People, they love blood. They love action. Not this talky, depressing, philosophical ILX 2014 Film Poll Thread - Voting closes Friday, Feb. 21st at Midnight EST.

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

voted

just lmk when Mordy's open troll is invalidated

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

eat shit

gosh so hostile

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

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'.

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?

Child's Pose: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70270821
Manakamana: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/80010744
Like Father Like Son: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70275749
The One I Love: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70299863
Watermark: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293817
Stranger by the Lake: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70285670
Blue Ruin: http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/70278931
Bird People - http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Bird_People/80008461
Gideon's Army: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70267832
Finding Fela: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70299905
Particle Fever: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70296323
We are the Best! : http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293818
The Unknown Known: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70292939
Exhibition: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70296526
Gloria: http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Gloria/70270790
Ida: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293721
Memphis: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70301276
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70274594
Frank: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70299856
The Missing Picture: http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/70285668?
Miele: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70285698
Venus in Fur: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70275370
Violette: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293814
The Last of the Unjust: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70285696
The Double: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293645
Virunga: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/80009431
Test: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70288488
The Immigrant: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70275521
The Retrieval: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70272892
Oculus: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293316
13 Sins : http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70291114
Big Bad Wolves: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70274589
The Taking of Deborah Logan: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70301341
Stray Dogs - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293821
Joe - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70293723
Last Hijack - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/80014767
Fifi Howls from Happiness - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/80011705
Abuse of Weakness - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70292975
Dormant Beauty - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70257739
Norte End of History - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70285700
What Now? Remind Me - https://www.netflix.com/Movie/70299632

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

lol is Oculus the WWE horror movie?

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

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

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

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?

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

thanks for the list, forks

no prob.
that page you posted is nutso morbs

"Can't see everything!"

words to live by

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

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

borgman is excellent, you will like

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 :(

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.

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.

Raymond, we've got many things in common!

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

2012 re-release in the US

probably going with Vertigo as #1

Lol

we have a board for movies that no one uses.

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

Useless movies 2015

it's not a M Mann board

Missed Resnais' Life of Riley when it ran here, not AVAILABLE until March 10.

It's finally playing DC for one night next week but I'm working.

Saw Leviathan yesterday and...no.

why no? save me some trouble.

so heavy handed and "let me explain all of these metaphors to you multiple times". reasonably entertaining though. I liked Elena so I was a let down. I might be in the minority on this.

plenty of the cinephile polls have Leviathan nowhere in their top 20/50. (as should've been the case with the last Leviathan)

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), 11. februar 2015 04:21 (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah. It's fun

It's only really the last half hour of Leviathan that overdoes the symbolic metaphor type stuff, and there's lots of surprisingly riotous comedy before that. Worth seeing, imho.

probably going with Vertigo as #1

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, February 11, 2015 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

damn a proper film critic in the thread

so heavy handed and "let me explain all of these metaphors to you multiple times". reasonably entertaining though. I liked Elena so I was a let down. I might be in the minority on this.

― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe

hi!

not seen elena but I just bumped the zvyagintsev thread to largely concur with gukbe

like we get it, he's Job, and then here comes the local priest "have you heard the story of Job?!" and it's just too much.

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