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

TV counts obv

check the thread title, mate

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?

think I regretfully left the Lynch out because 50 I loved more

"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

when do we shoot? :)

TV that shows in cinemas in other countries, that's different.

Lynch didn't need TPTR to still be included in my 50. No Spielberg tho.

no Jerry Lewis OR Frank Tashlin for me tho :(

Voted for Lynch on the basis of the films, didn't actually factor in his TV work.

Everyone is entitled to their arbitrary criteria obv 🙂

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).

(and a bunch more that could have been made by no one else)

Yeah, I try not to buy into auteur theory too much, but distinctiveness was definitely a factor for me.

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.

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.

Voted for Lynch on the basis of the films, didn't actually factor in his TV work.

I'm with the Dr, Maddin was higher on my list I think

Love your determined idiosyncrasy Robert Adam Gilmour

i look fwd to the DW Griffith fights we'll have

Noodle Vague- for the internet videos?

For all of it!

Griffith lumped in with Leni R in my "technically great but fuck you" filr

Love your determined idiosyncrasy Robert Adam Gilmour

Eric, did you get my ballot? Haven't received a confirmation yet, but also i know the voting period just ended

NV, how many Griffith films have you seen besides YOU KNOW? Equating him with Riefenstahl doesn't really make historical sense.

Sorry I was being deliberately silly. I did leave them both off on the grounds of not loving their work enough tho

Intolerance is kinda wrecked for me by the weight of its support tho

Intolerance is amazing but DWG didn't make my ballot. Nor Leni

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.

(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

ah ok, I thought maybe DWG had the funding of the KKK or something.

save this argument for the results thread but there is nobody working in silent Hollywood who i don't respect less than the Germans from the same era

always loved this poster- i have a copy hung up in my hallway

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Intolerance_%28film%29.jpg/1200px-Intolerance_%28film%29.jpg

Way down east

OK, 35 ballots were submitted and have been counted. If you didn't get a reply, shoot me your ballot again.

Also, I'm not unveiling the results next week because I'm out of town, so if you didn't send me a ballot already, um, send me a ballot, because there's still time.

Just submitted it again, as I've had no reply...do acknowledge.

I didn't get a bounce back either.

Ah, first one went to my spam folder for some reason. Will count!

who knew xyzzzz had an email account called cheapcialis4you?

lol

haha dude I'll have you all know my account is based on a 'pun' on the Grateful Dead, lol @ 20 year old me.

but yeah, weird omission, nostalgia is a key film at the very least. also so many mediocre filmmakers nominated.

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Yeah, its a thing of beauty for me. The omission wouldn't have happened if I spent a good afternoon at this. I would have also nominated Carolee Schneemann too, and a few other experimental filmmakers but it would never make the top 50.

I'm thinking of more and more directors that should've been nominated but weren't, Walerian Borowczyk the most notable perhaps.

I was consistently surprised not only by the directors I had to write in, but by the names I was logging first votes for even in the last rush of ballots.

yeah i think i wrote in 2 (technically 3) that didn't make the nominations sheet

Thanks Eric, just got your email.

OK, 36 ballots total ... solid turnout for a niche poll. Because I'll need time to find images and get the BBcode stuff all pre-drafted, I'm calling it OFFICIALLY CLOSED to new ballots. However, if anyone who has already submitted a ballot has any minor tweaks, I'll probably accept those for a few days here.

Too kind, I will send a slightly changed ballot tonight (I wasn't aware of the possibility of write ins).

I do reserve the right to make judgement calls on what constitutes a "minor tweak."

psyched for this!! i appreciate all the work you're putting into it, eric. genuinely curious & clueless to how this will all turn out...

Intrigued about images...Hoping film stills rather than images of the directors themselves, as obvious as that might be. I can see an argument for the latter, though.

of my top 10 choices, 4 appeared in some of their own films, so...

OK, locked and loaded and basically ready to unveil the list next week! No more edits, please.