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

I am not a professional and therefore felt free to go with my feelings (especially for my lower 40).

sent my list in! It includes three write-ins (Nuri Bilge Celan, Carlos Reygadas, Lucrecia Martel)

*Ceylan

two ommissions i noticed are hollis frampton and hartmut bitomsky, surprised neither was nominated. Especially as McG was nominated.

I'll send tomorrow, Margo.

McG

sent

Gah, still nowhere near finalising mine and I've got to work on some EoY music poll thoughts too - I might just do a ranked top ten and then throw as many more as I can think of into an unranked pile.

i only did 33 and even then i wouldn't call a few of them "great"

left my draft list at home and now i'm at my mom's but then again i was always just gonna make a list of stuff i like with no overarching theory so

i have 5 so far... i’ll have, uh, something worked out soon.

The ballots now number 14. Good work so far!

BTW, my baby niece is in town until New Year's Day. I would expect the deadline to extend at least a day or two.

aw <3

This is she with her dad!

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/26060218_10100399955159043_3461388020425520222_o.jpg?oh=b79063077cce176367fb165ba80bc127&oe=5AF85DC0

awwwwwww

i've seen a lot of happy babbies this week

:D

sent my list in! It includes three write-ins (Nuri Bilge Celan, Carlos Reygadas, Lucrecia Martel)

― Dan S, Thursday, 28 December 2017 22:38 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Surprised Ceylan and Martel weren't nominated. Will be throwing them both a vote too to hopefully make up for it. Loved Reygadas Post Tenebras Lux too, the opening scene in particular

Gutted Jonathan Glazer wasn't nommed, will be writing one in for him

you guys are fulfilling my indifference

I'll just fabricate your ballot.

all pre-1950 now

can't believe you've left out McG

Someone's gotta rep for the comedy two-reeler hacks.

well sure, the Hitchcock-imitator hack is... never mind

specifically who nominated mcG?

McG was the second director nominated:

The Total Filmmaker ... Nominations open for the next ILX film poll of the Greatest Movie Directors of All Time!

In case anyone else is looking, Tsai is on the list, but backwards. Under M, not T.

i'm almost 100% certain that McG was not a wholly serious nomination

xp oops, I'll fix that.

Meaning alphabetization of TML, not removal of McG.

i think a few of the east asian directors are inconsistently listed, some western style and some not

I tried to go with however Wikipedia had it listed whenever I could.

remove! remove!

http://clipground.com/images/remove-clipart-19.jpg

xxp i didn't find it a problem, can't see how it will be

is Joseph Cornell a movie director? i dont think it's fair to pit him against McG.

I better see Kiarostami on a few ballots.

not my favorite Iranian filmmaker as it happens

(or at least it's a contest)

Also: better see some Kaurismäki.

Whew! Got mine sent.

man this ballot is daunting

i feel self conscious abt my cheesy pedestrian commercial tastes suddenly

Would work on this but might turn out the same way as the VU poll, in which instance I just couldn’t narrow down in time for submission.

Sent my revised ballot.

I did keep Morbs' 'no one who's career started after 1980' declaration in mind when voting...still ended up with 15-20 younger directors on my list. I'm interested in which contemporary directors ILX thinks are worthy additions to the canon

also, the list is a reminder of just how much women have been excluded from the film industry at the director level.

it's hard for me to find women to vote for because so few have an extensive filmography (or, as in the case of Elaine May, three fine to great films).

Yeah, I made a real effort to include women, and ended up with only nine. (Some without extensive filmographies, I have to admit.)

Okay, I'm done. Ended up ranking 15 slots and throwing in the rest unranked, and overall I feel like it was a bit carelessly cobbled together, but it'll do.

Didn't count up how many women were on my ballot but it'll be less than nine, I think. Mind you, two of them are in my top 5. Exclusionary practices/institutional sexism does mean that there a fewer to choose from even when you want to be more representative. I did find a few reminders of women whose work I should check out, though. I also really need to watch more films by directors who aren't white Eurodudes.

*there ARE fewer