THE FUTURE IS FILMIC EJACULATIONS: The ILX Film Poll (for 2018 viewings) Voting Thread - Ballots Due Friday June 21st

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Still hoping to catch up on some movies from last year that are now on streaming services or shiny discs, or haven't been released in your country yet? Sure, so have all of us. But let's think about the ones we did manage to watch, and see which we liked best!

Voting is now open for the ILX 2018 film poll: things that had a theatrical screening in 2018 are eligible.

Send ballots to i l x polls ter [at] g ma il [dot] c o m by June 21st

MAXIMUM 35 votes

MINIMUM 10 votes

Votes are weighted. Please send your lists with your TOP choice at the TOP, but do not number your choices. (It's a ballache for formatting.)

If you're voting for a non-English-speaking film that has a commonly-accepted English title, by all means include the original title in brackets, but type the English title first. (This also helps with tallying, and does not otherwise reflect the pollrunner's preferences.)

SIDE POLLS:

You can also vote for your top FIVE only-on-streaming or VOD or DVD films. These must have received their FIRST release in any territory via home media and in 2018. If it screened at film festivals or in a city that you don't live in, then it's not eligible.

(Yes, the rules are stricter for direct-to-LCD than for real films. If you have a strong opinion about this, it's probably wrong, but feel free to derail the thread with it anyway. Best-case scenario though, voters get an extra chance to rep something that folks might not have heard about, and we get some data to help decide whether we should remove the walls in the future.)


You can vote for up to your top TEN new-to-you older films seen in calendar 2018 - on a TV, via rep screenings or restorations or Fathom Events or TCM Presents revivals or w/e. This probably won't produce any results worth reporting, if people even do ballots, but it'll be fun if they do.


You can also vote for the FIVE worst new-release-somewhere films from 2018.


Side polls are not mandatory; ignore them totally if they don't seem like fun. Also don't overthink 'em if you do answer any of them.

Oh, yay!!!

And just a reminder that Josephine Decker's top-three worthy Madeline's Madeline should still be on MUBI in most territories.

great job of picking the worst possible month for me.

i've had Madeline's Madeline out of the library for 4-6 weeks and sooooooo don't wanna watch it.

wow I actually came up with ten films!

Morbs I'm a tasteless idiot but Madeline's Madeline is the best movie I've ever seen imo

also it appears i'm moving next month, it seems, so i might as well give you ten now

Excellent! Made a list ages ago so I'll send it later this week.

I made a list in early May but I may hang on to my ballot for 2-3 weeks in case I see a last few.

same as, Ive a list ready to go but a month gives me leeway to watch a few more films

I'm more than happy to make the voting period shorter if people are raring to go

Madeline's Madeline should still be on MUBI in most territories

Also on Kanopy and Bezos Prime.

great job of picking the worst possible month for me.

I thought that was January February March April and May

Good news anyway, i was half wondering whether we'd done this and I'd forgotten

Haha I very much do not have a list ready to go, I don’t really keep track of the films I watch and 2018 was so long ago. If we’re gonna do “new to me” ballots I might actually start doing a viewing diary that I will then abandon after a month, sounds fun!

I saw Shoplifters today. That probably belongs in a top 35.

How old is the new to you older films ballot criteria i.e.is it anything pre 2018?

That’s how I interpreted it

anything that you don't count as eligible for the main poll

exciting! have a list ready to go but happy to wait a bit

WHAT IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE MAIN POLL?

Anything that screened in a cinema presentation in 2018.

What if I really liked a film that placed in 2016, but didn't screen in Europe until 2018?

Go ahead and vote for it. Feel free to campaign in this thread.

What if something only came out in Canada on DVD and in March 2019, but showed at film festivals in Bucharest and Hobart in 2018?

"Zama was high on my ballot this year but after seeing how low it placed I'm definitely voting for it again next year"

What if I really liked something that won last year, but didn't see it until January 2018?

Death Of Stalin didn't come out in the US until March 2018.

What if I saw the only existing nitrate print of a 1932 silent in a single museum screening in 2018? Is that eligible?

The Other Side Of The Wind isn't from 2018 per se and was completed for Netflix, but it did show at the Virginia Film Festival, so...

36.15 code Père Noël came out in 1989 but didn't have a US release of any kind until one festival and a limited theatrical run for Christmas 2018, does that count?

Paddington 2 didn't come out in the US until 2019 and I didn't see it until after the ILX pol-

Twin Peaks was especially ruled eligible last year because of one screening at MOMA but that didn't actually happen until January.

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Three and a half weeks isn't long enough for me to get my ballot together, can you extend it?

I don't go to movies, but I have a REALLY big TV, and I liked that one doco on an app where the guy talked about sucking dick for Evian.

˙ǝuᴉlpɐǝp ɹnoʎ ɹoɟ ǝɯᴉʇ uᴉ suoᴉʇɔᴉɹʇsǝɹ ǝsǝɥʇ ƃuᴉʇɟᴉl ʇnoqɐ op uɐɔ ǝʍ ʇɐɥʍ ǝǝs ll,I puɐ 'ɹɐqpunos puɐ Λ┴ ǝɔᴉu ɐ ǝɯ puǝs ʇnq 'sǝssoq ʎɯ llǝʇ ʇ,uop 'ʞoo˥

Oh man thanks for reminding me to vote for zama and that twin peaks is a 2018 theatrical release. What a year for cinema

So did the five months mean Infinite Football got a wide release?

I’m wondering how to vote for Twin Peaks: The Return. It really feels to me like it’s from 2017. There were two spoiler threads that followed it as it was streamed that year, together comprising 10,000+ posts! I wish I had been a part of those threads, they are among my favorites on ILX ever, but I didn’t watch it until 2018 when it was released on dvd.

I don’t even know if it’s a film per se but it ranks near the very top of my favorite viewing experiences of this decade. I think I’m going to include it in my older films list, which is going to be hard to sort out since I watched a lot of older classic films for the first time last year

I like your WHAT IS ELIGIBLE post upthread, sic!

You can vote for it in both if that makes it easier

you Twin Peaks obsessives need a hosedown

lol

thought about watching Coco before voting; too busy watching Twin Peaks

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 21:22 (ten months ago)

:)

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stopped after 8 episodes, haven't been back

I also know it's a fucking TV show from 2017

I will instead vote for a TV show from '72 that premiered in US theaters in 2018. Expand your horizons.

https://www.criterion.com/films/29400-eight-hours-don-t-make-a-day

likely #1 tho:

https://www.criterion.com/films/29618-let-the-sunshine-in

Oh yeah, will definitely vote for Let the Sunshine In. And The Image Book.

I saw that one at moma like 2 weeks after the tp screening, all in one go :-)

TV show from 1980 that got a rep release in 2018 in the states, but which I will not be voting for because it’s bloody impossible to see here: PERSONAL PROBLEMS

I will instead vote for a TV show from '72 that premiered in US theaters in 2018. Expand your horizons.

Restored version of Eight Hours.. first screened in the UK in April 2017.

I remember 2018...What a year.

I cannot vote for The Image Book as it is a 2019 US release.

"Loveless" is a '18 release, right?

P sure it was

Yep

Another one of my top five favorites is on MUBI right now. Shireen Senos 'Nervous Translation' is great.

y'all should watch this. one of my favourites from '18

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/sep/12/michael-inside-review-frank-berry-dafhyd-flynn

So, Cold Water counts, right?

yes

not for me, as i saw it in the mid '90s *polishes medal*

I hope to see the following on your ballots:

Claire’s Camera (Hong Sang-soon)
Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
Let the Sunshine In (Claire Denis)
You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay)
First Reformed (Paul Schrader).
Museo (Alonso Ruizpalacios)
Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman)
Ava (Sadaf Foroughi)
Sollers Point (Matthew Porterfield)
1985 (Yen Tan)
Leave No Trace (Debra Granik)

I missed Monrovia when it played here... I wish there was a way to see Wiseman movies other than buying the DVDs from Zipporah. It'd be one thing if he had like 10 movies but how many are there... 40?

I'm voting for The Image Book even though I saw it in 2019 and I'm also voting for Let the Sunshine In even though I voted for it in the last poll. thanks for the Fassbinder reminder Morbs, I could only come up with 9 films last night, I will include that one (screened here last summer but I didn't see it until a couple weeks ago).

it is maybe more abstract than her previous films but there is so much to contemplate with it

Are ballots due by Friday or on Friday? I just found out I have to be on the road tomorrow so that only leaves Friday morning to squeeze in one more movie (probably Shoplifters].

I loved Shoplifters! thank you for reminding me to vote for it!

amazed you are all so all organized about your 2018 favorites. I feel like I will forget something and won't realize it until the results are rolled out

You should watch Shoplifters, so deadline is 19:00 PDT Friday / noon Saturday AEST / 3am Saturday BST.

7 o'clock pm california time friday, I will have my ballot in by then

Does ballot have to be weighted? Will it mess things up to have an unweightes or mixed ballot?

'unweighted'

Votes are weighted. Please send your lists with your TOP choice at the TOP, but do not number your choices. (It's a ballache for formatting.)

Yeah, saw that, thanks.

ballot sent!

just sent mine, too

Gonna send after lunch.

sic, is AEST what i think it is? just tell me when (I can't do one before tonight)

Voted

tt and i have voted. no internet videos this time, although my ballot is as usual a lovely reduction of hers (with the same #1, which sic would be doing very well to exclude)

excited to read that!

I guess there are a couple more hours to vote? looking forward to seeing the results

I have until noon tomw, is that it?

lol

OK, sent

no rewatching done

Paddington 2 didn't come out in the US until 2019

untrue

dnw

sorry to break any rules but I included something on my ballot that only had an opening in Hong Kong in 2018

but it appeared on the Criterion Channel and was so beautiful I had to vote for it

goddammit, I am now sending a revised ballot bcz I forgot two titles.

sic, you are a hardass

sent!

i voted paddington 2

it's fucking great!

there are four ladies watching Fleabag in my living room so if anyone needs an extra hour or two, I’m going to start tallying but won’t get finished tonight

ALL VOTERS HAVE RECEIVED CONFIRMATION EMAILS. If you voted and haven't received an affirmation or a question, please submit again.

There will be no Best Streaming results, as only one ballot was received. Take that, The Future!

If anyone missed the vote and can get a MAIN ballot in by tomorrow afternoon, RUSH RUSH RUSH! I'll prepare the other side results before I get crunching on the tough numbers.

Everyone who voted Paddington 2 last year and didn't vote again for US release (2018, apologies for typo above): as long as you didn't use all 35 slots this year*, I should assume you want it slotted in, yeah?

* sorry, one prior bear voter who did use all slots

plz slot the elephant film on to everyone's ballots

(Any other last-minute additions can seriously be made to the bottom of anyone's ballot in the next 14 hours: no re-ordering available.)

there are four ladies watching Fleabag in my living room so if anyone needs an extra hour or two, I’m going to start tallying but won’t get finished tonight

― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Saturday, 22 June 2019 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Get the ladies to do the count so you can get through an 8 hr Lav Diaz film. Live a little.

Do whatever it takes to give the bear more points.

Not sure that you deserve it tbh :(

voting for bear film again next year. and year after that. we all need a bit of bear film to lighten up our lifes.

― Frederik B, Wednesday, July 25, 2018 4:54 PM (ten months ago)

voting for elephant film again next year. and year after that. we all need a bit of elephant film to ruin our lifes.

8 hour Diaz was 2017. 2018 Diaz was not good.

I forgot to vote for the bear this year :(

It's okay, I already updated your ballot.

I did laugh because that 2018 Diaz film just got on mubi yesterday.

Thanks, sic!

Also, now that I think about it, the eight hour Diaz was 2016, it's just that I saw it in 2017. Sorry.

Elephant film in lead for worst of this year

Are we talking about an elephant sitting still or burtons dumbo

I’ve seen neither

i suspect we are both talking about the former

Oh I guess dumbo was this year? They’re really churning this waste out eh

TALLYING COMPLETE

I think I caught everything misspelled or missing half the title, but if not, it's on the voter.

Several films I was looking forward to finding images for have fallen outside the top 50.

If we were extending out to everything that needed two votes to qualify (ie 36 points), the lowest rank would be 72. The very lowest double-vote-receiver ranked at 88, with 14 points. The lowest triple-vote-receiver is at 83, with 33 points.

good job sic

thank you for everything sic. looking forward to this, bear film or no bear film.

counterpoint: thank you only if it includes the bear film

we gettin' rollout?

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if i'd seen it time minding the gap, would've been very high on my ballot. beautiful film