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

What, like Hiroshima?

You saw nothing in Hiroshima.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuBIz0G_pls

Gosar is a pox on this thread

ugh

^^The Important Thing Is To Love, which also has Jacques Dutronc and Klaus Kinski!

Shows up in Françoise Hardy's autobio, she was very worried Dutronc would fall for Schneider and leave her.

just saw Sans Soleil, what an amazing film. I plan to see it again but as many times as I could watch it I don’t think I will ever be able to absorb it all

its fun to watch in a movie marathon with la jetée and vertigo

So good, and you barely started on Marker (if that's your first by him).

also watched La Jetée, which is even harder to parse

it was the inspiration for twelve monkeys if that helps.

Hard to parse, you say?

:)

There are a couple of others available on the Criterion Channel and one on Kanopy, I will watch, but among his 67 credits there is nothing else I can find right now, including on dvd

Tonight I watched one of the films I hadn't seen: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
I really liked the structure and timing; the opening crawl and graveyard shots set up the tension, then large segments of the first half of the movie are hippie kids wandering through meadows like some anodyne public television footage I might have watched as a little kid. Many of the most horrific scenes take place on a sunny afternoon or a pale dawn; two of the characters don't even realize they're in danger until two-thirds of the way through. It's definitely true what Clemenza said above that the most horrible scenes are also the most funny. I was also pleased to find that none of the film had been spoiled for me by being quoted or memed (or maybe I just haven't encountered it).

I should totally have voted for TCM. It's better than Georgy Girl, or whatever shit I put at 25

the scene with the takenoko-zoku dance troupe in Tokyo in Sans Soleil was really great

everyone should retire at age 20? not sure I heard that right

there was so much that went by in that film

There really is, and as many times as I've seen it, I find myself catching something new in between the bouts of me nodding my head "yes" constantly.

“The Stargate sequence in 2001 has dated worse than most special effects from that era - feels like something you'd see in some psychsploitation film - and make it v difficult to tune in to the film's idea of transcendence imo”

― Daniel_Rf, Friday, November 5, 2021

that is not true at all, it still feels transcendental. When was a sequence like this ever imagined before

By Brakhage.

they are very different

Kael compared the Stargate sequence (not favorably, to put it mildly) to another filmmaker--checked back, and it wasn't Brakhage but Jordan Belson, who I don't know at all. But this does suggest a strong influence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFA29CsDRe0

oh come on

I'm not saying it's better. I'm not saying anything except there's clearly some similarity, and I suspect Kubrick was aware of it's existence. (Belson wasn't working with a major studio and a big budget, and it was 1959.)

there is no comparison

Okay, Dan S.--Kevin's wrong, Kael's wrong, I'm wrong. Stargate is sui generis.

:) I respect your point of view, but think it is!

This won't change your mind, but you should find this piece interesting:

https://offscreen.com/view/beyond_the_infinite

The one thing I got above all else from Michael Benson's 2001 book (and it's not one of my favourite films, but one that interests me a great deal) is that Kubrick was hyper-attuned to everything around him in the culture--like Godard, or Dylan, or Warhol around the same time--and that he grabbed at anything he thought he could use. That's not a criticism at all, far from it. He's still the one who took all that stuff and turned it into something.

its certainly fair to bring up Jordan Belson as an antecedent to the stargate sequence, but Kael calling the sequence "third rate" Belson has got to be one of the looniest challops of her career. iirc in the Benson book Trumbull IDs John Whitney (who did the animation in Vertigo) as one of his main influences on the sequence

I thought that was way off too.

I read that Kubrick did attempt to get a contemporary experimental filmmaker to help create the Stargate sequence, but I don't remember who now.

Last week I watched John Carpenter 's The Thing from this list. It was well done, but I'm the sort of horror-film viewer who watches avidly in the early "ominous" scenes where helicopters land on empty patches of snow or someone walks down an empty corridor. By the later scenes, when blood is geysering and chest cavities are imploding, I'm shrugging.
It also seemed to me that the threat the Thing posed was whatever Carpenter decided it needed to be from scene-to-scene. First it has to hide inside a human being, but all of a sudden it can tear through the ground like a submarine going 100 miles an hour? I didn't feel the film was playing fair with expectations. But one detail I liked was that the cast was large enough that I really didn't get a handle on who each character was until most of them were dead; it kept me guessing about the human drama.

that is not true at all, it still feels transcendental.

Pfft, seen it a bunch of times and haven't transcended once.

I'll transcend you.

Mikhail Kalatozov's The Cranes Are Flying is a pretty great film, looking forward to I Am Cuba

Funny, Cranes has been on my mind this week as one to revisit. Of the two, Cranes is the better film in terms of storytelling - the drama & acting in I Am Cuba are pretty cartoonish, but Cuba's rep for eye-popping visuals is well deserved

have been reading this thread again, it is the best ilx film thread ever

even better than the 101 Directors poll, which was also great:

All Right, Mr. DeMille, I'm Ready For My Close-Up ... It's The ILXOR's Top 101 Director Poll Results Thread

does anyone know when the 2022 S&S poll will come out?

I don’t even know who is getting ballots. Everyone I’ve asked has said they haven’t (so far)

I read on twitter today that the call for ballots has now gone out. I hope the films critics here will be able to vote. I will look out for contacts

I’m only surreptitiously a critic but I might shamelessly beg for a ballot

You know who didn't submit a ballot here? mark s didn't.

you call that a comprehensive list? what good does that do?

I watched The Night of the Hunter again, it's very creepy and quite good but I wouldn't put it in the top 10 films of all time

Haven't cross-referenced these lists against each other, but I'd bet that at least a third factor into both, maybe even half ...

https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time