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

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

I sent mine before Christmas. The only non-nominated director I would have voted for (had I known it was allowed) would have been Masaki Kobayashi.

You can revise your list, I did.

only voted five women

I only voted one woman, I think. I just wasn’t familiar with many of them.

apropos or something's comment above, I think Under The Skin is one of the most amazing movies I've seen from the 21st century

just sent one, Eric. You only need to respond if you don't my hotmail email with dowd in its address.

*get* my hotmail

I did find a few reminders of women whose work I should check out, though.

Everyone should watch all the Akerman, Varda, and Denis!

yes! ^

looked at my ballot again and rated akerman wayyyy too low

sent!

Thanks for the ballots thus far! I am about a half dozen or so behind in tallying, but I'll catch up over the course of the next couple days.

I should def see more Akerman bit tbh she'd have a place high on my ballot for Jeanne Dielman alone

Is the 'poll extended due to insanely cuet niece' still in place? I'll ruffle up a ballot tomorrow!

How about a formal extension, so I can spend the waning hours of the year watching Phantom Thread and not deciding whether Ernst Lubitsch is "better" than Ousmane Sembene?

Decide over a mimosa.

Eric, I should send in the next few hours.

It's 15 fucking degrees here, my lips would stick to the glass. (also i am not a Brunchie)

Nor am I, and don't understand the mimosa.

this sounds like Lubitsch 2017

Deadline OFFICIALLY extended to the end of this week.

Meaning by midnight (CST) Friday, Jan. 5.

woohoo extension!