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

today's films have been very much of the 'need to see' variety

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14. Happy As Lazzaro [Lazzaro felice]
w/d: Alice Rohrwacher
IT 2018 Super 16mm
233 points, 9 votes, 1 #1

Happy as Lazzaro worthy of its Film Comment cover, and ekes into my top 10 of '18. Candide + magical realism + scabrous satire of modern Italy.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, December 28, 2018

thought this was great, and it is another subtle film that requires more than one viewing

also recommend The Wonders, her previous which I think I may love even more than this

lost me a bit in it's second act but that stretch before the 'jump' is superlative

I like how surreal the shift was

*did like

Yeah, I think I might prefer The Wonders, but it's a superlative work. She's my favorite Italian director at the moment.

BlacKkKlansman the mainstream Hollywood movie of the year and it’s not particularly close.

there may still be a Hollywood film to come tomorrow

Loved Lazzaro. Made my Top 5.

Top 13 will be all Marvel and Star Wars movies I assume

I only voted for one Marvel movie

21 for me, but only bcz of hopeful, tactical voting for some things that ended up receiving 0 other votes. Might have been top ten if I'd seen it in a cinema, instead of spread over three gym visits.

Top 13 will be all Marvel and Star Wars movies I assume

Don't use a calculator to give yourself spoilers, but Free Solo received 6x as many votes as Solo.

On a quick skim, 23 votes were cast for Marvel movies [and 1 for a DC movie (the latter by me, and shockingly not by Will M.)]

[er, 21 was re my placing of Lazzaro.]

there may still be a Hollywood film to come tomorrow

It won't be as good as BlacKkKlansman tho.

prefer First Man easily

it even has the Spike touch of a guy playing Gil Scott-Heron

If ILX entirely shuts out Marvel in this poll, I will dip-kiss everyone who voted.

I cast no ballot, and you are welcome.

I fucking loathe Marvel usually but I voted for a certain Marvel very high and am not ashamed to admit it

wait ten years

we don't got ten years.

In 10 Years, All Movies Will Be Marvel Movies

In 10 years, the planet will be dead

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13. Leave No Trace
d: Debra Granik w: Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini b: Peter Rock
US 2018 digital
246 points, 11 votes, 1 #1

watched this with a friend that works in mental health and she really liked the more grown-up portrait with the caveat it probably reduced the stresses in the main relationship.

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, July 29, 2018

In 10 Years, All Movies Will Be Marvel Movies
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, June 27, 2019 12:37 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In 10 years, the planet will be dead
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, June 27, 2019 12:46 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh thank god!

voted LNT, tho first half was the best

Started watching this, got distracted and never ended up going back to it. I’m generally bored by this kind of bone-dry Amerindie thing these days anyway.

I usually hate Ben Foster's mannered twitching, but he suppressed that here.

ir's McKenzie's movie, she kindly lets Foster stay onscreen with her sometimes

Apart from one overly heartwarming scene of singing around the campfire near the end, I thought the script did an admirable job of addressing the problems its characters were coping with. It condensed without oversimplification, told a coherent story, and portrayed characters you could believe in. As a bonus, it was a film very much about violence, where the physical violence was both ever-present and unimaginably remote. Impressive.

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12. Hereditary
w/d: Ari Aster
US 2018 digital 2.8K
250 points, 10 votes

idk, i still think it's a metaphor -- it was comforting to movie viewers to know [spoiler about the certain point] because it got them through the harrowing nature of the situation, but i don't think of it as "a story" as much as a distillation of the horrors of heredity, which we all grapple with to some degree
i certainly felt massive lingering horror as i looked at boxes of personal/family ephemera the morning after i saw it

like A Quiet Place was family-centered horror of a narrow scope with one family and clear monsters; Hereditary seemed to be a more all-encompassing look at the horror of family and things that are hereditary

...or just a witch story with bonus family horror content
whichever you prefer

― La Lechera, Sunday, 10 June 2018

I loved this, especially the Oscar-winning performance from Collette

fantastic film

this was an excellent horror movie to read the plot of on Wikipedia. A classic of the genre of someone transcribing the events of the film in such a way that they seem to succeed one another with no cause and effect whatsoever.

hereditary still pops up in my mind, particularly when i'm home alone at night and can't be bothered to turn on a light to move around the house and see out of the corner of my eye what appears to be a fat naked man smiling at me

also the only film i've been in which a CLUCK caused an entire audience to scream

I've dulled on it now but yay on Collette.

nope, didn't see any horror this year

I guess John Krasinski's appears soon

I’ve heard this does what it does quite well, but it just sounded too yucky for me.

incredible film

I’m the fat naked man

figured someone was going to volunteer to be

I guess John Krasinski's appears soon

lol no

Mandy might

Mandy will

Top 13 will be all Marvel and Star Wars movies I assume