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

I have never seen Showgirls. Is it considered camp?

It used to be considered crap.

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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!").

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91. LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais, 1961, France) [645.82 points; 11 votes]
S&S: 96 | TSPDT: 99 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: "much more visually overwhelming than I'd recalled -- must be the print quality. It IS funny, but not as funny as its loose remake."

how can a 94 minute movie be so long
― iatee, Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:19 PM

Man, the organ music in this movie is suffocating.
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Saturday, November 21, 2009 12:57 AM

not enough explosions in last year at marienbad, imo
― max, Monday, July 19, 2010 10:58 PM

I'll admit that I haven't thought of Marienbad too much in queer terms. I'm sure that someone could probably mount a great reading of the film, though, looking at not only the Chanel gowns but also the secrecy/repeptitiveness of the all-important "location" (hotel/gay club), the role-playing and double-faced-ness, the translation of emotions through "body architecture" (i.e. voguing)... Straight audiences would undoubedly find such a reading intensely reductive, but then again they probably find queer readings of anything reductive.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, July 20, 2005 12:16 PM

that assertion is itself reductive!
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, July 20, 2005 4:48 PM

And that's a wrap on day one!

100. ROSEMARY'S BABY (Roman Polanski, Roman 1968, USA) [620 points; 10 votes]
99. LA JETÉE (Chris Marker, Chris 1962, France) [623.33 points; 9 votes; 1 first-place vote; Morbs silver]
98. MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO (Miyazaki Hayao, 1988, Japan) [623.9 points; 10 votes]
97. SEVEN SAMURAI (Kurosawa Akira, 1954, Japan) [624.67 points; 9 votes]
96. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943, USA) [625.71 points; 7 votes]
95. SHOWGIRLS (Paul Verhoeven, 1995, USA) [628 points; 4 votes]
94. ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011, Turkey) [636 points; 6 votes]
93. ERASERHEAD (David Lynch, 1977, USA) [636.9 points; 10 votes]
92. THE GODFATHER (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972, USA) [643.4 points; 10 votes]
91. LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais, 1961, France) [645.82 points; 11 votes]

I might have thought that Marienbad was a little stodgy, too much of its time for the voters here. There are a bunch of Resnais films I'd rather watch, and maybe a couple of Robbe-Grillet as well.

I didn't think Marienbad was stodgy. It was mysterious and memorable. And beautiful!

didn't vote at all but 'meshes' + 'mulholland drive' = perfectly apposite short + a feature combo
― donna rouge, Monday, October 25, 2021

agree, but Inland Empire seems like the film of Lynch's that is most related to it, not just with fractured personas and mysterious transformations but also its hall of mirrors quality

I just opened my ballot to refer to and already have so many bones to pick with whoever I was in May. Oh well. But I did vote for one of that group of 10.

My favorite Ceylan films are his two most recent ones, The Wild Pear Tree (which I voted for) and Winter Sleep. I remember really liking Distant also

nothing i voted for had placed yet but y’all make me wish i voted for seven samurai

The Wild Pear Tree I watched at the beginning of the pandemic; I was prepared to anoint it a best-of-decade.

Stoked to see the rollout happening, and it's lovely so far. Didn't vote for <i>La Jetée</i> but I'm glad to see it here. And I was one of the votes for <i>Showgirls</i> and <i>My Neighbor Totoro</i>. Might have to re-watch them together as a double feature.

>__<

yeah, those three together are a wonderful trio for the first day here, though none managed to be Jurassic Park for me, which did make my ballot.

so far then

1 40s
1 50s
3 60s
2 70s
1 80s
1 90s
0 00s
1 10s

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

This is the greatest calling-card of any poll ever on this damned website.