helpful to familiarize yourself with a director’s past work. That might sound like fairly obvious advice, but it’s worth reinforcing for someone not accustomed to watching movies through the lens of auteurism, and who’s still learning to see how recurring themes, ideas, narrative and formal strategies accumulate meaning across a filmmaker’s body of work.
This extra research, of course, takes time. A busy college student may not be able to cram in the collected works of, say, Sarah Polley, M. Night Shyamalan or Steven Soderbergh . That said, the research has never been easier than it is in the era of streaming, where a simple visit to an invaluable guide likecan show you where and how to catch up on an auteur’s back catalog.
But the pleasures of watching and rewatching, needless to say, are not limited to students or critics. Revisiting the work of a filmmaker you love — or a filmmaker you don’t love but are trying to understand better — is one of the pleasures of going deeper into movies. Here are five filmmakers who have new movies that premiered recently at festivals and/or will be emerging in the coming months, and whose past work can be readily found, discovered and rediscovered on streaming platforms.
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