You Think We’re in Ohio Yet? Road Movie Nominating/Voting Thread - VOTING CLOSES MIDNIGHT, MAY 15th

Oh, one thing: you've got Sightseers missing an 's' from the end on the nominations list.

Not Holy Motors, but there is the Croenenberg with Robert Pattison?

Crash?

I kid, I kid, though that is, er, a road movie of sorts. No, I looked it up and you mean Cosmopolis, which I think I might actually have been entirely conflating in my head with Holy Motors?

Important book from 1982

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Was about to suggest Goodbye Pork Pie

A couple more nominations:

Slow West
Leningrad Cowboys Go America

Thanks. The list is up over 200 now, most of which passed the "(title) + road movie" Google test. Nominations technically close Monday, but that's fluid. I would like to finish up by mid-month, so hopefully ballots will start to trickle in next week. There are a few copies of that book on Abe--new ones expensive, used about half that.

This is such an amorphous genre. When voting in the comedy poll, I could always fall back on "Does this film make me laugh?"; in the horror poll, "Does this film scare me?" (or, sometimes, "Does this film look great and creep me out?"). Here it's something like "Does this film capture my restlessness and vague feelings of unfulfillment in an atmospherically elliptical way--and do people drive a lot?"

I really want to see Eight Miles High.

http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2007_Eight_Miles_High/007EMH_Natalia_Avelon_004.jpg

"Does this film capture my restlessness and vague feelings of unfulfillment in an atmospherically elliptical way--and do people drive a lot?"

Results thread title

As I said, keeps my mind off work.

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/poster_zpszjqxih7n.jpg

it's a shame the true winner The Dog of the South is a book.

Some more:

La Nuit de Varennes
Stagecoach
Kill List
On the Road
Arigato-san (Mr. Thank You)
The Motorcycle Diaries
Race with the Devil
Detour (1945)

Haven't seen Detour, but sounds like a solid noir. It's up on youtube, will watch.

I guess this never happened:

http://filmschoolrejects.com/hilarity-ensues-bill-hader-greg-mottola-adapting-dog-of-the-south-e9227032291e

Does it have lots of unexpected enounters?

Yes, almost all of which involve the protagonist being mocked.

Probably for the best that never worked out. In a perfect world the Coens would do it with Goodman as Symes.

I don't know if I've seen enough of these to come up with a decent list, but I rewatched Cold Fever recently and really enjoyed it, I'd seen it at age 15 or so and was a little concerned it would be painfully quirky but it holds up.

An abbreviated ballot of 10 (maybe 15 points each?) is fine.

Just rewatched The Milky Way in preparation for voting, got Wanda lined up for later in the week.

I think I might just be squeezing into the nominating deadline, but to add to the 'no driving but surely a road movie' list - I nominate El Topo.

By the way, I'm assuming the Breathless that's on the list is A Bout de Souffle and not the American remake, right? I don't want to accidentally vote for the remake.

Likewise with Vanishing Point.

I assume originals unless otherwise stated.

Yes for both (didn't realize they remade Vanishing Point...I have the original on DVD but still haven't watched it).

Always had it in my mind that Jack Nicholson's Drive, He Said must be a road movie, but evidently not.

I think you'll be really impressed by Wanda.

Second the Wanda rec, I saw it on cable when I first got it and was really impressed (with the movie and with cable TV in general for unlocking such a vast archive that would otherwise be unavailable) but as the years progressed cable TV just drifted more and more into lowest common denominator shit.

I want to nominate Basilicata Coast to Coast, but it's going to get crossed off my list pretty early.

The remake of Vanishing Point is... not great. It's tries to tie in with the 90s-era militia movement and... bleh.

The only vote will come from me, so I'll post my favourite road-movie still here:

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/sugarland_zpsjceqdg6p.jpg

I don't think I've ever encountered anyone, here or elsewhere, who loves that film as much as I do. I suspect it's still relatively (i.e., for a Spielberg film) unseen. Kael's review, which I'd read before I ever saw the film, undoubtedly influenced me a lot there.

I tried to track it down for this poll, but neither my library nor my On Demand selection has it.

It was around in remainder bins a few years ago, but I haven't seen it recently. It won't help you for the poll, but I'm pretty sure I bought an extra copy at the time that I could send along if you're really interested in seeing it.

Yeah, if you have an extra, I'll definitely take it! Need me to email you with my info, or do you still have it?

Thanks a bunch!

Went through my stash of doubles, and I guess I gave it to someone at some point. But I'll keep an eye open; I still see it around.

And, while I wouldn't vote for it, Magical Mystery Tour must count...
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I've never seen it, but I just came across this line in Dreaming the Beatles: "And what does it mean that their next project without Brian was a road movie?"

I just saw that its gonna be on TCM on Friday! Scarecrow as well. The night's theme is "Cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond. I'll be PVRing both.

(whether or not I'll be able to squeeze all of these in by the deadline is another matter. I just grabbed Paris, Texas and Stranger Than Paradise from the library, and I still haven't watched L'Avventura yet)

Excellent. May rewatch Scarecrow myself.

Wow, so Wanda is truly a great film. Very beautiful pacing, and I found Loden's performance really moving.

Love the non-ending.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-76PV0XanjUA/U0Rn96uZcpI/AAAAAAAAAnI/F3T5ahqqQt0/s1600/Wanda+9.png

First two ballots shared five films, one which I would have said looks like a cheesy '90s American film that I guess is much better than that--just ordered it off of Amazon.

I'm gonna be trying to squeeze in a film a day until the due date, but I'm not sure if I'll get to 25. How do I structure the points if I want to submit a ballot of, say, 20?

That's 80% of 200, so 160 points? But if you want to split up the full 200, no big deal.

As pointed out above, TCM tonight:

8:00 PM – The Sugarland Express (1974)
An ex-convict springs her husband from prison to keep their child from being adopted

11:45 PM – Scarecrow (1973)
Two hitchhikers with wildly different backgrounds become fast friends.

(Doesn't appear to be a road movie, but it's actually the film between those two I want to watch, Jerry Schatzberg's Sweet Revenge. Came out in '76--never even heard of it, to my surprise.)

Typically conked out--I'm basically the "I'm tired, I'm tired" Cuckoo's Nest guy these days. I watched about the first third of Sugarland Express, took a break before Sweet Revenge, fell asleep and missed the beginning, didn't even try to last for Scarecrow. Loved this one shot in Sugarland Express:

http://cdn1-www.comingsoon.net/assets/uploads/1970/01/file_571671_sugarland-express-movie-club-old-couple-1142012-235502.jpg

Yes, the real purpose of this post is as a reminder: need ballots!

Voted!

Great. That's five, including me--still hoping for 20.

The road, it's a lonely place.

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/empty%20road_zpsw5yf6eyq.jpg

I'm out of deadline hell, so I'll put my ballot together this morning.

Wow @ Smokey and the Bandit not being on the nominations list.

All write-ins count, so don't hesitate to vote for it.

The road, it's a lonely place.

I watched six that were new to me before I voted. Had plans for more, but I ran out of gas. :)

Wow @ Smokey and the Bandit not being on the nominations list.

Yeah, I found it kind of hard to think of things that would qualify. I'd often have them filed away as something else in my head.

25 seems like a lot considering it's a somewhat short nomination list. Also, is there a reason for including Fitzcarraldo but not Aguirre?

The reason is that you have not yet written 'Aguirre' on your ballot.

I think only because I mentioned the former and not the latter. Actually, I think Aguirre fits the remit better, and I was half-joking at my stretching of the definition of road movie.

Also, remember: All write-ins count, so don't hesitate to vote for it.

There are a couple more things I want to watch before my ballot gets sent in, but I have most of the rest sorted. Am currently struggling with the maths to make mine staggered in points the way I want them, though.

Added Aguirre, also a write-in vote that makes sense to me: No Country for Old Men.

Llewelyn: "Are we in a road movie right now?"
Anton: "Not in the sense that you mean."

Voted.

Thanks for the ballots so far--now up to...eight. I guess I'll keep the window open through the weekend. Short of 20, I don't know if it's worth tabulating everything. Just jot down 20 or 25 films; don't fuss over the order. You can't see everything--go for what you know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN2i5G03P2c

I do kinda wanna vote for this but yeah compiling a film ballot takes me a lot longer than a songs ballot, for reasons that I would think are obvious

has this been nominated yet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_(2015_film)

Hoping for those two, plus two more--that'd be 20.

Coming up shortly! Btw, I read 'midnight, May 15th' as being midnight tomorrow, not midnight tonight, if you get what I mean?

Okay, sent. I actually ended up with too many films that I wanted to put on the list, but I think it's a solid ballot in the end.

Yeah, I goofed there--meant midnight tonight, which is more accurately the 14th.

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Yeah, I had about eight that I finally decided to cut, so I didn't end up giving a lot of films 1 or 2 points.

It's coming! After dinner + walking the dogs, I'm watching one more road movie, just in time to squeeze the ballot in before midnight.

One more road movie for the road...

Voted with three mins to spare. In my haste, I forgot the points breakdown but the one you quoted to me upthread works.

Here's a surprise: the actor to appear in the most number of films on my ballot is Randy Quaid.

Thanks, everyone. I'll get images ready the next couple of nights, then do #40-21 on Wednesday, #20-1 on Thursday. Nineteen ballots, so just missed 20. I won't start embedding text into images until tomorrow night; I'm working from an easily updateable spreadsheet, so if any ballots show up overnight or through the day tomorrow, I'll count them.

Really looking forward to the images in the countdown! Realised I forgot Something Wild on my ballot so hoping others didn't.

Something Wild was one of the ones I cut. Kind of a Sophie's Choice with each of them.

Sent!

Which was the elusive 20th ballot I was hoping for--thanks...#41-50 are strong, so I'll do #50-31 on Wednesday, #30-11 on Thursday, and the Top 10 on Friday. I want to do it during the day, which'll mean posting from work; the posts will be half-an-hour apart, but I'll get everything set up ahead of time so I can work that. ("Teacher, teacher--" "Just give me 15 seconds here.")