All Right, Mr. DeMille, I'm Ready For My Close-Up ... It's The ILXOR's Top 101 Director Poll Results Thread

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5. David Lynch
(1838 points; 21 votes; 1 first-place vote)

It's a strange world.

I didn't see Twin Peaks: The Return. I was too busy watching films at the cinema.

I guess it's late enough to predict.

4. Welles
3. Tarkovsky
2. Hitchcock
1. Kubrick

I think Kubrick will finish first. Maybe by a few points, and I can be happy I made the difference. (I just went to post and had to adjust it--I had Lynch third.)

I like a bunch of Kubrick but he really really doesn't deserve to win this.

I don't see why Kubrick is un-ilx

I recently rewatched the original Twin Peaks. It was such a strange mixture of comedy, melodrama, mystery and horror

Frankly I'd only be happy with Tarkovsky winning at this point.

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4. Andrei Tarkovsky
(1881.5 points; 22 votes; 1 first-place vote)

sorry to do that to you; i couldn't resist

Unlike Fassbinder, Tarkovsky was a late-surge proposition. He was like #8-#15 for the opening stretch.

Lynch was my #1

Huh, only 5 points between Kurosawa, Buñuel & Bergman, then ~200 points to Fassbinder, Powell'n'Pressburger & Lynch within 25 points of the others. Sometimes think Kurosawa's Ikiru is the greatest film ever made.

still not that many first place votes have shown up yet!

so no David Lean? :(

I'm with Peter Bogdanovich right now, and we're softly chanting "Orson, not Wes."

still not that many first place votes have shown up yet!

― Dan S

I suspect many, like mine, have fallen into the "one person really loves them, nobody else cares" hole.

Either that, or everyone who voted really fucking loves Kubrick/Welles/Hitchcock.

xps - oh just great.

Welles - a couple of great, great films then pretty much huffed and puffed.
Hitchcock - abuser.
Kubrick - boring, dull prick who marshalled some technically nice cinema. Indulged to shit because of Hollywood insecurity.
Tarkovsky - could be the same as Kubrick but had a far richer visual imagination and although he was a 'march of aesthetic' bore like Stan he enaged with stuff like SF which undermined all of that.

yeah I need a drink now.

I still haven't seen Nostalghia, brb got an appointment with a torrent.

Welles and Kubrick had their themes/visual motifs but never really made the same film twice.

Tarkovsky and Hitchcock sort of made one career-long film.

I don't see why Kubrick is un-ilx

You could do a search or something, not too many stans around here. I voted him fairly high btw. Suspect nobody's gonna be happy with the results

And again, if you enjoy any of the Method-based acting that has dominated films of the last 70 years, Elia fucking Kazan, rat or not, has to be one of your top 50 filmmakers. It's not up for debate.

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Morbius in Europe we are doing communism again so as far Kazan goes I have two words to say to you - fat chance.

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3. Stanley Kubrick
(1920 points; 21 votes; 4 first-place votes)

About 5 places too high

Much higher than expected for Wells... or will it be someone else up there with Hitchcock?

Paths Of Glory, Dr Strangelove and Barry Lyndon are the holy trinity for me.

love that the image used for Kubrick is devoid of humans.

OK, it's got to be Vera next, right?

*cries*

My top 3 still AWOL, ah well.

Much higher than expected for Wells

Yes--I thought he occupied the same space as Elvis in a music poll. (Happy about it, I'll add.)

5% of the list are women, that's kinda depressing.

Women have not had the opportunity to build a lengthy oeuvre to compare with men. That's part of it.

Sometimes think Kurosawa's Ikiru is the greatest film ever made.

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Just to go back up a bit - yes, I love Ikiru and a bunch of Kurosawa and it did pain me a tiny bit to leave him out except he made it high so no biggie in the end.

i'm leaving to drink at Marlene Dietrich's place, so bye

That's one major reason why I'm wary of auteurist frameworks for thinking about film: centering the director as author tends to frame women's work in film as invisible or inessential.

xxp

Why? Women can be auteurs. (Akerman, Denis.)

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Toshiro Mifune is a massive part of what I love about Kurosawa movies, and this actor as well.

I've certainly been thinking about my top screenwriters list while considering the directors presented here, for example in Hollywood 30s to 50s, and it would fit a lot of women.

And more recent auteurs: Arnold and Ade.

I mean, woman can, are, and have been auteurs, but director-focused approaches to film history tend to reproduce gendered patterns of exclusion from directorial work. That's all I'm saying.

Two of my nominees--Alice Guy Blache and Lois Weber--did groundbreaking work before 1920.

Off to a movie, have to miss the end of this...post #2!

Big (and Under Recognized) Fields For Women In Film: Editing and Production Design.

I mean, woman can, are, and have been auteurs, but director-focused approaches to film history tend to reproduce gendered patterns of exclusion from directorial work.

And, yeah, the suspense is killing me. :D

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.)

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