Katherine Bigelow

I just wanted to say that I've been a huge Katherine Bigelow fan for years. I would suggest you start with her early film, Near Dark, a very stylish and energetic film about vampires. She also made the highly effective Blue Steel in 1990 with Jamie Lee Curtis (in one of her best roles). Her 1991 film, Point Blank, starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, has become a cult classic. I think it a highly energetic and original film. Her masterpiece, up until the Hurt Locker, was 1995's Strange Days, a futuristic, Blade Runner-like vision of a dystopic future. It is visually brilliant and has great performances by Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett,and Juliette Lewis. Now we come to the Hurt Locker. I think it is one of the best war films ever made, an equal to Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down. It abounds with brilliant performances and brilliant style. Any one of these films will show a true film artist at work.