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The Directors Cut #2

  • David Lean 22
  • Ingmar Bergman 14
  • Billy Wilder 48
  • 2023-06-23
  • —2023-06-24
  • 84 votes
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It's time for our second Directors Cut poll 😄 John Hughes was the winner of our first poll and I absolutely loved the three winning films, especially Planes, Trains and Automobiles 🥹 Lets see who comes out on top for the second vote 🤔 The voting will end Saturday evening (24th).

What is it?

Similar to the HIT THE DECADE! poll, but this time you get to help chose three films I react to. More specifically three films from a certain director that you vote for. This won’t be a monthly poll, maybe more likely to be every six weeks/two months.

How does it work?

The first vote will be to decide which directors movies I react to. There will be a choice of three. This part of the poll will be a Patreon only vote for all tiers. Feel free to suggest in the comments any movies by those directors you would like to see.

Once a winner is decided, I will gather up to 10 movies from that director and put them into a poll, again on Patreon, but this time open to the public as well. You can vote for as many or as few movies in this poll, with the top three being the movies I react to.

I will then let you know the three winning movies. If there is a specific order I should watch the movies in, please let me know in the comments, otherwise I will react to the third placed movie first, and work my way up to the first placed movie.

Why am I doing this?

I want to explore different directors and experience they’re unique directing styles and ideas.

Comments

Eric Janssen

You never know what you're going to get from Billy Wilder: Snarky screwball comedy, or classic Hollywood drama. Some Like It Hot, The Seven Year Itch and One Two Three are good examples of the former, and Sunset Boulevard, Stalag 17 and Double Indemnity are GREAT examples of the latter.

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Bill W

Wow, we're digging deep here. I'll have to look up their filmography. I recognize 2 of the 3 names, but have no idea what they did. This will be an adventure and learning experience for many of us I presume.

Philip Jackson

Agreed. But his range is just a testament to his talent, and all of the films you mentioned are worthy candidates. I could wish to see all of them, reviewed, and why not, Dawn's Rules to make, are Dawn's Rules to break.

Alan Jones

For Billy Wilder, please include The Apartment (1960). Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine in top form, Fred MacMurray in an uncharacteristcally sleazy turn, in the end getting his due comeuppance, plus a theme tune that will haunt you forever (in a good way). Lots of laughs, lots of heart.

Alan Jones

I suggested separately below, but let me mention The Apartment (1960) at this point, too. Part of the "former" (good solid comedies).

Robert Jewell

Billy Wilder: The Seven-Year Itch (1955), The Apartment (1960), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)

Eric Janssen

Which two? Of the other two, David Lean tended to do large-scale sweeping salt-of-England epics like "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Bridge on the River Kwai", while Ingmar Bergman has a reputation as "the most depressing director ever", specializing in doomed, introspective Swedish dramas, most famously "The Seventh Seal". (And frequently parodied for his stylized downbeat tone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1TlAd6M-xU )

Casey Fairley

Here's the career film range of each choice by the actual release dates of all their films. Billy Wilder - 1931 to 1981, Ingmar Bergman - 1950 to 2003. David Lean - 1941 to 1998.

DawnMarieAnderson

Some times there might be less known directors, other times it will include more well known ones. I like to have a mix, especially for getting to experience movies I would never think about watching. Like when I watched my first Marx Brothers movie. It's something I'd probably never have watched, but I'm so glad someone suggested it because I've fallen in love with their movies! The same might happen for you. You could end up discovering a new director and really enjoying their movies 😊 The same happened with western movies for me. Movies by John Ford and Sergio Leone I can't get enough of now, which probably would have been movies I would never have watched!

Bill W

I've heard of Bergman and Wilder, but couldn't cite any of their work. I need to look up all three.

Ted Little

These are three of the greatest directors in film history, perhaps roughly equivalent to Raphael, Rembrandt, and Picasso in painting. That "many regular movie fans" don't know them is probably the reason that, whenever Dawn Marie does a poll, there is such a strong bias toward inferior recent films over the true classics. Great films have been made in all eras but they have been few and far between in recent years.

Retro Maven

Some of the best comedies I've seen were Billy Wilder movies: Some Like it Hot (1959), One, Two, Three (1961), The Fortune Cookie (1966), not to mention some classic dramas like Witness for the Prosecution (1957), A Foreign Affair (1948), and The Spirit of St. Louis (1957). I hope he wins!

kajota

I don't think I've ever laughed during a Billy Wilder "comedy". His dramas are really good though.

Bartleby

Sunset Boulevard is essential for Billy Wilder

Louis Marzullo

B. Wilder. The Apartment, Sunset Blvd., 7 Year Itch, The Lost Weekend. So tired of people whining because they've never heard of something or worse, making assumptions about others' knowledge & tastes. Dip a toe outside your comfort zone, for C*****'* sake! Dawn states in her channel description she will watch anything from 1930's on (Btw Dawn, can you back that up another 10 or 12 years?😁). If you can't deal with something from previous century, you can find plenty of CGI-dominated channels☮️

Bartleby

You see it a lot in Dawn’s YouTube comments. There are constantly randos baffled and for some reason very angry that Dawn watches so many older movies. They try and pressure her to watch the same trending crap that every other channel watches. Well here’s a crazy idea, why not just go watch one of those other channels (of which there are dozens) that do nothing but watch modern trending crap in order to chase the runoff of clicks from the algorithm. I love that Dawn’s channel continues to grow despite not being a carbon copy of the majority of movie reaction channels and their boring safe choices.

kajota

Yea, it bored me to tears. Totally not my thing. I also was unimpressed with The Apartment. My brain doesn't have the receivers for whatever version of comedy those movies are transmitting.

sarCC

Yes! Billy Wilder! Please remember to include Double Indemnity. Most classify it as film noir instead of comedy, but it really feels like a satire of those hard-boiled crime stories. It is also very funny and has some terrific dialogue. Pairs really well with Sunset Boulevard.

Bartleby

Well that’ll be up to the voters won’t it. It’s funny that you say that about Double Indemnity. I actually hate that movie. I think the lead actor is terrible and horribly miscast in the movie. I think you’re right though. The movie works much better if you approach it as a comedy. Except it isn’t.

Louis Marzullo

Fair enough. I think I'm the only person I know that can't stand The Breakfast Club, so there you are🤓

JL Green

Billy Wilder is the best choice as his films are the most diversified.

Dennis Shogren

Hobson’s Choice (1954, Lean) Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie

Bill W

I actually see more complaints geared in the other direction... "Same predictable stuff!" "Hollywood schlock!" etc.. They seem to forget, we' all seen the mainstream movies and we've had a chance to analyze and rate them. Nothing wrong with giving Dawn the same opportunity. Having said that, a lot of shite movies get recommended. 😀

Simon

Wow. Those are some unexpected choices. I love this. I've only seen a couple of my chosen director so these will be watchalongs for me

Thomas Taylor

David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago would be my picks