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

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

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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)

think she meant they were travelling to a Mexico of the mind, thru the magic of film~

Thought It Follows was okay. It scared me--that's easy. (Had to abandon it at night and pick up the next morning.) Some symmetrically elegant shots; if Wes Anderson made a horror film, it'd look like this. Felt cheated in the end--if there was any internal logic, which I guess I expect a little of even in a horror film, it escaped me.

Really thought I would like Diary of a Teenage Girl, and really really didn't. Somehow both too earnest and too unpleasant; it reminded me of some 90s indie film (or maybe just a bunch of 90s indie films) that I no longer remember. I don't remember the last time I wanted away from a movie character more than I did Alexander Skarsgård's here. And even though I wasn't a huge fan of Girlhood (or Gueros, for that matter) it still kind of surprises me that this is getting any praise in the same year in which those existed.

*no longer remember the name of

3/4 months in and my favourite films of the year are Godard films from '78, '96 and '98 and a Manoel De Oliveira films shot in '82.

Whatever happens a few if not all of these will go into the 2016 ballot.

The jokers can keep getting high.

Really thought I would like Diary of a Teenage Girl, and really really didn't.

neither did I

it was meh; i enjoyed Wiig's performance

Watching Shaun the Sheep rn lol

:D

my late late late unweighted ballot, lots yet to see but i would add inside out in retrospect

Timbuktu
It Follows
Tangerine
Mad Max: Fury Road
What Happened Ms. Simone?
The Angry Sky
How to Dance in Ohio
The Wolfpack
When Marnie Was Here
45 Years
Hard to Be a God
Meru
Only Yesterday
World of Tomorrow

id add 'carol' and '45 years' to mine, but both near the back end