His early features are far more accomplished, and more personal, than many a director's debut.
His early features, including Family Viewing (1987) and The Adjuster (1991), were studies of emotional dependency and addiction.
He made two early features, "Shameless" (1996) and "Olympia" (1998), though he doesn't like to talk about them now.
It will kick off a four-day series of Mr. Van Sant's best early features, each accompanied by one or more of his rarely seen shorts.
Born in Poland, he left as a teen-ager and was educated in Britain, where his early features, like "The Last Resort" (2000), were set.
But he does seem more relaxed than in the days of his early features, when his sardonic reserve could freeze a festival Q&A audience at 10 paces.
All these works, and everything else the early features, the TV work, music videos, industrial shorts, and documentary pieces are included in the MOMA retrospective, in which the acrid and brilliant "Player" has a pivotal role.
The Criterion Collection brought "WR" and "Sweet Movie" to DVD in 2007, and now Criterion has added "Dusan Makavejev: Free Radical," a boxed set of three early features, to its no-frills Eclipse line.
Some of the greatest modern filmmakers alongside Burnett — including William Greaves, Kathleen Collins, and Julie Dash — have not followed up their colossal early features with the cinematic careers they deserve.
All these works, and everything else — the early features, the TV work, music videos, industrial shorts, and documentary pieces — are included in the MOMA retrospective, in which the acrid and brilliant "Player" has a pivotal role.
Pasolini's early features "Accattone" (1961) and "Mamma Roma" (1962), shot in the shantytowns around Rome and starring mainly nonprofessionals, followed the Italian neo-realists in deeming the lives of the downtrodden worthy of art.
