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

Top 10'ers on my ballot that have already shown up:

24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross)
Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman)
BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee)
Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)

I think three of the remaining five are locks.

there is a small chance that my entire ballot will end up placing. i have seven unaccounted for. let's see if i've dilettanted myself to the centre of the hivemind

4 of my top 10 have placed, Blackkklansman, Other Side of the Wind, First Man and Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Certain three more will place and likely a fourth too.

thanks to you, the deeper viewers, more than any other year I really want to see basically everything that's placed. won't be short of recommendations for a good while

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10. Sorry To Bother You
w/d: Boots Riley
US 2018 digital 2.8K
270 points, 10 votes

agreed about the shonky world-building (it is really hard to connect a world with Worry Free to a world with 2018-style labor struggles in a telemarketing office - wouldn't they just fire everybody and replace them with Worry Free? if this company is also in the kind of business we ultimately see upstairs, why would it even care about the normal telemarketing downstairs?). would add as a gripe that the gender politics are pathetic --- it fails the bechdel test outright, and the detroit-squeeze pairing raises shades of "male character loses sexual fidelity of woman, marking his low point." (also distracting given what we've been told about squeeze's sex life, in the film's worst and most tonally off joke.) buttttttttttttttttt i am glad this movie exists. the good kind of shaggy and unfocused i'd say. putting tons of stuff on the table. new metaphors and images that people are hungry for, for a bunch of different pressing issues. big, bold, eager. i wish i'd had this to chew on as a high school junior instead of just bulworth and wag the dog.

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, July 17, 2018

another promising movie derailed by America's obsession with race

The directorial debut of the year, no?

I expect a little mess with directorial debuts.

xps lol that's not what that thread's called

really wanted to like it more; more of the jokes needed to land, and Yeun and Thompson's characters were sometimes stranded

... in underdeveloped scenes

Oh thank goodness, I thought they were stranded on the side of a road somewhere.

i'll pick em up

(bitchy and not even 40)

What's a week between friends

:)

If the film is a mess, it is a mess of too many out-there ideas, not a mess based on a lack of focus or competence. My kinda mess, in other words.

this is America

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9. Eighth Grade
w/d: Bo Burnham
US 2018 digital
274 points, 11 votes

I think it's an astonishing movie, easily one of the best coming of age movies to come out this decade. Perhaps not saying much, but Burnham's script & direction are subtler and more deft than I would have ever expected he was capable of judging by his comedy, and Elsie Fisher's performance is just remarkable. Some familiar tropes and notes hit through the first half, but the second half veers off into its own very quiet and intense thing. There's so much dignity and courage in Fisher's character and Burnham doesn't linger on or milk what you'd expect: the absent parent, the awkward sexual encounter, the first crush, the active shooter drill (!). The closing father-daughter speech by the fire at the end is as powerful as the end of Call Me By Your Name. It just wrecked me.

― flappy bird, Wednesday, August 1, 2018

tt and I started watching a Burnham stand-up routine on Netflix and were enjoying its gay misanthropy, but then we got suspicious and looked him up only to discover that he wasn't gay, which completely ruined it

― imago, Wednesday, August 1, 2018

People in this very thread are saying thinks like 'It just wrecked me'

If I'm at all underwhelmed with this movie as a whole, it's far outweighed by my level of disregard for anyone who feels the need to speak out at length about it.

It's fine--I liked the kid with all the sauce packets--but as a directorial debut, this placing over Boots Riley's is kinda laughable.

that quoted story has a happy ending: we saw this movie and liked it and voted for it

fantastic use of anna meredith

also it completely looked and felt like contemporary youth culture, which most filmmakers don't quite capture

it was... fine

This was in 3rd place of the 4 movies about teenage girls I voted for

damn I forgot to vote for that one too lol
Great movie I stand by my post

hey now that everyone is looking at this thread should I see a revival of It's a Gift tonight or watch the debate

W.C. Fields >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> American politics

Feel very out of step w/ this poll - loved Roma, didn't like Buster Scruggs or First Reformed (which I'm guessing will place v high) much at all, both of which to my mind failed as horror films - give me Dr Terrors House of Horrors or Amityville Horror 2: The Possession over either of them.

elsie fisher was incredible and her relationship with her dad was sweet. appreciated the movie but the rush of pre-teen anxiety that came back to me while watching probably ensures that i don't watch again.

both of which to my mind failed as horror films

you thought Buster Scruggs and First Reformed were horror films? ok

he's referring to citation upthread of horrors within Scruggs. two of the six are horror stories tbf

lol that's a veerrrrry big stretch imo

as a directorial debut, this placing over Boots Riley's is kinda laughable

the points are not that far apart! and they're doing very different things as directors - Burnham is creating a space for Fisher to deliver a startlingly open, emotional performance. Riley is taking loads of elements of the modern capitalist world, reducing and focusing them, collaging a heightened vision out of them like a sample-based track.

we'll talk about FR when it wins this thing but it's only horror insofar as our lives are horror [/trite]

i didn't mean they were horror genrewise (thank Christ)

lol that's a veerrrrry big stretch imo

both Meal Ticket and The Mortal Remains would fit in any pre-1960 prose horror anthology without you blinking an eye

lol I see what you did there

"if we use this completely outdated genre definition that p much nobody references anymore, it fits right in!"

i didn't mean they were horror genrewise (thank Christ)

also yeah I suspected as much

I'll wait for Ward to explain himself, maybe that post was just garbled and he was referring to Hereditary and Mandy

"if we use this completely outdated genre definition that p much nobody references anymore, it fits right in!"

it fits for when the film is set / the source material for the adaptations were published. I don't know that there's any other genre that better fits Mortal Remains in 2018 either!

although we shouldn't dwell on darkness

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8. Un beau soleil intérieur [Let The Sunshine In]
d: Claire Denis w: Claire Denis, Christine Agnot
FR 2017 digital
278 points, 11 votes, 1 #1

I had thought Let The Sunshine In slight and unworthy of Denis and Binoche.

― j.lu, Monday, May 6, 2019

assumed this was a vampire movie

OK, four of my remaining five will make it.

I watch the Depardieu denouement frequently.

In my top five. Binoche has been marvelous the last decade.