THE FUTURE IS FILMIC EJACULATIONS: The ILX Film Poll (for 2018 viewings) Voting Thread - Ballots Due Friday June 21st

Oh yeah, will definitely vote for Let the Sunshine In. And The Image Book.

I saw that one at moma like 2 weeks after the tp screening, all in one go :-)

TV show from 1980 that got a rep release in 2018 in the states, but which I will not be voting for because it’s bloody impossible to see here: PERSONAL PROBLEMS

I will instead vote for a TV show from '72 that premiered in US theaters in 2018. Expand your horizons.

Restored version of Eight Hours.. first screened in the UK in April 2017.

I remember 2018...What a year.

I cannot vote for The Image Book as it is a 2019 US release.

"Loveless" is a '18 release, right?

P sure it was

Yep

Another one of my top five favorites is on MUBI right now. Shireen Senos 'Nervous Translation' is great.

y'all should watch this. one of my favourites from '18

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/sep/12/michael-inside-review-frank-berry-dafhyd-flynn

So, Cold Water counts, right?

yes

not for me, as i saw it in the mid '90s *polishes medal*

I hope to see the following on your ballots:

Claire’s Camera (Hong Sang-soon)
Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
Let the Sunshine In (Claire Denis)
You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay)
First Reformed (Paul Schrader).
Museo (Alonso Ruizpalacios)
Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman)
Ava (Sadaf Foroughi)
Sollers Point (Matthew Porterfield)
1985 (Yen Tan)
Leave No Trace (Debra Granik)

I missed Monrovia when it played here... I wish there was a way to see Wiseman movies other than buying the DVDs from Zipporah. It'd be one thing if he had like 10 movies but how many are there... 40?

I'm voting for The Image Book even though I saw it in 2019 and I'm also voting for Let the Sunshine In even though I voted for it in the last poll. thanks for the Fassbinder reminder Morbs, I could only come up with 9 films last night, I will include that one (screened here last summer but I didn't see it until a couple weeks ago).

all of the Wiseman films up through Ex Libris (not Monrovia) are on Kanopy, flappy bird

41 films total

oooh awesome thanks for the heads up!

If we're campaigning, I hope people find space for:

24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross)
Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)
The Green Fog (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson)
Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun? (Travis Wilkerson)

I watched Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun? at home on Monday. I like it, but think it's a little overaestheticized (makes sense that it was initially done as a live multimedia event).

24 Frames I was rather disappointed in. That's an installation.

Support the Girls is on my list of things to watch before voting.

I would point people towards Private Life, Happy as Lazzaro, Upgrade and 1985 (hi, Alfred!).

24 Frames hit me, as almost all Kiarostamis do, right in the root of my spinal cord. They're ASMR in movie form.

(And a great deal more than that, obviously, but this one allowed me the chance to put that aspect to the forefront.)

yes 24 Frames is my #3. seeing it in a huge theater definitely helped, not sure how it would go over at home, I could barely stick with Shirin.

I don't understand the praise for Support the Girls at all. Didn't dislike it but such a wispy nothing of a movie.

will back up alfred on claire's camera, and say dead souls over anything mentioned thus far

cocote is also worth checking out

and Western, among others

https://www.filmcomment.com/best-films-of-2018/

First reformed will win I think

Won’t be surprised if Mandy, favourite, burning right up there. Won’t be mad either. Def voting for Claire’s camera, zama, let the sunshine in

I’ll be voting for four on Alfred’s list

Oh another cpt obv pick I will rep for is hereditary if that’s 18

wd also point to

Bisbee '17
The Guardians
Amazing Grace (ran in NYC for a week in December)

and First Man

I’m gonna keep throwing out notable films from last year as they come to me otherwise I’ll forget: Arcadia, wild boys

https://img.etonline.com/1242911076001/201702/942/1242911076001_5339012657001_et-post-show-best-picture-3-022717-hulu.jpg

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and First Man

: Arcadia, wild boys

I like "Goodbye is Forever"

lol that was not deliberate

No ones mentioned COLD WAR yet

More like COLD BORE!

(Just kidding, I liked it fine.)

y'all should vote for Skate Kitchen

Cold Snore more like. Viewers sure live heterosexual, apolitical love stories!

Films on my ballot:
5/10 teens
4/10 lesbians
(some overlap)

/Cold Snore/ more like. Viewers sure live heterosexual, apolitical love stories!

More like mold poor

I liked it a lot

It was alright

For an old chore

OK not feeling the love for Cold War

What about BROS: AFTER THE SCREAMING STOPS? Comedy of the year, hands down

It's okay, I already updated your ballot.

I did laugh because that 2018 Diaz film just got on mubi yesterday.

Thanks, sic!

Also, now that I think about it, the eight hour Diaz was 2016, it's just that I saw it in 2017. Sorry.

Elephant film in lead for worst of this year

Are we talking about an elephant sitting still or burtons dumbo

I’ve seen neither

i suspect we are both talking about the former

Oh I guess dumbo was this year? They’re really churning this waste out eh

TALLYING COMPLETE

I think I caught everything misspelled or missing half the title, but if not, it's on the voter.

Several films I was looking forward to finding images for have fallen outside the top 50.

If we were extending out to everything that needed two votes to qualify (ie 36 points), the lowest rank would be 72. The very lowest double-vote-receiver ranked at 88, with 14 points. The lowest triple-vote-receiver is at 83, with 33 points.

good job sic

thank you for everything sic. looking forward to this, bear film or no bear film.

counterpoint: thank you only if it includes the bear film

we gettin' rollout?

I Just Wanted To Take Another Look At You - the 2018 ILX Film Poll Results Thread

if i'd seen it time minding the gap, would've been very high on my ballot. beautiful film