Favorite Directors Poll (DEADLINE: August 30, 2009)

[Ally]

It's been over a year since we've compiled our top directors here at TLC. Let's do it again!

Deadline: August 30, 2009

How to Participate:
Name your top ten directors (they will get three points each)
Name your top directors, 11-20 (they will get two points each).
Then name honorable mentions (21-30). They will get one point each.
You may list as many directors as you wish. Please see rules below

Rules: 1) first and last names please. If you write "Anderson", well is it Wes or P.T. or even Roy's name misspelled?
2) you don't have to number your picks, but they must be in different tiers, in sets of tens.
3) there is no minimum. you can list only one if you like. There is no maximum, however, everything over 30 will be awarded miniscule points: 31-40 = .5, 41-50 = .25, 51-? = .05 (so eat your heart out)

See list for ideas of what directors are out there (just in case you forgot one of your favorites).
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1149

Received lists from:
wigwam
Cypheron
dontdigonswine
David
Nadafingah
C Henrik Bæckström
Waxy
Lauren
Chaco http://www.vicious-trollop.com/userforu ... 1808#p1808 (deep apologies for sending you a harassment letter, I'm sorry :oops: )
Aesthete (maybe he'll add Garrel)
roujin
sidehacker
Ally (me)
:DG:
PimpPanda
bluesoul
Will
stefan
drone
InHuman (harass him to make a bigger list)
Rorschach
ThisisMattStokes
Jewellrunner
Jos
Hsiao-Hsien
Eddie Yang
rxy (major revision)
doormouse
snb
Mikadzuki
Olof
TRM
Sophie
nickplowman (by PM)
Kristina (by PM)
VivaLuis (by PM)
zograf
Ryan
Phil
moon
immy_anga
badering
agentknight
Z
akujin
Ben
Passenger
Philosophe_rouge
lucky
cloak
Troville90
Benny Profane
Infenso
CoinQuatro
Sarajevo
james
Mr. Mxyzptlk
kenji
sardis
Sean P

Wall of Shame (please send your lists or else):
stack
Ally (for sending chaco a Harassment letter when he submitted an approved list)

(You may edit the list at anytime through August 30th. This is just to note who submitted a list, so yours won't get lost in the shuffle.)

[Janne Frank's Diary]

Good idea.

[Ally]

yay

[wigwam]

and im just thinking today about announcing July as my abandonment of auteurism and return to my pre-film school procedures of only watching movies based on performers

well, if it's my last hurrah, then to these folks:

Godard
von Trier
Fassbinder
Andrej Zulawski
Ming-Liang Tsai
Stephen Dwoskin
Luis Bunuel
Vincent Minelli
Sammo Hung
Pedro Almodovar

Hal Hartley
Derek Jarman
David Lynch
Julian Schnabel
Joao Caesar Monteiro
Sergio Martino
Frederick Wiseman
Ross McElwee
Bill Brown
Otto Preminger

Alain Resnais
Satyijat Ray
Kenji Mizoguchi
Max Ophuls
Michael Haneke
Lukas Moodysson
Bob Fosse
Elaine May
Todd Solondz
Gus Van Sant

Bresson, Maddin, and Stillman removed 8/13 for Preminger, Ophuls and Mizoguchi

[Ally]

next up is actors, wigwam. That is up next. I never finished the consensus thing on the actors. Oh well. I'm hoping to make a new list before computing the scores for the actors or whatever.

[InHuman]

30th August means I have time to revisit some, which is good.

[CypheroN]

(There will be changes)

1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Sergio Leone
4. Akira Kurosawa
5. Francis Ford Coppola
6. Andrei Tarkovsky
7. David Lynch
8. Martin Scorsese
9. Charles Chaplin
10. Fritz Lang
11. Ingmar Bergman
12. Steven Spielberg
13. Darren Aronofsky
14. John Ford
15. Buster Keaton

To be continiued... (and yes, i know the list is pretty boring, but its the truth)

[Ally]

30th August means I have time to revisit some, which is good.

it also means if I don't have everyone's list, I will be harassing people starting August 10.

[dontdigonswine]

1. Michelangelo Antonioni
2. Wong Kar-Wai
3. Jim Jarmusch
4. Luis Bunuel
5. John Cassavetes
6. Krzysztof Kieslowski
7. Andrei Tarkovsky
8. Robert Bresson
9. Gus Van Sant
10. Steven Soderbergh
11. Federico Fellini
12. Alain Resnais
13. David Cronenberg
14. Chris Marker
15. Billy Wilder
16. Charlie Chaplin
17. Roman Polanski
18. The Coen brothers
19. Guy Maddin
20. Hiroshi Teshigahara
21. Richard Linklater
22. Orson Welles

Can't think of anything else right now

[Ally]

Thank you for your lists guys!
You know who you are
(wigwam
Cypheron
dontdigonswine)

I'm considering having the first five lists weighted so they'll count more (1.10% as much)

just kidding!!! But the next two people are welcome to post

don't forget that you can edit your list anytime between now and the deadline and you don't have to notify anyone as the lists won't be counted till the very end. Thanks, y'all.

[Lauren]

YES YES YES more lists!

This is sooo going to steal YC-wrapup thunder however

They will be interesting to compare. Let me wager a bet right now that the director who won YC won't quite make the top 20 here.

[Ally]

shoot, I am a BITCH!!! NO NO NO NO NO. isn't July 1st the deadline for YC? the director's thing won't be until the end of August (aka September 2ndish). but you're right. I'll check the big yummy projects going on next time before I post first. this is so overdue, tho.

[wigwam]

uh, im pretty certain that my calculations are correct and Whit Stillman won YC, k thnx

[Ally]

who???

[David]

Not much change since last time I guess, with the exception of Maddin moving up a lot:

Top tier:

Jean-Luc Godard
John Cassavetes
Ingmar Bergman
Guy Maddin
Jacques Tati
Federico Fellini
Bernardo Bertolucci
Ermanno Olmi
Woody Allen
Rainer Werner Fassbinder


2nd tier:

Jean Vigo
Aki Kaurismäki
Charles Chaplin
Luis Buñuel
Paul Thomas Anderson
Michel Gondry
Nicolas Roeg
Andrei Tarkovsky
Michelangelo Antonioni
Alain Resnais

Honorable mention (3rd tier):

Wong Kar-Wai
Yasujiro Ozu
Wim Wenders
Jan Nemec
Robert Altman
Michael Haneke
Werner Herzog
Alain Tanner
Pedro Almodóvar
Emir Kusturica

[Lauren]

shoot, I am a BITCH!!! NO NO NO NO NO. isn't July 1st the deadline for YC? the director's thing won't be until the end of August (aka September 2ndish). but you're right. I'll check the big yummy projects going on next time before I post first. this is so overdue, tho.

npp, there should be a massive list project every month! Every week, natch!

[CypheroN]

Thank you for your lists guys!
You know who you are
(wigwam
Cypheron
dontdigonswine)

I'm considering having the first five lists weighted so they'll count more (1.10% as much)

just kidding!!! But the next two people are welcome to post

don't forget that you can edit your list anytime between now and the deadline and you don't have to notify anyone as the lists won't be counted till the very end. Thanks, y'all.

[Nadafingah]

I'm sure I'll end up changing it toward the bottom, but here goes:

Top 10

1. Jean Renoir
2. Akira Kurosawa
3. Ingmar Bergman
4. Orson Welles
5. Robert Altman
6. Luis Bunuel
7. Yasujiro Ozu
8. Wong Kar Wai
9. Michaelangelo Antonioni
10. Werner Herzog

Top Directors

11. Claude Chabrol
12. Howard Hawks
13. Alfred Hitchcock
14. Buster Keaton
15. Jean Luc Godard
16. F W Murnau
17. Max Ophuls
18. Maurice Pialat
19. Krzysztof Kieslowski
20. Jean Vigo

Honorable Mentions

21. Woody Allen
22. Mike Leigh
23. Jean Pierre Melville
24. Bernard Tavernier
25. Guy Maddin
26. Paul Thomas Anderson
27. Ernst Lubitsch
28. Kon Ichikawa
29. Andrzej Wajda
30. Shohei Imamura

31. Quentin Tarantino
32. Nagisha Oshima
33. Zhang Yimou
34. James Whale
35. Gus Van Sant
36. Kenji Mizoguchi
37. Arthur Penn
38. David Cronenberg
39. Fritz Lang
40. Chris Marker
41. Josef von Sternberg
42. Alain Resnais
43. Francois Truffaut
44. David Lynch
45. Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger
46. Sergei Eisenstein
47. Anthony Mann
48. Jan Svankmeyer
49. Tex Avery
50. Steven Soderbergh

[stack]

nevermind

[warthog]

I find rating directors very hard, i prefer to rate movies.

[scarecrow]

[Bæckström]

Ingmar Bergman
Stanley Kubrick
Charles Chaplin
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Alfred Hitchcock
Roy Andersson
Andrej Tarkovskij
Lars von Trier
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Tage Danielsson

Michael Haneke
Zhang Yimou
Billy Wilder
Sergio Leone
Jan Troell
P.T Anderson
Jim Sheridan
F.W Murnau
Francis Ford Coppola
Vittorio De Sica

[Waxy]

1-10
Andrei Tarkovsky
Ingmar Bergman
Sergio Leone
Luis Buñuel
Akira Kurosawa
Charles Chaplin
Wong Kar Wai
Stanley Kubrick
Steven Spielberg
Alfred Hitchcock

11-20
Terrence Malick
Werner Herzog
Fritz Lang
Francis Ford Coppola
Satyajit Ray
William Wyler
Orson Welles
Kim Ki Duk
Christopher Nolan
Takeshi Kitano

21-30
Paul Greengrass
Lars Von Trier
Darren Aronofsky
Michael Gondry
Michael Mann
Woody Allen
Fabián Bielinsky
Paul Thomas Anderson
Miloš Forman
Tim Burton

[CypheroN]

I find rating directors very hard, i prefer to rate movies.

agreed.

[Lauren]

I find rating directors very easy.

1-10
Pedro Almodovar
Michelangelo Antonioni
John Cassavetes
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Jean-Luc Godard
Ernst Lubitsch
Max Ophuls
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
Alain Resnais
Jacques Rivette

11-20
Woody Allen
Robert Altman
Frank Borzage
Claude Chabrol
Michael Haneke
Jean Renoir
Eric Rohmer
Preston Sturges
Agnes Varda
William Wellman

21-30
Ingmar Bergman
Jacques Demy
Germaine Dulac
Julien Duvivier
Leo McCarey
Nicholas Ray
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Josef Von Sternberg
Billy Wilder
Andrzej Zulawski

31-40
Dorothy Arzner
John Huston
David Lean
Joseph Losey
Rouben Mamoulian
FW Murnau
Maurice Pialat
Carlos Saura
Bertrand Tavernier
William Wyler

41-50
Lindsay Anderson
Wes Anderson
Frank Capra
George Cukor
Gregory La Cava
Howard Hawks
Alfred Hitchcock
Louis Malle
Yasujiro Ozu
Francois Truffaut