Just sent my ballot in, excited for the roll-out. My top 10 or so feels fairly canonical, but it was hard for me to justify putting some of my current favorites above the people who really shaped the medium.
― intheblanks, Friday, 5 January 2018 23:28 (six years ago) link
All different approaches to a mammoth task like this are equally viable imo, though I steered away from those "having shaped the medium" in favor of directors I think r cool. But it's all good, which is what will make this poll one of the greatest on here, I'm sure.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 5 January 2018 23:42 (six years ago) link
yeah, i mean, they were also formative directors for me when i was younger. Also when i do watch movies by one of those directors, i usually think " this is one of the greatest things ever made," even if i spend more time watching stuff from the 70s nowadays
― intheblanks, Friday, 5 January 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link
anyway, probably boring to discuss before the roll-out, i'm really interested to see how things shake out
― intheblanks, Friday, 5 January 2018 23:47 (six years ago) link
Still maybe a little time to get a ballot in, fwiw.
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 January 2018 05:20 (six years ago) link
Wait for meeeee
― Bitcoin Baja (wins), Saturday, 6 January 2018 10:03 (six years ago) link
Submitted, hopefully in time. I bumped Spielberg for Hellman but I promise I didn't feel great about it
― Bitcoin Baja (wins), Saturday, 6 January 2018 10:11 (six years ago) link
No Hollis Frampton - I suggest we stop this now.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 5 January 2018 19:00 (yesterday)
voted HF on a right in
― plax (ico), Saturday, 6 January 2018 13:39 (six years ago) link
but yeah, weird omission, nostalgia is a key film at the very least. also so many mediocre filmmakers nominated.
― plax (ico), Saturday, 6 January 2018 13:43 (six years ago) link
Think the results thread will be a lot of arguments about poptimistic votes
― not raving but droning (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 January 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
I wrote in one director whose omission seems p egregious to me and, looking upthread, see at least one other I prob would have voted for if they'd been on the list(Which is kinda the argument for nominating all those mediocre filmmakers, it is useful to work from a list of all the filmmakers that are at all notable - I know I nominated ppl I had no intention of voting for but others might, & it's easy to forget even fave faves when throwing a list together)
― Bitcoin Baja (wins), Saturday, 6 January 2018 13:51 (six years ago) link
I realised yesterday that I had forgotten to vote for Joe Dante in favour of putting in "important" & "arty" directors. But then I couldn't decide who to replace so figured I should just stick with what I sent in. But Gremlins tho.
― emil.y, Saturday, 6 January 2018 15:07 (six years ago) link
again, I voted for one a/g director cuz c'mon, unless i've just seen something by one of em i can't remember who did what. Cinematic spinach, gimme The Iron Horse.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 January 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
I agree insofar as spinach is good and full of iron
― Bitcoin Baja (wins), Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:02 (six years ago) link
I kind of feel a bit lousy for not putting Spielberg on my ballot but I haven't liked a movie of his since "Catch Me If You Can" tbh
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
I regret nothing
― not raving but droning (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
...and i still hate eating it xxp
never considered a David Lynch vote bcz i know this crowd (also TV doesn't count)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
so who's the equiv of roasted Brussels sprouts -- Sembène?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:12 (six years ago) link
Entirely possible we mean different things when we say "a/g" of course but the stuff I'd be voting for is about bathing in texture like my aunts pozole
― Bitcoin Baja (wins), Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
TV counts obv
― Bitcoin Baja (wins), Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:17 (six years ago) link
the hell is "a/g"?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
I guessed avantgarde?
― Bitcoin Baja (wins), Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
check the thread title, mate
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link
and i will slap down anyone who points to DL's "18-hour movie" quote
bcz what is the Mary Tyler Moore Show besides a 90-hour expansion of Jeanne Dielman?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
think I regretfully left the Lynch out because 50 I loved more
― not raving but droning (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
"Movie" means moving picture and applies to duel, reget, fanny & alexander, dekalog, berlin alexanderplatz, twin peaks and my ongoing youtube series where I give wedgies to people who are absurdly tightassed about whether things are filed correctly
― Bitcoin Baja (wins), Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
when do we shoot? :)
TV that shows in cinemas in other countries, that's different.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
Lynch didn't need TPTR to still be included in my 50. No Spielberg tho.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:54 (six years ago) link
no Jerry Lewis OR Frank Tashlin for me tho :(
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
Voted for Lynch on the basis of the films, didn't actually factor in his TV work.
― emil.y, Saturday, 6 January 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
Everyone is entitled to their arbitrary criteria obv 🙂
― Bitcoin Baja (wins), Saturday, 6 January 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
as far as tetched, sui generis visionaries go, I came a lot closer to including Guy Maddin (who I'd say, like Lynch, has made two great films).
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 January 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
(and a bunch more that could have been made by no one else)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 January 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I try not to buy into auteur theory too much, but distinctiveness was definitely a factor for me.
― emil.y, Saturday, 6 January 2018 17:03 (six years ago) link
Certain of my nominations were for the lulz and/or putting enough names on the spreadsheet to get this poll underway. I never did take auteur theory seriously...until I saw the silent Hitchcocks.
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Saturday, 6 January 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
I was considering voting some people who had done internet video clips.
Recently been watching some iterations of Movie-Movie: The Movie and Movie-Movie: The TV Show and I'm kind of amazed that for all the passionate detailed dissection of these things by intelligent people, how sloppy, constantly irritating and poorly directed they are.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 6 January 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link
― flappy bird, Saturday, 6 January 2018 17:50 (six years ago) link
I'm with the Dr, Maddin was higher on my list I think
Love your determined idiosyncrasy Robert Adam Gilmour
― not raving but droning (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:08 (six years ago) link
i look fwd to the DW Griffith fights we'll have
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link
Noodle Vague- for the internet videos?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 6 January 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
For all of it!
Griffith lumped in with Leni R in my "technically great but fuck you" filr
― not raving but droning (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 January 2018 19:09 (six years ago) link
― The Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia of Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 January 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
Eric, did you get my ballot? Haven't received a confirmation yet, but also i know the voting period just ended
― intheblanks, Saturday, 6 January 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link
NV, how many Griffith films have you seen besides YOU KNOW? Equating him with Riefenstahl doesn't really make historical sense.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:20 (six years ago) link
Sorry I was being deliberately silly. I did leave them both off on the grounds of not loving their work enough tho
― not raving but droning (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:43 (six years ago) link
Intolerance is kinda wrecked for me by the weight of its support tho
― not raving but droning (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link
Intolerance is amazing but DWG didn't make my ballot. Nor Leni
― flappy bird, Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:56 (six years ago) link
xp was Intolerance supported by the KKK et al? Genuinely curious, I don't know the history behind that movie, or much about DWG other than what I learned in high school.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:57 (six years ago) link
(i.e. The Birth of a Nation and its intentions/support)
sorry, i didn't mean in terms of bad people loving it, i just meant i can see it's importance but not feel personally moved
― not raving but droning (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:59 (six years ago) link