The ILX Film Poll 2020: Drive-Ins and Staying In

I still haven’t gotten to SOM, forgot it even came out!

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18. THE KID DETECTIVE
Evan Morgan (CA)
54 points, 3 votes

We have now seen half the countries represented in this year's poll.

My #1. Didn't think anyone else saw it, let alone voted for it.

fun one, i voted for it

I was the other voter.

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17. MINARI
Lee Isaac Chung (USA)
58 points, 3 votes

Prolly gonna be my number one for 2021 ^

2021 movie afaic

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16. THE EMPTY MAN
David Prior, Cullen Bunn, Vanesa R. Del Rey (USA)
59 points, 3 votes

Sorry I missed your email, blew past the deadline, here's my list

Spree
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
On the Rocks
City Hall
Spaceship Earth
Kajillionaire
First Cow
Da 5 Bloods
An American Pickle
Shiva Baby
The War with Grandpa
Another Round
Karen Dalton: In My Own Time
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Tenet
The Hunt
Siberia
Possessor
Eat Wheaties!

we would have been the only two voters for Subsequent Moviefilm.

i voted for kid detective too. clever encyclopedia brown parody that becomes something else.

flappy — great top 3! those are all in my top-4 lol

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15. AMERICAN UTOPIA
David Byrne, Annie-B Parson, Spike Lee (UT)
62 points, 3 votes

still haven't seen it

this looked extremely cringe. please keep broadway out of the cinema please

and put some damn socks on

I really hope The Disciple places on this list.

(They do have li’l low-cut socks on, and the live show was a touring rock concert, ftr)

wait, when did this happen?

from March 3rd to November 25th 2018, in 29 countries?

ah that explains it

They played NY and NJ in March, July, August and September

and now for the feel-good double-feature that kids learnt a little something from, too

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13= SOUL
Pete Docter, Mike Jones, Kemp Powers (USA)
63 points, 4 votes

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13= POSSESSOR
Brandon Cronenberg (CA)
63 points, 4 votes

I really liked Possessor when I saw it, but I can't remember hardly any of it now!

They played NY and NJ in March, July, August and September

i like the idea of a soul/possessor double feature; they have a lot in common!

pressing the "home" button will take you to the top of the thread, forks!

speaking of home

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12. COLOR OUT OF SPACE
Scarlett Amaris (USA)
67 points, 3 votes

Had this down as a 2019 film, otherwise would have thrown it a vote.

Honestly, I judge the date of a film by what Wikipedia lists as the Release Date for wide U.S. release. Dunno if the yearly disconnect is UK/Canada posters or if its just "I go to film festivals" flexing or something else

The D-40 "Still Tippin'" conundrum

For a fun and kind of schlocky B-movie aesthetic, Color Out of Space managed to be a deeply affecting meditation on almost unthinkable grief. I guess that's the source material too, but it was portrayed well. It's also camp and spectacular.

never got to see this movie before i learned horrible things about richard stanley, oh well

saw it in theaters and thought it was hella stupid but a fun way to spend an evening out

I sorted my icheckmovies list by release date and it’s down as 2019 there. I guess I could have looked more closely but just tossed off a ballot.

Saw it at the start of 2020 with imago and one of his friends and we emerged kind of shellshocked, I thought!

It had a one-night-only US national cinema release in January 2020

It was not one-night-only

Either way, it would have more of a claim to being a 2020 movie than Minari which was on VOD for a week in December before opening nationally on February 2021

I tried to be as rigorous as possible with release dates for my ballot but it’s always gonna be nebulous - anyway saw this during 2020 as part of regular lockdown movie night with my covid bubble & had a blast (bubblemate thought it was dumb)

COOS opened in more limited locations the following weekend iirc. They'd done one-night-only in Australia the first week of Jan, seemed to be a SpectreVision-level move to maximise the horror audience.

It's good that someone has taken on Morbs' mantle of screaming at people in the poll results that they voted wrong because they live in a different city.

(whiney is not screaming)

and now for a double feature of films named for community architecture, and how bureaucracy can grind against the interests of that community

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10= CITY HALL 
Frederick Wiseman (USA)
70 points, 4 votes

I love that Wiseman's slot has been creeping up steadily with each successive year (it feels like, don't check my work).

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10= Small Axe: MANGROVE 
Steve McQueen, Alastair Siddons
70 points, 5 votes