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Ari Aster. Ari Aster is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is known for writing and directing the A24 horror films Hereditary (2018) and Midsommar (2019). Aster was born into a Jewish family in New York City on July 15, 1986, the son of a poet mother and musician father. He has a younger brother.
- Director, Producer, Writer
- July 15, 1986
- 2 min
Jun 4, 2023 · Not only is Ari Aster known as a household name in his own right, but a self-proclaimed film buff with an encyclopedic knowledge about the history of cinema. You can tell that he’s an avid cinephile with a soft spot for arthouse directors like Michael Haneke, Ingmar Bergman or Paul Schrader, but sprang from his love for old-school detective ...
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Aster was born into a Jewish family in New York City on July 15, 1986, the son of a poet mother and musician father. He has a younger brother. He recalled seeing his first film, Dick Tracy (1990), when he was four years old; the film featured a scene where Warren Beatty's titular protagonist fired a Tommy gun in front of a wall of fire, allegedly c...
After graduating from the AFI Conservatory, Aster wrote and directed several more short films between 2011 and 2018, often teaming with his AFI Conservatory friends Alejandro de Leon and Pawel Pogorzelski. The most notable project was the short psychological horror film The Strange Thing About the Johnsons (2011), which follows the members of a sub...
Aster participated in the 2022 edition of the Sight & Sound film polls, which are held every 10 years to commemorate the greatest films of all time and rank them in order, while directors and critics both name their 10 favorite films of all time. Aster named his favorites as Sansho the Bailiff (1954), Vertigo (1958), 8½ (1963), Persona (1966), Play...
- July 15, 1986 (age 37), New York City, U.S.
- 2008–present
- Director, writer, producer, editor
Jan 29, 2024 · Expanding his 2011 short film Beau dramatically, Beau Is Afraid stands as Ari Aster's most ambitious film to date. The movie feels like his most unpredictable, too, because it's his first feature ...
- Jeremy Urquhart
- Feature Writer/Senior List Writer
The Turtle's Head (2014) 12 min | Short, Comedy. An aging, hilariously slimy detective (with a taste for womanizing) is distracted from the case of his career when he starts developing a mysterious medical condition. Director: Ari Aster | Stars: Richard Riehle, Jim O'Heir, Amy French, Jennifer Christopher.
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Ari Aster. Highest Rated: 91% Dream Scenario (2023) Lowest Rated: 67% Beau Is Afraid (2023) Birthday: Jul 15, 1986. Birthplace: New York, New York, USA. American director Ari Aster perfected his ...
