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

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!

If it hadn’t been for me, this place would be closed on account of suicide and you’d all be out of a job.

:)

Now watching the second Vertigo tribute in so many months.

currently in the Spartacus intermission

it didn't make my ballot, but fuck yeah Spartacus

Started it last night too! I've been watching Kubrick all week for a Zoomcast with some friends. (Watch out for my dad's cousin, Nick Dennis, one of the slaves--short Greek guy.)

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

― Van Horn Street

Nope. More like "lost in pacing."

(xpost) I called him a short Greek guy; Peter Ustinov says something like "He's small, but compact," then goes on to say he seems smaller than when in the gladiator ring. Ustinov's hilarious in Spartacus.