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

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

The only time I faced a full-scale riot in my film class happened while showing Playtime.

They calmed down when I explained it's a dud as a comedy but a solid example of visual and sound design, use of long shot, of showing how America looked like in a post-World's Fair climate, etc.

but, clem, correct me if I'm wrong, you're not much of a fan of the sort of leisurely film that Pauline Kael made few exceptions for, right?

I don't know: I think I like/love lots of films that amble along (The Straight Story and Comfort and Joy immediately come to mind). You're probably onto something with "dud as a comedy but a solid example of visual and sound design"--I think I expected something funny, not painfully and skull-crushingly whimsical. The sound design drove me up the wall, mind you.

Having read lots about the '64 World's Fair, though, there might be something there for me.

i'm just hoping shawshank redemption won't win. enough is enough!

hasn't that noxious cult died already?

wait, shawshank redemption isn't going to win right

i mean, that scene where he crawls through a 100 yards of shit and climbs out on the other end a free man and raises his arms to the pouring rainstorm - that was dogshit

its actually a deeply illuminating metaphor but i am not going to tell you what it means due to my cruelty

showing how America looked like in a post-World's Fair climate, etc.

is it intended to depict America?

just industrial society, I thought. I wouldn't compare The Straight Story, to me Lynch's least interesting film, to Playtime

(obv the comparison can still be useful for Soto connecting the work to disengaged teens, whether or not Tati meant to build a USA)

i love how RUDELY NOISY PlayTime is throughout, and i get it if that's not tolerable for everyone

when the jet engine cuts in blaring over the (already chaotic) action in the opening scenes i got a feeling the movie would be a lot of fun

Not to be reductive, but Playtime's ability to still get under people's skin is a mark of its greatness.

I agree with the take of dud comedy but great sound design art film.

bump? (no pressure)

I give it till the rains break

Rest assured the ballots are in their safety box and will be certified in full.

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Many are saying Jurassic Park is the winner but will be unfairly denied

*bump*

What bump?

Watching what may be Morbius’s least favorite Cagney movie right now.

You Dirty Bump...

Ha!

The only time I faced a full-scale riot in my film class happened while showing Playtime.

They calmed down when I explained it's a dud as a comedy but a solid example of visual and sound design, use of long shot, of showing how America looked like in a post-World's Fair climate, etc.

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Some of it must be lost in translation, Playtime is hilarious.

Watching this pretty good early 60s sex farce I never saw or heard of before. Caste is a perfect time capsule of the moment.

Lead actress’s father’s first wife is on a little later. Think the two families were neighbors when she was growing up.

Although the ex-wife was married to William Wyler in between! #onethread

This next movie has a great credit:
AND DICK MARTIN AS “ZACK”

MUSIC BY DE VOL

Dick Martin stealing scenes, if maybe not quite as much as his namesake Dick Shawn.

Eric gave this one three stars

Some nice-looking VAB-type sets.

Not one but two Bewitched actors!

Some Help!-level spy stuff featuring Dom DeLuise, which is reasonably enjoyable.

Paul Lynde disguised in a long beard and glasses!

Which beard gets partially run over by Alice Pearce.

Did I mention Ellen Corby？

Paul Lynde (in drag!) Don DeLuise exchange is grebt!