It's the ILX All-Time Milm and Foovies (Film and Movies) Poll! -- Nominations Thread

moving that we rename this the "ILX All-Time Film and Morbsies Poll"

He would've hated that. Let's do it.

Love’s crucible (Sjostrom, 1922)
Sisters of the gion (Mizoguchi, 1936)
A geisha (Mizoguchi, 1953)
Lemon (Frampton, 1969)
Rosalyn romance (Bailie, 1974)
Aerial (Tait, 1974)
Five Year Diary (Robertson, 1982)
That day, on the beach (Yang, 1983)
Fake fruit factory (Strand, 1986)
terrorisers (Yang, 1986)
A preponderance of evidence (Davis, 1989)
Helas pour moi (Godard, 1993)
The world (Jia, 2004)
Double tide (Lockhart, 2009)
The wind rises (Miyazaki, 2013)
Hill of freedom (Hong, 2014)
A bride for rip van winkle (Iwai, 2016)
Drift (Wittman, 2017)
Dead souls (Wang, 2018)

He would've hated that.

Especially when Crank 2 comes out on top.

He would've hated that. Let's do it.

― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.)

LET'S DANCE

"the Morbies"

All-time Morbies is a feeling.

Ninja Terminator (Godfrey Ho, 1985)

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (Lourié, 1953)
Black Rain (Imamura, 1989)
Exhibition (Hogg, 2013)
First Cow (Reichardt, 2020)
The Fits (Holmer, 2016)
Hyenas (Mambéty, 1992)
The Juniper Tree (Keene, 1990)
Lucas (Seltzer, 1986)
Pain and Glory (Almodovar, 2019)
Peggy Sue Got Married (Coppola, 1986)
A Quiet Passion (Davies, 2017)
Speedy (Wilde, 1928)
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (Greaves, 1968)
Uptight (Dassin, 1968)

So, after spending time examining not just the list of movies Morbs gave five stars to on Letterboxed, but also his responses to the prior two "pretend you have a Sight & Sound ballot" threads, I've come up with a pretty good snapshot of what a Morbs ballot would have looked like. :(

I present these Morbs "nominations" here as a tribute, but also open it up to anyone who notices that I've missed one of his pet faves to redress the omission. (It's missing Fritz Lang and Akira Kurosawa and Robert Aldrich, who showed up in the top half of his directors ballot, so if anyone remembers him saying he had a favorite from any of those three, lemme know.)

TOP TIER

2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Atalante, L' (Jean Vigo, 1934)
Black Girl (Ousmane Sembène, 1966)
Chienne, La (Jean Renoir, 1931)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
Crowd, The (King Vidor, 1928)
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
Europa '51 (Roberto Rossellini, 1952)
Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa, 1959)
Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975)
King of Comedy, The (Martin Scorsese, 1982)
Leopard, The (Luchino Visconti, 1963)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948)
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (John Ford, 1962)
Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May, 1976)
Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The (Preston Sturges, 1943)
Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1936)
Moment of Innocence, A (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996)
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967)
Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell, 1936)
Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
Tristana (Luis Buñuel, 1970)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

RUNNERS-UP

Adam's Rib (George Cukor, 1949)
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog 1972)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959)
Andrei Roublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)
Aparajito (Satyajit Ray, 1956)
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
Boat, The (Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline, 1921)
Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958)
Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972)
Chelsea Girls (Andy Warhol & Paul Morrissey, 1966)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
City of Sadness, A (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962)
Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)
Cops! (Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline, 1922)
Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997)
Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1943)
Dekalog (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1989)
Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Buñuel, 1964)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, 1974)
Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg, 1987)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002)
Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1998)
Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964)
GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The (Sergio Leone, 1966)
Harland County U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple, 1976)
Heart of the World, The (Guy Maddin, 2000)
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
How To Kiss (Bill Plympton, 1989)
I Know Where I'm Going! (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1945)
I'm Not There (Todd Haynes, 2007)
Inn in Tokyo, An (Yasujirō Ozu, 1935)
In the Street (James Agee, Helen Levitt & Janice Loeb, 1948)
Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1918)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956)
It's a Gift (Norman Z. McLeod, 1934)
Jetée, La (Chris Marker, 1962)
Joy of Life, The (Jenni Olson, 2005)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949)
Lady Eve, The (Preston Sturges, 1941)
Lady from Shanghai, The (Orson Welles, 1947)
Laura (Otto Preminger, 1944)
Law and Order (Frederick Wiseman, 1969)
Local Hero (Bill Forsythe, 1983)
Lola (Jacques Demy, 1961)
Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1981)
Long Goodbye, The (Robert Altman, 1973)
Long-Haired Hare (Chuck Jones, 1949)
Lost in America (Albert Brooks, 1985)
Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian, 1932)
Maltese Falcon, The (John Huston, 1941)
Man Escaped, A (Robert Bresson, 1956)
Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)
Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme, 1980)
Munich (Steven Spielberg, 2005)
North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
One Week (Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline, 1920)
Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)
Othello (Orson Welles, 1951)
Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)
Passion of Joan of Arc, The (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)
Plaisir, Le (Max Ophüls, 1952)
Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
Rabbit of Seville (Chuck Jones, 1950)
Rayon Vert, Le (Eric Rohmer, 1986)
Red River (Howard Hawks, 1948)
Round-Up, The (Miklós Jancsó, 1966)
Saddest Music in the World, The (Guy Maddin, 2003)
Seventh Seal, The (Ingmar Bergman, 1956)
Shop Around the Corner, The (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman, 1955)
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
Son, The (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2002)
Sons of the Desert (William A. Seiter, 1933)
Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939)
Stars in My Crown (Jacques Tourneur, 1950)
Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 1984)
Strike (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
Tabu (F.W. Murnau, 1931)
They Live By Night (Nicholas Ray, 1948)
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
Umbrellas of Cherborg, The (Jacques Demy, 1964)
Underground (Emir Kusturica, 1995)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin, 1957)
Xala (Ousmane Sembène, 1975)

I have an ongoing list that hobbles forward--I add another film every week or two. I'm up to 26. With so many possible additions I think "I put that on a list of favourite films 30 years ago (or 20, or 5), but would I really want to watch it tonight?" I've killed almost everything.

December bump! Will update the list again as I can, but sometime in the next few days I'll be opening up the voting/campaigning thread.

The balloting period will be longer than your usual movie poll, definitely into the Biden presidency.

Because I'm now subconsciously modeling this poll after my Morbs ballot, I've decided everyone gets 25 ranked-or-unranked "top tier" selections (which isn't the brutally succinct 10, but certainly not as many as most movie nerds would like), and then up to 100 extra slots with a significantly lower number of points assigned.

More nominations:

An American Werewolf in London (Landis, John) 1981
The Company (Altman, Robert) 2003
Deathdream (Clark, Bob) 1974
The Grandmother (Lynch, David) 1970
In the Mouth of Madness (Carpenter, John) 1994
The Love Parade (Lubitsch, Ernst) 1929
Rachel Getting Married (Demme, Jonathan) 2008

I'll go over the list and see if anything I'm voting for isn't already included. Excited to vote--I already have a rough ballot together.

Please add the following to the list:

Almanac of Fall (Tarr Bela) 1985
Anticipation of the Night (Brakhage, Stan) 1958
Buffet Froid (Blier, Bertrand) 1979
Crimes of the Future (Cronenberg, David) 1970
Heart of Glass (Herzog, Werner) 1976
Life, A (Cole, Frank) 1986
Oedipus Rex (Pasolini, Pier Paolo) 1967
Out 1: Spectre (Rivette, Jacques) 1974 (if considered a different film from Out 1: noli me tangere)
Sandra (Visconti, Luchino) 1965
Second Circle, The (Sokurov, Aleksandr) 1990
Thieves Like Us (Altman, Robert) 1974

y'all straight up snubbing the best current director, and the dandiest

Winter Sleep (Ceylan, 2014)
The Wild Pear Tree (Ceylan, 2018)
Damsels In Distress (Stillman, 2011)
Metropolitan (Stillman, 1990)

here are some other things I would like to nominate, including loads of recent stuff that hasn't had to 'withstand the test of time' but w/e i love it all

The Black Tower (Smith, 1987)
Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back!) (Melendez, 1980)
Archipelago (Hogg, 2010)
Bait (Jenkin, 2019)
Burn After Reading (Coens, 2008)
Infinite Football (Porumboiu, 2018)
Gueros (Ruizpalacios, 2014)
I Am Not A Witch (Nyoni, 2017)
A Town Called Panic (Aubier/Patar, 2009)
The Plague Dogs (Rosen, 1982)
Prevenge (Lowe, 2016)
Shoplifters (Koreeda, 2018)
The Wrong Trousers (Park, 1993)

Hardly snubbing when his two best films have already been nominated

Scarlet Street Fritz Lang 1945

Sin of Nora Moran, The Phil Goldstone 1933

reiterating what I said the other day on the Lang thread that Edward G. Robinson going monkeymode on Joan Bennett with the icepick in Scarlett Street is definitely the most brutal and violent thing I've seen in any Classic Hollywood movie

A Family Finds Entertainment (Trecartin, 2004)

I-Be Area (Trecartin, 2007)

A Family Finds Entertainment (Trecartin, 2004)

― imago, Thursday, 3 December 2020 16:10 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Managed 12 minutes of this

Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt, 2008)
Souvenir (Hogg, 2019)
Voyage to the End of the Universe aka Ikarie XB-1 (Polák, 1963)

Managed 12 minutes of this

― or something, Thursday, 3 December 2020 22:54 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lol, sorry. nostalgic nomination but it bangs imo. completely understand why someone should not enjoy it

women in love (russell, 1969)
black sunday (bava, 1960)
black sabbath (bava, 1966)
bay of blood (bava, 1971)
autumn sonata (bergman, 1978)
even dwarfs started small (herzog, 1970)
trafic (tati, 1974)

the decline of western civilization part ii: the metal years (spheeris, 1988)

also i see that "dekalog" and "twin peaks: the return" have been nominated, so:

world on a wire (fassbinder, 1973)

inages of the world and inscriptions of war - farocki 1989
Bush mama - Gerima 1979
How to live in the GDR - Farocki 1990
Videograms of a revolution - farocki 1992
halfmoon files - scheffner 2007
helen - Molloy & Lawlor 2008
fig trees - greyson 2009
zero patience - greyson 1993
within our gates - micheaux 1920
city girl - murnau 1930
the chronicle of anna magdalena bach - straub huillet 1968

One of my choices will be so-called structuralist film. I will put a list in later

^ looking fwd

black sabbath (bava, 1966)

sorry this is 1963

1,806 films now listed. (Or a few less, given the likelihood of doubles.)

Seeing a number of doubles, actually, but the fact that so many of them are Morbs favorites reinforces their candidacy so I'll leave them be.

Balloting is now open: ILX All-Time Film and Morbsies Poll: Voting And Campaigning Thread (Ballots Due Like I Dunno Maybe March 1, 2021?)

Black Narcissus (Powell, Pressburger, 1947)
Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)
All About Eve (Mankiewicz, 1950)
Rosemary's Baby (Polanski, 1968)
The Producers (Brooks, 1967)
Repulsion (Polanski, 1965)
Alien (Scott, 1979)
The Exorcist (Friedkin, 1973)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Jones/Gilliam, 1975)
The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich, 1971)
Harold and Maude (Ashby, 1971)
The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)
Blade Runner (Scott, 1982)
The Thing (Carpenter, 1982)
The Big Lebowski (Coen, 1998)
Grizzly Man (Herzog, 2005)
Let the Right One In (Alfredson, 2008)
Hereditary (Aster, 2018)

I wrote down all the films I love, got to 68, then cut out whatever was already nominated, these are the ones not already on the list, quite a bizarre selection on their own.

Audition (Konkurs) (1963, Forman)
Cement Garden, The (Birkin, 1993)
Cosy Dens (Hřebejk, 1999)
Clue (Lynn, 1985)
Descent, The (Marshall, 2005)
Firemen's Ball, The (Forman, 1967)
Grifters, The (Frears, 1990)
Haunting, The (Wise, 1963)
Hukkle (Pálfi, 2002)
Lovers, The (Malle, 1958)
Jubilee (Jarman, 1978)
Nuts In May (Leigh, 1976)
Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence, A (Andersson, 2014)
Planet of the Apes (Schaffner, 1968)
Quatermass & The Pit (Baker, 1967)
Ring (Nakata, 1998)
Scanner Darkly, A (Linklater, 2006)
Six Degrees Of Separation (Schepisi, 1993)
Taking Off (Forman, 1971)
Woman In Black, The (Wise, 1989)
Zazie Dans Le Metro (Malle, 1960)

Children of Men (Cuaron, 2006)