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

didn't open over here till last autumn, ended up fairly low on my ballot. got the fun slightly bittersweet 90 i was promised without jr getting in the way too much

I liked the faces and the places

voted for this last year, it is another film I want to see again

Damn, I forgot to vote for Can You Ever Forgive Me... yeah, like I said, would've been in the bottom of my top 10. oh well.

agree that The Death of Stalin sucked

First Man was my #6, Chazelle finally put his crypto fascistic tendencies to good use in a surprisingly subtle movie that, given the subject matter and his previous two films, I expected to be completely over the top and noxious. it was really, really great.

had a hard time with First Man, Gosling as Armstrong seemed completely personality-free, and the movie felt inert to me. I was probably in a bad mood when I saw it, maybe will watch it again

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

30. Нелюбовь [Loveless]
d: Andrey Zvyagintsev w: Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev
RU 2017 digital
110 points, 4 votes

really liked this film too, between this and Leviathan I'm impressed by Zvyagintsev and am looking forward to seeing what he does next

Man, lots of consensus ahead I guess

still a few more before we get out of the 4-votes zone

expecting an appearance from everyone's favourite soju aficionado soon

Gosling as Armstrong seemed completely personality-free

true to life!

The library never got Loveless.

expecting an appearance from everyone's favourite soju aficionado soon

― devvvine, Tuesday, June 25, 2019 4:04 PM (four minutes ago)

if Burning shows up outside the top 10 I will be disappointed

it won't.

you won't.

(i meant hong)

oh ok. that's another one that was in my top 10

i'm hoping for one in the top ten and a couple others round these waters

haven't had a chance to see The Day After, Grass, or Hotel by the River yet

up next is the one that decided me it'd be fun to track the format they were made in, silby

https://i.imgur.com/5d2Jmc2.jpg

29. 24 Frames [۲۴ فریم‎]
d: Abbas Kiarostami, Ali Kamali
IR 2017 desktop computer
114 points, 4 votes

my biggest disappointment of the year

wish this was much much higher

I loved this film!

I think I put it #2. But I won’t begrudge it not working on anyone. My enjoyment of it is purely my own.

With the Breugel painting at the beginning the making-pictures-come-to-life aspect seemed obvious in a crude sort of way. I’m sure was intentional as an opener. It didn’t really occur to me until Frame 15 or so that the static part of each subsequent vignette might have been the original still photograph? (still not sure). The CGI wasn’t what I’ve seen in other films, it was more crude but felt more natural, more surreal and dream-like than most everything else I’ve seen

my #5 I think? Definitely helped seeing it in a big theater and being in the right mood. Shirin didn't grab me because the whole conceit - watching famous Iranian actresses watching a movie - was obviously lost on me.

felt the same way about Shirin

in this film I liked the way each of the frames seemed linked by theme or visual content

That last frame was beautiful, with a person asleep at a desk in a stark modern room, the Wyler film playing in extreme slow motion on the screen and Love Never Dies on the soundtrack.

The view out of the windows of trees in a forest swaying in winter weather at dusk made me want to be in that room at that moment

My enjoyment of it is purely my own.

― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Tuesday, June 25, 2019 5:01 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It’d be surprising if it were someone else’s!

haha

Kiarostami's final film "24 Frames" , made in the last 3 years before his death in 2016, is, uh, something. He took a photo of a Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1565 painting The Hunters in the Snow and 23 of his own photos (many of them of snow-covered fields, or waves crashing on the shore) and imagined what happened before and after. He via computer tools added 4 minutes or so of action to each of the 24 shots. Some are wearying and repetitious with little happening, but others are special.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, January 30, 2018

need to watch it

https://i.imgur.com/xDM6vHv.jpg

28. The Rider
w/d: Chloé Zhao
US 2017 digital
117 points, 6 votes

following "the rider", i will be down for the choe zhao Eternals movie but boy am i having a hard time imagining how that will pan out

― forks, Wednesday, May 8, 2019

It was...okay. The boy is cute.

she picked the right person to structure the movie around, Brady Jandreau is really charismatic

It was subtle, it reminded me a little of Kelly Reichardt's films

https://i.imgur.com/kpJ3imT.jpg

27. Monrovia, Indiana
d: Frederick Wiseman (doco)
US 2018 digital
121 points, 4 votes, 1 #1

Monrovia, Indiana is straight out of a Faulkner novel. Tribulation and death in every scene.

― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, October 28, 2018

haven't seen this yet. that's a beautiful image

A hair less wonderful than Wiseman's recent run, but it made my top 15.

besides Monrovia - which I will definitely see - of the films on this list I haven't seen yet, the ones I'm most looking forward to are Ash Is Purest White, Elephant Sitting Still, The Wild Pear Tree, The Image Book, Dead Souls. I liked Frederik’s descriptions of the last three. After a somewhat traumatic experience with Berlin Alexanderplatz I'm approaching Eight Hours Don't Make a Day with trepidation.

one more today?

I'm up for it, but am surprised by how little attended this is. Wish people would post more here. Anything would do

https://i.imgur.com/CZmH9dR.jpg

26. Free Solo
d: Elizabeth Chai Vasarelyi, Jimmy Chin
US 2018 digital 4K
123 points, 6 votes

(doco)

I liked this a lot, but maybe not as much as The Dawn Wall from 2017, which shared one of its protagonists

that's a great still, but there were so many thrilling images from this film

I found it kind of nerve-wracking to watch

It’s not at the end of the day a great film, but did I or anyone else care while actually watching it? Hell no.