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

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.

Lily Gladstone was outstanding that movie I thought. would really like to see more of her

*in

Alfred, does that mean Certain Women?

yep!

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82. Sergio Leone
(453 points; 6 votes)

I *forgot* about Leone... This poll has been doing my head in more than any other poll smdh

First one from my top 10, Leone is absolute comfort food to me

4 on the bounce here

idk why i didnt vote for Leone :(
noodle otm re comfort food movies

All of Kelly Reichardt's movies are fantastic. First director to show up that was in my top 10. Only one I haven't seen is Old Joy - have that sitting on my shelf, might watch tonight. Her debut Rivers of Grass is really great and under appreciated.

OK, last one for today...

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81. Jean-Pierre Melville
(459.5 points; 7 votes)

81. Jean-Pierre Melville (459.5 points; 7 votes)
82. Sergio Leone (453 points; 6 votes)
83. Kelly Reichart (446 points; 6 votes)
84. Peter Watkins (441.5 points; 6 votes)
85. Brian De Palma (440 points; 5 votes)
86. Ousmane Sembène (435.5 points; 6 votes)
87. Frank Capra (431.5 points; 6 votes)
88. Jean Cocteau (421 points; 6 votes)
89. Chuck Jones (416 points; 6 votes)
90. Jean Vigo (414 points; 6 votes)
91. Paul Verhoeven (403 points; 6 votes)
92. (tie) Pedro Almodóvar (401 points; 5 votes)
92. (tie) G.W. Pabst (401 points; 5 votes)
94. Olivier Assayas (400.5 points; 6 votes)
95. Jim Jarmusch (394 points; 6 votes)
96. Sergei Parajanov (385 points; 5 votes)
97. Woody Allen (375.5 points; 5 votes)
98. Robert Aldrich (370 points; 5 votes)
99. Claire Denis (367.5 points; 5 votes)
100. Jonathan Demme (366 points; 5 votes)
101. D.W. Griffith (365.5 points; 5 votes)

thank you this has been great already. given the mix of names that have placed i'm really looking to the upper reaches of this poll.

there is a lifetime of great film with these already. had i voted, two of them (Jarmusch and Melville) would be in my top 10.

I enjoyed Le Deuxieme Souffle a lot, but I'm not particularly into much else Melville. It might be my loss.

xxp *really looking forward

Almodóvar WAY too low, IMO. In what universe is Paul Verhoeven a better director than Almodóvar? Also too low Woody Allen, but I guess that one's understandable.

I wish I could've voted. I only found out about this poll after voting had closed.

wtf@ De Palma above Sembene and Parajanov - he only made half a great film and then many could've made that.

Watkins also on my list. Also pissy I couldn't find room for Vigo because stupid.

I love Army of Shadows but he's not a fave otherwise, didn't vote for him

Le Samourai is 10/10 but that's all I've seen so I didn't vote for Melville

he really was involved in the resistance as well, should probably watch AoS some time. Bresson spent some time as a Nazi POW as well, some of these French directors back then lived dangerously.

Clouzot making Le Corbeau in 1943 is probably the ballsiest of them all.

wtf@ De Palma above Sembene and Parajanov - he only made half a great film

I loved your ballot and was grateful for some of the directors it pushed up in the standings but ... I gotta know, which half of which film?

We're at 7 votes already for Melville, wonder how many complete curveballs there can be

Second half of carrie

Predict akerman for highest ranking lady

Re. Pabst: He was one of several names on my ballot whom I expected no one else to vote for. Westfront 1918 and Kameradschaft are coming from Criterion later this month. I don't exactly recommend A Modern Hero, but it pushes some of my buttons.

And 87 is WAY too low for Capra. The Miracle Woman alone is top-ten stuff.

Capra films are all super annoying. I guess he is a "great" director in the way people are good at sports

all of them, every one?

Yes

I can't speak to Capra's screwball (I loathe the genre) or human interest comedies, but all of the pre-codes and silents I've seen are prime material.

I'm not sure how The Miracle Woman is "annoying" (esp with the kind of performance Barbra Stanwyck's giving) but whatev

I can't really put myself into the mindset of loathing screwball so this is probably a lost cause, but, fwiw, IHON isn't nearly as madcap as something like Bringing Up Baby

I knew I’d find some other kindred soul who has a very limited amount of time for screwball

IHON and Twentieth Century leave me cold. And if Capra-hatas are going to deny themselves American Madness, that's their loss.

The Battle of Russia was almost screwball in its depiction of the absolute USSR beneficence towards its neighbours, pre-Barbarossa, but awesome propaganda movie. I almost felt like getting into a feight with Hitler myself after watching it quite drunk one night.

Looked for Miracle Woman on amazon and according to them, the bluray version of the film is It Could Happen To You with Nicolas Cage and Bridget Fonda.

I missed today's results (I was out seeing a movie) -- Chuck Jones was the only name that made it from my ballot. Though I wish I'd voted for Leone.