Happy 2018! Join the MJ crew in celebrating the birthdays of these filmmakers throughout the month of January!

1/1 Frederick Wiseman - High School, Titicut Follies

1/2 Dziga Vertov - Man With A Movie Camera

1/2 Todd Haynes - Poison, Velvet Goldmine, Far From Heaven, I’m Not There

1/3 Mel Gibson - Apocalypto

1/3 Sergio Leone - Once Upon A Time In The West, Once Upon A Time In America

1/4 Harmony Korine - Gummo, Spring Breakers

1/5 Hayao Miyazaki - Whisper of the Heart, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away

1/6 John Singleton - Boyz n the Hood, Baby Boy

1/8 John McTiernan - Predator, Die Hard, The Last Action Hero

1/10 David Maysles - Salesman, Grey Gardens

1/10 Walter Hill - The Drowning Pool, The Driver, 48 Hours

1/12 Rob Zombie - House of 1,000 Corpses, Halloween II, Lords of Salem

1/12` John Lasseter - Toy Story, A Bug’s Life

1/13 Wayne Coyne - Christmas On Mars

1/14 Steven Soderbergh - Out of Sight, The Limey, Solaris, Bubble, Magic Mike

1/14 Hal Roach - Our Gang shorts

1/14 Stan Brakhage - Complete works

1/16 John Carpenter - Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, The Thing, They Live

1/19 Richard Lester - A Hard Day’s Night, Robin and Marian

1/19 Larry Clark - Kids, Another Day in Paradise, Ken Park

1/20 David Lynch - Eraserhead, Wild At Heart, Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway

1/20 Federico Fellini - La Strada, Nights of Cabiria, 8 ½, Juliet of the Spirits, Casanova

1/22 D.W. Griffith - True Heart Susie, Orphans of the Storm

1/22 Sergei Eisenstein - Strike, Oktober, Ivan the Terrible

1/22 Jim Jarmusch - Down By Law, Mystery Train, Ghost Dog, Broken Flowers

1/25 Tobe Hooper - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist

1/25 Whit Stillman - The Last Days of Disco

1/29 Ernst Lubitsch - Angel, The Shop Around the Corner, Heaven Can Wait