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

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

https://www.stageandcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Marina-de-Tavira-Marco-Graf-Yalitza-Aparicio-Daniela-Demesa-Diego-Cortina-Autrey-and-Carlos-Peralta-in-Roma-2018.jpg

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.

https://i.imgur.com/i0R3SaY.jpg

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.

https://i.imgur.com/iw541Ia.jpg

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.

yes great film

#7 for me

had hotel by the river and the day after lower on my ballot, assuming they won't make it. the former is the strongest of the two

I should have voted for Claire's Camera, though the sheer amount of Hong films fucks up my idea of which ones belongs to what year. Voted for Grass instead.

Yay at Madeline's Madeline and yay Silby. That one has stayed with me, ended up as #2 on my ballot. I can still feel the way the camera danced around. Or perhaps I'm imagining things, no matter what, it's a great feeling.

Somehow, I don’t know how, I left this off my ballot. Would have been #2. ;_;

I loved the scene in this where Manhee insists on taking a selfie with her boss immediately after being told that she is fired

big sleepy dog narrowly beaten out for best animal by the llama from zama

My #1!

No one's making films as musical and deceptively light as Hong is

Yeah he’s great, this was my #2

Hotel by the River kinda breaks the template (2019 US)

I love that it was shot over the course of one Cannes, his process is fascinating (or what I remember of it from the intro to my screening of cc)

llama from zama creates drama in alabama by reading rendezvous with rama

writes overnight during production, i think

sic how do you pronounce "alabama"

rhymes with "Obama"

Huge point in Hong's favor: his commitment to making 80 to 90-min movies.

xxp writes overnight, gives script to cast in morning, shoots, goes over footage in the evening. the theory of his approach is very much present in the film i think.

always with your vacuuming... xp