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

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.

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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

No, do tell.
🖼

A friend of mine discovered Totoro decades ago and told me "it's amazing! Nothing happens!"

Maybe the best film about what it feels like to be a little kid

h8 the fan theory that Mei is dead

I'm pretty sure that I haven't sat through a full movie since July. A Totoro rewatch is tempting.

Everything that people say there is to like about Totoro I indeed like in virtually all of Miyazaki's other films ... just not in Totoro for some reason.

Tho this moment is cute as hell:

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

It was on his Letterboxd watchlist.

BILL WANTS TO SEE 416 FILMS

;_;

Bummed that we won't get to hear what Morbs thought of Moment By Moment.

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97. SEVEN SAMURAI (Kurosawa Akira, 1954, Japan) [624.67 points; 9 votes]
S&S: 19 | TSPDT: 10 | BOXD: 7

MORBS SEZ: "Kurosawa is a more versatile filmmaker than given credit for, imho … AK-Mifune pairing nearly as fruitful as Ford-Wayne."

Seven Samurai would be greatly improved if it had Bill Murray in it.
― Johnney B (Johnney B), Sunday, January 25, 2004 4:01 AM

Yojimbo isn't actually all that good, is it. It's like if you took Seven Samurai and took out everything interesting. But maybe left in Mifune. And gave him lice. And the lice were the best thing in the movie.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, September 17, 2005 11:03 AM

I will accept this only if Ikiru and Throne Of Blood end up in the top20

No American directors so far.

this is the best movie ever made

Not a huge Kurosawa fan, my favourite is High and Low, with Mifune at a lower key of intensity.

Somehow have never seen this, though have seen three other Kurosawa films. La Jette & Rosemary's Baby were in my honorable mentions, like Totoro but, yes, not going to talk about the fan theories, which are imo.a bit more than just fan theories.

Like Rashomon somewhat diminished by Film Studies 101 but I look forward to the afternoon my local art house will screen it.

we should do a poll of 100 best mifune facial expressions after this

Ope, I trust no one needs clarification that S&S equals Sight & Sound 2012, TSPDT indicates They Shoot Pictures Don't They's 2021 edition, and BOXD is from the Letterboxd top 250 from a couple weeks ago.

You didn't mention Armond White.

By design.

Helen DeWitt's The Last Samurai will make you either want to rewatch this immediately or never want to hear it mentioned again, I'm not sure which.

we're expecting more Kurosawa to place, right? like this is his most canonical work but if nothing else places that's a fucking scandal

we should do a poll of 100 best mifune facial expressions after this

― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Monday, October 25, 2021 10:30 AM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is a good one

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here

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Not sure if anyone had better style.

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 ...

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