"I've Watched A LOT of MOVIES, Paul!" - The ILX 2013 Film Poll Voting and Discussion Thread -Closes Feb. 28th, Midnight EST

1 - Gimme the Loot
2 - This is Martin Bonner
3 - Mud
4 - Philip Roth: Unmasked
5 - Seduced and Abandoned
6 - Upstream Color
7 - Side Effects
8- Simon Killer
9 - Frances Ha
10 - Beyond the Hills
11 - At Any Price
12 - Nebraska
13 - American Hustle
14 - All is Lost
15 - All the Light in the Sky
16 - The Wolf of Wall Street
17 - What Maise Knew
18 - Inside Llewyn Davis
19 - Behind the Candalabra

forgot - computer chess/bastards; prob half dozen or so contenders that ive not seen

Oh, wait, that wasn't my final ballot – I re-sent it with Inside Llewyn Davis at no.13 and everything else shunted down one.

what'd he do?

Well, that'd be a bit of a spoiler. Looks like What Richard Did never got a proper release in the US. Shame - it's a remarkable film from the guy whose next film will get rather more attention, what with it starring Michael Fassbender as Frank Sidebottom.

I thought about voting for it but I saw it two years ago

I think I had eight or nine where I was the only vote. The only one that surprises me is Nothing Can Hurt Me. Conversely, I'm surprised that Our Nixon and I Am Divine both got a second vote. After I sent in my ballot, I remembered slocki's The Fruit Hunters, which I thought was 2012 but is listed as Jan. 4, 2013 (American release) on IMDB. I probably would have put that somewhere in the 15-20 range.

My ballot:

1. Act of Killing
2. Inside Llewyn Davis
3. Before Midnight
4. 12 Years a Slave
5. Leviathan
6. The World's End
7. Drug War
8. Bastards
9. Museum Hours
10. Beyond the Hills
11. Spring Breakers
12. Like Someone in Love
13. To the Wonder
14. Computer Chess
15. Enough Said
16. Wolf of Wall Street
17. The Lone Ranger
18. Upstream Color
19. Frances Ha
20. Her
21. All is Lost (I forgot I voted for it!)
22. The Wind Rises
23. This is Martin Bonner
24. The Past
25. Byzantium

What Richard Did got a VOD release last summer. I almost watched it based on your raves, Alba. But I didn't.

I thought about voting for it but I saw it two years ago

This won't stop me voting for We Are The Best in next year's poll. Might as well vote outside of festival years, I think.

I liked What Richard did a good deal, it was probably my number 26. But ultimately I thought About Elly covered similar ground but much better.

Good work. Fairly chuffed, if not surprised, at Frances Ha - and not Spring Breakers - being ilx's #1 film of 2013ish.

01. A Field in England
02. Stoker
03. Django Unchained
04. Pacific Rim
05. Lincoln
06. Gravity
07. Lore
08. Magic Magic
09. Mud
10. Frances Ha
11. Captain Phillips
12. Bastards
13. Before Midnight
14. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
15. Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
16. Blue is the Warmest Color
17. You're Next
18. Zero Dark Thirty
19. The Great Gatsby
20. Only God Forgives
21. The Lone Ranger
22. Side Effects
23. Laurence Anyways
24. Byzantium
25. Fast & Furious 6

I think Closed Curtain will actually get a lot of play when it's properly released and people can see it. That's why I initially went for a stricter set of rules but letting it go free and easy worked out just fine.

Also why was I the only one to vote for Stranger By the Lake?!

Didn't get a US release until a few weeks ago.

It only came out in the UK a couple of weeks ago too.

I'll definitely be voting for it next year.

Didn't get a UK release until a few weeks ago either. I've actually been sitting on a copy since December but in my rush to catch up with 2013 films I didn't watch it. It's coming to the cinema here next week so I'm hopefully gonna catch it then.

I think that only opened here a week or two ago.

I mean, I'd seen it in time for the year's poll, but knew that most people wouldn't be voting for it this year, so it would have seemed a wasted vote.

On Closed Curtain: Has it even been picked up? And do you know where I could check stuff like that?

I don't think it does yet, but I'd be shocked if it didn't have some kind of release by years end.

New Wave Films looks like it might be giving it belated distribution. This page says "Spring 2014".

http://www.newwavefilms.co.uk/view-film-detail.html?viewListing=OTU=

Cool! But that's UK, right?

Oh yes, sorry.

They'll also release Norte, which might be at the top of my wish-list at the moment. Hopefully at PIX14.

My ballot:

1 Post Tenebras Lux
2 Faust
3 A Field in England
4 Bastards
5 Computer Chess
6 Berberian Sound Studio
7 Lore
8 Enough Said
9 Inside Llewyn Davis
10 Leviathan

my ballot:

1. a touch of sin
2. before midnight
3. inside llewyn davis
4. the act of killing
5. spring breakers
6. 12 years a slave
7. frances ha
8. the past
9. nebraska
10. to the wonder

This is my #1 and likely to stay so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtNLjGbxiJE

01. Her
02. Spring Breakers
03. Leviathan
04. Room 237
05. Gravity
06. Computer Chess
07. The Missing Picture
08. Museum Hours
09. Post Tenebras Lux
10. Bastards
11. Passion
12. Inside Llewyn Davis
13. A Touch of Sin
14. Before Midnight
15. Viola
16. Upstream Color
17. The Past
18. Faust
19. Frances Ha
20. The Act of Killing
21. The Last Time I Saw Macao
22. The Lords of Salem
23. An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
24. The World’s End
25. White House Down

This is my #1 and likely to stay so

That looks amazing, but I've found no way to see it yet.

This was a fun thread, Gukbe. Thanks for sticking with it. :)

did Missing Picture run anywhere in the US in '13? I remember seeing it in Ed G's top 10, and being p sure it didn't in NYC.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2852470/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ql_dt_2

I didn't see it until 2014, but I figured it was eligible for this poll. In any case, going forward, we should just add onto previous totals if the current year's points outnumber the previous year's, a la Pazz/Jop.

have you seen 2 Guns, Eric? I notice White House Down creeping onto your list there and I think it easily outdoes that in the absurd throwback action stakes

I did. I also saw Olympus Has Fallen (which a much snobbier friend of mine championed). What can I say? Our guilty pleasures choose us, and they all probably suck.

there seems to a surprisingly clear divide between defenders of the two stupid White House under attack movies (I went with WHD as well)

I also voted for Lone Survivor which, despite its many dodgy aspects, does contain possibly the best shootout in American cinema since Heat

Missing Picture got some festival play plus a week-long thing in LA ( and maybe NY?) just for Oscar eligibility. I think it comes out properly (though dubbed in English) this month or the next.

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Also, Cherish, there are ~~ways~~ to see Last Time I Saw Macao

no, NY was only the Festival. LA shouldn't count.

so clemenza is the one non-millionaire in the Western world who liked the Bergdorf Goodman documentary? I saw the trailer and wanted to call in an Al Qaeda operation.

i kinda hated it tbh and i only got through the first half hour

caught up on a few things

Kings of Summer - this was really great, slot it in @ 5 or so

Fruitvale Station - not bad, obv going for more weight but is a few
magnitudes less good than 'gimme the loot'

Dallas Buyers Club - eh Oscar bait

12 yrs a slave - is good, slot in somewhere in my bottom 5

1 - Gimme the Loot
2 - This is Martin Bonner
3 - Mud
4 - Philip Roth: Unmasked
5 - Seduced and Abandoned
6 - Upstream Color
7 - Side Effects
8- Simon Killer
9 - Frances Ha
10 - Beyond the Hills
11 - At Any Price
12 - Nebraska
13 - American Hustle
14 - All is Lost
15 - All the Light in the Sky
16 - The Wolf of Wall Street
17 - What Maise Knew
18 - Inside Llewyn Davis
19 - Behind the Candalabra

forgot - computer chess/bastards; prob half dozen or so contenders that ive not seen

― johnny crunch, Monday, March 3, 2014 6:56 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hope Gukbe does this again.

It's coming! End of January.

Yay! post here to remind when the nominations go up?

i dont think we did noms? just ballots and you were on your own m/l to judge if it met released in the year

whatever's clever. But post here when we start plz? I don't check site new answers really.

Yeah I'll definitely post here. Just giving everyone at least a month to catch up before we even start.

New poll thread is up!