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

In Jackson Heights is, I think, well, the height.

agreed

i probably would have voted for high school, but woulda been a coinflip btw that & jackson hts

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

― plax (ico), Friday, 5 November 2021 bookmarkflaglink

He's made lots that I love. Not that it would've mattered to the outcome lol but I should put a lot more experimental film.

Some juicy individual ballots to takes notes from and obv more of the Morbs canon to dive into.

here's my juicy ballot:

Images Of The World And Inscriptions Of War - Farocki 1989
Bush Mama - Gerima 1979
Johnny Guitar Ray, Nicholas 1954
Psycho Hitchcock, Alfred 1960
How To Live In The GDR - Farocki 1990
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, The Straub, Jean-Marie 1968
Citizen Kane Welles, Orson 1941
Reckless Moment, The Ophüls, Max 1949
Muriel Resnais, Alain 1963
Beau travail Denis, Claire 1999
I-Be Area (Trecartin, 2007)
In a Lonely Place Ray, Nicholas 1950
One day Pina asked me – Akerman 1983
Rosemary's Baby Polanski, Roman 1968
Halfmoon Files - Scheffner 2007
Trouble in Paradise Lubitsch, Ernst 1932
Three Women – Altman 1977
Close-Up Kiarostami, Abbas 1990
High School II – Wiseman 1994
London Keiller, Patrick 1994
Opening Night Cassavetes, John 1977
Night of the Hunter, The Laughton, Charles 1955
Ten Kiarostami, Abbas 2002
Cabaret Fosse, Bob 1972
Videograms Of A Revolution - Farocki 1992

Piano Teacher, The Haneke, Michael 2001
Fig Trees - Greyson 2009
West Side Story Wise, Robert/Jerome Robbins 1961
Est, D' Akerman, Chantal 1993
No Home Movie Akerman, Chantal 2015
Chronicle of a Summer Rouch, Jean & Edgar Morin 1961
Zero Patience - Greyson 1993
In the Mood for Love Wong Kar-wai 2000
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Almodóvar, Pedro 1988
All About My Mother Almodóvar, Pedro 1999
Tongues Untied (Riggs, 1989)
Tout va bien – Godard 1972
Midnight – Leisen 1939
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean – Altman 1982
Sweet Charity – Fosse 1969
Vanya on 42nd st – Malle 1994
Katzelmacher – Fassbinder 1969
Long Goodbye, The Altman, Robert 1973
Female Trouble Waters, John 1974
Hitler: A Film from Germany Syberberg, Hans-Jürgen 1977
Vertigo Hitchcock, Alfred 1958
India Song Duras, Marguerite 1975
City Girl - Murnau 1930
Love Streams Cassavetes, John 1984
Wanda Loden, Barbara 1970
Battle of Algiers, The Pontecorvo, Gillo 1966
Fox And His Friends Fassbinder, Rainer Werner 1975
Happy Together Wong Kar-wai 1997
Paris Is Burning Livingston, Jennie 1990
Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The Fassbinder, Rainer Werner 1972
la ceremonie – chabrol 1995
Avventura, L' Antonioni, Michelangelo 1960
Safe Haynes, Todd 1995
How To Live In The GDR - Farocki 1990
Sans soleil Marker, Chris 1983
Inland Empire Lynch, David 2006
Nightcleaners – Berwick Film Collective 1972-5
Peeping Tom Powell, Michael 1960
Russian Ark Sokurov, Aleksandr 2002
Stromboli – Rossellini 1950
His Girl Friday Hawks, Howard 1940
Headless Woman, The Martel, Lucrecia 2008
Nostalgia Frampton, Hollis 1971
Sauve qui peut (la vie) Godard, Jean-Luc 1980
Jetée, La Marker, Chris 1962
Family Finds Entertainment, A (Trecartin, 2004)
Hour of the Furnaces, The Getino, Octavio & Fernando E. Solanas 1968

The Hour of the Furnaces and Bush Mama! Juicy!!

Seen a lot of it. The one person I haven't explored is Farocki.

I saw Wanda for the first time last week. Now that’s a movie!

I didn't vote for Wanda but it'd be a strong entry here for sure.

I love Wiseman but I didn’t even have any in my long list due to being paralyzed by choice and doubting that any single film of his would get enough support to make it.

i put high school ii in but tbh i could have picked state legislature, ex libris, the store, etc

lol whats the one with the sexy monks, that one

Essene!

I always want to hear someone else's thoughts on Welfare; I'm never sure if people haven't seen it or just don't think as highly of it as I do. Neither of its two most memorable sequences are on on YouTube.

I've only seen maybe half of his films so far (I started with some of the newer ones and then went back to the beginning to watch them in order), but I think Welfare is one of his best

I like all his later films that I've seen (I posted months ago about making a concerted effort to catch up with Monrovia and City Hall; of course, I haven't), but the tone is almost autumnal--understandable at his age--and they're often focused on the battle for funding, so there are lots of meetings and strategizing. They're all good to great. There's an urgency in Welfare, though--all these people at the edge of exhaustion as they try to get not just a few dollars but simply an appointment--that is missing in those later films for me.

City Hall I couldn't finish while I lapped up the others.

City Hall was the best movie of 2020.

yeah city hall was excellent

remember wishing that akerman pina doc were longer (and the wim wenders one shorter)

oh god the wenders one jc. its amazing how compact the akerman one is though, it condenses so much into something quite sparse so you get both a real sense of bausch's process and what the performances are like (much closer than the wenders one which just soups them up but never captures what they actually do) alongside a very layered critique, freighted with ambivalence

i saw akerman discussing it in a q&a and she was very very funny particularly talking about the final interview with bausch where she said (paraphrasing wildly) 'oh my god i was just telling her everything about my life my fears my deep emotional wells trying to provoke something, anything and she just sat there, on camera, for hours, smoking that cigarette almost primly, giving me nothing'

Welfare is still on my shelf unwatched, sadly - after seeing Juvenile Court & Public Housing i got worried about ODing on that kind of bureaucratic misery (also not too far from my dayjob), so I've been gun-shy about it. but hearing you guys call it one of his best can probably convince me to get around to it sooner. one of my fave deep cuts from The Lighter Side of Wiseman(tm) is The Store, about a Nieman Marcus in Texas in the early 80s.

The Store is the one I finished most recently

If anyone thinks they might ever refer back to these results, I recommend bookmarking the pertinent posts now before the thread gets too much larger.

I'll add the results to this thread (I had saved all the coding and lost it, so it'll be later today): They Poll Movies, Don't They? The ILX Film-Poll Results Thread

Good carpenter pick from chairman alph

Think I've seen it 20 times on TV, for some reason whenever it's been on I had nothing else to do so watched it.

i saw akerman discussing it in a q&a and she was very very funny particularly talking about the final interview with bausch where she said (paraphrasing wildly) 'oh my god i was just telling her everything about my life my fears my deep emotional wells trying to provoke something, anything and she just sat there, on camera, for hours, smoking that cigarette almost primly, giving me nothing'

― plax (ico), Friday, 5 November 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Was this at the ICA? I was there too!

My tribute to Morbs and the poll here.

yah yah, i think it was one of her final public appearances! she was very charming, funny, talked about the films in a very unpretentious and illuminating way. that ica retro was so amazing, never seen anything like it in london.

Yeah very much a one-off, and yes it was an incredible appearance from Chantal.

Another Gaze were trying to pull something similar with a Marguerite Duras season but I think the pandemic got in the way.

oh i would have gone for that!!!

going over it, every one of the personal lists posted is interesting and includes films I love or want to see

Mulholland Drive (2001)
The Third Man (1949)
Leviathan (2012)
Deep End (1970)
Crumb (1994)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
The Wicker Man (1973)
Black Narcissus (1947)
California Split (1974)
Harlan County USA (1976)
Black Christmas (1974)
Stalker (1979)
Vertigo (1958)
Uncut Gems (2020)
The Witch (2015)
Toni Erdmann (2016)
The Virgin Spring (1960)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Existenz (1999)
Risky Business (1983)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Under the Skin (2013)
Carrie (1976)
The Green Ray (1986)
Zodiac (2007)

forgot some of my favorites, double indemnity, night of the hunter, a man escaped... oh well. great poll, thanks eric

my normie ballot

Do the Right Thing Lee, Spike 1989
2001: A Space Odyssey Kubrick, Stanley 1968
In the Mood for Love Wong Kar-wai 2000
Empire Strikes Back, The Kershner, Irvin 1980
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
Royal Tenenbaums, The Anderson, Wes 2001
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
Mad Max: Fury Road Miller, George 2015
Godfather, The Coppola, Francis Ford 1972
Jaws Spielberg, Steven 1975
Die Hard McTiernan, John 1988
Blazing Saddles Brooks, Mel 1974
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Kubrick, Stanley 1964
Taxi Driver Scorsese, Martin 1976
Toy Story Lasseter, John 1995
Right Stuff, The Kaufman, Philip 1983
Children of Men Cuarón, Alfonso 2006
Monty Python and the Holy Grail Gilliam, Terry/Terry Jones 1975
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Jackson, Peter 2001
Singin' in the Rain Donen, Stanley/Gene Kelly 1952
Chinatown Polanski, Roman 1974
Being John Malkovich (Jonze 99)
This is Spinal Tap Reiner, Rob 1984
Boogie Nights Anderson, Paul Thomas 1997
Z Costa-Gavras, Constantin 1969

unranked

Raiders of the Lost Ark Spielberg, Steven 1981
Miller's Crossing Coen, Joel & Ethan Coen 1990
Third Man, The Reed, Carol 1949
Graduate, The Nichols, Mike 1967
Princess Bride, The Reiner, Rob 1987
12 Angry Men Lumet, Sidney 1957
24 Hour Party People Winterbottom, Michael 2002
Airplane! Abrahams, Jim/David Zucker/Jerry Zucker 1980
Aliens Cameron, James 1986
American Werewolf in London, An (Landis, John) 1981
Annie Hall Allen, Woody 1977
Apocalypse Now Coppola, Francis Ford 1979
Barton Fink Coen, Joel & Ethan Coen 1991
Best In Show - Guest, Christopher (2000)
Big Lebowski, The Coen, Joel & Ethan Coen 1998
Big Trouble in Little China Carpenter, John 1986
Blade Runner Scott, Ridley 1982
Battle of Algiers, The Pontecorvo, Gillo 1966
Blood Simple Coen, Joel & Ethan Coen 1984
Blue Velvet Lynch, David 1986
Blues Brothers, The Landis, John 1980
Brazil Gilliam, Terry 1985
Breakfast Club, The Hughes, John 1985
Casablanca Curtiz, Michael 1942
Citizen Kane Welles, Orson 1941
Clockwork Orange, A Kubrick, Stanley 1971
Dazed and Confused Linklater, Richard 1993
Dog Day Afternoon Lumet, Sidney 1975
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Spielberg, Steven 1982
Duck Soup McCarey, Leo 1933
Ed Wood Burton, Tim 1994
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Buñuel, Luis 1972
Eastern Promises (Cronenberg, 2007)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Gondry, Michel 2004
Fantasia Various Directors 1940
Fargo Coen, Joel & Ethan Coen 1996
Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off Hughes, John 1986
Fugitive, The (Davis, Andrew) 1993
Galaxy Quest (Parisot, 1999)
Ghostbusters Reitman, Ivan 1984
Godfather: Part II, The Coppola, Francis Ford 1974
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Leone, Sergio 1966
GoodFellas Scorsese, Martin 1990
Groundhog Day Ramis, Harold 1993
Hard Day's Night, A Lester, Richard 1964
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
Inglourious Basterds Tarantino, Quentin 2009
Jackie Brown Tarantino, Quentin 1997
Koyaanisqatsi Reggio, Godfrey 1982
Last Waltz, The (Scorsese, 1978)
Lost in America (Albert Brooks, 1985)
Maltese Falcon, The (John Huston, 1941)
Master, The (Anderson 2012)
Matrix, The Wachowski, Lana & Lilly Wachowski 1999
McCabe & Mrs. Miller Altman, Robert 1971
Midsommar (Aster, 2019)
Moonlight (Jenkins, 2016)
Nashville Altman, Robert 1975
Night of the Hunter, The Laughton, Charles 1955
Night at the Opera, A Wood, Sam 1935
North by Northwest Hitchcock, Alfred 1959
Out Of Sight (Soderbergh 1998)
Pan's Labyrinth del Toro, Guillermo 2006
Raging Bull Scorsese, Martin 1980
Raising Arizona Coen, Joel & Ethan Coen 1987
Ran Kurosawa, Akira 1985
Rashomon Kurosawa, Akira 1950
Rocky Avildsen, John G. 1976
Secrets & Lies Leigh, Mike 1996
Separation, A Farhadi, Asghar 2011
Serious Man, A Coen, Joel & Ethan 2009
Shining, The Kubrick, Stanley 1980
Silence of the Lambs, The Demme, Jonathan 1991
Some Like it Hot Wilder, Billy 1959
Star Wars Lucas, George 1977
Sullivan's Travels Sturges, Preston 1941
Terminator 2: Judgment Day Cameron, James 1991
Thing, The Carpenter, John 1982
Total Recall Verhoeven, Paul 1990
Trading Places (Landis, 1983)
Truman Show, The (Weir, 1998)
Vertigo Hitchcock, Alfred 1958
Waking Life (Linklater, 2001)
Up Docter, Pete 2009
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Zemeckis, 1988)
Wild Bunch, The Peckinpah, Sam 1969
Wizard of Oz, The Fleming, Victor 1939
Wolf Of Wall Street, The (Scorsese, 2013)
Young Frankenstein Brooks, Mel 1974
Producers, The Brooks, Mel 1968
Jerk, The (Reiner 1979)
John Wick Stahelski, Chad 2014
Inside Llewyn Davis (Coens, 2013)
There Will Be Blood Anderson, Paul Thomas 2007
Shaun of the Dead Wright, Edgar 2007

loved Andrey Zvyagintsev's Leviathan from 2014 but still haven't seen the (unrelated) documentary from 2012, which from what I've read is pretty great

yeah here's my embarrassingly middlebrow ballot!

1. Days of Heaven (Malick, 1978)
2. Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
3. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)
4. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
5. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

6. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Lynch, 1992)
7. Blade Runner (Scott, 1982)
8. Close-Up (Kiarostami, 1990)
9. Long Goodbye, The (Altman, 1973)
10. Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (Buñuel, 1972)

11. Passion of Joan of Arc, The (Dreyer, 1928)
12. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
13. Stop Making Sense (Demme, 1984)
14. 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959)
15. Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)

16. Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman, 2008)
17. Inside Llewyn Davis (Coens, 2013)
18. Raging Bull (Scorcese, 1980)
19. Persona (Bergman, 1966)
20. Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, 1975)

21. Children of Men (Cuarón, 2006)
22. Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt, 2008)
23. Phantom Thread (Anderson, 2017)
24. Breathless (Godard, 1960)
25. Monty Python’s Life of Brian (Jones, 1979)

3 Women (Altman, 1977)
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Mungiu, 2007)
8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963)
12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957)
Alien (Scott, 1979)

Badlands (Malick, 1973)
Ballast (Hammer, 2008)
Bande a part (Godard, 1964)
Barfly (Schroeder, 1987)
Barton Fink (Coens, 1991)

Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1966)
Beau Travail (Denis, 1999)
Being John Malkovich (Jonze, 1999)
Best in Show (Guest, 2000)
Blow-Up (Antonioni, 1966)

Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Peckinpah, 1974)
Caché (Haneke, 2005)
Certain Women (Reichardt, 2016)
Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

Claire’s Knee (Rohmer, 1970)
Cléo from 5 to 7 (Varda, 1962)
Conversation (Coppola, 1974)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)
Crumb (Zwigoff, 1994)

Dog Star Man (Brakhage, 1964)
Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989)
Dogtooth (Lanthimos, 2009)
Dont Look Back (Pennebaker, 1967)
Don’t Look Now (Roeg, 1973)

Drugstore Cowboy (Van Sant, 1989)
Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977)
Exterminating Angel (Buñuel, 1962)
F for Fake (Welles, 1973)
Far From Heaven (Haynes, 2002)

Fish Called Wanda, A (Crichton, 1988)
Force Majeure (Östlund, 2014)
George Washington (Green, 2000)
Glengarry Glen Ross (Foley, 1992)
Grey Gardens (Maysels, 1975)

Grizzly Man (Herzog, 2005)
Groundhog Day (Ramis, 1993)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Resnais, 1959)
High and Low (Kurosawa, 1963)
High School (Wiseman, 1968)

History of Violence, A (Cronenberg, 2005)
Ida (Pawlikouski, 2013)
In a Lonely Place (Ray, 1950)
Iron Giant, The (Bird, 1999)
Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Cassavettes, 1975)

King of Comedy, The (Scorcese, 1983)
Jackass: The Movie (Tremaine, 2002)
Jackie Brown (Tarantino, 1997)
Jerk, The (Reiner, 1979)
Jetée, La (Marker, 1962)

Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
Let the Right One In (Alfredson, 2008)
Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015)
Man Escaped, A (Bresson, 1956)
Master, The (Anderson, 2012)

Matewan (Sayles, 1987)
Mikey and Nicky (May, 1976)
Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)
Parallax View, The (Pakula, 1974)
Paris Is Burning (Livingston, 1990)

Passenger, The (Antonioni, 1975)
Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957)
Personal Shopper (Assayas, 2016)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir, 1975)
Pickpocket (Bresson, 1959)

Rashoman (Kurosawa, 1950)
Rear Window (Hitchcock (1954)
Repulson (Polanski, 1965)
Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants (Mamet, 1996)
Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939)

Safe (Haynes, 1995)
Sans Soleil (Marker, 1983)
Scenes From a Marriage (Bergman, 1973)
Separation, A (Farhadi, 2011)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Soderbergh, 1989)

Sexy Beast (Glazer, 2000)
Shining, The (Kubrick, 1980)
Social Network, The (Fincher, 2010)
Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)
Souvenir (Hogg, 2019)

Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch, 1984)
Sweetie (Campion, 1989)
Taking of Pelham 123 (Sargent, 1974)
Tenant, The (Polanski, 1976)
Thing, The (Carpenter, 1982)

Third Man, The (Reed, 1949)
This is Spinal Tap (Reiner, 1984)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (Huston, 1948)
Uncut Gems (Safdies, 2019)
Under the Skin (Glazer, 2014)

Unspeakable Act, The (Sallitt, 2012)
Wages of Fear (Clouzot, 1953)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)
World of Tomorrow (Hertzfeldt, 2015)
Zodiac (Fincher, 2007)

well maybe that didn't hide right oh well!

recently rewatched Who's Afraid of Viginia Woolf, it was exhausting but I liked it

glad others voted for Eastern Promises and A History of Violence, my two favorite Cronenbergs

The 'Hidden Text' function eventually makes fools of us all.

Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida was also a very memorable film

well maybe that didn't hide right oh well!

The Souvenir for me was completely ruined by the black hole that was the Tom Burke character. Hoping for something better with the second part

one of the biggest surprises to me in trolling through film history is how much I like the Jim Jarmusch films, every one of them I’ve seen

My top 25:

The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky, 1986)
Red Beard (Kurosawa, 1965)
Love Exposure (Sono, 2008)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette, 1974)
M (Lang, 1931)
Inland Empire (Lynch, 2006)
8½ (Fellini, 1963)
Playtime (Tati, 1967)
Beau Travail (Denis, 1999)
My Man Godfrey (La Cava, 1936)
Stray Dogs (Tsai, 2013)
I Was Born, But… (Ozu, 1932)
In a Year with 13 Moons (Fassbinder, 1978)
Charulata (Ray, 1964)
Mother and Son (Sokurov, 1997)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Anderson, 2004)
The Asthenic Syndrome (Muratova, 1989)
2046 (Wong, 2004)
Holiday (Cukor, 1938)
The Turin Horse (Tarr, 2011)
Awaara (Kapoor, 1951)
Henry Fool (Hartley, 1997)
Two-Legged Horse (Makhmalbaf, 2008)
A Zed & Two Noughts (Greenaway, 1985)

I love The Sacrifice and Red Beard

I too opted for 13 Moons. I’m just glad Fassbinder avoided the Buñuel syndrome and placed something on our list.

The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky, 1986)
Love Exposure (Sono, 2008)

excuse me but hell yeah

Would just like to point out that neither Alfred nor I voted for All About Eve