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

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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.

Dyer's a frustrating read. The D.H. Lawrence book had the rhythm of a booklength blog post.

I thought La Grande Illusion would be the Renoir pic, not taking anything away from Rules of the Game which is the one I watched most recently while I still had Mubi. Lol I'm so clueless it only just dawned on me a few months back that his pops was my least favourite impressionist.

His book on Pops was fair about his failngs.

Love the Dyer book, it's my favourite thing of his I've read

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at least he admitted his male gaze went right down to his prick more often than not!

I enjoyed the Dyer book, but he relies a lot on "can you believe I'm writing about this totally obscure Soviet sci-fi film"?

Stalker maybe my 3Rd favourite Tarkovsky but hey it speaks to people obviously

L'age d'Or ftw then

Throw it out there maybe Hard to be a God is a better film than Stalker in that general wheelhouse

Both in my top ten

Seeing Stalker on a big screen was a moviegoing highlight of the last 4-5 years. I loved it on home video too, but it was so dreamy and immersive (and foreboding too obv) in a theater.

I guess Tarkovsky gets off the hook for poisoning everyone involved because he poisoned himself too?

Actually stopped watching Hard To Be a God, seemed like unredeemable misery.

HTBAG is hilarious imo, it goes right through miserable and into comic

Xp Lol maybe avoid Khrustalyov then

I need to see that. Caught the beginning once, was great

This was in my top 10 as well. Only Tarkovsky movie I've seen, lookin' forward to catching more of his stuff.

Curzon did a season of them all in 2016 and it was probably the highlight of my annual pass.

Mirror !

Yeah, that was the absolute highlight. And I’d not seen it before.

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

Got to see Stalker in the theater a couple years ago, wonderful experience even if I did start to flag around the mid-point. I like the Dyer book a lot, particularly his suggestion that maybe the stalker did go in the room, and he just wanted a dog.

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03. MULHOLLAND DR. (David Lynch, 2001, USA) [1,996.65 points; 26 votes; 4 first-place votes; Morbs gold]
S&S: 35 | TSPDT: 50 | BOXD: 177

MORBS SEZ: "Mulholland Dr is Lynch's best work, and maybe the best feature film made by an American in the '00s."

i don't want mulholland dr (is there a morbsy alt title for it? i hope so. try to work in fact it is based on a tv pilot ep maybe) to even get in the top 100
― pro bono publico (history mayne), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:43 AM

This may be neither here nor there, but the truly terrifying Mulholland Dr. scene in my estimation is when Betty sees her body through the window and the score swells in an almost nauseating way that really expressively reflects the extreme disassociation she must be feeling at that moment. Just listening to the soundtrack, the dread I feel in waiting for that swell is palpable. Winkie's is a nice shock, but it's just about as telegraphed as a movie shock could be.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, May 17, 2012 9:04 PM

Lynch is a master of making the banal totally horrifying. he can make a dim lamp in a room seem like the most terrifying environment ever.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, May 18, 2012 12:45 PM

Mulholland is a TV pilot with an "it was all a dream" tack-on finish.
― da croupier, Friday, May 18, 2012 12:07 PM

Mulholland Drive would have been an amazing opportunity to explore the ideas of Lost Highway in more depth over the course of a series, had it been commissioned. As it was, i think it just ended up being a really great opening episode with a lazy coda tacked on to the end to make it releasable that did nothing to advance what he's already said before.
― Just like you, except hot (ShariVari), Friday, May 18, 2012 12:11 PM

mulholland drive is just a grown-up version of donnie darko
― iatee, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:59 AM

That version of "Crying", though, was certainly a memorable moment (if you can separate it from the rest of the god-awful movie).
― David Raposa, Sunday, January 6, 2002 7:00 PM

I don't think that Mulholland Drive was aimed at people who know so much about Limp Bizkit.
― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Monday, June 21, 2004 2:50 PM

it's mulholland dr. that made me start thinking of lynch as not just a guy who makes weird and sometimes scary movies, but as a full-on "horror filmmaker".
― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Friday, May 18, 2012 12:26 PM

forgetting about the Jesus-y manger in CofM vs forgetting the lezzing up in Mulholland Drive
― sarahel, Friday, February 12, 2010 6:10 AM

"Tuomas it's like you didn't see Mulholland Drive at all."
I'm not sure he saw Lost Highway (there are tons of boobs in that movie!!!)
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:42 PM

Yeah, but not a lesbian sex scene.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:45 PM

You didn't specify more lesbian boobs.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:51 PM

Casablanca would be a worthy winner ofc, sometimes script and performance is quite enough, but obv you wont get anything like a consensus on anything as unshowy as it from the ppl whove spent most of this thread meowling after every entry that made any money or whatever

Mulholland drive is good tho

My favorite Ingmar Bergman movie is the one where the dude ignites his farts.

— Alex of the Bells (@blankpagealex) November 4, 2021

Mulholland Dr. is fine, yeah

Lost Highway is better

My #2, so I'll accept a #3 placement.

Look at #1-#4 (next two being obvious): ILX loves austere. (#5 anything but.)

I wouldn't call Mulholland Dr. austere! It's lush and busy.

I had Mulholland Dr. down to win the whole thing. Don’t mind that it didn’t, even though had it pegged as my #1 for some time. Getting a little tired of Vertigo, but not MD.

I only ended up giving points to Inland Empire, but I could've easily given this one points too (and it wouldn't have affected the rankings).

I wouldn't call any of these austere, but then again, Gertrud is in my top 10.

Maybe a better word's in order...all four are the opposite of Do the Right Thing. I'd say cold, but I know people who love the top four are very moved by all of them.

how is Mulholland Dr. cold? I'm curious.

(Also: I don't view "cold" as a pejorative, necessarily)