1. Alfred Hitchcock (2399.5 points; 28 votes; 2 first-place votes)2. Orson Welles (1957 points; 24 votes)3. Stanley Kubrick (1920 points; 21 votes; 4 first-place votes)4. Andrei Tarkovsky (1881.5 points; 22 votes; 1 first-place vote)5. David Lynch (1838 points; 21 votes; 1 first-place vote)6. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (1826 points; 23 votes; 1 first-place vote)7. Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1812.5 points; 22 votes)8. Ingmar Bergman (1666 points; 20 votes)9. Luis Buñuel (1662 points; 20 votes; 1 first-place vote)10. Kurosawa Akira (1661 points; 21 votes; 1 first-place vote)11. Jean-Luc Godard (1647.5 points; 20 votes; 1 first-place vote)12. Robert Altman (1546 points; 19 votes)13. Martin Scorsese (1533.5 points; 20 votes; 1 first-place vote)14. Ozu Yasujirō (1453.5 points; 17 votes)15. Jean Renoir (1447.5 points; 17 votes; 1 first-place vote)16. Fritz Lang (1438 points; 18 votes)17. Michelangelo Antonioni (1426.5 points; 19 votes)18. Billy Wilder (1392 points; 18 votes)19. F.W. Murnau (1352 points; 17 votes)20. Robert Bresson (1298 points; 15 votes; 2 first-place votes)21. Chantal Akerman (1289.5 points; 16 votes; 1 first-place vote)22. David Cronenberg (1277.5 points; 17 votes)23. Carl Theodor Dreyer (1232.5 points; 16 votes)24. Abbas Kiarostami (1224 points; 15 votes; 1 first-place vote)25. Agnès Varda (1218 points; 16 votes)26. Joel & Ethan Coen (1211.5 points; 15 votes)27. Werner Herzog (1113 points; 14 votes; 3 first-place votes)28. Howard Hawks (1071.5 points; 13 votes)29. Alain Resnais (1052 points; 15 votes)30. Paul Thomas Anderson (998.5 points; 13 votes)31. Federico Fellini (957.5 points; 12 votes)32. Nicholas Ray (952.5 points; 13 votes)33. Roman Polanski (902.5 points; 12 votes)34. Terrence Malick (872 points; 11 votes)35. Satyajit Ray (834.5 points; 11 votes)36. Francis Ford Coppola (830 points; 11 votes)37. Mike Leigh (827 points; 11 votes)38. Steven Spielberg (824.5 points; 11 votes)39. Eric Rohmer (808 points; 10 votes)40. Wong Kar-wai (799 points; 11 votes)41. Nicholas Roeg (783.5 points; 10 votes)42. Chris Marker (775 points; 10 votes; 1 first-place vote)43. Jacques Tati (771.5 points; 10 votes)44. Mizoguchi Kenji (747.5 points; 10 votes)45. Michael Haneke (726 points; 10 votes)46. Preston Sturges (724.5 points; 9 votes)47. John Ford (704 points; 9 votes)48. Quentin Tarantino (633 points; 9 votes)49. Miyazaki Hayao (631 points; 8 votes)50. Apichatpong Weerasethakul (629.5 points; 9 votes)51. George A. Romero (628 points; 9 votes)52. Zhangke Jia (627.5 points; 8 votes)53. Carol Reed (607.5 points; 8 votes)54. Max Ophüls (600 points; 8 votes)55. Maya Deren (598.5 points; 8 votes)56. Béla Tarr (594.5 points; 8 votes)57. Edward Yang (589.5 points; 8 votes; 1 first-place vote)58. Otto Preminger (584 points; 8 votes)59. Dario Argento (577.5 points; 7 votes)60. John Carpenter (570.5 points; 8 votes)61. (tie) Pier Paolo Pasolini (555 points; 7 votes)61. (tie) Roberto Rossellini (555 points; 7 votes)63. (tie) Hou Hsiao-hsien (554 points; 7 votes)63. (tie) Buster Keaton (554 points; 7 votes)65. Douglas Sirk (553.5 points; 7 votes)66. Ernst Lubitsch (539 points; 6 votes)67. François Truffaut (526.5 points; 7 votes)68. John Waters (514 points; 7 votes)69. Frederick Wiseman (513.5 points; 6 votes; 1 first-place vote)70. Jacques Rivette (504 points; 6 votes)71. Charles Chaplin (502.5 points; 7 votes)72. Alejandro Jodorowsky (500 points; 7 votes)73. Richard Linklater (495.5 points; 7 votes)74. Sergei Eisenstein (489 points; 7 votes)75. Krzysztof Kieślowski (487.5 points; 7 votes)76. Aki Kaurismäki (480 points; 7 votes)77. Sidney Lumet (479.5 points; 6 votes)78. John Cassavetes (477.5 points; 6 votes)79. Jan Švankmajer (466.5 points; 7 votes)80. Spike Lee (466 points; 6 votes)81. Jean-Pierre Melville (459.5 points; 7 votes)82. Sergio Leone (453 points; 6 votes)83. Kelly Reichart (446 points; 6 votes)84. Peter Watkins (441.5 points; 6 votes)85. Brian De Palma (440 points; 5 votes)86. Ousmane Sembène (435.5 points; 6 votes)87. Frank Capra (431.5 points; 6 votes)88. Jean Cocteau (421 points; 6 votes)89. Chuck Jones (416 points; 6 votes)90. Jean Vigo (414 points; 6 votes)91. Paul Verhoeven (403 points; 6 votes)92. (tie) Pedro Almodóvar (401 points; 5 votes)92. (tie) G.W. Pabst (401 points; 5 votes)94. Olivier Assayas (400.5 points; 6 votes)95. Jim Jarmusch (394 points; 6 votes)96. Sergei Parajanov (385 points; 5 votes)97. Woody Allen (375.5 points; 5 votes)98. Robert Aldrich (370 points; 5 votes)99. Claire Denis (367.5 points; 5 votes)100. Jonathan Demme (366 points; 5 votes)101. D.W. Griffith (365.5 points; 5 votes)
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 January 2018 03:57 (six years ago) link
Just realize I hadn't done that.
I ain't opening no spreadsheet, just tell me how many perceptive souls voted for Visconti.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 January 2018 03:59 (six years ago) link
hi!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 04:01 (six years ago) link
I did too
― Dan S, Saturday, 20 January 2018 04:09 (six years ago) link
Enjoyed the poll--some great images. Not that it matters, but I definitely didn't vote for Argento (I've seen all of one film). Probably someone else's vote got assigned to me.
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 January 2018 04:31 (six years ago) link
Haneke placing but not von Trier makes me a bit sad
― Simon H., Saturday, 20 January 2018 05:24 (six years ago) link
Shocked that Powell & Pressburger placed so high
― flappy bird, Saturday, 20 January 2018 05:37 (six years ago) link
Did not vote, should have. Bergman would have been my #1. 1953 to 1978, about one film per year and only 2 or 3 of them less than great. Hitchcock and Welles cannot claim anything close to that.
― Josefa, Saturday, 20 January 2018 05:53 (six years ago) link
Quantity and consistency of both Hitchcock & Bergman were why I put them at #1 and #2 respectively. What someone said upthread about Hitchcock making "one career-long film" made me think immediately of Bergman. In my mind they have roughly the same number of great movies, a lot more than all other directors on my list.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 20 January 2018 06:09 (six years ago) link
decided to expand my horizons & watch The Red Shoes for the first time. thanks for the inspiration, folks!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 January 2018 07:23 (six years ago) link
Saw "Red Shoes" a coupla years ago and loved it, VG :D (and stole a bit of footage via phone for a silly little music video I made)
Enjoyable poll, this...Thanks Eric!
― Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 20 January 2018 07:41 (six years ago) link
:D
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 January 2018 07:59 (six years ago) link
Was sure I'd voted for Hitch, but checking my ballot I must have left him off by mistake. Not that it would make any difference to overall tally.
Great work, Eric.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 20 January 2018 10:11 (six years ago) link
great poll and thread, looking forward to checking out films by the many directors whose work I haven't seen.
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Saturday, 20 January 2018 12:01 (six years ago) link
i didn't get to join in bc my phone is so shitty it won't let me post and i have been nowhere near my laptop so in tldr form:
1. Alfred Hitchcock (2399.5 points; 28 votes; 2 first-place votes)Somewhere in my top ten. The first half of Psycho is one of my favourite films ever, I lose interest a little once she shows up at the motel, all a little too gothic for me. I like the headlit luridness of the office scenes where vivian leigh is being ogled by the oilman and the weird shot that flies over phoenix and right through the venetian blinds. I do think laura mulvey has it right that all his films are about ogling (im paraphrasing). the cruel, obsessive way the camera carves up people. He has many terrible films. that awful one with shirley mclaine where people keep finding the same dead body, often his films seem really bored.
2. Orson Welles (1957 points; 24 votes)kane is as good as its supposed to be. i wish somebody would find the rest of ambersons. lady from shanghai is fabulous. i think the standard narrative about failed promise is about right, so many of his films seem crumpled under some half-forgotten ambition.
3. Stanley Kubrick (1920 points; 21 votes; 4 first-place votes)I like the shining. everything else i've seen is pompous and dull. he should have made more horror films.
7. Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1812.5 points; 22 votes)one of my favourite things in fassbinders films, of which i've seen most i think, is the loud sound of rustling costumes. this is especially a feature of bitter tears of petra von kant and women in new york. in women in new york, all the sets are built on the same theatre stage, so even though the scene changes there is a creaky floorboard in the same place which you hear in every shot. margit carstensen is my favourite of his leading ladies, and martha is his funniest film.
9. Luis Buñuel (1662 points; 20 votes; 1 first-place vote)Bunuel's films sort of baffle me. I took a friend to see his version of wuthering heights and he has never forgiven me.
11. Jean-Luc Godard (1647.5 points; 20 votes; 1 first-place vote)coulnd't be arsed with all that nouvelle vague bollocks, but from weekend on his films are inconsistently interesting. i love the one where isabelle huppert is a really bored prostitute/agricultural worker
12. Robert Altman (1546 points; 19 votes)come back to the five and dime and nasheville
13. Martin Scorsese (1533.5 points; 20 votes; 1 first-place vote)blonde ladies wearing white. he persisted with this for so long i can't believe he never found it embarrassing. have never even heard of most of the films he's made this century.
15. Jean Renoir (1447.5 points; 17 votes; 1 first-place vote)i've only seen a couple of films by him but hated both.
16. Fritz Lang (1438 points; 18 votes)classic if only for gloria grahame throwing coffee in someone's face.
19. F.W. Murnau (1352 points; 17 votes)My favourites are the american films, city girl in particular has incredible vignettes that are formal, german, expressionistic whilst being american naturalistic and pastoral. there is a brief shot of waitresses laughing, a low table lamp turned to spotlight a character appearing out of darkness.
21. Chantal Akerman (1289.5 points; 16 votes; 1 first-place vote)my highest vote to place (my #2). About as good a filmmaker as I can imagine. My favourite is a tv documentary, basically a south bank show episode, she made about pina bausch that is so disillusioned and bleak about its subject. the last few seconds are hilarious. I don't think Jeanne Dielmann towers above her other films, although it is hard to imagine a film that could so successful bring together so many of the themes of 2nd wave feminism in such a sharpened way. Also love la Captive, I saw it at the London gay and lesbian film festival and it bored the audience to laughter. I saw her speak once and she was very very funny.
24. Abbas Kiarostami (1224 points; 15 votes; 1 first-place vote)I haven't seen enough films by him, but ten and close-up are two of my favourite films of all time. ten is a film that is also about mania akbari's great love of cake. me and my boyfriend call her mania for cakes. as beautiful and dreyer's joan of arc.
26. Joel & Ethan Coen (1211.5 points; 15 votes)horrible dull and cruel films
29. Alain Resnais (1052 points; 15 votes)His first three films obviously. Muriel most of all, very funny, incredibly sad. the french streets and squares named after the dead.
32. Nicholas Ray (952.5 points; 13 votes)Johnny guitar is my favourite. I love the flat in born to be bad which is meant to be a fabulous apartment owned by a wealthy couple but just seems like a cramped duplex. In a lonely place, on dangerous ground, a woman's secret. rebel without a cause makes my eyes hurt from rolling though.
34. Terrence Malick (872 points; 11 votes)badlands is a perfect film, but would have been terrible without sissy spacek I think. tree of life is so awful I can't believe anyone was fooled by it.
35. Satyajit Ray (834.5 points; 11 votes)i saw some bad documentaries by ray once, including one about a traditional indian dancer which was so unbearable I had to leave the cinema. I feel like his films are about the same vague grandeur as john ford's. it leaves me completely cold.
37. Mike Leigh (827 points; 11 votes)always thought i'd hate his films, but their actorliness and the depth of character he aspires to lifts them. i think his shrieking harpy characters are misogynistic, and his best comedies (nuts in may, abigail's party) seem to really hate women. On the other hand topsy turvy and vera drake are completely original, and vera drake in particular manages to handle the many layers of social hypocricy around abortion in an amazingly fine grained way. Its sort of uniquely a film about public health.
38. Steven Spielberg (824.5 points; 11 votes)no
40. Wong Kar-wai (799 points; 11 votes)I mean, i really like these films but they are just somebody's instagram account
41. Nicholas Roeg (783.5 points; 10 votes)terrible awful films. with the exception of don't look now.
42. Chris Marker (775 points; 10 votes; 1 first-place vote)marker was a real gateway drug for me, definitely a big source of many of the filmmakers i got interested in later, but his very french complacent bourgeois radicalism and epicurianism starts to seem a little silly eventually.
45. Michael Haneke (726 points; 10 votes)for the french films. especially code unknown.
46. Preston Sturges (724.5 points; 9 votes)i love love love mary astor in the palm beach story and i really made a go at sturges a couple of years ago but they're just not as good as you want them to be. lots of charmless male leads also.
53. Carol Reed (607.5 points; 8 votes)I love the third man, but odd man out is so clueless about belfast that it makes me very sceptical of vienna. the one with the butler is p tedious.
55. Maya Deren (598.5 points; 8 votes)my bf likes to watch meshes of an afternoon every year for his birthday. the best film ever made about the suburbs.
69. Frederick Wiseman (513.5 points; 6 votes; 1 first-place vote)the best living director I think. My favourites are state legistlature and high school ii. I think the '90s were his best decade.
73. Richard Linklater (495.5 points; 7 votes)parker posey was very funny in dazed and confused but I don't think that merits #73
99. Claire Denis (367.5 points; 5 votes)Beau travail is the sexiest postcolonial film studies dept movie of all time.
101. D.W. Griffith (365.5 points; 5 votes)I mean I know, racism, but that bit out on the ice floes.
― plax (ico), Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:00 (six years ago) link
okay what
which films?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:02 (six years ago) link
Walkabout awful? Its tragic as a story...as Don't look now..
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:03 (six years ago) link
Really good run down though plax(ico) thanks. I also saw Akerman speak (the only filmaker I saw speak, and it was at a screening of that Pina Bausch film) and she was funny, interesting and fascinating - generous and tough, she got me to think harder. I very much miss the fact she is not around anymore.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:08 (six years ago) link
plax, did you fix your friend's car brakes after h/she admitted to not liking Bunuel?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:10 (six years ago) link
My Ballot:
Akerman, ChantalResnais, AlainŌshima, NagisaGhatak, RitwikKiarostami, AbbasFassbinder, Rainer WernerWatkins, PeterMarker, ChrisVarda, AgnesEustache, JeanRossellini, RobertoDuras, MargueriteGodard, Jean-LucSnow, MichaelBunuel, LuisParajanov, SergeiDreyer, Carl TheodorStraub, Jean-Marie & Daniele HuilletKubelka, PeterHaneke, MichaelMambéty, Djibril DiopOliveira, Manoel dePanahi, JafarPasolini, Pier PaoloPowell, Michael & Emeric PressburgerPialat, MauriceRivette, JacquesKitano TakeshiRocha, GlauberSembene, OusmeneMalick, TerrenceWong Kar-waiAngelopoulos, TheoAntonioni, MichelangeloBergman, IngmarTarkovsky, AndreiLosey, JosephKieslowski, KrzysztofMakhmalbaf, MohsenPontecorvo, GilloYang, EdwardNaruse MikioHansen-Love, MiaKore-eda HirokazuPetzold, ChristianDe Sica, VittorioDiaz, LavDumont, BrunoCosta, PedroWarhol, Andy
Worst: Spielberg, Steven
I should've found space for Makavejev, that's the one I regret the most. Renoir, Ray, Kurosawa are top 50 but I didn't place and don't specifically regret as they placed well anyway. Mizoguchi and Ozu were the pair I really forgot, and I really did need to place. As for US directors the one I regret not placing is Todd Haynes (LOL why did I put Andy Warhol in there sheesh).
The one director I will try to see more from is Preston Sturges.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:18 (six years ago) link
I like the shining. everything else i've seen is pompous and dull. he should have made more horror films.
― Wes Brodicus, Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:20 (six years ago) link
My ballot:
William A. WellmanMax OphulsAlexander KordaLouis FeuilladeRouben MamoulianMaurice TourneurFrank CapraRobert BressonKing VidorG.W. PabstJean RenoirBuster KeatonRené ClairFritz LangMervyn LeRoyJulian DuvivierJean GrémillonRoy & John BoultingJacques TatiJosef von SternbergGregory La CavaTay GarnettErnst LubitschTod BrowningJacques FeyderFrantišek VláčilMax LinderFrank BorzageJohn FordMarcel CarnéJoseph LoseyPierre ÉtaixRoscoe ArbuckleAlice Guy BlacheMark SandrichW.S. Van DykeCecil B. DeMilleD.W. GriffithLois WeberBenjamin ChristensenAndrea ArnoldJem CohenChris MarkerSam TaylorLeo McCareyJacques BeckerLewis MilestoneFred NibloJames CruzeAlfred E. Green
Worst Director: Oscar Micheaux
I said upthread I compiled my ballot based on my Letterboxd watchlist, and it's clear I watch a lot of silent and early sound film. I've ordered the Murnau/Borzage box set, and from there I plan to systematically go through Ford's work at Fox.
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:33 (six years ago) link
Quite a lot of name in there I don't know so I'll investigate.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:40 (six years ago) link
Mine in alphabetical order:
Chantal AkermanRobert AltmanOlivier AssayasMichaelangelo AntonioniIngmar BergmanJohn BoormanFrank BorzageLuis BuñuelJean CocteauSofia CoppolaDavid CronenbergGeorge CukorTerence DaviesJonathan DemmeArnaud DesplechinJacques DemyRainer Werner FassbinderJames GrayHoward HawksTodd HaynesAlfred HitchcockHou Hsiao-hsienShohei ImamuraAbi KauruismakiAbbas Kiarostami Akira KurosawaFritz LangMike LeighDavid LynchPaul MazurskyJean-Pierre MelvilleKenji Mizoguchi Errol MorrisF.W. MurnauMax OphulsYasujiro OzuG.W. PabstSam PeckinpahRoman PolanskiMichael PowellOtto PremingerSatyajit RayJean RenoirEric RohmerRaul RuizDouglas SirkPreston SturgesBéla TarrAndrei TarkovskyTsai Min-liangGus Van SantSteven SpielbergPaul VerhoevenKing VidorLuchino ViscontiJoseph von SternbergOrson WellesApichatpoing WeerasethakulFrederick WisemanEdward YangJia Zhangke
No worst.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:45 (six years ago) link
1. Luis Bunuel2. Alfred Hitchcock3. Jean-Luc Godard4. Fritz Lang5. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger6. Pier Paolo Pasolini7. Chantal Akerman8. Takeshi Kitano9. Sergio Leone10. Carl Theodor Dreyer11. Howard Hawks12. Kenneth Anger13. Paul Schrader14. Dario Argento15. Satyajit Ray16. Nicholas Ray17. John Waters18. Louis Malle19. King Hu20. Jean Renoir21. Robert Aldrich22. Bob Fosse23. Jia Zhangke24. Henry Hathaway25. Eric Rohmer26. Carol Reed27. Jean Vigo28. Aki Kaurismaki29. Sally Potter30. Robert Bresson31. Alejandro Jodorowsky32. Rainer Werner Fassbinder33. Bernardo Bertolucci34. Peter Watkins35. Andrei Tarkovsky36. Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo37. Agnes Varda38. Hou Hsiao-hsien39. Park Chan-Wook40. Francois Truffaut41. Derek Jarman42. Lindsay Anderson43. Alain Resnais44. Akira Kurosawa45. Jan Svankmajer46. Claude Chabrol47. Michael Reeves48. Paul Verhoeven49. F.W. Murnau50. Krzysztof Kieslowski
Worst director: Christopher Nolan
― hell is auteur people (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link
My ballot (in retrospect, I regret that I didn't make space for Vigo, and that I haven't seen enough of Chytilová's work beyond Daisies):
1. Jean Renoir2. Howard Hawks3. F.W. Murnau4. Jacques Rivette5. Jean-Luc Godard6. David Lynch7. Nicholas Ray8. G.W. Pabst9. Yazujiro Ozu10. Agnes Varda11. Robert Bresson12. Chris Marker13. Orson Welles 14. Luis Buñuel15. Fritz Lang16. Akira Kurosawa17. Michael Powell18. Billy Wilder19. Hayao Miyazaki20. Rainer Werner Fassbinder21. Andrei Tarkovsky22. François Truffaut23. Federico Fellini 24. Charles Chaplin25. Chantal Akerman26. Mikio Naruse27. Claire Denis28. Preston Sturges29. Jia Zhangke30. Maya Deren31. Alain Resnais32. Roberto Rossellini33. Abbas Kiarostami34. Sergei Eisenstein35. Jean Cocteau36. Bruce Conner37. Alfred Hitchcock38. John Carpenter39. Michelangelo Antonioni 40. Vincent Minnelli41. Jacques Tati42. Victor Erice43. Wong Kar-Wai44. Dziga Vertov45. Martin Scorsese 46. Terence Malick47. Kelly Reichardt48. Robert Altman49. Mike Leigh50. John Cassavetes
worst director:Veit Harlan
― one way street, Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:54 (six years ago) link
1. Frederick Wiseman2. Stanley Kubrick3. Robert Altman4. Joel & Ethan Coen--------------------------------------------Andrea ArnoldBilly WilderBrian De PalmaDavid CronenbergDavid FincherElia KazanFrancis Ford CoppolaFrancois TruffautFrank CapraHal AshbyJean-Luc GodardJonathan DemmeKelly ReichardtKenneth LonerganMartin ScorseseNicole HolofcenerNoah BaumbachOrson WellesPaul Thomas AndersonRichard LinklaterRoman PolanskiSatyajit RaySidney LumetSofia CoppolaSpike LeeWim Wenders
I should have voted for Bergman, Preminger, Fassbinder (going back to university: Berlin Alexanderplatz + three or four others), Michael Apted (if you view the Up series as many films), Terry Zwigoff (for Crumb and Ghost World), and, just because All the President's Men is probably my favourite film right now, Pakula (he also had a couple others I like). I checked a few lists of my own, year-end and all-time, but otherwise just tried to recall combinations of films I love and films I like. A few names slipped through. And I did something you shouldn't do, left off three specific names I would have listed if totally honest, but where the degree of veneration bugs me.
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:54 (six years ago) link
I'm glad you didn't vote, plax! In part bcz you referred to Lee Marvin as "someone."
(also The Shining is the dull and pompous one)
xo
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:18 (six years ago) link
Bresson was my #1. Baz Luhrmann was my pick for worst.
― Chris L, Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
the dreaded double-Coppola! xxp
and Alfred's Coppola was Sofia. Too many martinis...
I could not put Ingmar in my top 5 bcz, eventually, I got sick of him blaming his parents for everything. Man up.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:22 (six years ago) link
whut I done voted for. (Warhol changed film, also a must vote despite the 'importance doesnt matter' yahoos)
Alfred HitchcockJean RenoirHoward HawksJohn FordRainer Werner FassbinderIngmar BergmanPreston SturgesLuis BunuelStanley KubrickBuster Keaton
Robert BressonOusmane SembeneErnst LubitschOrson WellesSteven SpielbergRoberto RosselliniEric RohmerAndrei TarkovskyFritz LangAkira Kurosawa
Luchino ViscontiCarl DreyerYasujiro OzuJean-Luc GodardCharles ChaplinChuck JonesRobert AldrichNicholas RayMike LeighRobert Altman
Max OphulsAbbas KiarostamiD.W. GriffithHou Hsiao-hsienVincente MinnelliElia KazanAndy WarholGeorge KucharAgnes VardaFrederick Wiseman
Jacques TatiDavid CronenbergJacques TourneurAlain ResnaisSatyajit RayMichael Powell & Emeric PressburgerShohei ImamuraMartin ScorseseTodd HaynesF.W. Murnau
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:30 (six years ago) link
(oh yeah it was Murnau i voted for and not Pabst. mistaken silent German identity)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:32 (six years ago) link
Tarkovsky-Lynch-Renoir-Ozu-Bunuel were my top 5 without thinking much about it. I guess I like dream logic and tragic humanists.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:36 (six years ago) link
1. Lynch, David 2. Kubrick, Stanley 3. Ozu Yasujirō 4. Bergman, Ingmar 5. Kiarostami, Abbas 6. Kieslowski, Krzysztof 7. Powell, Michael & Emeric Pressburger 8. Akerman, Chantal
Unranked:Altman, RobertAnderson, Paul ThomasAnderson, WesAntonioni, MichelangeloBrakhage, StanCoen, Joel & EthanCronenberg, DavidDeren, MayaFassbinder, Rainer WernerFord, JohnFrankenheimer, JohnGilliam, TerryGodard, Jean-LucGreenaway, PeterHaneke, MichaelHerzog, WernerHitchcock, AlfredJones, ChuckKaurismäki, AkiKurosawa AkiraLaughton, CharlesLean, DavidLeigh, MikeMaddin, GuyMorrison, BillPennebaker, D.A.Polanski, RomanRay, SatyajitRenoir, JeanResnais, AlainRossellini, RobertoSaulnier, JeremyScorsese, MartinSoderbergh, StevenSpielberg, StevenSturges, PrestonSvankmajer, JanTarkovsky, AndreiVarda, AgnesVertov, DzigaWelles, OrsonZwigoff, Terry
― WilliamC, Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:37 (six years ago) link
but odd man out is so clueless about belfast that it makes me very sceptical of vienna
it's only a movie, Ingrid
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:38 (six years ago) link
Edward YangHayao MiyazakiJohn CassavetesAkira KurosawaAndrei TarkovskyBilly WilderYasujiro OzuRobert AltmanIngmar BergmanJean RenoirFritz LangDavid LynchJoel and Ethan CoenWerner HerzogAlfred HitchcockFederico FelliniRobert SiodmakChantal AkermanJia ZhangkeCharles LaughtonSeijun SuzukiGuy MaddinKenji MizoguchiPaul Thomas AndersonKelly ReichardtMichael Powell and Emeric PressburgerOrson WellesMichelangelo AntonioniOtto PremingerTerrence MalickRoberto RosseliniFrancis Ford CoppolaPark Chan-WookOliver AssayasStanley KubrickPier Paolo PasoliniJohnnie ToMartin ScorseseIsao TakahataFei MuKon IchikawaFrank CapraJohn Huston Jean Pierre MelvilleWoody AllenWes AndersonNicholas RayPaul SchraderMia Hansen LoveMiguel Gomes
Worst: Edgar Wright
― devvvine, Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:41 (six years ago) link
good shout on Edgar fucking Wright
― hell is auteur people (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:44 (six years ago) link
okay whatwhich films?― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:02 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:02 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
la bete humaine and le dejeuner sur l'herbe
I'm glad you didn't vote, plax! In part bcz you referred to Lee Marvin as "someone."― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:18 (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:18 (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol i DID vote, I just didn't get to post this week.
― plax (ico), Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
I had regretted not voting for phillip scheffner, but this wasn't a poll where you could push your top choices onto the main even singlehandedly so I have no regrets
― plax (ico), Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
"charmless male leads" in Sturges, why i oughta...
Eddie Bracken is *ssupposed to be* charmless, he's brilliant at it.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:55 (six years ago) link
Part of the multiplex crew, don’t @ me. Herzog, WernerTarkovsky, AndreiCronenberg, DavidGordon, StuartMurnau, F.W.Scorsese, MartinWenders, WimWong Kar-waiYang, EdwardKubrick, StanleyMiyazaki HayaoAnderson, Paul ThomasCassavetes, JohnChow, StephenCoppola, Francis FordFellini, FedericoKorine, HarmonyLynch, DavidMalick, TerrenceWilder, BillyWelles, OrsonKieslowski, KrzysztofKopple, BarbaraReed, CarolLang, FritzDreyer, Carl TheodorBergman, IngmarRaimi, SamGriffith, D.W.Roeg, NicholasMorris, ErrolLaughton, CharlesFassbinder, Rainer WernerBunuel, LuisCoen, Joel & EthanMann, MichaelSpielberg, StevenVon Trier, Larsdel Toro, GuillermoBurton, TimRomero, George A.Kaufman, CharlieBrowning, TodDowney Sr., RobertBrakhage, StanJarmusch, JimMeyer, RussLinklater, RichardSolondz, ToddLewis, Herschell GordonNolan, ChristopherNoé, Gaspar
― Jeff, Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:57 (six years ago) link
1. Farocki, Harun2. Akerman, Chantal3. Wiseman, Frederick4. Hitchcock, Alfred5. Loach, Ken6. Straub, Jean-Marie & Daniele Huillet7. Godard, Jean-Luc8. Murnau, F.W.9. Fassbinder, Rainer Werner10. Resnais, Alain11. Kiarostami, Abbas12. Hawks, Howard13. Minh-ha, Trinh T.14. Petzold, Christian15. Ray, Nicholas16. Dickinson, Margaret17. Almodovar, Pedro18. Guiterrez, Thomas19. Bitomsky, Hartmut20. Keiller, Patrick21. Griffith, D.W.22. Trecartin, Ryan23. Berkeley, Busby24. Welles, Orson25. Denis, Claire26. Cukor, George27. Marker, Chris28. Biemann, Ursula29. Minnelli, Vincente30. Sirk, Douglas31. Frampton, Hollis32. Waters, John33. Haneke, Michael
― plax (ico), Saturday, 20 January 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
those Charles Laughton votes are indeed irritating, esp at the expense of Jean Vigo and Elaine May
I've tried w/ Straub & Huillet. Not so far.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 January 2018 15:05 (six years ago) link
1. Alfred Hitchcock2. Ingmar Bergman3. Nicolas Roeg4. David Lynch5. Stanley Kubrick6. Charlie Kaufman7. Andrei Tarkovsky8. Robert Downey Sr.9. Robert Altman10. Kelly Reichardt11. Pedro Almodóvar12. Coen Brothers13. Akira Kurosawa14. Douglas Sirk15. Michael Cimino16. John Waters17. Todd Haynes18. Paul Thomas Anderson19. Chantal Akerman20. Jim Jarmusch21. Rainer Werner Fassbinder22. John Cassavetes 23. Bob Fosse 24. Orson Welles25. Quentin Tarantino26. Robert Bresson27. D.A. Pennebaker28. William Friedkin29. Alexander Payne30. Olivier Assayas31. Yasujiro Ozu32. Nicholas Ray33. Roman Polanski34. Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris35. Sofia Coppola36. Stan Brakhage37. David Gordon Green38. Jonathan Demme39. Agnès Varda40. Penelope Spheeris41. Todd Solondz 42. Harmony Korine43. Spike Lee44. Robert Aldrich45. Luis Bunuel46. Eliza Hittman 47. Martin Scorsese 48. Lars Von Trier49. Billy Wilder50. Sean BakerWORST DIRECTOR: Terrence Malick
― flappy bird, Saturday, 20 January 2018 15:16 (six years ago) link
where should I start with Preston Sturges?
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 20 January 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
Sullivan’s Travels
― flappy bird, Saturday, 20 January 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
Non-placers in bold.
I definitely would have swapped out a bunch of my unranked section for other directors had I not just thrown it together at the last minute. Like, why do I have Jess Franco on there and not Mario Bava???? There are some others where I've seen a couple of films and liked them and obviously just figured "yeah, I'll throw them a vote" when I probs could've picked someone with a way more solid body of work. Oh well.
1. Vera Chytilova2. Wojciech Has3. Jane Arden4. Roy Andersson5. Andrei Tarkovsky6. Roman Polanski7. Rainer Werner Fassbinder8. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger9. Luis Bunuel10. Werner Herzog11. Juraj Herz12. Sergei Parajanov 13. Dario Argento14. Ingmar Bergman15. Maya Deren
Georges MeliesGermaine DulacAgnes VardaHans RichterPeter StricklandBela TarrWong Kar-waiJan SvankmajerLars Von TrierJohn WatersJesus FrancoSergei EisensteinMichelangelo AntonioniJean-Luc GodardMichael HanekeAlfred HitchcockAlejandro JodorowskyFritz LangDavid LynchRuss MeyerApichatpong WeerasethakulPeter WatkinsDavid CronenbergChantal AkermanLindsay AndersonAndrzej ZulawskiRosa von PraunheimCarl Theodor DreyerFederico FelliniKenneth AngerAlice Guy BlacheHiroshi TeshigaharaAndy WarholShohei ImamuraHayao Miyazaki
― emil.y, Saturday, 20 January 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link
I'm gonna go try and rent Miracle of Morgan's Creek later.
This poll is also indicating to me that I have a lot of Murnau to catch up on.
― jmm, Saturday, 20 January 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link
VHAS i would go with the great Sturges period in chron order, beginning with The Great McGinty. (For one thing, the first scene in Morgan's Creek will make more sense that way.)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 January 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
emil.y, i don't know Chytilova aside from Daisies; have you seen much?
kudos on Has as well
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 January 2018 15:39 (six years ago) link
I wish I'd voted for Warhol too, which probably would have pushed him onto the list. Of the 10-15 films I've seen, only one or two flat-out bored me; the rest had me laughing at a minimum, most confounded me in a really interesting way, and there's beauty in The Chelsea Girls and the screen tests.
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 January 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
Murnau’s Faust is obviously incredible but Emil Jannings makes me too sick.
― Chris L, Saturday, 20 January 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
Yeah, strongly recommend Fruit of Paradise as the next one to check out if you like Daisies. Even her lesser '90s films are pretty good.
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― emil.y, Saturday, 20 January 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
Checking the spreadsheet, Warhol wouldn't have made it with a vote from me. But I did notice a blank for Andrea Arnold in my column--with my points, she would have moved up to the low 100s, five points short of the big list. I don't know the calculation that then turned points into weighted points, but Arnold might have ranked with that adjustment. (This isn't criticism--I messed up points on all four polls I oversaw, leaving out a whole ballot once.)
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 January 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
Herzog, WernerRoeg, NicholasBunuel, LuisTarkovsky, AndreiAntonioni, MichelangeloPowell, Michael & Emeric PressburgerHitchcock, AlfredAkerman, ChantalAltman, RobertKubrick, StanleyDe Palma, Brian Malick, Terrence Scorsese, MartinTarr, BelaOphüls, MaxGodard, Jean-LucKiarostami, AbbasRenoir, JeanHogg, JoannaBergman, IngmarKurosawa AkiraDreyer, Carl TheodorAndersson, RoyLynch, DavidArgento, DarioRomero, George ARohmer, EricKore-eda HirokazuFriedkin, WilliamCronenberg, David Arnold, AndreaHaneke, MichaelVon Trier, LarsLeone, SergioStrickland, Peter Ceylan, Nuri Bilge
Forgot a bunch tho eg murnau, lang and bresson. Had has on my mind but loved hourglass sanatorium and wasn't so hot on saragossa manuscript
― i know kore-eda (or something), Saturday, 20 January 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
here's mine. Order is a bit arbitrary in retrospect, and if I hadn't forgotten Murnau, he'd be on and Capra would be off
1. Powell, Michael & Emeric Pressburger2. Lubitsch, Ernst3. Hitchcock, Alfred4. Renoir, Jean5. Sturges, Preston6. Miyazaki Hayao7. Lynch, David8. Keaton, Buster9. Ophüls, Max10. Tati, Jacques11. Malick, Terrence12. Ray, Satyajit13. Welles, Orson14. Lang, Fritz15. Bunuel, Luis16. Kurosawa Akira17. Brakhage, Stan18. Reed, Carol19. Altman, Robert20. Hawks, Howard21. Kubrick, Stanley22. Wong Kar-wai23. Vigo, Jean24. Ozu Yasujirō25. Kieslowski, Krzysztof26. Eisenstein, Sergei27. Linklater, Richard28. Satoshi Kon29. Clair, Rene30. Laughton, Charles31. Tarkovsky, Andrei32. Conner, Bruce33. Yang, Edward34. Mackendrick, Alexander35. Woo, John36. Kalatozov, Mikhael37. Cocteau, Jean38. Jones, Chuck39. Roeg, Nicholas40. Sirk, Douglas41. Pontecorvo, Gillo42. Wilder, Billy43. Pabst, G.W.44. Melville, Jean-Pierre45. Dreyer, Carl Theodor46. Hu, King47. Mamoulian, Rouben48. Bergman, Ingmar49. Capra, Frank50. Hark, Tsui
― rob, Saturday, 20 January 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
Xp voted polanski somewhere around 19 but he's missing for some mysterious reason
― i know kore-eda (or something), Saturday, 20 January 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
Did I miss the spreadsheet link?
― Jeff, Saturday, 20 January 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link
All Right, Mr. DeMille, I'm Ready For My Close-Up ... It's The ILXOR's Top 101 Director Poll Results Thread
― rob, Saturday, 20 January 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
Eric, thanks so much for doing this! Been a hoot. Ballot:
1. Kiarostami, Abbas2. Roeg, Nicholas3. Tarkovsky, Andrei4. Bergman, Ingmar5. Fellini, Federico6. Deren, Maya7. Lynch, David8. Teshigahara, Hiroshi9. Pasolini, Pier Paolo10. Pakula, Alan J.11. Bunuel, Luis12. Brakhage, Stan13. Stillman, Whit14. Fassbinder, Rainer Werner15. Kurosawa, Akira16. Resnais, Alain17. Kubrick, Stanley18. Jodorowsky, Alejandro19. Rohmer, Eric20. Haneke, Michael21. Tarr, Bela22. Ghobadi, Bahman23. Snow, Michael24. Coppola, Francis Ford25. Wertmuller, Lina26. Godard, Jean-Luc27. Franco, Jesus28. Makhmalbaf, Mohsen29. Medem, Julio30. Cronenberg, David31. Antonioni, Michelangelo32. Akerman, Chantal33. Dardenne, Jean-Luc & Pierre34. Duras, Marguerite35. Welles, Orson36. Farhadi, Asghar37. Lelouch, Claude38. Kieslowski, Krzysztof39. Almodovar, Pedro40. Rollin, Jean41. Borowczyk, Walerian42. Sokurov, Aleksandr43. Tati, Jacques44. Shahid-Saless, Sohrab45. Ōshima, Nagisa46. Linklater, Richard47. Metzger, Radley48. Cassavetes, John49. Sarno, Joe50. Verhoeven, Paul
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 20 January 2018 16:44 (six years ago) link
I haven't looked at the spreadsheet b/c it wants me to download it rather than opening in a tab.
― emil.y, Saturday, 20 January 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
Xxpost bless you
― Jeff, Saturday, 20 January 2018 16:50 (six years ago) link
Well it tells you, for one, that you and I are the only ones voting for Jesus Franco :)
xp
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 20 January 2018 16:51 (six years ago) link
I will personally guarantee--backed up by the Molinari Family on the Coast--the safety of the spreadsheet.
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 January 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
Here's my list!
1. Kubrick, Stanley2. Welles, Orson3. Tarkovsky, Andrei4. Wong Kar-wai5. Murnau, F.W.6. Bresson, Robert7. Von Stroheim, Erich8. Coen, Joel & Ethan9. Bergman, Ingmar10. Ozu, Yasujiro11. Hitchcock, Alfred12. Kiarostami, Abbas13. Renoir, Jean14. Powell, Michael & Emeric Pressburger15. Herzog, Werner16. Hawks, Howard17. Lynch, David18. Keaton, Buster19. Anderson, Wes20. Panahi, Jafar21. Dreyer, Carl Theodor22. Fincher, David23. Fellini, Federico24. Kurosawa Akira25. Malick, Terrence26. Anderson, Paul Thomas27. Godard, Jean-Luc28. Lang, Fritz29. Van Sant, Gus30. Chaplin, Charles31. Bunuel, Luis32. Wilder, Billy33. Dardenne, Jean-Luc & Pierre34. Ray, Satyajit35. Antonioni, Michelangelo36. Morris, Errol37. Ophüls, Max38. Mizoguchi Kenji39. Lonergan, Kenneth40. Lumet, Sidney41. Scott, Ridley42. Scorsese, Martin43. Spielberg, Steven44. Tarantino, Quentin45. Linklater, Richard46. To, Johnnie47. Polanski, Roman48. Coppola, Francis Ford49. Miyazaki Hayao50. Lean, David
― cajunsunday, Saturday, 20 January 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
Chytilova (I'd forgotten Fruits of Paradise, reasoned her out by telling myself I'd only seen Daisies) (who reminds me that I also forgot Kira Muratova) and Visconti are other regrets.
There are more than 50 great directors don't @ me.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 20 January 2018 18:18 (six years ago) link
Fruit Of Paradise and Jane Arden's Other Side Of Underneath on my to buy list now.
1. Tsukamoto Shin'ya2. Lynch, David3. Argento, Dario4. De Palma, Brian5. Quay, Stephen & Timothy6. Russell, KenBurton, TimGaranina, IdeyaKovasznai, GyorgyJankovics, MarcellTanaka, TokuzoSono, SionShorina, NinaNakagawa, NobuoBarta, JiriSerebryakov, NikolaiMurnau, F.W.Cronenberg, DavidRaimi, SamHung, SammoCarpenter, JohnHooper, TobePowell, Michael & Emeric PressburgerHark, TsuiZulawski, AndrzejHerz, JurajHitchcock, AlfredJodorowsky, AlejandroMiller, GeorgeGilliam, TerryChan-wook Parkdel Toro, GuillermoCheh, ChangStrickland, PeterCorman, RogerCoppola, Francis FordPolanski, RomanWise, RobertJires, JaromilHu, KingImamura ShōheiBrass, TintoSatoshi KonRomero, George A.Friedkin, WilliamChristiansen, BenjaminCocteau, JeanIshii, GakuryūRoeg, NicholasRollin, Jean
Lynch would have been first in terms of the overall power of his work but I wanted to boost Tsukamoto and I like a bigger percentage of his work and I don't care for most of Lynch's later short films (the early ones are great though). Tsukamoto has a few disappointments but they usually have something really striking about them (I've been unable to find a few of his films).
De Palma being placed so high is just my current enthusiasm after loving a few films recently.
Quay Brothers for giving you something to get lost in parts of your brain you don't visit often enough.
I'm sad to see so few voted Ken Russell because he's got these moments where everything comes together and fly beautifully.
Burton being the first director to make my brain ejaculate.
Garanina made some fucking gorgeous animations and she had a nice variety of style.Kovasznai for his lovely layered filmed painting and a really odd romance musical.Jankovics for the burning coloured fantasy.
Tanaka for some 60s horror films that badly need discovered outside Japan.
Nina Shorina just for the grotty Room Of Laughter.Barta for his Pied Piper film.Serebryakov for strange morphing grotesquerie.
Hung for some of the funnest films I've ever seen. If people love entertainment so much why aren't his films more famous?
Herz for beautiful gothic fantasies.
I don't actually love Chang Cheh but he's a game changer that probably wouldn't be voted by anyone else.
Brass for having the good sense to put a camera on Caprioglio for a whole film.
Rollin for being so indulgent and cutting the shit that other horror directors feel obliged to do. He's not amazing but I respect those things.
Forgotten Mario Bava (for his visual styling) and animator Keita Kurosaka (totally unlike most anime and beautifully textured) and maybe should have included Richard Blackburn and a few other one hit wonders.Thought of voting for a bunch of softcore fetish stuff but who would care?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 20 January 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
Didn't submit this due to holidays + the ILM EOY poll sucking up ballot-related will-to-live, but for posterity:
01. Jiang Wen02. Tsai Ming-Liang03. Akira Kurosawa04. Yevgeni Bauer05. Vsevolod Pudovkin06. Stephen Chow07. Jackie Chan08. Alexander Dovzhenko09. Juraj Herz10. Buster Keaton
Abbas KiarostamiAleksei GermanAlice Guy-BlachéBilly WilderBusby BerkeleyChen KaigeChuck JonesEdward YangErnst LubitschF.W. MurnauFarah KhanFritz LangGeorges MélièsGustavo SerenaHayao MiyazakiHiroshi TeshigaharaHou Hsiao-HsienJacques TatiJames BidgoodJohn WooKenji MizoguchiKing HuKing VidorMaya DerenMichael Powell & Emeric PressburgerNino OxiliaOusmane SembèneRaj KapoorRyusuke HamaguchiSammo HungSatyajit RayTakashi MiikeTsui HarkVěra ChytilováWalter RuttmannWong Kar-WaiWu Nien-jenXie JieYasujirō OzuZhang Yimou
― etc, Saturday, 20 January 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
Clem, sorry about the Argento thing. I assure that it was probably from the ballot of the person in one of the adjacent columns.
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 January 2018 23:42 (six years ago) link
No problem at all. Out of curiosity, you might want to check Andrea Arnold, though--she may have made the Top 101.
― clemenza, Sunday, 21 January 2018 02:48 (six years ago) link
I could be wrong, of course, but judging by the user names on the spreadsheet I am not the only (semi-) lurker to vote in this poll...
Bresson was my #1. Rivette my #2. Went back and forth a few times between them.
Pialat was #3 - my highest-ranked director not to place. And of the ranked portion of my ballot (15 directors) he was the only one not to place.
Of the other directors I voted for, the following did not place:Andersson, RoyBerkeley, BusbyBrowning, TodDardenne, Jean-Luc & PierreDumont, BrunoFuller, SamuelHas, WojciechKlein, WilliamLaughton, CharlesMaysles, Albert & David, and Charlotte ZwerinMcLaren, NormanOliveira, Manoel dePakula, Alan J.
Of those, I fully expected to be the only vote for several of them, but it turns out that William Klein was the only director for whom I cast the sole vote.
Nice to see that four others voted for Laughton on the basis of that one great film.
McLaren must have been my introduction to experimental film techniques, as I first saw his films in school and on TV at a very young age, and I watched a lot of his work as a teenager/young adult as well.
I was a little surprised, but not really dismayed, to see Wiseman (my #5) place but not the Maysleses (to whom I gave an unranked vote).
Thanks to Eric H. for running the poll. Like all attempts to rank art it is ultimately meaningless, but that doesn't necessarily detract from the enjoyment of the attempt.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 21 January 2018 03:12 (six years ago) link
Thanks for the rollout, Eric. I especially enjoyed slowly revealing the images to see if I would guess from the still who the director was. Oddly I seemed to have more difficulty in the top 20 than I did much of what came earlier — maybe the choice of images got more rarefied, and I"m a bozo cinephile.
I was the #1 vote for Joe Dante. I guess he's my Joe Shlabotnik. I didn't dwell on my ranking that much, but at the top I thought in terms of "whose films would I most regret never being able to see again?" And he was the sentimental childhood favorite. His films show show such an affection for movie history — they're really smart, but they aren't really trying to improve on or be more important than what they love — and yet his best films are better than most of their genre antecedents. They're really generous.
Then my #2 was Bresson who disavowed most of cinema as such. There you go.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Sunday, 21 January 2018 05:01 (six years ago) link
Confession time: I've never watched any films from these directors.
35. Satyajit Ray (834.5 points; 11 votes)63. (tie) Hou Hsiao-hsien (554 points; 7 votes)69. Frederick Wiseman (513.5 points; 6 votes; 1 first-place vote)76. Aki Kaurismäki (480 points; 7 votes)86. Ousmane Sembène (435.5 points; 6 votes)96. Sergei Parajanov (385 points; 5 votes)
― adam the (abanana), Sunday, 21 January 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link
Satyajit Ray is good stuff! Apu trilogy is great but you can go to The Hero if you want something less in accordance to stereotypes of what dude's movies would be like.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 21 January 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
I'm a Parajanov virgin too, tbh.
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Sunday, 21 January 2018 18:47 (six years ago) link
I considered renting Color of Pomegranates yesterday, but opted for a couple Renoirs. This poll's given me a lot to check out.
― jmm, Sunday, 21 January 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
wiseman was my highest ranked american director.
― plax (ico), Sunday, 21 January 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link
true, but I'm only mentioning it to annoy morbs
― plax (ico), Sunday, 21 January 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
Another that I actually had in my ballot but left it out in the end. Have quite a bit of time for his documentaries
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 21 January 2018 21:39 (six years ago) link
Contrast ...
https://www.cinematary.com/writing/2018/7/9/the-2018-shmight-shmound-poll
01. David Lynch (188 total votes)02. Stanley Kubrick (183)03. Alfred Hitchcock (146)04. Abbas Kiarostami (99)05. Chantal Akerman (96)06. Akira Kurosawa (92) [tie]06. Andrei Tarkovsky (92) [tie]08. Terrence Malick (88)09. John Ford (85)10. Paul Thomas Anderson (82)11. Francis Ford Coppola (80)12. Martin Scorsese (78)13. Edward Yang (77) [tie]13. Ingmar Bergman (77) [tie]13. Wong Kar-wai (77) [tie]16. Jean-Luc Godard (75)17. Orson Welles (74)18. Howard Hawks (73)19. Yasujiro Ozu (72)20. Carl Theodor Dreyer (70)
High showings for Kiarostami, Akerman and Yang aside, our list is better.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
huh guess this happened during my sabbatical. oh well.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
that list is better aside from fanboys' #1, and would prefer Preston Sturges supplanting Malick
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
I wouldn't put Lynch ahead of Welles or Hitchcock or Kubrick either. On the whole I'd say our list was better, otoh points off for both lists putting Tarkovsky in the top 10.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
yeah eric otm that list is booooring, lmfao at PTA in the top 10
xp I think Lynch was my #10... also Shakey you don't like Tarkovsky??
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
absolutely haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate Solaris and Stalker, I'll be fucked if I'm watching any more of that guy's tiresome nonsense
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
Tarkovsky's fine with me, but he's Ingmar's student
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
I think I've just about recovered from my early-20s attempt at watching Solaris to try him again.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
Solaris is not a particularly punishing work, for him.
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
That's what I'm afraid of.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:20 (five years ago) link
wow !
well... try Ivan's Childhood, only 95 minutes! and really great!
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
the only thing that makes Solaris less "punishing" is how pretty it is. it's just as languorous as Stalker. i love both but Solaris is my favorite
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
I watched Stalker last summer in a theater and don't need to rewatch it.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
stalker is gorgeous too
i tend to be able to only watch tarkovsky films once as well though i've seen solaris 4-5 times (i intended to write about it)
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:48 (five years ago) link
punishing tarkovsky is def the sacrifice
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
xp it is, and i didn't find it boring, but Solaris i could watch over and over. colloidal silver oceans & pink skies vs. sepia dust world and radioactive waste
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
mirror is the tarkovsky for skeptics i think.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
my favorite is The Mirror fwiw, but Andrei Rublev not far behind
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link
I thought The Sacrifice was relatively accessible (for him), and is a favorite of mine along with The Mirror
― Dan S, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 22:50 (five years ago) link
Nostalghia is definitely his most 'inaccessible' for lack of a better word - but if you're on his frequency it's astonishing.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 22:55 (five years ago) link
You have to look at the lists side by side. Putting aside placement, half of the two lists overlap. So it comes down these 10 from their list vs. these 10 from the ILX list:
Cinematary 10: Kiarostami, Akerman, Malick, Ford, P.T. Anderson, Coppola, Yang, Kar-wai, Hawks, Dreyer
ILX 10: Powell & Pressburger, Fassbinder, Buñuel, Altman, Renoir, Lang, Antonioni, Wilder, Murnau, Bresson
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link