Delayed Due To Projection Issues - the 2017 ILX Film Poll Results Thread

living in a world of MU films you're bound to ascribe a bit of gravitas to the extra-long po-faced ones

i guess the genre chaff will continue most of today

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37. Happy End
w/d: Michael Haneke
54 points, 5 votes

I kinda forgot about this

I will make sure to vote for his tv show when it comes out tho

That one only premiered in 2018 in Denmark, so nobody should have been allowed to vote for it!!!

got added to my revised ballot due to coming out in the US in 2018

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36. Zama
w/d: Lucrecia Martel
56 points, 3 votes

Zama (Lucretia Martel, 2017) - a very smart adaptation of a not v filmable book where Martel is bringing in her own eye to this skeleton of a story of an utterly ordinary man who cannot go back home. Shades of Apocalypse Now (without the hippie-dom) and Coup de Torchon but its very much its own thing.

― xyzzzz__, 31 May 2018

Fucking loved this, will rank it very highly next year

Saw it at the NYFF last year, gave it a 7/10. Did not open in the US til this spring, so I did not list it.

I loved this loads, only just saw it the other night.

Zama is often inscrutable but beguilingly so.

This year's list is ... just so very strange.

free fire v inferior stuff

In a perfect world Zama is a good 50 places ahead of Free Fire. Potentially Wheatley's most underperforming film given the resources.

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35. God’s Own Country
w/d: Francis Lee
58 points, 6 votes

God, this Country's toxic now. I had this feeling watching God's Own Country last night which is excellent and very much worth seeing. It's about Brexit and gay sex, so, something for everyone.

― jed_, 6 September 2017

in a perfect world i've seen Zama. fortunately i can go about correcting this thanks to you guys! meantime i make no apologies for wheatley fanboying; free fire was not THAT high on my ballot but i felt the need to include it. think of it as revenge for you all getting high rise wrong

ah here's another one i intend to see

excellent movie, excellent jed quote!

the same leading actor was in an ultraviolent Thai prison/kickboxing movie, that I fell asleep watching on sat night.

Oh man Zama is amazing.

Je suis bear movie

I would love to roll around in the mud with those two actors, but GOC was 'just' a good first film

I liked God's Own Country okay, but I don't think I got as much out of it as others seemed to. I really liked the end credits photo montage of old timey photos of farmers--meant to imply that gays have always been a part of farming, I guess? If that's the point, I think the film would have been more interesting as a period piece (though, to be fair, there is little to distinguish it as belonging to 2017). I also didn't buy the ending at all. The actor who played the Romanian migrant was fantastic though; I would have vastly preferred the film to have been about him instead.

There's a scene in the living room where the mom leaves them alone that is the most erotic moment among last year's crop of LGBT films.

The actor who played the Romanian migrant was fantastic though; I would have vastly preferred the film to have been about him instead him to marry me.

I read grumblings in year-end retrospectives that GOC >>>> Call Me By Your Name because "authentic" and all that, but how so – cuz it has dirt and they speak in thick accents? It's as fantastical in its own way as CMBYN.

I still haven’t seen this but the still is funny

Alfred OTM about GOC and CMBYN both being fantasies.

To be fair, I don't want tragedy from the former; just an acknowledgement that things aren't as simple as the film leaves them at the end.

I didn't get that sense; all the director does is lay out that the mom accepts the relationship cuz she needs the help. It's very much like a William Trevor story.

Does she do a corny speech?

next up, two films that placed last year get their shoulders jammed together trying to get back in the door

Does she do a corny speech?

― jeremy cmbyn (wins),

She has four sentences total in the film so

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33= Certain Women
w/d: Kelly Reichardt
59 points, 3 votes

Placed at #9 in 2016, with 8 votes and 223 points.

otm, I think the editing is key to her style. It lets her take those long pauses because her cuts are so good. Sometimes she can get a little on the nose with it, but usually it's surprising and interesting. And she has a good eye for deadpan, which shows up in odd places. The repeated takes of the corgi were hilarious and cute but in a totally naturalistic way -- corgis are hilarious and cute.

― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 6 November 2016

Ah shit I didn’t vote for this in either year for some reason. Easily one of my very faves of whatever year I saw it in and has stayed with me more than some stuff I did vote for

I'm just going to vote for Sherlock Jr. every year.

Alfred otm about GoC, except that old woman is the dude's grandmother. Put the subtitles on.

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33= I Am Not Your Negro
d: Raoul Peck (doco)
59 points, 6 votes

Placed at 18 in 2016, with 7 votes and 163 points.

I Am Not Your Negro was very good. Not a perfect movie - I think the editing of the first 20-30 minutes was trying to hard, like he didn't trust the material - but the last hour was great. I hope people see it.

― EZ Snappin, 18 February 2017

Imagine if everyone had the opportunity to see these in the same year, some of this mid-countdown stuff would be top 10 I reckon

Like zama will def place again next year

She has four sentences total in the film so

Lack of corny speech from accepting parent def a plus 👍

I loved Certain Women, especially for the Stewart/Gladstone segment, and I only saw it this year, so I'm ok with people voting for it.

wait a second Certain Women came out the weekend before the presidential election wtf is it doing here. i mean yeah it is a masterpiece but this thing of movies placing in two different year end lists is extremely off the money

GOC was a debut? I guess it pairs up nicely with The Levelling as much as anything else (families, young ppl, farming, Brexit, drama)

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Probably had different release dates in Europe, etc.

For what it's worth, I see about 98% of the new movies I watch from library rentals, so everything's a good 6 months to a year late for me anyway. But that's why I don't vote in these things.

Voted for CW last year.

flappy bird otm

Flaps I’m not explaining how time works again just search back thru all of my on the money posts in every single one of these threads

don't worry, people still vote for things that screened in exactly two cities in the entire world