"I've Watched A LOT of MOVIES, Paul!" - The ILX 2013 Film Poll Voting and Discussion Thread -Closes Feb. 28th, Midnight EST

Off-topic, but was Cuaron the first hispanic to win an Oscar, btw?

A Directing Oscar, I mean.

Yes.

firsr to win Best Director. There have been three previous nominees

2. Gravity - 370 pts. 16 votes. #1

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Yeeeeeeesssssss, Pain & Gain!!!!!!!

Congrats to the Philomena voting bloc

1. Frances Ha - 395 pts. 15 votes. 3 #1

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ha indeed

yeah i genuinely lolled when i saw this was number one - and i voted for it

thanks for doing this gukbe

haha

I've got a massive crush on Frances' roommate.

benji sophie or liev?

i watched this last night and it was my number one. I really like the paris screenshot.

Gasp. Totally forgot about this poll. :(

Lev

So, uhm, how about individual ballots? Are people going to post them or what? Different thread?

1. Something in the Air
2. Stories We Tell
3. Museum Hours
4. Enough Said
5. Beyond The Hills
6. Frances Ha
7. The Spectacular Now
8. Like Someone in Love
9. Blue is the Warmest Color
10. The Bling Ring

Runners-Up:

Mud
Her
I’m So Excited
Much Ado About Nothing
In a World
Gravity
What Maisie Knew
12 Years a Slave
Barbara

http://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2014/01/17/best-films-of-2013/

Gukbe thanks for doing it despite the fuck awful top 10.

Yeah, many thanks for doing this Gukbe! This was amazing, and could be the start of a great tradition. It would also give a reason to punk people to see the best non-indie features of the year.

I'll post the full list at some point (ugh formatting) but for you, Frederik:

41. Only God Forgives - 79 pts. 4 votes.

Missed the top 40 by 1 point.

And for what everyone else is dying for:

(Tie) 118. Pain & Gain - 23 pts. 1 vote

Haha, great! Oh well, I'd probably have preferred the Dumont if I'd seen it.

1. Gravity
2. Wolf of Wall St.
3. Iron Man 3
4. Behind the Candelabra
5. Captain Phillips
6. Upstream Color
7. American Hustle
8. Thor: The Dark World

If I'd included the 2012 films that slopped over into 2013, it would have been

1. Gravity
2. Wolf of Wall St.
3. Iron Man 3
4. Behind the Candelabra
5. Berberian Sound Studio
6. Captain Phillips
7. Upstream Color
8. American Hustle
9. Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
10. Room 237
11. Thor: The Dark World

1. Hors Satan
2. Camille Claudel 1915
3. Like Someone in Love
4. Post Tenebras Lux
5. Beyond the Hills
6. Something in the Air
7. Blue is the Warmest Colour
8. The Stuart Hall Project
9. Frances Ha
10. To the Wonder

the moment i know u were all waiting for, my ballot:

1. Spring Breakers
2. Room 237
3. This Is the End
4. The Heat
5. Hunger Games: Catching Fire
6. Pacific Rim

Pacific Rim is the 2013 film I saw but refused to give any points to.

1. The Act of Killing
2. Frances Ha
3. After Tiller
4. The Wolf of Wall Street
5. Captain Phillips
6. Spring Breakers
7. Post Tenebras Lux
8. Her
9. 12 Years a Slave
10. Mud

Hors Satan (Bruno Dumont)
Beyond the Hills (Christian Mungui)
Like Someone in Love (Kiarostami)
The Patience Stone (Atiq Rahimi)
The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh)
Much Ado About Nothing (Joss Whedon)
Something in the Air (Olivier Assayas)
I Wish (Hirokazu Koreeda)
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino)
Fill the Void (Rama Burshtein)

1. Closed Curtain (Panahi)
2. Til Madness Do Us Part (Wang Bing)
3. Harmony Lessons (Baigazin)
4. The Grandmaster (Wong)
5. Leviathan (Castain Taylor & Paravel)
6. Post Tenebras Lux (Reygadas)
7. Night (Brzezicki)
8. To the Wonder (Malick)
9. Blue is the Warmest Color (Kechice)
10. The Great Beauty (Sorrentino)
11. Manakamana (Spray & Velez)
12. Only God Forgives (Winding Refn)
13. Like Someone In Love (Kiarostami)
14. Computer Chess (Bujalski)
15. Before Midnight (Linklater)
16. Strange Little Cat (Zürcher)
17. Drug War (To)
18. Gravity (Cuaron)
19. Night Across the Street (Ruiz)
20. The Missing Picture (Panh)
21. Beyond the Hills (Mungiu)
22. Upstream Color (Carruth)
23. Les Salouds (Denis)
24. Spring Breakers (Korine)
25. Faust (Sokurov)

I really went nuts with that release-date thing. As I've already said, I think, I saw Faust early 2012. But then again, it didn't have a shot in hell, so, yeah. I thought Grandmaster, Only God Forgives, No and Drug War stood a chance, but nope.

But Faust was the only one I saw in 2012.

incomplete

When I said earlier in the thread I would only include stuff I saw in 2013 I didn't entirely keep to it as I saw The Missing Picture about a fortnight into 2014. Never thought it would make it in any lists etc. and found it really great so..xp

Thanks, Gukbe--glad you didn't abandon this. Now that there's been one, I'm sure more people will vote next year (you ended up with a pretty good number of ballots anyway).

Surprised by the #1--I was thinking Llewyn Davis--but happy it wasn't Wolf of Wall Street, which I thought was another possibility. And again, thought the stills looked great.

1. Room 237
2. Nothing Can Hurt Me
3. At Berkeley
4. Enough Said
5. I Am Divine
6. Nebraska
7. Frances Ha
8. Her
9. Good Ol’ Freda
10. Our Nixon
11. Everybody Street
12. Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
13. Fruitvale Station
14. American Hustle
15. Inside Llewyn Davis
16. The Trials of Muhammad Ali
17. Continental
18. Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
19. Blue Is the Warmest Color
20. Mud
21. Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's
22. Ginger and Rosa
23. Anita
24. History of the Eagles
25. Side Effects

is History of the Eagles about the band the Eagles

My ballot is a bit 2012/2013 UK/US releases

1. Frances Ha
2. Stranger By The Lake
3. 12 Years A Slave
4. Before Midnight
5. In The House
6. The Heat
7. No
8. Captain Phillips
9. Le Week-end
10. The Paperboy
11. Sightseers
12. Cutie and the Boxer
13. Good Vibrations
14. Blue Jasmine
15. The Bling Ring
16. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
17. Gravity
18. Philomena
19. Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
20. Frozen
21. Behind The Candelabra
22. Stoker
23. Berberian Sound Studio
24. American Hustle
25. The Way, Way Back

None of this have made it to UK cinemas? But stuff I'll look to see in 2014.

1. Closed Curtain (Panahi)
2. Til Madness Do Us Part (Wang Bing)
3. Harmony Lessons (Baigazin)
4. The Grandmaster (Wong)
7. Night (Brzezicki)
11. Manakamana (Spray & Velez)
16. Strange Little Cat (Zürcher)
17. Drug War (To)
25. Faust (Sokurov)

(xxpost) Yes--it's in 3D, and Frey and Henley and the rest come flying out the screen right at you.

is History of the Eagles about the band the Eagles

― AIDS (Hungry4Ass), M

DON: Well, yeah

THE EAGLES 3D: THEY FLY @ U FACE

Frederik: Faust was number 50 with 57 pts and 3 votes. It was higher than No, Drug War, and Grandmaster.

Full list:

Frances Ha 395 15
Gravity 370 16
Inside Llewyn Davis 340 14
The Act of Killing 311 10
Spring Breakers 302 11
Before Midnight 257 11
Enough Said 230 9
The Wolf of Wall Street 219 8
12 Years a Slave 211 9
Leviathan 211 8
Blue is the Warmest Color 203 9
Upstream color 203 10
Room 237 194 6
A Field in England 177 6
Computer Chess 171 8
Beyond the Hills 169 7
Post Tenebras Lux 163 6
Her 152 7
Museum Hours 150 6
All is Lost 149 7
Bastards 143 7
Mud 140 7
To the Wonder 127 5
American Hustle 122 7
Nebraska 120 5
Captain Phillips 112 5
A Touch of Sin 109 4
This is Martin Bonner 109 5
Behind the Candelabra 108 6
Gimme the Loot 107 3
Like Someone in Love 105 4
Something in the Air 104 4
Pacific Rim 95 4
Stoker 95 4
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty 93 4
Lore 88 4
Berberian Sound Studio 86 5
The Great Beauty 86 4
Blancanieves 81 3
Hors Satan 80 2
Only God Forgives 79 4
The Past 77 4
Camille Claudel 1915 72 2
Side Effects 71 5
In the House 70 4
The Selfish Giant 66 3
The Missing Picture 65 3
The Hunt 63 3
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 62 3
Faust 57 3
The Heat 56 2
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa 54 4
The Place Beyond the Pines 53 3
After Tiller 51 2
The Last Time I Saw Macao 51 2
At Berkeley 49 2
56 Up 48 2
Our Nixon 48 2
Le Week-End 47 2
Prince Avalanche 46 2
Frozen 45 2
Iron Man 3 44 2
What Maisie Knew 43 3
The Grandmaster 42 2
Concussion 41 2
Closed Curtain 40 1
Drug War 40 2
Pavilion 40 1
The Unspeakable Act 40 1
Sunshine on Leith 39 2
The Lone Ranger 39 3
The Square 39 2
I Am Divine 38 2
Nothing Can Hurt Me 36 1
Stranger by the Lake 36 1
The Gardener 36 1
Til Madness Do Us Part 36 1
20 Feet from Stardom 35 2
Sightseers 35 2
The World's End 34 2
Cutie and the Boxer 33 2
Django Unchained 33 1
Harmony Lessons 33 1
In a World 33 2
Philomena 33 2
Prisoners 33 1
Stories We Tell 33 1
This is the End 33 1
Fruitvale Station 32 2
Laurence Anyways 31 2
Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin 30 1
Philip Roth: Umasked 30 1
The Patience Stone 30 1
Good Vibrations 29 2
Lincoln 28 1
Seduced and Abandoned 28 1
The Bling Ring 28 2
The Counselor 28 1
From Up on Poppy Hill 26 2
Gloria 26 1
Let the Fire Burn 26 1
Much Ado About Nothing 26 1
The Canyons 26 1
Is The Man Who is Tall Happy? 25 1
Night 25 1
No 25 1
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 25 1
Two Guns 25 1
What Richard Did 25 1
I Wish 24 1
It's a Disaster 24 8
Magic Magic 24 1
Simon Killer 24 1
The Spectacular Now 24 1
The Stuart Hall Project 24 1
Thor: The Dark World 24 1
Good Ol' Freda 23 1
Pain and Gain 23 1
Portrait of Jason 22 1
The Paperboy 22 1
About Time 21 1
At Any Price 21 1
Everybody Street 21 1
Fill the Void 21 1
Jeune & Jolie 21 1
Manakamana 21 1
Passion 21 1
Cousin Jules 20 1
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia 20 1
Lone Survivor 20 1
Best Kept Secret 19 1
Blue Jasmine 18 1
Dallas Buyer's Club 18 1
Ginger and Rosa 18 2
Man of Tai Chi 18 1
Mister John 18 1
All the Light in the Sky 17 1
The Kings of Summer 17 1
Viola 17 1
Hannah Arendt 16 1
Short Term 12 16 1
Strange Little Cat 16 1
The Trials of Muhammad Ali 16 1
Byzantium 15 2
Continental 15 1
Rush 15 1
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet 15 1
You're Next 15 1
Bad Grandpa 14 1
Greenwich Village 14 1
I Used to be Darker 14 1
Zero Dark Thirty 14 1
Night Across the sTreet 13 1
The Great Gatsby 13 1
The Wolverine 13 1
Happy People 12 1
Wadjda 12 1
C.O.G. 11 1
Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's 11 1
Kid Thing 10 1
The Lords of Salem 10 1
The Wind Rises 10 1
A Band Called Death 9 1
Anita 9 1
History of the Eagles 8 1
Top Gun 3D 8 1
Fast & Furious 6 7 1
I'm So Excited 7 1
Olympus Has Fallen 7 1
Resolution 7 1
The Look of Love 7 1
The Way, Way Back 7 1
White House Down 7 1

Shit. Sent that before I could format it (or, put spaces between things). First number is pts, Second is no. of votes.

I've seen 29 of the top 40. The ones I've missed are: Berberian Sound Studio, Lore, An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty, Pacific Rim, Something In The Air, Like Someone In Love, Gimme The Loot, This Is Martin Bonner, A Touch Of Sin, Post Tenebras Lux and Room 237.

Here's my ballot:

1. the act of killing
2 prince avalanche
3. enough said
4. blancanieves
5. computer chess
6. frances ha
7. what richard did
8. le week-end
9. spring breakers
10. the great beauty
11. gravity
12. museum hours
13. mister john
14. in the house
15. the place beyond the pines
16. blue is the warmest colour
17. the selfish giant
18. in a world …
19. before midnight
20. only god forgives
21. what maisie knew
22. sunshine on leith
23. all is lost

No other fucker voted for What Richard Did?

what'd he do?

None of this have made it to UK cinemas? But stuff I'll look to see in 2014.

1. Closed Curtain (Panahi)
2. Til Madness Do Us Part (Wang Bing)
3. Harmony Lessons (Baigazin)
4. The Grandmaster (Wong)
7. Night (Brzezicki)
11. Manakamana (Spray & Velez)
16. Strange Little Cat (Zürcher)
17. Drug War (To)
25. Faust (Sokurov)

― xyzzzz__, 4. marts 2014 00:38 (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think some of it is avaible in VOD and stuff. Also, I think Wang Bing's West of the Tracks is showing at the AVFestival somewhere in the UK these days, or so my twitter-feed told me. Would really love to see it, Til Madness Do Us Part is the only of his I've seen.

1 - Gimme the Loot
2 - This is Martin Bonner
3 - Mud
4 - Philip Roth: Unmasked
5 - Seduced and Abandoned
6 - Upstream Color
7 - Side Effects
8- Simon Killer
9 - Frances Ha
10 - Beyond the Hills
11 - At Any Price
12 - Nebraska
13 - American Hustle
14 - All is Lost
15 - All the Light in the Sky
16 - The Wolf of Wall Street
17 - What Maise Knew
18 - Inside Llewyn Davis
19 - Behind the Candalabra

forgot - computer chess/bastards; prob half dozen or so contenders that ive not seen

Oh, wait, that wasn't my final ballot – I re-sent it with Inside Llewyn Davis at no.13 and everything else shunted down one.

what'd he do?

Well, that'd be a bit of a spoiler. Looks like What Richard Did never got a proper release in the US. Shame - it's a remarkable film from the guy whose next film will get rather more attention, what with it starring Michael Fassbender as Frank Sidebottom.

I thought about voting for it but I saw it two years ago

I think I had eight or nine where I was the only vote. The only one that surprises me is Nothing Can Hurt Me. Conversely, I'm surprised that Our Nixon and I Am Divine both got a second vote. After I sent in my ballot, I remembered slocki's The Fruit Hunters, which I thought was 2012 but is listed as Jan. 4, 2013 (American release) on IMDB. I probably would have put that somewhere in the 15-20 range.