The Total Filmmaker ... Nominations open for the next ILX film poll of the Greatest Movie Directors of All Time!

Richard Lester
Paul Mazursky

vertov
svankmajer
lindsay anderson

Carol Reed
Ernst Lubitsch
Norman McLaren
Guy Maddin
Ida Lupino
Michael Curtitz
Mike Nichols
John Schlesinger
John Lassetter
Michael Winterbottom

Bruce Conner

Peter Greenaway

Michael Curtitz

Didn't he direct Assablanca?

TROLL NOMINATION: Charles Laughton

I don't see that as trolling

I don't either, but I'm pretty sure that I won't find room on my ballot for him above the many directors who managed at least two great films.

Me neither but it's a good nomination, people might want to vote for him. Pretty sure a lot of people consider harper lee one of the greatest novelists too

Sidney Lumet
Milos Forman
Roy Andersson

Louis Malle
Georges Melies

ctrl+f is your friend

Doesn't work on the app. I did scroll through whole thread, couldn't find those 5.

richard donner
john badham
john mctiernan
chris columbus
george p cosmatos

Some less obvious but deserving names:

João Cesar Monteiro
Jaromil Jires
Kinji Fukasaku
Hideo Gosha
Krzysztof Zanussi

Andy Warhol
Rosa von Praunheim

jim in vancouver, it's not the best 2500 directors.

Bernardo Bertolucci
Federico Fellini
Vittorio De Sica
Luchino Visconti
Busby Berkeley

Tsui Hark

Jimmy Wang Yu

wong kar wai

Shohei Imamura
Nagisa Oshima
Eric Rohmer
Claude Chabrol

Larisa Shepitko

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Peter Greenaway

― Master of Treacle, Thursday, November 9, 2017 11:48 AM (two hours ago)

Good call.

Shinya Tsukamoto
Ken Russell
Quay Brothers
Terry Gilliam
Sogo Ishii
Ideya Garanina
Gyorgy Kovasznai
Chang Cheh
Sammo Hung

Updated again, including the remainder of the TSPDT 250. Total count is 336 now.

Harun Farocki
Straub-Huillet
Christian Petzold
Philip Scheffner
Jean Negulesco
Ryan Trecartin
Ken Loach
Abel Gance
Alain Resnais
D.W. Griffith

Paul Morrissey

Wondering if 50 is enough for the rollout when it comes, instead of 100.

Budd Boetticher

Derek Jarman
Terence Davies
Theo Angelopoulos
Bruno Dumont

Richard Linklater
Bahman Ghobadi
Radley Metzger
Jesus Franco

James Gray
George Miller
Jafar Panahi
Spike Jonze
Leos Carax
Jem Cohen
Asghar Farhadi
Gaspar Noé
Arnaud Desplechin
Don Hertzfeldt

Julio Medem

Henry Hathaway
King Vidor
Mark Sandrich
Tod Browning
Lewis Milestone

Craig R. Baxley

Unless the point was the juxtaposition, not seeing any first-unit director credits here.

Although his stunt and second unit credits are way more plentiful, Baxley does have 33 1st unit director credits on imdb (mostly tv and DTV), but the reason I listed him is from 1988 to 1991, he directed three of my favorite action movies ever: Action Jackson, I Come in Peace, and Stone Cold.

List updated.

Question that goes around in circles forever: I assume "greatest" means your personal favourites, as opposed to some dispassionate attempt to weigh film history (in which case, you may as well just reprint TSPDT's list).

Tougher for me will be whether to vote for who are my favourite right now, or to step back and take a longer view. Specifically, I'm talking about Scorsese, Coppola, De Palma, and other American '70s directors. They made a few films long ago that profoundly affected me, followed by three decades of almost uninterrupted disappointment (to the degree that I stopped being disappointed at some point).

I can't separate greatest from personal favorites, but that's me.

me neither, highly suspicious of any objective 'canon' but obviously there are many artists and works of art that many, many people love

I can. Clair Denis may be my favorite currently working director but I wouldn't call her the greatest. Haneke is truly great for me but inexplicably hated on ILX while being seen as one of the greats or thee great outside of this bubble. \

or maybe I'm reinforcing your point.

ialso "m drunk.

ha

also, I'm drunk.

more than anything it makes lists like these boring

haneke is hated on ilx?

feckin eejits

I can't separate greatest from personal favorites, but that's me.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

I'm exactly the same way. But I know some people perceive them as separable.

Each set informs the other, but they are not identical.