Great Movies Each Written and Directed by the Same Person

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Not a single Coen brothers movie? No Raising Arizona, Big Labowski, or Fargo? I don’t see how you can include the Wachowskis and not the Coens.

No Scorsese, Woody Allen or Tarantino, but “The Avengers” is included? Yikes

No Tarkovsky, no Bergman, not even Mamet... the list is too long.

Two movies worth adding to the list are:

1. Perks of being a wallflower

Written and Directed by the Stephen Chbosky. It's originally a book written by Stephen. I think the movie is great because it's well directed and overall good coming of age film.

2. Primer

Cult famous mindfcuk movie. Checkout this xkcd comic (https://xkcd.com/657/) to see how complicated this movie is. The film was written, directed, produced, edited and scored by Shane Carruth.

Coincidentally, I also created Primer (https://primerlabs.io).

There's a fair balance to having that many credits. Normally, when I see the same name in all of the roles, I get nervous. I would like to present as evidence marked #1: The Room

> A number of publications have labeled The Room as one of the worst films ever made.

From the wikipedia page.

> Normally, when I see the same name in all of the roles, I get nervous

I can see why. Lol.

But Primer is really good film. Ofcourse, you will have to checkout an explainer on youtube afterwards.

Ironic how the article begins with picture that plants an idea about a certain such film in the reader's mind yet doesn't mention any of the well-known films of that writer and director.

Incredibly bad list, lol. Might be a joke? I mean,...there is not a single top-tier movie on the list?

This is written by someone who knows next to nothing about movies and/or has worse taste than Entertainment Weekly

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