The Auteurs Poll Results

The results for The Auteurs Poll I conducted are in. You can go to the site where I posted them to see detailed results and discussion.

As voted by 95 users on The Auteurs.com, here are the 10 best films and directors:

The Top Ten Films

1. Citizen Kane – Orson Welles (1941) USA

2. 2001 A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick (1968) USA

3. 8 ½ – Federico Fellini (1963) Italy

4 (tie). The Rules of the Game – Jean Renoir (1939) France

Seven Samurai – Akira Kurosawa (1954) Japan

6 (tie). The 400 Blows – Francois Truffaut (1959) France

Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock (1958) USA/UK

8. The Passion of Joan of Arc – Carl Theodre Dreyer (1928) France

9 (tie). The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola (1972) USA

Rashomon – Akira Kurosawa (1950) Japan

Stalker – Andrei Tarkovsky (1979) Russia

Taxi Driver- Martin Scorsese (1976) USA

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The Top Ten Directors

1. Stanley Kubrick

2. Federico Fellini

3. Alfred Hitchcock

4 (tie). Ingmar Bergman

Akira Kurosawa

Orson Welles

7. Francis Ford Coppola

8. Andrei Tarkovsky

9. Martin Scorsese

10. Jean-Luc Godard

The Auteurs Poll: My Submission

For The Auteurs Poll, which I have mentioned on this site before, I had to compile a top ten list of, what I think are, the ten greatest films. It wasn't easy. I've been working on my list since the beginning of February and have only just recently finished it. Currently, I'm working on counting everybody's lists (over 90 sent in so far), and will soon be publishing the results. In the meantime, here is my submission:

The 10 Greatest Films, listed in alphabetical order:

8 ½ – Federico Fellini (1963) Italy

2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick (1968) USA

Aguirre, the Wrath of God – Werner Herzog (1972) Germany

Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola (1979) USA

Citizen Kane – Orson Welles (1941) USA

The Decalogue – Krzysztof Kieslowski (1989) Poland

Fitzcarraldo – Werner Herzog (1982) Germany

Princess Mononoke – Hayao Miyazaki (1999) Japan

Seven Samurai – Akira Kurosawa (1954) Japan

Synecdoche, New York – Charlie Kaufman (2008) USA

The Auteurs "Sight & Sound" Poll

I've decided to bring some attention to a little project I have in the works.

Modeled after the famous "Sight & Sound" poll conducted every 10 years since 1952, I have begun a poll on the forums on theauteurs.com

The way the original poll works, 100 critics submit a list of, what is in their opinion, the 10 greatest films of all time. In the last 2 polls (1992 & 2002), Sight & Sound has also made a secondary list using the same format but with 100 directors. So, I thought it was only fair that non-professionals had their say. The online community on The Auteurs, is, to my knowledge, the most diverse and intelligent group of film lovers on the internet. There are users from all over the world, of every age, each with different but respectable and refined taste. It is my belief that the collective opinions of the users at The Auteurs is, at least almost, as trustable and important as the critics or the film makers. I am waiting in anticipation to see the final product, which I'm sure will be as quotable a top 10 as any.

As of right now there are already 78 registered voters, with 28 top 10 lists submitted. Voting closes on the first of March.

I am accepting registration from any users on the site, so if you are interested, sign up at theauteurs.com (which you should do anyways, as it is a brilliant site), and then go to the thread I created in the forums, and follow the instructions from there.