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

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.

but you all are more basic than you may think. And I include myself there.

Nah I think we're great, it's just our more eccentric or connoisseur type selections are gonna be individual to each of us and thus less likely to get traction, polls always flatten out taste in this manner. That being said I didn't vote, lol.

A fun exercise would be to do a greatest films poll where you could vote for anything except what's on the TSPDT list.

I had a Pabst at #22 but I don't expect it will make it.

And I guess it is quite possible that Bresson won't show up again - don't know which of his others could beat Balthazar.

For me, it's probably hoping for too much to expect more Rivette or any Pialat to appear.

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49. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (George Miller, 2015, Australia) [808.73 points; 11 votes]
S&S: DNP | TSPDT: 351 | BOXD: 229

MORBS SEZ: "Pretty good, until it gets exhausting. The most impressive effect is making Nicholas Hoult look not-gorgeous"

Fuck you all
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, March 3, 2016 4:07 PM

I want this movie to make some major asshole money.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, May 13, 2015 3:58 PM

violence can be a feminist value, ask hilary clinton
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, May 20, 2015 8:04 PM

liked this, feel i should have liked it more, maybe i just want to be 10 again
― leet gentlemen's club (contenderizer), Friday, March 4, 2016 7:29 AM

Tom Hardy's pink mouth is an effective visual effect.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, May 15, 2015 8:44 PM

Also, with the chrome spray paint thing, is it just me but was that just spray paint, or a particular steroid/hyperstim mixed with the paint? Its used multiple times, but the one guy who gets two bolts in the head/neck almost dies, huffs the shit, then flies into a berserker rage and goes out in a ball of jumping fire.
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Thursday, May 21, 2015 12:44 PM

yeah i basically pictured it as poppers
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, May 21, 2015 12:46 PM

when even Armond is forced to admit a movie's got panache you know you've got a solid consensus
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Sunday, May 17, 2015 9:31 AM

but he doesnt think it's THE GREATEST FILM IN YEARS
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Sunday, May 17, 2015 9:36 AM

what a disaster for Mad Max
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, May 17, 2015 9:47 AM

haven't seen this, is it really one of the best 50 films of all time?

I would totally count it as one of the best 50 films of the last decade, all time prob not.

one of my fav ilx irl memories was watching mad max in brooklyn and falling asleep during it (i had a few too many)

This is a poptimist website innit

(great film obv)

and also by the time we got into the theater it was already at almost max cap, so we all had to split up and find a solo seat wherever we could. i found one at the very top row and must have dreamt of metal teeth and screaming guitar solo vehicles

don't think poptimism counts for cinema

mad max in brooklyn

not part of the official series I don't think

i dreamt it was canon

It was the name-dropping of Pialat what summoned Mad Max.

fury road and mandy are v aligned in my mind, wonder if voters overlapped on those

*giggles*

tbf MMFR was only longlist, surprised it only has 11 votes rly

Everyone into Fury Road should check out the black and white version at some point. It was originally conceived that way and it shows.

I will cut Fury Road some slack cos I only saw it on TV but I'm it ain't all that, shocking I think this I know

imo not I'm fucking spellchecker

"Witness NV!"

it's a shame the 1922 Murnau version of Fury Road is lost, or it would be top 10 for sure

I couldn't stop thinking about this movie when it first came out. It was sort of responsible for getting me into movies again after a period of disinterest.

In terms of filmic qualities, I'd say Mel Gibson's Apocalypto checks pretty much all the same boxes as Max Max: Fury Road, but where Gibson is essentially sentimental, MMFR has a much rawer punk/nihilist sensibility that ilxors respond to very strongly. btw, I didn't vote, so as not to dilute the results with my relative ignorance.

The fantastically imagined world, the meticulousness of the action sequences

Fury Road would be a zillion times better if the cars were all pedal powered like Bugsy Malone

hopefully magic mike xxl also places, cinema never got better than summer 2015