Poll : Director Retrospective

As a theme for this summer I’ve chose to do my first director retrospective. Narrowing down to four choices wasn’t that easy. Especially, since I could have put 500+ names down there for you to vote! Taken from Andrew Sarris’ American Directors and Directions. They are all American directors that marked in some way Film History.

I haven’t seen many of their films and any of these directors that will be featured here this summer will be a pleasure to discover.

Anthony Mann

Author of many Westerns starring James Stewart, Mann is also a Film Noir director that made his mark and is now regarded as one of the most influential directors of his time.

Preston Sturges

A great director who knew how to write witty comedies and that made few films despite their grand impact. For contemporary movie lovers the Coen bros are admirers of his work.

King Vidor

This is a director I’ve never watch a movie before and I was planning on discovering his The Big Parade.

Raoul Walsh

He was a director and thrillers, film noirs, war movies, gangster films were some of the most notable genre from his most known films.

So vote and fill my summer with great viewings!

The 10 Greatest Films of All Time by the voters of The Most Influential Directors Poll

With Great power comes great responsibility. Just like Peter Parker, every important director had a great power in the way his/her films were/are made. With this year’s Most Influential Director’s Poll I’ve asked voters to list the director’s most significant movie.

Just in time, the new Sight and Sound poll got out the eve of the closing of the ballots. I could that way compile those results with the voters’ lists.

The goal here is to take the Top ten films voted and include them into the nomination of a virtual Hall of Fame here at Le Mot du Cinephiliaque. Once the movie is listed in the Top 10 it is sacred as a representative work of the director. Each director needs five films to be inducted into our Hall of Fame. This way, the list won’t have the same films over and over again. Let’s look at the first ever list.

The Most Influential Directors of All Time 3rd edition

The Ten Most Influential Directors of All Time Poll Simplified

 This year’s poll asks you to : first name the ten (10) most influential directors of all time and after to name his/her best film.

To ease your votes and lists I give you this grid below that you only have to fill and return to me at lmdcine@gmail.com .

The Most Influential Directors of All Time 3rd Edition
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Thank you for participating and don’t forget to send your lists before August 2^nd.

All the details and the banner can be found here.

Third Time’s A Charm

Now has come the time of the year where you have to vote for the most exciting and awesome poll of all!  This is the comeback of  The Most Influential Directors of All Time 3^rd edition.

Let’s have a look back at the first year, we had to choose 25 picks and name the most influential directors of all time. I must say that I had a blast doing it and it was so cool receiving all the lists from critics, film lovers, and movie enthusiasts and discovering their choices.

Last year, we reduced the number of entries making the poll a little bit more tougher and keeping in mind that the first year your number one director received 25 points. In 2011, your number one director only received 10 so it kept the race tighter and reduced the chances of total domination by a director widely praised. Twenty-five lists were submitted.

Fritz Lang potential contender for the Top 10?

This year, I take the timing of the new Sight and Sound poll that goes out only every ten years to add another question to the poll. Well, I still want you to name the 10 most influential directors of all time but I want you to choose one film per director on your list (his best, or your favorite, or the one that represents the best his corpus of films). Then what I will do with this information is compile as the usual list of directors. And then, I’ll make a list of the films submitted, the top ten will be a part of a Cinema Hall of Fame. Next year, those films won’t be available anymore because they will be untouchables just like a retired number in sports. It will be like a list of movie essentials. They will be the Great Ones.

You can send your ballots until August 2^nd. Why this date? Well it will be my birthday and I have so much fun doing this poll that it is a treat for me.

Don’t forget that anyone can join and the more submissions we receive the more it is interesting and accurate. With twenty-five lists last year I hope we almost double the number of entries making this poll a highly notable event in the cinephile world!

Share the word on Twitter with the #LMdCMID, #LMdC, and in the same time you can follow me @parentmichael.

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What do you think of this year’s poll? Will you help spreading the word? Will Hitchcock will be knocked down from the first place?

The voters lists of The Most Influential Directors 2nd edition

In case you asked yourself if it was a secret vote... No it ain't and it will never be! But, it will promote your Blog and your tastes. The lists are in alphabetical order and as you will see the people who voted last year and didn't send me a list back this year I used their last year picks, like if there choices were the same as for the reference lists used as basics to this poll.


Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
1. Orson Welles
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. John Ford
4. Charles Chaplin
5. Buster Keaton
6. Stanley Kubrick
7. Akira Kurosawa
8. Federico Fellini
9. Sergei M. Eisenstein
10. David W. Griffith


Christian Audet
Filmmaker
1. William Friedkin
2. Sam Raimi
3. Roman Polanski
4. Martin Scorsese
5. Ken Russell
6. George A. Romero
7. Stanley Kubrick
8. Krzysztof Kieslowski
9. Lucio Fulci
10. Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez


The Cinematheque
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. Orson Welles
4. Akira Kurosawa
5. Ingmar Bergman
6. Robert Bresson
7. Martin Scorsese
8. Federico Fellini
9. Yasujiro Ozu
10. Jean-Luc Godard


Phil Concannon
Phil on Film
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Akira Kurosawa
3. Sergei M. Eisenstein
4. John Ford
5. Walt Disney
6. Stanley Kubrick
7. Fritz Lang
8. Preston Sturges
9. Orson Welles
10. Ingmar Bergman


Digital Dreamdoor
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Stanley Kubrick
3. Martin Scorsese
4. Akira Kurosawa
5. Orson Welles
6. Steven Spielberg
7. Billy Wilder
8. Ingmar Bergman
9. Federico Fellini
10. Francis Ford Coppola


DDX
Bonjour Tristesse
1. Andrey Tarkovskiy
2. Akira Kurosawa
3. Jean-Luc Godard
4. Jacques Rivette
5. Werner Herzog
6. Robert Bresson
7. David Cronenberg
8. Krzysztof Kieslowski
9. Dario Argento
10. Sergio Leone


Entertainment Weekly
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Orson Welles
3. John Ford
4. Howard Hawks
5. Martin Scorsese
6. Akira Kurosawa
7. Buster Keaton
8. Ingmar Bergman
9. Frank Capra
10. Federico Fellini


Film Journal
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Orson Welles
3. Howard Hawks
4. Jean Renoir
5. Robert Bresson
6. Stanley Kubrick
7. John Ford
8. Jean-Luc Godard
9. Yasujiro Ozu
10. Buster Keaton


Edward Howard
Only The Cinema
1. Jean-Luc Godard
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Howard Hawks
4. Orson Welles
5. Jean Renoir
6. Stan Brakhage
7. Robert Altman
8. Jean Vigo
9. Eric Rohmer
10. Ingmar Bergman


Kevyn Knox
The Cinematheque
The Most Beautiful Fraud In The World
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Jean-Luc Godard
3. David W. Griffith
4. John Ford
5. Akira Kurosawa
6. Howard Hawks
7. Charles Chaplin
8. Jean Renoir
9. Ernst Lubitsch
10. Sergei M. Eisenstein


Kevin Laforest
HOUR Community
1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Orson Welles
4. Martin Scorsese
5. John Huston
6. Steven Spielberg
7. Billy Wilder
8. Howard Hawks
9. Woody Allen
10. Quentin Tarantino


John LaRue
The Droid You're Looking For!
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. François Truffaut
3. Luis Bunuel
4. Fritz Lang
5. Akira Kurosawa
6. Billy Wilder
7. Orson Welles
8. Ingmar Bergman
9. Stanley Kubrick
10. Steven Spielberg


Jack Lunt
Jack L. Film Reviews
1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Akira Kurosawa
3. Charles Chaplin
4. Orson Welles
5. Sergio Leone
6. Alfred Hitchcock
7. Fritz Lang
8. David W. Griffith
9. Steven Spielberg
10. Sam Peckinpah


MovieMaker
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. David W. Griffith
3. Orson Welles
4. Jean-Luc Godard
5. John  Ford
6. Stanley Kubrick
7. Sergei M. Eisenstein
8. Charles Chaplin
9. Federico Fellini
10. Steven Spielberg


Jonathan Nadeau
Cinephile and Gore aficionados
1. Charles Chaplin
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Akira Kurosawa
4. Orson Welles
5. Ingmar Bergman
6. Jean-Luc Godard
7. Steven Spielberg
8. Fritz Lang
9. Stanley Kubrick
10. Martin Scorsese


NightHawkNews
1. Akira Kurosawa
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Steven Spielberg
4. Stanley Kubrick
5. Ingmar Bergman
6. Alfred Hitchcock
7. David Lean
8. Coen Bros.
9. Billy Wilder
10. Woody Allen


Michael Parent
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque
1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Akira Kurosawa
4. Jean Renoir
5. Charles Chaplin
6. John Ford
7. Martin Scorsese
8. Ingmar Bergman
9. Jean-Luc Godard
10. Woody Allen


Yishai Reno
Movies and Directors
1. Fritz Lang
2. John Ford
3. Jean-Luc Godard
4. Alfred Hitchcock
5. David W. Griffith
6. Stanley Kubrick
7. Federico Fellini
8. Steven Spielberg
9. Orson Welles
10. Charles Chaplin


Sight and Sound 2002 (critics)
1. Orson Welles
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Jean-Luc Godard
4. Jean Renoir
5. Stanley Kubrick
6. Akira Kurosawa
7. Federico Fellini
8. John Ford
9. Sergei M. Eisenstein
10. Francis Ford Coppola
10. Yasujiro Ozu


Sight and Sounds 2002 (directors)
1. Orson Welles
2. Federico Fellini
3. Akira Kurosawa
4. Francis Ford Coppola
5. Alfred Hitchcock
6. Stanley Kubrick
7. Billy Wilder
8. Ingmar Bergman
9. Martin Scorsese
9. David Lean
9. Jean Renoir


Iain Stott
The One-Line Review
1. Ozu Yasujiro
2. Ingmar Bergman
3. Tarr Béla
4. Abbas Kiarostami
5. Mike Leigh
6. Billy Wilder
7. Michael Powell
8. Terrence Davies
9. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
10. Kurosawa Akira


They Shoot Pictures Don't They?
1. Orson Welles
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. Federico Fellini
5. John Ford
6. Jean Renoir
7. Akira Kurosawa
8. Francis Ford Coppola
9. Ingmar Bergman
10. Jean-Luc Godard


Total Film
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Steven Spielberg
4. Howard Hawks
5. Francis Ford Coppola
6. Orson Welles
7. Ingmar Bergman
8. Stanley Kubrick
9. Peter Jackson
10. David Fincher

That's it for this year! I hope you'll all be back next year and that will have dozens of new voters and interesting lists as well!

LMdC will get back to its normal program, reviews of Classic and contemporary films! Plus a running feature of recommended readings on Cinema that I hope I'll be able to feed with at least one book a month!

Banner for the Results of 2011

Link to the Results: http://cinephiliaque.blogspot.com/2011/06/2nd-edition-of-most-influential.html

2nd edition of The Most Influential Directors of All-Time: The Results

You have waited long enough, here are the final results of the 2011 poll:

1. Alfred Hitchcock

176 pts

It's no surprise that the master of suspense wons again the first price of the Poll. He is listed as number one on nine lists out of twenty-five. 

2. Orson Welles

122 pts

The number 2 spot hasn't changed either this year, the director of Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Othello, and The Touch of Evil, just to name a few, diserved his place into this pantheon.

3. Stanley Kubrick (1up)

110 pts

First change this year, Kubrick gaining the bronze medal for his influence, his liberty and the amplitude of his whole oeuvre.

 4. Akira Kurosawa (1 down)

106 pts

If there are ups there are also downs and I'm torn between two of my favorite directors of all-time, Kubrick and Kurosawa. I'm happy for Stanley but I think I would prefer to see Akira stay at the third place because it would be more international and underground. Plus only four points separate one from another!

5. John Ford (1 up)

63 pts

The most respected American director of all-time, with four Academy awards as Best Director (he holds the record) gains one position and should be keeping the rythm through the years with his dense filmography. A director every cinephile should discover from A to Z.

6. Jean-Luc Godard (4 ups)

62 pts

Really close to John Ford, Godard a hated/loved director who did so many films, explored a multitude of narratives, and who digested the History of Cinema with his dense and meaningful Histoire(s) du Cinéma gained four positions. The biggest jump in the whole poll.

7. Martin Scorsese

57 pts

The second living director on this list and the first to still work today (Godard made his final film in 2010 with Film Socialisme). Even if his later films don't have the raw power of his 1970's and 1980's had they are still awaited by the movie-goers and create a certain expectation, especially for me. No move here for Marty, seventh last year and still seventh this year.

8. Ingmar Bergman (3 downs)

50 pts

Even if we haven't understood the whole importance and the message of his films, Bergman diserves his place here. Somewhat he took a drop of 3 positions since last year. His theatrical mise en scène and the fact that he directed foreign films may have affected the votes.

9. Charles Chaplin (6 ups)

The biggest break-up in this year's poll! Chaplin a personal favorite and my idol, gained six places. I think the fact that his films are immortals and that the legend that followed the man himself helped him to pass through time and the memories of the cinephiles.

10. Howard Hawks (1 up)

38 pts

This late entry on the final spot of the list is well deserved. Put into the spotlights by Les Cahiers du Cinéma as the perfect example of a true auteur, his print over genre films (Westerns, Gangsters, comedies) has earned him the respect he deserves. The man could be on the number one spot and I wouldn't even blink!

So that's it for this year! Spread the words that the lists of everyone who participated will be posted gradually on this blog with links and promotion for your blogs!

Poll is closed

So with the second edition of The Most Influential Directors of All-time closing, the votes are compiled and I have to post the results!

But before, I must thank everyone who participated in this year's poll and who helped me promote this modest but amazing exercice. Especially the LAMB, Jack, and Kevyn you were great partners in this crime!

Tomorrow June 26, I will post the final list with all your entries and the results. Plus an analyze of the changes in the order since last year's poll!

So stay tuned!

And if you want to treat yourself with something good and encourage this blogger please visit the suggested items below... They might be clues to find the number one director of this list...

Re-reminder The Most Influential Directors of All-Time Poll

Don't forget to send your contributions at michael.parent at hotmail.com.

I will receive your votes until June 23 so start thinking about the directors who influenced your work, your life, your movie tastes or the filmmakers you admire today!

I already received eight lists from:
- Filmmaker Christian Audet (Outre tombe, Appartement #1, La victime, Le banc de neige, Le bal du maniaque, 37 Z, Au printemps mon cadavre puera, Angoisse à zéro)
- The greatest film critic of San Francisco Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid
- John LaRue blogger at The Droid You're Looking For!
- Montreal based film critic and journalist Kevin Laforest HOUR Community
- Film Blogger Yishai Reno of the beautiful Blog Movies and Directors
- Flim critic and Historian Kevyn Knox (also a personal influence) at The Cinematheque and The Most Beautiful Fraud in the World
- DDX of the magnificent film Blog Bonjour Tristesse
- Widnes, Great Britain Film critic Iain Stott One-Line Review


So if you want to be a part of this already impressive list of participants I encourage you to do so!


Here are the rules and instructions:

 Last year was a blast and I received some interesting lists when I asked you to provide the Top 25 most influential directors of all time!


I've decided to hit it back this year while adding more specifics:
- Rank the Top 10 most influential directors of all time or The 10 MOST Important Directors. Influential is used as important, the ones who changed the way films are/were made.
- Entries are accepted until June 23 2011, 23:59 EST.
- Send your lists @michael.parent@hotmail.com
- Spread the word to all movie/film lovers out there.
- Put the banner on your Blog/Website.
- Have fun!

Rules: points are awarded as follows 10 for number one spot, 9 for number 2, 8 for number 3 and on...

See last year's Results

Reminder The Most Influential Directors of All-Time Poll

Don't forget to send your contributions at michael.parent at hotmail.com.

I will receive your votes until June 23 so start thinking about the directors who influenced your work, your life, your movie tastes or the filmmakers you admire today!

I already received five lists from:
- Filmmaker Christian Audet (Outre tombe, Appartement #1, La victime, Le banc de neige, Le bal du maniaque, 37 Z, Au printemps mon cadavre puera, Angoisse à zéro)
- The greatest film critic of San Francisco Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid
- John LaRue (please send me your Blog Name and URL)

- Montreal based film critic and journalist Kevin Laforest HOUR Community
- Film Blogger Yishai Reno of the beautiful Blog Movies and Directors

So if you want to be a part of this already impressive list of participants I encourage you to do so!


Here are the rules and instructions:

 Last year was a blast and I received some interesting lists when I asked you to provide the Top 25 most influential directors of all time!


I've decided to hit it back this year while adding more specifics:
- Rank the Top 10 most influential directors of all time or The 10 MOST Important Directors. Influential is used as important, the ones who changed the way films are/were made.
- Entries are accepted until June 23 2011, 23:59 EST.
- Send your lists @michael.parent@hotmail.com
- Spread the word to all movie/film lovers out there.
- Put the banner on your Blog/Website.
- Have fun!

Rules: points are awarded as follows 10 for number one spot, 9 for number 2, 8 for number 3 and on...

See last year's Results

Poll is open

The Most Influentials Directors of All Time POLL returns!

 Last year was a blast and I received some interesting lists when I asked you to provide the Top 25 most influential directors of all time!


I've decided to hit it back this year but adding more specifics:
- Rank the Top 10 most influential directors of all time or The 10 MOST Important Directors. Influential is used as important, the ones who changed the way films are/were made.
- Entries are accepted until June 23 2011, 23:59 EST.
- Send your lists @michael.parent@hotmail.com
- Spread the word to all movie/film lovers out there.
- Put the banner on your Blog/Website.
- Have fun!

Rules: points are awarded as follows 10 for number one spot, 9 for number 2, 8 for number 3 and on...

See last year's Results

Poll! Poll! Poll!

Welcome to the first Poll of LMdC (Le Mot du Cinephiliaque), the voting machine up left is asking you a simple question: What period of film reviews would you like to read more about on LMdC? Lately I've been reviewing random films that I am watching, like a film diary.

I've decided to include the members and the readers more into the process and make this blog a more interactive one! I'd like to know which films you want to read about and what would make you want to come back again and again at LMdC.

So, with your votes here it will help me very much to seize your interests. If someone wants a specific film to be reviewed I encourage him/her to leave it in the comments of this post!

I also would like to know if you would be many to participate in a F.W.Murnau Blog-a-Thon?

Go on and vote!

On Vacation for the Month of May!

I will be in California for the Month of May! So don't be upset if I don't answer to your comments! When I'll come back I promise to feed this Blog with better reviews than ever and bring more recent movie reviewed too!


Remember to vote for the ongoing poll of the 25 Most Influential Directors of All-Time!

See ya!

Michaël

The 25 most influential directors of All-time poll

Starting of the idea of my own list, I ask you to name up to 25 of the most influential directors of all-time.

The list I made last year is about the ones I consider the most influential in my opinion. Your list can be the directors that you think have influenced the most the present directors, or the ones influencing their pairs in the recent years, or the ones that have influenced you in life or in your work.

Feel free to spread the list to anyone it might interest. My own list is Occident oriented because since I live near the USA I'm more in touch with their productions. However, I'd like to receice lists from around the world to populate this poll with different points of view.

Every list will be published and I will link everyone's Blog/Website with his/her list.

You just have to copy and paste the items below, fill it, and send it to me at dark_666_throne@hotmail.com with Top25 in the subject.

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*The points will be awarded as Spot number 1 will receive 25 points and spot number 25 will have 1 point.

Last entry will be received June 23rd 23h59 UTC-05(Eastern Standard Time).

Here are some banners you can add to your website or blog to spread the list:






Thanks to everyone who will participate in this poll!

Michaël Parent