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.

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.

ctrl f raid 2
ctrl w

Life of Riley will be in the 2015 list.

no, it got a '14 theatrical US release, its WINDOW is in that year

Its being shown in the UK in a month or so.

Maidan looks great - I suppose you all caught it in 2014?

https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/maidan

I did; it's pretty good but not sure it'd crack my top 5 doc/essays

voted

10 votes in so far. Final week.

does that count Mordy's "here are the six I saw" or not?

excuse me, i believe i voted for 8 thank u very much

re: raid 2, i saw it in theaters and had high hopes after the great experience of the first raid. it didn't quite live up.
watched "test" last night and it was great! we tried john wick and my girl freaked out when reek from game of thrones killed a puppy and that sorta put that on ice after fifteen minutes of grumpy keanu

Test is pretty OK for a gay movie, not anything for EOY lists imho.

Borgman is way too fucking vague about its central (non-)metaphor.

i've done some peripheral work with sidra bell, the choreographer on test; i thought the dancing was a+. as a portrait of west coast gay life at the dawn of the post-AIDS era it felt honest but wtf do i know

like i was a ten year old straight kid in the bible belt during the time so maybe it was more like mad max

I seriously rep it for anyone who enjoys deep character study and the word 'bogun'.

"bogan"