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