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

I can't even remember what I had on my ballot (besides The Music Box)!

You don't automatically bcc yourself?

never look in your sent folder! you can't change the past, you have to move forward

That's (at least) 55 ballots accounted for.

― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Monday, June 14, 2021 12:10 PM (one hour ago)

56, because Cherish and braised cod are two different people!

I do cherish braised cod so tho.

lol

hard to be a cod

Uh, if final tallies are not yet counted then I'm putting a ballot together literally right now..

Still working on it, so send away.

Yay, thank you! I'm up to G, so should be sendable within the next couple of hours.

Well that was optimistic. Most brutal ballot yet! So many arbitrary and/or ruthless decisions!

Looking forward to The Hobbit getting the recognition it deserves through the write-in vote.

It’s a fifteen-bagger

i disagree: it's at least 6 sodas

You’ll be filling those soda buckets back up because the movies are so freakin’ long!

(number of nominated movies) x (5 bags) = (code to hack into top secret Morbsies results)

Oh I hacked that ages ago. Spoiler alert:

It's all Jerry Lewis. Although I would like to know how he saw The Day the Clown Cried before the donor restrictions expire.

having just seen it, i would now like to go back and add Jacques Tati's PlayTime to my list because wowowowowowowowowowowowow

Yes! Funny and poignant and perfect. It's in my top 10.

Top 5 over here. Been fortunate to see it in the theater a couple of times.

At TIFF, I saw a special screening of Playtime that was moved to another venue so they could show a 70mm print.

Using a VPN, I managed to get myself a free trial for Criterion Channel and watched Playtime. I found it very funny in places and enjoyed it but I think I'd need to see it a few more times and preferably in a cinema to truly get it.

i'm glad that dunkey introduced so many people to playtime

think I'd need to see it a few more times and preferably in a cinema to truly get it

Tati intended for it to be shown on a loop, so people could come in and out and rewatch any amount of it at random.

i could ramble on and on about how beautifully that movie uses glass as a motif. very neat that it was intended as a loop.

i am reminded that i'd like to read this book, "Shard Cinema" by Evan Calder Williams, which muses extensively on things (like glass) shattering and fragmenting on screen.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32446754-shard-cinema

Playtime was a really memorable film, was in my favorite 25

recently watched Jeanne-Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows for the first time and thought it was fantastic! If I were voting again I think I would put into my ballot in place of Le Samouraï

Sorry, everyone: Playtime topped my "Geez, I hope this doesn't win" list. If it does, fine.

I really like the earlier Tati films, especially Mon Oncle; found Playtime hit the same note over and over again. It's not really funny, either, which I'm sure some people think is the point (or beside the point).

I don't have a "hope this doesn't win" list, I should put some thought into that.

I liked PlayTime a lot more once I decided that it was okay that I didn't think it was actually that funny.

Mon Oncle was good too

feel pretty sure whatever wins will be fine

I don't know if I've ever had such a viscerally negative reaction to a revered film. Reverence that seems relatively recent--I found a site with a detailed breakdown of the 2002 S&S vote, and if that's accurate, it got 2 votes. What exactly happened after that?

https://www.cinemacom.com/2002-sight-sound.html

The only time I faced a full-scale riot in my film class happened while showing Playtime.

They calmed down when I explained it's a dud as a comedy but a solid example of visual and sound design, use of long shot, of showing how America looked like in a post-World's Fair climate, etc.

but, clem, correct me if I'm wrong, you're not much of a fan of the sort of leisurely film that Pauline Kael made few exceptions for, right?

I don't know: I think I like/love lots of films that amble along (The Straight Story and Comfort and Joy immediately come to mind). You're probably onto something with "dud as a comedy but a solid example of visual and sound design"--I think I expected something funny, not painfully and skull-crushingly whimsical. The sound design drove me up the wall, mind you.

Having read lots about the '64 World's Fair, though, there might be something there for me.

i'm just hoping shawshank redemption won't win. enough is enough!

hasn't that noxious cult died already?

wait, shawshank redemption isn't going to win right

i mean, that scene where he crawls through a 100 yards of shit and climbs out on the other end a free man and raises his arms to the pouring rainstorm - that was dogshit

its actually a deeply illuminating metaphor but i am not going to tell you what it means due to my cruelty

showing how America looked like in a post-World's Fair climate, etc.

is it intended to depict America?

just industrial society, I thought. I wouldn't compare The Straight Story, to me Lynch's least interesting film, to Playtime

(obv the comparison can still be useful for Soto connecting the work to disengaged teens, whether or not Tati meant to build a USA)

i love how RUDELY NOISY PlayTime is throughout, and i get it if that's not tolerable for everyone

when the jet engine cuts in blaring over the (already chaotic) action in the opening scenes i got a feeling the movie would be a lot of fun

Not to be reductive, but Playtime's ability to still get under people's skin is a mark of its greatness.

I agree with the take of dud comedy but great sound design art film.

bump? (no pressure)

I give it till the rains break

Rest assured the ballots are in their safety box and will be certified in full.