Favorite director from these selected coasters

how many of these directors have been 'coasting' during their last few movies!!

Stanley Kubrick. That caricature is <3

Wait. Am I voting aesthetically on the coaster-representation of the director, or my favorite director from the selection shown?

Ugh.

I'm overthinking this aren't I.

oh..i guess i didn't think it through. i'm going to go ahead and defer to the ol' standby

follow your heart

I interpreted this just like the second poster--I thought it was going to be a bunch of directors on auto-pilot. Like...well, I don't know; Scorsese is the first name that comes to mind, but he does try. Strangely enough, there was just a Coasters poll on ILM. How can I buy these? They're great.

Was just thinking what a nice Christmas gift these would make ... and then I saw the selection. I guess there's probably not much call to rest your beer on a cartoon picture of Josef Von Sternberg or Jean Renoir or Russ Meyer.

Pricey too.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/57664377/set-of-8-coasters-build-your-own

i'd say go for the one most in need of a coaster but i don't think any of these are boozers.

"Sized to accomodate an entire bottle of Coppola Diamond Zinfandel."

$96!? I bet Merv Griffin didn't even spend that much on coasters.

surprised to not see polanski, lynch or spielberg

Polanski's in there, I think.

nope

hate to be negative but this is a very boring list of directors

~favorite directors series~

Choose any 8 Directors:
Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Quentin Tarantino, Spike Jonze, Paul Thomas Anderson, Steven Soderbergh, Noah Baumbach, Wes Anderson, Coen brothers, Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch, tim burton, francis ford coppola, roman polanski, sofia coppola, Steven Spielberg, Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Louis Malle, Claude Chabrol, Terry Gilliam, Brian Depalma, Clint Eastwood, Kathryn Bigelow, Gus Van Sant, David Lynch

these are the greatest 16 directors in the UNIVERSE!

dangit, wish I would have seen the full list. I just saw an image off of tumblr and ran with it :-/

would be a lot more fun if there was a Vincent Gallo coaster.

portraits are pretty cool, aside from quibbles with the list.

no ron howard, no credibility, goddamnit

cassavetes ffs

Now that I see I could buy a set of four and make it:

Polanski
Godard
De Palma
Lynch

I'm almost considering it.

But srsly, Kubrick on this coaster looks like a Rocky & Bullwinkle villain. Pretty great IMO

I would buy a set of Kubricks. Maybe a set of Coens too.

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stanley, woody, spike, joel & ethan, steven, most of the frenches

maybe quentin cuz his chin is funny. on the other hand, he is him.

is "sam" raimi? where lynch and van sant at??

Jarmusch hair not tall enough

Wouldn't risk leaving an unattended drink on a Polanski coaster.

cant believe this is the new canon. Disgusted once again at ilx's narrow scope.

think pta would be most fun to bro out with

Clint or Jarmusch wd probably be amenable dudes

forever godard

first names only is crazy twee

vs. having a set of coasters with your favorite directors on them

twee-on-twee [via autechre]

Speaking of twee, there should be a separate set of four for the really hard drinkers (or at least who gave the impression of being a really hard drinker): Peckinpah, Fuller, Aldrich, Siegel. Peckinpah should get a set of coasters all to himself.

best coasters

also nick ray

think anthony asquith actually died of drink

Cassavetes died from cirrhosis of the liver

yeah but he never made a Hobbit flick so fuck him

Voted Paul Thomas Anderson, on the basis of until I squinted real hard at the cursive, I thought he was Johnny Knoxville.

Useless namedroppish trivia - my little sister dated Louis Malle's son in sixth grade

no apichatpong no credibility

coaster, not place-mat #racism

I like Scorsese's earring.

tried to find the clip from The Life Aquatic to go with that, but Youtube let me down.

coaster, not place-mat #racism

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im of fan of noah baumbach, i voted him.

cant believe this is the new canon. Disgusted once again at ilx's narrow scope.

― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Wednesday, December 1, 2010 4:49 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

your ire would probably be better directed at whoever is making and selling these things

lol.

srsly noah fuckin baumbach out of that lot

ozu was a drunk btw, tho i imagine him to be a rly chill, nonsocial sort of drunk

Useless namedroppish trivia - my little sister dated Louis Malle's son in sixth grade

― Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 14:12 (6 hours ago)

that's a coincidence, i post to a message board where one contributor's little sister dated louis malle's son in sixth grade

/suzy

shit son u cant do that

srsly noah fuckin baumbach out of that lot

I love [i]The Squid & the Whale</i? too, but isn't that a touch harsh? There are a lot of good films that came out of "that lot"--you make them sound like Ron Reiner & the Seven Dwarves.

think u might've misunterstood.....

Okay--so Baumbach's terrible? Gotta majorly disagree, if that's what you meant.

/cant believe this is the new canon. Disgusted once again at ilx's narrow scope.

― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Wednesday, December 1, 2010 4:49 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark/

your ire would probably be better directed at whoever is making and selling these things

Nah, don't worry, I can take the heat. These are my very 16 favorite directors of all time, and when I saw that by chance someone had made coaster caricatures of all and were selling them as a set, I knew I had to make a poll. And of course, any list I post simultaneously becomes ilx canon (an authority codified in the recently passed ILX Accord of 21st Century tastemakers - it was ratified on COGH so I assume everyone saw it). Now I'm off to come up with a new canon and look for appropriate coasters

Water cannon might be effective imo

clemenza, you takin' this too seriously.

and you misread him.

wait, is this supposed to be the canon of movie directors or the canon of beverage coasters?

the tarantino one is like an anti-caricature. i guess if you're face is already kind of a caricature...

your

clemenza, you takin' this too seriously

1. surprised to not see polanski, lynch or spielberg

2. hate to be negative but this is a very boring list of directors

3. where lynch and van sant at??

4. cant believe this is the new canon. Disgusted once again at ilx's narrow scope

5. srsly noah fuckin baumbach out of that lot

6. so Baumbach's terrible? Gotta majorly disagree, if that's what you meant.

Yeah--clearly my comment comes from way out of left field.

you're the only one who paid attention to other respondents

if yr beyond solipsism, yr taking ilx too seriously ;)

When you phrase it that way, point taken.

nakhchivan sounds like he was defending Baumbach, but whatevs

fwiw i don't think baumbach is that terrible, but he's no godard/kubrick/etc

nakhchivan sounds like he was defending Baumbach, but whatevs

Not to get bogged down in the world's least consequential argument, but that's what I initially thought too--until nakhchivan himself corrected me.

Does Wes Anderson look like Dana Scully in real life?

no

canon

as in u canont be srs

poorly-shaven dudes who look like they'd be found loitering at starbucks in a wool hat on saturday morning: fuck them

agreed — I'm not getting enough tail as it is.

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judging by godard's pose there he's sitting in starbucks drinking tepid caffeinated syrup and reading contenderizer zings on his laptop

'claude' looks like gore vidal

true

Is it like, a law that film directors have to be overweight schlubs with beards, or something.

I mean look at Sofia Coppola, geez.

The best likenesses, for me, are Spike, Soderbergh, and Eastwood; a number of others are fairly close. The worst by far is Truffaut--unless I just don't have a mental picture of what he looked like towards the end.

funniest are claude chabrol and stanley kubrick. would dedicate huge cubicle/fridge space to a daily comic strip about them and maybe a cat.

xp to ZS: sorry dude, I didn't realize this was your own personal list! :|

I like Truffaut's forehead wrinkles

Featuring David Cross as Jean-Luc Godard.

Jarmusch's caricature qualifies as man who looks like old lesbian. Pouty lips!

I'm actually pretty down with this whole list, tbqh.

xp to ZS: sorry dude, I didn't realize this was your own personal list! :|

Oh, it's not! I was just trying to be a smartass and make a funny and failed. Lol Internet :)

you didn't fail, you succeeded too much

That is potentially a great way to reframe my long history of miserable failure!

fwiw i am riffing on previous 'omg who decided this is canon' spats and i too am obviously failing in that ;_;

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