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

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

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.

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I mean, maybe.

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96. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943, USA) [625.71 points; 7 votes]
S&S: 139 | TSPDT: 276 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: "that kneeslapper Maya Deren"

I've seen Meshes at least once a year for the past six years and I never really figured out why. It's not particularly interesting in and of itself, but one can see the horror that came from it -- that is to say, every art school stereotype stems from it. The closeups, the pretensions, narciscisim disgused as melancholy and the idea that, in order to be considered a serious artist, one must avoid any sort of accessability. You want good female directors? Ida Lupino and Lina Wertmuller. Deren is garbage.
― JM, Friday, September 21, 2001 7:00 PM

Lol at Morbz sez quote.

never seen it

It's like 12 minutes long, Addison.

An opinion.

i didn't vote for any short films but no film has had a more profound impact on me probably????

didn't vote at all but 'meshes' + 'mulholland drive' = perfectly apposite short + a feature combo

I can't remember if this is the one we watched in 1998 at uni or not.

A ballot without shorts (and longs) is foreign to me.

It's fun to watch that Totoro tree growing scene with little kids who've seen it before. They do that motion along with the characters.

I suspect there is one higher short in the list, unless a Looney Tunes short also made it.

One of my film professors worked with Maya Deren when she came to Toronto in 1951. He said, "I found her very funny because she had no sense of humour whatsoever"!

depending on how you draw the line for shorts i can think of a few that should be up the list