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

1. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
2. Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990)
3. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)
4. Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven, 1995)
5. My Neighbour Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)
6. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
7. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
9. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
10. 400 Blows, The (François Truffaut, 1959)
11. Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai, 1997)
12. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
13. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
14. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
15. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
16. Searchers, The (John Ford, 1956)
17. Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997)
18. Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, A (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014)
19. Big Lebowski, The (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 1998)
20. Graduate, The (Mike Nichols, 1967)
21. General, The (Buster Keaton/Clyde Bruckman, 1926)
22. Best In Show (Christopher Guest , 2000))
23. Fifth Element, The (Luc Besson, 1997)
24. Touch of Sin, A (Zhangke Jia, 2013)
25. Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)

Haha, no idea how that ended up in your column, but I figured out where it went missing from: Dan S.

If I did it over again i'd nominate more than one film (Children of Men), and vote for La Jétee high up on the list. PlayTime probably woulda found its way in there—I only saw it after voting.

I'd spent a lot of time since the first lockdown re-watching movies from my high school Fiction & Film class, and the more embarrassing parts of my list reflects that.

I'm surprised Days of Heaven was the one Malick, I would have expected Badlands or Thin Red Line before that. (Badlands for me thx.)

Thanks for putting in all this work, Eric, super fun poll.

Here's me:

    1.    Mulholland Dr.    (David Lynch, 2001)
    2.    2001: A Space Odyssey    Kubrick, Stanley    1968
    3.    Crumb    Zwigoff, Terry    1994
    4.    Blood Simple    Coen, Joel & Ethan Coen    1984
    5.    Under The Skin    Glazer, Jonathan    2014
    6.    Harakiri     Kobayashi, Masaki 1962
    7.    Come and See     Klimov, Elem 1985
    8.    Certified Copy     Kiarostami, Abbas 2010
    9.    Grand Budapest Hotel, The     Anderson, Wes 2014
    10.    Persona     (Bergman, 1966)
    11.    Stalker     Tarkovsky, Andrei 1979
    12.    Design for Living     Lubitsch, Ernst 1933
    13.    Young Frankenstein     Brooks, Mel 1974
    14.    Notorious     Hitchcock, Alfred 1946
    15.    Late Spring     Ozu, Yasujirō 1949
    16.    Contempt     Godard, Jean-Luc 1963
    17.    Burmese Harp, The     Ichikawa, Kon 1956
    18.    Night of the Hunter, The     Laughton, Charles 1955
    19.    Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The     Leone, Sergio 1966
    20.    There Will Be Blood     (Anderson, 2007)
    21.    The Conversation     (Coppola, 1974)
    22.    Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The     Powell, Michael/Emeric Pressburger 1943
    23.    Gleaners & I, The     Varda, Agnès 2000
    24.    Thin Red Line, The     Malick, Terrence 1998
    25.    Rabbit of Seville     (Chuck Jones, 1950)

PART 2, mostly alphabetical, supposed to be all alphabetical:

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days    Mungiu, Cristian    2007
Aguirre: The Wrath of God    Herzog, Werner    1972
Alien    Scott, Ridley    1979
All That Jazz    Fosse, Bob    1979
Apocalypse Now    Coppola, Francis Ford    1979
Audition    Miike, Takashi    1999
Beau travail    Denis, Claire    1999
Berberian Sound Studio (Strickland)
Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The    Fassbinder, Rainer Werner    1972
Black Girl    Sembene, Ousmane    1966
Black Narcissus    Powell, Michael/Emeric Pressburger    1947
Blade Runner    Scott, Ridley    1982
Blow-Up    Antonioni, Michelangelo    1966
Blue Velvet    Lynch, David    1986
Burning    Lee Chang-dong    2018
Caché    Haneke, Michael    2005
Certain Women    Reichardt, Kelly    2016
Children of Men    Cuarón, Alfonso    2006
Citizen Kane    Welles, Orson    1941
Clean, Shaven    Kerrigan, Lodge    1993
Cléo from 5 to 7    Varda, Agnès    1962
Close Encounters of the Third Kind    Spielberg, Steven    1977
Crash    Cronenberg, David    1996
Cries and Whispers    Bergman, Ingmar    1972
Days of Heaven    Malick, Terrence    1978
Dead Man    Jarmusch, Jim    1995
Die Hard    McTiernan, John    1988
Do the Right Thing    Lee, Spike    1989
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb    Kubrick, Stanley    1964
Easy Rider    Hopper, Dennis    1969
Elephant Man, The    Lynch, David    1980
Eraserhead    Lynch, David    1977
Exterminating Angel, The    Buñuel, Luis    1962
F for Fake    Welles, Orson    1973
Fat Girl    Breillat, Catherine    2001
Freaks    Browning, Tod    1932
Funny Games    Haneke, Michael    1997
Ghostbusters    Reitman, Ivan    1984
Grande illusion, La    Renoir, Jean    1937
Hard Day's Night, A    Lester, Richard    1964
Holiday    Cukor, George    1938
Hunger    McQueen, Steve    2008
In the Mood for Love    Wong Kar-wai    2000
In the Realm of the Senses    Oshima, Nagisa    1976
Iron Giant, The    Bird, Brad    1999
Jackie Brown    Tarantino, Quentin    1997
Koyaanisqatsi    Reggio, Godfrey    1982
Lady Vanishes, The    Hitchcock, Alfred    1938
Lawrence of Arabia    Lean, David    1962
Lost in Translation    Coppola, Sofia    2003
Man Escaped, A (Robert Bresson, 1956)
Man Who Fell to Earth, The    Roeg, Nicolas    1976
Mandy    Cosmatos, Panos    2018
Master, The (Anderson 2012)
Matter of Life and Death, A    Powell, Michael/Emeric Pressburger    1946
McCabe & Mrs. Miller    Altman, Robert    1971
Meantime    Leigh, Mike    1984
Midsommar (Aster, 2019)
Miller's Crossing    Coen, Joel & Ethan Coen    1990
Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters    Schrader, Paul    1985
My Man Godfrey    La Cava, Gregory    1936
Nashville    Altman, Robert    1975
News from Home    Akerman, Chantal    1976
No Country for Old Men    Coen, Joel & Ethan Coen    2007
Nosferatu    Murnau, F.W.    1922
Oldboy    Park Chan-wook    2003
Once Upon a Time in the West    Leone, Sergio    1968
Out Of Sight (Soderbergh 1998)
Parasite (Bong, 2019)
Paris, Texas    Wenders, Wim    1984
Passion of Joan of Arc, The    Dreyer, Carl Theodor    1928
Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
Summer with Monika    Bergman, Ingmar    1953
Phantom Thread    Anderson, Paul Thomas    2017
Portrait Of A Lady On Fire    Sciamma, Céline    2019
Rear Window    Hitchcock, Alfred    1954
Red Shoes, The    Powell, Michael/Emeric Pressburger    1948
Rome, Open City    Rossellini, Roberto    1945
Rules of the Game, The    Renoir, Jean    1939
Serious Man, A    Coen, Joel & Ethan    2009
Shining, The    Kubrick, Stanley    1980
Some Like it Hot    Wilder, Billy    1959
Spirit of the Beehive, The    Erice, Victor    1973
Spirited Away    Miyazaki, Hayao    2001
Stray Dogs    Tsai Ming-liang    2013
Testament (Littman, 1983)
Three Colours: Blue    Kieslowski, Krzysztof    1993
Three Colours: Red    Kieslowski, Krzysztof    1994
Tokyo Story    Ozu, Yasujirō    1953
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me    Lynch, David    1992
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives    Weerasethakul, Apichatpong    2010
Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders    Jireš, Jaromil    1970
Vampyr    Dreyer, Carl Theodor    1932
Vivre sa vie    Godard, Jean-Luc    1962
Walkabout    Roeg, Nicolas    1971
War of the Worlds    Spielberg, Steven    2005
Where is the Friend's Home?    Kiarostami, Abbas    1987
Margaret (Lonergan 2011)
Decasia (Morrison)
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)

xp davet your list is pretty good!

7. The High Sign (1921)

Nice!

*davey

1. Possession (Andrzej Żuławski, 1981)
2. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, 1992)
3. The Exorcist III (William Peter Blatty, 1990)
4. Exotica (Atom Egoyan, 1994)
5. Three Colours: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994)
6. Halloween II (Rob Zombie, 2009)
7. Speed Racer (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, 2008)
8. Miami Vice (Michael Mann, 2006)
9. Prince Of Darkness (John Carpenter, 1987)
10. Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990)
11. Sans soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
12. Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Adolescence of Utena (Kunihiko Ikuhara, 1999)
13. End Of Evangelion, The (Hideaki Anno, 1997)
14. To Sleep With Anger (Charles Burnett, 1990)
15. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (Chuck Russell, 1987)
16. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas, 2005)
17. Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, 2018)
18. Patlabor 2 (Mamoru Oshii, 1993)
19. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
20. All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)
21. Southland Tales (Richard Kelly, 2006)
22. Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki, 1989)
23. Phantasm (Don Coscarelli, 1979)
24. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron, 1991)
25. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)

Michael Mann needs to make more damn movies!

another good list. A lot of these I haven't seen. can't find any way to watch Possession right now

21. Southland Tales (Richard Kelly, 2006)
22. Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki, 1989)

both great

Come over! I have a gorgeous copy.

I didn't vote, but I had a got of enjoyment from the unveiling and the discussions that ensued. No doubt I'll check out some of the ones I have not yet seen and may never have known about without this poll thread.

xp Hey, thank you Dan, likewise! I'm thankful for every single person here's participation—but of course for Eric most of all: I can't thank you enough for all you did to make this happen. This chance to reflect on what movies I really value, and why I do, has truly been a source of meaning and insight.

xpost Aimless, check out Climax which Eric hyped at the bottom of his chronological list.

I see a few other fans of Paris is Burning... And man I have got to track down Possession somehow.

Glad to have the full results. I'm also really appreciating/anticipating all the films this continues to add to my watch-list.

Should be a spankin' new Blu/4K Possession out next year from some label.

right now thinking about the films from this list that I haven’t yet seen, including The Night of the Hunter, The Third Man, The Green Ray, Stop Making Sense, Possession, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Man who Shot Liberty Valance, Daisies, California Split, Celine and Julie Go boating

I know, glaring omissions

I know, glaring omissions

Only if your life revolves around watching movies. There are many other studies, hobbies, and activities equally worthy of our time as watching films. For example, I watch about 40 films a year, but I read about 50 books a year. The reading takes a good amount of time away from when I could be watching films, because reading a book takes much longer than 2 hours. I do not regret this choice one bit. Films comprise a much more restricted universe than books, which have been around in some form for about 2500 years now and personally I get more out of them.

Oh wow! WmC also had the Gleaners and I in the top 25 - nice.

Love all those pre-code Barbara Stanwyck movies from j.lu's list: The Miracle Woman, Baby Face, Night Nurse

j.lu and I each had different Pabst/Louise Brooks movies in the low 20s. If all three Pabst/Brooks voters had rallied around the same film... that film still wouldn't have had a chance, I don't think.

Another favourite director of mine with a poor showing (I mentioned him way upthread): Maurice Pialat. Three films got one vote each, two of which were from me.

I had a notion to watch those films from the top 100 that I haven't seen before... Of those, I would probably most look forward to Mirror, and least to Mad Max and Goodfellas.

I like this list, though. Of the 85 or so I've seen, the only one I didn't care for at all was The Wicker Man.

Robert Bresson results

Au hasard Balthazar Bresson, Robert 1966 734.9
Man Escaped, A Bresson, Robert 1956 571.9
Devil, Probably, The Bresson, Robert 1977 531.6
Pickpocket Bresson, Robert 1959 518.8
Argent, L' Bresson, Robert 1983 423.0
Lancelot du Lac Bresson, Robert 1974 313.0
Mouchette Bresson, Robert 1967 180.0
Diary of a Country Priest Bresson, Robert 1951 150.0

Jacques Rivette results

Celine and Julie Go Boating Rivette, Jacques 1974 658.6
Out 1: Noli me tangere / Out 1: Spectre Rivette, Jacques 1971 446.0
Duelle Rivette, Jaqcues 1976 410.0
Belle noiseuse, La Rivette, Jacques 1991 120.0
Va Savoir Rivette, Jacques 2001 90.0

Betzy Bromberg results:

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reading does take a lot of time away from watching films, and I'm often so annoyed by the films I've chosen to watch, for example today Last Tango in Paris - really? I've been in a book club now for 27 years and it has been very rewarding

I didn’t have a longlist, here is my ranked ballot

Daisies (Chytilová, 1966)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Lynch, 1992)
Thundercrack! (McDowell, 1975)
The Ornithologist (Rodrigues, 2018)
The Mist (Darabont, 2007)
The Entity (Furie, 1982)
Tango & Cash (Konchalovsky, 1989)
Schrei 27 (Galás & Pepe, 2011)
Possession (Żuławski, 1981)
Onibaba (Shindo, 1964)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Ceylan, 2011)
National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1 (Quintano, 1993)
Martin (Romero, 1978)
La ciénaga (Martel, 2001)
Jurassic Park (Spielberg, 1993)
Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954)
In the Heat of the Sun (Wen, 1994)
Fragments of an Empire (Ermler, 1929)
Daughters of the Dust (Dash, 1991)
Cléo from 5 to 7 (Varda, 1962)*
Céline & Julie Go Boating (Rivette, 1974)
Cabaret (Fosse, 1972)

Interesting (to me) that some of us speculated No County for Old Men for the top 20 and it didn’t crack the top 250.

I must insist everyone who hasn’t seen House add it to their catch-up list since it was in the top 100 on raw results.

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

If only we'd had the chance!

Going back up to wondering about Casablanca yeah someone mentioned and I latched on to thinking this American classic would make it. Swapping it for Night of the Hunter is fine whatever. Another American classic!

Thanks for running it, Eric.

Looks like it was swapped for the American classic showgirls!

As long as it's made in the US!

Here is my list!

1. Rushmore
2. Phantom Thread
3. Adaptation
4. Days of Heaven
5. Stalker
6. Fargo
7. In The Mood For Love
8. Andrei Rublev
9. Citizen Kane
10. The Godfather
11. Aguirre: The Wrath of God
12. Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The
13. Margaret
14. Pickpocket
15. Vertigo
16. Rear Window
17. Late Spring
18. Kwaidan
19. On The Waterfront
20. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
21. Paris, Texas
22. Passion of Joan of Arc, The
23. Offside
24. Goodfellas
25. Rules of the Game, The

Dutch classic Showgirls.

Nah

lol

shout out to ico for being the only other person repping straub-huillet

love all those pre-code Barbara Stanwyck movies from j.lu's list: The Miracle Woman, Baby Face, Night Nurse

Wonderful stuff. Pre-Code Capra too.

Unranked:

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman, 1975)
Nostalgia (Hollis Frampton, 1971)
A River Called Titash (Ghatak, 1973)
In the Realm of the Senses (Oshima, 1976)
The Mother and the Whore (Eustache, 1973)
Close-up (Kiarostami, 1990)
La Commune (Watkins, 2000)
Out of the Past (Tourneur, 1947)
A Brighter Summer Day (Yang, 1991)
Xala (Sembene, 1975)
Starman (Carpenter, 1984)
Victims of Sin (Fernandez, 1951)

ive been watching hollis films this year and i might have put nostalgia on my ranked list if i were to submit now

funny stuff on this list, days of heaven but not badlands. the lady eve seems to be the main representative of classic screwball ahead of for instance bringing up baby, the philadelphia story, the awful truth (lol fonda instead of grant essentially, very odd)

anyway thanks for the poll eric!

i love to complain about things so i enjoyed it a lot, two solid thumbs up

In the lady eve i think its more true that the fonda character isnt as important as it would be for a typical grant tbf

Only if your life revolves around watching movies. There are many other studies, hobbies, and activities equally worthy of our time as watching films. For example, I watch about 40 films a year, but I read about 50 books a year. The reading takes a good amount of time away from when I could be watching films, because reading a book takes much longer than 2 hours. I do not regret this choice one bit. Films comprise a much more restricted universe than books, which have been around in some form for about 2500 years now and personally I get more out of them.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless)

I do both -- it's not a choice!

No Cary Grant, no credibility.

Surprised there was no Varda (or Demy). Feels much more of a straight dude - Herzog, Scorsese, Kubrick, Tarkovksy, Lynch - list than I had expected from ILx. 2001 winning is like Kid A winning an ILM poll.

The Stargate sequence in 2001 has dated worse than most special effects from that era - feels like something you'd see in some psychsploitation film - and make it v difficult to tune in to the film's idea of transcendence imo.

Truly very surprised that Varda didn't make it, thought she'd become the token female director in every list. Also surprised that no Kurosawa made it except for 7 Samurai - and that one quite low on the list!

Thanks Eric for doing this and to everyone else for actively participating. Having only seen 30 out of 100 the to-watch-list is loooong, looking forward to dig in :)

If any of you are near the DC area and want to see POSSESSION in the theater, it’s at the AFI Silver this weekend. Should be some experience.

no love for Withnail and I

Would make my ballot in a comedy list but best of all time I dunno...