All Right, Mr. DeMille, I'm Ready For My Close-Up ... It's The ILXOR's Top 101 Director Poll Results Thread

Big (and Under Recognized) Fields For Women In Film: Editing and Production Design.

I mean, woman can, are, and have been auteurs, but director-focused approaches to film history tend to reproduce gendered patterns of exclusion from directorial work.

And, yeah, the suspense is killing me. :D

Cary Grant's birthday today, so I guess #1's apropos. (Instead of the crop-dusting scene that I usually go with, I played the auction scene from NBN for my 3/4 class today. Had to stop about five times in two minutes to explain why, in the context of an auction, Grant's antics were so funny. Not a good choice.)

Right, so recovering the work of
underappreciated or effaced female directors is one strategy, elaborating critical concepts to do justice to other aspects of filmmaking is another; they're not necessarily contradictory.

xxp

Ah, I get it now.

So Elia Kazan is not for tankies?

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2. Orson Welles
(1957 points; 24 votes)

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1. Alfred Hitchcock
(2399.5 points; 28 votes; 2 first­place votes)

i'm leaving to drink at Marlene Dietrich's place, so bye

450 points clear!

S&S much? xxp

Not for the comrades Alfred.

Thanks Eric for running the poll. The Caps were wonderful. Appreciate the good work.

Von Sternberg was the highest placing director on my ballot to miss the top 101 here.

Huston, for me.

Eric, this thread is magnificent. Thank you!

Thanks, Eric.

Thank you for running the poll! Salut!

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Yes, thanks, Eric!

yes, this poll was great! I'm going to use it as a reference for further exploration

Bottom up.

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Thanks, Eric.
Wish Shohei Imamura would have made it.

Good job, Eric.

Reasonable job, everyone else.

Thanks Eric, really enjoyed this!

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I’ll make with the stats and full spreadsheet later this evening. I will say that maybe only about half of people’s number one choices made the list, which is tragic but what’re gonna do?

Great job Eric! Thank you for doing this. Hitchcock was my #1, Bergman my #2.

i didn't vote but i would have voted for Wes Anderson

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well i'm glad you didn't

what's the image for welles? it's not loading for me for some reason

you're welcome

yes, this poll was great! I'm going to use it as a reference for further exploration

No, the point of this should be to fume that #35 beat #48 or whatever.

Yeah, the Welles image won't load for me either. 404 error when I try to open in a new tab.

Thanks for running this poll, Eric! Really enjoyed it, and there are already a dozen changes I wish I'd made on my ballot.

yeah this was an awesome poll

i'm p much ok with the top 4 as is

I will say that maybe only about half of people’s number one choices made the list, which is tragic but what’re gonna do?

Eh, there's a great big world of film out there, and ILXors have diverse tastes. Although did no one else vote for William A. Wellman (my #1)?

Well the right one won

Eric this was great you've made me stay up too late all week, thamks

Oh whoa Wes Anderson didn’t even place, hell yeah

awesome stuff Eric, thanks for the work.

George Miller was robbed

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thanks Eric you’re the best

Touch of Evil. I’ll mod request

The top ten was unimpeachable

Yang and Ophuls are the choices you guys have made me curious about.

I really wish there were more overviews like Cousins tv version of Story Of Film (after which I bought 4 Parajanov films I admired more than enjoyed). I generally haven't liked the really cineastey directors enough to delve very far but I just know I'm missing something. Everyone is always missing lots but I'd like a better idea of what I'm missing and there's not a lot of opportunities unless you really dive in and it's not a high enough priority for me to do that (I'm trying to watch less films but I want the quality to be better).

Any youtube channels regularly discussing or excerpting this type of director would be great.

rad thread eric enjoyed it bunches

renoir and ford placements pretty absurd and also imo wilder should not be here at all but rly surprised+delighted to see welles so high. love lots of the middle and later stuff. mr arkadin, chimes at midnight, the trial, f for fake, even that shoestring macbeth. (lady from shanghai not all that great to watch in my experience.) he's a strange kind of bridge between old hollywood and post60s indiedom, the same way he's a bridge between "high" and "low": the most shakespearean american filmmaker but also the most like p.t. barnum, always a showman, always (to his chagrin) a hustler. and so miserably #iconic in decline, cursing houseman.

would love to see some kind of restoration of it's all true. have never seen the 1993 doc even.

orson would've been my no. 1, he's endlessly interesting and prob has at least five flat-out masterpieces to his name (which is a p good record when you've only completed about a dozen films). really even if he'd only directed the first half-hour of ambersons he'd prob deserve a place on the list.

The Renoir ranking still uh rankles

this poll finally made me pull the trigger on the hitch Blu-ray box

nice!! hope that includes Shadow of a Doubt

hitch is a good committee #1 because while he would never be mine, if someone asked me what a movie is i'd show them notorious

Shadow of a Doubt might be my 2nd favorite film ever. i posted a very high quality youtube rip upthread, last night i think, besides being so thematically rich and beguiling and full of great performances, there's something completely intoxicating about it that I've only encountered in a handful of films ever.

No room, Sebastian.