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

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.

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.