"It's not Bro Time, It's POLL Time" The ILX 2015 Film Poll Thread - Voting Ends Sunday February 21st at Midnight EST

if you have time, Gukbe, #41-60 might be interesting

It played here a few weeks before Xmas. I talked myself hoarse urging people to see it.

Criterion just released Heart of a Dog for rental on iTunes and Vudu on Tuesday. I plan to catch it in the next week. The Forbidden Room, however, was (and remains afaik) damn near impossible to see. If it played in the DC area last year, I totally missed the memo. It's the one I really, really wanted to catch up on as well.

41. The Lobster 74 4
42. White God 71 3
43. Son of Saul 69 2
44. What We Do in the Shadows 67 3
45. Maps to the Stars 63 3
46. Wild Tales 63 3
47. While We’re Young 62 3
48. In Jackson Heights 56 3
49. Song of the Sea 56 2
50. Force Majeure 55 3
51. Love & Mercy 53 3
52. The Lady in the Van 53 3
53. Eden 52 3
54. Forbidden Room 51 2
55. Straight Outta Compton 49 2
56. Welcome to Me 49 2
57. Dope 47 3
58. Far from the Madding Crowd 47 3
59. Heart of a Dog 46 2
60. Queen of Earth 45 3
61. Shaun the Sheep Movie 44 2
62. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation 41 2
63. Radiator 41 2
64. The New Girlfriend 41 2
65. Best of Enemies 40 1 1
66. From What is Before 40 1 1
67. Lost River 40 2
68. Mommy 38 2
69. Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem 37 2
70. Dior & I 34 2
71. The Falling 34 2
72. Appropriate Behavior 33 3
73. Arabian Nights Vol. 1 33 1
74. Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict 33 1
75. Stray Dogs (2013) 33 1

Apologizes for the formatting there. First number is points, second number is votes, and if there's a third number, it's the number of #1s.

Maps to the Stars, Force Majeure, and Stray Dogs all placed last year.

ty again

i thought Assayas was on Stewart's side.

I thought he wasn't on anyone's side. They were both reacting to each other, with equal (but opposite) doses of bullshit. I liked that. But then I also thought the movie was great. :P

HTBAG was released in 2013, I mean, i'm okay with some largesses when it comes to releases but 2013 is a whole 2 years prior.

It got a US release in 2015, hence it's inclusion in a number of US-based eoy lists. According to IMDB the only proper release it had prior to 2015 was Russia in 2014.

my ballot

1. The Assassin
2. The Son of Saul
3. It Follows
4. Inside Out
5. Youth
6. Mad Max: Fury Road
7. Oncle Bernard: A Counter Lesson in Economics.
8. Bridge of Spies
9. Carol
10. Trainwreck
11. Red Army
12. What We Do In The Shadows
13. Creed
14. The Martian
15. Far From The Madding Crowd

xpost, yeah i'm out of line, i had friends who saw it in early 2014 (I haven't), that's probably why it's so jarring to me. you did a great job, thanks for organizing this.

I really want to see Oncle Bernard, but I have no idea how I can do so.

I predict The Lobster to be on next year's list.

BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE ftw in 2016!

Fantastic roll-out, thank you Gukbe! My ballot:

Tangerine
Hard to Be a God
The Falling
Taxi Tehran
Welcome to Me
Mad Max: Fury Road
Mommy
Girlhood
Grandma
Amour Fou
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
The Lady in the Van
White God
Carol
Radiator
Horse Money
Far from the Madding Crowd
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting On Existence
Inside Out
The Overnight
Appropriate Behaviour
Listen Up Philip
Love & Mercy
Shaun the Sheep Movie
Dope

It is so awesome to see Tangerine at 2 on the list. Best American film of the year. By far. The final shots of the armenian husband alone in his apartment were almost Costa-esque in my book.

Lady in the Van is television not cinema.

good television tho

xxp ^all of that

It's an outrageously bold piece of work. Every scene is crushingly upfront with the viewer and the characters are so much more knowable for it. I love how it catapults from moments of pure poignancy to manic humour. Its success in light of the way it was shot, cast, funded and distributed felt like a proper reclamation of American independent cinema from the likes of Searchlight. Those performances... Aaaaah. Love love love love this film.

Lady in the Van is television not cinema.

I'm not really concerned with cinema purism. It's obviously a film.

i have the feeling that the joke is on the guy who voted for 'mirror' 41 years after its original release

i mean by that logic, i'd have made 'stalker' my #1 after seeing it in the cinema last year, and we could have had a completely farcical poll

Its a bunch of jokes - you are missing Sokurov, De Sica etc from my ballot.

Voting for great old films gets to be a part of your experience - you wouldn't understand if you watch cartoons and television.

and sheep.

Voting for great sheep gets to be a part of your experience

Sheep is for eating and keeping you warm.

Best movie of 2016 so far is a sheep film

Did it have cartoons in it too?

or 'anime'

sadly not

Rams is from 15! Oh dear, have I already screwed up the 16 list? It's very good, yeah.

Quite want to watch Le Quattro Volte from a few years back, that's a goat film tho

I knew what it was.

Le Quattro Volte is pure cinema so be careful.

Are we doing a 2010-2015 poll?

I'm not sure if that's a veiled insult or just a regular question, but I'd be very keen for a 2010-2015 poll!

nah I'm done playing for the morning - that was just a question.

Voting for great old films gets to be a part of your experience - you wouldn't understand if you watch cartoons and television.

It is a tiring and thankless task pointing out bullshit dichotomies on ILX, but this really is an exceptional example of the genre and should not be overlooked.

agreed

^ says the guy who is struggling with the notion Inherent Vice is ok to be voted for this year.

no struggle, it's '14

Are we getting sniffy about ppl voting for animated films now? Jesus wept

no struggle, it's '14

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 March 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so you're struggling then..

Trump would be proud of Morbs' American exceptionalism

someone's got to fill the power vacuum and lead

also this was my last poll, ladies and gentlemen

wow, Heart of a Dog played nowhere yet, huh? and The Forbidden Room, people?

I'm starting to think we aren't getting HOAD

Forbidden room was my #6

10. It Follows - didn't vote for this, should have, it's as good as pop horror got last year
9. Carol - not terrible, both lead performances excellent, but sabotaged by haynes's restraint
5. Inside Out - sweet, inventive, moving, i dunno... i lack perspective where pixar's concerned
4. Hard to be a God - my #1, and i kind of hated it, "endurance cinema" is right, imagery is everything
1. Mad Max Fury Road - liked this, feel i should have liked it more, maybe i just want to be 10 again

Forbidden Room was fitfully amazing but maddening as a whole. One of my least favorite Guy Maddin flicks.

Ballobt:

Hard to Be a God
World of Tomorrow
Mad Max: Fury Road
Inside Out
What We Do in the Shadows
Tale of Tales
Lost River
The Duke of Burgundy
Wild Tales
Krampus

Oh and while I dug Bone Tomahawk (more so the long, slow journey, less so the Cannibal Holocaust climax), I don't think it ever found a way around it's fundamentally and deeply racist premise. And in fact took several opportunities to throw salt in the wound: "Godless savages", ffs.

Just watched Gueros which was a lot like Girlhood for me in that I found it mostly admirable and even impressive, but it didn't leave any real impression on me. Palacios clearly has talent, but the meta touches were irksome.