The Rules

Each Round two directors will face off.

We will watch 2 new films from each director per round and then based on that information determine who will move on in the tournament. In each successive round the director’s previous films watched will be considered as well as the films watched for that round.

If a director runs out of movies only the films watched in previous rounds will be considered. But the lack of film material will can be considered towards whether or not they move on in the tournament.

Director’s films will be selected for viewing in order from most hyped to least hyped. Films will first be selected where the director won the academy award for best director. Next films in which the director did not win best director but won best picture. Following that films that did not win the Academy Award for either award but won the Best Directing Category in the Golden Globes. Following that films that won the Best Picture in the Golden Globes. Following winning films will be films that were nominated for the above awards and did not win also following the same order of importance. Following that we will defer to the highest films that the director has on the AFI top 100 movies of all time. Once that list has been exhausted films will be selected based on whichever film the director is most known for amongst their remaining films. At this point it will likely be subjective but I will attempt to consult as many notable sources as possible. If there are ever films that are tied the films highest on the AFI top 100 will be the tie breaker. If that fails to work we will select the films that we most want to see.

If a film is inaccessible (i.e. not on DVD and therefore not retrievable via Netflix) then it cannot be considered in the tournament.

Both I and batgirl reserve the right to go back and adjust our reviews or picks based on the viewing of more material or changing of our mind. All reasons for adjustments though will be noted in the individual review.

Decisions of which director moves on in the tournament will be made based on whatever system the individual reviewer has decided to use. I believe that Batgirl has chosen to use some sort of hippie power whatever feels best system. While I on the other hand have determined a far more rigorous scoring system that I will blog about in the future.