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
Why? Women can be auteurs. (Akerman, Denis.)
Not in the English-speaking commercial cinema they can't be, pretty much. (Let's not go to Nora Ephron et al.)
Lynch's presence in the top 10 is, of course, ridiculous. Geeks.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 January 2018 03:54 (six years ago) link
1. Alfred Hitchcock (2399.5 points; 28 votes; 2 first-place votes)2. Orson Welles (1957 points; 24 votes)3. Stanley Kubrick (1920 points; 21 votes; 4 first-place votes)4. Andrei Tarkovsky (1881.5 points; 22 votes; 1 first-place vote)5. David Lynch (1838 points; 21 votes; 1 first-place vote)6. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (1826 points; 23 votes; 1 first-place vote)7. Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1812.5 points; 22 votes)8. Ingmar Bergman (1666 points; 20 votes)9. Luis Buñuel (1662 points; 20 votes; 1 first-place vote)10. Kurosawa Akira (1661 points; 21 votes; 1 first-place vote)11. Jean-Luc Godard (1647.5 points; 20 votes; 1 first-place vote)12. Robert Altman (1546 points; 19 votes)13. Martin Scorsese (1533.5 points; 20 votes; 1 first-place vote)14. Ozu Yasujirō (1453.5 points; 17 votes)15. Jean Renoir (1447.5 points; 17 votes; 1 first-place vote)16. Fritz Lang (1438 points; 18 votes)17. Michelangelo Antonioni (1426.5 points; 19 votes)18. Billy Wilder (1392 points; 18 votes)19. F.W. Murnau (1352 points; 17 votes)20. Robert Bresson (1298 points; 15 votes; 2 first-place votes)21. Chantal Akerman (1289.5 points; 16 votes; 1 first-place vote)22. David Cronenberg (1277.5 points; 17 votes)23. Carl Theodor Dreyer (1232.5 points; 16 votes)24. Abbas Kiarostami (1224 points; 15 votes; 1 first-place vote)25. Agnès Varda (1218 points; 16 votes)26. Joel & Ethan Coen (1211.5 points; 15 votes)27. Werner Herzog (1113 points; 14 votes; 3 first-place votes)28. Howard Hawks (1071.5 points; 13 votes)29. Alain Resnais (1052 points; 15 votes)30. Paul Thomas Anderson (998.5 points; 13 votes)31. Federico Fellini (957.5 points; 12 votes)32. Nicholas Ray (952.5 points; 13 votes)33. Roman Polanski (902.5 points; 12 votes)34. Terrence Malick (872 points; 11 votes)35. Satyajit Ray (834.5 points; 11 votes)36. Francis Ford Coppola (830 points; 11 votes)37. Mike Leigh (827 points; 11 votes)38. Steven Spielberg (824.5 points; 11 votes)39. Eric Rohmer (808 points; 10 votes)40. Wong Kar-wai (799 points; 11 votes)41. Nicholas Roeg (783.5 points; 10 votes)42. Chris Marker (775 points; 10 votes; 1 first-place vote)43. Jacques Tati (771.5 points; 10 votes)44. Mizoguchi Kenji (747.5 points; 10 votes)45. Michael Haneke (726 points; 10 votes)46. Preston Sturges (724.5 points; 9 votes)47. John Ford (704 points; 9 votes)48. Quentin Tarantino (633 points; 9 votes)49. Miyazaki Hayao (631 points; 8 votes)50. Apichatpong Weerasethakul (629.5 points; 9 votes)51. George A. Romero (628 points; 9 votes)52. Zhangke Jia (627.5 points; 8 votes)53. Carol Reed (607.5 points; 8 votes)54. Max Ophüls (600 points; 8 votes)55. Maya Deren (598.5 points; 8 votes)56. Béla Tarr (594.5 points; 8 votes)57. Edward Yang (589.5 points; 8 votes; 1 first-place vote)58. Otto Preminger (584 points; 8 votes)59. Dario Argento (577.5 points; 7 votes)60. John Carpenter (570.5 points; 8 votes)61. (tie) Pier Paolo Pasolini (555 points; 7 votes)61. (tie) Roberto Rossellini (555 points; 7 votes)63. (tie) Hou Hsiao-hsien (554 points; 7 votes)63. (tie) Buster Keaton (554 points; 7 votes)65. Douglas Sirk (553.5 points; 7 votes)66. Ernst Lubitsch (539 points; 6 votes)67. François Truffaut (526.5 points; 7 votes)68. John Waters (514 points; 7 votes)69. Frederick Wiseman (513.5 points; 6 votes; 1 first-place vote)70. Jacques Rivette (504 points; 6 votes)71. Charles Chaplin (502.5 points; 7 votes)72. Alejandro Jodorowsky (500 points; 7 votes)73. Richard Linklater (495.5 points; 7 votes)74. Sergei Eisenstein (489 points; 7 votes)75. Krzysztof Kieślowski (487.5 points; 7 votes)76. Aki Kaurismäki (480 points; 7 votes)77. Sidney Lumet (479.5 points; 6 votes)78. John Cassavetes (477.5 points; 6 votes)79. Jan Švankmajer (466.5 points; 7 votes)80. Spike Lee (466 points; 6 votes)81. Jean-Pierre Melville (459.5 points; 7 votes)82. Sergio Leone (453 points; 6 votes)83. Kelly Reichart (446 points; 6 votes)84. Peter Watkins (441.5 points; 6 votes)85. Brian De Palma (440 points; 5 votes)86. Ousmane Sembène (435.5 points; 6 votes)87. Frank Capra (431.5 points; 6 votes)88. Jean Cocteau (421 points; 6 votes)89. Chuck Jones (416 points; 6 votes)90. Jean Vigo (414 points; 6 votes)91. Paul Verhoeven (403 points; 6 votes)92. (tie) Pedro Almodóvar (401 points; 5 votes)92. (tie) G.W. Pabst (401 points; 5 votes)94. Olivier Assayas (400.5 points; 6 votes)95. Jim Jarmusch (394 points; 6 votes)96. Sergei Parajanov (385 points; 5 votes)97. Woody Allen (375.5 points; 5 votes)98. Robert Aldrich (370 points; 5 votes)99. Claire Denis (367.5 points; 5 votes)100. Jonathan Demme (366 points; 5 votes)101. D.W. Griffith (365.5 points; 5 votes)
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 January 2018 03:57 (six years ago) link
Just realize I hadn't done that.
I ain't opening no spreadsheet, just tell me how many perceptive souls voted for Visconti.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 January 2018 03:59 (six years ago) link
hi!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 04:01 (six years ago) link
I did too
― Dan S, Saturday, 20 January 2018 04:09 (six years ago) link
Enjoyed the poll--some great images. Not that it matters, but I definitely didn't vote for Argento (I've seen all of one film). Probably someone else's vote got assigned to me.
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 January 2018 04:31 (six years ago) link
Haneke placing but not von Trier makes me a bit sad
― Simon H., Saturday, 20 January 2018 05:24 (six years ago) link
Shocked that Powell & Pressburger placed so high
― flappy bird, Saturday, 20 January 2018 05:37 (six years ago) link
Did not vote, should have. Bergman would have been my #1. 1953 to 1978, about one film per year and only 2 or 3 of them less than great. Hitchcock and Welles cannot claim anything close to that.
― Josefa, Saturday, 20 January 2018 05:53 (six years ago) link
Quantity and consistency of both Hitchcock & Bergman were why I put them at #1 and #2 respectively. What someone said upthread about Hitchcock making "one career-long film" made me think immediately of Bergman. In my mind they have roughly the same number of great movies, a lot more than all other directors on my list.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 20 January 2018 06:09 (six years ago) link
decided to expand my horizons & watch The Red Shoes for the first time. thanks for the inspiration, folks!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 January 2018 07:23 (six years ago) link
Saw "Red Shoes" a coupla years ago and loved it, VG :D (and stole a bit of footage via phone for a silly little music video I made)
Enjoyable poll, this...Thanks Eric!
― Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 20 January 2018 07:41 (six years ago) link
:D
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 January 2018 07:59 (six years ago) link
Was sure I'd voted for Hitch, but checking my ballot I must have left him off by mistake. Not that it would make any difference to overall tally.
Great work, Eric.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 20 January 2018 10:11 (six years ago) link
great poll and thread, looking forward to checking out films by the many directors whose work I haven't seen.
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Saturday, 20 January 2018 12:01 (six years ago) link
i didn't get to join in bc my phone is so shitty it won't let me post and i have been nowhere near my laptop so in tldr form:
1. Alfred Hitchcock (2399.5 points; 28 votes; 2 first-place votes)Somewhere in my top ten. The first half of Psycho is one of my favourite films ever, I lose interest a little once she shows up at the motel, all a little too gothic for me. I like the headlit luridness of the office scenes where vivian leigh is being ogled by the oilman and the weird shot that flies over phoenix and right through the venetian blinds. I do think laura mulvey has it right that all his films are about ogling (im paraphrasing). the cruel, obsessive way the camera carves up people. He has many terrible films. that awful one with shirley mclaine where people keep finding the same dead body, often his films seem really bored.
2. Orson Welles (1957 points; 24 votes)kane is as good as its supposed to be. i wish somebody would find the rest of ambersons. lady from shanghai is fabulous. i think the standard narrative about failed promise is about right, so many of his films seem crumpled under some half-forgotten ambition.
3. Stanley Kubrick (1920 points; 21 votes; 4 first-place votes)I like the shining. everything else i've seen is pompous and dull. he should have made more horror films.
7. Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1812.5 points; 22 votes)one of my favourite things in fassbinders films, of which i've seen most i think, is the loud sound of rustling costumes. this is especially a feature of bitter tears of petra von kant and women in new york. in women in new york, all the sets are built on the same theatre stage, so even though the scene changes there is a creaky floorboard in the same place which you hear in every shot. margit carstensen is my favourite of his leading ladies, and martha is his funniest film.
9. Luis Buñuel (1662 points; 20 votes; 1 first-place vote)Bunuel's films sort of baffle me. I took a friend to see his version of wuthering heights and he has never forgiven me.
11. Jean-Luc Godard (1647.5 points; 20 votes; 1 first-place vote)coulnd't be arsed with all that nouvelle vague bollocks, but from weekend on his films are inconsistently interesting. i love the one where isabelle huppert is a really bored prostitute/agricultural worker
12. Robert Altman (1546 points; 19 votes)come back to the five and dime and nasheville
13. Martin Scorsese (1533.5 points; 20 votes; 1 first-place vote)blonde ladies wearing white. he persisted with this for so long i can't believe he never found it embarrassing. have never even heard of most of the films he's made this century.
15. Jean Renoir (1447.5 points; 17 votes; 1 first-place vote)i've only seen a couple of films by him but hated both.
16. Fritz Lang (1438 points; 18 votes)classic if only for gloria grahame throwing coffee in someone's face.
19. F.W. Murnau (1352 points; 17 votes)My favourites are the american films, city girl in particular has incredible vignettes that are formal, german, expressionistic whilst being american naturalistic and pastoral. there is a brief shot of waitresses laughing, a low table lamp turned to spotlight a character appearing out of darkness.
21. Chantal Akerman (1289.5 points; 16 votes; 1 first-place vote)my highest vote to place (my #2). About as good a filmmaker as I can imagine. My favourite is a tv documentary, basically a south bank show episode, she made about pina bausch that is so disillusioned and bleak about its subject. the last few seconds are hilarious. I don't think Jeanne Dielmann towers above her other films, although it is hard to imagine a film that could so successful bring together so many of the themes of 2nd wave feminism in such a sharpened way. Also love la Captive, I saw it at the London gay and lesbian film festival and it bored the audience to laughter. I saw her speak once and she was very very funny.
24. Abbas Kiarostami (1224 points; 15 votes; 1 first-place vote)I haven't seen enough films by him, but ten and close-up are two of my favourite films of all time. ten is a film that is also about mania akbari's great love of cake. me and my boyfriend call her mania for cakes. as beautiful and dreyer's joan of arc.
26. Joel & Ethan Coen (1211.5 points; 15 votes)horrible dull and cruel films
29. Alain Resnais (1052 points; 15 votes)His first three films obviously. Muriel most of all, very funny, incredibly sad. the french streets and squares named after the dead.
32. Nicholas Ray (952.5 points; 13 votes)Johnny guitar is my favourite. I love the flat in born to be bad which is meant to be a fabulous apartment owned by a wealthy couple but just seems like a cramped duplex. In a lonely place, on dangerous ground, a woman's secret. rebel without a cause makes my eyes hurt from rolling though.
34. Terrence Malick (872 points; 11 votes)badlands is a perfect film, but would have been terrible without sissy spacek I think. tree of life is so awful I can't believe anyone was fooled by it.
35. Satyajit Ray (834.5 points; 11 votes)i saw some bad documentaries by ray once, including one about a traditional indian dancer which was so unbearable I had to leave the cinema. I feel like his films are about the same vague grandeur as john ford's. it leaves me completely cold.
37. Mike Leigh (827 points; 11 votes)always thought i'd hate his films, but their actorliness and the depth of character he aspires to lifts them. i think his shrieking harpy characters are misogynistic, and his best comedies (nuts in may, abigail's party) seem to really hate women. On the other hand topsy turvy and vera drake are completely original, and vera drake in particular manages to handle the many layers of social hypocricy around abortion in an amazingly fine grained way. Its sort of uniquely a film about public health.
38. Steven Spielberg (824.5 points; 11 votes)no
40. Wong Kar-wai (799 points; 11 votes)I mean, i really like these films but they are just somebody's instagram account
41. Nicholas Roeg (783.5 points; 10 votes)terrible awful films. with the exception of don't look now.
42. Chris Marker (775 points; 10 votes; 1 first-place vote)marker was a real gateway drug for me, definitely a big source of many of the filmmakers i got interested in later, but his very french complacent bourgeois radicalism and epicurianism starts to seem a little silly eventually.
45. Michael Haneke (726 points; 10 votes)for the french films. especially code unknown.
46. Preston Sturges (724.5 points; 9 votes)i love love love mary astor in the palm beach story and i really made a go at sturges a couple of years ago but they're just not as good as you want them to be. lots of charmless male leads also.
53. Carol Reed (607.5 points; 8 votes)I love the third man, but odd man out is so clueless about belfast that it makes me very sceptical of vienna. the one with the butler is p tedious.
55. Maya Deren (598.5 points; 8 votes)my bf likes to watch meshes of an afternoon every year for his birthday. the best film ever made about the suburbs.
69. Frederick Wiseman (513.5 points; 6 votes; 1 first-place vote)the best living director I think. My favourites are state legistlature and high school ii. I think the '90s were his best decade.
73. Richard Linklater (495.5 points; 7 votes)parker posey was very funny in dazed and confused but I don't think that merits #73
99. Claire Denis (367.5 points; 5 votes)Beau travail is the sexiest postcolonial film studies dept movie of all time.
101. D.W. Griffith (365.5 points; 5 votes)I mean I know, racism, but that bit out on the ice floes.
― plax (ico), Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:00 (six years ago) link
okay what
which films?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:02 (six years ago) link
Walkabout awful? Its tragic as a story...as Don't look now..
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:03 (six years ago) link
Really good run down though plax(ico) thanks. I also saw Akerman speak (the only filmaker I saw speak, and it was at a screening of that Pina Bausch film) and she was funny, interesting and fascinating - generous and tough, she got me to think harder. I very much miss the fact she is not around anymore.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:08 (six years ago) link
plax, did you fix your friend's car brakes after h/she admitted to not liking Bunuel?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:10 (six years ago) link
My Ballot:
Akerman, ChantalResnais, AlainŌshima, NagisaGhatak, RitwikKiarostami, AbbasFassbinder, Rainer WernerWatkins, PeterMarker, ChrisVarda, AgnesEustache, JeanRossellini, RobertoDuras, MargueriteGodard, Jean-LucSnow, MichaelBunuel, LuisParajanov, SergeiDreyer, Carl TheodorStraub, Jean-Marie & Daniele HuilletKubelka, PeterHaneke, MichaelMambéty, Djibril DiopOliveira, Manoel dePanahi, JafarPasolini, Pier PaoloPowell, Michael & Emeric PressburgerPialat, MauriceRivette, JacquesKitano TakeshiRocha, GlauberSembene, OusmeneMalick, TerrenceWong Kar-waiAngelopoulos, TheoAntonioni, MichelangeloBergman, IngmarTarkovsky, AndreiLosey, JosephKieslowski, KrzysztofMakhmalbaf, MohsenPontecorvo, GilloYang, EdwardNaruse MikioHansen-Love, MiaKore-eda HirokazuPetzold, ChristianDe Sica, VittorioDiaz, LavDumont, BrunoCosta, PedroWarhol, Andy
Worst: Spielberg, Steven
I should've found space for Makavejev, that's the one I regret the most. Renoir, Ray, Kurosawa are top 50 but I didn't place and don't specifically regret as they placed well anyway. Mizoguchi and Ozu were the pair I really forgot, and I really did need to place. As for US directors the one I regret not placing is Todd Haynes (LOL why did I put Andy Warhol in there sheesh).
The one director I will try to see more from is Preston Sturges.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:18 (six years ago) link
I like the shining. everything else i've seen is pompous and dull. he should have made more horror films.
― Wes Brodicus, Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:20 (six years ago) link
My ballot:
William A. WellmanMax OphulsAlexander KordaLouis FeuilladeRouben MamoulianMaurice TourneurFrank CapraRobert BressonKing VidorG.W. PabstJean RenoirBuster KeatonRené ClairFritz LangMervyn LeRoyJulian DuvivierJean GrémillonRoy & John BoultingJacques TatiJosef von SternbergGregory La CavaTay GarnettErnst LubitschTod BrowningJacques FeyderFrantišek VláčilMax LinderFrank BorzageJohn FordMarcel CarnéJoseph LoseyPierre ÉtaixRoscoe ArbuckleAlice Guy BlacheMark SandrichW.S. Van DykeCecil B. DeMilleD.W. GriffithLois WeberBenjamin ChristensenAndrea ArnoldJem CohenChris MarkerSam TaylorLeo McCareyJacques BeckerLewis MilestoneFred NibloJames CruzeAlfred E. Green
Worst Director: Oscar Micheaux
I said upthread I compiled my ballot based on my Letterboxd watchlist, and it's clear I watch a lot of silent and early sound film. I've ordered the Murnau/Borzage box set, and from there I plan to systematically go through Ford's work at Fox.
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:33 (six years ago) link
Quite a lot of name in there I don't know so I'll investigate.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:40 (six years ago) link
Mine in alphabetical order:
Chantal AkermanRobert AltmanOlivier AssayasMichaelangelo AntonioniIngmar BergmanJohn BoormanFrank BorzageLuis BuñuelJean CocteauSofia CoppolaDavid CronenbergGeorge CukorTerence DaviesJonathan DemmeArnaud DesplechinJacques DemyRainer Werner FassbinderJames GrayHoward HawksTodd HaynesAlfred HitchcockHou Hsiao-hsienShohei ImamuraAbi KauruismakiAbbas Kiarostami Akira KurosawaFritz LangMike LeighDavid LynchPaul MazurskyJean-Pierre MelvilleKenji Mizoguchi Errol MorrisF.W. MurnauMax OphulsYasujiro OzuG.W. PabstSam PeckinpahRoman PolanskiMichael PowellOtto PremingerSatyajit RayJean RenoirEric RohmerRaul RuizDouglas SirkPreston SturgesBéla TarrAndrei TarkovskyTsai Min-liangGus Van SantSteven SpielbergPaul VerhoevenKing VidorLuchino ViscontiJoseph von SternbergOrson WellesApichatpoing WeerasethakulFrederick WisemanEdward YangJia Zhangke
No worst.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:45 (six years ago) link
1. Luis Bunuel2. Alfred Hitchcock3. Jean-Luc Godard4. Fritz Lang5. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger6. Pier Paolo Pasolini7. Chantal Akerman8. Takeshi Kitano9. Sergio Leone10. Carl Theodor Dreyer11. Howard Hawks12. Kenneth Anger13. Paul Schrader14. Dario Argento15. Satyajit Ray16. Nicholas Ray17. John Waters18. Louis Malle19. King Hu20. Jean Renoir21. Robert Aldrich22. Bob Fosse23. Jia Zhangke24. Henry Hathaway25. Eric Rohmer26. Carol Reed27. Jean Vigo28. Aki Kaurismaki29. Sally Potter30. Robert Bresson31. Alejandro Jodorowsky32. Rainer Werner Fassbinder33. Bernardo Bertolucci34. Peter Watkins35. Andrei Tarkovsky36. Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo37. Agnes Varda38. Hou Hsiao-hsien39. Park Chan-Wook40. Francois Truffaut41. Derek Jarman42. Lindsay Anderson43. Alain Resnais44. Akira Kurosawa45. Jan Svankmajer46. Claude Chabrol47. Michael Reeves48. Paul Verhoeven49. F.W. Murnau50. Krzysztof Kieslowski
Worst director: Christopher Nolan
― hell is auteur people (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link
My ballot (in retrospect, I regret that I didn't make space for Vigo, and that I haven't seen enough of Chytilová's work beyond Daisies):
1. Jean Renoir2. Howard Hawks3. F.W. Murnau4. Jacques Rivette5. Jean-Luc Godard6. David Lynch7. Nicholas Ray8. G.W. Pabst9. Yazujiro Ozu10. Agnes Varda11. Robert Bresson12. Chris Marker13. Orson Welles 14. Luis Buñuel15. Fritz Lang16. Akira Kurosawa17. Michael Powell18. Billy Wilder19. Hayao Miyazaki20. Rainer Werner Fassbinder21. Andrei Tarkovsky22. François Truffaut23. Federico Fellini 24. Charles Chaplin25. Chantal Akerman26. Mikio Naruse27. Claire Denis28. Preston Sturges29. Jia Zhangke30. Maya Deren31. Alain Resnais32. Roberto Rossellini33. Abbas Kiarostami34. Sergei Eisenstein35. Jean Cocteau36. Bruce Conner37. Alfred Hitchcock38. John Carpenter39. Michelangelo Antonioni 40. Vincent Minnelli41. Jacques Tati42. Victor Erice43. Wong Kar-Wai44. Dziga Vertov45. Martin Scorsese 46. Terence Malick47. Kelly Reichardt48. Robert Altman49. Mike Leigh50. John Cassavetes
worst director:Veit Harlan
― one way street, Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:54 (six years ago) link
1. Frederick Wiseman2. Stanley Kubrick3. Robert Altman4. Joel & Ethan Coen--------------------------------------------Andrea ArnoldBilly WilderBrian De PalmaDavid CronenbergDavid FincherElia KazanFrancis Ford CoppolaFrancois TruffautFrank CapraHal AshbyJean-Luc GodardJonathan DemmeKelly ReichardtKenneth LonerganMartin ScorseseNicole HolofcenerNoah BaumbachOrson WellesPaul Thomas AndersonRichard LinklaterRoman PolanskiSatyajit RaySidney LumetSofia CoppolaSpike LeeWim Wenders
I should have voted for Bergman, Preminger, Fassbinder (going back to university: Berlin Alexanderplatz + three or four others), Michael Apted (if you view the Up series as many films), Terry Zwigoff (for Crumb and Ghost World), and, just because All the President's Men is probably my favourite film right now, Pakula (he also had a couple others I like). I checked a few lists of my own, year-end and all-time, but otherwise just tried to recall combinations of films I love and films I like. A few names slipped through. And I did something you shouldn't do, left off three specific names I would have listed if totally honest, but where the degree of veneration bugs me.
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 January 2018 13:54 (six years ago) link
I'm glad you didn't vote, plax! In part bcz you referred to Lee Marvin as "someone."
(also The Shining is the dull and pompous one)
xo
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:18 (six years ago) link
Bresson was my #1. Baz Luhrmann was my pick for worst.
― Chris L, Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
the dreaded double-Coppola! xxp
and Alfred's Coppola was Sofia. Too many martinis...
I could not put Ingmar in my top 5 bcz, eventually, I got sick of him blaming his parents for everything. Man up.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:22 (six years ago) link
whut I done voted for. (Warhol changed film, also a must vote despite the 'importance doesnt matter' yahoos)
Alfred HitchcockJean RenoirHoward HawksJohn FordRainer Werner FassbinderIngmar BergmanPreston SturgesLuis BunuelStanley KubrickBuster Keaton
Robert BressonOusmane SembeneErnst LubitschOrson WellesSteven SpielbergRoberto RosselliniEric RohmerAndrei TarkovskyFritz LangAkira Kurosawa
Luchino ViscontiCarl DreyerYasujiro OzuJean-Luc GodardCharles ChaplinChuck JonesRobert AldrichNicholas RayMike LeighRobert Altman
Max OphulsAbbas KiarostamiD.W. GriffithHou Hsiao-hsienVincente MinnelliElia KazanAndy WarholGeorge KucharAgnes VardaFrederick Wiseman
Jacques TatiDavid CronenbergJacques TourneurAlain ResnaisSatyajit RayMichael Powell & Emeric PressburgerShohei ImamuraMartin ScorseseTodd HaynesF.W. Murnau
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:30 (six years ago) link
(oh yeah it was Murnau i voted for and not Pabst. mistaken silent German identity)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:32 (six years ago) link
Tarkovsky-Lynch-Renoir-Ozu-Bunuel were my top 5 without thinking much about it. I guess I like dream logic and tragic humanists.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:36 (six years ago) link
1. Lynch, David 2. Kubrick, Stanley 3. Ozu Yasujirō 4. Bergman, Ingmar 5. Kiarostami, Abbas 6. Kieslowski, Krzysztof 7. Powell, Michael & Emeric Pressburger 8. Akerman, Chantal
Unranked:Altman, RobertAnderson, Paul ThomasAnderson, WesAntonioni, MichelangeloBrakhage, StanCoen, Joel & EthanCronenberg, DavidDeren, MayaFassbinder, Rainer WernerFord, JohnFrankenheimer, JohnGilliam, TerryGodard, Jean-LucGreenaway, PeterHaneke, MichaelHerzog, WernerHitchcock, AlfredJones, ChuckKaurismäki, AkiKurosawa AkiraLaughton, CharlesLean, DavidLeigh, MikeMaddin, GuyMorrison, BillPennebaker, D.A.Polanski, RomanRay, SatyajitRenoir, JeanResnais, AlainRossellini, RobertoSaulnier, JeremyScorsese, MartinSoderbergh, StevenSpielberg, StevenSturges, PrestonSvankmajer, JanTarkovsky, AndreiVarda, AgnesVertov, DzigaWelles, OrsonZwigoff, Terry
― WilliamC, Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:37 (six years ago) link