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

i love boring failure

actually kinda does describe my taste

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ESB is relieved of the burden of a happy ending, it gets to end with everything totally fucked. It's unusual in that sense, you don't often get the big slambang popcorn epic that also leaves you bummed out. (Avengers: Infinity War obviously stole the trick.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25GKkfXJUVU

i dare any scene in esb to contend with ppl looking through windows and crying

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32. CHINATOWN (Roman Polanski, 1974, USA) [873.43 points; 14 votes; Morbs silver]
S&S: 73 | TSPDT: 55 | BOXD: 155

MORBS SEZ: "Chinatown is the apotheosis of the period piece commenting on contemporary sordidness and guilt … It diagnoses what's most wrong with America; when it's set, when it was made, now."

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Kind of surprised Chinatown is so loved.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, October 16, 2008 6:02 PM

Chinatown was enjoyable but I wish they'd kept Towne's original ending.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, December 13, 2003 12:44 PM

if you haven't seen chinatown see chinatown
― groovy groovy jazzy funky pounce bounce dance (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, February 18, 2009 4:21 AM

chinatown isn't as hilarious as zatoichi.
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, March 25, 2004 6:51 AM

All the people in Chinatown are actually Mickey Rooney in makeup.
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, December 15, 2005 2:34 PM

could he have still made chinatown if he HADNT sodomized a 13 yr old? im not so sure
― deej, Sunday, September 27, 2009 11:26 PM

Chinatown is all about totally unscrupulous people so being directed by Captain Rapey adds a layer; sometimes the only thing of value an ethical douchebag leaves is art.
― pow! right in the kisser (suzy), Wednesday, September 30, 2009 5:21 AM

never seen chinatown
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, April 16, 2009 2:53 PM

waht?
― the table is the table, Thursday, April 16, 2009 3:02 PM

A film that for most of its run time you think is about the merely sordid, criminal and unscrupulous, but in the final reel takes a hard swerve and crashes into a wall of pure evil. In the form of John Huston.

i'm not convinced playtime will dazzle me. but who knows

No, you are wrong about this!

I've seen 5 Altman films but neither of those that placed today. Should probably remedy that. How many films did he make? 35! I wonder if Short Cuts is yet to place.

Chinatown feels like the least auteurish of Polanski's golden period films.

As in, it is the most out of sync with his other films in the surrounding decade. It looks fantastic, but it falls a little hollow for me.

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31. DUCK SOUP (Leo McCarey, 1933, USA) [874.64 points; 14 votes; Morbs silver]
S&S: 265 | TSPDT: 146 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: "results officially terminate after Duck Soup IS PLACED, btw"

I think one of the main things that makes them so enjoyable for me is the rapid pace of the jokes; they just spit them out constantly and if you don't think one is funny then wait for 2 seconds and another will be right up. So even if you think 1/2 the jokes are actually funny then you're still laughing the whole movie. It's like they aren't even telling jokes for the sake of an audience, they're just being the biggest wise-asses they could possibly be. Oh, and Groucho & Miss Dumont = a match made in heaven. They should've done a spinoff together.
― Adam Bruneau, Thursday, September 18, 2008 9:51 AM

For some reason last night before I went to sleep I was thinking about the end of Duck Soup when they throw tomatoes at the fat lady singing the Land of Freedonia song.
― CaptainLorax, Tuesday, August 5, 2008 4:25 PM

for Harpo at his best see the Peanut Seller scene in Duck Soup.
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, July 31, 2003 2:09 PM

I like the bit in "Duck Soup" when the villainous Trentino, having asked his spies (Harpo & Chico) to gather information about President Rufus T. Firely, demands "Give me his record!" Naturally, Harpo instantly produces an old record (shellac, not vinyl; big deal)from inside his coat. Trentino tosses it away in disgust, only to have Harpo then produce a shotgun and blast the airborne record into a million pieces, thereby winning one of Trentino's cigars.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, June 13, 2005 11:12 AM

Duck Soup is genuinely the best (if I had voted I may well have put it at #1), but I feel like Day at the Races is the most underrated Marx Brothers.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, April 4, 2012 8:44 AM

I'm kind of harrumphing over the fat jokes in that last clip. Jesus, man, just how thin do you need to be to avoid that kind of shit?
― emil.y, Wednesday, April 4, 2012 8:46 AM

why is he being such a dick to her? why doesn't she slap him unconscious?
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, April 4, 2012 8:51 AM

she's Margaret Dumont.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, April 4, 2012 8:58 AM

It's Duck Soup...
― clemenza, Wednesday, April 4, 2012 8:56 AM

100. ROSEMARY'S BABY (Roman Polanski, Roman 1968, USA) [620 points; 10 votes]
99. LA JETÉE (Chris Marker, Chris 1962, France) [623.33 points; 9 votes; 1 first-place vote; Morbs silver]
98. MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO (Miyazaki Hayao, 1988, Japan) [623.9 points; 10 votes]
97. SEVEN SAMURAI (Kurosawa Akira, 1954, Japan) [624.67 points; 9 votes]
96. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943, USA) [625.71 points; 7 votes]
95. SHOWGIRLS (Paul Verhoeven, 1995, USA) [628 points; 4 votes]
94. ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011, Turkey) [636 points; 6 votes]
93. ERASERHEAD (David Lynch, 1977, USA) [636.9 points; 10 votes]
92. THE GODFATHER (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972, USA) [643.4 points; 10 votes]
91. LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais, 1961, France) [645.82 points; 11 votes]

90. MANDY (Panos Cosmatos, 2018, USA) [646.5 points; 8 votes]
89. THIS IS SPINAL TAP (Rob Reiner, 1984, USA) [650.91 points; 11 votes]
88. JOHNNY GUITAR (Nicholas Ray, 1954, USA) [651 points; 6 votes]
87. THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (Victor Erice, 1973, Spain) [652 points; 8 votes]
86. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang, 1991, Taiwan) [655.5 points; 6 votes; 1 first-place vote]
85. THE LADY EVE (Preson Sturges, 1941, USA) [656.4 points; 10 votes; Morbs silver]
84. CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette, 1974, France) [658.57 points; 7 votes]
83. THE KING OF COMEDY (Martin Scorsese, 1983, USA) [659.82 points; 11 votes; Morbs gold]
82. WILD STRAWBERRIES (Ingmar Bergman, 1957, Sweden) [661.5 points; 6 votes]
81. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Frank Capra, 1946, USA) [661.63 points; 8 votes]

80. CALIFORNIA SPLIT (Robert Altman, 1974, USA) [663 points; 6 votes]
79. UNDER THE SKIN (Jonathan Glazer, 2014, UK) [665 points; 12 votes]
78. THE WICKER MAN (Robin Hardy, 1973, UK) [668.5 points; 8 votes]
77. THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (Sergio Leone, 1966, Italy) [670 points; 12 votes; Morbs silver]
76. DAISIES (Vera Chytilová, 1966, Czechoslovakia) [674.29 points; 7 votes; 1 first-place vote]
75. THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (John Ford, 1962, USA) [683.63 points; 8 votes; Morbs gold]
74. DAYS OF HEAVEN (Terrence Malick, 1978, USA) [683.63 points; 8 votes; 1 first-place vote]
73. BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (Spike Jonze, 1999, USA) [700.6 points; 10 votes]
72. PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965, France) [705 points; 6 votes]
71. MIRROR (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975, USSR) [708.38 points; 8 votes; Morbs gold]

70. M (Fritz Lang, 1931, Germany) [708.67 points; 9 votes]
69. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1943, UK) [715.71 points; 7 votes]
68. CRUMB (Terry Zwigoff, 1994, USA) [716.63 points; 8 votes]
67. PULP FICTION (Quentin Tarantino, 1994, USA) [717.5 points; 10 votes; 1 first-place vote]
66. TOUCH OF EVIL (Orson Welles, 1958, USA) [719.33 points; 9 votes; 1 first-place vote]
65. 3 WOMEN (Robert Altman, 1977, USA) [725.3 points; 10 votes]
64. BACK TO THE FUTURE (Robert Zemeckis, 1985, USA) [728.55 points; 11 votes]
63. ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974, West Germany) [729.2 points; 10 votes; Morbs silver]
62. THE MALTESE FALCON (John Huston, 1941, USA) [733.1 points; 10 votes; Morbs silver]
61. AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Robert Bresson, 1966, France) [734.91 points; 11 votes]

60. SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (F.W. Murnau, 1927, USA) [752.6 points; 10 votes; 1 first-place vote]
59. SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK (Charlie Kaufman, 2008, USA) [768.67 points; 9 votes]
58. GROUNDHOG DAY (Harold Ramis, 1993, USA) [772.46 points; 13 votes]
57. IMITATION OF LIFE (Douglas Sirk, 1959, USA) [774 points; 6 votes]
56. THE 400 BLOWS (François Truffaut, 1959, France) [779.33 points; 9 votes]
55. THE GRADUATE (Mike Nichols, 1967, USA) [783.33 points; 9 votes]
54. JURASSIC PARK (Steven Spielberg, 1993, USA) [786 points; 9 votes]
53. THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (Tobe Hooper, 1974, USA) [788.13 points; 8 votes]
52. NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946, USA) [793.63 points; 8 votes]
51. PSYCHO (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960, USA) [793.75 points; 12 votes; Morbs silver]

50. PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman, 1966, Sweden) [805.69 points; 13 votes; 1 first-place vote]
49. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (George Miller, 2015, Australia) [808.73 points; 11 votes]
48. POSSESSION (Andrzej Żuławski, 1981, France-West Germany) [810 points; 9 votes; 1 first-place vote]
47. FARGO (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1996, USA) [811.1 points; 10 votes]
46. SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki Hayao, 2001, Japan) [811.27 points; 11 votes]
45. THE THING (John Carpenter, 1982, USA) [815 points; 10 votes]
44. BLUE VELVET (David Lynch, 1986, USA) [822 points; 15 votes]
43. SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker, 1983, France) [825.25 points; 8 votes]
42. STOP MAKING SENSE (Jonathan Demme, 1984, USA) [826.7 points; 10 votes; Morbs silver]
41. A SERIOUS MAN (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2009, USA) [830.4 points; 15 votes]

40. THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928, Denmark) [833.36 points; 14 votes; Morbs silver]
39. LATE SPRING (Ozu Yasujirō, 1949, Japan) [835.45 points; 11 votes]
38. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952, USA) [841.82 points; 11 points]
37. CONTEMPT (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963, France) [845.71 points; 7 votes]
36. PLAYTIME (Jacques Tati, 1967, France) [853.27 points; 11 votes; 1 first-place vote; Morbs silver]
35. McCABE & MRS. MILLER (Robert Altman, 1971, USA) [855.6 points; 15 votes]
34. THE LONG GOODBYE (Robert Altman, 1973, USA) [865.38 points; 16 votes; Morbs silver]
33. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (Irvin Kershner, 1980, USA) [872.2 points; 10 votes]
32. CHINATOWN (Roman Polanski, 1974, USA) [873.43 points; 14 votes; Morbs silver]
31. DUCK SOUP (Leo McCarey, 1933, USA) [874.64 points; 14 votes; Morbs silver]

The old maestro.

I voted for this, also I also used the same picture as my cover art for this, so overall I am very much on board with this one.

Who are the Margaret Dumonts of ILX?

I'd rather have Hellzapoppin', The Gang's All Here, or Stage Door with the final reel gone missing.

I AM the Margaret Dumont in my life.
― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Wednesday, April 4, 2012 8:44 AM

All good bar Empire, and I've never seen 🦆

Hell yeah Duck Soup. One of two Leo McCareys on my long list, but of course you don't really think of Duck Soup as a Leo McCarey movie first. Or I don't.

Who are the Margaret Dumonts of ILX?

Same. Which is why I didn’t say “I’d rather Make Way for Tomorrow,” which IS the greatness of McCarey incarnate

My Polanski vote was for Repulsion, a mindfuck psychological horror film. Knife In the Water was also really good

still haven’t seen The Tenant

the tenant is a step down from those two but still good

at this point wondering if Buñuel, Kiarostami, Martel, Fellini, Visconti, Akerman, Rohmer, Weerasethakul, or Varda will show up

Not so far, and I'd say the odds are thin for the Dardennes, Von Trier, Tarr, Tsai, Wenders, Antonioni, Hou (not all of whom are my picks).

yah v lowbrow

Oh btw I remembered why I put Touch Of Evil 3rd, I was just stressing out and messaged My Brother "what's the third best film of all time?" he said that and I wrote it with no further conversation. I do rate it tho.
M&MM and The Long Goodbye are surely my favourite two Altmans, in frequently alternating order, somehow California Split was my choice which yeah I think is amazing in a clemenza-film way, but baffled why I picked that ahead of these others.
Doesn't appear to be any Polanski on my ballot, which is either forgetfulness or a moral standpoint when I did it, either way it's not honesty

Morality def is dishonesty in matters like this.

Oh also I'd like to apologise for shitting up this thread the other night with a drunken freakout when I managed to confuse at leat 10 anime films with eath other anfd brought up some irrelevant personal shit, sorry everybody I'm a dick

voted for a few that placed today, including esb in my top five (not sorry, it’s a perfect movie)

duck soup is perfect, first saw it when i was 8 or thereabouts and then saw it again at 28 and laughed just as hard

MORBS SEZ: "Chinatown is the apotheosis of the period piece commenting on contemporary sordidness and guilt … It diagnoses what's most wrong with America; when it's set, when it was made, now."

one of the things I like about McCabe & Mrs Miller is that it is as much about 1970 as 1900, and represents both in an interesting way

My conservative guess is that a quarter of the final 40 spots will go to Kubrick/Lynch/Godard (or maybe substitute Hitchcock for somebody).

Nothing today, so let me up that to more than a quarter of the final 30 (2001/Barry Lyndon/The Shining + Mullholland/Inland/some iteration of Twin Peaks + Weekend/middle-period film/late-period film).

at this point wondering if Buñuel, Kiarostami, Martel, Fellini, Visconti, Akerman, Rohmer, Weerasethakul, or Varda will show up

Not so far, and I'd say the odds are thin for the Dardennes, Von Trier, Tarr, Tsai, Wenders, Antonioni, Hou (not all of whom are my picks).

Of the above, Jeanne Dielman still seems like a lock to me. Aside from maybe Cleo from 5 to 7 I wouldn't bet on a single one of the others.

Obviously Amy Heckerling would have been Top 10 if not for vote-splitting.

I posted that initial question because films by them were all in my top 25, I’m ok with them not showing up though

The Tenant sucks.

Not sure if there's gonna be any Fellini. I ran the '60s poll back in the day, and neither LDV nor 8 1/2 placed as high as you'd think, plus I think his stock has only declined since.

I can both see and not see Breathless, Band of Outsiders, and Weekend placing.

I’d also be surprised to see Cassavetes this high.

Ilx doesn’t like Fellini for some reason

Cassavetes is tough, but I voted for A Woman Under The Influence and was surprised by how much I liked Opening Night

I had two Fellinis on my list, La Strada and La Dolce Vita, both amazing films

Same. Which is why I didn’t say “I’d rather Make Way for Tomorrow,” which IS the greatness of McCarey incarnate

otm

Trying to figure out how 100-plus of my picks are going to squeeze into the top 30, but I guess we'll see.

is there gunna be Bertolucci? Am I gunna start throwing chairs about?

I feel like I may have voted for Husbands or Minnie & Moskowitz or something. Obviously not contenders at this point and I possibly just helped vote-split Cassavetes to death?!?

A further addition to my Never Knowingly Seen list in this batch: Duck Soup!

Husbands, ugh! I know The Leopard won’t show up, but everyone should watch it

(sorry, I had a really negative reaction to Husbands)

thought it was the worst of Cassavetes’ straight guy posturing, maudlin drunken barroom scenes, and showbiz theatricality

Just wanna say:
Waited the whole damn year for this poll. Highlight of 2021. Keep ‘em coming and thanks

Finally sought my ballot. I did in fact give Cassavetes multi-pronged support, including Husbands! Haha. No big weightings though.

thought it was the worst of Cassavetes’ straight guy posturing, maudlin drunken barroom scenes, and showbiz theatricality

― Dan S, Monday, November 1, 2021

same response

Husbands, ugh! I know The Leopard won’t show up, but everyone should watch it

― Dan S, Monday,

My reduced price Criterion blu-ray arrives tomorrow

I'm pretending The Leopard was no. 33