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

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19. Roma
w/d: Alfonso Cuarón
MX 2018 digital 6.5K
186 points, 7 votes, 1 #1

A terrible disappointment, an example of nostalgia porn. No reason to be black and white, no reason to make the maid a poor, wronged creature. Yet it's going to clean up year end.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, November 15, 2018

I liked this. I think it's always kind of hard when someone makes more popular commercial movies and then makes something self-consciously arty. It can feel like an act of imposture. There's a nice myth that arty directors make arty movies because that's the only kind they can make, because that's who they are. We are resistant to the idea that "serious" is just another genre. Especially when someone pulls out all the obvious signifiers: like black-and-white, lack of soundtrack, slow-pacing, long takes, etc. There's something a bit too eager to please, a bit too A-student, about it. On the other hand, it is "just" another genre, but so what. I guess I would have had a lot fewer hurdles to get over if this was made by some European director I'd never heard of before. But none of that really matters. It's hard not to notice that this movie is pretty interesting to look at. The story is fairly simple and affecting. You could summarize pretty much all the plot in a few sentences. But it's mostly everything that would be left out of those few sentences that makes this a good movie.

― o. nate, Sunday, February 3, 2019

Worst part of my movie year was realizing, maybe a third or a half of the way through this one, that I agreed with Alfred.

avoided these last two

I'm also in Alfred's corner on this one. The B&W photography didn't even look good.

Worst part of my movie year was realizing, maybe a third or a half of the way through this one, that I agreed with Alfred.

― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Wednesday, June 26, 2019 3:14 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

avoided these last two

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

Lovely juxtaposition

How nice for you, how nice for Morbs, how nice for everybody.

haha i was comin back to do that joke

no reason to make the maid a poor, wronged creature

damn this story about alfonso cuarón's memories of his actual upbringing wasn't suffienctly manipulated to be woke

i love Alfred and Eric more than... Josephine Decker

it wasn't sufficiently manipulated to be art; if he's got memories to share and no way to make'em compelling, keep them in a scrapbook

xp Not surprising. Josephine Decker doesn't know who Alfred or I even are.

pretty sure Cuaron's real life maid was more fascinating (even when wronged) than what we see onscreen

that's what she says xp

INTERIOR: LIVING ROOM

Sofía: Cleo, can you clean up the dog shit in the garage?

Cleo: Yes, señora

CLEO LEAVES ROOM WITH BUCKET AND MOP

Sofía: Cleo, before you go out there, do you like the blue dress or the yellow dress for tonight's party?

Cleo: Señora, I'm afraid that is unpaid emotional labor.

Sofi: Slay.

TWENTY MINUTES OF MOPPING CLOSE-UPS TO RACHEL PLATTEN'S "FIGHT SONG"

would watch

Same!

Roma is my Number One, I loved it, but I'm a middle brow noob

Whiney's performative Ron Paul shtick does wonders for lousy scripts.

real middle brow noobs have watched at least one Werner Herzog movie

I'm also in Alfred's corner on this one. The B&W photography didn't even look good.

it's not even B&W, it's just converted

you guys are all crazy. this was a great film

Among many middlebrow qualities

real middle brow noobs have watched at least one Werner Herzog movie

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, June 26, 2019 3:32 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've seen six by now! :D

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I love this shot so much.

the crab represents obviousness

savage

certainly bigger than any crabs in the movies on my list iirc

you know, if someone wanted to see all the big crabs they can just come to this thread

irl lol @ devvine

not even B&W, it's just converted

This is actually advantageous in post, as one can manipulate the contribution of the RGB channels. Like using filters on BW film.

yeah i'm not sure if the work of postprod 'colorists' makes this especially noteworthy anymore

yeah I read that it's how most black and white films are made today.

I didn't particularly love the look of Roma on netflix home streaming, but thought it was stunningly beautiful in the theater

also had amazing sound design

lol just remembered this

Someone took a photo with their phone of a TV playing Roma, and the phone didn’t get the colour temperature right, and now Jeff Wells is convinced there’s a colour version of Roma. Incredible. pic.twitter.com/maq499JG9L

— David Franklin (@davefranklin) December 26, 2018

xp 'Twas no Bohemian Rhapsody on that front.

Idiot of the Year (tenth time): Jeff Wells

Jeffrey Wells is the only writer on film that makes Arm0nd look like a saint.

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18. You Were Never Really Here
w/d: Lynne Ramsay b: Jonathan Ames
UK 2017 UK digital
200 points, 8 votes

this blew me away. one of the most gripping and cinematic movies I've seen this decade. reminded me of Good Time - the speed, the music, the city - but this was so much more mysterious and masterful. I think it's a masterpiece, rare example of pure cinema and style over story. so well edited and rhythmically dynamic. jonny greenwood's score is great, and the sound design throughout the movie is stunning. apotheosis of joaquin phoenix disheveled and mumbling. and my friend saw posters for it and thought it was a sequel to I'm Still Here.

― flappy bird, Sunday, April 22, 2018

I basically hated it lmao

― Simon H., Sunday, April 22, 2018

oh fuck this was last year wasn't it, would have made the end of my ballot had i remembered.

the first 30 minutes of Ramsay's preceding film kept me away from this one

the sheer mass of joaquin in this

My vote for Best Actor.

intrigued by flappy bird's description. I was distracted and missed a lot of this when I saw it the first time

i liked it, forgot it was only from last year. doesn't approach the level of good time though, which depicted an awesome mixture of joy and anxiety, manic intensity, in its depiction of a dirtbag's improvisation as he backs himself into corner after corner.

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17. La caméra de Claire [Claire's Camera]
w/d: Hong Sang-soo
KR/FR 2017 digital
202 points, 7 votes, 2 #1s

I adored Claire's Camera: 69 minutes of the quietest wit that blooms into an unexpected emotional climax.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, March 28, 2018

best film of 2018, roll on the poll

― devvvine, Saturday, May 11, 2019

my number one, its lightness belies its depth

this looks interesting.