[wahnfrieden]

Not many directors able to produce fully avant-garde work with those budgets and that mainstream distribution. Closest I can think of is Harmony Korine around his commercial peak but that lasted a few years not decades.

[tpm]

David Lynch perhaps.

[wahnfrieden]

Korine and Lynch both had to retreat to independent distribution. It's amazing that Malick continues to have major studio support

[jjulius]

To be fair, The Return, which is an entire 18 hours of avant-garde Lynch heroin, was distributed by Showtime.

[stoneforger]

Dino de Laurentis wants his money back