All Right, Mr. DeMille, I'm Ready For My Close-Up ... It's The ILXOR's Top 101 Director Poll Results Thread

holy shit guys the list is 33% women! well done

Women filming beautiful men plz

I should see more Denis

NV I considered following suit & changing dn to "helmer fud"

suddenly having a horrible feeling I mightn't've put Louis Malle in my list and I'm disappointed if so

I got you covered m8

I count Married to the Mob as a great (and underappreciated) film.

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98. Robert Aldrich
(370 points; 5 votes)

Too fucking low

voted for him almost entirely for Kiss Me Deadly but there are other goodies and yeah too low

That & baby Jane for me but otherwise same

just seen the cast for Sodom and Gomorrah and wondering why the hell i haven't seen it

(just checked my list btw, i didn't forget Louis)

Nice

In a bit of thread cross pollination lift to the scaffold is one of the many namedrops in the new scott walker songs

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97. Woody Allen
(375.5 points; 5 votes)

TOO MOLESTY

lol

I think when it comes to his placing, the earlier the funnier

lol, made the end of my ballot, glad he placed low

couldn't place him in my 50 faves but i like the funny stuff plenty, have never exposed myself to the Bergman rip-offs

I understand he still wears that beard when walking around town.

Not a single one of my ballot popped up yet, no love lost w/ Allen though too molesty otm

He probably doesn't want to be recognized.

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Bah, think I unfortunately left Denis off.

Watched my first Aldrich a few weeks ago.

Not looking fwd to fucking Polanski making this

101st feels about right

already the worst fucking poll ever

no one else revealed so far made a film as great as Intolerance

bye, guys

Glad we got that out of the way in the early going.

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96. Sergei Parajanov
(385 points; 5 votes)

the best Aldrich is Ulzana's Raid btw

Alright <3

xp

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You'd have been in a tizzy picking the coolest picture if you'd done diretors photos of this guy I tell ya

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95. Jim Jarmusch
(394 points; 6 votes)

Didn't think Jarmusch would crack the top 100.

I like him a fair bit and didn't consider him

I did consider him but I didn't vite for him

vite

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94. Olivier Assayas
(400.5 points; 6 votes)

Man, that ending is so good

for a while my favorite working director

Only seen Personal Shopper but nearly voted for him on that alone. Need to see Carlos

hell, even the one about the Limoges pottery factory is good

Assayas is the first director from today's results (so far) that I voted for too.

(Denis was one of the last I had to cut.)

Unfamiliar with his films. Are his other films as divisive as Personal Shopper seems to be?

if only Griffith had had K-Stew instead of Gish

old things are better, we know

Are his other films as divisive as Personal Shopper seems to be?

― call me by your name..or Finn (fionnland)

was it divisive? The only divisiveness I saw was whene Clouds of Sils-Maria was released (I didn't care for it).

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how the fuck would you know? xxp

Personal Shopper took its share of hits from people who are wrong.

In my personal experience, everyone seemed to love or hate it. Which of his films is your favourite?

I've still only seen Carlos (good!), Summer Hours (great!) and Boarding Gate (awful!)

Thanks for the rollout, Eric. I especially enjoyed slowly revealing the images to see if I would guess from the still who the director was. Oddly I seemed to have more difficulty in the top 20 than I did much of what came earlier — maybe the choice of images got more rarefied, and I"m a bozo cinephile.

I was the #1 vote for Joe Dante. I guess he's my Joe Shlabotnik. I didn't dwell on my ranking that much, but at the top I thought in terms of "whose films would I most regret never being able to see again?" And he was the sentimental childhood favorite. His films show show such an affection for movie history — they're really smart, but they aren't really trying to improve on or be more important than what they love — and yet his best films are better than most of their genre antecedents. They're really generous.

Then my #2 was Bresson who disavowed most of cinema as such. There you go.

Confession time: I've never watched any films from these directors.

35. Satyajit Ray (834.5 points; 11 votes)
63. (tie) Hou Hsiao-hsien (554 points; 7 votes)
69. Frederick Wiseman (513.5 points; 6 votes; 1 first-place vote)
76. Aki Kaurismäki (480 points; 7 votes)
86. Ousmane Sembène (435.5 points; 6 votes)
96. Sergei Parajanov (385 points; 5 votes)

Satyajit Ray is good stuff! Apu trilogy is great but you can go to The Hero if you want something less in accordance to stereotypes of what dude's movies would be like.

I'm a Parajanov virgin too, tbh.

I considered renting Color of Pomegranates yesterday, but opted for a couple Renoirs. This poll's given me a lot to check out.

wiseman was my highest ranked american director.

true, but I'm only mentioning it to annoy morbs

Of those, I fully expected to be the only vote for several of them, but it turns out that William Klein was the only director for whom I cast the sole vote.

Another that I actually had in my ballot but left it out in the end. Have quite a bit of time for his documentaries

Contrast ...

https://www.cinematary.com/writing/2018/7/9/the-2018-shmight-shmound-poll

01. David Lynch (188 total votes)
02. Stanley Kubrick (183)
03. Alfred Hitchcock (146)
04. Abbas Kiarostami (99)
05. Chantal Akerman (96)
06. Akira Kurosawa (92) [tie]
06. Andrei Tarkovsky (92) [tie]
08. Terrence Malick (88)
09. John Ford (85)
10. Paul Thomas Anderson (82)
11. Francis Ford Coppola (80)
12. Martin Scorsese (78)
13. Edward Yang (77) [tie]
13. Ingmar Bergman (77) [tie]
13. Wong Kar-wai (77) [tie]
16. Jean-Luc Godard (75)
17. Orson Welles (74)
18. Howard Hawks (73)
19. Yasujiro Ozu (72)
20. Carl Theodor Dreyer (70)

High showings for Kiarostami, Akerman and Yang aside, our list is better.

huh guess this happened during my sabbatical. oh well.

that list is better aside from fanboys' #1, and would prefer Preston Sturges supplanting Malick

I wouldn't put Lynch ahead of Welles or Hitchcock or Kubrick either. On the whole I'd say our list was better, otoh points off for both lists putting Tarkovsky in the top 10.

yeah eric otm that list is booooring, lmfao at PTA in the top 10

xp I think Lynch was my #10... also Shakey you don't like Tarkovsky??

absolutely haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate Solaris and Stalker, I'll be fucked if I'm watching any more of that guy's tiresome nonsense

Tarkovsky's fine with me, but he's Ingmar's student

I think I've just about recovered from my early-20s attempt at watching Solaris to try him again.

Solaris is not a particularly punishing work, for him.

That's what I'm afraid of.

absolutely haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate Solaris and Stalker, I'll be fucked if I'm watching any more of that guy's tiresome nonsense

wow !

well... try Ivan's Childhood, only 95 minutes! and really great!

the only thing that makes Solaris less "punishing" is how pretty it is. it's just as languorous as Stalker. i love both but Solaris is my favorite

I watched Stalker last summer in a theater and don't need to rewatch it.

stalker is gorgeous too

i tend to be able to only watch tarkovsky films once as well though i've seen solaris 4-5 times (i intended to write about it)

punishing tarkovsky is def the sacrifice

xp it is, and i didn't find it boring, but Solaris i could watch over and over. colloidal silver oceans & pink skies vs. sepia dust world and radioactive waste

mirror is the tarkovsky for skeptics i think.

my favorite is The Mirror fwiw, but Andrei Rublev not far behind

I thought The Sacrifice was relatively accessible (for him), and is a favorite of mine along with The Mirror

Nostalghia is definitely his most 'inaccessible' for lack of a better word - but if you're on his frequency it's astonishing.

You have to look at the lists side by side. Putting aside placement, half of the two lists overlap. So it comes down these 10 from their list vs. these 10 from the ILX list:

Cinematary 10: Kiarostami, Akerman, Malick, Ford, P.T. Anderson, Coppola, Yang, Kar-wai, Hawks, Dreyer

ILX 10: Powell & Pressburger, Fassbinder, Buñuel, Altman, Renoir, Lang, Antonioni, Wilder, Murnau, Bresson