SCFZ's Favourite Directors

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Apparently it's been three years since we've done this, and it's pretty easy to tally, so let's go!!

RULES:
- list your favourite directors
- you can list up to 25 directors
- you can leave your list unranked, or break it into exactly five tiers
- if you leave your list unranked, you can vote for any number of directors from 1 to 25
- if you put your list in five tiers, each tier must be equal in size (in other words, your list will include either 5, 10, 15, 20 or 25 directors, depending on the size of your tiers)

DEADLINE:
- at the earliest, I will tally this on January 1, 2021

[thoxans]

lol i literally just pm'ed flip about his point distros for the polls he runs; i'm assuming if tiered, it's a 5/4/3/2/1 pt distro; and if not tiered, it's 3 pts across the board for all dirs listed...?

[greennui]

This is gonna be hard...

Here's the preious poll from the old forum:
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/the_aut ... -t200.html

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lol i literally just pm'ed flip about his point distros for the polls he runs; i'm assuming if tiered, it's a 5/4/3/2/1 pt distro; and if not tiered, it's 3 pts across the board for all dirs listed...?

yes, exactly

[Silga]

Top 25

Coen brothers
Jia Zhangke
Woody Allen
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Sidney Lumet
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Paul Thomas Anderson
Paolo Sorrentino
Billy Wilder
Sergio Leone
Steven Soderbergh
William Wyler
Alfred Hitchcock
David Lean
Paul Schrader
Francis Ford Coppola
Michael Mann
Yorgos Lanthimos
Stanley Kubrick
Pedro Almodovar
Bennett Miller
Zack Snyder
Sam Mendes
Olivier Assayas
Fred Zinnemann

[brian d]

jean epstein
ritwik ghatak
joao cesar monteiro
pier paolo pasolini
jacques rivette

peter greenaway
mani kaul
sergei parajanov
hiroshi shimizu
andrzej zulawski

luis bunuel
king hu
buster keaton
agnes varda
yoshishige yoshida

germaine dulac
leonardo favio
jean gremillon
fritz lang
erich von stroheim

gabor body
frank borzage
marcel l'herbier
joe may
josef von sternberg

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doing it a bit different this time, including some directors by whom I've seen few movies, and some directors whose movies I sometimes hate, if I sufficiently adore a couple of their works

Eric Rohmer
Nicholas Ray
Wim Wenders
Akira Kurosawa
Jonas Mekas

Aki Kaurismaki
Kurt Kren
Chantal Akerman
Xavier Dolan
Richard Linklater

Hirokazu Kore-eda
Joachim Trier
Masaki Kobayashi
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Monte Hellman

Jacques Demy
Ingmar Bergman
Federico Fellini
Werner Herzog
Yasujiro Ozu

Buster Keaton
Celine Sciamma
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Francois Truffaut
Jean-Luc Godard

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we have 3 ballots so far... and 75 different directors 0____o

this place rules

[Holymanm]

how do people have ballots already? have they been waiting for this...?

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i used python to calculate, based on my lboxd stats, how i should set up my ouija board, and then the spirits told me my fav directors

[Umbugbene]

we have 3 ballots so far... and 75 different directors 0____o

this place rules

I'm kinda sorry to break the streak, but it was probably inevitable on the 4th ballot.

Michelangelo Antonioni
Alfred Hitchcock
Andrei Tarkovsky
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Marguerite Duras

Jean-Luc Godard
Ingmar Bergman
Stanley Kubrick
Werner Herzog
Lars von Trier

Carl Theodor Dreyer
Ridley Scott
Claude Chabrol
Raúl Ruiz
Peter Greenaway

Jean-Jacques Beineix
David Lynch
Jean Cocteau
Kenji Mizoguchi
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

Yasujiro Ozu
Robert Bresson
Alain Resnais
Charles Chaplin
Satyajit Ray

My list includes 7 living directors, and only 2 directors we haven't polled so far (Beineix and Cocteau).

[St. Gloede]

we have 3 ballots so far... and 75 different directors 0____o

this place rules

That's incredible.

Adding mine shortly, but will be overlaps, unfortunately.

[St. Gloede]

My fairly ordinary list (ranked, not tiered):

1. Jean-Luc Godard
2. Luis Buñuel
3. Pier Paolo Pasolini
4. Akira Kurosawa
5. Ingmar Bergman

6. Agnès Varda
7. Yoshishige Yoshida
8. Michael Haneke
9. Andrei Tarkovsky
10. Martin Scorsese

11. Guy Maddin
12. F.W. Murnau
13. Robert Bresson
14. Fritz Lang
15. Orson Welles

16. Kihachi Okamoto
17. Jean-Pierre Melville
18. Ming-liang Tsai
19. Alain Resnais
20. Lars von Trier

21. Robert Altman
22. Eric Rohmer
23. Terrence Malick
24. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
25. Alain Robbe-Grillet

Just missed out:

Elia Kazan
Federico Fellini
William Wyler
Wong Kar-Wai

[greennui]

I'll tier it later.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Aki Kaurismäki
Eric Rohmer
João César Monteiro
Hong Sang-soo
Jean Rollin
Jean Epstein
Mikio Naruse
Yasujirô Ozu
Raul Ruiz
Ken Russell
Kenneth Anger
Abel Ferrara
Guy Gilles
Teuvo Tulio
Lino Brocka
Harun Farocki
Franco Piavoli
Claire Denis
Chantal Akerman
Howard Hawks
Mike Leigh
John Waters
Werner Schroeter
Margaret Tait

[Monsieur Arkadin]

Tentative tiers.

1. Alain Resnais
2. Tsai Ming-Liang
3. Chantal Akerman
4. David Lynch
5. Agnes Varda

6. Hong Sang-Soo
7. Ingmar Bergman
8. Marguerite Duras
9. Luis Bunuel
10. Andrzej Zulawski

11. Sergei Parajanov
12. Eric Rohmer
13. Orson Welles
14. Marco Ferreri
15. Jacques Tati

16. Elaine May
17. Bela Tarr
18. Buster Keaton
19. Nicolas Roeg
20. Mikhail Kalatozov

21. Paul Schrader
22. David Fincher
23. Maya Deren
24. Coen Bros
25. Neil Jordan

[flip]

Sergei Parajanov
Bahram Beizai
Buster Keaton
Robert Parrish
Robert Bresson

Parviz Kimiavi
Russell Rouse
Zoltan Fabri
Petr Zelenka
Elio Petri

Bela Tarr
William Wyler
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Sydney Pollack
Artavazd Peleshyan

James Benning
Robert Siodmak
Shohei Imamura
Tenghiz Abuladze
Jerzy Skolimowski

Henry King
Josef von Sternberg
Jafar Panahi
Roy Andersson
Thom Eberhardt

[wba]

how do people have ballots already? have they been waiting for this...?

I do a ranked Top 100 of my favorite filmmakers every few years (I have currently about 250 favorite filmmakers whom I love and want to see each scrap of film they ever made), so listing my Top 25 isn't that hard.

[wba]

ranked and with my 3 favorite films by each of them

01. Mamoru Oshii
The Sky Crawlers (2008), The Red Spectacles (1987), Ghost in the Shell (1995)
02. Ko Nakahira
Flora on the Sand (1964), That Guy and I (1961), Mud Spattered Purity (1963)
03. Yasuzo Masumura
Kisses (1957), Blue Sky Maiden (1957), Seisaku's Wife (1965)
04. Seijun Suzuki
Love Letter (1958), Carmen from Kawachi (1965), Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon (1985)
05. Susumu Hani
Nanami: Inferno of First Love (1968), She and He (1963), Aido (1969)

06. Jacques Doillon
The Pirate (1984), Touched in the Head (1974), The Little Gangster (1990)
07. Joe D’Amato
Top Model (1988), Afternoon (1989), Forbidden Affairs (1990)
08. Alfred Hitchcock
Vertigo (1958), The Manxman (1929), Under Capricorn (1949)
09. Walerian Borowczyk
The Story of Sin (1975), Goto, Island of Love (1968), Blanche (1971)
10. Helmut Käutner
The Girl from Flanders (1956), Monpti (1957), Portrait of an Unknown Woman (1954)

11. Dominik Graf
The Second Face (1982), The Invincibles (1994), The Scorpion (1997)
12. Dario Argento
Phenomena (1985), Inferno(1979), Tenebre (1982)
13. Hayao Miyazaki
The Wind Rises (2013), Kiki's Delivery Service (1989), Princess Mononoke (1997)
14. Charles Chaplin
City Lights (1931), Monsieur Verdoux (1948), The Gold Rush (1925)
15. Ernst Hofbauer
Holiday in St. Tropez (1964), Maria – Nur die Nacht war Zeuge (1979), Heisses Pflaster Köln (1967)

16. Sogo Ishii
Shuffle (1981), The Master of Shiatsu (1989), Labyrinth of Dreams (1997)
17. George Moorse
in side out (1964), The Griller (1968), Burns (1982)
18. Marran Gosov
Wonnekloß (1972), Sugar Bread and Whip (1968), Gloria Savoy (1972)
19. Masahiro Makino
Lady Sen and Hideyori (1962), Street of Ronin (1957), The Ruffian (1958)
20. Andrzej Zulawski
Possession (1981), The Most Important Thing: Love (1974), The Public Woman (1984)

21. Veit Harlan
The Golden City (1942), Covered Tracks (1938), The Great King (1942)
22. Peter Hyams
Narrow Margin (1990), Sudden Death (1995), Outland (1981)
23. James Gray
We Own the Night (2007), Two Lovers (2008), Little Odessa (1994)
24. Michael Curtiz
Casablanca (1942), The Unsuspected (1947), Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
25. Rudolf Jugert
The River Line (1964), Illusion in a Minor Key (1952), Satan Tempts with Love(1960)

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jsyik wba, you can select 25 this time instead of just 20!

[Roscoe]

Buster Keaton
Alfred Hitchcock
Akira Kurosawa
Federico Fellini
Charles M. Jones

Stanley Kubrick
Orson Welles
Fritz Lang
Francis Coppola
Frank Capra

Ernst Lubitsch
Bill Forsyth
Terry Gilliam
Tim Burton
Guy Maddin

Erich von Stroheim
F.W. Murnau
S. Eisenstein
A. Tarkovsky
Alfonso Cuaron

Roy Andersson
Paul Thomas Anderson
William Wyler
Luis Bunuel
Martin Scorsese

[kanafani]

Unranked:

Louis Feuillade
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Josef von Sternberg
Howard Hawks
Luis Buñuel
John Ford
Ernst Lubitsch
Jacques Tourneur
Max Ophüls
Nicholas Ray
Sam Fuller
Mikio Naruse
John Cassavetes
Douglas Sirk
Kenji Mizoguchi
Alfred Hitchcock
Robert Bresson
Jacques Tati
Maurice Pialat
Jacques Rivette
Chantal Akerman
Eric Rohmer
Abbas Kiarostami
James Benning
Hou Hsiao-hsien

[St. Gloede]

I have a ranked top 100 with runner ups on IMDB. I also have top 10s on Letterboxd, and everything rating 8 or higher (per year) on word. So I am well prepared for most basic scenarios.

[wba]

jsyik wba, you can select 25 this time instead of just 20!

Great!

[MrCarmady]

Unranked, for now, maybe I'll summon some decisiveness later. I'll probably remember some major directors I've forgotten as well, had to do this off the top of my head.

François Truffaut
Sergio Leone
Éric Rohmer
Coen Brothers
David Fincher

Hal Hartley
Whit Stillman
Noah Baumbach
Fyodor Khitruk
Dario Argento

Woody Allen
Michelangelo Antonioni
Wong Kar Wai
Billy Wilder
Preston Sturges

Orson Welles
Don Hertzfeldt
Douglas Sirk
Buster Keaton
Akira Kurosawa

Alfred Hitchcock
Anthony Mann
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Aki Kaurismaki
Roy Andersson

[Lencho of the Apes]

Close enough that I can post it, but I may fiddle with it some (esp tiering) before closing.

Raul Ruiz
Jacques Rivette
Edgar Ulmer
Julio Bracho
Frank Borzage

Louis Feuillade
Alexander Dovzhenko
Josef Von Sternberg
Arturo Ripstein
Mamoru Ishii

Rene Cardona Jr
David Cronenberg
Howard Hawks
Orson Welles
Atom Egoyan

Fritz Lang
King Vidor
Jesus Franco
Alice Guy
Yuri Ilyenko

Alfred Hitchcock
Werner Herzog
R W Fassbinder
Luis Bunuel
Emilio Fernandez

[augusto]

joão césar monteiro
hiroshi shimizu
ritwik ghatak
govindan aravindan
hou hsiao-hsien

mani kaul
king hu
edward yang
abbas kiarostami
peter hutton

kenji mizoguchi
yasujiro ozu
alain resnais
luis buñuel 
johnnie to

jacques tourneur
liu chia-liang
buster keaton
pier paolo pasolini
nagisa oshima

sai paranjpye
saeed akhtar mirza
hong sang-soo
djibril diop mambéty
leonardo favio

[greennui]

It occurred to me that I've never seen Rohmer interviewed so I looked up this interview and unsurprisingly enough...he's just as talkative as a character in a Rohmer film.

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

Nobody beats Kaurismäki though in being like a character from his films.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9tp8rAaTsE

[rischka]

i have a list on imdb already since 2016

john ford
jacques tourneur
roberto rossellini
jean renoir
fritz lang
yasujiro ozu
mikio naruse
josef von sternberg
douglas sirk
joao cesar monteiro
robert bresson
raoul ruiz
sam fuller
heinosuke gosho
james benning
frederick wiseman
peter watkins
maurice pialat
chantal akerman
jacques becker
edgar g ulmer
otar iosseliani
edward yang
sergei parajanov
jean epstein


will make updates and tier later. needs more hong kong

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i'll be tallying this on Jan 1 unless someone requests an extension!

[ofrene]

so hard to choose;( exclude director who have seen too little or can't remember that much

unranked :

Agnès Varda
Akira Kurosawa
Alain Resnais
Alfred Hitchcock
Buster Keaton
Chantal Akerman
Charlie Chaplin
David Lynch
Éric Rohmer
Ernst Lubitsch
Frederick Wiseman
Hou Hsiao-hsien
John Cassavetes
John Ford
Johnnie To
Jonas Mekas
Kelly Reichardt
Manoel de Oliveira
Martin Scorsese
Mikio Naruse
Pedro Costa
Steven Spielberg
Tsai Ming-liang
Wang Bing
Yasujirō Ozu