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

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

The other best film about what it feels like to be a little kid

Love this, and The Quince Tree Sun is even better.

The South is great too. Maybe even saw the omnibus film once, The Challenges, but can't remember.

The other best film about what it feels like to be a little kid

and Ana Torrent was in yet another one: Cria Cuervos.

Is the list this good all the way down? I like-to-love every single film that's shown up so far

Will make a special exception for ILE self-exile. Mandy was in my 25! It's so great. Hope Ceylan turns up again

The South was also in my 25, alas doubt we'll see it show up now. Beehive still fairly beguiling but that one...that one...

This is fine, ideal for Cinema 101.

would love to disagree with morbs in the present about how good army of shadows is :(

I agree with Morbs on Army of Shadows, but I've never been much for Melville.

The other best film about what it feels like to be a little kid
and Ana Torrent was in yet another one: Cria Cuervos.

― Chris L, Tuesday, October 26, 2021 12:01 PM (four minutes ago)

I appreciate it as a record of Franco's rural Spain, a time not enough films about.

I agree with Morbs on Army of Shadows, but I've never been much for Melville.

― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.),

I had to stop watching Le Doulos Sunday night. Le Samourai's the only one I can watch because of a certain feline actor in a trenchcoat.

Can imagine sitting through Léon Morin, Priest for a similar reason, swapping feline for lupine and trenchcoat for clerical collar.

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I appreciate it as a record of Franco's rural Spain, a time not enough films about.

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, October 26, 2021 12:08 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I liked Léon Morin, Priest, but thought Army of Shadows was much more fun to watch. Voted for Le Samouraï

I ate the lasagna.

Is Melville maybe a bit For The Straights*? His thematic preoccupations are very trad masc. I'm a sucker for that stuff myself tho - LOVE Army Of Shadows, especially SPOILER the ending narration casually telling you that none of the characters we'd been following survived until the liberation. Just ice cold noir matter-of-factliness.

* I am white straight btw

My wife loved catching up w/ both Le Samourai and Le Cercle Rouge this year (I'm fully aware what part of the appeal is).

Maybe, tho even some of the directors who fit into that category (thinking John Huston) have managed at least one For The Rest stroke (The Dead).

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86. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang, 1991, Taiwan) [655.5 points; 6 votes; 1 first-place vote]
S&S: 86 | TSPDT: 124 | BOXD: 12

MORBS SEZ: "I often found his pre-Yi Yi work frustratingly languorous" (however, Morbs did give the movie a ❤️ on Letterboxd upon rescreening it)

this was absolutely magnificent, so rich and subtle and rewarding on so many levels and i resented having to take a bathroom break halfway through.
― i am a big fan of japanese women (donna rouge), Sunday, February 28, 2010 9:34 PM

A Brighter Summer's Day is totally not tedious! I found it a lot more engaging than Yi Yi, but that's just me.
― ed.b, Monday, August 25, 2014 7:45 PM

i sat through a brighter summer day in theaters and it wasn't bad
― 龜, Wednesday, March 28, 2018 8:15 PM

it is weird to me that somebody can watch all four hours of brighter summer day and respond with a shrug. i mean, that movie has so much going for it, and so much going on /in/ it, that it seems really willful to be indifferent to it. but chacun a son gout etc.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, January 7, 2015 12:48 AM

I bought the Criterion Blu-ray without having seen the film before.

I've seen this three times, and my response is more than a shrug but less than a heart. I'm glad other people love it more than I do.

My first shameful blindspot of the countdown, and I've seen/like Yi Yi.

(Mandy and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia I am less ashamed about not knowing, as they are relatively newer, and don't appear to be available on any of my streaming services at the moment)

I like ABSD but might prefer Taipei Story

The first one I saw was A Confucian Confusion, then was let down by Mahjong. It's a real shame Yang is gone.

Yi Yi still my favourite, but this is about equally great.

I had Yi Yi on my ballot but somehow have never seen this, will rectify.

just noticed that In Our Time and The Terrorizers are available on my Kanopy subscription, will have to watch them

I was pretty disappointed by Yi Yi so haven't got around to this. It's on youtube tho, sacrilegiously probably

I hope this low placement doesn't mean Hou Hsaio-Hsien got shut out.

Some of the novelistic plot turns and payoffs of A Brighter Summer Day remind me in some ways of watching The Wire.

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85. THE LADY EVE (Preston Sturges, 1941, USA) [656.4 points; 10 votes; Morbs silver]
S&S: 120 | TSPDT: 140 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: "The five stone masterpieces from Lady Eve thru Conquering Hero are maybe the most amazing 4-year feat by a Hollywood writer-director. My fave has always been Morgan's Creek, but I can't argue vs picking any of those"

'lady eve' is good filthy fun.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, July 12, 2007 10:27 AM

Stanwyck and Fonda are both excellent, and it's got maybe the greatest last word punchline I've ever seen.
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Thursday, March 29, 2012 3:08 PM

The Lady Eve, now and forever
― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, March 2, 2009 8:35 PM

i haven't seen it, but a morbs silver medal goes a long way

Is Melville maybe a bit For The Straights*? His thematic preoccupations are very trad masc.

― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, October 26, 2021 1:09 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Les enfants terribles--Melville adapting Cocteau--is a case of two great tastes that don't taste great together.

Great job with the pics, Eric! Fun poll.

I showed Double Indemnity to my film students yesterday afternoon and was delighted/relieved they thought Barbara Stanwyck kicked ass.