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

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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)

I love Richard Dyer!

Blimey I think my top 2 actually is gonna end up as the poll top 2

I sometimes like cold. It's just not...whatever makes Do the Right Thing Do the Right Thing, or makes "Maggie May" "Maggie May," or makes Babe Ruth Babe Ruth. I can't quite put it into words.

Definitely they're movies seen from a kind of distance, I know what you mean. No happy endings in the bunch either (assuming 1-2 are what I think they are).

Um, I don't recognize the still from Mulholland Dr..

the happy ending that humanity is reborn in space, cmon

that's the silencio scene, no?

Yes, Rebekah Del Rio.

Oh, okay, that's what I suspected, but wasn't sure.

How is Babe Ruth Babe Ruth?!?!?

Hot dogs.

I sometimes like cold. It's just not...whatever makes Do the Right Thing Do the Right Thing, or makes "Maggie May" "Maggie May," or makes Babe Ruth Babe Ruth. I can't quite put it into words.

― clemenza,

I get you what you said, but Mulholland Dr. is suffused with anything. It's like Bowie performing "Stay" or "Word on a Wing" -- he's so mannered to keep from collapsing into a blubbering mess -- which I am, by the way, in the last 20 mins of Mulholland Dr

anything = emotion

(not sure how that happened)

One time I saw Lynch do a Q&A hosted by Justin Theroux at the Kennedy Center when he was promoting his book on transcendental meditation. Theroux was reading questions from the audience, one of which was by a guy called "Spidey." Lynch goes into his TM spiel, then stops mid-sentence and asks Theroux "What did you say this guy's name was?
"Spidey."
"SPIDEY?!"
"Yes, Spidey."
And then Lynch continued with whatever he was saying previously. Anyway, I'll never forget him saying "SPIDEY?""

To play with your "Maggie May" analogy, the last 20 mins of MD consist of the Naomi Watts character singing WAKE UP AH THINK AH GOT SOMETHING TO SAY TO YOUUU to Laura Harring.

(Serious answer for Babe Ruth: overflowing with joie de vivre, personality, larger-than-lifeness, etc.)

Tipsy's translation works for me: a layer of distance. Or something. Anyway, that's me: if you love any or all of the Top 4, I'm sure that makes no sense for you.

I love Stalker, but I agree it's not running up to give you a bear-hug.

ew

I was 100% sure MDr. would win this.

Lost Highway got my vote too

Now would be the time for your joek #1s btw.

Calling it: lost world #1

Oh cool, we all longlisted Southland Tales

The Boatniks, or GTFO!

calling it now: tokyo story and vertigo. 2001 shut out

There are ppl that when grasping for an example of excellence reach for maggie may?

What a world

Gone with the Wind, Fight Club. FIN.

Kung fu hustle

Twice

2010: The Year We Make Contact

Wild Wild West hasn't placed yet

Kill Bill 2
Kill Bill 1

It's right in the titles!

The Glitterball

*pops popcorn*

Norm MacDonald got a lot of live on ILX when he died. Have to assume one of the remaining two is Dirty Work

And if my long list had anything to say about it, the other should be Wayne’s World