Friday 30 September 2016

DIRECTORS AND THE FILMS THEY VOTED FOR AT SIGHT & SOUND 2012 POLL!

DIRECTORS AND THE FILMS THEY VOTED FOR AT SIGHT & SOUND 2012 "GREATEST MOVIES" POLL!


SIGHT & SOUND HAS BEEN DOING "THE GREATEST MOVIES" POLL FOR 70 YEARS NOW. FROM 1952 TO THE LATEST ONE IN 2012. THEY INTRODUCED THE DIRECTORS POLL IN 1992, BEFORE THAT ONLY CRITICS USED TO VOTE. 

Altough many directors, have voted but I decided to tell only of the 12 directors , which are famous. If you are intrested in checking out other's list as well, you can check it here - http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/voters

SO, LETS START. (the films are in alphabetical order)

* FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA (THE GODFATHER, APOCALYPSE NOW)
1960
Billy Wilder
1958
Andrzej Wajda
1960
Akira Kurosawa
1946
William Wyler
1953
Federico Fellini
1983
Martin Scorsese
1980
Martin Scorsese
1951
Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly
1927
F. W. Murnau
1961
Akira Kurosawa

* WOODY ALLEN (ANNIE HALL, MANHATTAN)
1959
François Truffaut
1963
Federico Fellini
1972
Federico Fellini
1948
Vittorio de Sica
1941
Orson Welles
1972
Luis Buñuel
1937
Jean Renoir
1957
Stanley Kubrick
1950
Akira Kurosawa
1957
Ingmar Bergman
* TERRY JONES (MONTY PYTHON & THE HOLY GRAIL, LIFE OF BRIAN)
1989
Woody Allen
1982
Steven Spielberg
1984
Ingmar Bergman
1998
Thomas Vinterberg
1926
Buster Keaton
1993
Harold Ramis
1955
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1933
Wesley Ruggles
1937
David Hand et al
2010
Lee Unkrich
* ANURAG KASHYAP (GANGS OF WASSEYPUR, BLACK FRIDAY)
1979
Francis Ford Coppola
1948
Vittorio de Sica
1960
Jean-Luc Godard
1984
Ingmar Bergman
1974
Francis Ford Coppola
2003
Fatih Akin
1960
Michael Powell
1957
Guru Dutt
1976
Martin Scorsese
1995
Danny Boyle
* MICHAEL MANN (HEAT, THE INSIDER)
1979
Francis Ford Coppola
2009
James Cameron
1925
Sergei M Eisenstein
2009
Alejandro González Iñárritu
1941
Orson Welles
1963
Stanley Kubrick
1946
John Ford
1927
Carl Theodor Dreyer
1980
Martin Scorsese
1969
Sam Peckinpah
* MARTIN SCORSESE (TAXI DRIVER, RAGING BULL)
1968
Stanley Kubrick
1963
Federico Fellini
1958
Andrzej Wajda
1941
Orson Welles
1963
Luchino Visconti
1946
Roberto Rossellini
1948
Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger
1951
Jean Renoir
1962
Francesco Rosi
1956
John Ford
1953
Mizoguchi Kenji
1958
Alfred Hitchcock

*  STEVE MCQUEEN (HUNGER, SHAME)
1966
Gillo Pontecorvo
1998
Claire Denis
1966
Andy Warhol
1989
Spike Lee
1963
Jean-Luc Godard
1983
Sergio Leone
1939
Jean Renoir
1953
Ozu Yasujirô
1953
Henri-Georges Clouzot
1933
Jean Vigo
* SAM MENDES (AMERICAN BEAUTY, JARHEAD)
1959
François Truffaut
1986
David Lynch
1941
Orson Welles
1984
Ingmar Bergman
1974
Francis Ford Coppola
1969
Ken Loach
1968
Roman Polanski
1976
Martin Scorsese
2007
Paul Thomas Anderson
1958
Alfred Hitchcock
* QUENTIN TARANTINO (PULP FICTION, RESERVOIR DOGS)
1979
Francis Ford Coppola
1976
Michael Ritchie
1976
Brian de Palma
1993
Richard Linklater
1966
Sergio Leone
1963
John Sturges
1939
Howard Hawks
1975
Steven Spielberg
1971
Roger Vadim
1997
John Flynn
1977
William Friedkin
1976
Martin Scorsese
* EDGAR WRIGHT (SHAUN OF THE DEAD, HOT FUZZ)
1968
Stanley Kubrick
1981
John Landis
1976
Brian de Palma
1934
Busby Berkeley
1973
Nicolas Roeg
1933
Leo McCarey
1960
Alfred Hitchcock
1987
Joel & Ethan Coen
1976
Martin Scorsese
1969
Sam Peckinpah
* DAVID O. RUSSEL (THREE KINGS, THE FIGHTER)
1986
David Lynch
1974
Roman Polanski
1972
Luis Buñuel
1972
Francis Ford Coppola
1990
Martin Scorsese
1993
Harold Ramis
1947
Frank Capra
1994
Quentin Tarantino
1980
Martin Scorsese
1958
Alfred Hitchcock
1974
Mel Brooks


 So, whose list was the most similar to yours? Let me know down in the comment section!

Last, but not least, here is my list, YES! I'm no filmmaker, not even 1/2 of these directors. But still, it is free to take FEEL of it, ani't it!

* VASTIK MISHRA (---------, -------------)


Apocalypse  Now
1979
Francis Ford Coppola
Bicycle Thieves, The
1948 
Vittorio de Sica
Breathless
1960
Jean Luc-Godard
Chinatown
1974
Roman Polanski
Dr. Strangelove
1964
Stanley Kubrick
Gangs Of Wasseypur
2012
Anurag Kashyap
Godfather: Part I, The
1972
Francis Ford Coppola
Hidden
2005
Michael Haneke
Pulp Fiction
1994
Quentin Tarantino
Seventh Seal, The
1957
Ingmar Bergman
Short Film About Killing,  A                        1988           Krysztof  Kieslowski

Taxi Driver                                                     1976           Martin Scorsese


HOPE YOU ENJOYED,  WOULD LOVE TO READ YOUR LISTS, DOWN IN THE COMMENT SECTION!

THANKS FOR READING!

-VASTIK MISHRA