The Total Filmmaker ... Nominations open for the next ILX film poll of the Greatest Movie Directors of All Time!

So, I can't promise ghoulish puns like I did with the horror poll, but after discussion on the Hitchcock POX thread, this is our next ILX movie poll topic! Nominate away. (No timeline yet for when the voting period opens. Just moving the discussion for now.)

Quentin Tarantino

mcg

everyone knows it's Sean Baker
― Frederik B, Wednesday, November 8, 2017 5:01 AM (ten hours ago)

Brett Ratner Sean Baker

do we really need to do a bunch of the really obvious ones (Welles, Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Ozu, Melies, Chaplin, Ford, Kubrick, etc.)

Doesn't hurt or anything.

^^^ conspicuous Spielberg absence, Shakey barred from voting

and no etc. doesn't cover it SAY HIS NAME

haha

I'll go ahead and just say the top 100 listed on TSPDT are all "nominated" and we can move on from there.

http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_top250directors.htm

John Ford
Ousmane Sembene
Robert Aldrich
Kon Ichikawa
Elaine May
Joseph Cornell
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Agnes Varda
Luis Bunuel
Carl Theodor Dreyer

can you believe Blake Edwards made the top 250 list upo there and Jerry Lewis and Frank Tashlin didn't? What a world.

Michael Powell's not in that top 100, so him

solo, he is 145th

My most challopsy realization in the last few years is that Aldrich made more great films than Altman.

Charles Burnett
Jerry Lewis

Ichikawa is likely to make my final ballot depending on how many spots Eric gives us.

guess I'll just start listing people then

Orson Welles
F.W. Murnau
Fritz Lang
Charlie Chaplin
Brian DePalma
Martin Scorsese
Sam Peckinpah
Woody Allen
Wes Anderson
Coen Bros
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Akira Kurosawa
Yasujirō Ozu
John Carpenter
David Cronenberg
Stanley Donen
Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick
Spike Lee

oops

well done Michael Powell

oh sorry xp

D.A. Pennebaker

Claire Denis
Olivier Assayas
Jia Zhangke
Robert Bresson

Mikhail Kalatozov
Satoshi Kon
Jean Cocteau
G. W. Pabst
René Clair

Stan Brakhage

Kenneth Anger

Chris Marker
Jacques Rivette
Chantal Akerman
Nicholas Ray
David Lynch
Maya Deren
Jean Vigo

Satyajit Ray, Pedro costa, Bela tarr

Hou hsiao-hsien
Nic Roeg

Will update this on the daily... Here's where we stand right now:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_yiA3-iP3ZK9m6YC1iOthz_ZT2YiwjZ8lLOXYc-Nxf4/

Edward Yang
Hayao Miyazaki

King Hu
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Les Blank
Lodge Kerrigan
Jean-Luc Godard
Michael Haneke
Mike Leigh

Věra Chytilová
Howard Hawks
Andrei Tarkovsky
Sergei Eisenstein
Jane Campion
Jacques Tourneur

Roman Polanski
P.T. Anderson
Wim Wenders
Steven Soderbergh

maybe Eric should just agree to nominate the TSPDT top 250 and save a lotta time

John Cassavetes
Billy Wilder

Ford
Godard
Mizoguchi
Pialat
Hawks
Anthony Mann
Renoir
Spielberg
Melville
Lang
Buñuel
Welles

not in that order but...yeah it reads like a Criterion™ Ho's list but these are my faves.

George Cukor
Maren Ade
Cristian Mungiu
Kenji Mizoguchi

But then there wouldn't be surprise "omissions" that don't end up mattering because you're free to vote for whoever on your ballots even if they weren't nominated, et al.

Rivette as well!

Fuck it. Too many more I revere that I forgot. Like Bresson.

Johnnie To

Frederick Wiseman (outside of TSPDT's Top 100 but on the list of 250).

Peter Watkins
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Takeshi Kitano
Aki Kaurismäki
Sally Potter
Gurinder Chadha
Paul Schrader

What about creators who mostly worked together? E.g. do we vote for "Michael Powell" and "Emeric Pressburger" or is there an option to vote for "Powell & Pressburger"? I'm actually mainly asking this because I want to vote for Jane Arden but she mostly only worked in conjunction with Jack Bond so I'm not sure whether to just nominate her or to nominate "Arden & Bond".

nearly nominated Jane Arden just now, i guess we've the option to vote for both/either

One for the so-over-auteurs corner.

John Huston

Park Chan-wook

All my faves been nommed already, even Kenji Mizoguchi who I learned about from here - so that makes sense!

Neil Breen

Werner Herzog
Chuck Jones
Francois Truffaut

John Boorman

Abbas Kiarostami

Neil Breen

In case my block of text didn't indicate clearly that I was nominating Jane Arden, I shall include her in my initial noms list:

Jane Arden
Germaine Dulac
Roy Andersson
Sergei Parajanov
Wojciech Has
Juraj Herz
Dario Argento

Doc updated. Yes, Morbs, I'll probably end up adding any from the TSPDT 250 in the end.

William Wellman
Maurice Tourneur
Frank Capra
Alice Guy Blache
Julian Duvivier
Max Ophuls

Douglas Sirk
Seijun Suzuki
Paul Verhoeven
Monte Hellman
Kathryn Bigelow
Robert Altman
Tony Scott
Jacques Tati
Sergio Leone
Bob Fosse

Buster Keaton
John Woo

Jacques Feyder
Joseph Losey
E.A. Dupont
Lois Weber

A few who I'm not 100% sure I'll vote for but worth putting in here to remind me, just in case:

Hans Richter
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Peter Strickland

Also, um:

Russ Meyer

Tex Avery

terrence malick

Isao Takahata
Norman McLaren

Samuel Fuller

apichatpong weerasthakul/joe

John Waters
Ingmar Bergman
Pedro Almodóvar
Kelly Reichardt
Charlie Kaufman
Todd Haynes
Lars Von Trier
Harmony Korine
Jim Jarmusch
Jonathan Demme

Everybody I'd have nominated is already there except for Sofia Coppola.

Tsai Ming Liang
Craig R. Baxley
David Lean

reichardt otm!

tamara jenkins

Craig R. Baxley

Unless the point was the juxtaposition, not seeing any first-unit director credits here.

William Friedkin

CHARLES LAUGHTON

Michael Cimino
Penelope Spheeris
Christopher Guest
David Gordon Green
Todd Solondz

Richard Lester
Paul Mazursky

vertov
svankmajer
lindsay anderson

Carol Reed
Ernst Lubitsch
Norman McLaren
Guy Maddin
Ida Lupino
Michael Curtitz
Mike Nichols
John Schlesinger
John Lassetter
Michael Winterbottom

Bruce Conner

Peter Greenaway

Michael Curtitz

Didn't he direct Assablanca?

TROLL NOMINATION: Charles Laughton

I don't see that as trolling

I don't either, but I'm pretty sure that I won't find room on my ballot for him above the many directors who managed at least two great films.

Me neither but it's a good nomination, people might want to vote for him. Pretty sure a lot of people consider harper lee one of the greatest novelists too

Sidney Lumet
Milos Forman
Roy Andersson

Louis Malle
Georges Melies

ctrl+f is your friend

Doesn't work on the app. I did scroll through whole thread, couldn't find those 5.

richard donner
john badham
john mctiernan
chris columbus
george p cosmatos

Some less obvious but deserving names:

João Cesar Monteiro
Jaromil Jires
Kinji Fukasaku
Hideo Gosha
Krzysztof Zanussi

Andy Warhol
Rosa von Praunheim

jim in vancouver, it's not the best 2500 directors.

Bernardo Bertolucci
Federico Fellini
Vittorio De Sica
Luchino Visconti
Busby Berkeley

Tsui Hark

Jimmy Wang Yu

wong kar wai

Shohei Imamura
Nagisa Oshima
Eric Rohmer
Claude Chabrol

Larisa Shepitko

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Peter Greenaway

― Master of Treacle, Thursday, November 9, 2017 11:48 AM (two hours ago)

Good call.

Shinya Tsukamoto
Ken Russell
Quay Brothers
Terry Gilliam
Sogo Ishii
Ideya Garanina
Gyorgy Kovasznai
Chang Cheh
Sammo Hung

Updated again, including the remainder of the TSPDT 250. Total count is 336 now.

Harun Farocki
Straub-Huillet
Christian Petzold
Philip Scheffner
Jean Negulesco
Ryan Trecartin
Ken Loach
Abel Gance
Alain Resnais
D.W. Griffith

Paul Morrissey

Wondering if 50 is enough for the rollout when it comes, instead of 100.

Budd Boetticher

Derek Jarman
Terence Davies
Theo Angelopoulos
Bruno Dumont

Richard Linklater
Bahman Ghobadi
Radley Metzger
Jesus Franco

James Gray
George Miller
Jafar Panahi
Spike Jonze
Leos Carax
Jem Cohen
Asghar Farhadi
Gaspar Noé
Arnaud Desplechin
Don Hertzfeldt

Julio Medem

Henry Hathaway
King Vidor
Mark Sandrich
Tod Browning
Lewis Milestone

Craig R. Baxley

Unless the point was the juxtaposition, not seeing any first-unit director credits here.

Although his stunt and second unit credits are way more plentiful, Baxley does have 33 1st unit director credits on imdb (mostly tv and DTV), but the reason I listed him is from 1988 to 1991, he directed three of my favorite action movies ever: Action Jackson, I Come in Peace, and Stone Cold.

List updated.

Question that goes around in circles forever: I assume "greatest" means your personal favourites, as opposed to some dispassionate attempt to weigh film history (in which case, you may as well just reprint TSPDT's list).

Tougher for me will be whether to vote for who are my favourite right now, or to step back and take a longer view. Specifically, I'm talking about Scorsese, Coppola, De Palma, and other American '70s directors. They made a few films long ago that profoundly affected me, followed by three decades of almost uninterrupted disappointment (to the degree that I stopped being disappointed at some point).

I can't separate greatest from personal favorites, but that's me.

me neither, highly suspicious of any objective 'canon' but obviously there are many artists and works of art that many, many people love

I can. Clair Denis may be my favorite currently working director but I wouldn't call her the greatest. Haneke is truly great for me but inexplicably hated on ILX while being seen as one of the greats or thee great outside of this bubble. \

or maybe I'm reinforcing your point.

ialso "m drunk.

ha

also, I'm drunk.

more than anything it makes lists like these boring

haneke is hated on ilx?

feckin eejits

I can't separate greatest from personal favorites, but that's me.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

I'm exactly the same way. But I know some people perceive them as separable.

Each set informs the other, but they are not identical.

hate-posting a couple of names:

Manoel de Oliveira
Shoaib Shahid Saless

Two more (I am not drunk rn):

Marguerite Duras
Ritwik Ghatak

Point of order: Dr Morbius is literally the only one who hates Haneke on ILX.

Andy Warhol
Rosa von Praunheim

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:31 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jim in vancouver, it's not the best 2500 directors.

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:32 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lol after print warhol

learn to make the greats your favorites

fwiw I like some Haneke films but not the recent sadistic clown shows

i thought the sadistic clown shows figured earlier

i didn't mean the comedic content, which recent MH desperately needs

Funny Games > Amour

Andrzej Zulawski

James Whale
Larry Cohen
George Romero
Peter Weir

Stephen Chow
Jules Dassin
Stuart Gordon
Kenneth Lonergan
Jean Painlevé
Sam Raimi
Edgar Wright
Terry Zwigoff

also, i'm NOT nominating the following as they aren't my favorites, but they aren't on the list yet for people looking to nominate some:
Darren Aronofsky
Brad Bird
Costa-Gavras
Guillermo del Toro
Atom Egoyan
Curtis Hanson
Mary Harron
Ub Iwerks
Abdellatif Kechiche
Masaki Kobayashi
Yorgos Lanthimos
Lewis Milestone
Phil Lord & Christopher Miller
Anthony Minghella
Carl Reiner
John Sayles
Julie Taymor
Denis Villeneuve
Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker

Alexander Korda
Alexander Mackendrick
Claude Jutra
Denys Arcand
Jacques Demy
Jirí Menzel
Juraj Herz
Whit Stillman

Jeremy Saulnier

Joe Dante

List's up to 380.

i'm assuming there'll be ballots of 200 then

(j/k, really)

Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker

eg, these guys would be the first to admit they can't direct traffic.

i mean, hell then:

Jules White
Del Lord

Added:

Abel Ferrara
Martin Arnold
Alan Clarke
Bill Forsyth
John Paizs
Walter Hill
George & Mike Kuchar
Peter Kubelka

Genius:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG6wio8azyE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aem69eSsIus

you've seen too much TV, not enough McCarey-directed silents

Is that right, Mister ... Poopy Pants?

the feeling is mutual!

(and the way Nielsen delivers "Oh, yes, I believe I've used some of your restrooms" would honor McCarey).

Morbs shouldn't be complaining about directors who can't direct -- he nominated bunuel and the director of ishtar.

more Lubitsch/ Sturges xp

:p

go slip on abanana

Richard Kelly

Krzysztof Kieślowski

eg, these guys would be the first to admit they can't direct traffic.

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 November 2017 00:49 (fifteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Traffic was shite and all

A+ Soderburn

George Clooney

Robert Downey Sr.

Jackie Chan
Allan Dwan

5 shy of 400 nominations

Adrian Brunel
Jean Gremillion
Georges Franju
Jan Troell
Rouben Mamoulian

Franju already in there. Added William Lustig to round it out. Here's where we currently stand. Hoping to get to 500 before launching the ballot phase.

Ade, Maren
Akerman, Chantal
Aldrich, Robert
Alea, Tomás Gutiérrez
Allen, Woody
Almodovar, Pedro
Altman, Robert
Anderson, Lindsay
Anderson, Paul Thomas
Anderson, Wes
Andersson, Roy
Angelopoulos, Theo
Anger, Kenneth
Antonioni, Michelangelo
Arcand, Denys
Arden, Jane
Argento, Dario
Arnold, Martin
Ashby, Hal
Assayas, Olivier
Avery, Tex
Badham, John
Baker, Sean
Baxley, Craig R.
Becker, Jacques
Bergman, Ingmar
Berkeley, Busby
Berlanga, Luis García
Bertolucci, Bernardo
Bigelow, Kathryn
Bing, Wang
Blank, Les
Boetticher, Budd
Bogdanovich, Peter
Boorman, John
Borzage, Frank
Boyle, Danny
Brakhage, Stan
Breen, Neil
Bresson, Robert
Brooks, Mel
Browning, Tod
Brunel, Adrian
Bunuel, Luis
Burnett, Charles
Burton, Tim
Cameron, James
Campion, Jane
Capra, Frank
Carax, Leos
Carne, Marcel
Carpenter, John
Cassavetes, John
Chabrol, Claude
Chadha, Gurinder
Chan-wook Park
Chan, Jackie
Chaplin, Charles
Cheh, Chang
Chow, Stephen
Chytilova, Vera
Cimino, Michael
Clair, Rene
Clarke, Alan
Clooney, George
Clouzot, Henri-Georges
Cocteau, Jean
Coen, Joel & Ethan
Cohen, Jem
Cohen, Larry
Columbus, Chris
Conner, Bruce
Cooper, Merian C. & Ernest B. Schoedsack
Coppola, Francis Ford
Coppola, Sofia
Cornell, Joseph
Cosmatos, George P.
Costa, Pedro
Cronenberg, David
Cuarón, Alfonso
Cukor, George
Curtiz, Michael
Dante, Joe
Dardenne, Jean-Luc & Pierre
Dassin, Jules
Davies, Terence
De Palma, Brian
De Sica, Vittorio
Demme, Jonathan
Demy, Jacques
Denis, Claire
Deren, Maya
Desplechin, Arnaud
Donen, Stanley
Donner, Richard
Dovzhenko, Alexander
Downey Sr., Robert
Dreyer, Carl Theodor
Dulac, Germaine
Dumont, Bruno
Dupont, E.A.
Duras, Marguerite
Dutt, Guru
Duvivier, Julian
Dwan, Allan
Eastwood, Clint
Edwards, Blake
Eisenstein, Sergei
Erice, Victor
Eustache, Jean
Farhadi, Asghar
Farocki, Harun
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
Fellini, Federico
Ferrara, Abel
Feuillade, Louis
Feyder, Jacques
Fincher, David
Flaherty, Robert
Fleming, Victor
Ford, John
Forman, Milos
Forsyth, Bill
Fosse, Bob
Franco, Jesus
Franju, Georges
Frankenheimer, John
Friedkin, William
Fukasaku Kinji
Fuller, Samuel
Gance, Abel
Garanina, Ideya
Garrel, Phillippe
Ghatak, Ritwik
Ghobadi, Bahman
Gilliam, Terry
Godard, Jean-Luc
Gondry, Michel
Gordon, Stuart
Gosha Hideo
Gray, James
Green, David Gordon
Greenaway, Peter
Gremillion, Jean
Griffith, D.W.
Guest, Christopher
Guy-Blaché, Alice
Hamer, Robert
Hand, David
Haneke, Michael
Hark, Tsui
Has, Wojciech
Hathaway, Henry
Hawks, Howard
Haynes, Todd
Hellman, Monte
Hertzfeldt, Don
Herz, Juraj
Herz, Juraj
Herzog, Werner
Hill, George Roy
Hill, Walter
Hitchcock, Alfred
Hooper, Tobe
Hsiao-hsien, Hou
Hu, King
Hung, Sammo
Huston, John
Ichikawa Kon
Imamura Shōhei
Ishii Gakuryū
Jackson, Peter
Jarman, Derek
Jarmusch, Jim
Jenkins, Tamara
Jennings, Humphrey
Jires, Jaromil
Jodorowsky, Alejandro
Jones, Chuck
Jonze, Spike
Jutra, Claude
Kaige, Chen
Kalatozov, Mikhael
Kaufman, Charlie
Kaurismäki, Aki
Kazan, Elia
Keaton, Buster
Kelly, Richard
Kerrigan, Lodge
Kiarostami, Abbas
Kieslowski, Krzysztof
Kitano Takeshi
Klimov, Elem
Korda, Alexander
Korine, Harmony
Kovasznai, Gyorgy
Kubelka, Peter
Kubrick, Stanley
Kuchar, George & Mike
Kurosawa Akira
Kusturica, Emir
Landis, John
Lang, Fritz
Lanzmann, Claude
Lassetter, John
Laughton, Charles
Lean, David
Lee, Ang
Lee, Spike
Leigh, Mike
Leone, Sergio
Lester, Richard
Lewis, Herschell Gordon
Lewis, Jerry
Linklater, Richard
Loach, Ken
Lonergan, Kenneth
Lord, Del
Losey, Joseph
Lubitsch, Ernst
Lucas, George
Lumet, Sidney
Lupino, Ida
Lustig, William
Lynch, David
Mackendrick, Alexander
Maddin, Guy
Makhmalbaf, Mohsen
Malick, Terrence
Malle, Louis
Mambéty, Djibril Diop
Mamoulian, Rouben
Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
Mann, Anthony
Mann, Michael
Marker, Chris
May, Elaine
Maysles, Albert & David, and Charlotte Zwerin
Mazursky, Paul
McCarey, Leo
McG
McLaren, Norman
McTiernan, John
Medem, Julio
Melies, Georges
Melville, Jean-Pierre
Menzel, Jirí
Metzger, Radley
Meyer, Russ
Miller, George
Ming-liang, Tsai
Minnelli, Vincente
Miyazaki Hayao
Mizoguchi Kenji
Monteiro, João Cesar
Morissey, Paul
Morris, Errol
Mu, Fei
Mulligan, Robert
Mungiu, Cristian
Murnau, F.W.
Naruse Mikio
Negulesco, Jean
Nichols, Mike
Noé, Gaspar
Nolan, Christopher
Oliveira, Manoel de
Olmi, Ermanno
Ophüls, Marcel
Ophüls, Max
Ōshima Nagisa
Ozu Yasujirō
Pabst, G.W.
Painlevé, Jean
Paizs, John
Pakula, Alan J.
Panahi, Jafar
Parajanov, Sergei
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Peckinpah, Sam
Penn, Arthur
Pennebaker, D.A.
Pereira dos Santos, Nelson
Petzold, Christian
Pialat, Maurice
Polanski, Roman
Pollack, Sydney
Pontecorvo, Gillo
Potter, Sally
Powell, Michael & Emeric Pressburger
Preminger, Otto
Quay, Stephen & Timothy
Raimi, Sam
Ramis, Harold
Ray, Nicholas
Ray, Satyajit
Reed, Carol
Reichart, Kelly
Reiner, Rob
Renoir, Jean
Resnais, Alain
Richter, Hans
Riefenstahl, Leni
Rivette, Jacques
Rocha, Glauber
Roeg, Nicholas
Rohmer, Eric
Romero, George A.
Rosi, Francesco
Rossellini, Roberto
Rouch, Jean
Russell, Ken
Sandrich, Mark
Satoshi Kon
Saulnier, Jeremy
Scheffner, Philip
Schlesinger, John
Schrader, Paul
Scorsese, Martin
Scott, Ridley
Scott, Tony
Sembene, Ousmene
Shahid-Saless, Sohrab
Shepitko, Larisa
Siegel, Don
Sirk, Douglas
Sjöström, Victor
Snow, Michael
Soderbergh, Steven
Sokurov, Aleksandr
Solondz, Todd
Spheeris, Penelope
Spielberg, Steven
Stevens, George
Stillman, Whit
Stone, Oliver
Straub, Jean-Marie & Daniele Huillet
Strickland, Peter
Sturges, Preston
Suzuki Seijun
Svankmajer, Jan
Takahata Isao
Tarantino, Quentin
Tarkovsky, Andrei
Tarr, Bela
Tashlin, Frank
Tati, Jacques
Teshigahara Hiroshi
To, Johnnie
Tornatore, Giuseppe
Tourneur, Jacques
Tourneur, Maurice
Trecartin, Ryan
Troell, Jan
Truffaut, Francois
Tsukamoto Shin'ya
Ulmer, Edgar G.
Van Sant, Gus
Varda, Agnes
Verhoeven, Paul
Vertov, Dziga
Vidor, King
Vigo, Jean
Visconti, Luchino
Von Praunheim, Rosa
Von Sternberg, Josef
Von Stroheim, Erich
Von Trier, Lars
Wachowski, Lana & Lilly
Wajda, Andezej
Walsh, Raoul
Wang, Jimmy
Warhol, Andy
Waters, John
Watkins, Peter
Weber, Lois
Weerasethakul, Apichatpong
Weir, Peter
Welles, Orson
Wellman, William
Wenders, Wim
Whale, James
White, Jules
Wiene, Robert
Wilder, Billy
Winterbottom, Michael
Wise, Robert
Wiseman, Frederick
Wong Kar-wai
Woo, John
Wright, Edgar
Wyler, William
Yang, Edward
Yimou, Zhang
Zanussi, Krzysztof
Zemeckis, Robert
Zhangke Jia
Zinnemann, Fred
Zulawski, Andrzej
Zwigoff, Terry

Pierre Etaix
Roscoe Arbuckle
Phil Rosen
Benjamin Christiansen
Henry King
Raul Ruiz
Alberto Lattuada
Thomas H. Ince
Lowell Sherman
Jean Epstein

Gregory La Cava
Fred Niblo
Alan Crosland
James Parrott
Paul Leni
Albert Rogell
William Beaudine
William Cameron Menzies
Harry O. Hoyt
Mauritz Stiller

Robert Siodmak

The Kuchars really weren't credited with co-directing much of their total oeuvre.

Lav Diaz

Robert Frank
Ken Jacobs
Joan Micklin Silver
John Sturges

Carl Reiner

Mia Hansen-Love
Paolo Sorrentino

Lino Brocka
Oscar Micheaux
Elio Petri
Lina Wertmuller

Barbara Kopple
Nicole Holofcener

Robin Hardy
Ben Wheatley
Michael Reeves

(got a folk horror thing going on there)

Hirokazu Kore-eda
Kiyoshi Kurosawa

jean rollin

andrea arnold

Sacha Guitry
William Klein
Raymond Bernard
Basil Dearden
Mervyn LeRoy

Ben Stiller

noah baumbach

xp morbs, has barbara kopple ever again made a great film after Harlan County? She has nothing listed on imdb between 1976 and 1990... I had the impression that HCUSA was kindof it for her.

She was part of the collective that made Winter Soldier in '72, one of the best Vietnam War-themed docs, and won a second Oscar for American Dream, which I've never seen. I quite like her Woody Allen portrait Wild Man Blues, particularly the nightmarish scene near the end with WA's 90something parents.

But there are dozens of people in this list who didn't make one great film.

(haven't seen her Dixie Chicks, Sharon Jones or Hemingway family docs either)

Peter Kubelka

Listing experimental film-makers is an invitation to the sad lonely vote.

William Dieterle
Karl Freund
Slavko Vorkapich
Roy Del Ruth
Rowland Lee
Tay Garnett
W.S. Van Dyke
Erle C. Kenton
Dorothy Arzner
John Cromwell

If we're listing sad lonely experimental vote grabbers then:

Jeff Keen
Len Lye

we are going to list every director, it seems

Yeah, waiting for someone to nominate Ed Wood so we can get this poll on the road already

Roger Corman

and that isn't sarcastic, I can't believe he wasn't nominated yet

Shirley Clarke
Trinh T. Minh-ha

Lewis Milestone was nominated but isn't on the big list.

Miguel Gomes
João Pedro Rodrigues

Tinto brass

Chi Chi LaRue

head meant to nominate trinh-t

how many votes do we get? cuz even if it's 50, plenty i love will not be on it.

tbh I'll end up voting for people where I know and live one film maybe, it's the nature of the format

Joseph (Joe) Sarno

how many votes do we get? cuz even if it's 50, plenty i love will not be on it.

Was going to say 50, but no reason it can't be more I suppose.

List is up to 472. (Added Milestone; not sure how that missed the cut.)

I don't think more than 50 is a good idea if we're trying to pick la creme (also some voters would struggle to name 50 non-Marvel directors).

how many votes do we get? cuz even if it's 50, plenty i love will not be on it.

I don't think more than 50 is a good idea if we're trying to pick la creme (also some voters would struggle to name 50 non-Marvel directors).

So you're saying you want other people's slots for your ballot.

no.

my point was more "stop nominating people even you are not going to vote for"

I mean harlan county is a p singular film, really shocking the first time you see it.

Haile Gerima

on Morbz logic,
Bush Mama is easily one of my favourite films of all time, even if the couple of others I've seen by him come nowhere close

I saw Bush Mama on my birthday this year.

Oh, I think more than 50 slots would be a fucking awful idea. I'd be more into like 25 or so? But as I tend to say on every nomination thread, I like nominations to be comprehensive so that I have a list I can refer to and go "oh yeah, forgot about that one!" Basically, my memory sucks and I need help.

I am pretty worried that this list is just going to be a crappy retread of other best director lists, and I'm also already having high anxiety about voting for Polanski, which I am definitely going to do but I feel 100% shitty about. To be fair to him I'll probably vote for other shitbags who happen to be less notorious too.

Polanski is likely to be in my top 10. Just a fact.

I'll vote for Polanski only if he happens to die by the time I get around to sending my ballot.

I won't think for a second about what kind of person I'm voting for. I don't know if Polanski (who may or may not be on my list--the old peak value vs. career value question) would be the only one where that's even an issue; most of the people I won't know anything anyway, and I hadn't planned on a James Toback vote. I could see grappling with that if it involved flying someone in to receive a state honour, like the Legion of France, but not with a message-board poll.

(Anyway, that's a personal call--no problem with emily's stance.)

There aren't 50 great directors and there aren't 472 good directors

LGx

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/20/art-monstrous-men/

Does self-harm count?

whut

That's a really good piece imo - that line is a bit weird but makes a little more sense with the context of the concluding paragraphs

yeah i figured i should prevail, it just felt like a super odd interjection

ok yeah it makes a lot more sense toward the end

Still waiting to cross 500 nominations.

Eddie Murphy
Martin McDonagh
Eliza Hittman
Alex Ross Perry
Andrew Haigh
Jordan Peele
Donna Deitch
Matt Porterfield
Safdie Brothers
David Lowery

peak troll achieved

No trolling from me itt. ILXOR.com. i live for this shit

Shane Carruth

Louis Feuillade
Hal Roach

Guillermo del Toro
John Sayles
Julie Taymor
Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker

James W. Horne

Rabbit season

Steve McQueen

Tony Leondis

Fernando Solanas
Thomas Guiterrez
Ursula Biemann
Margaret Dickinson
Lizzie Borden

sorry for any duplicates

René Vautier

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_yiA3-iP3ZK9m6YC1iOthz_ZT2YiwjZ8lLOXYc-Nxf4/

503 nominees. Last chance to add some to the list before I launch the voting/campaigning thread later today.

(I'm only reasonably sure there are no duplicates.)

Probably going to go with 50-slot ballots btw.

psyched!

Better stick Patrick Keiller and Roger Vadim on that shortlist

oh wow, keiller was missing?

Stand by for voting/campaigning thread!

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