The Syndicate

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 4:09 pm**

I <3 Jean-Luc Picard too Vomps!

Oh wait - nevermind

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 4:11 pm**

I'm missing some names here, like Kieslowski, the Marx brothers, Charlie Chaplin, Wim Wenders...
But this is hard even without those. I love so many movies made by some of these directors, like Magnolia, Mystic River, Rashomon, Solaris (the original one) and many many more.
But,and this is a little embarrassing to admit, because lord knows he has his share of crappy films, out of this list, the one director I would go out to see his movie just because it's his, is Woody Allen. He's my guilty pleasure

linki: Vompatti, I love that you have Wenders there

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 4:16 pm**

Roxy wrote:I <3 Jean-Luc Picard too Vomps!

Oh wait - nevermind

i prefer shatner

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 4:44 pm**

I saw at least one film by only 45 or so of those directors.

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 4:45 pm**

It seems I really need to be educated on my film directors.

All the more reason I'm excited to play this game!

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 4:59 pm**

Vompatti wrote: not in a completely non-random order:

(...)
wim wenders
(...)
michael haneke
(...)
lars von trier

I will be forever grateful to Wim Wenders for introducing a bunch of ignorant North Americans to the absolute wonder that is Bausch's Tanztheatre Wuppertaal. His film so perfectly captured and reproduced the power of Bausch's incredibly visceral, intimate, and theatrical work (no small feat in itself), but the film also (and more importantly for me, who has worshipped that woman's being since I was a wee and terrified little ballerina just beginning to discover the entire world of movement/expression/experience that exists beyond pointe shoes and perfect technique) did an incredible job of forefronting the profound respect and genuine affection that Bausch had for the incredible artists that she worked with. I loved that film, I adored that woman, and I love Wenders for preserving/reimagining her work in a different medium. I should probably watch more of his films...

Michael Haneke's "Amour" broke me. I just can't even.
I have never been more affected by a film in my entire life. I to this day cannot speak about that film without falling apart.
I should probably not see more of his films, because that one absolutely ruined me and I don't think I could handle that again.

I have a very strange affection for Lars Von Trier's "Melancholia". It was just such an stunningly beautiful, quiet, atmospheric, odd, strangely ecstatic little apocalypse movie. I absolutely love that film. I think that makes me not very cool (my film buff friends universally hated it), but I think about that film often...
I also liked "Dancer in the Dark", so maybe I should watch more of his films, too...

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:09 pm**

von Trier's Melancholia opened me to Wagner. No joke. Ironically, though, most wagnerians I've read actually despise his (mis)use of Wagner in that movie. I finally listened to the whole Tristan und Isolde after seeing the movie and I was instantly transfixed. Melancholia, incidentally, is also the type of movie that's totally bonkers, but in a rather good way.

Also, I'm getting confused why some are writing in normal color and others in green on basically the same subject, i.e. talking about movies.

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:18 pm**

Ricochet wrote:von Trier's Melancholia opened me to Wagner. No joke. Ironically, though, most wagnerians I've read actually despise his (mis)use of Wagner in that movie. I finally listened to the whole Tristan und Isolde after seeing the movie and I was instantly transfixed. Melancholia, incidentally, is also the type of movie that's totally bonkers, but in a rather good way.

Also, I'm getting confused why some are writing in normal color and others in green on basically the same subject, i.e. talking about movies.

because it's sort of non-game related but also sort of on topic k

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:19 pm**

I dunno about others, but I like to use ot green for anything that I write that I think won't be relevant to people who are trying to catch up on or re-read the thread for game purposes. It's a visual indicator that they can just skip over long chunks that have nothing to do with finding mafia

Since the poll is just a check-in poll, and since it's still Day 0, I am considering all of this chat to be OT (but SUPER informative and enjoyable!!), so I'm using green so skimmers can skip it if they choose to or are pressed for time.....
But I don't think its a hard and fast rule? Whether or not something is OT is pretty subjective, methinks....

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:20 pm**

....or, what Vomps just said but way more succinctly!

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:31 pm**

So the poll has no bearing on the game, but its discussion does?

Oh oh.

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:35 pm**

Ricochet wrote:So the poll has no bearing on the game, but its discussion does?

Oh oh.

Sort of. One could refer to it later in game, but Day 1 is where people really start paying attention.

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:39 pm**

Since polls are part of the game I find all discussion related to polls to also be related to the game regardless of how relevant this particular poll is to the rest of the game.

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:42 pm**

Vompatti wrote:Since polls are part of the game I find all discussion related to polls to also be related to the game regardless of how relevant this particular poll is to the rest of the game.

how do you know how relevant what is said is to the game q.m.

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:44 pm**

Vompatti wrote:Since polls are part of the game I find all discussion related to polls to also be related to the game regardless of how relevant this particular poll is to the rest of the game.

That is ture.

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:51 pm**

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 6:06 pm**

A Person wrote:
Vompatti wrote:Since polls are part of the game I find all discussion related to polls to also be related to the game regardless of how relevant this particular poll is to the rest of the game.
how do you know how relevant what is said is to the game q.m.

i don't k butt i was once told not to post the word "bump" in a regular colour so i'm assuming everything other than seemingly inductive speculative statements such as "Because of the way A voted in day X poll I believe B is likely to be in the mafia" is widely considered irrelevant by default.

which is silly because mafia is basically random anyway

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 6:56 pm**

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 6:58 pm**

This discussion has been awesome, it has given me some good ideas about what I would like to put on my "must see" list.

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 7:02 pm**

S~V~S wrote:This discussion has been awesome, it has given me some good ideas about what I would like to put on my "must see" list.

I still don't really have the urge to watch movies.

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 7:05 pm**

i used to go to the moveis three (3) tiems a wweek butt then they closed all the ddecent cinemas

Roxy wrote:Bump

<3

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 7:11 pm**

in this moment i am bcaon

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 7:12 pm**

You should not have done that

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 7:22 pm**

S~V~S wrote:You should not have done that

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 8:29 pm**

I don't know as many directors as the host, but I do see two glaring omissions. Where are Michael Curtiz and Raoul Walsh?

Curtiz directed Casablanca and the Maltese Falcon, both considered among the best movies ever made, and Walsh is probably my second favorite director for such works as White Heat, The Thief of Baghdad, and the Roaring Twenties.

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 8:29 pm**

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 8:30 pm**

I mean, Tyler Perry makes the list but not Michael freaking Curtiz? I sense a bias towards modern directors at the expense of the classics.

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 8:36 pm**

i don't know who tyler perry is butt i'm assuming the list is mostly recent/popular american cinema flavoured in order not to intimidate the plebs?

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 8:38 pm**

thellama73 wrote:I mean, Tyler Perry makes the list but not Michael freaking Curtiz? I sense a bias towards modern directors at the expense of the classics.

Who do you think is funding this game?

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 8:38 pm**

Vompatti wrote:i don't know who tyler perry is butt i'm assuming the list is mostly recent/popular american cinema flavoured in order not to intimidate the plebs?

This is an excellent point (as always) from you, my fine Finnish friend, but I think Casablanca is popular enough for the plebs, especially given some of the other obscure/art house names on the list.

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 8:40 pm**

Also, fun story: I once had to card Brian de Palma when he bought a bunch of CDs at the record store where I worked (company policy). He was not amused.

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 8:44 pm**

I resent being called a pleb

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 8:45 pm**

S~V~S wrote:I resent being called a pleb

It gets easier with time.

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 9:41 pm**

I really am a film pleb, so I don't mind it.

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 9:54 pm**

Hi all! Also, Mongoose game w00ticles! Since we all love our Mongoose.

I only went with George Lucas because of how much Star Wars means to me and my childhood. Of the directors on the list I am most familiar with, I would say Kubrick is my favorite.

Also, this is probably all you'll hear out of me until Friday. I'm trying to work on a mini-project for work and have been really tired the last few days. But I have Friday-Sunday off of work so I'll have a bit more energy then.

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 9:58 pm**

Gahhhhh so hard to chooooose!!!! I guess I am a big fan of Lord of the Rings so I'll go with good ol' Peter Jackson but it was a tough choice.

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 10:05 pm**

sabie12 wrote:Gahhhhh so hard to chooooose!!!! I guess I am a big fan of Lord of the Rings so I'll go with good ol' Peter Jackson but it was a tough choice.

Have you seen Dead Alive? It is his best work. (hi Sabie!)

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 10:40 pm**

*is definitely a film pleb*

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 11:06 pm**

thellama73 wrote:I mean, Tyler Perry makes the list but not Michael freaking Curtiz? I sense a bias towards modern directors at the expense of the classics.

I did it for the lulz. I mean he is a very popular director. And wears the hell out of a suit in Gone Girl, by the way.

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 11:07 pm**

Mongoose wrote:
thellama73 wrote:I mean, Tyler Perry makes the list but not Michael freaking Curtiz? I sense a bias towards modern directors at the expense of the classics.
I did it for the lulz. I mean he is a very popular director. And wears the hell out of a suit in Gone Girl, by the way.

Do you think Michael Curtiz is a good director? (Y/N)

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 11:09 pm**

Vompatti wrote:
Vompatti wrote:
Mongoose wrote:
Vompatti wrote:he's k but not in my personal top 100
What IS your personal top 100?
i might make one k
not in a completely non-random order:

andrei tarkovsky
jean-luc godard
wim wenders
jean eustache
jean vigo
walerian borowczyk
robert bresson
luis bunuel
akira kurosawa
rainer werner fassbinder
john cassavetes
aki kaurismäki
emir kusturica
leos carax
pier paolo pasolini
maya deren
marco ferreri
werner herzog
kenneth anger
gabor body
tommy wiseau
jean cocteau
f. w. murnau
alain resnais
carl theodor dreyer
francois truffaut
alain corneau
frank henenlotter
dusan makavejev
jim jarmusch
krzysztof kieslowski
jean-pierre melville
masaki kobayashi
lucio fulci
rene clair
louis malle
eric rohmer
buster keaton
jan svankmajer
victor sjöström
irving lerner
roman polanski
milos forman
sergio leone
e. elias merhige
michael haneke
david cronenberg
alain robbe-grillet
volker schlöndorff
michelangelo antonioni
lars von trier
hans richter
bela tarr
jean rollin
russ meyer
jean-jacques beineix
robin hardy
david lynch
sergio corbucci
richard brooks
stanley kubrick
otto muehl
sergei eisenstein
ed wood
stuart gordon
alexander dovzhenko
leonard kastle
john ford
matti ijäs
dario argento
francesco rosi
jean renoir
mario bava
teuvo tulio
john hillcoat
luchino visconti
henri-georges clouzot
sam peckinpah
fritz lang
john huston
alexander sokurov
takashi miike
umberto lenzi
orson welles
mikko niskanen
charlie chaplin
federico fellini
martin scorsese
ingmar bergman
fatih akin
michel gondry
robert altman
jacques rivette
ken russell
luc besson
peter greenaway
bernardo bertolucci
ridley scott
tim burton
peter weir

OMG let's get married

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 11:09 pm**

So I'm your mod.

I'm glad I'm the mod.

This all looks too complicated for me.

I thought there were like, four or five directors. Six, tops.

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 11:10 pm**

Good call on Milos Forman, Vomps. Another unforgivable omission from our host.

Posted: **Wed Jan 21, 2015 11:11 pm**

thellama73 wrote:
Mongoose wrote:
thellama73 wrote:I mean, Tyler Perry makes the list but not Michael freaking Curtiz? I sense a bias towards modern directors at the expense of the classics.
I did it for the lulz. I mean he is a very popular director. And wears the hell out of a suit in Gone Girl, by the way.
Do you think Michael Curtiz is a good director? (Y/N)

Yes. Again, 50 spots! I had 210 in there originally. Can you imagine what it was like for me to cut... how many ever people that is from the poll?

Visceral pain.

Posted: **Thu Jan 22, 2015 2:11 am**

A Person wrote:I really am a film pleb, so I don't mind it.

Whatever a film pleb is, I am probably lower than that.

Posted: **Thu Jan 22, 2015 2:15 am**

Vompatti wrote: tommy wiseau

Searched your list for this, was not disappointed.

Posted: **Thu Jan 22, 2015 2:55 am**

DFaraday wrote:
Vompatti wrote: tommy wiseau
Searched your list for this, was not disappointed.

oh hai film director

Posted: **Thu Jan 22, 2015 3:08 am**

Dom wrote:*is definitely a film pleb*

Then there needs to be a lower status.

I have never seen Casablanca. I don't like old movies, I like modern ones. I saw Citizen Kane at some point, and I don't really remember a single frame of it, I just know it bored me. I saw Gone With The Wind recently, and I enjoyed Rhett Butler's character, disliked the main chick, and just didn't feel immersed or invested in the storyline all that much.

In a game such as this, where it seems that so many of you have such a deep respect and admiration for these artsy directors whose movies I will never see, and whose names I will never remember.

My top movie of all time is The Matrix, I think that is the most perfect movie I have seen. Second and third are Braveheart and Aliens.

Posted: **Thu Jan 22, 2015 3:30 am**

the Matrix and Aliens are awesome, but Braveheart? Fucking Braveheart?!?!?!?

Just GTFO. Now.

Posted: **Thu Jan 22, 2015 3:45 am**

What's not to enjoy about Braveheart?

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