Monday 29 February 2016

Director Madness - Chaplin Bracket - Round 1

Welcome to Director Madness! In honor of the March Madness tourney going on this month, I thought I'd have a tournament of my own to determine the best movie director of all time! There will be 32 directors of my choosing going head to head in 1 on 1 rounds, and YOU get to vote for whoever you want to move on. Eventually we get another round, well... You know the drill. So let's get on with it!
 
In this particular posting, we are introduced to the 8 directors in the Chaplin Bracket, named after silent era comedy legend Charlie Chaplin. Who will move on? The choice is yours! Below are the voting polls, and some notable film highlights from each director! Here we go!


Notable Wright Films: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, The World's End, Ant-Man (Oh wait...)

Notable Brooks Films: The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Spaceballs, Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Notable Eastwood Films: High Plains Drifter, The Oulaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino

Notable Iñárritu Films: 21 Grams, Babel, Biutiful, Birdman, The Revenant
Notable Fincher Films: Se7en, Fight Club, Zodiac, The Social Network, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Gone Girl

Notable Shyamalan Films: The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Happening, After Earth, Plot Twist: The Movie
Notable Burton Films: Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas (producer), Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow

Notable Bird Films: The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Tomorrowland

Director Madness - Lang Bracket - Round 1

Welcome to Director Madness! In honor of the March Madness tourney going on this month, I thought I'd have a tournament of my own to determine the best movie director of all time! There will be 32 directors of my choosing going head to head in 1 on 1 rounds, and YOU get to vote for whoever you want to move on. Eventually we get another round, well... You know the drill. So let's get on with it!
 
In this particular posting, we are introduced to the 8 directors in the Lang Bracket, named after legendary silent era arthouse director Fritz Lang. Who will move on? The choice is yours! Below are the voting polls, and some notable film highlights from each director! Here we go!


Notable Nolan Films: Memento, Insomnia, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception, Interstellar

Notable Scott Films: Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, Gladiator, American Gangster, The Martian
Notable Kubrick Films: Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket

Notable Linklater Films: Dazed & Confused, Before Trilogy, School of Rock, Boyhood
Notable Kurosawa Films: Sanshiro Sugata, Ikiru, Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo

Notable Leone Films: A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good The Bad & The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America
Notable Hitchcock Films: Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, The Birds

Notable Carpenter Films: Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, Escape From New York, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live

Director Madness - DeMille Bracket - Round 1

Welcome to Director Madness! In honor of the March Madness tourney going on this month, I thought I'd have a tournament of my own to determine the best movie director of all time! There will be 32 directors of my choosing going head to head in 1 on 1 rounds, and YOU get to vote for whoever you want to move on. Eventually we get another round, well... You know the drill. So let's get on with it!
 
In this particular posting, we are introduced to the 8 directors in the DeMille Bracket, named after O.G. blockbuster director Cecil B. DeMille. Who will move on? The choice is yours! Below are the voting polls, and some notable film highlights from each director! Here we go!

Notable Spielberg Films: Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Indiana Jones Series, ET, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan

Notable Abrams Films: Mission Impossible III, Star Trek, Super 8, Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Notable Cameron Films: The Terminator, Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Titanic, Avatar

Notable Miller Films: Mad Max Series, The Witches of Eastwick, Babe: Pig in the City, Happy Feet

Notable McTiernan Films: Predator, Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October, Die Hard With a Vengeance

Notable Verhoeven Films: Soldier of Orange, Robocop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers

Notable Snyder Films: Dawn of the Dead (2004), 300, Watchmen, Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Notable Bay Films: Bad Boys, The Rock, Armageddon, Transformers, 13 Hours, A Random Explosion

Director Madness - Welles Bracket - Round 1

Welcome to Director Madness! In honor of the March Madness tourney going on this month, I thought I'd have a tournament of my own to determine the best movie director of all time! There will be 32 directors of my choosing going head to head in 1 on 1 rounds, and YOU get to vote for whoever you want to move on. Eventually we get another round, well... You know the drill. So let's get on with it!
 
In this particular posting, we are introduced to the 8 directors in the Welles Bracket, named after Citizen Kane director Orson Welles. Who will move on? The choice is yours! Below are the voting polls, and some notable film highlights from each director! Here we go!

Notable Coen Brothers Films: Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country For Old Men, Burn After Reading, True Grit

Notable Wachowski Brothers Films: Bound, The Matrix Trilogy, writing V For Vendetta, Cloud Atlas, Jupiter Ascending

Notable Scorsese Films: Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, The Departed, The Wolf of Wall Street

Notable Coppola Films: The Godfather Trilogy, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders, Bram Stoker's Dracula

Notable Tarantino Films: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight

Notable PTA Films: Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood

Notable De Palma Films: Carrie, Scarface, The Untouchables, Carlito's Way, Mission: Impossible

Notable Stone Films: Platoon, Wall Street, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Any Given Sunday