i remember hearing Andrea Dunbar talking about it on the radio some years back? it sounded formally amazing and i still haven't seen it
― come out you melts and bams (Noodle Vague), Friday, 22 May 2020 14:22 (three years ago) link
actually it might've been Clio Barnard now i think about it
E - none of these
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 22 May 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link
I'm bored of voting for Certified Copy
I'm getting in a meta fight with you at a trattoria rn.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Friday, 22 May 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
That Inception is as close as it is to being in the master list of the top 1,000 is only somewhat mitigated by the fact that the only two that ARE in are Boonmee and Nostalgia.
a trattoria at 10:30 a.m.! That's the stuff.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 May 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link
Tratt Drinking Feeling
― come out you melts and bams (Noodle Vague), Friday, 22 May 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link
― come out you melts and bams (Noodle Vague), Friday, May 22, 2020 3:22 PM (twenty-six minutes ago)
Ha, yes, unlikely to be Dunbar.
― emil.y, Friday, 22 May 2020 14:52 (three years ago) link
grim lol yes sorry i got mixed up
― come out you melts and bams (Noodle Vague), Friday, 22 May 2020 15:08 (three years ago) link
Certified Copy just annoyed me at the time, liked it least of all the Kiarostami I've seen by a long way, but I'm willing to give it another go. This is Joe by a mile tho
Inception the first time on the big screen blew my away but I was a younger man then and it really didn't stand up to one rewatch even back in the day
Also liked Nostalgia For The Light, Blue Valentine, Black Swan and The Arbor. Meek's Cutoff maybe my least favourite Reichardt but it's ok
― or something, Friday, 22 May 2020 15:34 (three years ago) link
Uncle Boonmee vs Meek's Cutoff, went for the latter to give it a fighting chance. Only other one on the list I've seen is Black Swan, which was abysmal.
― Alert! The virus lives (Matt #2), Friday, 22 May 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
I think I prefer Certified Copy to Uncle Boonmee, but I'm more grateful the latter is something that exists in the world, so I voted for it.
― Chris L, Friday, 22 May 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link
2010 movie that deserves to be here (certainly more than Blue Valentine): Another Year
― Chris L, Friday, 22 May 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
Here's where I admit that I like at least three other Joe pictures significantly better than the Palme winner.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Friday, 22 May 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
A solid, respectable selection of films that I just don't care that much about.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
(except Inception of course, whose inclusion here is indeed ludicrous)
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:25 (three years ago) link
I feel a strong regional affinity with The Arbor but also feel although it's quite moving there is something a bit underdeveloped about it, like it's a very good effort by a film student. Haven't been a big fan of subsequent Barnard movies either. But its still very good in comparison with a Banky doc and fucking Nolan droppings.
Probably Certified Copy by miles, it's one of them movies where I wasn't particularly in the mood for a sort of discursive essay about art movie but ended up fucking enjoying every minute of it!
― calzino, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:32 (three years ago) link
My hot take here is that Inception was fun and no one has any business scoffing at its inclusion when there is some Banksy bullshit in there that's flying under the radar.
― Matt DC, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:49 (three years ago) link
nostalgia for the light
― flappy bird, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
Uncle Boonmee ftw.
― Matt DC, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
the best thing I can say about Inception is that it inspired one hell of a classic Rick and Morty ep
― calzino, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
good south park ep too!
― sleight return (voodoo chili), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:42 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I think I prefer 4 but it's still my favourite thing here
― or something, Friday, 22 May 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link
all 5 of his main films are almost equally great imo, maybe I would rate them 1) Tropical Malady, Uncle Boonmee, and Cemetery of Splendor, 2) Blissfully Yours, 3) Syndromes and a Century
for me 2010 is between Mysteries of Lisbon and Uncle Boonmee
― Dan S, Friday, 22 May 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
I remember really liking Meek's Cutoff
― Dan S, Friday, 22 May 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link
I think I rank them Malady > Syndromes > Cemetery > Boonmee > Blissfully
But I agree they're all within shouting distance of each other in quality.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Friday, 22 May 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
My hot take: Inception is a dog on fire.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 May 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
I quite like to see the Ruiz someday
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 22 May 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
don't think I appreciated Certified Copy as much as the rest of you, there was a meta component to it that I wanted to like more than I did
but movies often seem very different to me when I watch them later so I'm interested in seeing it again
― Dan S, Friday, 22 May 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
recently watched Nostalgia For the Light, I loved the film's idea that archeologists and astronomers are connected in that they study the most elemental past
― Dan S, Friday, 22 May 2020 23:47 (three years ago) link
where is morbius? would like to see him to post here
― Dan S, Saturday, 23 May 2020 00:11 (three years ago) link
He's in the hospital at the moment, I'm sure he'd rather be here too.
― herds of unmasked cletuses (WmC), Saturday, 23 May 2020 00:14 (three years ago) link
really hope he's ok
― Dan S, Saturday, 23 May 2020 00:25 (three years ago) link
hi, Christopher Nolan made a movie about the unlimited power of the dreaming mind and it was 100% gray and involved nothing more fantastic than a grenade launcher and some Escher prints and that's all you need to know about him as an artist— Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable) April 24, 2018
― What fash heil is this? (wins), Saturday, 23 May 2020 08:31 (three years ago) link
Bingo
― come out you melts and bams (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 May 2020 09:12 (three years ago) link
yep
― imago, Saturday, 23 May 2020 09:45 (three years ago) link
or as this wise-guy put it at the time
I get Nolan's mania about control and architecture but the best films about dreams have a much lighter touch and a greater sense of the surreal― acoleuthic, Thursday, 11 November 2010 12:37 (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 11 November 2010 12:37 (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― imago, Saturday, 23 May 2020 09:56 (three years ago) link
I think we all know that Inception is still gonna get at least 3 or 4 lurker votes here.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Saturday, 23 May 2020 23:01 (three years ago) link
I liked it when I saw it with a full crowd. Nolan's movies are big, dumb fun. I don't get the hate
― flappy bird, Saturday, 23 May 2020 23:22 (three years ago) link
That he's a talentless posh English cunt who get's a lot of smoke blown up his arse by mediocre-hack film critics and the right wing wing press in the UK is a factor this side of the Atlantic, even before the garbage movies are taken into consideration.
― calzino, Saturday, 23 May 2020 23:28 (three years ago) link
Why would you take anything but the films into consideration?
― flappy bird, Saturday, 23 May 2020 23:30 (three years ago) link
xxp I didn't hate the idea of the movie so much, but felt so brow-beaten by the loud, overwrought, overriding continuous music. It was incredibly obnoxious
― Dan S, Saturday, 23 May 2020 23:31 (three years ago) link
felt the same way about The Dark Knight
― Dan S, Saturday, 23 May 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
xxp
even if I did it wouldn't make any discernible difference in his case
― calzino, Saturday, 23 May 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
" when I saw it with a full crowd"
jesus what a fucking depressing concept of watching movies.. like a football match.
― calzino, Saturday, 23 May 2020 23:36 (three years ago) link
The Dark Knight is an evil film.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 23 May 2020 23:38 (three years ago) link
I do think full theaters can enhance a film experience.
I watched Inception in a semi-full theater with a friend, I like and respect him enough that I didn't want to bail on him, but I was so disappointed by the experience
― Dan S, Saturday, 23 May 2020 23:41 (three years ago) link
"I do think full theaters can enhance a film experience."
never heard so much wrongness in my life.
― calzino, Saturday, 23 May 2020 23:42 (three years ago) link
Nolan is a boring director who turns what should be fun pulp into ponderous and often depressing (in the case of The Dark Knight) experiences.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Saturday, 23 May 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
Of course it can for a certain type of film, are you serious or just on the wind up calzino?
Inception is still a big loud empty thing tho
Xp
― or something, Saturday, 23 May 2020 23:46 (three years ago) link
good to see the best movies poll getting deep into the oeuvre of auteurs Bay and Nolan
― Children of Bo-Dom (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 24 May 2020 16:12 (three years ago) link
My grandpa (both of us scottish) gave me the impression that cinema in his youth was treated much like pantomine. Cheer when the goodies appear, hiss and boo when the baddies appear. Sounds awful but he loved it.
Sion Sono said he wanted film audiences to be like wrestling audiences and I don't see how that would work with his films. Maybe just a provocation for its own sake.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
Mixed feelings about Toy Story 3. I've never cared for the actual animation in Pixar but I think all 3 of the films are quite stirring all the same. Ken was hilarious and they really increased the morbid aspects of the toys-are-alive concept to torment children.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:07 (three years ago) link
Toy Story 3 is my least favourite of the four, but I'm enough of a Pixar fanboy that I voted for it anyway (had the Coens' True Grit been here, it would have been a different story).
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Sunday, 24 May 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
it's amazing how much the British infer from "full crowd"
― flappy bird, Sunday, 24 May 2020 23:06 (three years ago) link
I think I only caught it on TV one night because people talked it up as a copy of Marienbad.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, May 24, 2020
I can understand people seeing similarities in tone and in narrative confusion with Inception and Marienbad, and they both had annoying scores, but Last Year at Marienbad was so much more amazing
― Dan S, Sunday, 24 May 2020 23:56 (three years ago) link
More beautiful conceptually and visually and more mysterious.
Different leagues imo
more like Last Year at Mariengood
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, 25 May 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Yes Dan agree - Marienbad is really good, except I also really like that organ grinding score which goes along with the tone it's striking. Also shows up this earlier post as clueless:
or as this wise-guy put it at the timeI get Nolan's mania about control and architecture but the best films about dreams have a much lighter touch and a greater sense of the surreal― acoleuthic, Thursday, 11 November 2010 12:37 (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink― imago, Saturday, 23 May 2020 bookmarkflaglink
― imago, Saturday, 23 May 2020 bookmarkflaglink
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 25 May 2020 10:24 (three years ago) link
― flappy bird, Monday, 25 May 2020 00:06 (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
If by "the British" you mean one particularly excitable British person then yeah sure
― or something, Monday, 25 May 2020 10:58 (three years ago) link
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, May 25, 2020 2:01 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
^^ slept on and otm.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 25 May 2020 11:57 (three years ago) link
Voted for Certified Copy a second time.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Thursday, 4 June 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link
im not voting in any of these
do u think I fucking remember how good any of them were
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 June 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
except Banksy deserved capital punishment
xp not sure you knew how good any of them were then
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Thursday, 4 June 2020 20:36 (three years ago) link
(glad to see you back tho)
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Thursday, 4 June 2020 20:37 (three years ago) link
not been away
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 June 2020 21:19 (three years ago) link
Oh right, it was me who left for the last three weeks
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Friday, 5 June 2020 03:01 (three years ago) link
my guess is Boonmee and Certified Copy are the winners here
ended up voting for Mysteries of Lisbon so it gets at least one vote
― Dan S, Friday, 5 June 2020 03:04 (three years ago) link
Bumping.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 18 June 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
glad all got votes. I love Boonmee more than Certified Copy but the top two here doesn’t surprise me
― Dan S, Thursday, 18 June 2020 00:34 (three years ago) link
I like David Fincher but haven’t seen The Social Network since its opening and not sure what I would think about it now
― Dan S, Thursday, 18 June 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
Are there enough 1920 titles to poll?
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Thursday, 18 June 2020 00:58 (three years ago) link
There are two. So, I'll just include both in the comprehensive XXX0 poll.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 June 2020 02:34 (three years ago) link
Also, very much the correct choice here. Good job, ILX!
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 June 2020 02:37 (three years ago) link
Good top 5
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Thursday, 18 June 2020 02:39 (three years ago) link
Still have to finish this one, of course: 1930's Best Movies: 90 Years Later
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 June 2020 02:53 (three years ago) link
Banksy voter, come get yer whuppin'
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 June 2020 03:34 (three years ago) link
Black Swan, ye gods
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 June 2020 03:35 (three years ago) link
Find it more comforting to assume there's a bunch of joke votes
― Ivan Scampo (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 18 June 2020 09:10 (three years ago) link
Are there enough 1920 titles to poll?― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Wednesday, June 17, 2020 7:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
There are two. So, I'll just include both in the comprehensive XXX0 poll.― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, June 17, 2020 9:34 PM (yesterday)
Eh, changed my mind, but a short deck on this one: 1920's Best Movies: 100 Years Later
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 June 2020 15:35 (three years ago) link
Time for the showdown: The Best Movies Of Years Celebrating An Anniversary Divisible By 10 (1920-2010)
― Juanita was robbed (Eric H.), Thursday, 25 June 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link