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

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/

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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