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

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?

Up next, our first Morbs gold!

Daphne and Josephine Go Boating?

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83. THE KING OF COMEDY (Martin Scorsese, 1983, USA) [659.82 points; 11 votes; Morbs gold]
S&S: 324 | TSPDT: 394 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: "the Genius inseparable from the Asshole … I find tKoC Kubrickian in that I don't think it matters if you can't identify w/ DeNiro or Lewis beyond the "have-not" and "have" level. It's primarily a cultural critique / anthropological study … my fave Jerry moment might be 'You've got a blank card' … Jerry wanted Sandra to do a pratfall into the glass table full of candles. he rrrreally hated her. … I think the last quarter-century of American culture is proof that Pupkin really became a star. Scorsese's best film."

gets scarier the more times you see it.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, May 2, 2013 3:53 PM

very underrated, but damn fine angry and mean
― goeff, Saturday, February 2, 2002 7:00 PM

Bernhard is absolute perfection
― lamey g. curtis (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, January 12, 2011 4:37 PM

the way there's absolutely nothing in the deniro-bernhard "relationship" except their mutual obsession, mutual fantasy, just enough to make them partners, and then when they have captured their obsession's object their fantasies diverge and even that connection is immediately gone, was p harsh
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Friday, January 31, 2014 2:48 PM

Man, there’s not a single false step in this movie, so good
― Οὖτις, Monday, December 31, 2018 2:26 PM

Scorsese and DeNiro's best
― flappy bird, Monday, December 31, 2018 5:22 PM

I think The King of Comedy is Scorsese's, um, masterpiece and is waaaay better than many of the films on this poll, e.g., Cinderfella, Boeing Boeing, etc. But the Scorsese dorks needed to stay off this thread.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, July 1, 2011 5:20 PM

I got nuttin. But when the donor restrictions on The Day the Clown Cried expire, do you want to carpool down to LOC-Culpeper to see it?

I'm not commodity!

ah man i forgot to vote for this one

My one thing I think people should know about this movie is that in the scene where Bernhard is on the street calling bystanders "street trash" you can see Joe Strummer crouching down saying "Oi!" on the VHS but not in current versions.

It might not mean a lot to you but it means a lot to me

And I agree with everyone who says it's Scorsese's best, maybe De Niro's too