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

Hell yeah Duck Soup. One of two Leo McCareys on my long list, but of course you don't really think of Duck Soup as a Leo McCarey movie first. Or I don't.

Who are the Margaret Dumonts of ILX?

Same. Which is why I didn’t say “I’d rather Make Way for Tomorrow,” which IS the greatness of McCarey incarnate

My Polanski vote was for Repulsion, a mindfuck psychological horror film. Knife In the Water was also really good

still haven’t seen The Tenant

the tenant is a step down from those two but still good

at this point wondering if Buñuel, Kiarostami, Martel, Fellini, Visconti, Akerman, Rohmer, Weerasethakul, or Varda will show up

Not so far, and I'd say the odds are thin for the Dardennes, Von Trier, Tarr, Tsai, Wenders, Antonioni, Hou (not all of whom are my picks).

yah v lowbrow

Oh btw I remembered why I put Touch Of Evil 3rd, I was just stressing out and messaged My Brother "what's the third best film of all time?" he said that and I wrote it with no further conversation. I do rate it tho.
M&MM and The Long Goodbye are surely my favourite two Altmans, in frequently alternating order, somehow California Split was my choice which yeah I think is amazing in a clemenza-film way, but baffled why I picked that ahead of these others.
Doesn't appear to be any Polanski on my ballot, which is either forgetfulness or a moral standpoint when I did it, either way it's not honesty

Morality def is dishonesty in matters like this.

Oh also I'd like to apologise for shitting up this thread the other night with a drunken freakout when I managed to confuse at leat 10 anime films with eath other anfd brought up some irrelevant personal shit, sorry everybody I'm a dick

voted for a few that placed today, including esb in my top five (not sorry, it’s a perfect movie)

duck soup is perfect, first saw it when i was 8 or thereabouts and then saw it again at 28 and laughed just as hard

MORBS SEZ: "Chinatown is the apotheosis of the period piece commenting on contemporary sordidness and guilt … It diagnoses what's most wrong with America; when it's set, when it was made, now."

one of the things I like about McCabe & Mrs Miller is that it is as much about 1970 as 1900, and represents both in an interesting way

My conservative guess is that a quarter of the final 40 spots will go to Kubrick/Lynch/Godard (or maybe substitute Hitchcock for somebody).

Nothing today, so let me up that to more than a quarter of the final 30 (2001/Barry Lyndon/The Shining + Mullholland/Inland/some iteration of Twin Peaks + Weekend/middle-period film/late-period film).

at this point wondering if Buñuel, Kiarostami, Martel, Fellini, Visconti, Akerman, Rohmer, Weerasethakul, or Varda will show up

Not so far, and I'd say the odds are thin for the Dardennes, Von Trier, Tarr, Tsai, Wenders, Antonioni, Hou (not all of whom are my picks).

Of the above, Jeanne Dielman still seems like a lock to me. Aside from maybe Cleo from 5 to 7 I wouldn't bet on a single one of the others.

Obviously Amy Heckerling would have been Top 10 if not for vote-splitting.

I posted that initial question because films by them were all in my top 25, I’m ok with them not showing up though

The Tenant sucks.

Not sure if there's gonna be any Fellini. I ran the '60s poll back in the day, and neither LDV nor 8 1/2 placed as high as you'd think, plus I think his stock has only declined since.

I can both see and not see Breathless, Band of Outsiders, and Weekend placing.

I’d also be surprised to see Cassavetes this high.

Ilx doesn’t like Fellini for some reason

Cassavetes is tough, but I voted for A Woman Under The Influence and was surprised by how much I liked Opening Night

I had two Fellinis on my list, La Strada and La Dolce Vita, both amazing films

Same. Which is why I didn’t say “I’d rather Make Way for Tomorrow,” which IS the greatness of McCarey incarnate

otm

Trying to figure out how 100-plus of my picks are going to squeeze into the top 30, but I guess we'll see.

is there gunna be Bertolucci? Am I gunna start throwing chairs about?

I feel like I may have voted for Husbands or Minnie & Moskowitz or something. Obviously not contenders at this point and I possibly just helped vote-split Cassavetes to death?!?

A further addition to my Never Knowingly Seen list in this batch: Duck Soup!

Husbands, ugh! I know The Leopard won’t show up, but everyone should watch it

(sorry, I had a really negative reaction to Husbands)

thought it was the worst of Cassavetes’ straight guy posturing, maudlin drunken barroom scenes, and showbiz theatricality

Just wanna say:
Waited the whole damn year for this poll. Highlight of 2021. Keep ‘em coming and thanks

Finally sought my ballot. I did in fact give Cassavetes multi-pronged support, including Husbands! Haha. No big weightings though.

thought it was the worst of Cassavetes’ straight guy posturing, maudlin drunken barroom scenes, and showbiz theatricality

― Dan S, Monday, November 1, 2021

same response

Husbands, ugh! I know The Leopard won’t show up, but everyone should watch it

― Dan S, Monday,

My reduced price Criterion blu-ray arrives tomorrow

I'm pretending The Leopard was no. 33

the novel by Lampedusa was also great

I'm never sure if Burt Lancaster's very fluent sounding Italian in it very impressive or is just cos I'm easily impressed and only ever heard brit-Italian speakers irl

My ballot suggests that Mid-May Me was particularly heavily into Altman, Ozu and... Mike Leigh. It's presumably way too late for a Leigh appearance?!?

He's dubbed. His ease of movement is the killer. Xpost

lol I didn't he was dubbed

know

Who are the Margaret Dumonts of ILX?

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, November 1, 2021 6:41 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

A-HEM.

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Who is the Bruno Dumont of ILX?

Well, a friend told me after seeing Twentynine Palms, "I wouldn't recommend this to anyone except you".

The Fellini on my ballot was Amarcord, which is a kind of comedy I hoped there would be more of on this list.

Not so far, and I'd say the odds are thin for the Dardennes, Von Trier, Tarr, Tsai, Wenders, Antonioni, Hou (not all of whom are my picks).

― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 1 November 2021 bookmarkflaglink

There'll be more films by Robert fucking Altman than the entire cinematic output of Iran lol.

Just waiting for Woody Allen to show up

Should I give Contempt a go? One of the few major 60's Godards I haven't seen yet, always looked a bit "dressed as the sick soul of Europe party".

California Split over McCabe & Mrs Miller tbh

ESB is relieved of the burden of a happy ending, it gets to end with everything totally fucked. It's unusual in that sense, you don't often get the big slambang popcorn epic that also leaves you bummed out. (Avengers: Infinity War obviously stole the trick.)

Always very skeptical of this argument when it's a film that you know is going to have another installment. Are serial episodes from the 30's where the villain has the hero's love interest in chains at the end leaving the audience bummed out?

60s Godard has great use of colour, sound, his greatest actors and you get to see Godard working in the film industry (no other decade allowed him to crash cars). I agree he got better beyond the 'iconic' stuff, but absolutely give it a blast.

Yeah yeah no, I love 60's Godard, just never gave that one a go. Will do.