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

especially if by "mush" you mean the food served in that Miami diner

Green Book

Moonlight starts off very good and degenerates into standard mush

How many best picture winners are in the 100, in fact?

The Many Saints of Newark (which reminds me a lot of Green Book)

xp just godfather and the apartment i think

https://cansesclasseled.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/002-vertigo.jpg

02. VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, USA) [2,095.7 points; 28 votes; Morbs gold]
S&S: 1 | TSPDT: 2 | BOXD: 167

MORBS SEZ: "Scottie manages to seal his doom by being a staunch empiricist in the first half and a deranged romantic in the second. Balance is important, one step at a time." (Slant review.)

how do i stop feeling like i'm on a boat? (without seeing a doctor) O_o There is also documented evidence that Genital Warts can cause it.[citation needed]
― lil yawne (harbl), Tuesday, October 14, 2008 6:18 PM

Not in my top five Hitchcock.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, August 1, 2012 1:25 PM

Plays well projected on the walls of gay bars, tho maybe not quite as good as Sabotage.
― Eric H., Wednesday, August 1, 2012 9:51 PM

I keep thinking about this today. It's impossible coming to such a revered film (a film that comes at you out of a bathroom, cloaked in neon mist) - such that I already want to watch it again, now that I've got the first watch out of the way. The thing that keeps coming to me is James Stewart's eyes - how much acting he does with them. There is a moment in Ernie's, the first time he sees Judyline, when a look almost passes between them, that is all eyes: after the fact it's clear that he'd fallen for her, and she was trying to tell him (tell might be too strong a verb - suggest, insinuate). As a couple of people have said, I want to eat in Ernies. All that red though - like a restaurant in the Tanz dance academy.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, January 13, 2021 2:52 PM

More vital and fascinating than any other Hitchcock maybe because it's the one where he seems least in control of the ideas.
― ryan, Wednesday, August 1, 2012 9:22 PM

nobody's in charge of the ideas in Suspicion
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Friday, May 25, 2018 12:56 PM

yet Cary Grant can be in charge of my ideas
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, May 25, 2018 1:11 PM

I love any Hitchcock poll that doesn't put Vertigo on top.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Monday, July 3, 2017 8:25 AM

Vertigo is one of the few films that does actually get better with every viewing.
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Monday, October 17, 2016 1:36 PM

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01. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Stanley Kubrick, 1968, UK) [2,099.1 points; 25 votes; 3 first-place votes; Morbs gold]
S&S: 4 | TSPDT: 3 | BOXD: 58

MORBS SEZ: "What's often ignored (or underemphasized) is the satire of an unfailingly corrupt and "managerial" human race … It's an optimistic work because it looks forward to something better than homo sapiens."

mine:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Vertigo
3. Sherlock, Jr.
4. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
5. Citizen Kane
― Dr Morbius, Friday, July 13, 2007 9:29 AM

I saw in on the big screen on acid once (in high school) and it's really, really fucking good, especially when they make that planet.
― andy --, Wednesday, November 30, 2005 11:57 AM

Saw it again for the first time in more than a decade, still unmoved.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, August 8, 2018 9:22 AM

i have never seen this on a big screen. i liked it in college. these days i have gone back to preferring 'full metal jacket', and i think i'm right.
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, December 1, 2005 8:33 AM

http://www.indiewire.com/2018/04/james-cameron-2001-a-space-odyssey-lacks-emotional-balls-1201958421/
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, April 29, 2018 5:32 PM

i bet Cameron thinks i remember 5% of what happened in Avatar
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Sunday, April 29, 2018 10:20 PM

"emotional balls"
― zchyrs, Monday, April 30, 2018 12:57 PM

One does have to admit that Titanic really brings the emotional sack
― zchyrs, Monday, April 30, 2018 12:58 PM

Aliens has quite a nut.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Monday, April 30, 2018 1:01 PM

Sorry, quite a Newt.
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Monday, April 30, 2018 1:01 PM

Avatar has balls of a different color
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, April 30, 2018 4:27 PM

You don't need to get stoned. I saw it stone cold sober on the big screen and it remains one of the greatest works of art I will ever witness
― the spieth hole-ease impresseth us (imago), Thursday, June 25, 2015 5:37 AM

yeah you do. and you have to take drugs to enjoy dance music.
― cod latin (dog latin), Thursday, June 25, 2015 5:40 AM

Judging from the film ballots, you've all seen it on small black-and-white TVs.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, November 30, 2005 11:46 AM

i watched it with joel coens dick in my mouth and ethan coens in my ass
― oooh, Wednesday, November 30, 2005 11:47 AM

waht

Good!

vertigo >>>>>>

booo

correct winner, cheers everybody

and yes, i did see it on the big screen. WITH AN INTERMISSION. like hamlet or something

Vertigo I expected.

You people don't deserve the Bunueloni.

Practically tied btw.

Thanks for running this, Eric. Can’t believe it’s over.

Did Morb-weighting swing it?

That is exceptionally close...support for 2001 more passionate (fewer votes, more #1s).

Coincidentally also the top 2 in the 2022 Sight and Sound poll

2099.1 points, a tabulation odyssey.

Did Morb-weighting swing it?

Not so far as #1 and #2 are concerned. Both got tier-one points from him.

Don't blame me, I voted for about 8 Bunuels lol

I've just made the sad discovery that I also longvoted for The Big Lebowski. So much for my pique about its placement, lol. (I mean...it is fun)

Thanks Eric! time to work out what I have on my watching list, not the top two for a start, think I had both in my bonus section.

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Vertigo
3. Sherlock, Jr.
4. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
5. Citizen Kane
― Dr Morbius, Friday, July 13, 2007 9:29 AM

I was surprised to run across this long-ago-posted list from Morbs because I didn't actually realize he had any official top 5 designations anywhere.

I don't recall ever seeing 2001 in the #1 slot on an all-time poll. Even after 50+ years it still seems pretty ballsy.

I was not at all surprised that Late Spring was much more popular than Tokyo Story either.

Also, in case anyone wanted it: https://letterboxd.com/ephender/list/ilx-morbsies-the-100-all-time-greatest-movies/

I see I submitted my ballot in April, when I only longlisted Vertigo. If I’d waited another month, by which time I’d visited Mission San Juan Bautista, it might have made its way back into my 25 and it works have won. But I think this is a better result - would have been a shame to have the same winner as S&S.

thanks so much for running the poll eric!

Thanks indeed, Eric - a monumental undertaking

Thank you, Eric! A huge task to be sure.

And it's official: I've seen 99 of the 100 movies.

this turned out to be a decent list. thanks.

93/100 and I'll watch The Green Ray soon, promise

Good list, full of emotional balls

Reading other people’s ballots is probably about as dull as hearing other people’s dreams, but here’s my pathetic 25 from top to bottom. I’ll spare you the 100 honourable mentions. Sorry, Graduate haters.

Mulholland Dr. (2001)
The Graduate (1967)
The Mirror (Zerkalo) (1975)
Billy Liar (1963)
Oslo, August 31st (2011)
The Green Ray (Le rayon vert) (1986)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1969)
North by Northwest (1959)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Etre et avoir (2002)
The Act of Killing (2012)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Spirited Away (2001)
Vertigo (1958)
Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Into the Wild (2007)
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
The Artist (2011)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Coco (2017)
I'm Not There (2007)
Ghost World (2001)

Don't blame me, I voted for about 8 Bunuels lol

Oh, I was wrong: I did place Vertigo!

Still, it used to be my #2 so a bit of a fall.

A separate thread for lists, or post them here?

01. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Stanley Kubrick, 1968, UK) [2,099.1 points; 25 votes; 3 first-place votes; Morbs gold]
02. VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, USA) [2,095.7 points; 28 votes; Morbs gold]
03. MULHOLLAND DR. (David Lynch, 2001, USA) [1,996.65 points; 26 votes; 4 first-place votes; Morbs gold]
04. STALKER (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979, USSR) [1,869.8 points; 20 votes; 1 first-place vote]
05. DO THE RIGHT THING (Spike Lee, 1989, USA) [1,707 points; 24 votes; 1 first-place vote; Morbs silver]
06. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton, 1955, USA) [1,651.30 points; 20 votes]
07. THE RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir, 1939, France) [1,575.88 points; 17 votes]
08. TAXI DRIVER (Martin Scorsese, 1976, USA) [1,403.47 points; 19 votes]
09. AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD (Werner Herzog, 1972, West Germany) [1,324.8 points; 15 votes; Morbs silver]
10. THE SHINING (Stanley Kubrick, 1980, UK) [1,284.77 points; 22 votes]

11. CHILDREN OF MEN (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006, UK) [1,149.08 points; 13 votes]
12. THE THIRD MAN (Carol Reed, 1949, UK) [1,146 points; 15 votes; 4 first-place votes]
13. CLOSE-UP (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990, Iran) [1,143.75 points; 12 votes; Morbs silver]
14. GOODFELLAS (Martin Scorsese, 1990, USA) [1,138.4 points; 20 votes; Morbs silver]
15. BLADE RUNNER (Ridley Scott, 1982, USA) [1,137.06 points; 17 votes]
16. APOCALYPSE NOW (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979, USA) [1,107.60 points; 15 votes; 1 first-place vote]
17. THE BIG LEBOWSKI (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1998, USA) [1,095.83 points; 18 votes; 1 first-place vote]
18. THE APARTMENT (Billy Wilder, 1960, USA) [1,064.07 points; 14 votes]
19. CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles, 1941, USA) [1,050.32 points; 19 votes; Morbs silver]
20. DR. STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (Stanley Kubrick, 1964, UK) [1,043.37 points; 19 votes; Morbs silver]

21. TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (David Lynch, 1992, USA) [1,012.6 points; 10 votes]
22. REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954, USA) [1,003.2 points; 15 votes; 1 first-place vote]
23. ALIEN (Ridley Scott, 1979, USA) [983.75 points; 12 votes]
24. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai, 2000, Hong Kong) [952.55 points; 11 votes]
25. SUNSET BLVD. (Billy Wilder, 1950, USA) [942.5 points; 12 votes; 1 first-place vote]
26. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959, USA) [920.79 points; 14 votes; 1 first-place vote; Morbs silver]
27. JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman, 1975, Belgium) [906 points; 9 votes]
28. DOG DAY AFTERNOON (Sidney Lumet, 1975, USA) [901.25 points; 12 votes]
29. THE GREEN RAY (Eric Rohmer, 1986, France) [900.88 points; 8 votes; Morbs silver]
30. BARRY LYNDON (Stanley Kubrick, 1975, UK) [883.23 points; 13 votes; Morbs silver]

31. DUCK SOUP (Leo McCarey, 1933, USA) [874.64 points; 14 votes; Morbs silver]
32. CHINATOWN (Roman Polanski, 1974, USA) [873.43 points; 14 votes; Morbs silver]
33. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (Irvin Kershner, 1980, USA) [872.2 points; 10 votes]
34. THE LONG GOODBYE (Robert Altman, 1973, USA) [865.38 points; 16 votes; Morbs silver]
35. McCABE & MRS. MILLER (Robert Altman, 1971, USA) [855.6 points; 15 votes]
36. PLAYTIME (Jacques Tati, 1967, France) [853.27 points; 11 votes; 1 first-place vote; Morbs silver]
37. CONTEMPT (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963, France) [845.71 points; 7 votes]
38. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952, USA) [841.82 points; 11 points]
39. LATE SPRING (Ozu Yasujirō, 1949, Japan) [835.45 points; 11 votes]
40. THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928, Denmark) [833.36 points; 14 votes; Morbs silver]

41. A SERIOUS MAN (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2009, USA) [830.4 points; 15 votes]
42. STOP MAKING SENSE (Jonathan Demme, 1984, USA) [826.7 points; 10 votes; Morbs silver]
43. SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker, 1983, France) [825.25 points; 8 votes]
44. BLUE VELVET (David Lynch, 1986, USA) [822 points; 15 votes]
45. THE THING (John Carpenter, 1982, USA) [815 points; 10 votes]
46. SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki Hayao, 2001, Japan) [811.27 points; 11 votes]
47. FARGO (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1996, USA) [811.1 points; 10 votes]
48. POSSESSION (Andrzej Żuławski, 1981, France-West Germany) [810 points; 9 votes; 1 first-place vote]
49. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (George Miller, 2015, Australia) [808.73 points; 11 votes]
50. PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman, 1966, Sweden) [805.69 points; 13 votes; 1 first-place vote]

51. PSYCHO (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960, USA) [793.75 points; 12 votes; Morbs silver]
52. NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946, USA) [793.63 points; 8 votes]
53. THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (Tobe Hooper, 1974, USA) [788.13 points; 8 votes]
54. JURASSIC PARK (Steven Spielberg, 1993, USA) [786 points; 9 votes]
55. THE GRADUATE (Mike Nichols, 1967, USA) [783.33 points; 9 votes]
56. THE 400 BLOWS (François Truffaut, 1959, France) [779.33 points; 9 votes]
57. IMITATION OF LIFE (Douglas Sirk, 1959, USA) [774 points; 6 votes]
58. GROUNDHOG DAY (Harold Ramis, 1993, USA) [772.46 points; 13 votes]
59. SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK (Charlie Kaufman, 2008, USA) [768.67 points; 9 votes]
60. SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (F.W. Murnau, 1927, USA) [752.6 points; 10 votes; 1 first-place vote]

61. AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Robert Bresson, 1966, France) [734.91 points; 11 votes]
62. THE MALTESE FALCON (John Huston, 1941, USA) [733.1 points; 10 votes; Morbs silver]
63. ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974, West Germany) [729.2 points; 10 votes; Morbs silver]
64. BACK TO THE FUTURE (Robert Zemeckis, 1985, USA) [728.55 points; 11 votes]
65. 3 WOMEN (Robert Altman, 1977, USA) [725.3 points; 10 votes]
66. TOUCH OF EVIL (Orson Welles, 1958, USA) [719.33 points; 9 votes; 1 first-place vote]
67. PULP FICTION (Quentin Tarantino, 1994, USA) [717.5 points; 10 votes; 1 first-place vote]
68. CRUMB (Terry Zwigoff, 1994, USA) [716.63 points; 8 votes]
69. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1943, UK) [715.71 points; 7 votes]
70. M (Fritz Lang, 1931, Germany) [708.67 points; 9 votes]

71. MIRROR (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975, USSR) [708.38 points; 8 votes; Morbs gold]
72. PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965, France) [705 points; 6 votes]
73. BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (Spike Jonze, 1999, USA) [700.6 points; 10 votes]
74. DAYS OF HEAVEN (Terrence Malick, 1978, USA) [683.63 points; 8 votes; 1 first-place vote]
75. THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (John Ford, 1962, USA) [683.63 points; 8 votes; Morbs gold]
76. DAISIES (Vera Chytilová, 1966, Czechoslovakia) [674.29 points; 7 votes; 1 first-place vote]
77. THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (Sergio Leone, 1966, Italy) [670 points; 12 votes; Morbs silver]
78. THE WICKER MAN (Robin Hardy, 1973, UK) [668.5 points; 8 votes]
79. UNDER THE SKIN (Jonathan Glazer, 2014, UK) [665 points; 12 votes]
80. CALIFORNIA SPLIT (Robert Altman, 1974, USA) [663 points; 6 votes]

81. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Frank Capra, 1946, USA) [661.63 points; 8 votes]
82. WILD STRAWBERRIES (Ingmar Bergman, 1957, Sweden) [661.5 points; 6 votes]
83. THE KING OF COMEDY (Martin Scorsese, 1983, USA) [659.82 points; 11 votes; Morbs gold]
84. CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette, 1974, France) [658.57 points; 7 votes]
85. THE LADY EVE (Preson Sturges, 1941, USA) [656.4 points; 10 votes; Morbs silver]
86. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang, 1991, Taiwan) [655.5 points; 6 votes; 1 first-place vote]
87. THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (Victor Erice, 1973, Spain) [652 points; 8 votes]
88. JOHNNY GUITAR (Nicholas Ray, 1954, USA) [651 points; 6 votes]
89. THIS IS SPINAL TAP (Rob Reiner, 1984, USA) [650.91 points; 11 votes]
90. MANDY (Panos Cosmatos, 2018, USA) [646.5 points; 8 votes]

91. LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais, 1961, France) [645.82 points; 11 votes]
92. THE GODFATHER (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972, USA) [643.4 points; 10 votes]
93. ERASERHEAD (David Lynch, 1977, USA) [636.9 points; 10 votes]
94. ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011, Turkey) [636 points; 6 votes]
95. SHOWGIRLS (Paul Verhoeven, 1995, USA) [628 points; 4 votes]
96. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943, USA) [625.71 points; 7 votes]
97. SEVEN SAMURAI (Kurosawa Akira, 1954, Japan) [624.67 points; 9 votes]
98. MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO (Miyazaki Hayao, 1988, Japan) [623.9 points; 10 votes]
99. LA JETÉE (Chris Marker, 1962, France) [623.33 points; 9 votes; 1 first-place vote; Morbs silver]
100. ROSEMARY'S BABY (Roman Polanski, Roman 1968, USA) [620 points; 10 votes]

Also, a little later tonight I'll post the inferior, non-weighted version so people can yell how much better it was sorted out by raw points only.

84. CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette, 1974, France) [658.57 points; 7 votes]
85. THE LADY EVE (Preson Sturges, 1941, USA) [656.4 points; 10 votes; Morbs silver]
86. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang, 1991, Taiwan) [655.5 points; 6 votes; 1 first-place vote]
87. THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (Victor Erice, 1973, Spain) [652 points; 8 votes]
88. JOHNNY GUITAR (Nicholas Ray, 1954, USA) [651 points; 6 votes]

imo by far the greatest run in this list

a worthy 1 & 2, surprisingly good list overall. huge thanks to eric for running, a blast to follow along with this week.
in particular all the ilx & morbs quotes were a wonderful trip down memory lane.

the morbs quotes were probably the highlight

Vertigo's gone down in my personal list recently since it's now obvious to me that Johnny is a creep from the start.

Stewart should have played an outright villain at some point (unless I'm forgetting something) a la Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West.

YOU WERE A VERY APT PUPIL

Chris, he played a villain in The Naked Spur. Those Anthony Mann westerns prepared audiences for Vertigo.

mine was kind of a boring normcore list but whateva. i just went off "what blew my mind when I saw it"

1 King Kong
2 Voyage Dans La Lune
3 Sunrise
4 The Passion of Joan of Arc
5 Pather Panchali
6 City Lights
7 Citizen Kane
8 Au Hasard Balthazar
9 Vertigo
10 Wild Strawberries
11 Night of the Hunter
12 Treasure of the Sierra Madre
13 The Third Man
14 The Wizard of Oz
15 Texas Chainsaw Massacre
16 Close-Up (Kiarostami)
17 The Wages of Fear
18 Taxi Driver
19 Meshes of the Afternoon
20 Hausu
21 Sans Soleil
22 The Jerk
23 Walkabout
24 Spirited Away
25 Commando

thank you so much eric!

morbs v otm re politics of 2001, a lot of which is abt being ordered to tell lies

i seem to have forgotten to vote for it tho, or maybe just guessed it didn't need the help? did vote for the shining tho lol sry morbs

my (basic for sure) ballot had jurassic park at #3 next to chelovek s kinoapparatom and la regle du jeu so all the upthread dread that JP portended some kind of all-ghostbusters top 3 was a lil funny

xxp Was he an outright villain in that? I need to re-watch. His intensity in Winchester 73 struck me.

Thanks for running the poll, Eric. Will you be posting the full results?