yeah this was an awesome poll
i'm p much ok with the top 4 as is
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 19 January 2018 23:47 (six years ago) link
I will say that maybe only about half of people’s number one choices made the list, which is tragic but what’re gonna do?
Eh, there's a great big world of film out there, and ILXors have diverse tastes. Although did no one else vote for William A. Wellman (my #1)?
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Friday, 19 January 2018 23:47 (six years ago) link
Well the right one won
― hell is auteur people (Noodle Vague), Friday, 19 January 2018 23:49 (six years ago) link
Eric this was great you've made me stay up too late all week, thamks
― hell is auteur people (Noodle Vague), Friday, 19 January 2018 23:50 (six years ago) link
Oh whoa Wes Anderson didn’t even place, hell yeah
― flappy bird, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:07 (six years ago) link
awesome stuff Eric, thanks for the work.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:08 (six years ago) link
George Miller was robbedhttp://motorcycleboy.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Toecutter.gif
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:11 (six years ago) link
thanks Eric you’re the best
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:12 (six years ago) link
Touch of Evil. I’ll mod request
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:13 (six years ago) link
The top ten was unimpeachable
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:23 (six years ago) link
Yang and Ophuls are the choices you guys have made me curious about.
I really wish there were more overviews like Cousins tv version of Story Of Film (after which I bought 4 Parajanov films I admired more than enjoyed). I generally haven't liked the really cineastey directors enough to delve very far but I just know I'm missing something. Everyone is always missing lots but I'd like a better idea of what I'm missing and there's not a lot of opportunities unless you really dive in and it's not a high enough priority for me to do that (I'm trying to watch less films but I want the quality to be better).
Any youtube channels regularly discussing or excerpting this type of director would be great.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:24 (six years ago) link
rad thread eric enjoyed it bunches
renoir and ford placements pretty absurd and also imo wilder should not be here at all but rly surprised+delighted to see welles so high. love lots of the middle and later stuff. mr arkadin, chimes at midnight, the trial, f for fake, even that shoestring macbeth. (lady from shanghai not all that great to watch in my experience.) he's a strange kind of bridge between old hollywood and post60s indiedom, the same way he's a bridge between "high" and "low": the most shakespearean american filmmaker but also the most like p.t. barnum, always a showman, always (to his chagrin) a hustler. and so miserably #iconic in decline, cursing houseman.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:25 (six years ago) link
would love to see some kind of restoration of it's all true. have never seen the 1993 doc even.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:27 (six years ago) link
orson would've been my no. 1, he's endlessly interesting and prob has at least five flat-out masterpieces to his name (which is a p good record when you've only completed about a dozen films). really even if he'd only directed the first half-hour of ambersons he'd prob deserve a place on the list.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:29 (six years ago) link
The Renoir ranking still uh rankles
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:34 (six years ago) link
this poll finally made me pull the trigger on the hitch Blu-ray box
― Simon H., Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:35 (six years ago) link
nice!! hope that includes Shadow of a Doubt
― flappy bird, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:36 (six years ago) link
hitch is a good committee #1 because while he would never be mine, if someone asked me what a movie is i'd show them notorious
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:37 (six years ago) link
Shadow of a Doubt might be my 2nd favorite film ever. i posted a very high quality youtube rip upthread, last night i think, besides being so thematically rich and beguiling and full of great performances, there's something completely intoxicating about it that I've only encountered in a handful of films ever.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:37 (six years ago) link
No room, Sebastian.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:38 (six years ago) link
First-place vote getters that placed outside the top 101:
Roy Andersson (#110)Vera Chytilova (#132)George Miller (#138)
And, tied at #232:
Joe DanteHarun FarockiShin'ya TsukamotoWilliam Wellman
I was wrong about more first-place votes being outside the top 101 ... there were a reasonably high number of unranked ballots too, but more #1s did make it.
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:39 (six years ago) link
I like Notorious but I have a huge Cary Grant problem. Need to watch that one again, love for it is pretty intense everywhere.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:39 (six years ago) link
joe cotton shoulda played more heels (also idiots, like my beloved holly)
not that his part in shadow's a straightforward heel.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:40 (six years ago) link
I tried, George ;_;
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:41 (six years ago) link
I have a huge Cary Grant problem.
at least you know it's a problem
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:41 (six years ago) link
And here's the spreadsheet!
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:44 (six years ago) link
@flappy, this is the sethttp://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Alfred-Hitchcock-The-Masterpiece-Collection-Blu-ray/45102/
― Simon H., Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:45 (six years ago) link
Theresa Wright's character & her performance... oh my god, I could go on and on. I love the way she's introduced with the same framing as Joe Cotten, in profile lying down in her bed. and that first conversation about her family... "we're stuck in a rut, we need something to shake us all up... it's been on my mind for months." and "how can you talk about money when I'm talking about souls?" and the conversation with the old woman at the telegram office... "Do you believe in telepathy, Mrs. Henderson? Mental telepathy!" hard stare... "I don't know what you'e talking about, I only send telegrams the normal way." then when she walks out grinning ear to ear: "he heard me, he heard me..."
― flappy bird, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:45 (six years ago) link
Wow that's a great box, Simon. wasn't the one I was thinking of. yeah, that's just a phenomenal group of films. and I still haven't seen 3 of them- Torn Curtain, Topaz, Family Plot...
― flappy bird, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:47 (six years ago) link
― difficult listening hour, Friday, January 19, 2018 7:41 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ha ha ha well i have to keep trying, i have no choice, dude was in so many great movies and worked with so many great filmmakers...
one more thing about Shadow of a Doubt- the shots of ballroom dancing that roll under the credits... and recur in superimposition at the end of the film... left me completely speechless
― flappy bird, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:49 (six years ago) link
also i am disappointed in my Multiplex Gang for allowing such a NERDY top 10 to happen<3tho i’m sure Morbs is still miserable because well, Morbs
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:52 (six years ago) link
the shots of ballroom dancing that roll under the credits... and recur in superimposition at the end of the film... left me completely speechless
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/FriendlyVillainousHomalocephale-max-1mb.gif
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 20 January 2018 01:00 (six years ago) link
^ that is my favorite opening to a movie ever
― flappy bird, Saturday, 20 January 2018 01:01 (six years ago) link
Great poll -- salut!
https://flixchatter.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/purplenoon_still4.jpg?w=640
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 20 January 2018 01:02 (six years ago) link
yet I have a huge Shadow of a Doubt problem, so flappy bird and I are even
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 01:03 (six years ago) link
Brakhage was 1,5 points from being in the list :(
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 20 January 2018 01:05 (six years ago) link
-- Very surprised I was the only #1 Tarkovsky vote-- Wish I'd voted Seijun Suzuki higher -- however high it would have taken to get him in the 100
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 20 January 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link
Just watched El by Bunuel after perusing this thread. Looks like Hitchcock did the same before making Vertigo.
― 29 facepalms, Saturday, 20 January 2018 01:12 (six years ago) link
OK, even if I'd voted him #1 Seijun wouldn't have made the cut. Sorry Seijun. Kanpai!
http://cinedivergente.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1963-Detective-Bureau-2-3-Go-to-Hell-Bastards-Seijun-Suzuki.jpg
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 20 January 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
I'm sure Hitch would love to have directed a film in which a protagonist dreams of sewing a vagina shut.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
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― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 20 January 2018 02:01 (six years ago) link
j/k
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 20 January 2018 02:02 (six years ago) link
it's what the protag of El is about to do
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 02:23 (six years ago) link
Wouldn't put it past Jimmy Stewart tbh
― 29 facepalms, Saturday, 20 January 2018 02:33 (six years ago) link
YOU WERE A VERY APT PUPIL
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 02:38 (six years ago) link
The gentleman certainly knows what he wants
― Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 20 January 2018 02:54 (six years ago) link
judy, it can't matter to you.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 20 January 2018 02:57 (six years ago) link
shout to the (1) other person who voted for claude chabrol
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 20 January 2018 03:12 (six years ago) link
One of those juicy steaks from Ernie's.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 03:17 (six years ago) link