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

lol smoke'em out

A joke post this early?

Or is that the element of surprise? Really, I'm hoping that's what this is...

Oh god okay. I’m sorry. I was asleep when I made my ballot. But also I went in expecting to hate it and didn’t. It was just way more free-wheelingly entertaining than a lot of the typical Oscar-bait and its (many) errors felt earnestly made and not nefarious, though I may well be wrong on that.

You are, dont worry.

It was right near the bottom of my ballot so I’m not the only culprit here.

I didn't vote for it, but I agree that Green Book is problematic but also entertaining

almost everybody I know in real life loved it

Dan In Real Life is not eligible this year

If it was a fakeout, I would have used this pic:

https://i.imgur.com/Xk0xk2P.jpg

lol

oh great! the "Old Town Road" thread redux

even thinking about that performance art scene in The Square a year + later makes me uncomfortable, it was so creepy

https://i.imgur.com/gZXbB6R.jpg

48. 江湖儿女 [Ash Is Purest White]
w/d: Jia Zhangke
CN 2018 DV-cam, digital, film
77 points, 3 votes

China in de jaren 2000, wat doen ze daar zoal? Ash is Purest White geeft op subtiele wijze een groot aantal hints. Het begint met een mooi kijkje in een small time gangsterwereldje. Redelijk goeiig totdat een mysterieus uitgelokte turfwar het leuke koppel uit elkaar drijf. Zij offert zich voor hem op en hij kan niet op haar wachten. Zo begint een fascinerende reis (richting het westen, gokte ik, mijn topografie van China is zwaar ondermaats) waar de hoofdpersoon nergens lijkt te kunnen aarden. Pijnlijk op zo'n zwijgende Aziatische manier en mistroostig maar ook weer niet te. Laatste 45 minuten lagen wat zwaar op de maag vooral omdat er nog echt weinig gebeurd. Ik zag zelf persoonlijke sores, een maatschappij in beweging richting een soort technologische moderniteit en landschappen die altijd hetzelfde zullen blijven. Ik ontwaarde ook een voorzichtig poëtische kritiek om de censors/geldschieters niet teveel tegen de tenen te stoten.

― OMC, Saturday, June 1, 2019

voted for this, not one of his best but still better than most working directors at their best. the moment of 'unreality' here worked for me a lot better than it did in previous films.

saw it at the 2017 NYFF, voted for it

as ever, towering performance from zhao tao

Second tier Jia, will likely make top 30 on my lis next year

The first act was perfect, it went a bit downhill after that, but still much better 99% of everything else released imo.

I rewatched The Square recently, and it's even better on the third watch. Put Ash Is Purest White pretty low on my ballot, but it's good. A lot better than Mountains May Depart.

https://i.imgur.com/By16AGA.jpg

47. Minding The Gap
d: Bing Liu (doco)
US 2018 digital
78 points, 4 votes

I thought ‘The Square’ was weak overall, but the scene with the man-monkey at the dinner was absolutely extraordinary.

* America To Me
missed this when it came out but streaming it through a Starz subscription and I can't recommend it enough. one of the cinematographers is Bing Liu, the kid who did Minding the Gap and my love for that led me here.

- forks, Thursday, 21 February 2019

have not yet seen MtG, want to

also haven't seen yet but this is on the iplayer atm uk folks

Made my ballot, though I think I had at least five or six docs ahead of it.

Can't wait to see what Bing Liu ends up doing next.

it is on hulu in the us and is worth watching

I didn't vote for any docs this year, though if I'd extended my Top 15 to a Top 20, the Rachel Dolezal and Garry Shandling ones may have placed. Mostly, though, I think I'm getting bored with the genre unless its about something I already really care about.

Minding the Gap is shown on Danish tv tomorrow re-titled 'When We Grew Up' (Da Vi Blev Voksne). I hate Danish re-titllings.

https://i.imgur.com/hzbqSIH.jpg

46. McQueen
d: Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui w: Peter Ettedgui (doco)
UK 2018 digital, archive
81 points, 3 votes

Also, when I got married to my wife Katy England, I had Alexander McQueen design for myself and my wife a suit with satin lapels and hemmed embroidery in the trousers and jacket with roses, in tribute to Gram Parsons.

― Boaby G, Wednesday, May 4, 2016

High fashion is not something I care about.

haha ok we got this one in too

xp

otm - I downloaded this for my partner. You'd have to pay me to watch it.

https://i.imgur.com/RDEYlrj.jpg

45. Museo
d: Alonso Ruizpalacios w: Manuel Alcalá, Alonso Ruizpalacios
MX 2018 digital
83 points, 3 votes

huh i guess youtube distribution means this ain't getting a cinema release here

haha ok we got this one in too

― imago, Monday, 24 June 2019 21:57 (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this one's really great. simon russell beale cameo is amazing

it's not quite gueros but what is

So happy for this to show up. Was a breath of fresh air at last years Berlin festival.

xp how did you watch it if i might ask?

xp have wanted to see gueros, have not heard of this

we bought it, maybe from the bfi player i think?

so, not in a cinema. but it was totally a 2018 film. oops what are the rules again

I thought ‘The Square’ was weak overall, but the scene with the man-monkey at the dinner was absolutely extraordinary.

YES 100%

xp oh no didn't mean that, just want to see it myself!

I'm delighted Ruizpalacios realized on the promise of Gueros.

The McQueen doc is about as good as the docs made for British TV about him. It's a sad story. The room in which they interviewed his aunt was extraordinarily beautiful, gave me living-room envy.

so, not in a cinema. but it was totally a 2018 film. oops what are the rules again

― imago, Tuesday, June 25, 2019 8:23 AM (nineteen seconds ago)

It only had to have a public cinema screening of some kind in 2018, not that you had to watch it on a big screen. Even a one-day, one-country release counts.

had no idea First Reformed was so highly regarded, not having been exactly blown away by anything Schrader or fuckin Ethan Hawke has done in like... 20 years?

I mean Dog Eat Dog was *insane* but idk if it was that good

it's a double comeback

xp

you can buy/rent The Image Book on youtube

I see these as available on Kanopy: First Reformed, Eighth Grade, Hereditary, Leave No Trace, Madeline's Madeline, Faces Places, Mid90s, McQueen

Hawke has been in plenty of good/interesting things in that period

i mean yeah Hawke was in Boyhood

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Ned's link still works for €3.99

lol if i had voted it would've just reinforced the positions of mandy and first reformed

two movies i straight up hated that placed: annihilation and hereditary

had no idea First Reformed was so highly regarded, not having been exactly blown away by anything Schrader or fuckin Ethan Hawke has done in like... 20 years?

― Οὖτις, Friday, June 28, 2019 1:54 PM (

Hawke swept every critics prize...?

here's the bubbling under:

51 Private Life (Jenkins) 68 points, 4 votes
52 Upgrade (Whannel) 67 points, 4 votes
53= If Beale Street Could Talk (Jenkins) 65 points, 3 votes
53= Mission: Impossible - Fallout (McQuarrie, 35mm/65mm/helmet/phone) 65 points, 3 votes
55= A Star Is Born (Raccoon) 64 points, 2 votes
55= Cold War (Pawlikowski) 64 points, 4 votes
57 Black Panther (Coogler) 62 points, 4 votes
58 Birds Of Passage (Guera, Gallego) 61 points, 2 votes
59= Arcadia (Wright) 59 points, 3 votes
59= Unsane (Sodes &al.) 59 points, 3 votes
61 Blindspotting (Diggs &al.) 58 points, 4 votes,
62= John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection (Blind Ref) 57 points, 2 votes
62= Wildlife (Dano, Kazan) 57 points, 3 votes
64 Shirkers (Sandi Tan) 56 points, 3 votes
65 Widows (McQueen) 55 points, 3 votes
66= Gräns [Border] (Abbasi, Lindqvist) 54 points, 2 votes
66= Crazy Rich Asians (v/a) 54 points, 3 votes
68= Game Night (Daley & Goldstein) 50 points, 3 votes
68= Nervous Translation (Seno) 50 points, 2 votes
70= Bisbee '17 (doco) 49 points, 2 votes
70= Three Identical Strangers (doco) 49 points, 3 votes
72 Touch Me Not (Pintile) 48 points, 2 votes
73 Mom And Dad (Taylor) 46 points, 2 votes
74 1985 (Yen Tan) 44 points, 2 votes
75= Climax (Noé) 43 points, 2 votes
75= The Green Fog (Maddin &al.) 43 points, 3 votes
77 The Road Movie (dashcam) 43 points, 2 votes
78 Lean On Pete (Haigh) 38 points, 2 votes
79 The Guilty (Möller) 36 points, 2 votes

Cool that The Guilty got three points! It was my third favorite Danish film from last year

when the kush hits pic.twitter.com/TwJ35UcueR

— Eric Allen Hatch (@ericallenhatch) June 22, 2019

various artists directed Crazy Rich Asians?

various asians

the most compelling theme of the movie to me was the depiction of banal oppression (as opposed to histrionic, crushing oppression) of life under colonial rule

― Simon H., Thursday, June 27, 2019 8:59 PM (four days ago)

I compared it to "burmese days" after seeing it, so I think this is an excellent description

still thinking about how perfect CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? is pic.twitter.com/WlqS8SekUA

— John Oursler (@JMOursler) July 4, 2019

35mm/65mm/helmet/phone

misremembered: there's one shot on SLR, not phone

thought Bisbee '17 was an interesting story about the 1917 deportation of copper mine workers in southern Arizona after a strike

and about the difficulty reconciling collective memory.