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

didn't realize that Monrovia was available on streaming. I downloaded the PBS app on my streaming device and it's there! I will watch it this week

yes, that's great news

I have seen zero Wisemans to date but I really want to

Can't go wrong really with any of his first 10 movies. after that they get progressively longer (still amazing obv). my favorite of that first run is High School.

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25. The Other Side Of The Wind
d: Orson Welles w: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar
US 1970-71, 1973-76, 1979, 2008, 2017-18 35mm, 16mm, Super 8
133 points, 5 votes

for all it's meta-narrative conceits and internal references, it's kind of remarkable how *little* like Welles the Jake Hannaford character is. Welles was not this macho showman universally hailed for making stars out of actors or with particularly intense relationships w younger actors afaict, and he certainly wouldn't have made anything quite like the film-within-a-film shown here, which (as others have noted) is closer to something like Zabriskie Point or one of the "acid westerns" than anything in Welles' ouevre. Welles loved dialogue too much, for one thing.

― Οὖτις, Thursday, November 8, 2018

i'll be pretty amused if they finish "the other side of the wind" and it turns out to be a huge turd, but you know almost everything welles had a hand in is, at the very least, interesting. as with that talk show above.

― amateurist, Monday, 11 May 2015

It made my list on the strength of my anticipation and the car scene; the making-of documentary helhped too.

I regarded it as a curio, nothing more, though some of the later scenes with Huston are compelling.

1970-71, 1973-76, 1979, 2008, 2017-18

Fantastic.

it's a lesser work in Welles' ouevre, and overlong, but still compelling

the making-of documentary was better

Agreed.

yes

mostly because watching Welles talk about films and making films is so reliably entertaining

I can think of few artists in any genre whose insights into his own work and colleagues, erudition (he's as likely to quote Shakespeare and Conrad as he is the NY Post), and charm come together as fetchingly as they do in Orson Welles.

is it in that doc that he IDs loyalty as the grand theme of his oeuvre?

what did i do wrong, daddy?

had it at 11

Yeah. He annoyed Bogdanovich in his 1970s interviews when he insisted that Kane betrays Leland (and the Declaration of Principles), not the other way around, just like Quinlan betrays Menzies.

cumming's framing in the making of doc was insufferable, and it also completely ignores f for fake if i remember. found the shorter a final cut for orson much more compelling

*Catching up* Love how Dead Souls made it.

I haven't seen any Wiseman - it's a gap ugh

Welles was not this macho showman

I bet he might've slapped Kael though

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24. Paddington 2
d: Paul King w: Paul King, Simon Farnaby a: &al.
UK 2017 digital 2K
141 points, 6 votes

Placed at 21 in 2017, with 105 points, 6 votes and 1 #1

I didn't see the first Paddington and it didn't matter, I loved Paddington 2 and sobbed the entire time

- flappy bird, Thursday, 26 July 2018

ffs

lol what is this bullshit

Liked it, but didn't vote because it placed last year. Sorry, bear fans.

I bet he might've slapped Kael though

Franklin Pangborn-style maybe

watch the bear film Shakey, it's good

Nice

P2 is great

I did sob the entire time but that was probably aided by the fact that the previous day I flew to and back from Florida for a funeral. I didn't vote for it again this year.

Every year is a bear film year

if every year involved Sweaty Bigface being raped by a bear... maybe

I thought the bear of the year was the hairy Spanish dad in Summer 1993, holy shit

I liked it fine. Hugh Grant's been doing solid work for a while.

bear film 2 is fucking great; endlessly inventive visually and a genuine joy to watch

Bear > bros

A Bear Film Wes Anderson Rip

- Chris L, Thursday, 26 July 2018

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23. Isle Of Dogs
d: Wes Anderson w: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, Kunichi Nomura
UK/US/DE 2018 stop-motion DSLR
158 points, 9 votes

Haha

I haven't had the desire to watch any new Anderson film in about a decade now.

Didn’t get to see the Welles film yet, might have voted for mark cousins Welles doc

This was superlative. My #5 but 4 was a split decision between that and the other best animated flick of the year. Wes Anderson is great and fuiud

If anything, the mise-en-scene of IOD reminded me a bit of David Hockney's variations on Chinese scroll painting, where multiple events are happening within the same frame, and in a horizontal, left to right direction.

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 5 April 2018

this looked nice but suffered from usual wes anderson short-comings: no character development, unearned moments of emotion, rote plot with a chase and a crazy plan that just might work etc. i found myself sort of bored and done with it by the time they left the island.

feel like he's the one director who is most guilty of the novelist's crime of writing the same novel in various different ways.

also orientalist as hell and wes anderson is cancelled obv

― jim in vancouver, Monday, 9 April 2018

My review of this literally said it was one of the best films of the year, and then I didn't vote for it, or consider voting for it. What a difference a year makes.

I voted for 22 films, this might indeed have been 23rd.

I haven't had the desire to watch any new Anderson film in about a decade now.

Missing some of his best stuff, but if it's not your thing...

oh yeah, cultural appropriazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Was big on Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums at the time, but just lost my taste for him, I guess. Moonrise Kingdom looks appealing, though, so maybe it'll hook me back in.

it's... fine? the animation was endearing, the plot and baked in tweeness notably less so.