ILX All-Time Film and Morbsies Poll: RESULTS Thread for ILX's Favorite Movies, Films, Cinema, Flicks & Moving Pictures

just in time for Halloween

Good mix of the masterful and the godawful. I look forward to the obscurities on individual ballots.

Showgirls was fun to watch, it had a largely straight content (except for Gina Gershon) with an entirely gay sensibility, which I loved, but I’m just not thinking it is one of the best 100 films ever

at this point wondering if Buñuel, Kiarostami, Martel, Fellini, Visconti, Akerman, Rohmer, Weerasethakul, or Varda will show up

I hope In the Mood for Love will feature in the top 50. and Twin Peaks: The Return

and Taxi Driver and McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Hitchcock may have filmed Rebecca, The Birds and Jamaica Inn, but it was another director's Daphne du Maurier adaptation I had highest on my ballot, hope it places.

also recently rewatched Don't Look Now (is that the one you mean?), a really great film

That's the one, yeah.

at this point wondering if Buñuel, Kiarostami, Martel, Fellini, Visconti, Akerman, Rohmer, Weerasethakul, or Varda will show up

I'm sure the regulation entry for each (or two, for Fellini) will be along, and then people will complain that it's not one of the director's other films.

I'm enjoying stuff like Jurassic Park appearing. One thing that happens a lot with the yearly films polls is people saying "Oh I only saw a few films this year so I won't vote". I get the impression that when the scope is "all films ever", this is attacked on both sides from "I could have knuckled down and seen everything good this year but not everything good ever" and "I have, though, seen enough films to have my opinion on the best, my taste".

Or maybe people who wouldn't ordinarily have voted have done so as a tribute to Morbs - which is hilarious, he would have hated that shit.

Looks like list will be end up pretty conventional + generational (JP, Groundhog, BTTF). I know all of you people are film buffs, but are all the GREATS truly that great? Where's the cult stuff?

Oh, buffpaws.

Looks like list will be end up pretty conventional + generational (JP, Groundhog, BTTF). I know all of you people are film buffs, but are all the GREATS truly that great? Where's the cult stuff?

― gospodin simmel

This happens in every poll as you reach the top.

and uh how many best-of-all-time polls boast Jurassic Park among the finalists?

cult stuff will be in individual ballots I'd imagine tho there are films I think of as ilx canon like spring breakers that may still place depending on who voted

I have to assume most of the directors Dan cites will appear with the poss exception of Martel (tho I hope she makes it in). Wong surely a lock unless vote splitting does for him

haven't really had the time to comment but enjoying this rollout & not really mad at anything included here, the pop stuff is p good (& jurassic park is straight up wonderful, dlh otm as ever) it's not like john hughes garbage is placing or anything

& mandy is excellent fuiud (not that I voted for it)

some all-timers here I would have voted for if I'd done a long ballot (I did a 25 and didn't nominate anything or look at the nom list), lots I still need to get round to; to me the most random thing is the crumb doc, had no idea it was rated so highly. I was the number 1 vote for daisies and I believe I also voted for c&j, anatolia & johnny guitar

now that I'm not looking at the poll on zing on the phone I'm gonna go back & look at the images which is always one of the great pleasures of these things

oh also not to chainpost but I hope we managed to get more than 2 woman directors in the next 50 :/

wait i was out all day yesterday, Jurassic Fucking Park?? fuck the lot of youse

Maren Ade will crack the top 20 imo xp

This happens in every poll as you reach the top.

True of course, but I still thought ilx's consensus was more distinct from S&S and TSPDT and random hits that everybody loved at the time...

Buñuel would claim the top five if it were up to me.

I mean, scrolling through I'm seeing a lot in this top 100 that is in the S&S top 1000, so to be sure it's sort of alt-canon rather than anything amazingly leftfield I guess

Buñuel would claim the top five if it were up to me.

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 October 2021 12:41 (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

If my ballot has anything to do with it, this could be on, tbf

I'm assuming the other Tango & Cash voters had it highly placed and it's still to come

This 100's point of difference won't be outrageous left-field calls so much as leanings and peccadilloes, such as lots of Bunuel (he hopes)

what is TSPDT ?

https://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_all1000films_table.php

Will be silly if Satyijit Ray doesn't turn up. Would like to see Claire Denis too.

Will be sillier if Satyajit is misspelled like I did.

Dunno if ilxors are big on Ray, very few dinosaurs in his movies

Will be sad when Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Jia Zhangke and Paul Schrader don't place but hey

"& mandy is excellent fuiud (not that I voted for it)"

Nah, no way this is top 100.

It's not but I'm glad it is. Lists should startle.

Thanks, Alba.

Nothing startling about hipsters xp

it is, in fact, number 90, because eight people like it a lot sito

Eight members of the metropolitan liberal elite tho

Lol Nic Cage

Somewhat baffled at the "not top tier Spielberg" take on Jurassic Park. Can imagine getting angry if you have no time for the man in the first place, but his strenghts lie in sadism and suspense, JP delivers on that as well as anything in his work apart from Jaws.

Anyway, BTTF and Jurassic Park both feel like unobjectionable mainstream choices to me, in another world there could be Nolan batmans and Star Wars on this list (the latter prob will show up actually, sigh)

Nah it won't

Empire Strikes Back might tho ;)

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50. PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman, 1966, Sweden) [805.69 points; 13 votes; 1 first-place vote]
S&S: 16 | TSPDT: 19 | BOXD: 31

MORBS SEZ: "Smiles of a Summer Night is way up there. My top level also includes Shame, Persona, The Seventh Seal, Through a Glass Darkly and After the Rehearsal … Lars von Trier: 'I am proud to say he treated me exactly like his other children - with no interest whatsoever.' That is the first funny thing that fuckhead has perpetrated in years."

Persona's one of the most challenging things I've watched, and it raises interesting questions. Certainly something that I'll rewatch a fair amount.
― mj (robert blake), Wednesday, January 12, 2005 2:04 PM

cries and whispers was sort of a revelation to me when i watched it freshman year of college and persona still terrifies me a little bit.
― impudent harlot, Monday, July 30, 2007 7:50 AM

So, can somebody explain to me what made Persona a parable about the Vietnam conflict? I've heard this mentioned several times, and beyond the self-immolation fragment in the opening montage I don't understand the connection. Answers appreciated, this has been bothering me for some time and Film Four's Bergman season means its bothering me again.
― I know, right?, Friday, August 1, 2008 6:51 AM

Persona has to be one of the 10 greatest, no doubt in my mind.
― t0dd swiss, Saturday, August 15, 2009 11:54 PM

Persona is one of my favorite films. It is part of what the medium was built to achieve.
― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Wednesday, August 1, 2007 12:16 AM

look up "Persona font." I think the font is called Florida.
― Josefa, Wednesday, February 21, 2018 11:59 PM

what's the one about the two women and there's some creepy incest subtext? or maybe just fucking underage boys?
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, April 10, 2004 6:20 PM

That's Persona.
― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, April 11, 2004 12:51 PM

Will be sad when Hou Hsiao-Hsien Lubitsch and Jia Zhangke von Sternberg and Paul Schrader Pabst don't place but hey

― maybe these baps are legends (Noodle Vague), Saturday, October 30, 2021 9:06 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Fixed that for me. And I am disappointed that Sunrise will probably be the only Murnau and Balthazar the only Bresson, but you all are more basic than you may think. And I include myself there.

I wish half the attention Persona gets got transferred to Shame.

I voted for Shame and I assume it wasn’t mistaken for the Steve McQueen film.

It was mistaken for Shane sorry

i voted for jurassic park. i'm not sure how to delineate "proper" film from the low-grade popular stuff, but to me it's somewhat like being able to enjoy xenakis and also the breeders on the same day

are Ingmar Bergman movies fun to watch?

I voted for Shame and I assume it wasn’t mistaken for the Steve McQueen film.

― Chris L, Saturday, October 30, 2021 3:02 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

It was mistaken for Shane sorry

― siffleur’s mom (wins), Saturday, October 30, 2021 3:06 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

It was mistaken for Sh! The Octopus

lol I watched that a couple of months ago

Did not make my ballot

Drat.