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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #120 on: October 28, 2010, 12:02:27 AM »
I feel like I view Madden as a novelty. Interesting but ultimately a bit kitschy to be truly valuable.

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #121 on: October 28, 2010, 05:49:29 AM »
1. I forgot him.

2. I've only seen one of his films, which was one of my criteria. So he wouldn't have made it anyways. LOVE My Winnipeg though.
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #122 on: October 28, 2010, 10:07:39 AM »
Never seen any really is a killer argument, isn't it?
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #123 on: October 28, 2010, 12:55:15 PM »
Here's my list.  I basically asked myself, "If I knew this director was in charge of a film, how likely am I to watch it, just based on that?"  Thus, Woody Allen and Alfred Hitchcock-- excellent directors, both-- won't make my list.  I'm neither more or less likely to watch a film on their names alone.   These are the only directors I can think of that would get me watching their film simply based on their name and what I've already seen of their films.  It also means they have a distinctive style that I recognize and appreciate.

1.   Hayao Miyazaki
2.   Krzysztof Kieslowski
3.   Joel and Ethan Coen
4.   Quentin Tarantino
5.   Akira Kurosawa
6.   Gus Van Sant
7.   Andrew Stanton
8.   Terry Gilliam
9.   Christopher Nolan
10.   James Cameron
11.   Paul Greengrass
12.   Spike Jonze
13.   Roman Polanski
14.   M. Night Shaymalan
15.   Robert Rodriguez
16.   Francis Ford Coppola
17.   Powell and Pressburger
18.   Frank Capra
19.   Richard Linklater
20.   Wong Kar-Wai
21.   Steven Spielberg
22.   Michael Heneke
23.   Charlie Chaplain
24.   Robert Altman
25.   Mira Nair
26.   Howard Hawks
27.   Spike Lee
28.   Fredrico Fellini
29.   Buster Keaton
30.   Billy Wilder
31.   Katheryn Bigalow
32.   Stanley Kubrick
33.   John Lasseter
34.   Tim Burton
35.   Orson Welles
36.   Werner Herzog
37.   David Lynch
38.   Kelly Reichart
39.   Steven Soderbergh
40.   Sergio Leone
41.    Brad Bird
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #124 on: October 28, 2010, 02:09:13 PM »
High Five for Miyazaki! And Kieslowski! Awesome!
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #125 on: October 28, 2010, 03:01:34 PM »
High Five for Miyazaki! And Kieslowski! Awesome!

I only choose them because they are the best   :) ;) :)
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #126 on: October 29, 2010, 09:43:26 PM »
Let me precede my list by saying that it's pretty messy. I'm sure that I'll end up adding/subtracting/shuffling a lot of the directors on the list before I make my official submission. Also, there are a LOT* of directors that I haven't seen any of, or enough of to list, so if my list has any glaring omissions, that's more than likely the reason. They're listed by name, and by the film which I feel is their greatest.

1. Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey

2. Werner Herzog - Little Dieter Needs to Fly

3. Steven Spielberg - Munich

4. Quentin Tarantino - Kill Bill: Volume 1

5. Hayao Miyazaki - Princess Mononoke

6. Paul Thomas Anderson - Punch-Drunk Love

7. Chan-wook Park - Lady Vengeance

8. Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas

9. Steven Soderbergh - Out of Sight

10. Christopher Nolan - Memento

11. Danny Boyle - 28 Days Later

12. Joel & Ethan Coen - The Big Lebowski

13. Spike Lee - 25th Hour

14. Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather

15. Joon-ho Bong - Memories of Murder

16. Spike Jonze - Adaptation

17. Sergio Leone - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

18. Terrence Malick - The New World

19. Sidney Lumet - Dog Day Afternoon

20. Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven

21. Ang Lee - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
22. Alfonso Cuaron - Children of Men
23. Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings trilogy
24. Darren Aronofsky - Requiem for a Dream
25. Guillermo del Toro - Pan's Labyrinth
26. Peter Weir - The Truman Show
27. Akira Kurosawa - High and Low
28. David Cronenberg - Eastern Promises
29. David Fincher - Se7en
30. Terry Gilliam - The Fisher King
31. Gus Van Sant - Good Will Hunting
32. George Lucas - Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
33. Stephen Frears - The Queen
34. Rob Reiner - This is Spinal Tap
35. James Cameron - Terminator 2: Judgement Day
36. David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia
37. Errol Morris - The Thin Blue Line
38. Richard Linklater - Before Sunset
39. Woody Allen - Annie Hall
40. Frank Darabont - The Shawshank Redemption
41. Charlie Kaufman - Synecdoche, New York
42. Paul Greengrass - United 93
43. Cameron Crowe - Vanilla Sky
44. Wong Kar-wai - Chungking Express
45. Ridley Scott - Blade Runner
46. Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump
47. Michel Gondry - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
48. Rian Johnson - Brick
49. Ramin Bahrani - Goodbye Solo
50. Oliver Stone - Born on the Fourth of July


*Kenji Mizoguchi, Takeshi Kitano, Takashi Miike, John Woo, Johnnie To, Michael Haneke, Lars von Trier, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Tati, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Orson Welles, Krzysztof Kieslowski, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Pedro Almodovar, Charles Chaplin, David Lynch, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Jean Renoir, Federico Fellini, Buster Keaton, Milos Forman, Edward Yang, Agnes Varda, F.W. Murnau, Atom Egoyan, Jim Jarmusch, Andrei Tarkovsky, John Carpenter, Yimou Zhang, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul are just a few.

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #127 on: October 29, 2010, 11:21:06 PM »
Just one woman mentioned?

Yes, I am gonna harp on this. No, my own list won't be much better (this year).

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #128 on: October 29, 2010, 11:32:23 PM »
I've got three women on mine, and I'm proud of that.


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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #129 on: October 29, 2010, 11:53:47 PM »
9. Gurinder Chadha
(Bend It Like Beckham, Bride and Prejudice)

13. Andrea Arnold
(Fish Tank, Red Road)

18. Deepa Mehta
(Earth, Fire, Water)

41. Niki Caro
(North Country, Whale Rider)

I've got four but generally the ones that are there are well up the list. There are certainly women with large filmographies but a lot of the best female filmmakers are pretty new to the scene so they just don't have the quantity to overwhelm some of these gray legends.