Bumpy ridenight, sorry
― Double Chocula (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 October 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
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― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 23 October 2021 15:01 (two years ago) link
Haven't you heard of science's latest triumph, the doorbell?
― Double Chocula (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 October 2021 15:05 (two years ago) link
Sorry, making a reference to this exchange
― Double Chocula (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 October 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
And then this, later
― Double Chocula (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 October 2021 15:15 (two years ago) link
i hope some awful trash places
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Saturday, 23 October 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link
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― Double Chocula (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 October 2021 17:09 (two years ago) link
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― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Saturday, 23 October 2021 17:15 (two years ago) link
wooooooooooooooo! can't wait!
― Jeff Hornacek walks into a bar with (Karl Malone), Saturday, 23 October 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
is it going to be a top 100?
Indeed, 100 killers, no fillers.
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Saturday, 23 October 2021 17:40 (two years ago) link
Monster Horror Killer Theater. So scary! Ah-ooh!joeflaherty.jpg
― Double Chocula (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 October 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link
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.
― Double Chocula (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 October 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
We had to rush to throw together ballots when they closed - time to send revisions now?
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 23 October 2021 18:01 (two years ago) link
Sorry, the order is finito, and I don't want you retracting your vote for Bloodsucking Freaks.
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Saturday, 23 October 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link
anything that places will now officially be "not awful trash"
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 23 October 2021 19:23 (two years ago) link
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.
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Saturday, 23 October 2021 19:25 (two years ago) link
(About one quarter of the top 100 are medaling films.)
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Saturday, 23 October 2021 19:26 (two years ago) link
hoping this places tbh https://metrograph.com/the-church-of-fun/
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 23 October 2021 20:33 (two years ago) link
Roll picture!
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 24 October 2021 15:22 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PtdpI-D6mM
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 24 October 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link
Last call to mix your stiff cocktail before the rollout begins!
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― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 25 October 2021 12:51 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYoMKVOslhg
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 October 2021 13:09 (two years ago) link
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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 PMSorry dude: Rosemary's Baby > Rock n Roll Pt. 2― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Friday, October 2, 2009 3:49 PM
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
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 25 October 2021 13:20 (two years ago) link
This is really happening!
― jmm, Monday, 25 October 2021 13:23 (two years ago) link
Fabulous images.
I may not want Charles Grodin as my OB/BYN but I want John Cassavetes to scratch my back.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 October 2021 13:26 (two years ago) link
No MORB SEZ, no comment
― Alba, Monday, 25 October 2021 13:27 (two years ago) link
I didn't care for Rosemary's passivity when I watched it as a teenager. probably worth a rewatch.
― adam t. (abanana), Monday, 25 October 2021 13:28 (two years ago) link
She's not -- she's a step ahead of the enemies who consistently underrate her. She just fails to make the obvious connection.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 October 2021 13:30 (two years ago) link
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.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 25 October 2021 13:36 (two years ago) link
Polanski showed even more of that contradictory insight with Repulsion.
― Chris L, Monday, 25 October 2021 13:44 (two years ago) link
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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
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
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 25 October 2021 13:52 (two years ago) link
Anyone who knows me knows that first-place vote was mine.
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 25 October 2021 13:53 (two years ago) link
Great start to the rundown, 2 for 2 here
― ignore the blue line (or something), Monday, 25 October 2021 13:57 (two years ago) link
I’ve had my eye on you for a long time, Eric, so yeah, of course I knew that.
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPZWgCLMsW8Jump cut, they say. DO U SEE?
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:17 (two years ago) link
It's a good sign for consensus that even at the lower end of the poll, the entries have nine or ten votes apiece.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 25 October 2021 14:17 (two years ago) link
Right. Resisting any urge to say “Too Low!”
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:19 (two years ago) link
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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
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
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:26 (two years ago) link
unimpeachably brilliant
― maybe these baps are legends (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:30 (two years ago) link
Convenience link to Chris Marker
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
totoro's structure or rather its lack of it is always what impresses me
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:33 (two years ago) link
No, do tell.
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― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link
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
― 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
― maybe these baps are legends (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link
No, do tell.🖼
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:39 (two years ago) link
A friend of mine discovered Totoro decades ago and told me "it's amazing! Nothing happens!"
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 25 October 2021 14:40 (two years ago) link
Maybe the best film about what it feels like to be a little kid
― ignore the blue line (or something), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:41 (two years ago) link
h8 the fan theory that Mei is dead
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 25 October 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
I'm pretty sure that I haven't sat through a full movie since July. A Totoro rewatch is tempting.
― jmm, Monday, 25 October 2021 14:47 (two years ago) link
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.)
― clemenza, Friday, 3 December 2021 02:32 (two years ago) link
there is no comparison
― Dan S, Friday, 3 December 2021 02:41 (two years ago) link
Okay, Dan S.--Kevin's wrong, Kael's wrong, I'm wrong. Stargate is sui generis.
― clemenza, Friday, 3 December 2021 02:43 (two years ago) link
:) I respect your point of view, but think it is!
― Dan S, Friday, 3 December 2021 02:46 (two years ago) link
This won't change your mind, but you should find this piece interesting:
https://offscreen.com/view/beyond_the_infinite
― clemenza, Friday, 3 December 2021 02:51 (two years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Friday, 3 December 2021 03:48 (two years ago) link
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
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 3 December 2021 03:57 (two years ago) link
I thought that was way off too.
― clemenza, Friday, 3 December 2021 03:57 (two years ago) link
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.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 3 December 2021 04:11 (two years ago) link
that is not true at all, it still feels transcendental.
Pfft, seen it a bunch of times and haven't transcended once.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 3 December 2021 10:17 (two years ago) link
I'll transcend you.
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Friday, 3 December 2021 13:17 (two years ago) link
Mikhail Kalatozov's The Cranes Are Flying is a pretty great film, looking forward to I Am Cuba
― Dan S, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 02:53 (two years ago) link
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
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 13:32 (two years ago) link
have been reading this thread again, it is the best ilx film thread ever
― Dan S, Thursday, 7 April 2022 01:48 (two years ago) link
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
― Dan S, Thursday, 7 April 2022 01:50 (two years ago) link
does anyone know when the 2022 S&S poll will come out?
― Dan S, Thursday, 7 April 2022 01:51 (two years ago) link
I don’t even know who is getting ballots. Everyone I’ve asked has said they haven’t (so far)
― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 April 2022 01:54 (two years ago) link
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
― Dan S, Saturday, 7 May 2022 02:15 (two years ago) link
I’m only surreptitiously a critic but I might shamelessly beg for a ballot
― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Saturday, 7 May 2022 15:36 (two years ago) link
You know who didn't submit a ballot here? mark s didn't.
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Saturday, 14 May 2022 18:29 (two years ago) link
you call that a comprehensive list? what good does that do?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 14 May 2022 21:36 (two years ago) link
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
― Dan S, Friday, 9 September 2022 02:40 (one year ago) link
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
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 December 2022 21:33 (one year ago) link