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

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

Eight Hours is a TV show at the end of the day though, I don't know why CC banded the episodes together on their release, it is not a long film. Aesthetically it is cinematic but you could say the same for, idk, Atlanta or something. Even Girls. But Eight Hours was made for television and the 5 episodes aired separately in Germany. anyway I know it was new to USA in 2018 and it did screen in marathon sessions here. But this is slippy territory, no?

yes, so everyone make up their own rules, like everyone here always does.

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omg morbs gets it 😀

oh i've "gotten" this place for awhile

and as Chico Marx said, "I abject."

(voting Duck Soup)

i rarely see movies in their year of release but... i might be able to vote in this?

Do it!

well, I'm voting for Grand Illusion and The Tenant, Brad, so go or it.

maybe i'll vote for the emoji movie

yes, so everyone make up their own rules, like everyone here always does.

can't tell if this is approval or disapproval -- lol, never mind, idgaf

i rarely see movies in their year of release but... i might be able to vote in this?

― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, May 30, 2019 10:28 AM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah go for it, I found that there were 10 valid movies I liked, who cares if I haven't seen 90 more of them

a few people here usually

i keep forgetting to vote in ILM year-end polls just to fuck with them

If you're participating in a poll of the year's best films and you've seen only a handful of that year's movies, you shouldn't vote -- that's my argument fuiud

sic has set fair limits - stricter than I would have tbh - anyone who meets those limits is welcome imo

Emoji movie not eligible

😔

as far as worst films of 2018 go, for your consideration:

22 July
Blaze
Disobedience
Boy Erased
Beautiful Boy

I had these on my list.

my least fave nods from last year would go to:
Sorry To Bother You
Damsel
Mary and the Witch’s Flower
Bernard and Huey
Shirkers
If Beale Street Could Talk
Annihilation
Oscar Nominated Short Drama

fucked if i'm gonna watch green book in this life

it's honestly not bad if you watch it with the rest of the Farrelly Brothers oeuvre in mind

I thought Sorry to Bother You was the most overrated movie of the year but I loved the first half hour, totally fell apart after that

It never played here
Green book, beautiful boy, life itself were in a particular category of unseen 18 films that not only looked terrible but actually looked like joke movies, made up for a sketch or something

Really just talking about the trailers but green book was legit simple Jack-esque

Life Itself, like The Happening and The Wicker Man remake, was so unbelievably bad that it crossed over and became immensely enjoyable for me.

more of a 2019 release but i found hansen-love's maya excruciating