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

A ballot with just 50 slots is just too short...

;_;

I have a lot of time for the pre-Capra-corn era.

I've only seen 1.5 Capra films, what's good and why

Bitter Tea of General Yen is fluid and sexy as hell despite its racial politics.

My #48, basically for It Happened One Night

Which 1.5 wins?

It happened one night, which I like a lot but didn't remember was by him, and the first hour or so of it's a wonderful life

IHON is absolutely mint, obviously

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86. Ousmene Sembene
(435.5 points; 6 votes)

really liked Moolaadé! haven't seen anything else by him

Made my list at the last minute.

I see that Black Girl and Mandabi are available on dvd from netflix. I'll have to check them out

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85. Brian De Palma
(440 points; 5 votes)

Not going to lie, I'm surprised he made it in the way things were going there. Also, SMH at the lot of you.

SMH at the lot of you.

new ILX film thread title

I watched both The Phantom of the Paradise and Carrie in theaters full of students when I was in college, and the excitement I felt from the audience's reactions to both of them were as overwhelming to me as the films themselves.

You De Palma voters will be getting a visit from Billy Blanco from the Bronx when this poll is finished 🔫🔫🔫

the affection for The Phantom of the Paradise mystifies me. I like De Palma, didn't vote for him.

I liked it when I was a kid, but have never gone back to it.

I love Phantom of the Paradise but most other De Palma leaves me cold. And Phantom is pretty silly (I mean, that's why I love it, but personally "silly" doesn't equate to "greatest ever").

I just watched Dressed To Kill for the first time yesterday. I voted for him after also seeing The Fury and Body Double for the first time recently and those being two of the most enjoyable things I've seen in years.

For a long time he was one of those directors I assumed I wouldn't like much (and to be honest I'm still reluctant to see his gangster and war films) but I really love the bunch I saw last year and Phantom Of Paradise.

Although having said that I am still ruing my neglect of Joe Dante, I should've changed my ballot, I think.

xp to self

'Like but didn't vote for' as per Alfred applies here really well. Good films but they p much leave me cold.

Blowout was another movie of his I really loved

I'm definitely going to check out more De Palma.

Dammit I forgotten to vote Bava

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84. Peter Watkins
(441.5 points; 6 votes)

Charles Durning still looking for that sofa at the end of Sisters will never not be funny.

Yay for Watkins, wasn't sure if he'd make it. still need to get round to La Commune tho

He's so deliciously austere and angry

I came that close to using a still from La Commune, but figured with Watkins I'd better go iconic.

Still, La Commune was one of the more memorable moments of my early-days cinephilia.

For what could be a very dry polemic Punishment Park does look lovely

pretty sure I've managed to see almost exclusively the wrong De Palmas: Scarface, Untouchables, Bonfire, Carlito's Way, Mission Impossible, Mission to Mars, Femme Fatale. FF probably the best of that bunch tbh, though MI is refreshingly auteurist in our current franchise era

LOL, yeah, that would not be the basic starter kit I'd recommend for BDP, although Carlito's Way and Femme Fatale are among his best.

I can't even remember why I watched Bonfire as it was notorious by then; morbid curiosity I guess

Odder to me that you've managed to avoid Carrie and Dressed to Kill.

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83. Kelly Reichart
(446 points; 6 votes)

Can't remember if I voted for Watkins in the end, but glad to see him.

I love Old Joy but never thought about voting for her. Are her other films any good? Which one to see first?

Certain Women is her best so far imo

Night Moves is decent.

Made my ballot on Wendy & Lucy alone

Never seen femme fatale and enough time has passed from when a Rebecca romijn film is an auto-avoid so yeah sounds good

Well I've had nothing show up and then 3 in a row. Watkins' Edvard Munch is incredible. Certain Women is Reichardt's best so far but I love Wendy & Lucy too

Certain Women is her best so far imo

― calzino, Monday, January 15, 2018

otm

I voted for four of today's batch of directors (didn't vote for either of the directors still to be revealed shortly):

Brian De Palma
Ousmane Sembène
Chuck Jones
Olivier Assayas

Will def check out Certain Woman

It is weird that I haven't seen Carrie, since I really liked Stephen King as a young teen and I really like Sissy Spacek now. I'm a little worried I've seen so many refs/parodies that its impact will be diluted, like when I finally saw Casablanca and it was more a confusingly layered intertextual experience than a film

which film is the Reichardt image from?

ACW.