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

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...

fwiw, the Lady Eve is one of my (many, many) discoveries from this poll that i've watched so far, and i adored it. Idk if any the more obvious/canonical screwball comedies are as focus on women's lives, but that focus gave the movie a lot more charm than it would've had if it were driven more by anima instead.

actually i didn't realize it was "screwball," since i associate that genre with, like, Pauly Shore. heh.

oh god, my grammar... i'll be going to bed now

Well done everyone and thanks to the runner(s). It's been an education, but also happy to see some of my very basic faves proven by science to be objectively the greatest.

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.

― Chris L, Friday, November 5, 2021 6:00 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Considering whether or not to see that tonight (I'll be at AFI for a Chaplin program). I saw it previously on TCM, but a restored print on a big screen....I lived in pre-reunification West Berlin for a while as a child; my memories are vague but this movie definitely stirred them.

7. The High Sign (1921)
Nice!

― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Thursday, November 4, 2021 11:24 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Few things are quite as pleasurable and concise as a well-made two-reel comedy. AFI's Silent Cinema Showcase includes several programs of shorts. (Sadly, the Keaton program does not include The High Sign.)

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

Night Nurse gave me such a jolt when I saw it in a pre-code festival, it's so in-your-face and Stanwyck is incredible. At once it cured me of any prejudice against early sound era films.

"You mutha."

Lol night nurse is so funny because they spend the whole movie hanging around a practically abandoned a+e ward in Manhattan at night with a couple of patients in bare spacious rooms

And the plot repeatedly finds occasions for Stanwyck and Blondell to just happen to strip down to their underwear.

My middlebrow list:

1. Conversation, The Coppola, Francis Ford 1974
2. Do the Right Thing Lee, Spike 1989
3. Stop Making Sense Demme, Jonathan 1984
4. Dog Day Afternoon Lumet, Sidney 1975
5. Margaret Lonergan, Kenneth 2011
6. Master, The Anderson, Paul Thomas 2012
7. Duck Soup McCarey, Leo 1933
8. Children of Men Cuarón, Alfonso 2006
9. King of Comedy, The Scorsese, Martin 1983
10. Fearless Weir, Peter 1993
12. Mulholland Dr. Lynch, David 2001
13. On the Waterfront Kazan, Elia 1954
14. Big Lebowski, The Coen, Joel & Ethan Coen 1998
15. Groundhog Day Ramis, Harold 1993
16. Grizzly Man Herzog, Werner 2005
17. Philadelphia Story, The Cukor, George 1940
18. Back to the Future Zemeckis, Robert 1985
19. Triplets of Belleville, The Chomet, Sylvain 2003
20. Taste of Cherry Kiarostami, Abbas 1997
21. Red Shoes, The Powell, Michael/Emeric Pressburger 1948
22. Adaptation Jonze, Spike 2002
23. Barton Fink Coen, Joel & Ethan Coen 1991
24. Apartment, The Wilder, Billy 1960
25. Shining, The Kubrick, Stanley 1980

UNRANKED 100 HONORABLE MENTIONS

Airplane! Abrahams, Jim/David Zucker/Jerry Zucker 1980
Boogie Nights Anderson, Paul Thomas 1997
Silence of the Lambs, The Demme, Jonathan 1991
Blue Velvet Lynch, David 1986
Election Payne, Alexander 1999
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Spielberg, Steven 1982
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Spielberg, Steven 1977
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Kubrick, Stanley 1964
George Washington Green, David Gordon 2000
Hudsucker Proxy, The Coen, Joel & Ethan Coen 1994
Jackie Brown Tarantino, Quentin 1997
Inside Out Docter, Pete 2015
Super Troopers Chandrasekhar, Jay 2001
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Forman, Milos 1975
12 Years a Slave McQueen, Steve 2013
2001: A Space Odyssey Kubrick, Stanley 1968
400 Blows, The Truffaut, François 1959
Amélie Jeunet, Jean-Pierre 2001
Annie Hall Allen, Woody 1977
Apocalypse Now Coppola, Francis Ford 1979
Being John Malkovich (Jonze 99)
Being There Ashby, Hal 1979
Best In Show - Guest, Christopher (2000)
Bicycle Thieves De Sica, Vittorio 1948
Birds, The Hitchcock, Alfred 1963
Blood Simple Coen, Joel & Ethan Coen 1984
Blow-Up Antonioni, Michelangelo 1966
Breaking the Waves von Trier, Lars 1996
Bringing Up Baby Hawks, Howard 1938
Capturing The Friedmans (Jarecki 03)
City Lights Chaplin, Charles 1931
City of God Meirelles, Fernando & Kátia Lund 2002
Crumb Zwigoff, Terry 1994
Dancer in the Dark von Trier, Lars 2000
Dazed and Confused Linklater, Richard 1993
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Schnabel, Julian 2007
Edward Scissorhands Burton, Tim 1990
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Gondry, Michel 2004
Godfather, The Coppola, Francis Ford 1972
His Girl Friday Hawks, Howard 1940
Hoop Dreams James, Steve 1994
It Happened One Night Capra, Frank 1934
Jerk, The (Reiner 1979)
Jurassic Park Spielberg, Steven 1993
Koyaanisqatsi Reggio, Godfrey 1982
Last Picture Show, The Bogdanovich, Peter 1971
Marriage Story (Baumbach 2019)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller Altman, Robert 1971
Memento Nolan, Christopher 2000
Midnight Cowboy Schlesinger, John 1969
Miller's Crossing Coen, Joel & Ethan Coen 1990
Modern Times Chaplin, Charles 1936
Moonstruck (Jewison, 1987)
Mr. Hulot's Holiday Tati, Jacques 1953
Network Lumet, Sidney 1976
Nights of Cabiria Fellini, Federico 1957
North by Northwest Hitchcock, Alfred 1959
Out Of Sight (Soderbergh 1998)
Parasite (Bong, 2019)
Princess Bride, The Reiner, Rob 1987
Psycho Hitchcock, Alfred 1960
Punch-Drunk Love Anderson, Paul Thomas 2002
Raging Bull Scorsese, Martin 1980
Raising Arizona Coen, Joel & Ethan Coen 1987
Rear Window Hitchcock, Alfred 1954
Red Balloon, The Lamorisse, Albert 1956
Rosemary's Baby Polanski, Roman 1968
Rushmore Anderson, Wes 1998
Secrets & Lies Leigh, Mike 1996
Serious Man, A Coen, Joel & Ethan 2009
Shadow of a Doubt Hitchcock, Alfred 1943
Sherman's March McElwee, Ross 1985
Son, The Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne 2002
Sound of Music, The Wise, Robert 1965
Spirited Away Miyazaki, Hayao 2001
Strada, La Fellini, Federico 1954
Stranger Than Paradise Jarmusch, Jim 1984
Sullivan's Travels Sturges, Preston 1941
Superbad (Mottola 07)
Swingers (Liman 1996)
Synecdoche, New York Kaufman, Charlie 2008
Talk to Her Almodóvar, Pedro 2002
Taxi Driver Scorsese, Martin 1976
There Will Be Blood Anderson, Paul Thomas 2007
Thing, The Carpenter, John 1982
Third Man, The Reed, Carol 1949
Tootsie Pollack, Sydney 1982
Touch of Evil Welles, Orson 1958
Tree of Life, The Malick, Terrence 2011
Truman Show, The (Weir, 1998)
Under The Skin Glazer, Jonathan 2014
Upstream Color Carruth, Shane 2013
Vertigo Hitchcock, Alfred 1958
Waking Life (Linklater, 2001)
WALL-E Stanton, Andrew 2008
Wayne's World (Spheeris, 1992)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Nichols, Mike 1966
Witness (Weir, 1985)
You Can Count On Me (2000)
Young Frankenstein Brooks, Mel 1974

i think the biggest surprise for me is the relative lack of Wiseman. i didnt pay attention to the nominations process, did he get excluded as 'TV', or is he just way less popular on ILX than i assumed?