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

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

13 Moons is my other favorite Fassbinder. I saw it when I was young at The Surf, a decrepit theater in the Outer Sunset, with my younger sister on a very foggy night, and we had time to contemplate it while waiting for what seemed like an eternity for the N-Judah streetcar so we could go back home. It was a holistic experience

Yeah, I love a lot of Fassbinders, but 13 Moons is so powerful! It blows right through his usual alienation effects, and it's better each time I see it.

I believe I gave minor points to Mother and Son. The vibe really lingers in my memory.

I *wish* I'd thought of Makhmalbaf while hastily assembling a ballot. I guess it's time I saw Two-Legged Horse.

Voters chose 25 films from a list of nominees, a process I've never understood.

time to restart

Which films did you and you alone vote for? In my top 25, the only film to not receive any other votes was Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang). His Hollywood remake of Renoir's La Chienne.

These from my long list didn't warrant any further love:
I Don't Want To Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming Liang)
l'enfance nue (Maurice Pialat)
Like someone in love (Abbas Kiarostami)
One week (Buster Keaton)
The Sin of Nora Moran (Phil Goldstone) - any pre-code fanatics who haven't seen this should seek it out immediately
Va Savoir (Jacques Rivette) - The film that turned me into a true Rivette-head... I had seen and loved Celine and Julie, but for whatever reason at the time, at the age of 21, I became obsessed with this film. I saw it six times in one week at the theatre, and on about the third day I took my minidisc recorder along so I could record the audio and listen to it later on at home...

Salut to the small number of participants who also voted for these:
India song (3 votes) - The related book, The Vice Consul, is also great and the audiobook is read by Michael Lonsdale i.e. you don't need to understand French to enjoy it because his is one of the Great Voices
naked kiss, the (3 votes)
Old Dark House, the (2 votes) - My #11, a hugely enjoyable film that I watch once a year
Saragossa Manuscript (2 votes) - Everyone should get sucked into this flashback spiral
Songs from the second floor (2 votes)
Suspiria (4 votes) - Kind of shocked this didn't get more support
Touchez pas au Grisbi (2 votes)
Vagabond (3 votes) - Varda toujours
Wanda (4 votes) - So great but was forgotten for many years. Hopefully now that it's on Criterion it will gain the wider audience it deserves
Wild Child (2 votes) - Truffaut loses me almost completely after Shoot the Piano Player, but this is something else and very good
You Can't take it with you (4 votes) - Watched this with my then-7-year-old about a year ago and he still talks about Mr Twitch Face

And

Gold Diggers of 1933 (3 votes) - my #5 - Just pure cinematic bliss

A bit late to this, but here's mine:

1. Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters (Schrader, 1985)
2. Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
3. Repulsion (Polanski, 1965)
4. The White Balloon (Panahi, 1995)
5. Persona (Bergman, 1966)
6. Le Rayon Vert (Rohmer, 1986)
7. Antichrist (von Trier, 2009)
8. La Jetée (Marker, 1962)
9. Show Me Love (Moodysson, 1998)
10. 3 Women (Altman, 1977)
11. Happiness (Solondz, 1998)
12. Liquid Sky (Tsukerman, 1982)
13. Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren & Hammid, 1943)
14. That Most Important Thing: Love (Żuławski, 1975) *Write-in
15. Black Narcissus (Powell & Pressburger, 1947)
16. A Field in England (Wheatley, 2013)
17. L'Avventura (Antonioni, 1960)
18. A Question of Silence (Gorris, 1982)
19. The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959)
20. Under The Skin (Glazer, 2014)
21. The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939)
22. Daisies (Chytilová, 1966)
23. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Buñuel, 1972)
24. The Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)
25. Pierrot le fou (Godard, 1965)

Top 100 Honorable Mentions, unweighted (and unformatted, sorry):
Festen Vinterberg, Thomas 1998
After Life Koreeda, Hirokazu 1998
Before Sunrise Linklater, Richard 1995
Master, The (Anderson 2012)
Orpheus Cocteau, Jean 1950
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Nichols, Mike 1966
Melancholia von Trier, Lars 2011
Knife in the Water Polanski, Roman 1962
Blow-Up Antonioni, Michelangelo 1966
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Fassbinder, Rainer Werner 1974
Clockwork Orange, A Kubrick, Stanley 1971
Breaking the Waves von Trier, Lars 1996
2001: A Space Odyssey Kubrick, Stanley 1968
Arabian Nights Gomes, Miguel 2015
I Was a Teenage Serial Killer (Jacobson, 1993) * Write-in
Double Life of Veronique, The Kieslowski, Krzysztof 1991
Au hasard Balthazar Bresson, Robert 1966
Wake In Fright (Kotcheff)
Mirror, The Tarkovsky, Andrei 1975
Breakfast Club, The Hughes, John 1985
Archipelago (Hogg, 2010)
Waking Life (Linklater, 2001)
All About My Mother Almodóvar, Pedro 1999
Taxi Driver Scorsese, Martin 1976
Rope Hitchcock, Alfred 1948
If…. Anderson, Lindsay 1968
Funny Games Haneke, Michael 1997
Wings of Desire Wenders, Wim 1987
Akira Otomo, Katsuhiro 1988
Playtime Tati, Jacques 1967
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Aldrich, 1962)
Prevenge (Lowe, 2016)
Dogville von Trier, Lars 2003
Wicker Man, The Hardy, Robin 1973
After Hours Scorsese, Martin 1985
Rosemary's Baby Polanski, Roman 1968
Act of Killing, The (Oppenheimer, Joshua)
10 Things I Hate About You Junger, Gil 1999
Blue Velvet Lynch, David 1986
Man with a Movie Camera, The Vertov, Dziga 1929
The Darjeeling Limited (Anderson, 2007) * write-in
Rear Window Hitchcock, Alfred 1954
Metropolis Lang, Fritz 1927
Royal Tenenbaums, The Anderson, Wes 2001
Headless Woman, The Martel, Lucrecia 2008
Caché Haneke, Michael 2005
Chien andalou, Un Buñuel, Luis 1928
Distant Voices, Still Lives Davies, Terence 1988
Do the Right Thing Lee, Spike 1989
Idiots, The von Trier, Lars 1998
Don't Look Back Pennebaker, D.A. 1967
Dancer in the Dark von Trier, Lars 2000
Crimson Gold (Panahi, 2003)
Carrie De Palma, Brian 1976
Ghost World Zwigoff, Terry 2001
Fish Tank, (Arnold, Andrea)
Hard To Be A God German, Aleksei 2013
Smiley Face (Araki, 2007) * Write-in
Love Exposure Sono, Sion 2008
Magnolia Anderson, Paul Thomas 1999
Monty Python and the Holy Grail Gilliam, Terry/Terry Jones 1975
Billy Liar Schlesinger, John 1963
Midsommar (Aster, 2019)
This Is Not a Film (Panahi, Jafar, and Mirtahmasb, Mojtaba)
Stranger Than Paradise Jarmusch, Jim 1984
Piano Teacher, The Haneke, Michael 2001
Muriel's Wedding (Hogan, 1994) * write-in
GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
Toni Erdmann Ade, Maren 2016
Paris Is Burning Livingston, Jennie 1990
Picnic at Hanging Rock Weir, Peter 1975
Grey Gardens Maysles, David/Albert Maysles/Ellen Hovde/Muffie Meyer 1975
Andrei Rublev Tarkovsky, Andrei 1966
2046 Wong Kar-wai 2004
Rebel Without a Cause Ray, Nicholas 1955
Apocalypse Now Coppola, Francis Ford 1979
Gueros (Ruizpalacios, 2014)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Ceylan, Nuri Bilge 2011
White Dog (Fuller, 1982) * Write-in
Paris, Texas Wenders, Wim 1984
Woman Under the Influence, A Cassavetes, John 1974
Tokyo Story Ozu, Yasujirō 1953
Battleship Potemkin Eisenstein, Sergei 1925
I Am Not A Witch (Nyoni, 2017)
Nowhere (Araki, 1997) * Write-in
Week-End Godard, Jean-Luc 1967
Lost in Translation Coppola, Sofia 2003
Capturing The Friedmans (Jarecki 03)
Rumble Fish (Coppola, 1983)
Citizen Kane Welles, Orson 1941
Battle of Algiers, The Pontecorvo, Gillo 1966
Brazil Gilliam, Terry 1985
Naked Kiss, The Fuller, Samuel 1964
Winter Sleep (Ceylan, 2014)
My Beautiful Laundrette (Frears, 1985)
Don't Look Now Roeg, Nicolas 1973
Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958)
Bait (Jenkin, 2019)
Bicycle Thieves De Sica, Vittorio 1948
Reservoir Dogs Tarantino, Quentin 1992

And thanks Eric for undertaking this enormous poll. It's been great fun seeing it unfold.

V bad poll for more recent 'controversial' Euro auteurs too (never mind Bunuel or Pasolini). I did expect something by von Trier, if not by Haneke as well.

Love Exposure is fantastic!

Yes sir!

The Asthenic Syndrome (Muratova, 1989)

No Almodovar, or Todd Haynes.

yah the robocop guy was the only one of those that made it and he's obviously also sort of his own thing

here was mine btw, great poll im furious at the results (jk)

Top 25 (unranked)

True Romance
Boogie Nights
The Big Lebowski
Its A Wonderful Life
Goodfellas
Capturing the Friedmans
Crumb
Bully
Ghost World
Dazed and Confused
Eyes Wide Shut
Being John Malkovich
Fargo
The Apartment
Sexy Beast
Apocalypse Now
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
The New Land
Bad Santa
The Beach Bum
The Graduate
Mad Max: Fury Road
A Serious Man
Taxi Driver
Dumb & Dumber

Honorable Mentions

Hausu
Mean Streets
Margaret
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Fight Club
Mullholland Drive
Heat
Dead Man
Dirty Grandpa
Heathers
Accident
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
All That Jazz
Amy
Barry Lyndon
Badlands
Brief Encounter
Casino
A Clockwork Orange
Dawson City: Frozen Time
Grey Gardens
Kill Bill I
Kill Bill II
Boyhood
Magnolia
The Departed
Psycho
North by Northwest
Vertigo
Memento
The Newburgh Sting
Palo Alto
Possession
Primer
Pulp Fiction
Se7en
Shattered Glass
Superbad
Swingers
Terminator 2
Trainspotting
Unforgiven
Wall-E
Wayne's World
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Wizard of Oz
Yi Yi
Annie Hall
Love and Death
The Homesman
Good Time
OJ Made in America
Seduced and Abandoned (Toback)
The Kids Are Alright
Philip Roth: Unmasked
Go
White Men Can't Jump
The Holy Mountain
Days of Heaven
Half Baked
Little Women (Gerwig)
Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer
Frances Ha
Good Will Hunting
Strange Days
Do the Right Thing
Blue is the Warmest Color
Lost In Translation
Rounders
Woman in the Dunes
The Talented Mr Ripley
Last Summer
Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski
The Shining
After Hours
Ricochet
First Man
Mommy
The Apostle
American Honey
Big Night
Kate Plays Christine
A Family Thing
Spotlight
Le Bonheur
Snow On Tha Bluff
Smooth Talk
Ciao! Manhattan
Wild Strawberries
Stroszek
Deep End
Repulsion
Lets Get Lost
Fletch
The Iron Giant
Blood For Dracula
Flesh For Frankenstein
Straw Dogs
Juice
Knife in the Water

The ones in my top 25 that got no other votes were Peace on Earth (the Hugh Harman cartoon) and Bound. My #2, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, only got 1 other vote.

I had five with no other votes:

I Was Born, but...
The Asthenic Syndrome
Awaara
Two-Legged Horse
A Zed & Two Noughts

14. That Most Important Thing: Love (Żuławski, 1975) *Write-in

Yep! I wish I'd put in some Zulawski.

I guess it's time I saw Two-Legged Horse.

Just fyi, it's Samira, not Mohsen.

the only zulawski i've seen are possession and that most important thing and i definitely preferred the latter, possession is a bit silly

My #2, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, only got 1 other vote

I didn't vote (I've seen only 35 of the movies of the top 100 - this list has given me a lot of movies to watch) but Pee-wee is possibly in my top ten

I guess no Fellini in the Top 200 is the biggest surprise in all of this to me. (He makes the Top 10 in both Sight & Sound and TSPDT).

He doesn't strike me as a ILXer favorite, like circuses.

hate fellini

literally chill out fellini

thats not entirely true, i like the one where the ancient mural dissolves in the revealing sunlight

Morbius (The Round-Up) and I (The Red and the White) were the only voters for Miklós Jancsó, a great Hungarian director who shouldn't be forgotten.

I love Fellini.

Can’t check the spreadsheet right now, but as far as the thread shows so far, I am the only one who voted for Alberto Lattuada.

But I forgot to vote for Valerio Zurlini :(

I did at least vote for Pietro Germi.

Does anyone have a link to the spreadsheet? I must've missed it being posted

It’s somewhere upthread, with Stanley and OllieLivingstone, I presume.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PJxzJNeqYtGcUSSS75pFhZkdbbHqxpQD7tYRUta5jkM/edit#gid=2141122813

Thanks WmC

Was sole voter for a handful of films loosely on the horror continuum: Fulci's The Beyond, Seconds, White of the Eye, Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Valhalla Rising, Communion. Would they all survive if I put a ballot together today? Maybe a couple. Was more surprised to be the only booster of Lola Montès and The Wind Will Carry Us, tho the directors of both have plenty of vote-splitting scope. Alain Tanner's Messidor too, love that film, really struggling to source other films of his

I had Tanner's previous film, Jonah Who Will Be 25 In The Year 2000, on my long list. I'm still kicking myself for not grabbing the VHS from a bargain bin 15+ years ago. All of his movies are pretty hard to find.

...and looking at Tanner's imdb, I see he did a kinda sorta Jonah sequel in 1999.

I like Lola Montès and Alain Tanner too, saw many of his films ages ago at the old Walter Reade Theater. I guess now I can go to MUBI stream one I still haven’t seen, Charles, Dead or Alive, his first, but that’s about it as far as streaming, I think.

Figure at least some of the underrepresentation is due to there being too many films and directors, too few votes.

Oh yeah, I forgot I saw Charles, Dead or Alive on Mubi, it was pretty good. Really want to find Jonah, The Salamander and In the White City

I was the sole voter for 5 out of my 25, some obscure, some non-ILX-friendly

4. Taking Off (Forman, 1971)
8. Six Degrees of Separation (Schepisi, 1993)
18. Buffalo 66 (Gallo, 1999)
20. Jubilee (Jarman, 1978)
23. Huckle (Palfi, 2002)

I was wondering what actor has the most appearances in the Top 100. I count four actors with four appearances each: James Stewart, Robert De Niro, Samuel L. Jackson, and Sterling Hayden. Wondering if there's anybody with more than that.

Shelly Duvall is the only three-time actress I can find...probably missing somebody.

Five if you count Hitchcock’s cameos.

01 Stalker Tarkovsky, Andrei 1979
02 Alice Svankmajer, Jan 1988
03 Touch of Evil Welles, Orson 1958 (GUEST PLACEMENT from My Brother, I asked him what was the Third Best Film Of All Time and he said this)
04 Manhunter Mann, Michael 1986
05 Thing, The Carpenter, John 1982
06 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Reisz, Karel 1960
07 Morvern Callar Ramsay, Lynne 2002
08 Mulholland Dr. Lynch, David 2001
09 Midnight Run Brest, Martin 1988
10 Close-Up Kiarostami, Abbas 1990
11 Kes Loach, Ken 1969
12 Predator McTiernan, John 1987
13 Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… and Spring Kim Ki-duk 2003
14 Master, The Anderson, Paul Thomas 2012
15 Barry Lyndon Kubrick, Stanley 1975
16 Conformist, The Bertolucci, Bernardo 1970
17 Memories of Murder Bong Joon-ho 2003
18 Pierrot le fou Godard, Jean-Luc 1965
19 California Split Altman, Robert 1974
20 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Ceylan, Nuri Bilge 2011
21 To Live And Die In L.A. Friedkin, William 1985
22 Fly, The Cronenberg, David 1986
23 Pain & Gain Bay, Michael 2013
24 Billy Liar Schlesinger, John 1963
25 Georgy Girl Narizzano, Silvio 1966

I dropped Georgy Girl from the 25 but then multiple people here told me to restore it, then it turns out I WAS THE SOLE VOTER? Sake. Otherwise good work all around tho, thank you Eric H

Btw I got so pissed off at that list, so many amazing things I missed off, but looking at it now... yeah that's cool as all fuck I will stand by that any day

High-five for Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Kes and Billy Liar. The tail of my own ballot was more anglophilic than I'd remembered. But Georgy Girl is a blindspot.

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Another Żuławski, one I never heard of, staring Romy Schneider, just popped in my MUBI feed. Not streaming here anyway though.

^^The Important Thing Is To Love, which also has Jacques Dutronc and Klaus Kinski!