Karyn Kusama made her feature debut in 2000 with Girlfight, which won the Award of the Youth at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for best first feature. Since then, she has won acclaim for Jennifer’s Body (2009), The Invitation (2015), and her latest film, Destroyer (2018), which stars Nicole Kidman.
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1tie
A Woman Under the Influence
John Cassavetes
1974
155 min
1tie
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Chantal Akerman
1975
202 min
2tie
Rosemary’s Baby
UnavailableRoman Polanski
1968
138 min
2tie
The Innocents
UnavailableJack Clayton
1961
100 min
3tie
Fanny and Alexander: Television Version
Ingmar Bergman
1983
3tie
Safe
UnavailableTodd Haynes
1995
119 min
4tie
High and Low
Akira Kurosawa
1963
142 min
4tie
Blow Out
UnavailableBrian De Palma
1981
108 min
5tie
Nashville
UnavailableRobert Altman
1975
160 min
5tie
All That Jazz
UnavailableBob Fosse
1979
123 min
6tie
Broadcast News
UnavailableJames L. Brooks
1987
133 min
6tie
Something Wild
Jonathan Demme
1986
114 min
7tie
Barry Lyndon
UnavailableStanley Kubrick
1975
188 min
7tie
Female Trouble
UnavailableJohn Waters
1974
98 min
8tie
Bad Timing
Nicolas Roeg
1980
123 min
8tie
Naked
Mike Leigh
1993
131 min
9tie
Yi Yi
Edward Yang
2000
174 min
9tie
Intentions of Murder
Shohei Imamura
1964
150 min
10tie
The King of Marvin Gardens
UnavailableBob Rafelson
1972
103 min
10tie
An Angel at My Table
Jane Campion
1990
158 min