Happy Birthday, Directors! May Edition
Hip hip hooray, three cheers for May! And with another month comes a slew of new director birthdays! Celebrate with us!
5/1 Wes Anderson - Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Grand Budapest Hotel
5/2 Tamara Jenkins - Slums of Beverly Hills, The Savages
5/6 Orson Welles - Citizen Kane, F for Fake
5/6 George Clooney - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Ides of March
5/6 Max Ophüls - The Earrings of Madame de…, Lola Montes
5/7 Amy Heckerling - Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Johnny Dangerously, Clueless
5/8 Michel Gondry - Human Nature, Be Kind Rewind
5/11 Mark Neveldine - Crank, Crank: High Voltage, Gamer
5/13 JOE JOHNSTON - The Rocketeer, Captain America: The First Avenger
5/13 Lena Dunham - Tiny Furniture
5/14 George Lucas - American Graffiti, Star Wars
5/14 David Byrne - True Stories
5/14 Robert Zemeckis - Back to the Future, Contact
5/14 Sofia Coppola - The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette
5/18 Frank Capra - It Happened One Night, Lost Horizon, Arsenic and Old Lace
5/18 Terry Zwigoff - Crumb, Ghost World, Bad Santa
5/20 Anton Corbijn - Control, The American
5/23 Tom Tykwer - Run Lola Run, Princess and the Warrior, Perfume, The International
5/24 Seijun Suzuki - Youth of the Beast, Tokyo Drifter, Branded to Kill
5/25 George Hickenlooper - Factory Girl
5/25 Frank Oz - Little Shop of Horrors, Bowfinger
5/26 Bobcat Goldthwait - Sleeping Dogs Lie, World’s Greatest Dad, God Bless America
5/29 Josef von Sternberg - The Blue Angel, Blonde Venus
5/30 Howard Hawks - Scarface, Red River
5/30 Agnès Varda - Cleo from 5 to 7, Vagabond, Beaches of Agnes
5/31 Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Fox and His Friends, Merchant of Four Seasons
5/31 Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven, A Perfect World