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.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Sunday, 21 January 2018 05:01 (six years ago) link
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)
― adam the (abanana), Sunday, 21 January 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link
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.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 21 January 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
I'm a Parajanov virgin too, tbh.
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Sunday, 21 January 2018 18:47 (six years ago) link
I considered renting Color of Pomegranates yesterday, but opted for a couple Renoirs. This poll's given me a lot to check out.
― jmm, Sunday, 21 January 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
wiseman was my highest ranked american director.
― plax (ico), Sunday, 21 January 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link
true, but I'm only mentioning it to annoy morbs
― plax (ico), Sunday, 21 January 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 21 January 2018 21:39 (six years ago) link
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.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
huh guess this happened during my sabbatical. oh well.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
that list is better aside from fanboys' #1, and would prefer Preston Sturges supplanting Malick
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
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.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
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??
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
absolutely haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate Solaris and Stalker, I'll be fucked if I'm watching any more of that guy's tiresome nonsense
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
Tarkovsky's fine with me, but he's Ingmar's student
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
I think I've just about recovered from my early-20s attempt at watching Solaris to try him again.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
Solaris is not a particularly punishing work, for him.
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
That's what I'm afraid of.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:20 (five years ago) link
wow !
well... try Ivan's Childhood, only 95 minutes! and really great!
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
I watched Stalker last summer in a theater and don't need to rewatch it.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
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)
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:48 (five years ago) link
punishing tarkovsky is def the sacrifice
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
mirror is the tarkovsky for skeptics i think.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
my favorite is The Mirror fwiw, but Andrei Rublev not far behind
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link
I thought The Sacrifice was relatively accessible (for him), and is a favorite of mine along with The Mirror
― Dan S, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 22:50 (five years ago) link
Nostalghia is definitely his most 'inaccessible' for lack of a better word - but if you're on his frequency it's astonishing.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 22:55 (five years ago) link
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
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link