ILX All-Time Film and Morbsies Poll: RESULTS Thread for ILX's Favorite Movies, Films, Cinema, Flicks & Moving Pictures

All About Eric

Fasten your seatbelts, ILX, we're in for a bumpy ride.

I wish I could've gone to Radcliffe too, Soto, but father wouldn't hear of it. He needed help behind a notions counter. I'm being rude now, aren't I? Or should I say, "Ain't I?"

Awright, stoked for some rolling rollout!

A milkshake?

Bumpy ridenight, sorry

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Haven't you heard of science's latest triumph, the doorbell?

Sorry, making a reference to this exchange

And then this, later

i hope some awful trash places

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wooooooooooooooo! can't wait!

is it going to be a top 100?

Indeed, 100 killers, no fillers.

Monster Horror Killer Theater. So scary! Ah-ooh!
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Wondering if SCTV ever did any Warhol/Morrissey movie send-ups, as I am imagining, or trying to imagine, Joe Flaherty instead of Joe Dallesandro in Trash.

We had to rush to throw together ballots when they closed - time to send revisions now?

Sorry, the order is finito, and I don't want you retracting your vote for Bloodsucking Freaks.

anything that places will now officially be "not awful trash"

Preview of coming attraction: Several movies that placed got Morbs "gold" and "silver" medals from the two-tier ballot I curated last fall of his top 25 and runners-up.

(About one quarter of the top 100 are medaling films.)

hoping this places tbh https://metrograph.com/the-church-of-fun/

Roll picture!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PtdpI-D6mM

Last call to mix your stiff cocktail before the rollout begins!

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100. ROSEMARY'S BABY (Roman Polanski, Roman 1968, USA) [620 points; 10 votes]
S&S: 237 | TSPDT: 130 | BOXD: 235

MORBS SEZ: "never have Charles Grodin as your OB/GYN"

Rosemary's Baby 3: Rosemary's Baby's Baby is really boring. I mean, cool twist and everything, but it was just a nice baby.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, May 16, 2012 6:11 PM

Sorry dude: Rosemary's Baby > Rock n Roll Pt. 2
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Friday, October 2, 2009 3:49 PM

This is really happening!

Fabulous images.

I may not want Charles Grodin as my OB/BYN but I want John Cassavetes to scratch my back.

No MORB SEZ, no comment

I didn't care for Rosemary's passivity when I watched it as a teenager. probably worth a rewatch.

She's not -- she's a step ahead of the enemies who consistently underrate her. She just fails to make the obvious connection.

Yeah it's a really impressive piece of work, that film, a really sharp portrait of a women being gaslit and how few options she has to fight it. The fact that this insight didn't stop the director from being the monster he was is horrible, ofc, but the film's great.

Polanski showed even more of that contradictory insight with Repulsion.

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99. LA JETÉE (Chris Marker, Chris 1962, France) [623.33 points; 9 votes; 1 first-place vote; Morbs silver]
S&S: 61 | TSPDT: 117 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: "The best time-travel film is still easily La Jetee … really, La Jetee, Sherlock Jr, Wavelength, Flaming Creatures, Rose Hobart, Duck Amuck are among my fave films of all time, period."

Only last week I emailed Chris suggesting he tell people he was suffering from a case of Morgellons picked up from Joni Mitchell, and had coloured threads in the shape of cats' whiskers growing on his upper lip. Unfortunately, Chris stopped responding to any of my communications in 1962. I think the success of La Jetée went to his head a bit, to be honest.
― Grampsy, Monday, July 30, 2012 9:36 PM

Anyone who knows me knows that first-place vote was mine.

Great start to the rundown, 2 for 2 here

I’ve had my eye on you for a long time, Eric, so yeah, of course I knew that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPZWgCLMsW8
Jump cut, they say. DO U SEE?

It's a good sign for consensus that even at the lower end of the poll, the entries have nine or ten votes apiece.

Right. Resisting any urge to say “Too Low!”

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98. MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO (Miyazaki Hayao, 1988, Japan) [623.9 points; 10 votes]
S&S: 175 | TSPDT: 227 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: … nothing; there is no evidence I found that he ever watched this one.

i can no longer deny the obvious: the catbus has catballs
― A victim managed to capture evidence of the gimp (bizarro gazzara)

The Totoro and US Politics threads are on a similar vibe right now.
― jmm, Tuesday, November 26, 2019 12:52 PM

unimpeachably brilliant

Convenience link to Chris Marker

totoro's structure or rather its lack of it is always what impresses me

She's not -- she's a step ahead of the enemies who consistently underrate her. She just fails to make the obvious connection.

No, do tell.

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totoro's structure or rather its lack of it is always what impresses me

― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:32 (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i've come to think there's something quite Ozu-esque about Totoro - its domesticity, its understated drama, the relationship between the countryside and the city and the movement between them

“The Stargate sequence in 2001 has dated worse than most special effects from that era - feels like something you'd see in some psychsploitation film - and make it v difficult to tune in to the film's idea of transcendence imo”

― Daniel_Rf, Friday, November 5, 2021

that is not true at all, it still feels transcendental. When was a sequence like this ever imagined before

By Brakhage.

they are very different

Kael compared the Stargate sequence (not favorably, to put it mildly) to another filmmaker--checked back, and it wasn't Brakhage but Jordan Belson, who I don't know at all. But this does suggest a strong influence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFA29CsDRe0

oh come on

I'm not saying it's better. I'm not saying anything except there's clearly some similarity, and I suspect Kubrick was aware of it's existence. (Belson wasn't working with a major studio and a big budget, and it was 1959.)

there is no comparison

Okay, Dan S.--Kevin's wrong, Kael's wrong, I'm wrong. Stargate is sui generis.

:) I respect your point of view, but think it is!

This won't change your mind, but you should find this piece interesting:

https://offscreen.com/view/beyond_the_infinite

The one thing I got above all else from Michael Benson's 2001 book (and it's not one of my favourite films, but one that interests me a great deal) is that Kubrick was hyper-attuned to everything around him in the culture--like Godard, or Dylan, or Warhol around the same time--and that he grabbed at anything he thought he could use. That's not a criticism at all, far from it. He's still the one who took all that stuff and turned it into something.

its certainly fair to bring up Jordan Belson as an antecedent to the stargate sequence, but Kael calling the sequence "third rate" Belson has got to be one of the looniest challops of her career. iirc in the Benson book Trumbull IDs John Whitney (who did the animation in Vertigo) as one of his main influences on the sequence

I thought that was way off too.

I read that Kubrick did attempt to get a contemporary experimental filmmaker to help create the Stargate sequence, but I don't remember who now.

Last week I watched John Carpenter 's The Thing from this list. It was well done, but I'm the sort of horror-film viewer who watches avidly in the early "ominous" scenes where helicopters land on empty patches of snow or someone walks down an empty corridor. By the later scenes, when blood is geysering and chest cavities are imploding, I'm shrugging.
It also seemed to me that the threat the Thing posed was whatever Carpenter decided it needed to be from scene-to-scene. First it has to hide inside a human being, but all of a sudden it can tear through the ground like a submarine going 100 miles an hour? I didn't feel the film was playing fair with expectations. But one detail I liked was that the cast was large enough that I really didn't get a handle on who each character was until most of them were dead; it kept me guessing about the human drama.

that is not true at all, it still feels transcendental.

Pfft, seen it a bunch of times and haven't transcended once.

I'll transcend you.

Mikhail Kalatozov's The Cranes Are Flying is a pretty great film, looking forward to I Am Cuba

Funny, Cranes has been on my mind this week as one to revisit. Of the two, Cranes is the better film in terms of storytelling - the drama & acting in I Am Cuba are pretty cartoonish, but Cuba's rep for eye-popping visuals is well deserved

have been reading this thread again, it is the best ilx film thread ever

even better than the 101 Directors poll, which was also great:

All Right, Mr. DeMille, I'm Ready For My Close-Up ... It's The ILXOR's Top 101 Director Poll Results Thread

does anyone know when the 2022 S&S poll will come out?

I don’t even know who is getting ballots. Everyone I’ve asked has said they haven’t (so far)

I read on twitter today that the call for ballots has now gone out. I hope the films critics here will be able to vote. I will look out for contacts

I’m only surreptitiously a critic but I might shamelessly beg for a ballot

You know who didn't submit a ballot here? mark s didn't.

you call that a comprehensive list? what good does that do?

I watched The Night of the Hunter again, it's very creepy and quite good but I wouldn't put it in the top 10 films of all time

Haven't cross-referenced these lists against each other, but I'd bet that at least a third factor into both, maybe even half ...

https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time