Guys Guys, I'm Sorry, No, There's a Mistake - The 2016 ILX Film Poll Results Thread

No De Palma hack bullshit job! Guzman was made by what happened to his country, goes back again and again to the events from different angles and shades. I really needed to see more from him when the BFI put up a season two years ago - a lot to discover.

Another tie here

52. (Tie) Tower (d: Maitland) - 63 pts. 3 votes

http://i.imgur.com/WSYT8dr.jpg

52. (Tie) Indignation (d: Schamus) - 63 pts. 3 votes

http://i.imgur.com/ptzUe3N.jpg

Nostalgia for the Light was class, so I'm up for this.

Indignation was my number 4. I loved it, and it seemed to just come and go.

Last three seem intriguing and I've not even heard of any of them

Another tie

50. (Tie) Anomalisa (d: Kaufman, Johnson) - 65 pts. 3 votes

http://i.imgur.com/dsNdUYZ.jpg

50. (Tie) Maggie's Plan (d: Miller) - 65 pts. 3 votes

http://i.imgur.com/dvc5wBl.jpg

Anomalisa is just one of the worst trailers - not sure how anyone could sit through (never mind vote!) for it.

I had a strange pull to see Maggie's Plan but never got around to it.

The Love Witch seems like it's going to be some bullshit capital-c camp thing, where everything is in quotation marks. But instead it simultaneously takes its premise (feminist tale of a real witch with plenty of death and weird rituals) AND its style of filming (late 50s/60s lavish studio Technicolor) 100% seriously, and takes them to their natural limits. Also, moreso than any film I've seen this year, it doesn't tell you what to think about its characters or the events of the film.

The Love Witch also totally beautiful, the costuming and the set design, all shot in 35mm, with really well-modulated performances. I didn't write these tweets but this thread sums it up for me. https://twitter.com/MrPaulDuane/status/833101458891472896

I was one of the Indignation voters, another one where I was pleasantly surprised. It seems like it's going to be a stodgy period-piece prestige literary adaptation, but it ends up being far more interesting than that thanks mainly to an incredible 10-minute scene between Tracy Letts and Logan Lerman halfway through

I gave Anomalisa my no. 1 vote

I like capital-c camp a whole lot

I hate-watched Maggie's Plan and Cafe Society on the same day, but Maggie's Plan was actually pretty enjoyable. It was like a smoother-flowing Listen Up Philip.

Micheal B: You did, I'm sorry I forgot to note that.

"Capital-c camp" was the wrong way to put it. What I meant is that the film isn't saying "Isn't the way they used to make movies ridiculous? Aren't old styles of acting bad and corny?" like some things I've seen.

I didn't vote for Zootopia but Jason Bateman is a fox.

Anomalisa made me feel incredibly sick on several levels, but it was quite astonishing to see that appalling feeling of gut-wrenching paranoid reappraisal writ large for a semi-mainstream audience. The breakfast scene was the most memorable part for me.

49. Sing Street (d: Carney) - 66 pts. 3 votes

http://i.imgur.com/3PkQA6s.jpg

I feel like Anomalisa was one of those movies with a big message that I didn't quite get, but I really liked the idea that the sound of one's voice can be the key thing that makes them attractive to you

I enjoyed watching Sing Street, as flimsy as it is. My main takeaway is that, in my mind, they play a song that just sounds like Alphabeat's "Fascination" when I think of it, though not as good.

saw and liked sing street but couldn't imagine voting for it haha

Screenshot does a great job of encapsulating the best things about the film

haha otm

"I didn't vote for Zootopia but Jason Bateman is a fox."

lol

48. The Lobster (d: Lanthimos) - 68 pts. 4 votes

http://i.imgur.com/VwNadtF.jpg

My film critics circle pick! http://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/florida-film-critics-circle-awards-snub-moonlight-in-its-major-categories-9012735

I'm not a fan, but it's a triumph of tone and quiet yuks/yucks.

Absolutely hated this. Had a UK cinematic release back in about March 2015. So arch and smug

I thought it was some bullshit. I remember being actually appalled at the shot of Ashley Jensen on the ground.

Anomalisa: Really liked it minus one revelation about 2/3 of the way through (to say more would be spoiler-y) that felt puzzlingly arbitrary to me.

The Lobster: Got half-way through before something happened that revulsed me so much that my sympathies were no longer with the film, and thus continuing with it was (I felt) pointless. Again, to be more specific would require spoilers, but lets just say I'm a dog person.

When it comes to the primacy of children, it can't be smug enough.

i know some people really love this the lobster, but it played like a high-concept napoleon dynamite to me

Did it make it to the list last year?

we should say the hell with release date pedantry

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, March 7, 2017

or the hell with time-traveling nihilists

no Fred, bcz the hell with Europe

Lobster is great, btw. Visually the best Lanthimos by far. First half is best, but second half was more of a bonus to me, rather than a letdown.

a high-concept napoleon dynamite

what a terrible oxymoron; watch Dogtooth

It just seemed somehow so overwrought and stilted (beyond the intentional stiltedness). Barely hung together and was full of gross little touches that made me never want to see Dogtooth no matter how often people say to.

Oh Dogtooth is far more gross.

It didn't make the list last year. I was so surprised at how low it was I rechecked the ballots.

47. High-Rise (d: Wheatley) 69 pts. 3 votes

http://i.imgur.com/O7Bu7ew.jpg

does dogtooth have a scene as stupidly overwrought as "The gun whose trigger you just pulled wasn't loaded!" break-in thing in the middle of the lobster?

My #3. Fuck you alllllll

imago won a t-shirt from Ben Wheatley at the Q&A

Wheatley speaks to my soul and on this occasion he speaks to my soul with a giant overblown mad-ride through trenchant social commentary and it's GLORIOUS

Felt afterwards like I should have read the book instead.

I'm amazed there are straight men who love it!

Samantha Robinson's performance suggests Julie Nixon Eisenhower... unleashed.

The RenFaire 'wedding' where the cop and the witch are giving their theories of love in v/o is a standout.

The best film of 2017 is called Janbal and is from Iran and will probably be impossible to see for anyone. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

I love Frederik's tips. This one's not even on IMDb but there's some info here:

http://en.mehrnews.com/news/123853/CPH-DOX-to-host-Iranian-documentary-Janbal

Hope it'll come further out. It's this absolutely amazing mix of local and trans-national - portraying beliefs on a small Iranian island, but influenced from all over the Persian gulf - + old and modern - mystic belief system portrayed on grainy digital. It does some of the same things as Eduardo Williams The Human Surge, which some of you might have seen a few weeks ago?