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

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

Don’t think we’ve had Howard Hawks or Billy Wilder?

Werner Herzog and Elia Kazan two others on my list that we haven’t seen

Alfonso Cuaron

hideaki anno

Michael Winner

Frederick Wiseman. (0%)

<< TSWA>>

I *loathe* this Paul Newman/Joanne Woodward film!

I have seen Dielman. Interesting experiment. Much better as something to think back upon than as something to be sitting through.

Bill hated porn but I chagrined none will place unless Jurassic Park counts.

If a director made 10 equally beloved films, they're 90% less likely than a single-film director to fill one of the slots in this poll.

I have seen Dielman. Interesting experiment. Much better as something to think back upon than as something to be sitting through.

― adam t. (abanana),

another lonely woman, albeit Belgian

are there personifications of Isolation and Anxiety and do they punch each other

Is humping each other acceptable?

Wilder likely to place two, I'd guess

Is humping each other acceptable?

― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain)

We think so in the gay thread.

C. Grisso, what would Don 'n' Ghost of Glenn say about the results so far?

save us, eric

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25. SUNSET BLVD. (Billy Wilder, 1950, USA) [942.5 points; 12 votes; 1 first-place vote]
S&S: 61 | TSPDT: 33 | BOXD: 33

MORBS SEZ: "Sunset Blvd: a fun Hollywood vampire movie overrated by the feygelehs … and Manny Farber pointed out the sledgehammer obviousness of the store clerk's 'WELL, IF THE LADY IS PAYING' leer as a bad moment."

Sunset Blvd. if only for von Stroheim and the chimpanzee funeral.
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Thursday, October 5, 2017 7:55 AM

sunset boulevard's funnier than like 90% of these movies
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Monday, March 5, 2012 11:52 AM

Sunset Boulevard is more on the thriller side of the spectrum, but one of the most high profile; Whatever Happened to Baby Jane is probably the epitome of that trope on the horror end.
― emil.y, Tuesday, May 15, 2012 1:44 PM

Sunset Boulevard, to me, is maybe a bit overrated but pretty great anyway; Mulholland Drive is one the most self-parodic bits of claptrap I think I've ever seen (which I say as a big fan of Blue Velvet and much of Twin Peaks). It would never even occur to me to pair them in a poll, there's such a qualitative imbalance, although I can see where's a thematic connection.
― clemenza, Monday, October 19, 2009 5:48 PM

I liked Nancy Olson as a counterpart to Gloria Swanson
― Dan S, Friday, April 10, 2020 7:17 PM

Buster Keaton saying "pass" is one of my very favorite things in Sunset Blvd.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Thursday, October 5, 2017 1:09 PM

The confident over-reliance on voice-over has always smothered Sunset Boulevard for me.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, October 5, 2017 7:45 AM

"It was all very queer. But queerer things were yet to come..."
― flappy bird, Wednesday, June 13, 2018 11:24 AM

one of the greatest movies

DON: Cinema was and is a very important inspiration to us as Artists. We spent countless hours in dark screening rooms reviewing films like Grand Hotel, Psycho, and Touch of Evil as prep work for the writing of our classic Hotel California album.

GLENN: Orson Welles taught us there was more to the concept of a 'Touch of Evil' than whatever was happening between Lois Chiles and ol' Deep, I mean Golden Throat over here after the show!

DON: Well, yeah.

morbz otm, it's a great watch but not sure it quite lives up to it's shadow

One of the most surreal aspects of the Trump rallies was when he'd lapse into one of his campy reveries - "Whatever happened to movies like Sunset Boulevard" - and the mutants would have to recalibrate and figure out how they were going to go along with this one.

President Norma Desmond

hollywood vampire movie has a big shadow cos it is great imo

^agree

That shot of Holden hauling himself out of the pool, my god