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

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

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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/

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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.

what was your favorite queer film of 2017?

So far, I guess Thelma, but on my Letterboxd watchlist I currently have The Fabulous Allan Carr, Against the Law, 120 Beats Per Minute, The Wound, The Ornithologist, Beach Rats and a handful of shorts, so...ask me again in a couple of months?

Beach Rats was fucking great

how much ornithology is there in this film btw

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?

#1 is very very good but #2 is something else, and built for adult viewers and film nerds as well as kids and families. you can totally jump in on #2, but the first one's on Netflix and #2 has a two day run back in US Regal cinemas on August 14 & 15.

xp
plenty of hornythology tbf!

Less than last year’s Portuguese hit tbf imago

those portuguese and their avians

i guess an hour and a quarter of chaffinches is enough film ornithology for a decade or so

Beach Rats was fucking great

― flappy bird,

and I didn't like it except for the young lead. Gay!

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17. mother!
w/d: Darren Aronofsky
120 points, 8 votes

aronofsky sucks imo so im not going to watch this. i didn't know he was dating jennifer lawrence!

― jim in vancouver, 14 September 2017

Visually, sonically, & psychologically, this movie was very compelling. The claustrophobia of the house, the constant closeups on Jennifer Lawrence, the nightmarish feeling of being unable to communicate with those around you & losing control of your environment... the lighting & Gothic atmosphere of the house & all its dust & debris & unfinished mess, all great... otherwise I thought it was pretty fucking daft and thematically shallow. Another movie about creativity and how hard it is to be an artist? Hard pass. So arrogant & uninteresting, & what's frustrating is there are sub-themes & tangents in here - fan/artist relationship; artist as deity & the one-way adulation & love between fan & artist - that are far more interesting than dwelling on how hard it must be to be someone's muse. A CRYSTAL? You must be fucking kidding me. And fwiw I found the violence & verbal abuse to be way over the top, gratuitous, obvious, & misogynist. He's a good technical director, but he should not write his own scripts.

― flappy bird, 16 September 2017

A lot of the criticisms are the opposite of how I felt about it. I thought it was deeply feminist and Christian

― Whiney G. Weingarten, 16 September 2017

I've never minded babies getting eviscerated in the hands of a mob.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, 17 September 2017

first half (with the family who invite themselves in) was a good surreal black comedy, second half (by the time kirsten wiig was instructing a militia to shoot fans of javier bardem's poetry in the face, i mean) was the worst movie i've ever seen. i now think daron aaronovfsky is a deeply stupid person (maybe i should have thought that a long time ago, but it's been a long time since i last saw a film of his). it's actually a feat how much the ending spoils whatever goodwill it had built up in me. sound design was cool (nailed the feel of a creaky echoey old house)

― flopson, Monday, 18 September 2017

I'm now going to see this just so i can complain about how terrible it is

― jim in vancouver, Tuesday, 19 September 2017

Sounds too yucky for me.

Aronofsky is M Kermode's idea of an auteur, say no more.

It's possible watching this the week after Irma affected my response.

How the fuck did that place so high

Good job on “17!”

:)

https://i.imgur.com/7cWBsJL.jpg

16. The Killing Of A Sacred Deer
d: Yorgos Lanthimos w: Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthymis Filippou
124 points, 9 votes

Idk, and I have yet to see it, but I get the feeling that if Lanthimos read your first post here, he'd be nodding in agreement, going "excellent... excellent." He did move you, in a big way, to dig in the trenches and defend a position that this is rubbish and cruel, "torture porn". Again, not seen it (yet), but he can't have done everything wrong, going off of your criticism of it.

― Le Bateau Ivre, November 7, 2017

Excuse me?

What's going on here