I Just Wanted To Take Another Look At You - the 2018 ILX Film Poll Results Thread

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4. Zama
w/d: Lucrecia Martel
AR 2017 digital
462 points, 15 votes, 3 #1s

Placed at #36 in 2017, with 56 points and 3 votes.

Zama is often inscrutable but beguilingly so.

- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 25 July 2018

thanks to my pal who asked me to go see this with him, what a picture. He deserved everything he got tbh

"¿Quieres vivir?"

12 on my ballot

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woulda been my #1 or 2 if I'd voted

Marvelous.

such a great scene, with the llama and those descending electronic tones that seem to occur at the moments of greatest dread

Lucrecia Martel deserves more writing.

the film had a lot of striking elements

Martel thread ftr: the films of Lucrecia Martel, most recently "The Headless Woman"

the story did meander, although I thought that deepened its kafkaesque quality

seems to be a theme of her films, things spiraling out of the characters' control

there were animals or animal sounds in almost every scene, including the llama and especially the horse on the beach who turned slowly around and looked directly at the camera just before the most shocking scene

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3. 버닝 [Burning]
d: Lee Chang-dong w: Oh Jung-mi, Lee Chang-dong b: Haruki Murakami
KR 2018 digital
492 points, 18 votes, 1 #1

I don't think it's out of the question that during the pivotal "I burn greenhouses" scene, that Ben is a urban trust fund guy who thinks it's funny to mess with a guy he thinks is a country rube.

― intheblanks, Friday, December 14, 2018

intheblanks, you did notice there was a litter box filled with cat shit, right?

― Frederik B, Friday, December 14, 2018

Fred, go to lunch

arguing about Burning <<<<<<<<< Bernie

i kinda wish this film was messier, it all feels so composed and symmetrical in a way that worked against the 'mystery'. anyway liked it, voted for it

Missed all of the presumable top 3, not really on purpose though.

in your defence, the tsai ming-liang vr film was easy to miss

loved this. thought the two other films of his I've seen were also really great: Secret Sunshine and Poetry

Poetry is the better film.

I had Burning pegged to win it all, tbh.

now who's predicting

Good film; my first by Lee, so time to catch up.

Debate's starting soon. Hurry!

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2. 万引き家族 [Shoplifters]
w/d: Kore-eda Hirokazu
JP 2018 35mm
520 points, 18 votes

this was quite good again - I just like what Kore-eda does. There was a lot more around sex and intimacy than usual for him with all the elements in previous films (getting by in an affluent society, or the unusual arrangements of family) in a light touch manner that brings people over.

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Hirokazu Kore-Eda Thread

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1. First Reformed
w/d: Paul Schrader
US 2017 digital 2.8K
556 points, 18 votes, 4 #1s

Is Amanda Seyfried in any movies where her boyfriend isn't a fuck-up?

― Philip Nunez, Sunday, July 1, 2018

Paul Schrader's 'slow' transcendental drama FIRST REFORMED w/ Ethan Hawke

Cheers to all voters, posters, and lurkers here and through the year. Ballot exhibitionists, please use the separate thread: BALLOTS: Endgame - ILM 2018 film poll ballot depository in order to keep this one searchable.

deserved congrats to weird uncle schrader

shoplifters soared whenever ando was on screen, performance of the year

thanks for running the poll sic!!!

Thank you sic!

Wow -- best one-two in a film poll here.

I remember liking zama, but it’s been two years and I don’t remember anything about it now

You saw it in 2017?1

I did too

xp I thought on the surface it was about the bureaucratic layers, dead-ends, degradation and shame that Diego de Zama experiences in his attempts to get reposted away from Paraguay, which in the end turns into literal bodily degradation. Feels obv like there was a lot more going on on a deeper level

there were also a lot of strange seemingly random events: the people in a secret room crowded around a sanadora who is smoking a cigar and performing a healing ritual, the scene in the crypt where lyme is being dropped over the dead body of el oriental, the voiceover moment of the assistant to the Gobernador, while fondling what he thinks are the dried up ears of Vicuña Porto which were supposedly cut off before his execution (viewing this scene the second time through I could better see its portentous quality), the ghost hotel that Diego de Zama stays at on the outskirts of the town

You saw it in 2017?1

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, June 27, 2019 8:48 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah it played at NYFF

fuckin snobs

the most compelling theme of the movie to me was the depiction of banal oppression (as opposed to histrionic, crushing oppression) of life under colonial rule

Top 4 feels right.

Good poll, sic, thanks for running it. Been too busy to comment much but I enjoyed the rollout.

xxp I loved Daniel Giménez Cacho's performance in this, he was so consistently self-possessed

also Lola Dueñas (Luciana) was mesmerizing as the gossipy noblewoman who teases and frustrates him

re: Shoplifters, I think Sakura Andô is great in this but I also love Lily Franky and Kirin Kiki

feels in retrospect that the crucial scene in it is when Shota confronts Osamu over breaking their moral code

I liked First Reformed a lot, voted for it, but also had a hard time with it, is was so cold and sad. I had to watch the last few scenes over again for the events of it to really sink in, was the ending supposed to represent reality or a dying man's fantasy?

I will revisit the whole thing again at some point but it was heartbreaking to watch

THANK YOU SIC!

imo "cold" is not a pejorative

no I agree, but i grew up in a strict, religious germanic family and "cold" in that sense is an element that I react to