everything counts! so we either need one more person with 10+ assayas, or two more with 8+, and then he'll be our next poll.

this is up at letterboxd:

https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list ... s-poll-91/

the renoir poll is up at letterboxd:

https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list ... s-poll-90/

do you have 10+ assayas, dt? if kanafani has 13, and you have 10, he'll almost certainly be fine, but let's check to be sure - if anyone else has seen 8+ assayas films, please post here. i've seen just two.

L'Argent
Mouchette
Pickpocket
Lancelot du Lac
The Devil, Probably

seen ten, hard to choose five, my list would probably look completely different if i made it tomorrow

Polling the films of director Robert Bresson The rules: - your list can include no more than half of the Bresson films you've seen, up to a maximum of 5. So if you've seen seven of his films, for example, you can list only a top 3. It's only if you've seen ten or more of his films than you can list ...

of the directors mentioned so far, these are the ones for whom i have 8+ views: walerian borowczyk (13) charlie chaplin (20+) shohei imamura (10) michael mann (8) william wellman (11) takashi miike (40) stanley kubrick (11) robert siodmak (12) andrei tarkovsky (8) raoul walsh (9) otto preminger (11)...

1. rischka - 3 landscapes
2. rischka - j'accuse
3. rischka - the unlabeled one on page 2

i noticed it's already happened once in our polls, with budd boetticher, though his output got very sparse in his last twenty years of filmmaking. i wonder if someone like phil karlson (who only worked for 30 years) might also produce similar results with his mid-50s work, and there might be other u...

yeah i have 10 bresson, he won't be a problem - bresson will be our next poll!

rischka can pick our next director, and if she doesn't want to again this round, then bure can choose

interestingly, all of the top five were made in the five year period from 1962-1966, even though frankenheimer made films for more than 40 years. i wonder if there are any other prolific directors whose 'best' (by our polling anyway) work was concentrated in such a short window: results 1. Seconds (...

Platinum Blonde
It Happened One Night
The Power of the Press
Arsenic and Old Lace
It's a Wonderful Life


seen 13

good choice for xmas time - if wba wanted to nominate someone, i'll let him 'jump the line' any time. the capra poll is up!

Polling the films of director Frank Capra The rules: - your list can include no more than half of the Capra films you've seen, up to a maximum of 5. So if you've seen seven of his films, for example, you can list only a top 3. It's only if you've seen ten or more of his films than you can list the m...

don't forget we did this already once before, when we did the usa country poll in 2015: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/the_auteurs/scfz-39-s-100-greatest-american-films-2015-t902.html we did top 100 ballots for that, so anyone who posted a ballot there should be able to post something here fairly q...

wba - if you want to start a separate thread for people to check which directors have enough views for our polls, feel free, i'll participate. it doesn't seem that oshii or nakahira have enough views for a poll. so we need a nomination - i'll take another nomination from wba, or from greg x who post...

good to see you again roger!

Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami) Satantango (Bela Tarr) Exotica (Atom Egoyan) Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai) Rouge (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Michael Haneke) The Silences of the Palace (Moufida Tlatli) Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino) The Kingdom (Lars...

i don't care for their list, about as bland a list as you could come up with. i decided only to include films the afi might have considered, so i excluded experimental and short film: Broken Blossoms (DW Griffith, 1919) Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton/John Blystone, 1923) Sherlock Jr (Buster Keaton, ...

posted this already on tapatalk, but pasting it here in case it's helpful: Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz) Fish and Cat (Shahram Mokri) How I Live Now (Kevin MacDonald) A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke) Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) The Past (Asghar Farhadi) The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorse...

yeah i was sort of backtracking on what i said in my earlier post, we could keep these going for a while if we wanted to. so far, sometimes we just get a few ballots posted, and, especially when a director has only a few famous films, the predictable things win, but other times we get a lot of discu...

well, if we wanted to, i think we could probably get close to 200. just off the top of my head i came up with 36 directors who would probably work, though whether we want to poll some of these guys is debatable (some of them are the more reviled directors around these parts). but there are surely lo...

kind of think neither poll is interesting; favorites will dominate and more interesting films won't even show. why bother? neither, meaning frankenheimer and oshii? i said early on that i'd do these polls as long as people were interested in them. when people aren't, i'll stop, and maybe now that w...

maybe we should check mamoru oshii has enough viewership for a poll - i've seen zero

Black Sunday
Andersonville
Seconds
Forbidden Area
French Connection II


seen 21

starting up the director polls again, i'm assuming frankenheimer will have enough views. we're starting nominations from a clean slate, so if you post the first ballot in this thread, feel free to pick our next director (or if you don't want to, please mention that so the next person can choose)

Polling the films of director John Frankenheimer The rules: - your list can include no more than half of the Frankenheimer films you've seen, up to a maximum of 5. So if you've seen seven of his films, for example, you can list only a top 3. It's only if you've seen ten or more of his films than you...

looks cool tho i think it would be better to leave the date off? it might make me think (if i were seeing it for the first time) that scfz was a film festival or something that happened a few years ago

i've seen about thirty films from this year, almost all american films, not many that were good. the best thing i've seen so far is leave no trace (debra granik). i'll run a 'best of 2018' poll, but i'll start that in the new year, and the deadline will be academy awards day, as we've done the last ...