BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE ftw in 2016!
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 March 2016 07:33 (eight years ago) link
Fantastic roll-out, thank you Gukbe! My ballot:
TangerineHard to Be a GodThe FallingTaxi TehranWelcome to MeMad Max: Fury RoadMommyGirlhoodGrandmaAmour FouThe Diary of a Teenage GirlThe Lady in the VanWhite GodCarolRadiatorHorse MoneyFar from the Madding CrowdA Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting On ExistenceInside OutThe OvernightAppropriate BehaviourListen Up PhilipLove & MercyShaun the Sheep MovieDope
― tangenttangent, Friday, 4 March 2016 10:01 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Frederik B, Friday, 4 March 2016 11:23 (eight years ago) link
Lady in the Van is television not cinema.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 March 2016 11:41 (eight years ago) link
good television tho
― Laertiades (imago), Friday, 4 March 2016 11:43 (eight years ago) link
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.
― tangenttangent, Friday, 4 March 2016 11:44 (eight years ago) link
I'm not really concerned with cinema purism. It's obviously a film.
― tangenttangent, Friday, 4 March 2016 11:47 (eight years ago) link
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
― Laertiades (imago), Friday, 4 March 2016 11:52 (eight years ago) link
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.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 March 2016 11:56 (eight years ago) link
and sheep.
Voting for great sheep gets to be a part of your experience
― tangenttangent, Friday, 4 March 2016 11:57 (eight years ago) link
Sheep is for eating and keeping you warm.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 March 2016 11:58 (eight years ago) link
Best movie of 2016 so far is a sheep film
― Laertiades (imago), Friday, 4 March 2016 11:58 (eight years ago) link
Did it have cartoons in it too?
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 March 2016 12:01 (eight years ago) link
or 'anime'
sadly not
― Laertiades (imago), Friday, 4 March 2016 12:02 (eight years ago) link
Rams is from 15! Oh dear, have I already screwed up the 16 list? It's very good, yeah.
― Frederik B, Friday, 4 March 2016 12:08 (eight years ago) link
Quite want to watch Le Quattro Volte from a few years back, that's a goat film tho
― Laertiades (imago), Friday, 4 March 2016 12:12 (eight years ago) link
I knew what it was.
Le Quattro Volte is pure cinema so be careful.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 March 2016 12:16 (eight years ago) link
Are we doing a 2010-2015 poll?
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 March 2016 12:18 (eight years ago) link
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!
― tangenttangent, Friday, 4 March 2016 12:20 (eight years ago) link
nah I'm done playing for the morning - that was just a question.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 March 2016 12:22 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 4 March 2016 12:29 (eight years ago) link
agreed
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 March 2016 12:31 (eight years ago) link
^ says the guy who is struggling with the notion Inherent Vice is ok to be voted for this year.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 March 2016 12:34 (eight years ago) link
no struggle, it's '14
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 March 2016 12:37 (eight years ago) link
Are we getting sniffy about ppl voting for animated films now? Jesus wept
― i;m thinking about thos Beans (Michael B), Friday, 4 March 2016 12:40 (eight years ago) link
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
― 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..
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 March 2016 12:55 (eight years ago) link
Trump would be proud of Morbs' American exceptionalism
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Friday, 4 March 2016 12:57 (eight years ago) link
someone's got to fill the power vacuum and lead
also this was my last poll, ladies and gentlemen
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 March 2016 13:03 (eight years ago) link
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
― anglos with derpy phasis (wins), Friday, 4 March 2016 13:24 (eight years ago) link
10. It Follows - didn't vote for this, should have, it's as good as pop horror got last year9. Carol - not terrible, both lead performances excellent, but sabotaged by haynes's restraint5. Inside Out - sweet, inventive, moving, i dunno... i lack perspective where pixar's concerned4. Hard to be a God - my #1, and i kind of hated it, "endurance cinema" is right, imagery is everything1. Mad Max Fury Road - liked this, feel i should have liked it more, maybe i just want to be 10 again
― leet gentlemen's club (contenderizer), Friday, 4 March 2016 13:29 (eight years ago) link
Forbidden Room was fitfully amazing but maddening as a whole. One of my least favorite Guy Maddin flicks.
― leet gentlemen's club (contenderizer), Friday, 4 March 2016 13:31 (eight years ago) link
Ballobt:
Hard to Be a GodWorld of TomorrowMad Max: Fury RoadInside OutWhat We Do in the ShadowsTale of TalesLost RiverThe Duke of BurgundyWild TalesKrampus
― leet gentlemen's club (contenderizer), Friday, 4 March 2016 13:35 (eight years ago) link
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.
― leet gentlemen's club (contenderizer), Friday, 4 March 2016 13:41 (eight years ago) link
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.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Friday, 4 March 2016 17:18 (eight years ago) link
The meta bit was awesome! The whole film is so playful, I fell in love with it.
― Cherish, Friday, 4 March 2016 19:59 (eight years ago) link
The second meta bit in particular bugged me, like it was aware of itself as a cliche of Mexican cinema (I'm assuming by the dialogue, anyway) and wanted to preempt criticism in a "clever" way.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Friday, 4 March 2016 20:19 (eight years ago) link
That assumes he thought he'd get criticism, which seems improbable. Who cares if he pays tribute to the French New Wave? Plus it's a timeless look, pre-filtered nostalgia, as if Tomás were already grown and looking back. That's the whole movie, to me: youthful resilience and brother-love.
― Cherish, Friday, 4 March 2016 21:07 (eight years ago) link
Cemetery of Splendour is starting in NYC this week, right? I'll vote for that next year, that's for sure.
― Frederik B, Friday, 4 March 2016 21:34 (eight years ago) link
Opens tonight as part of MIFF. Gonna catch it next weekend.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 March 2016 21:35 (eight years ago) link
"Really wanted to see The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution"It is currently on i-playerhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b071gr5h/storyville-20152016-17-the-black-panthers― calzino, Thursday, March 3, 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It is currently on i-player
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b071gr5h/storyville-20152016-17-the-black-panthers
― calzino, Thursday, March 3, 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ty, now to try and find time to watch it.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 5 March 2016 18:30 (eight years ago) link
Cemetery of Splendour is fanstastic indeed, saw right after sending my ballot.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 5 March 2016 18:41 (eight years ago) link
Heading to Mexico for Gueros. From what's been said, I'm hoping for a Bolañian odessey into the infinite, but charmingly so.
― tangenttangent, Saturday, 5 March 2016 20:42 (eight years ago) link
:O
― tangenttangent, Saturday, 5 March 2016 22:35 (eight years ago) link
I don't know what I can say. It was everything I wanted it to be, and my expectations are rarely met.
I want to go and write an essay about Mexican breakfasts. I need to watch it again immediately.
― tangenttangent, Saturday, 5 March 2016 22:37 (eight years ago) link
Really really cool, watched it mad high tho
― Laertiades (imago), Saturday, 5 March 2016 22:50 (eight years ago) link
i watched world of tomorrow - loved it, its a work or art imo; still would prob not have voted for it on this list tbf
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 5 March 2016 22:56 (eight years ago) link
It was everything I wanted it to be, and my expectations are rarely met.
Yay! Isn't it great?! :D
― Cherish, Sunday, 6 March 2016 01:11 (eight years ago) link
The whole film was amazing, but the way that big climactic scene ended pretty much brought our house down
― Laertiades (imago), Sunday, 6 March 2016 09:46 (eight years ago) link