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

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70. M (Fritz Lang, 1931, Germany) [708.67 points; 9 votes]
S&S: 58 | TSPDT: 56 | BOXD: 103

MORBS SEZ: "I rewatched M this week, now knowing that FL did 20 takes of the hoods throwing Lorre down the stairs. Lang couldn't figure out why Lorre was cool to him in the Hollywood years … Also if you're going to call (Fury) a "social issue" movie, you might as well call M one too. Lang usually gets at something existential in addition."

M is my favourite film ever. Amongst many wonderful things, it pre-empts modern Policiers with a vengeance.
― Noodle Vague, Thursday, September 6, 2007 5:29 PM

so awesome. another one I saw really young that I found surprisingly haunting and disturbing. Lorre's confession scene at the end is amazing.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, May 18, 2012 1:58 PM

Just saw M for the first time. Damn, that's a film.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:38 PM

M and Testament are both monuments to how to convey information via a combination of off-screen action and sound or lack thereof.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, July 23, 2010 9:29 AM

M is my favourite film ever. Amongst many wonderful things, it pre-empts modern Policiers with a vengeance.
― Noodle Vague, Thursday, September 6, 2007 5:29 PM

M was my first Fritz Lang. Walked into it as an obligation. Walked away with a full-body buzz and a sense of euphoria that I only get from a very few great movies.
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Friday, May 18, 2012 2:03 PM

Good morning!

so true i said it twice

anyway TOO LOW but

LOL, given the difficulties that movie presents for search functionality, I forgive myself for doubling you up, NV.

Even I had this on my longlist. Surprised it's this low tbh

It's great. I've warmed to a lot of minor Lang, too - like Cloak And Dagger may not be a masterpiece, but as an interesting failure it's better than many director's successes.

First time I saw M was on the big screen, at the Fantasporto festival, which always had a bad rep for just screening DVD copies of shit (it has since been revealed there was some fraudulent business dealings going on, too). For some reason the copy kept skipping between a German and Spanish audio track! Dude accusing Lorre in German and Lorre replying "I don't understand what you mean" in Spanish was a lol.

i’ve seen drive. mandy was instantly one of my favorite films of all time bc someone painted the inside of my head on a screen. drive is in no way that personal

anyway most of these films placing above seven samurai is embarrassing

except for m tho which is dope

lol, that sounds awesome Daniel_Rf

Went with a different Lang.

Same, but M is obv mandatory on this or any list

Yeah, sure.

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69. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1943, UK) [715.71 points; 7 votes]
S&S: 103 | TSPDT: 200 | BOXD: 168

MORBS SEZ: "If my favorite Archers isn't Blimp or Narcissus, it could be I Know Where I’m Going! So hard to pull off a romance like that without being fey or seeming contrived."

Col. Blimp to The Red Shoes is the best six-film run in the history of the medium.
― WilliamC, Friday, January 19, 2018 3:59 PM

Colonel Blimp is perfect. It's one indelible scene after another.
― jmm, Friday, January 19, 2018 4:07 PM

I've never managed to get much enthusiasm up for Colonel Blimp despite it probably being regarded as among their best (if not their best?).
― frankiemachine, Saturday, June 19, 2004 5:12 AM

The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp is among my all-time favourite films, even ahead of A Matter Of Life And Death. Their films are full of stunning imagery that looks like nothing else ever (think heaven in A Matter Of, tolling the bell in Black Narcissus, lots in the red Shoes and so on), and really interesting things to say about people.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, June 19, 2004 8:32 AM

watched the Life and Death of Colonel Blimp at the weekend... i have a question... Theo blanks him in the POW camp. why? pride? but then he calls him from the railway station and goes and has dinner with him. seems friendly enough. but then seems to mock him to his compatriots on the train back to germany. why the flip-flopping?
― koogs, Wednesday, April 9, 2014 3:37 PM

i think he's violently conflicted--torn between anger at what has been to done to his country and loyalty to his friend. i do think this is one aspect of the film that seems a bit miscalculated. one reason this has never been my favorite archer film even though it is completely enthralling front to back.
― espring (amateurist), Wednesday, April 9, 2014 6:22 PM

Not a very sexy film for the coveted #69 spot.

Love it, the Archers at that point really could do no wrong.

Same thing, went with another Archers, but yeah.

It can't be taken for granted what a miraculous transformation of the comic strip character this is.

Best movie

didnt vote but this could easily have been a top 10 for me

I went with a Morbs pick here: I Know Where I'm Going!

Not a very sexy film for the coveted #69 spot.

There are those who ship Candy/Kretschmar-Schuldorff. (I missed the most recent restoration at the National Gallery of Art, so I wouldn't know.)

I went with a Morbs pick here: I Know Where I'm Going!

― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.),

my favorite too

haven't seen this; assume it would ruin me (in a good, emotional way)

mandy placing higher than marienbad, disgraceful stuff

― devvvine, Thursday, 28 October 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Hoping for a Hiroshima Mon Amour to place high to take away the sour taste.

Gotta say anyone catching up on these movies sequentially so far would be in for a fantastic time.

Hiroshima def an inferior film to Marienbad tho imo

I don't know if there's any actor I like more than Livesey in these films.

Forget it, devvvine, it's ILXT0WN.

My favourite Resnais is Muriel or My American Uncle, but doubt these two will place.

Good call from Morbz on I know where I'm going though my favourite is Blimp. It's a wonderful run of films!

xp Je t'aime, je t'aime is also top notch.

Please no late Malick everyone!

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, October 27, 2021 4:15 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

;) fuck off, TO THE WONDER would have threatened to make my list

the DAYS OF HEAVEN quotes are funny. honestly ilx quotes pre 2007 about *anything* are embarrassing to read these days

― mens rea activist (k3vin k.), Thursday, 28 October 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Was thinking how Malick is perfect arthouse for a lockdown. Like there's beautiful stuff in it but I never feel I need to pay attention.

xp - yeah it's great. Just thinking in terms of list Hiroshima is ICONIC

I have also voted for late Malick (in my 100 un certain regards), sorry comrade alphabet but i quite like late Malick

Not a very sexy film for the coveted #69 spot.

COUNTERPOINT: Three Deborah Kerrs!...Imagine The Possibilities

lol

Blimp was up in my ranked section -- with two more Archers in the unranked section. I suppose I should have done one film per director, but I get emotional and willful doing ballots.

Lol, C. Grisso/McCain

Not a very sexy film for the coveted #69 spot.

So frustratingly close ...

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68. CRUMB (Terry Zwigoff, 1994, USA) [716.63 points; 8 votes]
S&S: 807 | TSPDT: 778 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: "comics geeks ride again!"

I think my favorite doc is "Crumb"
― nicky lo-fi, Monday, April 1, 2019 9:34 PM

Oh, man, Crumb is fucking great.
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Tuesday, November 30, 2004 3:26 PM

its my favorite documentary ever and one of my favorite movies period. the portrait of charles crumb's mental illness by way of his evolving art is unforgettable and unsettling in the extreme. i often used to wonder if i'd end up more like charles or robert.

in retrospect it probably would've been an even better movie if they could've interviewed crumb's sisters, but at the same time how can you blame them for not talking
― (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, August 16, 2011 9:54 AM

The high density of text reminds me of the part in the film Crumb where they flip through the comics his brother made that start out with lots of nice pictures that gradually get overtaken by more and more text until its just panels of text that then devolve into endless illegible scribbles.
― Moodles, Thursday, May 9, 2013 1:05 PM

It didn't make my list but I like it.

I went with a Morbs pick here: I Know Where I'm Going!

― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.),

my favorite too

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, October 28, 2021 1:32 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Me three! Tho I also voted for the crazy racist sexy nun movie.

Nuns On The Run?

Fox on the Nun

Nuns On The Buns

the shots showing the gradual devolution of charles crumb's art in his sketchbooks are some of the most haunting in cinema for me, i think about them all the time

My Blue Nun

can i get a translation of the Morbs Sez? cant tell if he was being sarcastic there. can just as easily imagine him liking it or thinking it was nerd-culture trash

The context is that he was reacting to Crumb winning the ILX documentaries poll.

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67. PULP FICTION (Quentin Tarantino, 1994, USA) [717.5 points; 10 votes; 1 first-place vote]
S&S: 120 | TSPDT: 64 | BOXD: 54

MORBS SEZ: "I LIKE GOOD MOVIES"

Yeah, still a great film. It's a crazy-quilt patchwork of all the stuff he geeked out on that became its own self-contained bit of brilliance, and there's not one thing wrong with that. And I was amused to realize Tarantino's foot fetish for Uma T. was already in full effect.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, January 27, 2007 11:08 AM

It was a long hot summer, my parents were splitting up, life was dull, and then BOOM surf-rock Miserlou took me away from all of that and I could watch the lives of people who were even more of a loser than I but it was all so much more exciting. It did have a huge influence, can we think of any of the songs on the soundtrack without thinking of this movie? And it was a "cool" movie about people who were very bad at being good criminals.
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:56 PM

A truly impressive "look at me wank, I learned how to wank in color by looking at pretty old movies" exercise by Tarantino. Could have been improved by excising the entire Bruce Willis sub-plot. It was just so self-referentially "aren't I clever" that I found it almost unwatchable. Your mileage may vary.
― Hey Jude, Tuesday, February 22, 2005 4:33 PM

"real movies" aren't tarantino's specialty, it's not what he's actually good at. it's obvious, but i think pulp fiction best got what he does. it's the "if you only see one quentin tarantino movie" movie.
― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Monday, February 9, 2009 4:38 PM

Watched this last year - it still moves, but time has not been kind to the effect of the "5-dollar milkshake".
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, April 20, 2016 5:13 AM

honestly i don't have that much fondness in my heart for PF, hard to tell if that's just because i'm so sick of everything to do with it tho
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Thursday, December 16, 2010 11:01 AM

*~*~*this is how i rate*~*~*
1. kill bill 1
2. kill bill 2
3. death proof (this shit is hella underrate - new york chick in that movie is my boo 4 all time - also the shot in the second part of this where the girls walk into the convenience store and it switches into color and there are all BRIGHT SODAS AND COLORFUL CHIP BAGS is one of my favorite things ever)
4. reservoir dogs
5. pulp fiction
havent seen jackie brown
― nascar jesus (J0rdan S.), Monday, February 9, 2009 4:18 PM

upon considered reflection, Pulp Fiction is totally his WORST movie. wtf ILX
― insert your favorite discriminatory practice here (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, June 25, 2010 6:46 PM

reminds me of ppl claiming Nevermind is Nirvana's worst album
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, December 16, 2010 11:21 AM

it kind of is...?
― from the lowly milligeir to the mighty gigahongro (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, December 16, 2010 11:22 AM

figured you'd be one of em
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, December 16, 2010 11:24 AM

when you're 17 this film rules

i have nothing much against this film that doesn't belong anywhere near this list