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

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 hope some of you are using your holiday breaks to work up a ballot.

No one wants to vote until they've seen Downsizing. They just want to be sure.

I loved it. Fuckin Matt Damon though. Please retire

Just kidding. Don't go drawing the ire of the Conseil des deux on to me.

XX-post: Ever been really glad to see a movie come out...because you don't have to see the trailer ever again?

ha, yes. Trumbo. The Shape of Water. but I didn't see any trailers for Downsizing

Six ballots in! Happy Christmas!

he's checking his emails
he's checking them twice

Directors I wished I nominated...

Marcell Jankovics
Nikolai Serebryakov
Tokuzo Tanaka
Nobuo Nakagawa
Sion Sono

I accept write-ins, if you want to redo your ballot.

I'm writing in Bill Morrison on mine.

I didn't realise we could vote people who hadn't been nominated. I might do it soon.

Jankovics and Serebryakov did some of my favourite animated films. Nakagawa for some of the most important ghost films. Sono for Love Exposure.
Tokuzo Tanaka for the brilliant and underseen Curse Of The Snow Witch and Haunted Castle, he did a ton of films in the 60s and I hope there's more surprises from him to discover.

switched my top 2 at the last second and voted before I can second-guess myself anymore

I'm totally writing in Sion Sono. Ranked pretty high, too.

ok i've got my list down to 77, just need to make the necessary cuts and put the lower ones into some kind of arbitrary order

probably no one who's career started after 1980 for me

submitted

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.

xp
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