November 12, 2004

Offbeat Directors' Sophistication Isn't Always Accompanied by Emotional Maturity

By DAVID STERRITT

List: Must-See Movies by Standout Independent Directors

Everyone wants to monkey with structure," says my Hofstra University professor friend Phillip Lopate.

Neither of us finds that surprising. The heroes of today's aspiring filmmakers aren't the Old Masters like John Ford and Howard Hawks, who plugged their genius into time-tested patterns, but mavericks like Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson, whose most

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