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

The YouTube version I saw had an electronic score.

Meshes is my favorite Kate Bush video.

Possibly nothing more needs to be said about Showgirls, now officially a Great Film, but here I'll note that both KJB and myself were among the four voters.

Meshes also referenced in Sun Ra's Space is the Place movie.

"Cronenberg doesn't really have anything comparable to Showgirls in his oeuvre"

Stereo has some gratuitous topless scenes, but it's not the same.

Possibly nothing more needs to be said about _Showgirls_, now officially a Great Film, but here I'll note that both KJB and myself were among the four voters.

Rose: “I know what you mean. I should have said no to the Miss St. Olaf beauty pageant. It was 1951. That was the first year they let humans enter too. I was way ahead after the evening-gown and log-rolling competition. People don't realize how hard it is to roll a log when you're wearing an evening gown. And the shocker is I lost out on the intelligence quiz.”

Dorothy: “Quelle surprise!”

voted for a different verhoeven but showgirls ebbed at the edge of my top 25 anyway

I had several Verhoeven in top competition.

he is the goat

did you all abide by the "one per director" rule? or wait, was that an actual rule in the poll? i can't remember. either way, i followed that rule

my ballot is as boring as all of mine on any other poll, but i'm hoping some of them place so i can see how bill trashes them! :)

I tried to.

Wasn’t a hard-and-fast rule, rather a helpful guiding principle to come up with a more balanced ballot. Think Eric set the example when he did his personal countdown elsewhere.

I have never seen Showgirls. Is it considered camp?

It used to be considered crap.

HO

I have never seen Showgirls. Is it considered camp?

― adam t. (abanana), Monday, October 25, 2021 10:43 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

majestic mgm musical-esque grandiosity married with a script someone unearthed from an oil drum. feels like a potential definition of camp

Notes on Concentration Camp Ehrhardt.

“We do the concentrating and the POLLs do the camping!”

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94. ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011, Turkey) [636 points; 6 votes]
S&S: 418 | TSPDT: 538 | BOXD: 204

MORBS SEZ: "i will rewatch Anatolia at some point but i found it distended and not very deep."

Climates is a great film, absolutely. And it has a bit of nudity. Not as great as Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, but then again, what is?
― Frederik B, Monday, December 2, 2013 10:39 AM

Last night I was watching Mia Hansen-Løve's Eden, set in the electronic music world of Paris, where one character repeated shows the others Showgirls, trying to convince the skeptics that it's a masterpiece.

I've thought all of Nuri Bilge Ceylan's films were very good, none quite great.

Good film. I remember recommending Once Upon A Time In Anatolia to my brother's mum and she never forgave me lol.

Better your brother's mum than your mother's bum.

EXCELSIOR!

(didn't know which was the current LOLZ thread)

Can't say I loved this one but if this motivates people to check it out, it'll be worthwhile.

xp - they all are
#onethread

In my top 25. I watched Climates recently and hated it, to the point where it made me wonder about the rest of his films. So I'm probably due a rewatch but I'm p sure my feelings for it would hold up

saw 'climates' when it came out and thought it was a snooze, haven't seen anything else of his

I've seen 5 of 8, and would probably say that Distant or Winter Sleep are the best. Anatolia is basically a two-and-a-half hour setup for the shock of the final scene.

I love OUATIA, Winter Sleep, Uzak and The Wild Pear Tree but christ Climates was bad

Just getting caught up, only comment I'll add is that Totoro is my youngest son's favorite movie, to the extent that when we rented a local indie theater for his 13th birthday, it's the movie he picked to watch. It was really sweet to watch this group of 12- and 13-year-old boys sit rapt through this quiet movie about two little girls. It's a magical movie.

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93. ERASERHEAD (David Lynch, 1977, USA) [636.9 points; 10 votes]
S&S: 200 | TSPDT: 268 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: "damn u guys took Eraserhead personally. It's not real you know. I mean, look at his hair."

if eraserhead reminded you of a kitchen sink drama remind me to stay out of yr kitchen
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, May 17, 2012 8:58 PM

My Dad honestly thought that my sister's Eraserhead video was a tape head cleaner...
― Jez, Friday, September 20, 2002 6:08 AM

#2 on my ballot, and my Lynch pick (one per director imo). everything that felt so subliminally off and familiar at the same time in The Return was present in Eraserhead, right from the beginning. it's a lot funnier than it's reputation, too - it's one gag after another, even if one of the gags is this baby from hell

and jack nance in a defining performance. i don't know how he resumed his daily life after that. perhaps it helped that it took them 3-5 years (or whatever) to film it, so he was used to just slipping in and out of the character

Gonna predict 1st of 5 Lynch placements.

Love Eraserhead but I didn't even put in my runners up, too many other Lynches I wanted to place. Absolutely true that it created the Lynch Cinematic Universe, in which we have all been living since.

also the film that influenced an entire music genre

it's a movie that you can listen to on headphones, and it's incredible just that way

xp which genre?

industrial!

Oops I lied, it was in my extended list. Excellent choice by me.

So with Totoro, Meshes and Samurai that's 4 of 8 for me so far.

Without Eraserhead no Low.

loving the images

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92. THE GODFATHER (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972, USA) [643.4 points; 10 votes]
S&S: 15 | TSPDT: 7 | BOXD: 4

MORBS SEZ: "Brando's performance is mostly hammy crap. And if you ever see [Godfather] I in a theater, Diane Keaton's assorted hairstyles draw gales of laughter."

mean for all the great sadness and double-layered story of the second, with the first you've got brando... james caan... clemenza dude (forgot his name)... abe fuckin' vigoda!!
― s1ocki, Sunday, January 13, 2008 2:25 PM

You really do need to see the first one first. I saw the third one first, and was all WTF the entire time.
― the monte cristo is like the greatest collective cry for help (B.L.A.M.), Sunday, August 2, 2009 2:13 PM

Watch Tetro instead. There's a hot 18-year-old boy in it.
― sir-mounter (Eric H.), Sunday, August 2, 2009 7:29 PM

this one is pretty good, imo

please congratulate me, the first person to enjoy the film 'the godfather'

are there any performances of note in this picture?

I can't argue with it. Prefer Brando in The Freshman ("When they met him, they based the movie!").