And, yeah, the suspense is killing me. :D
― Cherish, Friday, 19 January 2018 23:05 (six years ago) link
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.)
― clemenza, Friday, 19 January 2018 23:07 (six years ago) link
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
― one way street, Friday, 19 January 2018 23:08 (six years ago) link
Ah, I get it now.
― Cherish, Friday, 19 January 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
So Elia Kazan is not for tankies?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 January 2018 23:11 (six years ago) link
https://cansesclasseled.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/touchofevildi.jpg2. Orson Welles(1957 points; 24 votes)https://cansesclasseled.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/3530.jpg1. Alfred Hitchcock(2399.5 points; 28 votes; 2 firstplace votes)
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Friday, 19 January 2018 23:15 (six years ago) link
i'm leaving to drink at Marlene Dietrich's place, so bye
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Friday, 19 January 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link
450 points clear!
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 19 January 2018 23:17 (six years ago) link
S&S much? xxp
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 19 January 2018 23:17 (six years ago) link
Not for the comrades Alfred.
Thanks Eric for running the poll. The Caps were wonderful. Appreciate the good work.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 19 January 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link
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!
― Cherish, Friday, 19 January 2018 23:19 (six years ago) link
Thanks, Eric.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 19 January 2018 23:19 (six years ago) link
Thank you for running the poll! Salut!
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― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Friday, 19 January 2018 23:20 (six years ago) link
Yes, thanks, Eric!
― one way street, Friday, 19 January 2018 23:20 (six years ago) link
yes, this poll was great! I'm going to use it as a reference for further exploration
― Dan S, Friday, 19 January 2018 23:25 (six years ago) link
Bottom up.
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― jmm, Friday, 19 January 2018 23:26 (six years ago) link
Thanks, Eric.Wish Shohei Imamura would have made it.
― Chris L, Friday, 19 January 2018 23:28 (six years ago) link
Good job, Eric.
Reasonable job, everyone else.
― emil.y, Friday, 19 January 2018 23:30 (six years ago) link
Thanks Eric, really enjoyed this!
― devvvine, Friday, 19 January 2018 23:33 (six years ago) link
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― Haribo Hancock (sic), Friday, 19 January 2018 23:35 (six years ago) link
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?
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Friday, 19 January 2018 23:36 (six years ago) link
Great job Eric! Thank you for doing this. Hitchcock was my #1, Bergman my #2.
― flappy bird, Friday, 19 January 2018 23:39 (six years ago) link
i didn't vote but i would have voted for Wes Anderson
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― omar little, Friday, 19 January 2018 23:40 (six years ago) link
well i'm glad you didn't
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 19 January 2018 23:41 (six years ago) link
what's the image for welles? it's not loading for me for some reason
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 19 January 2018 23:42 (six years ago) link
you're welcome
― omar little, Friday, 19 January 2018 23:42 (six years ago) link
No, the point of this should be to fume that #35 beat #48 or whatever.
― Chris L, Friday, 19 January 2018 23:43 (six years ago) link
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.
― WilliamC, Friday, 19 January 2018 23:44 (six years ago) link
yeah this was an awesome poll
i'm p much ok with the top 4 as is
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 19 January 2018 23:47 (six years ago) link
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)?
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Friday, 19 January 2018 23:47 (six years ago) link
Well the right one won
― hell is auteur people (Noodle Vague), Friday, 19 January 2018 23:49 (six years ago) link
Eric this was great you've made me stay up too late all week, thamks
― hell is auteur people (Noodle Vague), Friday, 19 January 2018 23:50 (six years ago) link
Oh whoa Wes Anderson didn’t even place, hell yeah
― flappy bird, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:07 (six years ago) link
awesome stuff Eric, thanks for the work.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:08 (six years ago) link
George Miller was robbedhttp://motorcycleboy.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Toecutter.gif
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:11 (six years ago) link
thanks Eric you’re the best
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:12 (six years ago) link
Touch of Evil. I’ll mod request
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:13 (six years ago) link
The top ten was unimpeachable
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:23 (six years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:24 (six years ago) link
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.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:25 (six years ago) link
would love to see some kind of restoration of it's all true. have never seen the 1993 doc even.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:27 (six years ago) link
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 Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:29 (six years ago) link
The Renoir ranking still uh rankles
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:34 (six years ago) link
this poll finally made me pull the trigger on the hitch Blu-ray box
― Simon H., Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:35 (six years ago) link
nice!! hope that includes Shadow of a Doubt
― flappy bird, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:36 (six years ago) link
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
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:37 (six years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:37 (six years ago) link
No room, Sebastian.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:38 (six years ago) link
First-place vote getters that placed outside the top 101:
Roy Andersson (#110)Vera Chytilova (#132)George Miller (#138)
And, tied at #232:
Joe DanteHarun FarockiShin'ya TsukamotoWilliam Wellman
I was wrong about more first-place votes being outside the top 101 ... there were a reasonably high number of unranked ballots too, but more #1s did make it.
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:39 (six years ago) link
I like Notorious but I have a huge Cary Grant problem. Need to watch that one again, love for it is pretty intense everywhere.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:39 (six years ago) link