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

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I think I have loved every Todd Haynes film! I was disappointed he didn't make it on the 101 directors poll list

Dan S, Monday, 30 July 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link

i did not love Carol, and i unloved Wonderstruck even more (the b&w silent scenes with the girl mostly excepted_

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 July 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link

I loved Carol, easily one of my favorite movies of the decade so far. Wonderstruck was slight in comparison, but that final sequence with the stop motion animation and the model of NYC was really beautiful. I think it was my #24.

flappy bird, Monday, 30 July 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link

I thought Carol was great too, for me it was right up there with Velvet Goldmine and Safe

Dan S, Monday, 30 July 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link

Safe > Superstar > Poison >>> Carol > Mildred Pierce > Velvet Goldmine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Far From Heaven

I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Monday, 30 July 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link

closer to backwards than not...

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 July 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link

I’ve been finally watching Twin Peaks: The Return and have been reading the excellent spoiler thread along the way. I haven’t seen the whole thing yet but I’m pretty sure if I had seen it in time I would have included it on my list of favorite 2017 films! I’m glad I rewatched S1/2 and Fire Walk With Me before seeing this, it made it that much more of a thing to enjoy obsessing over

Dan S, Monday, 30 July 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link

sic, what was your #1? don't remember seeing it in the results thread. (and thank you so much for doing this!)

Colossal, by Nacho Vigalondo. I was startled that this completely disappeared from cultural conversation, especially for the world of 2017. A film about medium-town America values, and a feeling of helplessness in the face of personal and world events, and especially about man-to-woman emotional manipulation and gaslighting, that also has big special effects and things being smashed. All built on a very tenuous metaphor that is nevertheless kept simple and unadorned enough to support the weight laden on it.

I had the fortune of going in knowing almost nothing about it, which really helped.

(You're welcome, Dan, and everyone else. It probably wasn't really worth staying up til 4am a couple of nights preparing, but the rollout was lots of fun, and I've got a bunch of new films to maybe watch on a television screen one day.)

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 23:07 (five years ago) link

Just saw Raw and The Levelling because of this thread. Loved both, especially the latter!

Cherish, Saturday, 4 August 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link

six months pass...

Finally saw Wind River. I assumed it would be on here--it was either that, or post to an Olsen Twins thread. Anyway, thought it was good. I liked Jeremy Renner in American Hustle, but I think this is the best performance I've seen by him. Elizabeth Olsen has been good in all three films I've seen her in.

clemenza, Sunday, 24 February 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link

two weeks pass...

There was a thread recently where there was some debate over when the year-end film poll should be. I thought it would have been here, but I guess not.

Anyway, I wanted to run a political-film poll this summer. Is is possible for the year-end to be over and done with before then?

clemenza, Thursday, 14 March 2019 02:40 (five years ago) link


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