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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors Countdown : Comments & Discussion
« Reply #60 on: December 13, 2010, 01:32:31 PM »
Thanks for all the hard work guys!

Random thoughts:

* I had Olmi at #30 and Antonioni at #59.

* As people do marathons and such to further investigate these directors, I hope they will update their entries in the "Director's Best" threads.  I may throw together a list of the top 100 with links to their respective threads.

* I'm very pleased that Satyajit Ray (my #2) made it, hopefully next year he'll rank higher.

* Some rankings are surprisingly low.  Besides Satyajit Ray, Bunuel (75), Bresson (76), and Mizoguchi (87) are jumping out at me.

* Picks from my top 30 that didn't make it:
#09 Ming-liang Tsai
#11 Bela Tarr
#12 Ritwik Ghatak
#13 Aki Kaurismaki
#14 Emir Kusturica
#23 Roy Andersson
#24 Anh Hung Tran
#26 Jacques Tati
#27 Alain Resnais
#29 Kon Ichikawa
#30 Ermanno Olmi


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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors Countdown : Comments & Discussion
« Reply #61 on: December 13, 2010, 02:11:58 PM »
I would have voted for Tati, Resnais and Tsai, in that order.

Ray's a victim of the DVD industry, I'm sure.
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors Countdown : Comments & Discussion
« Reply #62 on: December 13, 2010, 02:22:49 PM »
Here's the list with links to the polls:

Hitchcock, Alfred
Kurosawa, Akira
Coen, Ethan and Joel
Kubrick, Stanley
Leone, Sergio
Wilder, Billy
Miyazaki, Hayao
Tarantino, Quentin
Herzog, Werner
Scorsese, Martin
Wong, Kar-Wai
Coppola, Francis Ford
Nolan, Christopher
Spielberg, Steven
Bergman, Ingmar
Welles, Orson
Anderson, Paul Thomas
Kieslowski, Krzysztof
Lynch, David
Malick, Terence
Almodovar. Pedro
Anderson, Wes
Allen, Woody
Powell, Michael & Emeric Pressburger
Chaplin, Charles
Boyle, Danny
Fincher, David
Lumet, Sidney
Hawks, Howard
Ford, John
van Sant, Gus
Soderbergh, Steven
Lean, David
Hou, Hsiao-Hsien
Truffaut, Francois
Godard, Jean-Luc
Denis, Claire
Fellini, Federico
Capra, Frank
Park, Chan-wook
Mann, Michael
Gondry, Michel
Murnau, FW
Cameron, James
Wiseman, Frederick
Polanski, Roman
Renoir, Jean
Ray, Nicholas
Gilliam, Terry
Weerasethakul, Apichatpong
Melville, Jean-Pierre
Altman, Robert
Eastwood, Clint
Keaton, Buster
Lang, Fritz
Cronenberg, David
Scott, Ridley
Ozu, Yasujiro
Sirk, Douglas
del Toro, Guillermo
Aronofsky, Darren
Leigh, Mike
Forman, Milos
Cuaron, Alfonso
Bong, Joon-ho
Jeunet, Jean-Pierre
Huston, John
Dardenne, Jean-Pierre and Luc
Lee, Ang
Linklater, Richard
Wright, Edgar
Jonze, Spike
Jackson, Peter
Stanton, Andrew
Bunuel, Luis
Bresson, Robert
Wenders, Wim
Jarmusch, Jim
Hughes, John
Johnson, Rian
Campion, Jane
Ray, Satyajit
Zhang, Yimou
Bigelow, Kathryn
Greenaway, Peter
Bird, Brad
Mizoguchi, Kenji
Maysles, Albert and David
Lee, Spike
Reiner, Rob
Varda, Agnes
Smith, Kevin
Carpenter, John
Sturges, Preston
Ramsay, Lynne
Yang, Edward
Weir, Peter
Curtiz, Michael
Kon, Satoshi
Jia, Zhangke



chesterfilms needs to update a lot of his polls.  Also, some of these could use polls that are structured like the other "Director's Best" threads.  I might throw those together later, but what we have now should suffice.
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors Countdown : Comments & Discussion
« Reply #63 on: December 13, 2010, 02:25:52 PM »
Preston Sturges - I’m going to pass on Stuges for now.

You should give him a go, he writes fantastic dialogue and his movies are always so much fun.

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors Countdown : Comments & Discussion
« Reply #64 on: December 13, 2010, 02:26:51 PM »
Preston Sturges - I’m going to pass on Stuges for now.

You should give him a go, he writes fantastic dialogue and his movies are always so much fun.

Doesn't really seem like my style (old) :-\

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors Countdown : Comments & Discussion
« Reply #65 on: December 13, 2010, 02:34:44 PM »
Preston Sturges - I’m going to pass on Stuges for now.

You should give him a go, he writes fantastic dialogue and his movies are always so much fun.

Doesn't really seem like my style (old) :-\

Well, I know you like QT, and I've been of the mind for a while that QT writes dialogue that he wishes was anywhere near as smart as Sturges', if that does anything for you. I'd say to give The Palm Beach Story a go, it's one of his greats, it's super on the dialogue and it's short, so if you don't like it then it won't take up too much of your time.

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors Countdown : Comments & Discussion
« Reply #66 on: December 13, 2010, 02:35:58 PM »
@ smirnoff: You asked if we thought you would like Morvern Callar. I have to say no, I honestly don't think you would. It's more meandering, contemplative and mood-oriented than the films you usually go for.


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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors Countdown : Comments & Discussion
« Reply #67 on: December 13, 2010, 02:38:18 PM »
Thanks for the linked list, MartinTeller! This is really helpful.

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors Countdown : Comments & Discussion
« Reply #68 on: December 13, 2010, 02:44:33 PM »
@Smirnoff: Having seen two of Sturges films I'd say skip it. Sturges does insubstantial witty banter, QT builds his banter into substance.

Also, I'd pass on Morvern, though would recommend Ratcatcher if you haven't seen that and are keen to check out a Ramsey film.

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Directors Countdown : Comments & Discussion
« Reply #69 on: December 13, 2010, 02:46:06 PM »
Sturges does insubstantial witty banter, QT builds his banter into substance.

 :D It's awesome that people think that.

 

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