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

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.

Any anime fans out there? pic.twitter.com/TxX4qiJhOi

— Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS (@RepGosar) November 7, 2021

no traces of any radical leftist traditions in anime, of course

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!

Yes, just saw those other cast members! Looks pretty intriguing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2RALZ18z88

xps to xyzzzz__ this is particularly uncomfortable given the…allusions…the source material makes to real world events

What, like Hiroshima?

You saw nothing in Hiroshima.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuBIz0G_pls

Gosar is a pox on this thread

ugh

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

Shows up in Françoise Hardy's autobio, she was very worried Dutronc would fall for Schneider and leave her.

just saw Sans Soleil, what an amazing film. I plan to see it again but as many times as I could watch it I don’t think I will ever be able to absorb it all

its fun to watch in a movie marathon with la jetée and vertigo

So good, and you barely started on Marker (if that's your first by him).

also watched La Jetée, which is even harder to parse

it was the inspiration for twelve monkeys if that helps.

Hard to parse, you say?

:)

There are a couple of others available on the Criterion Channel and one on Kanopy, I will watch, but among his 67 credits there is nothing else I can find right now, including on dvd

Tonight I watched one of the films I hadn't seen: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
I really liked the structure and timing; the opening crawl and graveyard shots set up the tension, then large segments of the first half of the movie are hippie kids wandering through meadows like some anodyne public television footage I might have watched as a little kid. Many of the most horrific scenes take place on a sunny afternoon or a pale dawn; two of the characters don't even realize they're in danger until two-thirds of the way through. It's definitely true what Clemenza said above that the most horrible scenes are also the most funny. I was also pleased to find that none of the film had been spoiled for me by being quoted or memed (or maybe I just haven't encountered it).

I should totally have voted for TCM. It's better than Georgy Girl, or whatever shit I put at 25

the scene with the takenoko-zoku dance troupe in Tokyo in Sans Soleil was really great

everyone should retire at age 20? not sure I heard that right

there was so much that went by in that film

There really is, and as many times as I've seen it, I find myself catching something new in between the bouts of me nodding my head "yes" constantly.

“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”

― Daniel_Rf, Friday, November 5, 2021

that is not true at all, it still feels transcendental. When was a sequence like this ever imagined before

By Brakhage.

they are very different

Kael compared the Stargate sequence (not favorably, to put it mildly) to another filmmaker--checked back, and it wasn't Brakhage but Jordan Belson, who I don't know at all. But this does suggest a strong influence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFA29CsDRe0

oh come on

I'm not saying it's better. I'm not saying anything except there's clearly some similarity, and I suspect Kubrick was aware of it's existence. (Belson wasn't working with a major studio and a big budget, and it was 1959.)

there is no comparison

Okay, Dan S.--Kevin's wrong, Kael's wrong, I'm wrong. Stargate is sui generis.

:) I respect your point of view, but think it is!

This won't change your mind, but you should find this piece interesting:

https://offscreen.com/view/beyond_the_infinite

The one thing I got above all else from Michael Benson's 2001 book (and it's not one of my favourite films, but one that interests me a great deal) is that Kubrick was hyper-attuned to everything around him in the culture--like Godard, or Dylan, or Warhol around the same time--and that he grabbed at anything he thought he could use. That's not a criticism at all, far from it. He's still the one who took all that stuff and turned it into something.

its certainly fair to bring up Jordan Belson as an antecedent to the stargate sequence, but Kael calling the sequence "third rate" Belson has got to be one of the looniest challops of her career. iirc in the Benson book Trumbull IDs John Whitney (who did the animation in Vertigo) as one of his main influences on the sequence

I thought that was way off too.

I read that Kubrick did attempt to get a contemporary experimental filmmaker to help create the Stargate sequence, but I don't remember who now.

Last week I watched John Carpenter 's The Thing from this list. It was well done, but I'm the sort of horror-film viewer who watches avidly in the early "ominous" scenes where helicopters land on empty patches of snow or someone walks down an empty corridor. By the later scenes, when blood is geysering and chest cavities are imploding, I'm shrugging.
It also seemed to me that the threat the Thing posed was whatever Carpenter decided it needed to be from scene-to-scene. First it has to hide inside a human being, but all of a sudden it can tear through the ground like a submarine going 100 miles an hour? I didn't feel the film was playing fair with expectations. But one detail I liked was that the cast was large enough that I really didn't get a handle on who each character was until most of them were dead; it kept me guessing about the human drama.

that is not true at all, it still feels transcendental.

Pfft, seen it a bunch of times and haven't transcended once.

I'll transcend you.

Mikhail Kalatozov's The Cranes Are Flying is a pretty great film, looking forward to I Am Cuba

Funny, Cranes has been on my mind this week as one to revisit. Of the two, Cranes is the better film in terms of storytelling - the drama & acting in I Am Cuba are pretty cartoonish, but Cuba's rep for eye-popping visuals is well deserved