ILX All-Time Film and Morbsies Poll: Voting And Campaigning Thread (Ballots Due Like I Dunno Maybe March 1, 2021?)

Half of my top 10 will definitely be in the top 100 unless there's something very wrong with you lot. The other half I have no idea.

tm otm

Did you get my ballot, Eric?

I believe so. Got multiple Michael ballots on Tuesday.

Hold the elevator pls!

Ballot received!

Will finally start entering in the last-minute ballots into the spreadsheet this week, which means I might be nice and leave room for a few more.

This seems important:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAO1o8K5Y3I

Hey Eric, just sent an updated ballot, hope it's not too late

Got it!

is it too late? probably too late which is v fair

Not at all. I’m still entering the data so send away!

ty <3

Will nose around for any other ballots that might have gone to my spam folder, but this is the full list until such revisions are carried out:

Dr. Morbius
Eric H.
clemenza
Halfway there but for you
abanana
Chris Lowe
Brad Nelson
cryptosicko
Pfunkboy
Kevin John Bozelka
Cameraderie at Arms Length
oscar bravo
voodoo chili
J.Lu
Thermo Thinwall
Andrew Farrell
Flappy Bird
davey
Alba
James Redd & The Blecchs
Karl Malone
Hans Holbein
Nag! Nag! Nag!
Clay
Timothy R.
johnny_crunch
karl...arlk...rlka...lkar...
lingereffect
tipsy mothra
William C
Paul B.
geoffreyess
james d.
Alfred, Lord Sotosyn
Scharf
or something
g simmel
xyzzzz__
difficult listening hour
Liam J.
imago
Dan S
Cherish	braised cod
Neue Jesse Schule
Morley Timmons
C. Crisso/McCain
(The Other) JD
sic
Will M.
Lavator Shemmelpennick
cajunsunday
mordy
Michael B.
polyphonic
plax (ico)

That's (at least) 55 ballots accounted for.

And me boss

Time to call it and let us find out who won Best Picture!

+

wins
budo jeru

Hello. This is a demonstration of a talking picture.

FUCK, i forgot ghostbusters!

I can't even remember what I had on my ballot (besides The Music Box)!

You don't automatically bcc yourself?

never look in your sent folder! you can't change the past, you have to move forward

That's (at least) 55 ballots accounted for.

― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Monday, June 14, 2021 12:10 PM (one hour ago)

56, because Cherish and braised cod are two different people!

I do cherish braised cod so tho.

lol

hard to be a cod

Uh, if final tallies are not yet counted then I'm putting a ballot together literally right now..

Still working on it, so send away.

Yay, thank you! I'm up to G, so should be sendable within the next couple of hours.

Well that was optimistic. Most brutal ballot yet! So many arbitrary and/or ruthless decisions!

Looking forward to The Hobbit getting the recognition it deserves through the write-in vote.

It’s a fifteen-bagger

i disagree: it's at least 6 sodas

You’ll be filling those soda buckets back up because the movies are so freakin’ long!

(number of nominated movies) x (5 bags) = (code to hack into top secret Morbsies results)

Oh I hacked that ages ago. Spoiler alert:

It's all Jerry Lewis. Although I would like to know how he saw The Day the Clown Cried before the donor restrictions expire.

having just seen it, i would now like to go back and add Jacques Tati's PlayTime to my list because wowowowowowowowowowowowow

Yes! Funny and poignant and perfect. It's in my top 10.

Top 5 over here. Been fortunate to see it in the theater a couple of times.

At TIFF, I saw a special screening of Playtime that was moved to another venue so they could show a 70mm print.

Using a VPN, I managed to get myself a free trial for Criterion Channel and watched Playtime. I found it very funny in places and enjoyed it but I think I'd need to see it a few more times and preferably in a cinema to truly get it.

i'm glad that dunkey introduced so many people to playtime

think I'd need to see it a few more times and preferably in a cinema to truly get it

Tati intended for it to be shown on a loop, so people could come in and out and rewatch any amount of it at random.

i could ramble on and on about how beautifully that movie uses glass as a motif. very neat that it was intended as a loop.

i am reminded that i'd like to read this book, "Shard Cinema" by Evan Calder Williams, which muses extensively on things (like glass) shattering and fragmenting on screen.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32446754-shard-cinema

Playtime was a really memorable film, was in my favorite 25

recently watched Jeanne-Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows for the first time and thought it was fantastic! If I were voting again I think I would put into my ballot in place of Le Samouraï

Sorry, everyone: Playtime topped my "Geez, I hope this doesn't win" list. If it does, fine.

I really like the earlier Tati films, especially Mon Oncle; found Playtime hit the same note over and over again. It's not really funny, either, which I'm sure some people think is the point (or beside the point).

I don't have a "hope this doesn't win" list, I should put some thought into that.

I liked PlayTime a lot more once I decided that it was okay that I didn't think it was actually that funny.

Mon Oncle was good too

feel pretty sure whatever wins will be fine

I don't know if I've ever had such a viscerally negative reaction to a revered film. Reverence that seems relatively recent--I found a site with a detailed breakdown of the 2002 S&S vote, and if that's accurate, it got 2 votes. What exactly happened after that?

https://www.cinemacom.com/2002-sight-sound.html