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

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.

If you do that you'll be arrested and thrown in jail.

i didn’t vote bc i mostly watch Marvel movies but keen to see what yall watched & voted for

elephant shit

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 June 2019 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is bad punning, not good

Elephant Sitting Still was no 4 on my ballot, although tbh it is overlong and repetitive but whatever does happen comes from a place (even if you don't know what happened to its director), and I think its one of the first Chinese films where the politics of the place just isn't there, as a thing that weighs in. I would probably go lower with it now but I'm glad it got in.

I'll vote for Jia next year. Which I regret because it might have put it above a doc on fucking Bros - oh yes! brb, going to brainlessly describe this as "compelling". wtf is it with you all aargh, just can't fucking unsee that.

elephant is more interested in talking about society through its effect on the individual's lived in experience and psychology than portraying society in of itself, and so lets the grey swathes of the city and the out of focus supporting characters just become a canvas.

does have an incredible chekov's gun moment

if it really matters, you have a few hours itt to explain how the directors of After The Screaming Stops did not craft an engaging and fascinating psychological portrait of two people trapped in their own resentments, working desperately every day of their lives to build internal worlds that aren't circumscribed by their personal limitations, only to have their decades of constructive delusion come crashing when met with each other's bubbles of self-belief

if i knew we could vote for tv i would have voted for limmy's homemade show

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi1lvLdwoTjAhUD1hoKHfFqAG8QjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailydead.com%2Fthe-earth-dies-screaming-blu-ray-announced-by-kino-lorber%2Fearth-dies-screaming-poster%2F&psig=AOvVaw08XFjrfwuLt62F-WOS8GEs&ust=1561548254685325

lol

There are many profiles over the years which do just this -- switch the cameras on, give 'em enough rope, edit (juicily or otherwise). Its engaging because the personalities are that. It's not that fascinating, it would require you not knowing much about entertainment and how it twists (for want of a better word) the psychologies of people, to find it so. It's actually quite an antique construction, usually you would have a tv series made of this kind of thing and you'd spin a tale out of it on top now. I mean I watched and laughed at it and totally forgot about - thinking about it a bit now there is an element of 'let's laugh at working class people who made something of themselves and ended up places' to these things which rankles.

There are many arthouse films over the years which do just this -- switch the cameras on, give 'em enough rope, edit (juicily or otherwise). Its engaging because the ennui is that. It's not that fascinating, it would require you not knowing much about an elephant and how it twists (for want of a better word) the psychologies of people, to find it so.

dude you like it, just say its compelling.

Laugh at? Yeah, laugh at their foibles, as with any intimate documentary of larger-than-life figures, but it gives you the full picture as well. I ended up rooting for them, or at least compelled - yes, compelled - by their slightly tragic relationship. They felt like anomalies, as well - certainly not your typical senior pop stars - or at least, they felt like they were going about things in quite an odd and obsessive way

anyway it was low on my ballot so I don't care so much. there's definitely bigger fish to fry

People sure are interesting if you destroy them.

I thought the documentary ended up celebrating their individuality and zest tbh but whatever

It's not that fascinating, it would require you not knowing much about an elephant and how it twists (for want of a better word) the psychologies of people, to find it so.

This would be the best review of Dumbo ever, by the way.

I want at least half of the credit for that

Please tell me the fyre docs didn’t play in any theatres

a doc on fucking Bros - oh yes! brb, going to brainlessly describe this as "compelling". wtf is it with you all

Forgot the Bros doc premiered at London film fest as it may have snuck into bottom of my ballot.

as i mentioned in the other thread - they were set on having a red carpet premiere at lff so ended up paying for it themselves

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movies are so much more expensive now and everything looks so much worse lol

— Willow Catelyn Maclay (@willow_catelyn) June 20, 2019

sic wake up

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41= Ahlat Agaci [The Wild Pear Tree]
d: Nuri Bilge Ceylan w:Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan, Akin Aksu
TR 2018 digital
91 points, 3 votes

sic go back to sleep

I kid, I haven't seen that one yet.

I think I saw this this year and will vote for it next time

Oh actually I guess I saw it right at the end of last year, maybe the last thing I saw in 2018 (it was either that or the trier)

Anyway I really liked it although not as much as once upon a time in Anatolia

a January 2019 release in NYC (I missed it)

if you thought winter sleep was a towering masterpiece will you like this too

also, isn't that 42nd?

my turkish friends want me to see wild pear; gonna look it up

joint 41st xp

Kinda annoying but fine, at 15th on mine.

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41= Le Livre d'image [The Image Book]
w/d: Jean-Luc Godard
CH 2018 collage
91 points, 4 votes, 1 #1

The Image Book... Sadlol. Nobody told me there would be large swathes without sound, and I'm still not entirely sure it wasn't a mistake. Much slower than usual, most of it the same thing he's done in decades, but a lot of the stuff about the arab world was kinda touching.

― Frederik B, Wednesday, October 3, 2018

after seeing The Image Book twice I'm convinced it's a masterpiece. he talks about Faust at the end but the movie is about Sisyphus: "Even if nothing had turned out as we had hoped, it does not diminish our hopes, for they were a necessary utopia." at 88, Godard despairs that the love of his life, cinema, is incapable of properly addressing and much less combatting human suffering. But he keeps going, dancing himself to death. The first time I saw it with friends, who expected a more rigorous and clear political movie (like Ici et Ailleurs), criticized the Central Region section as "problematic" and "othering," and while I don't necessarily disagree (it's all very armchair), I don't think it's a political movie, it's a man looking back at his life and realizing he's failed. Yet he continues. I find that incredibly moving.

I caught maybe a dozen of the films referenced, but I never got the sense that Godard was holier than thou or pretentious. He's always been pretty humble in his presentation and totally open about the creative process. His attitude is inviting, like hey, I'm going to try some stuff, let's see if it works and have fun. This stretches from Breathless to The Image Book. Does anyone except Godard understand even 75% of The Image Book? Probably not, but It doesn't matter.

― flappy bird, Tuesday, February 26, 2019

a 2019 American release; near the top of next poll for me.