One-time directors
Submitted by joaoKG on Thu, 08/20/2009 - 03:35
- Viking Eggeling / Symphonie diagonale, 1924
- Fernand Léger / Ballet mécanique, 1924
- Oleg Frelikh / Prostitutka, 1927
- Jean Godard / Pour un soir..!, 1931
- Mario Peixoto / Limite, 1931
- Robert Riskin / When You're in Love, 1937
- Graham Heid / Wynken, Blynken & Nod, 1938
- Oliver H. P. Garrett / Careful, Soft Shoulder, 1942
- William Saroyan / The Good Job, 1942
- Clive Brook / On Approval, 1944
- André Malraux / L'Espoir, 1945
- Boris Peskine / L'Espoir, 1945
- George S. Kaufman / The Senator Was Indiscreet, 1947
- Jean Genet / Un Chant d'Amour, 1950
- Henri Jeanson / Lady Paname, 1950
- Peter Lorre / Der Verlorene, 1951
- Isidore Isou / Traité de bave et d'éternité, 1951
- John Parker / Dementia, 1955
- Park Nam-ok / Minangin, 1955
- Wallace Berman wikipedia / Untitled (AKA Aleph), 1955-56
- Anthony Quinn / The Buccaneer, 1958
- Kevin McClory / The Boy and the Bridge, 1959
- Walter Matthau / Gangster Story, 1960
- Paul Frees / The Beatniks, 1960
- Marlon Brando / One-Eyed Jacks, 1961
- Timothy Carey / The World's Greatest Sinner, 1962
- Barbara Rubin / Cocks and Cunts AKA Christmas on Earth, 1963
- Forugh Farrokhzad / Khaneh siah ast, 1963
- Steve Cochran / Tell Me in the Sunlight, 1965
- Max Zihlmann / Frühstück in Rom, 1965
- Frank Sinatra / None But the Brave, 1965
- Abrar Alvi / Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, 1966
- Yukio Mishima / Yûkoku, 1966
- Aleksandr Askoldov / Komissar, 1970
- Sergio Merolle / Quanto costa morire, 1968
- Ester Krumbachová / Vrazda ing. Certa, 1970
- Dalton Trumbo / Johnny Got His Gun, 1971
- Jack Lemmon / Kotch, 1971
- Nelson Lyon / The Telephone Book, 1971
- Fernand Deligny / Le Moindre Geste, 1971
- Jean-Pierre Daniel / Le Moindre Geste, 1971
- Josée Manenti / Le Moindre Geste, 1971
- Francesco Mazzei / L'Arma, l'ora, il movente, 1973
- James William Guercio / Zenka onna: koroshi-bushi, 1973
- Atsushi Mihori / Electra Glide in Blue, 1973
- John Coney / Space Is the Place, 1974
- Eduardo Serra / Um Aniversário, 1975
- George Barry / Death Bed: The Bed That Eats, 1977
- Georges Perec / Les Lieux d'une Fugue, 1978
- Anne Bancroft / Fatso, 1980
- Gordon Willis / Windows, 1980
- Don Carmody / The Surrogate, 1984
- Stephen King / Maximum Overdrive, 1986
- J. Michael Muro / Street Trash, 1987
- Max von Sydow / Ved vejen, 1988
- Eddie Murphy / Harlem Nights, 1989
- Monica Vitti / Scandalo Segreto, 1989
- Tom Stoppard / Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, 1990
- Hanif Kureishi / London Kills Me, 1991
- Hema Malini / Dil Aashna Hai (...The Heart Knows), 1992
- Leslie Harris / Just Another Girl on the I.R.T., 1992
- Yoshifumi Kondo / Mimi wo sumaseba, 1995
- Armin Mueller-Stahl / Conversation with the Beast, 1996
- Sophie Calle / No Sex Last Night, 1996
- Greg Shephard / No Sex Last Night, 1996
- Alan Rickman / The Winter Guest, 1997
- Gary Oldman / Nil by Mouth, 1997
- Aris Iliopulos / I Woke Up Early the Day I Died, 1998
- Pyotr Lutsik / Okraina, 1998
- Ice Cube / The Players Club, 1998
- Tim Roth / The War Zone, 1999
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- Almost just one movie (may include a few shorts or series; linking to his/her "one" film):
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- John Grierson / Drifters, 1929
- Harold Clurman / Deadline at Dawn, 1946
- Charles Laughton / The Night of the Hunter, 1951
- Karl Malden / Time Limit, 1957
- Albert Finney / Charlie Bubbles, 1967
- Chadi Abdel Salam / al-Mummia, 1969
- Barbara Loden / Wanda, 1970
- Robert Culp / Hickey & Boggs, 1972
- Rémo Forlani / Juliette et Juliette, 1974
- Kanti Madia / Kashino Dikro, 1979
- Gerald Kargl / Angst, 1983
- Klaus Kinski / Kinski Paganini, 1989
- Leonard Schrader / Naked Tango, 1990
- Dennis Potter / Secret Friends, 1991
- Rémy Belvaux / C'est arrivé près de chez vous, 1992
- Cyril Collard / Les Nuits Fauves, 1992
- Johnny Depp / The Brave, 1997
- Sarah Jacobson / Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore, 1997
- Hype Williams / Belly, 1998
- Gerhard Benedikt Friedl / Hat Wolff von Amerongen Konkursdelikte begangen?, 2004 [listed here because the director is already deceased]
Author Comments:
This is a list with directors who shot just one movie. (It doesn't count if it's post-2000!)
Big thanks to all the contributions! I hope you can tell some more names, and perhaps add interesting links.
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