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

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yeah Frenzy is a good one and maybe a bit troubling on places but I think I've watched more times than Vertigo.

"what is a blank fart" is the big question here. I can't remember what I think of this but would happily re-watch it.

It's interesting to see which directors it IS a problem having too many masterpieces when it comes to canonization compared with directors where it most definitely is NOT a problem.

― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 bookmarkflaglink

No directors should have this many films in the top 100.

XPS Le mepris aka Contempt already placed.

As did The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

Jaws is also a lock (no pun intended).

Oh, and There Will Be Blood is the PTA I thought for sure would pop up, but in the top 20?

Omissions, so many delicious omissions!

If Once Upon a Time in the West is #101 or something I'll feel really dumb for having forgotten to vote for it.

Oops, my apologies x2

(hah, the last tweak I made to that list was taking out There Will Be Blood and putting Phantom Thread in!)

voted for Once Upon a Time in the West, but don't think it was anywhere near the top 100

TBPH, there's a bunch of those on Andrew's list that just aren't happening because they're great in a 'vegetables are good for you' way this poll ain't about, simply over-canonized, or there's Cancellation afoot.

^this

it would feel like hard work watching Jaws these days. I'd probably rather watch some *mediocre* Spielberg like Bridge of Spies these days rather than that one.

Lack of Michael Mann definitely separates this place from Film Twitter.

That's interesting, because everyone on that list (except maybe Potemkin?) I could see someone being starry-eyed over. And Annie Hall won the romcom poll in 2014, after Dylan Farrow came forward.

tbh it's completely impossible to predict - we are all Fernando Rey reaching for the ham of hope

Would think there'd be at least one more Powell & Pressburger, come on.

it would feel like hard work watching Jaws these days. I'd probably rather watch some *mediocre* Spielberg like Bridge of Spies these days rather than that one.

― calzino, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 bookmarkflaglink

It'll be fucking ET

xxxp not sure what list you're talking about, but I still love Annie Hall

Rear Window was long my fave Hitch. But Psycho recently replaced it if only for the greatest ending in cinema history. But Rear Window, which itself has a genius final shot, contains the scariest single shot in cinema history - Burr looking up at US when he sees the ring on Kelly's finger. AAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Recently showed the first two Alien flicks to the mister. Pungent stuff, both films about equal in my eyes. Eager to revisit Alien Resurrection which I suspect will give off some serious maudit energy.

Saw Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me recently too. Silly movie, i.e., Greil Marcus digs it.

didn’t have time to post about Sunset Blvd earlier but I love it, it is so weird and extravagantly and humorously overwrought, and it flashes between being a horror story and a love story

tbh it's completely impossible to predict - we are all Fernando Rey reaching for the ham of hope

Sure of course, but I like the ratcheting up of "some of these will be going home with nothing!"

But Rear Window, which itself has a genius final shot, contains the scariest single shot in cinema history - Burr looking up at US when he sees the ring on Kelly's finger. AAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

One million percent. Sucks all air out of the room every single time, but only in context.

Wow, I voted for 4 Lynches but not the (presumably) second-highest Lynch placement. FWWM is great, I didn't consider voting for it because it's too hard to separate it out from the entire Twin Peaks franchise. His darkest and most brutal movie, for sure, but also a great sad performance by Sheryl Lee.

Of course I know which movies get in and which don't, but I don't know if I'd go about pruning down Andrew's list if I didn't.

maybe take out Die Hard, but that's it

what films do people think are going to show up in the top 20?

At least one or two or three Scorseses

Possibly 1 more Altman
Possibly 1 or 2 Godards

1 more Lynch

20 kubricks

:) I can see a Renoir and a film each by Hitchcock, Welles, and maybe Ford, Ozu, Scorsese, and maybe two by Kubrick and Lynch

Are people <that> into Eraserhead?

I say that because Inland Empire feels a little like a longshot RN.

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

I think Inland Empire is a longshot

and eraserhead has already placed

Twin Peaks: The Return was nominated as well, I believe.

it was very high on my list

also voted for Mulholland Drive

lol, forgot about Eraserhead placing.

I have a feeling Agnès Varda will be dealt a bad hand via vote-splitting here. She deserves a spot in the top 100, but with which film?

surely Cléo from 5 to 7, but I love a lot of her films

from here on it's going to be turtles all the way down

not saying I won't love these films

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All Dana Carvey Top 20!

#1 is an SNL ep from '89

Prediction I'll probably end up feeling silly about: based on my own ballot, and based on the near-obsession found in the ILX thread, Zodiac will be in the Top 20.

Is Children of Men still coming?

It'll be pretty funny if Twin Peaks: the Return places. 120 years of movies and we have to pilfer from television.