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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #220 on: December 02, 2010, 10:41:15 PM »
I like how it implicitly suggests that there is no actual reason for any of the other directors to be on the list :)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #221 on: December 02, 2010, 11:34:52 PM »
OK - this was a little rushed - I hope I didn't miss anyone too important.....I am pretty happy with it at the moment ;)

Top 50 Directors   
1   Peter Greenaway
2   Bela Tarr
3   Apichatapong Weerasethakul
4   Krzysztof Kieslowski
5   Hayao Miyazaki
6   David Lynch
7   Jean-Pierre Jeunet
8   Lynne Ramsay
9   Michael Mann
10   Joss Whedon
11   Terrence Malick
12   Bong Joon-ho
13   Stanley Krubrick
14   Werner Herzog
15   Pedro Almodovar
16   Jim Jarmusch
17   Quentin Tarantino
18   Coen Brothers
19   Jane Campion
20   Dardenne brothers
21   Steven Soderbergh
22   Gus van Sant
23   Hou Hsiao-hsien
24   Preston Sturges
25   Kathryn Bigelow
26   Wim Wenders
27   Michel Gondry
28   Billy Wilder
29   Wong Kar-Wai
30   Francois Truffuat
31   Andrei Tarkovsky
32   Akira Kurosawa
33   Tom Tykwer
34   Ang Lee
35   Francis Ford Coppola
36   Roman Polanski
37   Michael Winterbottom
38   John Cameron Mitchell
39   Ridley Scott
40   Rian Johnson
41   James Cameron
42   Danny Boyle
43   Claire Denis
44   Monte Hellman
45   Ingmar Bergman
46   Darren Aronofsky
47   Amy Heckerling
48   Woody Allen
49   Sofia Coppola
50   Kevin Smith


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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #222 on: December 02, 2010, 11:38:53 PM »
I like how Kevin Smith is sneaking on to a lot of lists at 50 or otherwise near the end. It is everyone saying "I really love his films but I'm not sure I can justify putting him higher on directorial talent." Or at least that would be the interpretation based on the discussion after I posted my list with him in the #5 spot.

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #223 on: December 02, 2010, 11:41:33 PM »
I like his films and I am interested in any new films that he puts out, which is why he made my list.
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #224 on: December 02, 2010, 11:49:32 PM »
@Tim
The absence of Hawks and Lewis disturbs, indeed disgusts, me.  :(

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #225 on: December 03, 2010, 03:38:41 AM »
Only saw this thread today, is it too late to submit a list within the next few days?

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #226 on: December 03, 2010, 05:26:59 AM »

@flieger: well this will disgust you even more then - I bumped him off #50 to add Kevin Smith :p

I couldn't leave the director of one the ultimate films ever off my list. I mean when you compare Clerks to Rio Bravo or His Girl Friday - Clerks is the clear winner!!!!

As for Lewis, he only made one good film and he never let anyone watch it! I mean you have seen the nutty professor haven't you.....eeew!


@Bondo: It is Kevin's dialogue that I admire more than his direction - although he is getting better! Sometimes I wonder how his films would go with a different director, such as Joss Whedon.


I just remembered I forgot Jan Švankmajer - who I would probably put around the mid 20s, knocking Mr Smith to 51, and Hawks to 52. Looking at my list I probably would have done a slight reshuffle, but not too much - like Dardennes and Hou Hsiao-hsien both could have been a little higher.  I originally put about 80 names down that I thought were in the elite column, and had to cut back to reach my 50, so there have been a few cuts that were hard to make.

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #227 on: December 03, 2010, 07:43:30 AM »
Only saw this thread today, is it too late to submit a list within the next few days?

Nope, go right ahead.
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #228 on: December 03, 2010, 02:03:24 PM »
Only saw this thread today, is it too late to submit a list within the next few days?

Nope, go right ahead.

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors 2010: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #229 on: December 05, 2010, 07:26:07 AM »
So, final deadline for the ballots is 11th Dec at noon. The results will be announced in chat (and posted on the forum) on Sunday 12th December at 2 PM EST. Put on your party hats and be there!

Also, please check this list and make sure your name is on it if you've sent me a ballot.
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