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Not to say anything, but people outside of US vote for US films with releases next year all the time, it was kinda the reason for waiting until February to make the list - to let all the oscar-pap permeate all over. Hard to be a God is a hardcore stereotypical European festival-film, why not acknowledging it's 'real' window as being the festival tour it took in 2014, even though it came out elsewhere in 2015? Like, I'll put Imitation Game on my 2014 list, even though it only came out in Denmark in 2015, because it's the epitome of oscar-pap from the 2014 season (just kidding, I'll neither see nor vote for Imitation Game in time for this list. Might be a masterpiece, don't have the time. Oh, the abyss of unknowability.)

Anyway this is just for consideration. I accept all behaviour from everyone, except voting for Boyhood.

― Frederik B, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 11:52 (nine years ago) link

submitted my vote. quite a few things ive not seen but n/m.

― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 11:59 (nine years ago) link

Frederik, US ROOLZ, FESTIVALS DROOL

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 12:00 (nine years ago) link

also about 4 people on this board have seen Hard to Be a God

(and I don't think it would make my top 20 for '14 anyway)

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 12:07 (nine years ago) link

gutted i missed that at the LFF last year. hope it gets a uk release at some point.

― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 12:12 (nine years ago) link

You've all seen the Josephine Decker ones, right? I can vote for them?

― Frederik B, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 12:37 (nine years ago) link

they've played here for a week, i avoided them

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 12:48 (nine years ago) link

They're good! Especially Thou Wast Mild and Lovely.

― Frederik B, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 13:07 (nine years ago) link

I forgot to vote for L is for Leisure. Hope others don't make this heinous mistake.

― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 13:11 (nine years ago) link

I'm not going to vote for anything that doesn't have gay sex in it.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 10 February 2015 13:19 (nine years ago) link

Open to suggestions.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 10 February 2015 13:19 (nine years ago) link

Swedish film Something Must Break. It won Saga Becker the Guldbagge for best actress, as the first trans woman in the history of Sweden. There's some pretty explicit gay sex in that.

― Frederik B, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 13:23 (nine years ago) link

Eric H - Moebius has no gay sex but has a high cock count.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link

voted

― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link

just lmk when Mordy's open troll is invalidated

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link

my ballot is 100% sincere and represents the finest films i've seen in 2014

― Mordy, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 18:10 (nine years ago) link

eat shit

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 18:10 (nine years ago) link

gosh so hostile

― Mordy, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link

Did anyone see N: the madness of reason? I loved it and it will be high on my ballot; markeresque cine-essay about a French guys attempt to write an encyclopaedia of west Africa

― k3ller of sh1p (wins), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 18:47 (nine years ago) link

I accept all behaviour from everyone, except voting for Boyhood.

― Frederik B, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 11:52 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This has made my day. Spent half of 2014 reappraising people based on responses to this film.

Very excited about absorbing some last minute inspiration here. N and Something Must Break added to a (growing) list of nine films I should feasibly be able to make it through before ballot closes.

Did anyone see All This Mayhem? About unlikely Aussie skating stars the Papas brothers and their tumultuous (to put it lightly) passage through early pro skateboarding. It's not an area I know or am at all passionate about, but ended up seeing it at the cinema twice, such was the giddy thrall of its hideousness. I seriously rep it for anyone who enjoys deep character study and the word 'bogun'.

― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 19:19 (nine years ago) link

I feel like i post this list everywhere, but here's a bunch of things I loved / things that got inordinate critical acclaim that I still need to see that are readily available streaming on netflix... am i wrong to assume that all us ilxors have this either on their own dime or pirated on someone else's account?

― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 19:24 (nine years ago) link

oh and:
It Felt Like Love - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70268905

― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 19:25 (nine years ago) link

lol is Oculus the WWE horror movie?

― Mordy, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link

First I've seen of this list! That's this week written off... Yay!

― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link

i don't do Netflix. The library is free.

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 19:30 (nine years ago) link

you could get a free month on Netflix but I'm sure you don't care

― Number None, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 19:35 (nine years ago) link

Yeah there's loads to watch before voting, including that Aussie skater doc. And Leviathan! Where's flopson to tell us not to watch films immediately before voting, though?

― Josh Whitehurst the endowed drummer and backing vocalist (imago), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link

that's the right oculus. it got strong reviews in the horror community! Haven't seen it yet myself.

― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link

and i'm otherwise happy to field questions on that list if anyone has them.

i do still need to see Leviathan. And Only Lovers Left Alive. And The Dance of Reality and Night Moves. And The Boxtrolls,
Starred Up, Birdman, Foxcatcher, Big Hero 6, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, The Lunchbox, Nightcrawler, The Strange Little Cat, Mr. Turner, Whiplash, Inherent Vice, Obvious Child, Top Five, Get On Up and Maps to the Stars. And Enemy, Song of the Sea, John Wick, Locke, Force Majeure, A Field in England, The Blue Room, Wild, The Overnighter, Actress, American Sniper, The Tribe, Happy Valley, The Salt of the Earth, The Naked Room, Selma, A Most Violent Year, Maidan, Lucy, Gone Girl, Noah, Interstellar, X-Men Days of Future Past and Nymphomaniac (or as much of it as I can manage).

Can't see everything!

― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link

Maps to the Stars isn't out in the US til the end of this month, forks.

I still think my fave line of dialogue this year was Uma Thurman's in Nymphomaniac.

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 21:02 (nine years ago) link

If only we were doing full Oscar categories, I'd be giving Uma all my points.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 10 February 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link

btw this is how we in NYC keep track of what opened here

http://www.panix.com/~dangelo/nymaster14.html

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link

thanks for the list, forks

― contenderizer, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link

no prob.
that page you posted is nutso morbs

― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 21:55 (nine years ago) link

"Can't see everything!"

words to live by

― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 21:55 (nine years ago) link

My best of list:

Strangers by the Lake
The Immigrant
Norte, The End of History
Abuse of Weakness
Child's Pose
Mr. Turner
Only Lovers Left Alive
Love is Strange
The Wind Rises/The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
The Babadook
National Gallery
Borgman
Young & Beautiful
Test
Happy Christmas
Pride
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear
Boyhood
Inherent Vice
Manakamana
Noah

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 22:02 (nine years ago) link

my antipathy to ozon means i can't pretend to want to try young and beautiful
but our general alignment of tastes means i'm adding Borgman and Vic and Flo to my list
now justify happy christmas

― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 23:10 (nine years ago) link

borgman is excellent, you will like

― contenderizer, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 23:22 (nine years ago) link

also, forks, of that list of stuff you still need to see, enemy comes highly recommended. stylish, surreal & very creepy. gone girl sucks tho. and i'm dying to see song of the sea, but don't think i'll be able to until march :(

― contenderizer, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 23:34 (nine years ago) link

Alfred we share a few in common

There are a couple things I haven't seen from 2014 but there's no way I'd have time to see them in time to make it count on a ballot.

― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 23:51 (nine years ago) link

do we have a 2015 thread for movies? because i wanna see if anyone has seen "Wild Tales," which looks like fun. Out of Argentina.

― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 03:21 (nine years ago) link

Raymond, we've got many things in common!

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 03:43 (nine years ago) link

Thinking of voting for Wake in Fright, a 2014 re-ish.

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 11:07 (nine years ago) link

2012 re-release in the US

― contenderizer, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 11:23 (nine years ago) link

probably going with Vertigo as #1

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 11:46 (nine years ago) link

Lol

― k3ller of sh1p (wins), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 13:07 (nine years ago) link

we have a board for movies that no one uses.

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 13:14 (nine years ago) link

Yes, that board is definitely for "movies that no one uses."

― Eric H., Wednesday, 11 February 2015 14:09 (nine years ago) link

Useless movies 2015

― k3ller of sh1p (wins), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 14:11 (nine years ago) link

it's not a M Mann board

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 14:12 (nine years ago) link

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have now seen 'boyhood' and 'actress' and def rate both - boyhood would be somewhere top-3, actress is prob like 7th-8th

my ballot

The Newburgh Sting
Palo Alto
Finding Vivian Maier
Adult World
The One I Love
Land Ho!
Blue Ruin
The Humbling
Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart
Life Itself
Happy Christmas
Inherent Vice
Bansky Does New York
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Young and Beautiful
Watermark
Jodorowsky's Dune
Birdman

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, February 25, 2015 2:10 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― johnny crunch, Sunday, 14 June 2015 00:17 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

Netflix Instant Watch update for 2014 nominees here (and a few others I'd either recommend or are interested in):

― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 August 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link

― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 August 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link

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