Over David Lynch, Sidney Lumet, Spike Lee, Richard Linklater? Uh huh. Sure.

You don't know me dude. I've marched for gay marriage, for breast cancer, for Michael Fing Dukakis. I'm not the strawman in your head.

Vigo died of tuberculosis at 29. What is Deren's excuse?

Here's some irony for you: approximately zero of the directors on this list would agree with you. Political Correctness is a scourge that threatens honest discourse. Civility, inclusiveness, openness - all great. Jamming fake equalism down everyone's throats at every turn? That's hot garbage. It's propaganda, and it's…

I wouldn't call it my problem. I'd say my OBJECTION is that Maya Deren is not even remotely defensible for inclusion on this list on the merits. The AV Club's PROBLEM was that they realized that they had made an entirely male list, so they pretty clearly shoe-horned a woman in at the last minute. Should've gone with…

Your masculinity crisis? I would recommend weightlifting and iron supplements. Maybe talk to a doctor about low T. But it's your personal journey and you have to make your own decisions.

Have you ever considered the possibility that defending the inclusion of third rank female artists is insulting? That it implies a vote of no confidence in the entire gender? Your logic, in a nutshell, exposed: since women will never belong on a list like this on their own merits, we have to give one of them a slot…

The scales are falling from my eyes. Of course! It was right there in front of me all along. You and Katie are totally right. Maya Deren's cumulative 3 hours of black and white inanity is definitely greater than the body of work put forth by Cecil B. Demille. You win. I thought Deren's inclusion was a pathetic - and…

If you thought Katie's case was perfectly good, I can't help you. But maybe that's because I don't understand Deren's work since I don't "understand her… as a mystic"

That's a pretty lame white flag you're waiving there. You know Deren doesn't deserve to be on the list - that no credible case can be made for her - so you've got to play the passive SJW card. Good luck with that.

He somehow goes unmentioned because he's not that great. My point isn't that Darabont is great. My point is that he's inarguably had a greater career than a woman who directed a few pretentious short films that very few people saw and even fewer people like.

You can be forgiven for not knowing anything about Deren because she absolutely makes Darabont look like a towering figure. She directed zero feature films. Just a handful of shorts. Pretty sure 4 is still more than 0.

And Jonathan Demme. And Frank Darabont. And Jules Dassin. And Stanley Donen.

Maya Deren over Cecil B. Demille. That's a piping hot take alright.