Thursday, February 28, 2013

The Anniversary: Directors & Directions

In less than one month on March 27th, this blog will be celebrating two years of existence. As a means to celebrate we are going to have another one of our legendary polls! This time around we're aiming to generate a pantheon of directors who the readers of and contributors to this here blog think are the absolute bee's knees.

So how do you participate?

Well that's simple. All you have to do is come up with your own personal list of 10 favorite directors and get it to us by 10pm PST on Sunday, March 24th. You can submit your list as a comment on this post, as a comment on the Facebook posting that lead you hear, as a private message on Facebook, or even as an e-mail!

We know the 2nd anniversary is supposed to be the cotton anniversary, but we'd rather say it with directors. Can't wait to see what wonderful lists you all come up with!

8 comments:

  1. If I think about this one too long, I'll never finish my list, so from the gut:

    Stanley Kubrick / Pedro Almodovar / David Lynch / Ken Russell / Steven Spielberg / Peter Greenaway / Lars von Trier / Quentin Tarantino / Mike Leigh / Edgar Wright

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    1. ...with love for Richard Elfman, of course. :)

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  2. In no particular order:
    -Martin Scorsese
    -The Coen Brothers
    -Robert Rodriguez
    -Christopher Nolan
    -David Fincher
    -Danny Boyle
    -Stanley Kubrick
    -Jim Jarmusch
    -Tim Burton
    -Terry Gilliam

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  3. Ooh, good one. Off the top of my head:
    Alfred Hitchcock
    John Waters
    Gregg Araki
    Gus Van Sant
    David Lynch
    Stanley Donen
    Sally Potter (for 2 films, anyway...)
    Derek Jarman

    And last two, even though they've not made many films yet...
    Xavier Dolan
    Rian Johnson

    Wow. My list is nearly all men. Clear reminder I need to see more films directed by women.

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  4. Wait, replace Stanley Donen with Tim Burton! ;) I can't edit comments on blogger. =\

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  5. Eric Rohmer
    Sam Raimi
    Samuel Fuller
    David Lynch
    John Waters
    Luis Buñuel
    Frank Capra
    Billy Wilder
    Akira Kurosawa
    Barbara Loden

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  6. In no particular order:

    Peter Weir
    Stanley Kubrick
    Alfred Hitchcock
    Roman Polanski
    Sidney Lumet
    Paul Thomas Anderson
    Martin Scorsese
    Joel and Ethan Coen
    Darren Aronofsky
    Clint Eastwood

    Honorary Mentions: Richard Linklater, Jason Reitman, David Fincher, and of course, Senor Spielbergo (Steven Spielberg's Mexican equivalent)

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