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

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i still haven't see this but afaic chantal akerman is the best filmmaker of all time. (none of her films made my list bc i feel like i have yet to see my favorite)

NARRATOR: He will.

This top 50 so far is providing quite the homework assignment!

golden eighties is the one i expect will sing to me

i did nearly vote for hotel monterey, the only film i can write to

golden eighties is the one i expect will sing to me

Quite LITERALLY

I saw it last fall and didn't leave the house for a week.

My favourite is the Pina Bausch documentary

I voted for News From Home.

Dog Day Afternoon is one of the greatest films shot within ten minutes’ walk from my apartment

Dielman is too low

Related I visited the flat in Brussels last week!

xp revisited 'golden eighties' with my partner last fall as well. meli melo-oh-oh!

i might've voted for 'news from home' here over JD but the experience of seeing the latter in the theater was truly indelible. saw a friend in the lobby afterwards and i think we were too stunned to even speak to each other

Related I visited the flat in Brussels last week!

― plax (ico), Tuesday, November 2, 2021 2:34 PM (thirty-two seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

Are there JD tours in Brussels, in the way you can take a The Third Man-themed tour in Vienna?

last time i saw in the cinema one guy in front started laughing to himself during the climax which was uhh unsettling

shout-out to back-to-back Brackett

Are there JD tours in Brussels, in the way you can take a The Third Man-themed tour in Vienna?

― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 18:36 (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Idk I just googled the address and it was nearby, looked like a different building but there was a plaque

still wonder what the rotating flashing lights were that you could see coming in from outside the windows in the night-time scenes

https://cansesclasseled.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/026-north-by-northwest.jpg

26. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959, USA) [920.79 points; 14 votes; 1 first-place vote; Morbs silver]
S&S: 60 | TSPDT: 58 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: "NxNW is the most POPULIST Hitchcock, u pathetic phonies … ending is perfect. It's a sex comedy in disguise … as David Edelstein wrote today, NxNW 'is too much fun.'" (Slant review.)

The only action movie with Martin Landau playing a homo.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, February 17, 2012 11:17 AM

Is NxNW supposed to be "romantic"?! or "funny"?!
― Eric H., Friday, February 8, 2008 11:30 AM

NxNW is tooootally a romcom yeah
― i'm elf-ein lusophonic (imago), Tuesday, August 12, 2014 12:32 PM

This film is Hitchcock's statement on cunnilingus
― come on sock it to me (kephm), Saturday, January 22, 2005 12:14 AM

NxNW is just fucking great and the old cliche about it inventing Bond movies is mostly true
― contreatable logorrhea (Noodle Vague), Friday, February 17, 2012 11:16 AM

NXNW would be a classic if cary grant hadn't played the lead.
― turner, Sunday, September 9, 2001 7:00 PM

oddly the first thing that comes to mind when I think about NxNW is that little kid in the background that plugs his ears right before Eva Marie Saint shoots Cary Grant.
― da croupier, Friday, February 8, 2008 11:43 AM

The very first band I was ever in was called North by Northwest. Probably my favorite Hitchcock, or at least a very close tie with Rear Window.
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Friday, February 17, 2012 11:19 AM

The very first porn I was ever in was called Rear Window.
― CANDY aka JUNK (some dude), Friday, February 17, 2012 11:20 AM

north by northwest more like butts by buttswest
― Esteban Buttez!!, Thursday, July 7, 2005 4:09 PM

so we've got what? another 4 or 5 Hitch movies in the top 25?

(That's his 3rd so far; still one behind Altman.)

i forgot, has Psycho alread placed?

Vertigo of course but what else? Think maybe just one or two more, hopefully not Rear Window.

I was the first-place voter here. What can I say? A perfect entertainment.

i was including Psycho but Vertigo and Rear Window strongly possible, The Birds a solid maybe, all the Brit Hitch robbed obviously

Cary Grant is barely a human being in this movie, just a flannel suit with flesh in it. He's wonderful.

Leathery, bronzed, oily flesh.

"How does a girl like you get to be a girl like you."

s/o to Vincent Gallo doing the airplane scene in Arizona Dream.

Apparently the only performance that'll satisfy you is if I play dead.

NNW is so much fun.

(lol just saw the "too much fun" quote from Edelstein above. Yep.)

call it my woman's intuition

the best hitch already placed (notorious) but if there's more, i would hope it's rear window over vertigo

rear window has a top ten shot

Tried to think of directors likely to have a single entry who we haven't seen yet:
Spike Lee
Carol Reed
Paul Thomas Anderson
Charles Laughton (would be VERY surprised if he shows up more than once).

Phantom Thread is a beloved ILX favourite.

i encourage more ilxors to watch to sleep with anger

Charles Laughton (would be VERY surprised if he shows up more than once).

― Chris L, Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Not unless they find another film in the vaults.

TSWA almost made my ballot but his other big film has haunted me too many years.

Tried to think of directors likely to have a single entry who we haven't seen yet:
Spike Lee
Carol Reed
Paul Thomas Anderson
Charles Laughton (would be VERY surprised if he shows up more than once).

― Chris L, Tuesday, November 2, 2021 3:37 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

Jean Renoir. I'm a little surprised we haven't gotten a Mel Brooks title already.

jean vigo?

No Wes Anderson, but given his pitiful showing in the Director's Poll (and no actual French Dispatch thread), I assume ILX's love affair w/him is OVAH.

I still enjoy his stuff but yeah he's not needed here.

Jane Campion?

have an expectation wenders will (incorrectly) place

Darren Aronofsky
Louis Malle
Mike Leigh
David Cronenberg
Wong Kar-Wai
Nicholas Roeg

all yet to place?

no chance of any Antonioni now I would guess

I'm guessing one Wong, with the others I'm not sure there's a consensus pick that would push them into the top 25.

Mizoguchi, I hope