Back In Action: Five Movie Directors Making A Welcome Return In 2025
deadline.comIt’s hard to believe now but before taking 12 long years to follow 1987’s Full Metal Jacket with Eyes Wide Shut in 1999, the famously meticulous Stanley Kubrick was comparatively prolific — in the ’60s alone he released four of his 13 features.
In these days of instant gratification, a director taking longer than three years is either deemed to be M.I.A. or about to pop up with a secret film made entirely under the radar (“Don’t believe everything you read on the net,” says Nicolas Winding Refn on that score).
But absence does make the heart grow fonder, and these five directors can expect a warm welcome in 2025. Kathryn Bigelow made history in 2010 when she became the first woman ever to win the Oscar for Best Director (she won Best Picture too), but the California director has never been one to court awards.
Similarly, her films have tended to steer clear of festival berths; indeed, when The Hurt Locker premiered at Venice (and subsequently TIFF), the film was received poorly in the first reviews, and it took a year for the film to shake off allegations that it was simply a sensationalized Hollywood portrayal of the Iraq War.
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