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

I enjoyed the YMRT podcast episode on Night of the Hunter and had already been meaning to check it out.

Top 10 is making up for 20-11 so far

Is that it for today then?

I totally love Casablanca and included it on my long list, but didn't expect it to place high here and still don't. I'll happily watch it any time, though. So many great performances and great little moments. "Yvonne, I love you. But he pays me."

Feel like ILX’s biggest Casablanca stan was the C-man and I don’t think he voted.

This c-man had it in his long list.

If you were allowed to plonk -50 points on just one film, etc etc

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05. DO THE RIGHT THING (Spike Lee, 1989, USA) [1,707 points; 24 votes; 1 first-place vote; Morbs silver]
S&S: 132 | TSPDT: 137 | BOXD: 46

MORBS SEZ: "i chuckle w/ only the smallest bit of guilt at Armond White calling DtRT 'Spike Lee's good movie' … didn't realize Trump is namechecked between Aiello and cop, or think that we'd notice in 2019"

Do The Right Thing pretty much the most important American film ever made at this point? and sadly too relevant still
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, June 15, 2020 8:32 AM

If you think "Do The Right Thing" is a good movie, then you're simple.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, March 7, 2006 11:39 AM

I wonder if Do the Right Thing led everyone think Spike would be a great social critic kind of director, someone with insight into the complexities of race and class in America. And while I wouldn't want to deny those elements in his movies wholesale I feel like his real strength is a kind of operatic grandeur. Even the Katrina doc is stronger for its righteous anger than any substantial socio-political insight.
― ryan, Wednesday, July 11, 2012 12:24 PM

Do the Right Thing is a masterpiece, one of the best films of the 80s. When considered as part of his overall CV it's weird how much it stands out, it's just so much better constructed and executed than p much anything else he's done, not sure what to attribute that to.
― Οὖτις, Friday, August 14, 2015 1:08 PM

rosie perez shouting in do the right thing is just some of the funniest, sexiest acting in cinema
― mark s (mark s), Monday, May 26, 2003 5:23 AM

90% of the music in Do The Right Thing is pretty lousy sax heavy Jazz. Sure there are a few moments with the beatbox, but the incidental music is mush.
― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, May 27, 2003 8:30 AM

Talk about a time capsule of hot Tri-State summers of yore that also holds it down as a bona fide classic. He's made other good films (and a shit ton of terrible ones ) but I don't think he's ever topped it.
― An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, August 29, 2018 4:37 PM

I think he went on to make better films.
― clemenza, Wednesday, August 29, 2018 9:14 AM

ppl still seriously underrate what a dick he is.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, July 10, 2012 9:13 AM

morbs, from what I hear alfred hitchcock was a pretty big dick, too. he still made good films, no?
― Aimless, Tuesday, July 10, 2012 11:15 AM

We all know Morbs prefers the old dicks.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, July 10, 2012 11:26 AM

I thought it was ending today.

voted for another spike lee, but very happy to see this so high.

Bye thread.

(I like Do the Right Thing fine. I really do have to duck out for an hour.)

There are a handful of Lee films I like just as much or possibly even better, but this nevertheless feels like a proper placement.

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The Stories of Love and Hate, back to back.

A movie I watch every year, I did skip it the summer of 2020 because, well ...

Okay, I guess it is ending today, since we are are back to ten a day.

haven’t seen this in probably 10 years now but I find it hard to argue with this placement

Saw it in the theater a couple years ago and an old white woman next to me cheered when Aiello smashed the radio.

Out of the remaining contenders, I would have been worried for this, except that I voted it highly enough that there's basically no way that it wouldn't have made the ~400 points necessary to crack the top 100?

I think I was finally inspired to watch it when Siskel and Ebert included it on a special show they did about their favorite Summer movies (as in “movies about…”)

My students love every second of it.

I saw it in the BFI before an audience with Lee afterwards (which I didn't have a ticket for) - he stood out in front of the film beforehand anyway, said welcome to the movie, if you've not seen it in the last 25 years, you need to think about that.

In my top 20, great movie in all kinds of ways but the first thing I always think of is the brightness of its colors, all those warm vibrant tones that set the stage for the many kinds of heat that build throughout.

Saw it in the theater a couple years ago and an old white woman next to me cheered when Aiello smashed the radio.

o_0

think I’ll give this a rescreen this weekend

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The Stories of Love and Hate, back to back.

DtRT didn't click with me. Most of the characters felt like Lee talking to himself.

true story: when I was college-age or so, I took Do the Right Thing and Night of the Hunter out of the library in the same trip, and watched them for the first time on consecutive days, without knowing about that connection. It threw me for a loop!

There's an unconscious barrier (for me at least) between i-was-there-for-this and this-is-history - I watched Do the Right Thing on TV the next year, when I was 15, and it was great in all the ways that would appeal to a 15-year-old, but it was only on a rewatch at twice that age that I realised that part of the fog around Mother Sister and Da Mayor is that they've been through this, they survived(ish) the Civil Rights Movement of a few decades back and were not looking to be returned to it. I know that's kind of obvious but I missed it the first time, and I don't think it's directly commented on in the film (which doesn't play mysterious much).

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04. STALKER (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979, USSR) [1,869.8 points; 20 votes; 1 first-place vote]
S&S: 31 | TSPDT: 52 | BOXD: 25

MORBS SEZ: in response to Frederik B calling it transcendent: "almost, but I feel this way about The Mirror"

I tried watching Stalker on youtube a few years ago and it was muddy and gross and I gave up after a few minutes. The new restoration is gorgeous.
― WilliamC, Wednesday, November 1, 2017 8:14 PM

finally watched Stalker over the weekend. i feel like this movie spoke some kind-of secret language with my soul. i know it's corny and lame to express your actual thoughts and feelings, and since i can't think of a cynical or jokey way of putting it, i'll just leave it at that.
― Spectrum, Monday, August 4, 2014 10:22 AM

Stalker is possibly the greatest film of all time, illustrating the step-up from 'genius' to 'master' or something idk
― imago, Thursday, November 2, 2017 4:54 AM

I rematched Stalker this summer so I don't have to until 2045.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, November 2, 2017 6:51 AM

I think that even the religious hope in Tarkovsky's films is tempered by some extreme self-doubt. God is hardly pedestaled as some end to suffering. I like his famous quote about how Stalker should be “slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.”
― dance band (tangenttangent), Tuesday, December 13, 2016 5:12 AM

it has this wonderful air of vaguely threatening mysteriousness running through it, bcause it is the most visually beautiful film I've ever seen, because eduard artemiev's soundtrack is the most haunting and beautiful film music I've ever heard.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, September 2, 2004 11:43 AM

The stalker's strong resemblance to Woody Harrelson was distracting.
― clemenza, Saturday, February 11, 2012 9:14 PM

I'm happy that Stalker and Rublev beat Solaris.
― Einstein, Bazinga, Sitar (abanana), Thursday, November 30, 2017 10:44 PM

weird thing to be happy about.
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Friday, December 1, 2017 6:31 AM

Too low

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Looks like we can break this out for Ozu.

once wrote a one-line review of stalker that went "this isn't a movie, it's a cathedral." i stand by it

I'd take Solaris over Stalker but a Tarkovsky in the top5 is good news either way.

Night Of The Hunter often gets miscategorized as a noir, because it's dark and there's crime and Mitchum's in it, but it so totally isn't that; I didn't get it the first time I saw it because of expectations, and have seen this happen to others. It's totally atypical for its time and place I think, makes much more sense in a world that has Lynch and Jarmush in it.

xpost pretty sure it's a movie

I like Stalker but it has sections when it's "This isn't a movie, it's genocide!" as the crowd screams and Bowie's guitar begins gnarling.

But Tarkovksy in the top five is rad.

Next poll: Top 25 cathderal-movies

Maybe Short Cuts will show up there.

Brad otm

saw them filming the assassin's creed movie at Ely cathedral, probably not a favourite

I know this is true of all films but honestly, see this in the cinema

When Buñuel doesn't make it, let me at least post his recipe for martinis, a recipe I follow to this day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwr6PgwBgeY

It's in his book too!

You really don't need to see Barb and Star in the cinema.

when ppl have got anything negative to say about Stalker, I simply stop re...

You really don't need to see _Barb and Star_ in the cinema.

Has anyone read Geoff Dyer's book? It has solid stuff.

but you really do need to see Barb and Star

is that a nicki minaj documentary?

yeah the Dyer book is terrific. ive been meaning to re-read it before watching the film again. i just recently his sequel-in-spirit to that book, about Where Eagles Dare. fun but, uh, slightly less profound.

<<is that a nicki minaj documentary?>>

Yes.