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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #170 on: November 08, 2010, 01:39:19 PM »
Some of us just have more confidence in our inexperienced opinions than others.

The way I figure it, whatever mistakes I make will be balanced out by the masses of other wiser filmspotters than I.  I am just one small vote among the hordes.  Democracy in action!  :)
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #171 on: November 08, 2010, 04:27:32 PM »
I should do this, but I don't know when I will find the time. Was gonna do it this evening, but I've got two things going on back to back.

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #172 on: November 08, 2010, 05:22:57 PM »
okay. i do have til the end of the month.
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #173 on: November 11, 2010, 12:45:42 PM »
okay. i do have til the end of the month.

Excellent and yes

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #174 on: November 11, 2010, 02:17:30 PM »
Here is what I got.

1. Terrence Malick (The New World, The Thin Red Line, Days of Heaven)
2. Steven Spielberg (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Saving Private Ryan, The Terminal)
3. Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona)
4. Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window, North by Northwest, Vertigo)
5. Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Elephant, Milk)
6. Billy Wilder (The Apartment, Sunset Blvd., Some Like it Hot)
7. Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Ocean’s Eleven, The Girlfriend Experience)
8. Coen Brothers (A Serious Man, No Country for Old Men, Miller’s Crossing)
9. Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future, Cast Away)
10. Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now, The Godfather Part II, The Godfather)
11. Rob Reiner (Stand By Me, When Harry Met Sally…, The Princess Bride)
12. Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love)
13. Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, Rachel Getting Married)
14. Christopher Nolan (Inception, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight)
15. David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, A Passage to India)
16. Woody Allen (Annie Hall, Manhattan, Vicky Christina Barcelona)
17. Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire, Elizabethtown)
18. Martin Scorsese (The Departed, The Aviator, Gangs of New York)
19. David Gordon Green (All the Real Girls, Pineapple Express, Snow Angels)
20. Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, The Soloist)
21. Peter Weir (The Truman Show, Dead Poet’s Society, Master and Commander)
22. Rian Johnson (The Brothers Bloom, Brick)
23. Wolfgang Reitherman (Robin Hood, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Jungle Book)
24. John Hughes (The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Uncle Buck)
25. Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, A Perfect World)
26. Marc Forster (Stranger Than Fiction, Finding Neverland, Quantum of Solace)
27. Ron Clements & John Musker (Aladdin, The Great Mouse Detective, The Princess and the Frog)
28. Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Matchstick Men, Black Hawk Down)
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #175 on: November 11, 2010, 02:21:22 PM »
You see?  That wasn't so hard.  And what an excellent list!
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #176 on: November 11, 2010, 06:11:33 PM »
Great list corndog, I especially like seeing Gus Van Sant and Wilder so close to the top (watch Ace in the Hole if you haven't already as well as GVS's early stuff).  David Lean is also vastly underrated around these waters, and seeing Bergman is always a pleasure.  Unfortunately you did get some Zemeckis and Soderbergh on your list, try to wash them off.
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #177 on: November 14, 2010, 05:29:48 AM »
Nice list Corndog, yeah Peter Weir.

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #178 on: November 23, 2010, 11:58:29 AM »
Just sent in my list.  I'll fix this up and make it pretty when I have the time.  Would like to do short write-ups for each as well. The directors' sensibilities and my affinity with them outweighed how many great films they made which is why, for example, Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin rank so high.  I just love the modest and quotidian feel of their lovely photographed stories that ooze incredible warmth for the characters.  Also, style factored in more than the number of great films which is why Koreeda ranked low (despite my love for Distance and Nobody Knows, I'm not a fan of the handheld camerawork) and Jancso ranked higher than Koreeda because of my love for the former's visual aesthetic even though with the exception of The Round-Up, I'd chose the best Koreeda to watch over the best Jancso most days.  My fave for each is in parentheses.  For most, it was difficult to chose just one, but chose only one, I did

1. Jean Renoir (The Rules of the Game)
2. Frederick Wiseman (Welfare)
3. Claire Denis (Vendredi soir)
4. Terence Davies (The Long Day Closes)
5. Krzysztof Kieslowski (The Decalogue)
6. Chris Marker (La jetee)
7. Yasujiro Ozu (Early Summer)
8. Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin (Lovers and Lollipops)
9. Milos Forman (Black Peter)
10. Hou Hsiao-hsien (Café Lumiere)
11. Ermanno Olmi (I Fidanzati)
12. Albert and David Maysles (Gimme Shelter)
13. Kim Longinotto (Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go)
14. Allan King (A Married Couple)
15. Agnes Varda (Jacquot de Nantes)
16. Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather Part 2)
17. Miklos Jancso (The Round-Up)
18. Hal Hartley (Surviving Desire)
19. Jacques Tati (Mon Oncle)
20. Bill Forsyth (Gregory’s Girl)
21. Hirokazu Koreeda (Still Walking)
22. Edward Yang (A Brighter Summer Day)
23. Eric Rohmer (My Night at Maud's)
24. Howard Hawks (Rio Bravo)
25. Wong Kar-wai (Happy Together)
26. Wim Wenders (Kings of the Road)
27. Aki Kaurismaki (Drifting Clouds)
28. Alfred Hitchcock (Shadow of a Doubt)
29. Masaki Kobayashi (Harakiri)
30. Masahiro Shinoda (Pale Flower)
31. Max Ophuls (La Ronde)
32. Akira Kurosawa (Red Beard)
33. Elaine May (A New Leaf)
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #179 on: November 23, 2010, 12:20:33 PM »
And who are these people again?
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