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

Enfin! The images are lovely. Did you do them, Eric? Sorry if it was explained earlier.

List looking good so far. I voted for Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. Disagree that its all about the final scene. I love the movie because its a sort of slice of life comedy set to immersive landscapes. None of the characters seems to do their job well, but each one does something crucial for the mission at some point, just not what they are "supposed" to do. That felt really authentic, especially with the endless steppes as backdrop which give the whole episode a sort of existential dread in that it doesn't matter if you are nominally a "doctor", "detective" or "driver" you need to contribute with anything you got or everyone will wander around forever.

Didn't watch any other Ceylan or Turkish movies in general, but plan to.

Godfather at 92 is *chef's kiss*

yeah, looking forward to Citizen Kane, Vertigo & Casablanca placing outside top 77 and a DNP for Shawshank.

i love the first 2 Godfathers but they are what they are, 92 seems reasonable

Once Upon A Time In Anatolia is great, one of the few times where a director using Once Upon A Time... works because the atmosphere truly is worthy of Leone (I know not every instance is a director nodding to that directly).

Also taught me the hierarchy of soft drinks: yoghurt drink will only do if there's no coke.

Hope my other votes from "world cinema in the last decade" place as well: Burning, Separation, Timbuktu

Burning and A Separation were both late scratches from my list sorry. You're otm about Anatolia if that's any consolation

KJB, I'm picking the stills and then slapping some templated filters on the top of them, basically. I'm no graphics pro by any stretch.

(I, too, love The Godfather at #92. Because I do actually like the movie fwiw.)

would be very interesting to find out what's the highest number of honorable mentions for a movie which didn't receive any top 25 votes.

10, a feat achieved by two films.

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90. MANDY (Panos Cosmatos, 2018, USA) [646.5 points; 8 votes]
S&S: DNP | TSPDT: 6,054 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: … nothing; there is no evidence I found that he ever watched this one, or (uncharacteristically) that he badmouthed those who loved it?

well this certainly delivered. in a funny way it felt like every scene was better than the one before it
― Οὖτις, Monday, July 1, 2019 10:00 AM

Kinda feel like there's a stain on my soul now that I can never fully scour away. Fuckin' evil. Deeply admire the commitment to pulling zero punches. Not sure I ever need to see it again. Fairly sure I will nonetheless see it again soon.
― Extra Shprankles (Old Lunch), Sunday, October 14, 2018 8:51 PM

It has its moments but no way should it have been two hours long.
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, October 7, 2018 10:49 AM

yeah it should've been at least three
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, October 7, 2018 11:01 AM

hey, i voted for this one!

oh well

This is the spot Drive might have had in if this poll was done in 2014.
(I like Mandy ftr)

i assume this is not my thing

xp lol

of course every horror film these days has to be about dealing with trauma but this is the one that really takes that in an interesting direction. It's completely ott of course but feels emotionally truthful. Score is incredible too

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89. THIS IS SPINAL TAP (Rob Reiner, 1984, USA) [650.91 points; 11 votes]
S&S: 418 | TSPDT: 303 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: "Cute and funny, but mocking trad metal bands -- HOW DIFFICULT."

There was supposed to be a 'hilarious' BJ scene that got cut or unfilmed, purely because it wouldn't have been included in a 'real' documentary.
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:24 AM

Spinal Tap, in particular, is one bitchy little film. We'll call it the pierced nephew of All About Eve.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, November 7, 2003 1:00 AM

fave subtle line: the argument about going on AFTER the puppet show
― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, November 16, 2005 11:54 PM

The Stonehenge thing will never fail to make me lose my shit.
― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Wednesday, July 8, 2009 3:22 PM

I love this movie, but "Some Kind of Monster" is almost as good, and in many ways even better and funnier.
― Mike Crandle, Financial Analyst, Bear Stearns, New York, NY 10185 (res), Wednesday, July 8, 2009 12:27 PM

Just because somethign is quotable doesn't mean you people should quote from it.
― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, October 14, 2003 5:03 AM

Today is very metal so far.

Definitely exhausted this one by the time I turned 20. I remember tuning in to watch it the first time it aired on Comedy Central in the 90s.

Oh and lol @ the number placement in the graphic.

I thought this would be higher

I thought Best in Show was considered the Christopher Guest pick.

xp Me too

I was just thinking on the weekend how the fact that the group had been together 20 years was one of the jokes about how out of touch they were. Now, they would probably be announcing their 60th anniversary tour and no-one would find it strange.

I thought this would be higher

I thought it would go to 11?!?

i have to note that introducing somebody to Spinal Tap and them not really feeling it is an excruciating moment

(I, too, love The Godfather at #92. Because I do actually like the movie fwiw.)

― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 bookmarkflaglink

It's great btw, there are just 91 films that are better.

(DJP's screenname on the Tap quote btw is why I love finding old quotes)

i have to note that introducing somebody to Spinal Tap and them not really feeling it is an excruciating moment

Probably not the last time this could be said during this rollout.

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88. JOHNNY GUITAR (Nicholas Ray, 1954, USA) [651 points; 6 votes]
S&S: 279 | TSPDT: 246 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: would've considered JG if any of the rest of it was in this ballpark:

Johnny: How many men have you forgotten?
Vienna: As many women as you've remembered.
Johnny: Don't go away.
Vienna: I haven't moved.
Johnny: Tell me something nice.
Vienna: Sure, what do you want to hear?
Johnny: Lie to me. Tell me all these years you've waited. Tell me.
Vienna: [without feeling] All those years I've waited.
Johnny: Tell me you'd a-died if I hadn't come back.
Vienna: [without feeling] I woulda died if you hadn't come back.
Johnny: Tell me you still love me like I love you.
Vienna: [without feeling] I still love you like you love me.
Johnny: [bitterly] Thanks. Thanks a lot."

Starring Joan Crawford in Red, Mercedes McCambridge in White (with a voice scarier than the one she provided for The Devil in The Exorcist), and, oh yeah, Sterling Hayden as the title character.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:15 PM

I'm a terrible gay for not loving Johnny Guitar.
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, August 12, 2011 7:41 AM

Can confirm, Alfred is a terrible gay.

I think Johnny Guitar is a blast, but my top Ray pick would be In a Lonely Place.

I'm fonder of it now. Gays too!

Tipsy otm. Also: Bitter Victory

In a Lonely Place and Johnny Guitar more or less tied for first for me.

johnny guitar RULES

i saw it in a theater where a bunch of uncultured teenagers laughed at it!!!! but i??? i fell in love

i should do a ray double feature when i finish the book of in a lonely place

Also: Bigger than Life!

I like They Live By Night but not as much as Altman's remake, Thieves Like Us.

Convinced there was never a great film that was not laughed at in rep screenings.

Anyone willing to make a case for The Savage Innocents?

Ray also made one of the key Mitchum films, The Lusty Men.

Ray assembles movies with marvelous scenes and bat shit stupid scenes sometimes seconds from each other yet he gets away with it.

Spinal Tap and Christopher Guest in general are foundational for my taste in humor and movies. Along with John Waters.

I like Johnny Guitar as well as its offspring, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and I’m not even…oh wait.

Burning and A Separation were both late scratches from my list sorry. You're otm about Anatolia if that's any consolation

― ignore the blue line (or something)

It is! Looking forward to individual lists.

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87. THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (Victor Erice, 1973, Spain) [652 points; 8 votes]
S&S: 85 | TSPDT: 105 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: "'army of shadows' and 'spirit of the beehive' are two of the most overrated movies ever."

spirit of the beehive is the most visually stunning movie i have seen. the images stick with you and it has the finest performance by a child... ever. ana torrent was amazing.
― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, May 25, 2004 5:11 PM

Huge fan of Spirit of the Beehive and every single thing that Erice has done.
― Pastel City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, June 20, 2013 4:30 PM

The Spirit of the Beehive is really one of those films one just has to experience. No talking or writing about it will ever suffice.
― BabyBuddha (BabyBuddha), Thursday, April 8, 2004 8:42 AM