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

He's dubbed. His ease of movement is the killer. Xpost

lol I didn't he was dubbed

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Who are the Margaret Dumonts of ILX?

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, November 1, 2021 6:41 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

A-HEM.

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Who is the Bruno Dumont of ILX?

Well, a friend told me after seeing Twentynine Palms, "I wouldn't recommend this to anyone except you".

The Fellini on my ballot was Amarcord, which is a kind of comedy I hoped there would be more of on this list.

Not so far, and I'd say the odds are thin for the Dardennes, Von Trier, Tarr, Tsai, Wenders, Antonioni, Hou (not all of whom are my picks).

― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 1 November 2021 bookmarkflaglink

There'll be more films by Robert fucking Altman than the entire cinematic output of Iran lol.

Just waiting for Woody Allen to show up

Should I give Contempt a go? One of the few major 60's Godards I haven't seen yet, always looked a bit "dressed as the sick soul of Europe party".

California Split over McCabe & Mrs Miller tbh

ESB is relieved of the burden of a happy ending, it gets to end with everything totally fucked. It's unusual in that sense, you don't often get the big slambang popcorn epic that also leaves you bummed out. (Avengers: Infinity War obviously stole the trick.)

Always very skeptical of this argument when it's a film that you know is going to have another installment. Are serial episodes from the 30's where the villain has the hero's love interest in chains at the end leaving the audience bummed out?

60s Godard has great use of colour, sound, his greatest actors and you get to see Godard working in the film industry (no other decade allowed him to crash cars). I agree he got better beyond the 'iconic' stuff, but absolutely give it a blast.

Yeah yeah no, I love 60's Godard, just never gave that one a go. Will do.

I kinda feel like Contempt's soundtrack might also be the best thing ever. The score's pretty lean, I guess, but Georges Delerue's handful of cues ensure literal goosebumps, in context, for me.

It is indeed and my memory is that, true to form, Godard tries to utilize it as annoyingly as possible.

Always very skeptical of this argument when it's a film that you know is going to have another installment. Are serial episodes from the 30's where the villain has the hero's love interest in chains at the end leaving the audience bummed out?

As long as you never watch the next installment!

I mean right, it’s a cheat of sorts, but it also why ESB has whatever rep for “darkness” it maintains.

i like the bit with the nebula at the end of esb because it’s the first (and only?) instance where the characters simply bask in the inherent beauty of space, rather than treat it like a highway

Just chill til the next episode.

Sorry for the delay ...

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30. BARRY LYNDON (Stanley Kubrick, 1975, UK) [883.23 points; 13 votes; Morbs silver]
S&S: 39 | TSPDT: 48 | BOXD: 86

MORBS SEZ: "Barry Lyndon and The Long Goodbye are both masterworks … I've come to think Lyndon just might be greater than Nashville … It has wit. It is not a comedy … are ppl who call Lyndon dull judging it by wham-bam standards? There's quite a lot going on. Pirates of the Caribbean, now THAT'S boring."

Barry Lyndon is only watchable on percocet
― flappy bird, Sunday, October 22, 2017 4:31 PM

Eyes Wide Shut is pretty bad though, but Barry Lyndon is still more boring to me somehow.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, January 19, 2005 5:28 PM

think Barry Lyndon is hilarious, but others may disagree
― d-_-b (mh), Wednesday, October 31, 2012 3:22 PM

The compositions in it are pretty crazy. There probably isn't another movie that looks like it (except other Kubesies)
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, October 31, 2012 3:22 PM

Jaws, Nashville, Barry Lyndon are good films by great directors that I never want to rewatch.
― Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, June 21, 2009 9:18 AM

barry lyndon is a practically flawless film
― latebloomer: none of th movies make scence but they r good. (latebloomer), Sunday, November 5, 2006 10:47 PM

which doesn't make it great
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, November 5, 2006 10:52 PM

Apparently, "bad" movies from great directors are among my favorite movies ever. Great directors ought to make "bad" movies more often... instead of "good" ones
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, October 21, 2003 12:16 AM

i think it's easily his best film.
― jed_ (jed), Friday, October 27, 2006 9:41 AM

a great film, Kubrick's best after his co-directing job on A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, and a movie I want to see again right now.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, June 21, 2009 11:54 AM

considering we're surrounded with ppl who routinely rank Kid A over OK Computer, I'm betting Barry Lyndon will win this poll.
― Stevie D, Thursday, April 5, 2007 3:06 AM

Barry Lyndon is not Kubrick's Kid A though. 2001 may be his OK Computer however.
― DavidM, Thursday, April 5, 2007 3:12 AM

<3 duck soup
harpos funniest

Crap, that's a Morbs silver too.

Absolute textbook gabbneb in those quotes lol

This is the one Kubrick I'm happy to see place. mark s has pointed out that, while Kubrick in general is seen as cold and distant, this film is very sad.

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Barry Lyndon is pretty entertaining, Morbs is right, and Kubrick's fetish for composition maybe at its zenith. I know this is a boring complaint, but I do think Ryan O'Neal hurts it. He's OK, but a better actor could have turned that into a great performance.

It is more fun than Eyes Wide Shut.

This is Kubrick's best film. Paths of Glory also good but no need for that or anything else of his to place. That is all.

Patrick Magee is so good in this.

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29. THE GREEN RAY (Eric Rohmer, 1986, France) [900.88 points; 8 votes; Morbs silver]
S&S: 265 | TSPDT: 312 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: "Summer (Le Rayon Vert) is transcendent, his best of the last 25 years … gabbneb gtfo"

Rohmer is life tbh
― hell is auteur people (Noodle Vague), Thursday, January 18, 2018 8:42 AM

I finally saw The Green Ray 💚
― flappy bird, Wednesday, January 29, 2020 11:09 PM

based on the evidence (Pauline on the Beach, Summer, Boyfriends and Girlfriends) the '80s were Rohmer's best decade.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, August 29, 2016 5:57 PM

would recommend THE GREEN RAY to sell anyone on Rohmer.
― Chris L, Thursday, January 18, 2018 8:41 AM

Le Rayon Vert has to be the Rohmer film I enjoyed watching the most the very first time. I watched it when trapped in my house for seven days during a freeze. The character seemed annoyingly neurotic to me when the film began but I quickly sympathized and understood her issues and came to like that character more and more.
― *tera, Wednesday, June 8, 2011 2:32 PM

"Le Rayon Vert" (Summer) is a bit sub-par IMHO and probably the weakest of the 'Comédies et Proverbes' cycle, my favorite of which is "L'ami de mon amie" (can't remember the English title, The Friend of my Friend?).
― Baaderonixx on a long black leash (Fabfunk), Wednesday, August 17, 2005 8:48 AM

'green ray' is hella dull
― henry miller, Monday, January 10, 2005 8:56 AM

Green Ray's wonderful. Love the story about how they had to wait a whole year to get the titular image on film because it didn't happen the year they were actually filming.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, January 30, 2020 12:30 AM

Oh Henry miller where are you now

Dunno if it's one of the greatest films of all time but it's 100% got some of the greatest fits.

Wow, I didn't expect this.

Basically my favourite film ever. It makes me so happy.

It's really good, and probably his best run of films.

This had a nice ending, but basically I don't get Rohmer. I liked La Collectioneuse and the two historical films he did in the mid 70s best.

Big, pleasant surprise. Well done.

lettuce is a friend

Rohmer is hit and miss for me. In fact I watched four adventures of reinette and mirabelle last night and it really didn't work apart from the first section, the blue hour, and that was quite similar to the green ray, which is among my 5 favourite films of all time, finding magic in transcending the quotidian

Aww

more than the sum of it's parts doesn't do it justice, it's a work of pure conjuring. seems to restore me everytime i see it. the most gorgeous 16mm photography too.

And I'll repeat: Rohmer really got going in the 1980s.

Full Moon in Paris is fascinating for taking place when Paris itself was shifting into '80s mode.

boyfriends and girlfriends is indeed a banger. moments where the whole film seems to exist for rohmer to play with colour blocking using clothing.

Delphine is one of the most relatable characters in film to me - her reticence and indecisiveness, the way she shuts down or opens up depending on how she thinks she's perceived by the people around her, the hilarious awkwardness of the vegetarianism scene. Marie Rivière conveys it all perfectly.

The simplicity of scale is wonderful too, how much you can accomplish with such a basic setup.

Love Barry Lyndon, it and the shining were the only Kubrick I liked until I saw the early noirs recently

Rivière unafraid to be churlish too.

In addition to everything else it's a very funny film about Ireland in quotes

I prefer Hong sangsoo to rohmer

i haven't seen the green ray. let's look up a description.

"A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation."

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Noted.