Actors Are Cattle ... Voting open for the next ILX film poll of the Greatest Movie Directors of All Time! (DUE: Jan. 5, 2018)

I would encourage the option of putting someone in top 50 AND worst (as one could defensibly do for Griffith, Riefenstahl, Oscar Micheaux, Ed Wood)...

...Woody Allen, Lina Wertmuller...

uh, no and no

You can all do better than that.

Are all ballots sent to Eric H webmail? I've hardly done any polls.

I've recently been enjoying De Palma a hell of a lot, which is surprising because I didn't think I'd ever care for his work.

Yup, just email to the address in the original post. (I can't remember if my ILX-associated email is the same, so don't send there.)

Zero ballots so far! Keep up the good work!

i pretty much had my top 3 worked out a month ago, it's the other 47 that might need some cogitation

Will definitely send a ballot.

i've narrowed it down to around 100.

Ha, I'm definitely going to make a ballot but I unfailingly send mine in at the last minute. Mind you, I probably won't be able to do it NYE so I'll pretend the deadline is Christmas or something.

I'm sure I'll extend it for a few days after the new year, as is customary with these polls.

it doesn't matter if you settle on a ballot with 25 or 37 or whatever odd number under 50, does it?

Nope ... I forgot to institute a minimum I guess, but my plan is to weight ballots.

uh, no and no

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius)

What, that Allen and Wertmuller haven't made some of the best and worst films ever? You're mad.

it would by kinda helpful if the email address was clearer. what's the amp part? amp what? confusing.

amp = at

sure but already 3 or four people have asked for clarification and i've never heard of amp = at.

Is auteur mod gonna have to do 50 takes of the OP

amp = at is my new detrius

auteur mod is gonna at least do one more take of that OP.

Auteur mod is Ed. Wood

what's daht cahhhm?

1 ballot in!

daunting tasks in the worst month of the year are not quickly leapt to

are you ready, Norma

tfw BRIAN DE PALMA makes it into the top 10

http://images.mid-day.com/images/2017/nov/Drinking-poison.jpg

Should be fun, will send ballot closer to New Year.

Are we doing the best of 2017 film run down? I've got a couple of 2016 films to put on that ballot.

DON'T, xyzzzz

Second ballot in, btw.

Doing some cramming with Kurosawa & Ozu before I submit my ballot.

Sent my ballot. I didn't think I'd vote more than 30 but 50 was easy. I wish I had nominated more Japanese directors and animators.

Firmed up my ballot too. Intersectionality takes a hit, tho I'd argue my #1 choice is the only most wokest director who ever lived.

Ballot received RAG. So far, 4 are in.

Rosa von Praunheim? xp

yeah i'm working on mine and got the top 20 pretty solid but it's definitely going to be easy for me to get to 50. probably won't send mine in until boxing day, have a lot of stuff i need to watch. and rewatch. Todd Haynes rocketed up my list after i watched SAFE for the first time in 9 years yesterday.

Not that it's odd with only four ballots in yet, but only one director's on all four ballots and all four have different #1s.

John Waters has that kind of oeuvre.

safe is his only "great" movie though xp

no, Far from Heaven and Superstar. :)

(that joke doesn't scan, Alfred, no one's listing films)

I'm pleased you gave my joke further thought.

Carol is great

Ranked ballots only?

You can send ranked or unranked. Or a portion ranked and a portion unranked.

Five ballots in and now no director appears on everyone's ballot. However, nine directors do appear on four ballots.

Can I just send in my number 1? I can do randos for the rest.

Sure. I'll just assign the same number of points to the rest.

I have my 50 carved out and my top (several) ranked. Just a matter of deciding if I want to rank all 50.

I heard some damning material on UK film hacks on the R4 movie show the other day: First an in-depth examination of Baby Driver's soundtrack. Followed by an interview with the artist behind 3 Billboards explaining his art. Would have voted for either of them after listening to that nightmare.

haven't see Baby Driver yet and know nothing about it, but more than one person has told me they thought I would like it because of the soundtrack

How very "Blueshammer defense."

Fellini was indeed my reflexive answer for "worst." But that just means his temperament is not mine. Most everything I've seen--seven or eight films--left me cold, including a few attempts at 8-1/2. I did like La Dolce Vita the one time I saw it.

xxp

yeah didn't realise before voting it existed. might have voted nicholas roeg.
― plax (ico), Friday, January 12, 2018 1:47 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
omg...
― flappy bird, Friday, January 12, 2018 6:56 PM (fifty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

reminds me that when I was in college I told a friend who was the head of the film society how much I liked Don’t Look Now. He said that he thought the 10 worst movies of all time were Don’t Look Now and any 9 Godard films

i voted brett ratner

X-Men 3 is on par with the first two tbh

How very "Blueshammer defense."

― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Friday, January 12, 2018 7:55 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

And, with a robust two votes each, here are the directors tied as ILX's worst:

Terrence Malick

https://78.media.tumblr.com/07dc99a51470b52d06a49c08bbd81ace/tumblr_mt9ay1kzOB1s0t6o2o1_500.gif

Christopher Nolan

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/BleakYellowGonolek-size_restricted.gif

Tune in next week to see which places any of those 18 directors earn in the actual list!

Oh yeah. I guess those two are unsurprising but yawn

Those aren't the two worst directors.

great gif choices

I voted for John "Lower, lower" Landis, whose direction was so bad that it killed people.

I pity the Spielberg voter btw

I went with M Shamanalahahlayaya. I support everyone’s decision on worst director though.

Not that anyone was worried, but I assure you, none of these votes factor in as negative votes in the main poll.

ie Oscar Micheaux in the top 10

(better than every blaxploitation director ever btw)

I pity the Spielberg voter btw

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 January 2018 22:17 (thirty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Aye. And the Malick voters tho I guess they have each other for company

ok i was one of the Nolans fuck him he is the worst

Nolan was my vote too. Can’t say it was anything other than an emotional response. There are plenty of directors make overwrought films that I really like, but he is not one of them

I was one of the Malick votes. Surprised he got more than one! and fwiw the one film of his I sorta like is Days of Heaven.

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I have to say though, I did see Dunkirk since I voted, and it was the first film of his that I kind of liked

Days of Heaven is one of my favorite movies of all time

My knowledge of blaxsploitation is anything but comprehensive, but I do not remember ever experiencing 1) cringing or 2) boredom while watching any such title. For what that's worth.

when I was in college I told a friend who was the head of the film society how much I liked Don’t Look Now. He said that he thought the 10 worst movies of all time were Don’t Look Now and any 9 Godard films― Dan S, Friday, 12 January 2018 19:58 (yesterday)Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Don't look now is Roeg's one good film

how could anyone dislike Bad Timing, a movie about an extremely healthy relationship between two people with good opinions and habits?

yeah plax, Bad Timing and Man Who Fell are fine with me

Is bad timing the one with art Garfunkel and a tracheostomy scar? Awful

lol

I pity the Spielberg voter btw

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 January 2018 22:17 (thirty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Aye. And the Malick voters tho I guess they have each other for company

― i know kore-eda (or something), Friday, 12 January 2018 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Here for your pity.

Realizing I probably should've linked this here: All Right, Mr. DeMille, I'm Ready For My Close-Up ... It's The ILXOR's Top 101 Director Poll Results Thread