Best final post-1969 film by someone nominated for a pre-1960 best director Oscar

I suspect Family Plot will sweep this, undeservedly.

Ye gods. I've seen:

Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1972)
The Last Tycoon (Elia Kazan, 1976)
A Matter of Time (Vincente Minnelli, 1976)
Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock, 1976)
Buddy Buddy (Billy Wilder, 1981)
Rich and Famous (George Cukor, 1981)
A Passage To India (David Lean, 1984)
Fever Pitch (Richard Brooks, 1985)
The Dead (John Huston, 1987)
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (Jack Clayton, 1987)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet, 2007)

I was thinking F for Fake was Welles's last, and would probably have won, but apparently his Othello doc got a theatrical release, even though it was made for German TV.

I can confirm that Millennium is the worst movie on this list.

holy christ I saw that too! As a kid I left thinking Kris Kristofferson was the worst actor ever.

I can confirm that Millennium is the worst movie on this list.

I did consider making it a worst-of poll instead. I think The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun looks like it might give Milliennium a run for its money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1pR1fYlgoE

Christmas as a, what, 11-year-old I saw Buddy Buddy and Neighbors on two consecutive nights. Strikeout.

I'm just getting lost in these trailers now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joxnllqOWmU

I've only seen four of these (or maybe three, but I'm pretty sure I saw Rio Lobo on TV ages ago). I remember The Dead as being quite good. Haven't seen The Last Tycoon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U58mwO8ucGM

Oh, better, but labelled as the wrong Human Factor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uQuvNuChqc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7v9ozrTkMI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDny6wbUgLY

Not a real trailer, but:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGQ-GtqthZw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2sYEluXy_0

Had completely forgotten about Millennium, which my parents took us to when I was a kid. A couple of drunk girls kept yelling stuff at the screen from the back of the theatre until they were kicked out. It was the highlight of the film.

Really wanted to include Stanley Donen's Blame it on Rio in this poll, but astonishingly, he was never even nominated for best director. Also, he's still alive, so who knows, he might make another movie.

people you thought were dead but aren't

The Eagle Has Landed is a lousy but perfectly serviceable World War II movie. Plus you get to hear Robert Duvall's German accent.

Avalanche Express is such a sad, doomed production - both actor Robert Shaw and director Robson died within a week of each other. Monte Hellman ended up finishing the movie. It's not bad - maybe towards the bottom of a Cold War espionage top 40.

The Dead v Sleuth v A Passage to India

huston easy

I've shown The Dead fairly often in class when I've taught the story.

Robert Rietty was hired to re-voice Robert Shaw's dialogue in the opening scene, as it was decided to redo that scene in Russian with English subtitles instead of having the Russians speak broken English. As a consequence, for continuity, all of Shaw's dialogue throughout the film was re-voiced by Rietty.

Crazy.

I realize that I've seen Rooftops. I was in a job then that involved occasional advance screenings, so I went out one morning or afternoon and sat through Wise's attempt to bring West Side Story into the here and now of 1989. Don't remember anything except that it was dreadful. (I'm looking at the IMDB page, and Luis Guzman's down in the lower reaches of the credits.)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

can't believe two of you like the Lumet