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

21. Paddington 2
d: Paul King w: Paul King, Simon Farnaby, and 30-odd credited punch-up readers
105 points, 6 votes 1 #1

https://i.imgur.com/Ze9CpT4.jpg

Lol is any of that true

Writing credits & number 1 votes I mean

Paddington 2 is wonderful down to the smallest detail. Even the "2" is introduced in a sweet, not-tacky way, on the title screen. I'd say I liked it more than the first one, but maybe I was just riding a Paddington high and ready for more.

― geoffreyess, January 24, 2018

Took a couple of kids from work to see it and laughed so hard at one scene I thought I wasn't going to stop. Stays true to the spirit of the original, too. Everybody in this is perfect.

― Noodle Vague, January 24, 2018

What a charmingly simple, innocent, calming, ridiculous movie this was. A couple of hilariously subtle jokes. My fave was when the inmates introduced themselves and one of them more or less was revealed as a politician, which earned another really subtle "no comment" callback a few beats later. Not sure I got the joke beyond the maybe obvious, but I love how Knuckles had "Knuckle's" (with the erroneous apostrophe) tattooed on his knuckles.

― Josh in Chicago, January 27, 2018

oh, animation.

You might think Noah Taylor was all CGI, but every frame was actually hand-painted.

This is probably less animated than the new Spielberg film

j/k, i might see this... someday

Same

wins - there was a list of ten or so writer & comedian types with "special thanks" or similar in the opening titles, and a massive list buried in the closing credits. I assume the ones at the start chipped in gags that got used, and the others didn't.

apparently it was all from reading and responding to King & Farnaby's script, not a collaborative room, or anyone else writing any drafts.

A Bear Film Wes Anderson Rip

lmao at the reveal sic

This was good and I voted for it

Bad year for overrated British auteurs beginning with 'W'.

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, July 26, 2018 2:46 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

U DDNT

This means that a couple of extremely wonderful and obscure things have made the top 20, btw

What have you done

i am probably going to watch that political-scandal TV series where Hugh Grant licks Ben Whishaw's nipples first

The Banning of Louis XD was in my top 3 btw

lol

I did. A Very English Scandal. Amazon Prime from Friday. https://t.co/6ANoH1kpY3

— Hugh Grant (@HackedOffHugh) June 26, 2018

haaa

I saw the beginning of that at my granny’s & it took me several minutes to work out that it was Hugh Grant under all that makeup

maybe he wasn't wearing any for once

https://i.imgur.com/GsDtre6.jpg

20. Dawson City, Frozen Time
d: Bill Morrison (doco)
106 points, 7 votes

You would think a documentary about rediscovered silent-film footage in the Yukon would be a Trump-free safe haven, but no, there's no escape.
I had seen the trailer a couple of weeks ago, so I was looking forward to something dreamy and contemplative. It didn't disappoint on that count--I can imagine it playing Nuit Blanche at three in the morning. Not harboring any protective feelings about silent film in general, the ambient soundtrack helped make that happen, though it did get repetitive after a while.
What came as a surprise was how much history is packed into the film--everything from Grauman's Chinese Theatre to Kenesaw Mountain Landis to Fatty Arbuckle to Robert Service. And fires--there are so many of them in Dawson City it becomes a gruesome joke, like the drummers in Spinal Tap. Towards the end, where the couple who were instrumental in preserving all this film fill in the backstory, the husband says two innocuous words that provided the biggest laugh I've had at the movies this year.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 25 July 2017

The trance-like qualities of Dawson City, Frozen Time worked, which means I was bored by the halfway mark.

my #9, and I never thought that'd be the case for a documentary that opens with Christopher (Mad Dog) Russo

was it the footage of the 1919 World Series that did it?

the doc that featured the brothel owned by Trump's dad or granddad perhaps with typical "the absolute best brothel in the western world, all the rest are shite" type modesty on the advert. I liked this but forgot to vote for it.

granddad... or not?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-grandfather-prostitution/

https://i.imgur.com/ZYg0imm.jpg

19. 120 BPM (Beats per Minute)
d: Robin Campillo w: Robin Campillo & Philippe Mangeot
107 points, 5 votes 1 #1

So it's possible that BPM aka 120 Beats Per Minute is the best thing I've seen all year... and one of the best films in a long time about political activism. I liked Robin Campillo's last, Eastern Boys, but this is tougher, grimmer, sexier.

― Dr Morbius, November 13, 2017

GREAT still.

#6 on my list

"tougher, grimmer, sexier" is my new dating profile

"low" but if it got 5 votes i'm assuming 7 of you saw it

I really wanted to see this but missed the handful of screenings it had here

not found a version of this with ENG subs yet, its on my watchlist.

It’s out on dvd in the us (I think)

https://i.imgur.com/1Bhyj9M.jpg

18. The Ornithologist
d: João Pedro Rodrigues w: João Pedro Rodrigues & Joao Rui Guerra da Mata
114 points, 8 votes

The Ornithologist is everything Staying Vertical should have been, a mishmash of landscapes, myths, times, and places, with identity a big factor, and a lovely sex scene on a sunny beach.

― Frederik B, Monday, 31 October 2016

I'm v keen to see The Ornithologist because of how beautiful the actor is.

― jed_, Wednesday, 28 March 2018

feel a bit bad for only seeing the big obvious gay film last year

I loved Staying Vertical but The Ornithologist was great too

never saw Dawson City because all my friends warned that the schmaltzy music completely ruined it.

wasn't esp keen on The Ornithologist, willing to try again

#3 on my list and a handy manual to buggery on the sand.

BPM and The Ornithologist remain my big gay blindspots of the year.

I'm hesitant to watch Paddington 2 without having seen the first one. I don't recall it getting nearly as much hype or praise, unless I missed something?

what was your favorite queer film of 2017?

xp I didn't see the first Paddington and it didn't matter, I loved Paddington 2 and sobbed the entire time

Ornithologist my #2, now this is beguiling. Loved to die like a man as well

i thought The Ornithologist was a right trip, my no7.