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Happy Birthday, Directors! October Edition

Buster Keaton illustration by the fabulous Hugo Marmugi

Join the MJ crew in celebrating the birthdays of these filmmakers throughout the month of October!

10/4     Buster Keaton - Sherlock Jr, The General

10/5     Louis Lumière - Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory

10/7     Andrew Dominik - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

10/8     William Greaves - Symbiopsychotaxiplasm

10/9     Guillermo del Toro - Cronos, The Devil’s Backbone, Blade II, Hellboy, Hellboy II

10/9     Jacques Tati - Playtime

10/10   Kenneth Branagh - Henry V, Hamlet

10/12   Satoshi Kon - Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika

10/16   David Zucker - Airplane, Top Secret, The Naked Gun

10/19   Trey Parker - South Park: Bigger Longer Uncut, Team America World Police

10/20   Jean-Pierre Melville - Le Samurai, Army of Shadows, Cercle Rouge

10/20   Danny Boyle - Trainspotting - 28 Days Later, Sunshine

10/22   Spike Jonze - Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Where the Wild Things Are, Her

10/23   Ang Lee - The Ice Storm, Hulk, Brokeback Mountain

10/23   Sam Raimi - Darkman, A Simple Plan, Spider-Man 2, Drag Me To Hell

10/23   Alex Gibney - Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room, Taxi To The Dark Side

10/26   Don Siegel - Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Charley Varrick, Escape from Alcatraz

10/27   Ivan Reitman - Stripes, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II

10/29   Ralph Bakshi - Wizards, The Lord of the Rings

10/31   Louis Malle - Elevator to the Gallows, Murmur of the Heart, Atlantic City

10/31   Peter Jackson - Dead Alive, Heavenly Creatures, Forgotten Silver