"I cannot start my day with a confrontation" The 2017 ILX Film Poll Voting Thread - Ballots Due Sunday, March 4th at 7pm EST.

On body & soul was good!

From the fest here I liked kékszakállú and the forest of lost souls

I also recommend voting for twin peaks

By the Time It Gets Dark is pretty slowcore, fyi. Also my least favorite of the four.

Have you guys seen Wonderstruck?

I have not! It is not on my radar at all. Would you recommend? Thanks for the advice too. Definitely going to try and watch On Body and Soul and Berlin Syndrome before the deadline.

For now we are watching I Am Not a Witch, but everything mentioned is getting added to the list.

Paddington 2 is great, unless you hated Paddington 1

Paddington 2 is so deeply moving and emotional that it transcends traditional categorization

Would you recommend?

I do recommend it! It's a kids's movie, really, but carefully and cleverly designed for film buffs -- with its two story lines filmed in two distinct styles.

I think you'll really like the other two also. I'm always happy to pass on good movies!

Wonderstruck doesn't really work, but I kinda admire Haynes for trying it.

I’ve not gotten around to some key movies yet but I want to vote for Ex Libris. Hmmm...

Wonderstruck is a minor work by Haynes, still pretty good though.

Yeah. I went in with no expectations and was surprised how much I liked it. It's a very simple story, sure, but visually fun. And that young deaf actress is extremely good.

I Am Not A Witch was superb and you should all subscribe to the BFI player and see it. Really unusual and risk-taking but it pretty much all comes off. And it's totally hilarious

also, [Mr Peanutbutter voice] I *loved* Paddington 1!

Paddington 2 is, then: great

accurate

i spose this is better than stanning for the bloody 'days of empire' movies

Bump. Theoretical final week of voting. Work just threw some stuff at me though so I'll know by Saturday.

btw deadline was bumped a week last year...

I apologize to wins for telling him to blow me on last year's thread. I deserved his opprobrium.

I've forgotten how the weighting works. If you put fewer films on your ballot, will the ones that are left be given more juice?

No, you're just denying the films lower on the ballot any points. 1=40, 2=36, etc...

voted!

we've been seeing filmz

call me by your name is an excellent movie about summering in italy and it features a lot of really excellent birdsong

Haha morbius I don't doubt it, no need to apologise tho cmon

imago/tt and any others looking to catch up over the weekend, I v much recommend watching Dawson City, Frozen Time - a highlight of my cinemagoing last year and deserving of a place

(fundamentally tho I recommend everyone stop playing themselves and vote for twin peaks obv)

excerpted from a major film journal's year-end request email:

...if you could send me a top ten, ranked, of your choice for annum 2017, based on films that premiered (in festivals or cinemas or on Showtime), that would be great...

some of us have seen only 2/18 of TP:TR, categorization be damned

Vote for it anyway

saving it for TV poll

everyone i know that saw Dawson City: Frozen Time said they liked it but found the music super treacly and almost unbearable

I can't call the music to mind- it was a sigur ros guy right?

Simon's quote is unsurprising I think serious venues are quite aware of how undistinguished a year 2017 is once you ignore the filmic event of the year

Obviously it's excellent to be more bothered about whether things are filed correctly tho 😎

I have two episodes left in TP:TR and it wouldn't even occur to me to vote it best of the year.

i still haven't recovered from xyzzzz calling the nothing factory better than arabian nights and i doubt i can tbh, that's the kind of cognitive dissonance you don't come back from

everyone i know that saw Dawson City: Frozen Time said they liked it but found the music super treacly and almost unbearable

― flappy bird,

This is another one I sorta liked but started looking at my watch after 50 minutes.

BPM, The Other Side of Hope, Phantom Thread: all distinguished.

BPM not out til April here ☹️

Faces places not out til idk never

Other side of hope very high up in my ballot if I actually get around to doing one instead of just trolling

Yeah: Faces Places not out in UK till September. Maybe Morbs is right and the balllot should be held next century.

But you guys are so close to France!

I do still stand by my half-time assessment that 2017 has not been a vintage year. I'm sure deficiencies in my cinemagoing are partly to blame but there has felt like a lack of strength in depth: looking at my ballot there's a top 8 or so I really feel strongly about but in previous years it's been a struggle to cull it to 25.

2017 was an all time great year for Danish cinema, but a bad year for festival films which is what normally fills my ballot. Looking at the Cannes list, for example, there's really only a couple film I liked.

Sent

we just saw 'the party'! it was...unsubtle. but fun.

tt: "like you"

Ballot sent. Went for the full 25 after all. Sneaked A Fantastic Woman in.

Someone else is voting for Detroit and England Is Mine, right?

them 2 along with Baby Driver were like a spiritual experience to me. i.e like going to church and listening to a paed delivering a sermon on morality.
Just joking, haven't seen any of them tbh.

How long precisely until ballots have to be submitted?

Just watched On Body and Soul. It was completely different to anything I had imagined it would be...sort of a muted, magic realist melodrama. What a bizarre career the director seems to have had. Does anyone know her other work and if it's at all similar in feel to this? The whole experience was quite overwhelming! That definitely shakes up my top 10.

Ballot sent. Went for the full 25 after all. Sneaked A Fantastic Woman in.

oh wow! I found it maudlin and commonplace.

Just saw it today and loved it. As well as the amazing lead performance, it has an subtle hallucinatory feel to it from the soundtrack and photography.

Gloria really stayed with me, if it's as good as that one was it'll be on my ballot next year

it looks like his next movie is a Hollywood remake of Gloria with Julianne Moore.