Yeah, Man on Wire's filmmakers seem to adequately work the dick angle.
― third-generation stripper (Eric H.), Monday, 15 August 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
Theremin got three votes, including one from me, but not enough points.
I've gotten into many discussions about that favourite/best distinction over the years, but it's a long one and probably a separate thread. I do not make such a distinction when drawing up lists, but I've encountered people who do.
As for Wiseman, he got votes for a number of films, but it was the old problem of spreading the votes around.
― clemenza, Monday, 15 August 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
who voted for Paris Is Burning besides Eric and me?
I did!
― polyphonic, Monday, 15 August 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
tightrope walking btwn towers >>>>> Philippe Petit saying "EET WASS MY DWEAMMM" for two hours
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 August 2011 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
This is not a film for anyone under 35.
i HAVE to see this now
― clams cassingle (donna rouge), Monday, 15 August 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't like Man on Wire. King of Kong was great. I wish I had voted in this.
― Gukbe, Monday, 15 August 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
xpost You really don't have to see it.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 August 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
i am going to lobby so hard for "not suitable for anyone under 35" to become an MPAA rating
― clams cassingle (donna rouge), Monday, 15 August 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
"rated ADD"
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 August 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
(Among music docs, some of you could at least have gone for Theremin)
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Monday, August 15, 2011 5:18 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I'd rather listen to Anvil than two hours of Theremin (/barely hyperbole).
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, August 15, 2011 5:20 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Probably would have voted for it had I seen it seeing as it's tough to make LT's life boring. And Josh, that is sacrilege. Anvil really isn't about the music at all for me, anyway. It's about the story.
― emil.y, Monday, 15 August 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
I liked Anvil better as American Movie.
― third-generation stripper (Eric H.), Monday, 15 August 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
Me too. Still liked both, though.
― emil.y, Monday, 15 August 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
Man On Wire was my no.1, you philistines. For giving me an even stronger image of the towers than their destruction, somehow - I cam out feeling euphoric, there was something religious in the way it was done I think. Worth watching for the stills alone.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 15 August 2011 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
xpost I was mostly just referring the Morbs' comment that "the music is dreadful" as a demerit against the film's quality.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 August 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
I've mentioned before that I don't like crying in documentaries. One instance where I find it moving is when the guy with the big mop of white hair breaks down while recalling the Twin Towers walk. It happens all of a sudden--we just see him cover his face with his hands. (It's in the clip above.)
― clemenza, Monday, 15 August 2011 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't like the way they filmed scenes to make it look like a heist film.
― Gukbe, Monday, 15 August 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
nearly all the music-related picks so far pale before the Metallica doc (and I'm not crazy about their music either).
I will reluctantly watch docs related to metal, but videogame players? No fucking way.
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but it's not really about video games
― Gukbe, Monday, 15 August 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
perhaps not, but you have to look at some
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
The Metallica film also got three votes. Again, not enough points.
― clemenza, Monday, 15 August 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
gross! xpost
― L.P. Hovercraft (WmC), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
I came to The King of Kong as someone who had literally never played a video game in my life--regular pinball back in high school, yes, but not video games. That was a large part of its fascination, the idea that this world still existed in 2011.
― clemenza, Monday, 15 August 2011 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
The peaks of the Metallica film are super high, but there are enough valleys to detract from them. Some of my fave stuff is in the deleted scenes, like Kirk in driving school or Lars whining that no one ever throws him birthday parties.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 August 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
THE METALLICA FILM IS CALLED "SOME KIND OF MONSTER".
*ahem*, sorry.
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LStRxwN7hI (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
smh at this list
― ✇ (Tape Store), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
<3 U
― third-generation stripper (Eric H.), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
― ✇ (Tape Store), Monday, 15 August 2011 19:27 (1 minute ago) Bookmark
u were gone tape store, watch what happened. what is yr top ten
― bruce actual springsteen (schlump), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
Well, you should have voted--I spent two-plus weeks trying to solicit votes. Morbius and Eric at least voted.
― clemenza, Monday, 15 August 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
Man On Wire was my no.1, you philistines
Mine too. Glad to see it get a decent placing.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
ILX Members of the Academy
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
god i don't know, xxpost
but very quickly, a tiny handful of the many major omissions on this list:seventeen, demon lover diary, portrait of jason, fucking fred wiseman!!!, a married couple, en construccion, west of the tracks, in vanda's room, godspeed you! black emperor, sans soleil, sayonara cp, close-up, on the bowery, the seasons, perfumed nightmare...
― ✇ (Tape Store), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
Three of those received votes, plus four or five Wiseman films. To make the Top 40, a film needed 20 points/2 votes minimum. Seventeen and Sans Soleil you could have moved into the Top 40 for sure, probably top 25.
― clemenza, Monday, 15 August 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
just to be clear, clemenza, i don't think anyone is attacking you--it's cool that you put this together, it was bound to disappoint me (half of the list i just posted is pretty hard to find, unless you belong to the right website or have money to buy from overseas)
― ✇ (Tape Store), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
I wouldn't put Close-Up and On the Bowery as docs, m'self
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
I've felt very much under assault today. I've been commiserating with Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich on Facebook.
― clemenza, Monday, 15 August 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
Serious question, Tape Store: have you seen most/all of the results so far and are dismissing them because yours are better or do you just not like the look of the results? I'm asking because the discussion on the ballot thread and so far here shows me that there's a *lot* of documentary films that I've never seen.
(clemenza, you've done a stand up job with this poll and I've enjoyed the useful contributions to this thread plenty)
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, Clemenza, it's not your fault or anything, but these results are pretty wan.
― third-generation stripper (Eric H.), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
Even by ILX film poll standards.
I am just gonna listen to ten albums this year (up from 2 last year) and vote in the year-end ILM poll
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
Bill, I've seen 24 of the films on this poll (I'm not big into music films).
― ✇ (Tape Store), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
I'm just kidding about feeling under assault. I honestly don't understand getting the least bit worked up over the results when you're dealing with such a small sample size, though. Maybe I'm just too open-minded when it comes to documentaries--much more so than with narrative films--but I look at the list so far and I see a lot of good films of those that I've seen, and a few more that look really interesting of those that I haven't. I'm also not sure why Morbius assumes that voters haven't seen lots of documentaries. The assumption really comes down to, "I know you haven't seen many documentaries, because if you had, you'd of course be voting for the same films as me." Why would you think that? (And for what it's worth, 10 of your 20 made the Top 40--seems like a pretty good percentage to me. Only two of mine made it, and I'm okay with the results.)
― clemenza, Monday, 15 August 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
I look at the list so far and I see a lot of good films of those that I've seen, and a few more that look really interesting of those that I haven't.
THIS.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Monday, 15 August 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
yeah same
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Monday, 15 August 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
I don't get why people bitch about ILX film polls as though they were published lists in Sight and Sound or whatever. I prefer to treat polls like this one as: "Here's what a bunch of people who have similar tastes and interests as I do (given that we post on the same message board) think are some good documentaries." (And since ILX is not principally a film board, I would hardly expect to find a list teeming with old, obscure, and foreign-language titles.)
― Get a Brain Rick Moranis (jaymc), Monday, 15 August 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
xposts, so yeah, I agree with the last few posts
― Get a Brain Rick Moranis (jaymc), Monday, 15 August 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
I don't get why people bitch about bitching on ILX film polls as if they should be so markedly different from the bitching that goes on on ILM polls.
― third-generation stripper (Eric H.), Monday, 15 August 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
ilm doesnt have anything to do with this?
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Monday, 15 August 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
i dont usually read ILM polls though i recently participated in my first, and it was a really civil thread. maybe cuz u werent posting in it?
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Monday, 15 August 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
#1 should be future ILX documentary
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 August 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
Suggested title: The Sorrow and the Pity.
― clemenza, Monday, 15 August 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link