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

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

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and First Man

: Arcadia, wild boys

I like "Goodbye is Forever"

lol that was not deliberate

No ones mentioned COLD WAR yet

More like COLD BORE!

(Just kidding, I liked it fine.)

y'all should vote for Skate Kitchen

Cold Snore more like. Viewers sure live heterosexual, apolitical love stories!

Films on my ballot:
5/10 teens
4/10 lesbians
(some overlap)

/Cold Snore/ more like. Viewers sure live heterosexual, apolitical love stories!

More like mold poor

I liked it a lot

It was alright

For an old chore

OK not feeling the love for Cold War

What about BROS: AFTER THE SCREAMING STOPS? Comedy of the year, hands down

I deleted it from my 2018 long list bcz I thought it was TV-only, but it had a festival screening and a one-day release - back on, baby

a film I've been meaning to watch is Ali Abbasi's Border, has anyone seen it?

heard from a friend that when the bros film screened at lff, the brothers themselves paid for it to have a red carpet entrance

Border (Gräns) is going to be very high on my ballot

Xpost They are a pair of David Brent-esque wallys but something totally endearing about them at the same time

one of the entries on that Film Comment list is Personal Problems, a collaboration between Ishmael Reed and Bill Gunn, shown at the Pompidou in 1980 and then lost until its release in NY in 2018. It’s an experimental soap opera that is very loose and intimate. I’m not sure what to make of it, I didn’t think it was a masterpiece but Iiked it, it’s a look at the lives of a couple and their friends living in Harlem in 1980

Yeah, I liked it too. But it really is TV and was broadcast in New York back then, so I think it belongs to 1980.

don't have much else to say about 2018 film at the moment except that in my opinion Zama and Burning are really it

xp couldn't you say the same for Eight Hours Don't Make a Day? I mean I'm voting for it either way

1) 8H had never been shown in the US.

2) It was shot on film and looks like cinema. Personal Problems was shot on low-grade video and looks it.

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