"It's not Bro Time, It's POLL Time" The ILX 2015 Film Poll Thread - Voting Ends Sunday February 21st at Midnight EST

I'm not sure if that's a veiled insult or just a regular question, but I'd be very keen for a 2010-2015 poll!

nah I'm done playing for the morning - that was just a question.

Voting for great old films gets to be a part of your experience - you wouldn't understand if you watch cartoons and television.

It is a tiring and thankless task pointing out bullshit dichotomies on ILX, but this really is an exceptional example of the genre and should not be overlooked.

agreed

^ says the guy who is struggling with the notion Inherent Vice is ok to be voted for this year.

no struggle, it's '14

Are we getting sniffy about ppl voting for animated films now? Jesus wept

no struggle, it's '14

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 March 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so you're struggling then..

Trump would be proud of Morbs' American exceptionalism

someone's got to fill the power vacuum and lead

also this was my last poll, ladies and gentlemen

wow, Heart of a Dog played nowhere yet, huh? and The Forbidden Room, people?

I'm starting to think we aren't getting HOAD

Forbidden room was my #6

10. It Follows - didn't vote for this, should have, it's as good as pop horror got last year
9. Carol - not terrible, both lead performances excellent, but sabotaged by haynes's restraint
5. Inside Out - sweet, inventive, moving, i dunno... i lack perspective where pixar's concerned
4. Hard to be a God - my #1, and i kind of hated it, "endurance cinema" is right, imagery is everything
1. Mad Max Fury Road - liked this, feel i should have liked it more, maybe i just want to be 10 again

Forbidden Room was fitfully amazing but maddening as a whole. One of my least favorite Guy Maddin flicks.

Ballobt:

Hard to Be a God
World of Tomorrow
Mad Max: Fury Road
Inside Out
What We Do in the Shadows
Tale of Tales
Lost River
The Duke of Burgundy
Wild Tales
Krampus

Oh and while I dug Bone Tomahawk (more so the long, slow journey, less so the Cannibal Holocaust climax), I don't think it ever found a way around it's fundamentally and deeply racist premise. And in fact took several opportunities to throw salt in the wound: "Godless savages", ffs.

Just watched Gueros which was a lot like Girlhood for me in that I found it mostly admirable and even impressive, but it didn't leave any real impression on me. Palacios clearly has talent, but the meta touches were irksome.

The meta bit was awesome! The whole film is so playful, I fell in love with it.

The second meta bit in particular bugged me, like it was aware of itself as a cliche of Mexican cinema (I'm assuming by the dialogue, anyway) and wanted to preempt criticism in a "clever" way.

That assumes he thought he'd get criticism, which seems improbable. Who cares if he pays tribute to the French New Wave? Plus it's a timeless look, pre-filtered nostalgia, as if Tomás were already grown and looking back. That's the whole movie, to me: youthful resilience and brother-love.

Cemetery of Splendour is starting in NYC this week, right? I'll vote for that next year, that's for sure.

Opens tonight as part of MIFF. Gonna catch it next weekend.

"Really wanted to see The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution"

It is currently on i-player

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b071gr5h/storyville-20152016-17-the-black-panthers

― calzino, Thursday, March 3, 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ty, now to try and find time to watch it.

Cemetery of Splendour is fanstastic indeed, saw right after sending my ballot.

Heading to Mexico for Gueros. From what's been said, I'm hoping for a Bolañian odessey into the infinite, but charmingly so.

:O

I don't know what I can say. It was everything I wanted it to be, and my expectations are rarely met.

I want to go and write an essay about Mexican breakfasts. I need to watch it again immediately.

Really really cool, watched it mad high tho

i watched world of tomorrow - loved it, its a work or art imo; still would prob not have voted for it on this list tbf

It was everything I wanted it to be, and my expectations are rarely met.

Yay! Isn't it great?! :D

The whole film was amazing, but the way that big climactic scene ended pretty much brought our house down

I dreamt about it all night. I wish every film was that energetic and achieved that much clarity through incoherence!

The best thing is that it's a first film. What WILL he come up with next?

Had I seen it in time, this might have threatened my top 2

Gueros is a lovely film but for me the narrative was a bit too flimsy and rambling to get fully invested in it

It impressed me too; it was in my top twenty.

watched it mad high tho

disqualified

When I watched "The Tree of Life" I was mad high and thought it was a masterpiece. I'm afraid to rewatch it now

as long as you didnt recommend it

i liked it sober tho bcz that's how i watch films, every single time

I watch 95% of films sober. This was a glorious extravagance

speaking of sobering experiences, Hard To Be a God should be placed in a double bill with The Passion of Joan of Arc in medieval lit/history courses.

xpost watching movies high doesnt inevitably mean that a shit movie will become a good one tho

ps i rarely get high anymore btw

I only watch films tired

Film was obviously great enough to endure a sober watch.

I get high on sublime imagery!

Lol I didnt even think you got high, imago...

(You guys arent in the US, are you?)

nope sorry. getting high is for me a once-every-2/3-months privilege tbf

Yeah, thats prob the best way to do it tbh

you should get high and listen to the new oranssi pazuzu album if you haven't already fwiw

Lol

(I've heard some of it; Im not as overwhelmed by it as so many others, but Im hardly done giving it a shot. Valionelu ended up in my top 5 for 2013, I think. I havent touched weed in almost 2 years, and that prob wont change any time soon, and I only thought you were maybe in the US cuz your gf said something about going to Mexico and I hadn't scanned the thread for evidence of facetiousness or any clarifying context or anything, and so thought your presence had maybe graced our fine continent. I was NOT insinuating that you and tt should roadtrip up to Michigan to smoke me down, though that may have been how it came across lol)

(Also I saw no new movies in '15, and dont belong here. Soz, foax)

(the 17-minute track is incredible imo)

(also scramming)