ICM Forum's Favourite Directors 2020: Due Mon Jan 4

[AB537]

Marginally updated from last year: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls093507538/. Main changes are to promote directors where I've seen strong new (to me) content in 2020, including Truffaut, Dearden, Miyazaki, del Toro, Tourneur and Berlanga.

1-56 ranked, then two groups:
57-83
84-141

Minor edit (adding Zvyagintsev and Pialat). Groups are now:

1-56 ranked
57-84 group ranked
85-143 group ranked

[Smoover]

Ranked
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls031700362/

[jeff_v]

My list: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls055060933/

[Gordon_Gekko]

1 - 200 Ranked
Rest unranked

Watched a lot of french, eastern european and older german films, so big push for many directors of this countries. Target for next year are more asian and spanish (speaking) films.
Great start in the new year everyone.
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls091893654/

[sushantv10]

Ranked
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls050888991/

[OldAle1]

My list:

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls027734909/

Group ranked:

1-12
13-30
31-60
61-111
112+

Like others, I worked this out in a very precise mathematical, statistically meaningful way. It's my own proprietary formula which I'm trying to patent, so I can't give you all the details, but I will reveal that it involves a Ouija board, the I Ching, "Dark Side of the Moon" played backwards at 1.833 speed, a door-sized poster of Farrah Fawcett circa 1978, and a 1.75 liter bottle of Jack Daniels.

[blocho]

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls031733302/

Group ranked:
1-6
7-10
11-16
17-21
22-32
33-52

[prodigalgodson]

A 4-film minimum limit (sorry Robert Fulton):

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls082892627/

And biting pda's letterboxd format:

https://letterboxd.com/justinkelly1993/ ... tors-1220/

EDIT: Ranked.

[Melvelet]

Top 25 ranked:
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls071874347/

[paul281f]

My ranked list: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls031162550/
Thank you.

[jvv]

Very short list this time: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls084007622/ (UNRANKED)

[monclivie]

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls041791594/
ranked

[mightysparks]

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls091897292/

[Ritesh]

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls082834063/

Top 10 ranked, rest unranked

[perceval]

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000032664/
ranked!

[lineuphere]

Ranked.

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls082779991/

[Obgeoff]

Ranked list: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls084075186/

I used the maxwelldeux method. What I like about having a consistent method is it lets me see what has changed since last year.

I have 82 new entrants in my top 250.

Top 5 new entrants:
13. Masaki Kobayashi
20. Mikhail Kalatozov
22. Leos Carax
41. Peter Watkins
45. Costa-Gavras

Top Risers in Top 100
60. (+65) Abbas Kiarostami
68. (+58) Samuel Fuller
37. (+43) Hirokazu Koreeda
39. (+33) Nicolas Ray
38. (+32) Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Biggest drops
407. (-222) Peter Jackson
352. (-177) George Lucas
403. (-176) John Carpenter
376. (-166) Bryan Singer
250. (-161) George Stevens

Think this is my favourite exercise in icmforum - thanks for your work on this PA.

[tommy_leazaq]

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls066951746/

[PeacefulAnarchy]

Updated first post, I'll extend the deadline a couple of days, but I'll try to start working on things this weekend anyway so that I can hopefully start posting results sometime this week.

[Coryn]

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls084031442/
RANKED

Since my rating system has totally failed me by growing out of my initial movie taste there is nothing left to do then go with my gut feeling.

[Rufus-T]

Ranked: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls093655323/

[Fergenaprido]

Here's my list, fully ranked: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls073195234/

Added 14 directors to my list this year. It's an improvement, but my heart and my gut don't always agree with my math. Maybe they'll align by the end of the decade
It does get better each year, though, so I'm not going to change my formulas just yet.

[sebby]

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls058122199/

[Lonewolf2003]

Before I forget: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls073091621/ First 50 ranked, rest unranked.

[Jimi Antiloop]

Updating this list, after one year of watching films, is fun.

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls096232927

generally ranked

group ranked
#78 to #142
#162 to #180
#208 to #293
#320 to #365

[Panunzio]

Here's my ranked top 200: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls093154109/

Also, it may be worth adding the Safdie brothers to the list of collaborating directors. I've added them under Benny Safdie to my list.

[sol]

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls084504604/

RANKED

New entries this time (crossed my 6 films seen minimum threshold):

Denis Villeneuve - #42
Isao Takahata - #78
Mike Flanagan - #89
Stephen Chow - #127
William Lustig - #182
Lawrence Kasdan - #187
Robert Rodriguez - #189
Carlos Enrique Taboada - #194
William Fruet - #198
Jesús Franco - #204
Robert Parrish - #214
Leonid Gaidai - #217

[AssonFire]

Ranked: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000070072/

[RogerTheMovieManiac88]

254 personal favourites of mine, and they are unranked: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls047651709/.

Thanks PA, and a Happy New Year!

[clemmetarey]

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls050891303/
RANKED

[brokenface]

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls047636355/

Failed to get round to updating but feel like I've probably contributed every year so would be a shame to miss the 10th ed

[ororama]

Ranked list: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls082448981/

[PeacefulAnarchy]

I'll be downloading the lists in roughly 16 hours

[mjf314]

Sorry, I forgot about this poll. Is there still time? If it's not too late, then here's my list: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls055555834/

[PeacefulAnarchy]

I'm working on something else at the moment, so yes still a bit of time

[PeacefulAnarchy]

First post updated, downloading the lists in a bit. I'll accept lists until I start actually prepping the presentation, so either late tonight or tomorrow. I'm anticipating results starting on Monday, but maybe earlier if some other things go quickly.

[Coryn]

5 more lists in comparison to last year !

[Torgo]

Target for next year are more asian and spanish (speaking) films.
Great start in the new year everyone.
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls091893654/

Wow Gordon, we share many of our top favorites! Fingers crossed for a neat outcome of results.
Now if you're even going to increase the Asian part ..

Top 5 new entrants:
13. Masaki Kobayashi

I haven't seen many of the titles in his filmography, but those are almost ridiculously perfect. My average rating probably is like 9/10. To direct Seppuku, 3x The Human Condition and Kaidan in succession and still be a relatively unknown name to Western film circles ..

[OldAle1]

Oh I didn't list my new entries so I will do that now - for me it a new entries in the past 3 years as I didn't do a major update in all that time

Top 12 - nobody
Top 30 - nada

Top 60
Tomu Uchida

Top 111
Ritwik Ghatak
Lev Kuleshov

Top 333
Mario Bava
Peter Bogdanovich
Neil Breen
Robert Breer
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Peter Chan
Alfonson Cuarón
the Dardenne bros
Mike De Leon
Basil Dearden
Guru Dutt
Robert E. Fulton
Ernie Gehr
Greta Gerwig
Alice Guy
Hugo Haas
Marielle Heller
Med Hondo
King Hu
Mani Kaul
Parviz Kimiavi
Satoshi Kon
Joseph Losey
Raya Martin
Christian Petzold
Kelly Reichardt
Paul Schrader
Céline Sciamma
Larisa Shepitko
Yuliya Solntseva
Deborah Stratman
Peter Thompson
Hark Tsui
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Peter Weir
Sadao Yamanaka
Masaaki Yuasa

[PeacefulAnarchy]

Hoping I can start this Wednesday, I thought I had given myself enough lead time but some things came up that took priority. Now I'm busier, but in a more organized way so I think Wed is a reasonable target. Presentation might be a bit plain for the first few days, but that's better than delaying further.