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

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.

Lady Eve too low! Also wondering whether I should be vaguely insulted or not that you didn’t include a quote from me about that one.

By all means, everyone add your favorite quotes!

let me axe you a hypothermical question

But maybe I was talking about a different film, the one by Preston Sturges.

let me axe you a hypothermical question

I’ll take over from here, Mr. Murgatroyd.
I said I’ll take over from here, Ambrose.

To Napoleon and Josephine!

Gimme a spoonful of milk, a raw pigeon's egg, and four houseflies.

^another pvmic

Positively the same dame!

Which I guess was already referred to.

They don’t want nothing else
They want the ale that won for Yale

Let us be crooked, James, but never common.

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84. CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette, 1974, France) [658.57 points; 7 votes]
S&S: 151 | TSPDT: 213 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: "Celine & Julie, Go to Hell"

what i love about celine and julie is that no matter how long Rivette is stretching the whole thing out for it's never so long that he won't throw in another leghty, pointless and just plain funny digression. coming up for the three hour mark there's a needless plot development which involves the sweets running out and C&J having to steal a book from the library so that they can make up a potion. for some reason they have to steal the book wearing wetsuits, balaclavas and rollerskates (hott). the other night this struck me as the funniest thing ever whereas first time round i just found it frustrating. what changed?
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:52 AM

"Celine & Julie" was one of those films that I found sooooooo tiring to sit through but when it was done I was like "Oh damn that was kind of wonderful!" but still with no desire to ever see it again.
― "Jiggle It" - 2 in a Zoo (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, March 27, 2014 9:56 AM

i seem to be the only cinephile in existence who doesn't like "celine and julie,"
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, April 22, 2015 1:32 PM

hallooooo
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, April 22, 2015 1:34 PM

hi!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, April 22, 2015 4:39 PM

hello!

Hubba hubba!#fellawhosbeenuptheamazonforawhile
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Voted for 2 other Rivettes I like more than this one.

no La Belle Noiseuse coming, I guess.

Tried a few times with Celine and Julie, maybe one day I'll find a way in

I don't know if any of you have made it through Tony Judt's 952-page Postwar but he spends a paragraph trashing Celine and Julie as the moment French New Wave cinema devolved into self-parody (I do not agree).

If it did, it did so yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaarrrrrrrrssssss earlier.

has anyone seen his 13 hour-long "Out 1"?

Oh cmon this is absolutely classic, ofc in my 25. Need to see it again mind, first time might have been a dream innit!! Also it was about 10 years ago

I like it but have to check whether I voted for it.

*checks*

Made it onto unranked section

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On the long list of canonized classics that put me to sleep.

David Thomson's favourite film incidentally

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I think falling asleep in installments is the way to watch this.

Looking at my unfamiliar-seeming ballot now, I think Mabuse must have written that as well.

has anyone seen his 13 hour-long "Out 1"?

I saw Out 1: noli me tangere over two days at Cinematheque Ontario, and I voted for the short version, Out 1: Spectre. Celine et Julie is good too. What I love about Rivette is how, wherever he sets his camera, he captures both the atmosphere of the actual place and also a sense that anywhere can be framed and transformed into a theatrical location.

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Me while watching this movie, or while waiting for the next title to drop?