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

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.

https://i.imgur.com/w2yIjRJ.jpg

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)

:)

http://images.amcnetworks.com/ifccenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/the_image_book_1280.jpg

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).

all of the Wiseman films up through Ex Libris (not Monrovia) are on Kanopy, flappy bird

41 films total

oooh awesome thanks for the heads up!

If we're campaigning, I hope people find space for:

24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross)
Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)
The Green Fog (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson)
Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun? (Travis Wilkerson)

I watched Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun? at home on Monday. I like it, but think it's a little overaestheticized (makes sense that it was initially done as a live multimedia event).

24 Frames I was rather disappointed in. That's an installation.

Support the Girls is on my list of things to watch before voting.

I would point people towards Private Life, Happy as Lazzaro, Upgrade and 1985 (hi, Alfred!).

24 Frames hit me, as almost all Kiarostamis do, right in the root of my spinal cord. They're ASMR in movie form.

(And a great deal more than that, obviously, but this one allowed me the chance to put that aspect to the forefront.)

yes 24 Frames is my #3. seeing it in a huge theater definitely helped, not sure how it would go over at home, I could barely stick with Shirin.

I don't understand the praise for Support the Girls at all. Didn't dislike it but such a wispy nothing of a movie.

will back up alfred on claire's camera, and say dead souls over anything mentioned thus far

cocote is also worth checking out

and Western, among others

https://www.filmcomment.com/best-films-of-2018/

First reformed will win I think

Won’t be surprised if Mandy, favourite, burning right up there. Won’t be mad either. Def voting for Claire’s camera, zama, let the sunshine in

I’ll be voting for four on Alfred’s list

Oh another cpt obv pick I will rep for is hereditary if that’s 18

wd also point to

Bisbee '17
The Guardians
Amazing Grace (ran in NYC for a week in December)

and First Man

I’m gonna keep throwing out notable films from last year as they come to me otherwise I’ll forget: Arcadia, wild boys

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