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

The Kuchars really weren't credited with co-directing much of their total oeuvre.

Lav Diaz

Robert Frank
Ken Jacobs
Joan Micklin Silver
John Sturges

Carl Reiner

Mia Hansen-Love
Paolo Sorrentino

Lino Brocka
Oscar Micheaux
Elio Petri
Lina Wertmuller

Barbara Kopple
Nicole Holofcener

Robin Hardy
Ben Wheatley
Michael Reeves

(got a folk horror thing going on there)

Hirokazu Kore-eda
Kiyoshi Kurosawa

jean rollin

andrea arnold

Sacha Guitry
William Klein
Raymond Bernard
Basil Dearden
Mervyn LeRoy

Ben Stiller

noah baumbach

xp morbs, has barbara kopple ever again made a great film after Harlan County? She has nothing listed on imdb between 1976 and 1990... I had the impression that HCUSA was kindof it for her.

She was part of the collective that made Winter Soldier in '72, one of the best Vietnam War-themed docs, and won a second Oscar for American Dream, which I've never seen. I quite like her Woody Allen portrait Wild Man Blues, particularly the nightmarish scene near the end with WA's 90something parents.

But there are dozens of people in this list who didn't make one great film.

(haven't seen her Dixie Chicks, Sharon Jones or Hemingway family docs either)

Peter Kubelka

Listing experimental film-makers is an invitation to the sad lonely vote.

William Dieterle
Karl Freund
Slavko Vorkapich
Roy Del Ruth
Rowland Lee
Tay Garnett
W.S. Van Dyke
Erle C. Kenton
Dorothy Arzner
John Cromwell

If we're listing sad lonely experimental vote grabbers then:

Jeff Keen
Len Lye

we are going to list every director, it seems

Yeah, waiting for someone to nominate Ed Wood so we can get this poll on the road already

Roger Corman

and that isn't sarcastic, I can't believe he wasn't nominated yet

Shirley Clarke
Trinh T. Minh-ha

Lewis Milestone was nominated but isn't on the big list.

Miguel Gomes
João Pedro Rodrigues

Tinto brass

Chi Chi LaRue

head meant to nominate trinh-t

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

tbh I'll end up voting for people where I know and live one film maybe, it's the nature of the format

Joseph (Joe) Sarno

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

Was going to say 50, but no reason it can't be more I suppose.

List is up to 472. (Added Milestone; not sure how that missed the cut.)

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).

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/