Directors Greatest Director's & their Greatest Films - The Tournament (1 Viewer)

[ChuckDeLa]

I'll nominate Alan Parker (seen 8: Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express, Fame, Pink Floyd The Wall, Birdy, Angel Heart, Mississippi Burning, The Commitments)

If I'd seen Munchausen or Fisher King, I could nominate Terry Gilliam. Anyone?

Second:
Spielberg (14)

 

[LukeB]

Third:
Spielberg

 

[Brook K]

Guess I'll wait for a ruling before 2nding Sturges (6 1/2), Bunuel (5), or Tarkovsky (4)

I also own 3 unwatched Fassbinder's. I'll probably watch the two I need to make 8 over the weekend. Though getting a 2nd and 3rd might be kind of tough.

Lew, I've seen 4 Wong Kar Wai's and only 1 Kiarostami. I'm closer with Takeshi Kitano (6) or John Cassavetes (5).

I suppose I could de-nominate Rohmer, since he has zilch chance of making it in and nominate John Sayles, but I'll wait a bit and see how things shake out.

Great idea for a tournament Jim.

 

[george kaplan]

Well some of these I can't second or third, cause I've only seen 7 of their films. :frowning:

But I can third:

Robert Zemekis

and second:

Preston Sturges
Frank Capra
John Huston
Howard Hawks

I'll nominate:

Francis Ford Coppola (I only have to have seen 8, not liked 8 right?)

Charlie Chaplin

Mel Brooks

George Cukor

 

[ChuckDeLa]

As a sidenote, I finally broke down and got the Kurosawa box set (Ran/Madadayo/documentary) and it just now arrived. Holy smokes, this sucker is BIG.

 

[Lew Crippen]

(I only have to have seen 8, not liked 8 right?)

Funniest thing I’ve heard all week. And spot on.

 

[Angelo.M]

Nominate Cameron Crowe
Nominate Ang Lee
Nominate David Fincher

 

[ChuckDeLa]

Fincher's only directed 6 movies.
Crowe's only directed 5 movies.

 

[Jim_K]

Alright lemme straighten this mess out before this gets tied into a knot. I take the blame for not explaining this concept correctly.

Looks like we have plenty of people interested though.

here goes: (I'll update the revised rules in my first post shortly)

Theatrical films only - sorry. I know certain directors have made great mini-series, pilots, made-for TV movies, student films, music videos, etc. I want to concentrate only on theatrical releases otherwise this'll get way too muddled.

You have to have seen 8 films to nominate a Director. Which obviously means the Director has to have made at least 8 Theatrical films to get in the Main* Tournament.

You have to have seen at least 3 films of a Director in order to second & third.

After we get our Main pool of Directors (which I haven't set a limit on yet) we'll start nominating the Wild-card Directors.

Wild-card directors will have to have had at least 4 theatrical films & to nominate you have to have seen 4.

Same rule (3 films) with seconds & thirds.

So for right now I'm only accepting nominations for our Main group (Remember - the Director has to have made a minimum of 8 Theatrical films).


I'll be back in a few to update the Nominations list.

 

[ChuckDeLa]

Good, then I will third Bergman.

 

[Lew Crippen]

Second:

Werner Herzog

Luis Buñuel

Charlie Chaplin


Third:

Jean-Luc Godard

Fredrico Fellini

Howard Hawks


Thanks for clarifying the second/third criteria, Jim.

 

[Jim_K]

my pleasure Lew.

Nomination list updated

I'm throwing out the following nominations (not enough theatrical films on their resume). Sorry
Cameron Crowe
Ang Lee
David Fincher
Andrei Tarkovsky
Michael Mann

Keep 'em in mind when we start the Wild-card nominations.

4 more nominations, seconds & thirds for everyone who's participated.

 

[Lew Crippen]

Since you have given Michael the boot, let me

Nominate:

Anthony Mann

 

[ErikG]

Nominate:

David Cronenberg
Wes Craven
Paul Verhoeven
Ridley Scott

Second:

John Carpenter
John Hughes

 

[ErikG]

Nominate:

Ron Howard
Peter Jackson
Richard Donner
Walter Hill

 

[Chris_Richard]

Running out of directors I can nom but here goes:

Nominations
Francois Trauffaut
John Sayles
Sidney Lumet
Oliver Stone

Seconds
Robert Altman
Francis Ford Coppola
Michael Curtiz

Thirds
Charlie Chaplin *
Werner Herzog *
John Huston *

 

[george kaplan]

With the newly explained 2nding and 3rding criteria (and the extra 2nds and 3rds), I will

third:

Michael Curtiz
John Hughes
Fritz Lang

second:

Chris Columbus
Barry Levinson
Robert Wise
John Woo

 

[Lew Crippen]

Second:

François Traffaut

Thanks, Chris, I could not make the nomination.

 

[Pat Ford]

Second:
Sayles
Lumet

Third:
Altman

 

[Rob Tomlin]

Second: David Lean (he should be in automatically!)