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

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.

the book stinks too

I don't see enough new movies during the year for a ballot of mine to be in anyway meaningful

didn't stop our douchiest regular, apparently

Tower wouldn't have shown up if I hadn't self-loathingly voted, so there's that. damn u Gukbe

obv O.J. is winning

46. Jackie (d: Larrain) - 70 pts. 4 votes

http://i.imgur.com/FeD2w69.jpg

my main revelation from this film - I didn't realize Jackie Kennedy had such a weird accent

shoot this movie back and to the left

Jackie Kennedy had such a weird accent

Marilyn Monroe's!

45. The Fits (d: Holmer) - 71 pts. 4 votes

http://i.imgur.com/Nbbjc1A.jpg

^brought this home from the library this very night

The plot reads similarly to The Falling (which I loved). Does anyone know if there's a connection there?

One of the films I regret missing.

It's pretty great.

44. Sieranevada (d: Puiu) - 72 pts. 2 votes

http://i.imgur.com/dpai3AP.jpg

wish I could have seen this. I really love The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

I've not hear of any of these films! Good work ilxors!

Saw it, liked it enormously; ineligible in my eyes. Still apparently w/out US distribution.

Yeah, pretty stoked to see it whenever it eventually comes out.

You people and your unreleased Romanian films.

Every Year!

unlike ESPN miniseries

43. Arrival (d: Villenueve) - 73 pts. 5 votes

http://i.imgur.com/tlxjOs7.jpg

Was among the two votes for Love Witch and am at least glad it's placement here is going to spur a lot of redressing.

And The Fits gets better and better in memory. Already wish I'd have slotted it higher.

GTFO with Jackie

42. 20th Century Women (d: Mills) - 76 pts. 5 votes

http://i.imgur.com/Y2oIpl6.jpg

Lots of people I know love this. I saw it twice and thought Mills interfered, as usual, with the3 pathos of his own material.

That film gets better the more I think about it. Molly Haskell was pretty good on it.

Bening and Crudup are terrific together.

wish I liked the Jóhannsson score to Arrival more, it was disappointing to me.
loved 20th Century Women

Tower is something which shouldn't work, but the rotoscope pulls you in more effectively than a straightforward reenactment would and the scene where the newscaster announces his grandsons death is one of the most gut wrenching scenes of last year.

Last one for the night

41. Loving (d: Nichols) - 77 pts. 4 votes

http://i.imgur.com/21SrSV3.jpg

that image captures the best moment of the movie for me

The worst I can say about 20th Century Women is its more of a showcase for great moments than a great film. Which is to say, it made my list without hesitation.

Sometimes too quiet; I don't think Nichols has the skill yet to make that sort of stillness work. Often moving, though, especially Negga. If you got kids, watch it on a double bill with I Am Not Your Negro.

The Fits: Quite good, and surprising. I went in expecting something like, I dunno, Real Women Have Curves or some such thing and got something much closer to It Follows.

I was expecting 20th Century and Loving to be tedious awards bait (despite Nichols especially), but was pleasantly surprised to find both far more intelligent and engaging as a result.