Fuck, forgot
To live and die in LA Sorcerer
― or something, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:27 (four years ago) link
Morbs! You forgot JFK! Where would it land on your list??
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
The MirrorUgetsuThe Life and Death of Colonel BlimpA Day in the CountrySpirited AwayThe Green RayThe GeneralSmiles of a Summer NightSans SoleilThe End of Evangelion, fuck it
― jmm, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
how disgusting
― devvvine, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:33 (four years ago) link
If I remember when I get home tonight and can access my Letterboxd account, I'll try to put together a S(hm)ight & S(hm)ound ballot. Spoiler alert: Footlight Parade and The Music Box will probably top this list.
― Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
An interesting question would be is there anything from more than 9 years ago that you wouldn't / didn't put on then but would now? More so if you've not rewatched it since.
("If I thought it was one of the best 10 films of all time, why would I not have rewatched it in the last decade?" is if course a very fair question)
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:44 (four years ago) link
Thing about time is you're always seeing something new, either literally or re-seeing because you're older and your values have changed
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:55 (four years ago) link
Probably half of my all time top 10 would be films I only watched once.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link
I've never watched many of the greatest movies I've seen.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:03 (four years ago) link
I'm too old to care about what should be on these lists and what shouldn't. Alphabetically:
Advise and Consent (1962)All the President's Men (1976)Lost in America (1985)Mad Men (2007-2015)Malcolm X (1992)Nixon (1995)No Country for Old Men (2007)Rosemary's Baby (1968)Welfare (1975)Zodiac (2007)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:13 (four years ago) link
I think one of Jia Zhangke's might be up around my personal list too
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
Last Year At Marienbad (Resnais)Melancholia (Lav Diaz)Mulholland Drive (Lynch)That Obscure Object of Desire (Bunuel)Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara)Don't Look Now (Roeg)Céline and Julie Go Boating (Rivette)Love in the Afternoon (Rohmer)Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami)Stalker (Tarkovsky)Carnival of Souls (Harvey)The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)Ugetsu (Mizoguchi)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:34 (four years ago) link
here's my absolute dumbass version of a ballot for this
The End of Evangelion (Anno, 1997)Kiki's Delivery Service (Miyazaki, 1989)Possession (Żuławski, 1981)Prince of Darkness (Carpenter, 1987)Sans Soleil (Marker, 1983)Showgirls (Verhoeven, 1995)Speed Racer (Wachowskis, 2008)The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Hooper, 1974)Three Colors: Red (Kieślowski, 1994)Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Lynch, 1992)
sorry for almost no movies before 1980
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:35 (four years ago) link
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)Duck Amuck (Jones, 1953)Fanny and Alexander [TV version] (Bergman, 1982) The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973)The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford, 1962)Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch, 1940) Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
LBI we should hang out and do a movie weekend at some point haha
― imago, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:40 (four years ago) link
i can't see how one can just do the sound era choices thing
Orson Welles thought they were the purest cinema
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
One of the on pointiest comments about early Hitchcock I ever read is that he mastered the new technique of introducing sound in a way that mattered I think.
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
(silents, that is) xp
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
Arguing for cinema as purely visual is wrong-headed imo
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
― imago, Tuesday, February 25, 2020 4:40 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
A lot of tears and a lot of confusion, see you on Friday! :D
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
well "purely visual" is a subjective term
ie there was always music w/ silents
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
"You brought the wrong Melancholia, dammit!"
― imago, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
Haha
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
Morbs I agree it was a general ramble. I sometimes feel like sound design is a better argument for modern movies in a theatre than the visual sense.
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 16:13 (four years ago) link
Surprised no one else has Synecdoche
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
2001The Burmese HarpCertified CopyCrumbThe Grand Budapest HotelLate SpringLe MéprisMulholland Dr.News from HomeUncle Boonmee
Archers left out because I couldn't decide btw 7 films
― Miami weisse (WmC), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:01 (four years ago) link
xpost I have an unwatched copy of Synecdoche that I might finally be done waiting for my gf to feel like watching with me; will update.
― Expart of Languidge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link
This Sporting LifeGoodfellasWild StrawberriesStroszekRear WindowSweet Smell of SuccessBigger Than LifeBarry LyndonCome and SeeMeantime
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link
I could easily put Peeping Tom or Psycho in either of my previous two lists
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:09 (four years ago) link
wow. Citizen Kane's taking a pounding in this thread. call off the dogs!
― cajunsunday, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 21:00 (four years ago) link
not very thorough, just the stuff I'm in the habit of naming or have loved most in the last few years
Ninotchka (1939)The Gang’s All Here (1943)Hester Street (1975)Killer of Sheep (1977)Losing Ground (1982)Love & Basketball (2000)Bad Education (2004)Poetry (2010)Cameraperson (2016)Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
― geoffreyess, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link
The Third Man2001A Brighter Summer DayNews from HomeWinter Light Black NarcissusThe Devil, ProbablyRobocopMaborosiSafe
― Chris L, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 23:12 (four years ago) link
ah god fuck it I can't not do another one
THE APARTMENTFRIDAY NIGHTSHANGHAI EXPRESSTHROUGH A GLASS DARKLYI'M STILL HERETHE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCEZABRISKIE POINTHEATHERSZOOLANDEREYES WIDE SHUTTHE IMAGE BOOKTHE HUMAN SURGE
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 03:09 (four years ago) link
I have yet to watch A Brighter Summer Day or Yi Yi but I own both. I am saving them for....something. I'm not sure what yet.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 03:20 (four years ago) link
both of them are great, especially A Brighter Summer Day. I still haven't seen Taipei Story, but it's on the Criterion Channel so I will have to watch it
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 03:38 (four years ago) link
His most realized imo
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 03:39 (four years ago) link
Don’t forget Terrorizers, it’s streaming a few places.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 03:39 (four years ago) link
the Through a Glass Darkly - Winter Light - The Silence trilogy is fantastic, there are so many great Bergman films
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 04:00 (four years ago) link
have to go with Wild Strawberries and Fanny and Alexander in the end, though
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 04:07 (four years ago) link
re yang, that day, on the beach is also a must see
― devvvine, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 10:46 (four years ago) link
yes Eric, you see more recent greatness than I do*, that's why youre still in the arena
*do you? really? I can't even call Certified Copy great. It's... enough already.
I do, absolutely. And it is great, absolutely.
― 🚶♂️💨 (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 13:26 (four years ago) link
The goodness of most of the lists on this thread is kind of proof that lists are nonsense.
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 16:58 (four years ago) link
The inability for many on ILX to count to 10 justifies Morbs' contempt.
― 🚶♂️💨 (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
lists are great, everyone should make lists
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
just don't call them the "best" anything, my end of decade list was just a list of some movies from the decade, I'm an idiot and shouldn't be ranking dick
nah that's more what i meant tbf
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:37 (four years ago) link
Looks like at this early point, 2001 is the most-mentioned, with 5.
― 🚶♂️💨 (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:39 (four years ago) link
no cinephile can meaningfully confine a list to 10 w/out playing "electability"-style Family Feud
(or usually, 'let me vote for what others won't')
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
If I were to vote strictly on the "electability" index (i.e. movies that were already solidly in the top 50/100 last decade), I guess my ballot would be selections from these:
The Rules of the Game (1939)The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)Late Spring (1949)The Night of the Hunter (1955)Imitation of Life (1959)L'eclisse (1962)La Jetée (1962)Gertrud (1964)Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)Barry Lyndon (1975)Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)Nashville (1975)Close-Up (1990)A Brighter Summer Day (1991)Sátántangó (1994)Mulholland Dr. (2001)
― 🚶♂️💨 (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:46 (four years ago) link
The trick is to have three classic films to establish that you've seen the basics, three strategic votes for something you want to see move up on the list, and three votes for something no one else will vote for, so that you seem like you have a personality. And a joker.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link