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

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

https://img.etonline.com/1242911076001/201702/942/1242911076001_5339012657001_et-post-show-best-picture-3-022717-hulu.jpg

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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.

These all previously mentioned would def on my ballot:

Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
Let the Sunshine In (Claire Denis)
Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman)
Leave No Trace (Debra Granik)
Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)
Bisbee '17
Border
Shoplifters
Hereditary
Paddington 2

The rest are either already in my to watch list or they are now... thanks for the recommends!

as long as we're aiming for votes, allow me to also rep for the rest of my top picks (with bonus "where can you stream em" parenthetical!) :
The Road Movie (Amazon)
The Rider (Starz)
Eighth Grade (Amazon)
Minding the Gap (Hulu)
Thunder Road (Amazon)

Here's my next-to-watch list with same streaming info for US viewing:

A Quiet Place (Amazon)
First Reformed (Amazon)
You Were Never Really Here (Amazon)
Generation Wealth (Amazon)
Unsane (Amazon)
The Great Buddha+ (Amazon)
A Prayer Before Dawn (Amazon)
Lots of Kids, A Monkey and A Castle (Amazon)
Western (Amazon)
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection (Amazon)
Let the Corpses Tan (Amazon)
Madeline’s Madeline (Amazon)
Cold War (amazon)
Loveless (Amazon)
A Fantastic Woman (Amazon)
Suspiria (Amazon)
Sollers Point (Amazon)
The Guardians (Amazon)
Ava (Amazon)

Tully (HBO)
The Tale (HBO)
Jane Fonda in Five Acts (HBO)
Deadpool 2 (HBO)
The Meg (HBO)
BlacKkKlansman (HBO)
Crazy Rich Asians (HBO )
Won’t You Be My Neighbor (HBO)

Happy as Lazzarro (Netflix)
Roma (Netflix)
Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Netflix)
The Bleeding Edge (Netflix)
Filmworker (Netflix)
The Dawn Wall (Netflix)
The Other Side of the Wind (Netflix)
We the Animals (Netflix)
Black Panther (Netflix)
Ant Man and the Wasp (Netflix)
Bird Box (Netflix)
They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead (Netflix)
Solo (Netflix)
What Still Remains (Netflix)

Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (Kanopy)
In Between (Kanopy)
Nancy (Kanopy)
I Am Not a Witch (Kanopy)

Love After Love (Hulu)
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (Hulu)
The Sisters Brothers (hulu)

Have a Nice Day (shudder)
Mandy (shudder)

1985 - https://vimeo.com/174131804

Not Yet Streaming:
Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse
Vice
Hale County This Morning This Evening
Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
Mission Impossible: Fallout
Blaze
Thoroughbreds
Bodied
Silence of Others
On Her Shoulders
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
Liyana
A Bread Factory
Big Fish and Begonia
Amazing Grace
Gavagai
Searching
Museo (YouTube)
24 Frames
Claire’s Camera
The Green Fog

I already mentioned my main issue with personal problems way upthread, viz I can’t bloody watch it 😡

At least half of forks' Amazon picks are also on Kanopy, for general reference, as is the Grace Jones doco

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

https://www.pastposters.com/cw3/assets/product_full/(JamieR-BX)__Tadpole(1).jpg

24 Frames and Claire’s Camera are available on the Criterion Channel. Vice, Mission Impossible: Fallout, Searching, and Thoroughbreds are available on netflix dvd for those who have a subscription. Hale County and Under the Silver Lake will be released to netflix dvd on 6/18

glad to hear on the criterion channel notes; wasn't aware they were posting stuff so quick these days.

i doun't get the Tadpole thing, sic, but one is aesthetically a long film, the other is not