SCFZ poll: Billy Wilder

[karl]

My probable second choice, thoxics.

[karl]

Actually my second choice is Andrzej Wajda. Sorry.

[ofrene]

seen 9 Im Kwon-taek and can watch another till tomorrow

[thoxans]

damn. and to think i was gonna make time for the story of us, alex & emma, and rumor has it...

[Umbugbene]

I have only 2 Ims and 7 Wajdas, but I can add an 8th tomorrow because The Possessed is showing on Mubi.

[sally]

I have 10 Wajda.

[...]

I've got 9 Wadjas

[wba]

I've got zero Im and 3 Wajda

[flip]

we'd need just one other person who has seen several im kwon-taek films to do that poll. i'll wait to friday to see if anyone has, but if not, wajda will definitely work, so he'll be our fallback.

[Silga]

Wilder is probably my favorite director of his generation. A true master of his craft.

Seen 8:

Sunset Boulevard - my #1 film of all time
Witness for the Prosecution
Some Like It Hot
The Apartment

[Umbugbene]

I'm up to 8 Wajdas now.

[karl]

Well I got 16 Im and 21 Wajda. You people need to get with the program. These are great directors!

And Im has a whole subtitled playlist on Youtube!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_by9vE3 ... x1r9xPPicF

[john ryan]

I have 5 Im Kwon-taek. I have 4 on my docket that I can commit to watching this week.

[grabmymask]

The Apartment
Sunset Boulevard
Some Like It Hot
Witness for the Prosecution

[flip]

I have 5 Im Kwon-taek. I have 4 on my docket that I can commit to watching this week.

i've decided to start the next director poll on tuesday, instead of tomorrow, because i'll also be tallying up the scifiz poll. so if you watch at least two im kwon-taek films by then, we'll be able to do that poll.

[john ryan]

I have 7 im kwon-taek now.

[oscarwerner]

I've got 20 Wajdas

[karl]

While I'd like more people to watch Im Kwon-taek's films - he is, after all, one of the few "classics" still around - maybe Wajda'd just be easier for everyone, Flip.

[Umbugbene]

Karl, if you'd like to postpone Im till the next round I'll watch a bunch of his on YouTube.

[karl]

I'm cool with whatever.

Also I forgot to mention earlier that a few excellent Im films aren't on the KFA playlist - dunno why. They are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY4wn6Kf9po

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNdlh4nuOQU

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfEuV43YTcI

and a very early one I haven't seen (the guy's directed films since '62!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY-EJTgVxoY


Unfortunately they've also taken down one of Im's best films, Fly High, Run Far. Someone else has put it up here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FfZ28JoIqs

But the KFA did a whole new set of subtitles to play over the very inadequate hardsubs of this copy (which fails to translate a number of dialogues), and if anyone wants to download from Youtube and needs the set of improved subs, let me know.

They also took down one called Genealogy (1979) that I haven't seen, but it's been uploaded unsubtitled here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z4qYpu2z7k

Subs are available for it.

[St. Gloede]

(My next nominee will likely be Okamoto, but tried that 3 times already so if anybody want to catch up on him as well, please do).

Seen 13 Wajdas, will try to see a few more.

[flip]

lots of votes in this, and quite a few surprises to me, which probably says more about my impressions of how wilder is regarded than about wilder, but i thought the lost weekend and the seven year itch would do a lot better, and i would have though some like it hot would vie for the top spot, but no:

results

1. The Apartment (1960) -- 54 pts
2. Sunset Boulevard (1950) -- 46 pts
3. Double Indemnity (1944) -- 36 pts
4. Ace in the Hole (1951) -- 28 pts
5. Some Like It Hot (1959) -- 24 pts
6. Stalag 17 (1953) -- 17 pts
7. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) -- 16 pts
8. Avanti! (1972) -- 12 pts
8. Witness for the Prosecution (1957) -- 12 pts
10. Sabrina (1954) -- 11 pts
11. The Major and the Minor (1942) -- 10 pts
11. One, Two, Three (1961) -- 10 pts
13. The Seven Year Itch (1955) -- 4 pts
14. The Lost Weekend (1945) -- 3 pts
14. A Foreign Affair (1948) -- 3 pts
16. Five Graves to Cairo (1943) -- 2 pts
17. Kiss Me Stupid (1964) -- 1 pt

[flip]

and i decided to go with the im kwon-taek poll, i think for many people the polls become the impetus to watch films, so it doesn't really matter when we start it, he'll probably get the same number of views, and i'm watching his films now. we'll get to wajda soon i'm sure!

[St. Gloede]

The biggest surprise for me is seeing Sabrina barely making the top 10, and being beaten out by two 70s efforts - not that I'm complaining.

I'm not surprised Some Like It Hot didn't end up winning, there are so many Wilder chasing the top spot, but I am surprised it was not even close to being in the running.

[flip]

posted this to letterboxd:

letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list/billy-wilder-scfz-directors-poll-181/