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

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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.

speaking of

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44. Bros: After The Screaming Stops
d: Joe Pearlman, David Soutar (doco)
UK 2018 digital
84 points, 4 votes

haha ok we got this one in too

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

― imago, Monday, 24 June 2019 22:12 (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

watchable tv

by the top 40 we'll be outta your hair, folks

this was v compelling. "you're the love of my life"

DO NOT MISS THIS. Unexpected film highlight of the year. It's like Nigel Tufnel and David Brent had twins.

― aldo, Wednesday, 26 December 2018

it was absolutely brilliant.
best thing I have seen so far this festive season.
so many WTF moments.

― mark e, Wednesday, 26 December 2018

it's pretty tense. the scenes with them arguing are a bit too real in places

― ||||||||, Wednesday, 26 December 2018

Had to watch it again as there were too many howlers to fully absorb the first time

― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 26 December 2018

It seems very much like they were heavily involved in the decision making process behind the film, which makes it all the better, Matt really does think all these Spinal Tap / Alan Partridge words of wisdom are worth hearing. It's clear that he would not appreciate anyone laughing at him, but unintended brilliance is still brilliance. I would still be fairly interested in a real documentary about them, but this approach has somehow had a much better result.

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 28 December 2018

ugh that bit where he chastises the session bass player for not playing with the intensity and passion of Flea....

― Michael B, Friday, 28 December 2018

Finally finished this and I have to say that although I came in for the LOLz (and there were quite a few), this story of sibling insecurities and resentments turned out to be quite touching. For the first half of the film, I was cheering for poor ol' misunderstood Luke, having to deal with a narcissic cretin of a brother. By the end of it, I found Matt, dim as he is, to be the more sympathetic of the two.

― baaderonixx, Thursday, 3 January 2019

agree with that even tho i feel it must be wrong.

― Fizzles, Thursday, 3 January 2019

I guess this is a british film?

aye, deluded brothers w zero self awareness from late 80s pop act prepare for a comeback gig. just watch a youtube cut of the best bits.

despite UK 2018 digital that scene is 100% Las Vegas

ok lol, it's a lot sweeter and more self-effacing than I would have thought from the title

Lol tv

Was 2018 that bad?!

lol better luck next time jia

I didn't vote for it but Green Book was fine as a movie in context with the rest of the Farrelly Brothers oeuvre. Best Picture material it is not, and it is a blinkered and retrograde film racially. But it's not that bad and works as a broad comedy. I mean Vigo just plays @NYCGuidoVoice, it's not that different from the cum in Cameron Diaz's hair or Ben Stiller getting his balls stuck in his zipper.

watching it was like getting my balls stuck in a zipper

OK, not these docs.

lol

I will say seeing it opening weekend with a packed (mostly elderly) crowd was kind of depressing, because pretty much everyone bought into the wish fulfillment of race relations that it presents. I'll never forget overhearing a woman to my left whispering "I don't think that was still happening" when they stop on the side of the road and see dozens of black people picking cotton.

xxl

Bless her smart.

wtf are these

lmk when the real stuff recommences

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43. 大象席地而坐 [An Elephant Sitting Still]
w/d: Hu Bo
CN 2018 digital
89 points, 3 votes

An Elephant Sitting Still is a very sad artifact, and mostly a waste of four hours.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, March 24, 2019

I don't have 4 hours for anything

was it really 4 hours? I was looking forward to it as a standard feature-length film

number five on my ballot, claire denis's words are better than mine:

"In this apartment trapped in urban fog, we cannot see anything, the colors are subdued... We sense that it is daytime, but everything around us is gray. We feel captive in this apartment – in order to get out, someone needs to jump from the window. Little by little, we follow characters into the city at dusk. We discover this mysterious Chinese city, enclosing the different strata of China’s history, buildings under construction and ancient territories, and it is only once night has fallen that we see the elephant."

elephant shit

it sounds intriguing to me but maybe I will have to watch it in installments, not sure I can take 4 hours of a subdued gray film at dusk illuminating a mysterious chinese city all in one sitting

the first installment will dispel the intrigue

spoilers, Claire!

I may end up really loving it, just a feeling

didn't vote in this but I saw the square (ok with some great parts) and minding the gap (great)

my favorite film first seen in 2018 from previous years was Last Year at Marienbad, such an amazing film

followed by Twin Peaks: The Return, A Brighter Summer Day, Goodbye, Dragon Inn, Playtime, Close-Up, The Tree of Wooden Clogs, Meshes of the Afternoon, The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum, Colossal Youth

I'd only managed to whittle my new-to-me down to 11 by dumping an entire museum season of British Hitchcocks, before looking at the ballots and discovering I didn't need to bother weighting or deciding what to sacrifice next.

there have to have been so many different choices

More results tomorrow; UK folks are welcome to warm the thread up in the GMT morning by posting closed-captioned screencaps from After The Screaming Stops.