Choose Only One: Pantheon Directors

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Here are the list of 'Pantheon Directors' in the 1968 paperback edition of 'The American Cinema' by Andrew Sarris. Please pick your favourite.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Alfred Hitchcock	7
Howard Hawks	5
Buster Keaton	4
Fritz Lang	4
Josef Von Sternberg	3
Orson Welles	3
Jean Renoir	2
John Ford	1
Ernst Lubitsch	1
F. W. Murnau	1
Max Ophuls	0
Charles Chaplin	0
D. W. Griffith	0
Robert Flaherty	0
'Charlton Heston is an axiom of the cinema'	0

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 17:53 (fifteen years ago)

What is that last comment even about.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 17:54 (fifteen years ago)

This was tough but I went with Renoir.

― Marcus Brody Ta-Dow! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 17:57 (fifteen years ago)

"Charlton Heston is an axiom" is a quote from a notorious Michel Mourlet article in 1960 issue of Cahiers. It's the quintessential example of MacMahonism, the late 1950s French film cult that praised Hollywood trash and butch actors/directors. Mourlet's essay is the hetero version of Jack Smith's paean to Maria Montez. Big influence on the French New Wave.

Ford for me although Sirk and Preminger cut him in my book.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 18:10 (fifteen years ago)

ophuls or lang

― J0rd D. (velko), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 18:19 (fifteen years ago)

Hitch for me - Flaherty seems to be the least convincing

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 18:26 (fifteen years ago)

Von Sternberg.

― bad crack (Eric H.), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 18:31 (fifteen years ago)

it was good in back to the future when they went back to the wild west. marty mcfly pretended to be clint eastwood and they made fun of his name. i laughed A LOT.

― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 18:34 (fifteen years ago)

Howard Hawks is the most versatile and has the most good movies of the lot.

― The Perfect Weapon 2, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:22 (fifteen years ago)

Agreed. Howard Hawks for me too.

― Number None, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:55 (fifteen years ago)

Hitch, easy. Then Lang.

― Raekwon Parlour (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 19:02 (fifteen years ago)

http://img17.photobucket.com/albums/v51/pogmo/BusterKeaton_2.jpg

― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 19:57 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 19 July 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

the best movie any of these dudes made was The Magnificent Ambersons, so I'll vote welles.

― ryan, Sunday, 19 July 2009 23:26 (fifteen years ago)

this is undeniably difficult.

but since i am one of those Hitch obsesseives who knows everything about him and reads Slavoj Zizek books on him and etc etc, i voted Hitch.

― gonna be a long hot summer for the MS Word paperclip (the table is the table), Sunday, 19 July 2009 23:29 (fifteen years ago)

Jean Renoir. Although I haven't seen enough of many of these directors films to really be any sort of judge.

― De Mysteriis Dom Passantino (jim), Sunday, 19 July 2009 23:31 (fifteen years ago)

Keaton.

― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 19 July 2009 23:43 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 20 July 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://pmcmovieline.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/director_stamps.jpg

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:56 (thirteen years ago)

I still have some '90s Hitchcock stamps lying around.

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:20 (thirteen years ago)

wd bang Claudette Colbert like a tin drum

― ahhhhhhh shit here comes the motherfuckin thread cops (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:46 (thirteen years ago)

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