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

I'll go ahead and just say the top 100 listed on TSPDT are all "nominated" and we can move on from there.

http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_top250directors.htm

John Ford
Ousmane Sembene
Robert Aldrich
Kon Ichikawa
Elaine May
Joseph Cornell
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Agnes Varda
Luis Bunuel
Carl Theodor Dreyer

can you believe Blake Edwards made the top 250 list upo there and Jerry Lewis and Frank Tashlin didn't? What a world.

Michael Powell's not in that top 100, so him

solo, he is 145th

My most challopsy realization in the last few years is that Aldrich made more great films than Altman.

Charles Burnett
Jerry Lewis

Ichikawa is likely to make my final ballot depending on how many spots Eric gives us.

guess I'll just start listing people then

Orson Welles
F.W. Murnau
Fritz Lang
Charlie Chaplin
Brian DePalma
Martin Scorsese
Sam Peckinpah
Woody Allen
Wes Anderson
Coen Bros
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Akira Kurosawa
Yasujirō Ozu
John Carpenter
David Cronenberg
Stanley Donen
Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick
Spike Lee

oops

well done Michael Powell

oh sorry xp

D.A. Pennebaker

Claire Denis
Olivier Assayas
Jia Zhangke
Robert Bresson

Mikhail Kalatozov
Satoshi Kon
Jean Cocteau
G. W. Pabst
René Clair

Stan Brakhage

Kenneth Anger

Chris Marker
Jacques Rivette
Chantal Akerman
Nicholas Ray
David Lynch
Maya Deren
Jean Vigo

Satyajit Ray, Pedro costa, Bela tarr

Hou hsiao-hsien
Nic Roeg

Will update this on the daily... Here's where we stand right now:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_yiA3-iP3ZK9m6YC1iOthz_ZT2YiwjZ8lLOXYc-Nxf4/

Edward Yang
Hayao Miyazaki

King Hu
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Les Blank
Lodge Kerrigan
Jean-Luc Godard
Michael Haneke
Mike Leigh

Věra Chytilová
Howard Hawks
Andrei Tarkovsky
Sergei Eisenstein
Jane Campion
Jacques Tourneur

Roman Polanski
P.T. Anderson
Wim Wenders
Steven Soderbergh

maybe Eric should just agree to nominate the TSPDT top 250 and save a lotta time

John Cassavetes
Billy Wilder

Ford
Godard
Mizoguchi
Pialat
Hawks
Anthony Mann
Renoir
Spielberg
Melville
Lang
Buñuel
Welles

not in that order but...yeah it reads like a Criterion™ Ho's list but these are my faves.

George Cukor
Maren Ade
Cristian Mungiu
Kenji Mizoguchi

But then there wouldn't be surprise "omissions" that don't end up mattering because you're free to vote for whoever on your ballots even if they weren't nominated, et al.

Rivette as well!

Fuck it. Too many more I revere that I forgot. Like Bresson.

Johnnie To

Frederick Wiseman (outside of TSPDT's Top 100 but on the list of 250).

Peter Watkins
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Takeshi Kitano
Aki Kaurismäki
Sally Potter
Gurinder Chadha
Paul Schrader

What about creators who mostly worked together? E.g. do we vote for "Michael Powell" and "Emeric Pressburger" or is there an option to vote for "Powell & Pressburger"? I'm actually mainly asking this because I want to vote for Jane Arden but she mostly only worked in conjunction with Jack Bond so I'm not sure whether to just nominate her or to nominate "Arden & Bond".

nearly nominated Jane Arden just now, i guess we've the option to vote for both/either

One for the so-over-auteurs corner.

John Huston

Park Chan-wook

All my faves been nommed already, even Kenji Mizoguchi who I learned about from here - so that makes sense!

Neil Breen

Werner Herzog
Chuck Jones
Francois Truffaut

John Boorman

Abbas Kiarostami

Neil Breen

In case my block of text didn't indicate clearly that I was nominating Jane Arden, I shall include her in my initial noms list:

Jane Arden
Germaine Dulac
Roy Andersson
Sergei Parajanov
Wojciech Has
Juraj Herz
Dario Argento

Doc updated. Yes, Morbs, I'll probably end up adding any from the TSPDT 250 in the end.

William Wellman
Maurice Tourneur
Frank Capra
Alice Guy Blache
Julian Duvivier
Max Ophuls

Douglas Sirk
Seijun Suzuki
Paul Verhoeven
Monte Hellman
Kathryn Bigelow
Robert Altman
Tony Scott
Jacques Tati
Sergio Leone
Bob Fosse

Buster Keaton
John Woo

how many votes do we get? cuz even if it's 50, plenty i love will not be on it.

I don't think more than 50 is a good idea if we're trying to pick la creme (also some voters would struggle to name 50 non-Marvel directors).

So you're saying you want other people's slots for your ballot.

no.

my point was more "stop nominating people even you are not going to vote for"

I mean harlan county is a p singular film, really shocking the first time you see it.

Haile Gerima

on Morbz logic,
Bush Mama is easily one of my favourite films of all time, even if the couple of others I've seen by him come nowhere close

I saw Bush Mama on my birthday this year.

Oh, I think more than 50 slots would be a fucking awful idea. I'd be more into like 25 or so? But as I tend to say on every nomination thread, I like nominations to be comprehensive so that I have a list I can refer to and go "oh yeah, forgot about that one!" Basically, my memory sucks and I need help.

I am pretty worried that this list is just going to be a crappy retread of other best director lists, and I'm also already having high anxiety about voting for Polanski, which I am definitely going to do but I feel 100% shitty about. To be fair to him I'll probably vote for other shitbags who happen to be less notorious too.

Polanski is likely to be in my top 10. Just a fact.

I'll vote for Polanski only if he happens to die by the time I get around to sending my ballot.

I won't think for a second about what kind of person I'm voting for. I don't know if Polanski (who may or may not be on my list--the old peak value vs. career value question) would be the only one where that's even an issue; most of the people I won't know anything anyway, and I hadn't planned on a James Toback vote. I could see grappling with that if it involved flying someone in to receive a state honour, like the Legion of France, but not with a message-board poll.

(Anyway, that's a personal call--no problem with emily's stance.)

There aren't 50 great directors and there aren't 472 good directors

LGx

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/20/art-monstrous-men/

Does self-harm count?

whut

That's a really good piece imo - that line is a bit weird but makes a little more sense with the context of the concluding paragraphs

yeah i figured i should prevail, it just felt like a super odd interjection

ok yeah it makes a lot more sense toward the end

Still waiting to cross 500 nominations.

Eddie Murphy
Martin McDonagh
Eliza Hittman
Alex Ross Perry
Andrew Haigh
Jordan Peele
Donna Deitch
Matt Porterfield
Safdie Brothers
David Lowery

peak troll achieved

No trolling from me itt. ILXOR.com. i live for this shit

Shane Carruth

Louis Feuillade
Hal Roach

Guillermo del Toro
John Sayles
Julie Taymor
Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker

James W. Horne

Rabbit season

Steve McQueen

Tony Leondis

Fernando Solanas
Thomas Guiterrez
Ursula Biemann
Margaret Dickinson
Lizzie Borden

sorry for any duplicates

René Vautier

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_yiA3-iP3ZK9m6YC1iOthz_ZT2YiwjZ8lLOXYc-Nxf4/

503 nominees. Last chance to add some to the list before I launch the voting/campaigning thread later today.

(I'm only reasonably sure there are no duplicates.)

Probably going to go with 50-slot ballots btw.

psyched!

Better stick Patrick Keiller and Roger Vadim on that shortlist

oh wow, keiller was missing?

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