Letterboxd Stats showdown: John Alton/Gregg Toland/Hames Wong Howe

[kanafani]

1 towland
2 towland +2 (over howe)
3 silver lode
4 ball of fire
5 shanghai express
6 rischka
7 greg x
8 greg x

The following three champs got the order right (toland>howe>alton): Brian, Mesnalty, John Ryan. Brian overall got 4 questions right. Mesnalty got 2, and John got 3. John was the closest with Towland +7, so I'll bump him up to 3.5 right answers.

Based on my flaky and imprecise rules, I declare Brian the winner.

[brian d]

woohoo! i was going to say let's go with néstor almendros vs. gabriel figueroa, but two cinematographer polls in a row might be too much, and everyone would know who's seen the most figueroa films around here. have we done a poll with renoir in it?

[kanafani]

woohoo! i was going to say let's go with néstor almendros vs. gabriel figueroa, but two cinematographer polls in a row might be too much, and everyone would know who's seen the most figueroa films around here. have we done a poll with renoir in it?

Yep we’ve done bunuel/Renoir

Here is the list of past showdowns:
viewtopic.php?f=22&t=30

[liquidnature]

I'm not the most knowledgeable of these sorts of things or whether or not these even fit together at all, but some combination ideas (just for my own fun):

directors:
Ford / Hawks / Walsh
Nicolas Ray / Anthony Mann / Samuel Fuller
Fellini / Bergman / Kurosawa
Coppola / Scorsese
Cameron / Bay
Benning / Mekas / Snow / Hutton / Beavers
Capra / Curtiz
Fincher / Michael Mann
Herzog / Jarmusch / Wenders
Spielberg / Zemeckis / Howard
Bacon / Mayo / Wellman

actors:
Cary Grant / Humphrey Bogart / Clark Gable
Rita Hayworth / Lauren Bacall / Joan Crawford
Audrey Hepburn / Elizabeth Taylor

others:
Minnelli / Berkeley

[brian d]

heh, i picked the renoir/buñuel one. let’s go with zuławski/polanski.

[kanafani]

heh, i picked the renoir/buñuel one. let’s go with zuławski/polanski.

zuławski/polanski it is!

[rischka]

the pummelling poles