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

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.

Moonrise and Fantastic Mr Fox are two of his four best imo

(with Rushmore and Royal)

A mark of how much I liked this: it was almost as good as FMF

Oh, I did like Mr. Fox. Weird that I stopped there, though, as I remember thinking that his films were just kinda getting to be the same thing over and over again, and that film certainly wasn't that.

Mr Fox and Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom are top tier. Mr. Fox might be his best ever imo

yeah i'd keep Fox and Tenenbaums and burn the rest

Grand Budapest Hotel is the post-Tenenbaums film of his I love the best

Gonna show The Grand Budapest Hotel in class tomorrow. I'm not a fan, but I'd rank it with Rushmore and Fantastic Mr. Fox

Rushmore is the best i think, Fox is a solid #2. But i think all his flicks are worthwhile. GBH is not what i was expected when i saw it, and all the better for it. Aquatic/Darjeeling are iirc considered his least worthy but i liked them both. Moonrise a step above those, Tenenbaums is one i never totally warmed to but it's good.

https://i.imgur.com/y3KCOpY.jpg

22. Support The Girls
w/d: Andrew Bujalski
US 2018 digital
162 points, 7 votes

Support the Girls kinda ran out of steam for me in the last half hour, but up until the point where Regina Hall leaves the film for a decent chunk of the third act, I was loving it (I wondered if the film either needed a stronger resolution, or if it should have just dispensed with the whole idea of resolution). Give Hall more lead roles!

― cryptosicko, Tuesday, June 11, 2019

My wife's reaction iirc was that it should be required viewing for anybody in a management position.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, June 11, 2019

liked it fine, tho mostly for Regina Hall

Regina Hall should've won more awards.

James Le Gros amusing too.

And typically gros(s).

The resolution to the scene where he follows the guy home to confront him literally made me LOL.

the haiku gag at the start of iod killed me, rest was mostly a disappointment.

support the girls opens here on friday

A Bear Film Wes Anderson Rip
- Chris L, Thursday, 26 July 2018

I gotta retract this, actually. All the production photos made it look annoyingly beholden to Anderson but my wife got me to watch it and I enjoyed it. It might not exist without that aesthetic but it was charming enough I was able to put it out of my mind.

Still have no idea what people saw in that nothing of a movie. Regina King is a good actress but she had nothing to work with, utterly unremarkable... I didn't dislike it but don't understand the praise at all.

I gotta retract this, actually

ha ha, glad / sorry I pulled it

https://i.imgur.com/v2FWOqj.jpg

21. Madeline's Madeline
w/d: Josephine Decker
US 2018 digital
168 points, 7 votes, 1 #1

Madeline's Madeline? Holy shit! Stunningly great, great images, great ideas, great rhythm to it all. Loved the use of Caroline Shaw.

There's just nobody else around delving into these aspects of performativity and empathetic storytelling the way she does.

― Frederik B, Monday, October 1, 2018

Wanna see, but not on any of my streaming services yet.

Morbs called it “diverting”, or something like that

My choice for Worst Film!

Can't get over that title

with morbs on this one

I'm sure thousands of worse films were made, but not that i saw.

My #1 and possibly the best movie I’ve ever seen though I’ve not seen very many relatively speaking.

made me certain bresson had the right idea re actors

mad's mad is on us amazon prime

Molly Parker is good, and she was terrible in this

I understand casting Miranda July as an annoying mom, but not one who kids would've murdered as soon as they could walk

it's on Kanopy too

I didn't have any expectations going into this, and thought it was unique and surprisingly moving in the end. Voted for it

https://i.imgur.com/3s8m9Bs.jpg

20. Annihilation
w/d: Alex Garland b: Jeff VanderMeer
UK 2018 digital 8K, digital 6K
182 points, 8 votes, 1 #1

I don't necessarily expect that much from the Garland adaptation of Annihilation, but I am interested to see how he handles the Biologist's perspective and some of the moments in which visuality seems to break down (like the encounters with the Crawler).

― one way street, Monday, April 27, 2015

this was pretty good. I think it might be an unfilmable book, though. too bad all of the creeper stuff was removed, and the mind control stuff taken out. I kept expecting JJL's character to snap her fingers and say a code-word. otherwise, what was her motivation? hand-wave, hand-wave terminal illness? my biggest overall complaint is that the psychedelia after the floaty alien thing (which was way cool) was droney and overlong. the homunculus was overdone, and the burning went on too long, and the plot could've been served better by more spacing at the beginning of the picture. oh well. maybe extended edition will have more of the initial disorientation stuff. it could also have less of Natalie Portman's back mid-affair.

― remy, Monday, March 12, 2018

At least we got mad's mad out of the way.

I don't often care for this sort of sci-fi, but it was well done.

gtfo this film was garbage

This feels like it came out forever ago. I thought the idea of "the shimmer" was interesting (and some of the fungal visuals were effectively icky) but Portman's backstory was underdeveloped, and the 2001 head-trip conclusion was a cop-out.

I'm struggling to even remember what this was about

Saw it a few weeks ago and it had an idea or two that never came off. xps