Monday, 29 February 2016

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

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