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

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.

hate-posting a couple of names:

Manoel de Oliveira
Shoaib Shahid Saless

Two more (I am not drunk rn):

Marguerite Duras
Ritwik Ghatak

Point of order: Dr Morbius is literally the only one who hates Haneke on ILX.

Andy Warhol
Rosa von Praunheim

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:31 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:32 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lol after print warhol

learn to make the greats your favorites

fwiw I like some Haneke films but not the recent sadistic clown shows

i thought the sadistic clown shows figured earlier

i didn't mean the comedic content, which recent MH desperately needs

Funny Games > Amour

Andrzej Zulawski

James Whale
Larry Cohen
George Romero
Peter Weir

Stephen Chow
Jules Dassin
Stuart Gordon
Kenneth Lonergan
Jean Painlevé
Sam Raimi
Edgar Wright
Terry Zwigoff

also, i'm NOT nominating the following as they aren't my favorites, but they aren't on the list yet for people looking to nominate some:
Darren Aronofsky
Brad Bird
Costa-Gavras
Guillermo del Toro
Atom Egoyan
Curtis Hanson
Mary Harron
Ub Iwerks
Abdellatif Kechiche
Masaki Kobayashi
Yorgos Lanthimos
Lewis Milestone
Phil Lord & Christopher Miller
Anthony Minghella
Carl Reiner
John Sayles
Julie Taymor
Denis Villeneuve
Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker

Alexander Korda
Alexander Mackendrick
Claude Jutra
Denys Arcand
Jacques Demy
Jirí Menzel
Juraj Herz
Whit Stillman

Jeremy Saulnier

Joe Dante

List's up to 380.

i'm assuming there'll be ballots of 200 then

(j/k, really)

Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker

eg, these guys would be the first to admit they can't direct traffic.

i mean, hell then:

Jules White
Del Lord

Added:

Abel Ferrara
Martin Arnold
Alan Clarke
Bill Forsyth
John Paizs
Walter Hill
George & Mike Kuchar
Peter Kubelka

Genius:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG6wio8azyE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aem69eSsIus

you've seen too much TV, not enough McCarey-directed silents

Is that right, Mister ... Poopy Pants?

the feeling is mutual!

(and the way Nielsen delivers "Oh, yes, I believe I've used some of your restrooms" would honor McCarey).

Morbs shouldn't be complaining about directors who can't direct -- he nominated bunuel and the director of ishtar.

more Lubitsch/ Sturges xp

:p

go slip on abanana

Richard Kelly

Krzysztof Kieślowski

eg, these guys would be the first to admit they can't direct traffic.

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 November 2017 00:49 (fifteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Traffic was shite and all

A+ Soderburn

George Clooney

Robert Downey Sr.

Jackie Chan
Allan Dwan