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Turin horse is the only one of these I saw twice at the cinema. However voting inherent vice as it's the film I saw most recently, an important criterion often overlooked by voters in polls

harperlee jot shilly (wins), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link

Short Term 12 is also godawful.

Would probably vote one of Dogtooth, Certified Copy, This Is Not a Film

touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link

I've never even heard of short term 12! Dogtooth is great. Alps is pretty underrated. I'm grateful to "thedissolve.com" for reminding me that I like films

harperlee jot shilly (wins), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link

Certified Copy is the title on this list that most makes me feel like Armond White.

That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link

Turin horse is the only one of these I saw twice at the cinema.

― harperlee jot shilly (wins)

Want an award?

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link

After years of being passed over too fuckin right I do

harperlee jot shilly (wins), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link

Certified Copy is the title on this list that most makes me feel like Armond White.

Passionate?

Eric H., Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link

Incoherent in the face of something far more complex and profound than your own ability to communicate?

Eric H., Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link

Xxp It's a great film! It makes me hungry for potatoes and pálinka

harperlee jot shilly (wins), Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link

Passionate vs Incoherent in the face of something far more complex and profound than your own ability to communicate?

sounds like one of AW's year end binaries.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:04 (nine years ago) link

Plus it's got an awesome soundtrack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ3-7C6RYOE

Eric H., Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:04 (nine years ago) link

Not really passionate, but probably incoherent. More like the one guy who doesn't get what all the critics are raving about.

That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link

I'm pretty incoherent about not getting what's so great about the Dardennes (who aren't on this list).

Eric H., Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:25 (nine years ago) link

Still need to see a Dardennes film oneathesedays. Recommendations on best/most representative?

That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:39 (nine years ago) link

The Son

touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link

I'd agree with that on both counts.

Eric H., Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:47 (nine years ago) link

U-N-I-T-Y

touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 February 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link

The Son and Rosetta.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 February 2015 19:04 (nine years ago) link

i understood the hate for Rosetta.

touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 February 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link

so Margaret is good then? how come it took so long to be released? looked .. intense from the trailer.

piscesx, Thursday, 5 February 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link

lengthy articles have addressed that topic.

touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 February 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link

Its cult rivals any film's.

Eric H., Thursday, 5 February 2015 19:42 (nine years ago) link

2 of the producers died during the making which didn't help.

Hulk wrote some good things about it here: http://badassdigest.com/2012/02/16/film-crit-hulk-smash-22-short-thoughts-about-margaret/

ʎɐpunsunɾɐɔ (cajunsunday), Thursday, 5 February 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link

Favorites:

1: The Social Network
2: Boyhood
3: Margaret

Hated:

1: The Grand Budapest Hotel
2: The Wolf of Wall Street

Most Disappointing: Meek's Cutoff

Seen: 28

clemenza, Thursday, 5 February 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link

Huh from this list probably act of killing i think?

a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link

Only one on the list that pisses me off is Marcy Martha etc. junk. Couple of other ones seem like dumb filler (toy story 3 in particular)

a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link

semi-surprising no Argo or Lincoln, too grown up for this cru maybe, not that id really rep much for either

also there'er far too few documentaries

ive somehow seen 37, tho not yet amour or boyhood

johnny crunch, Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:14 (nine years ago) link

far too few documentaries and yet exit thru the gift shop

harperlee jot shilly (wins), Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link

Anything to do with Banksy needs incinerating, but yeah so many good docs in the last five years.

xelab, Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link

The Missing Picture for starters...

xelab, Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link

I still get annoyed when I think of the ending of Meek's Cutoff.

Chris L, Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:32 (nine years ago) link

have only seen about 10 of these tbh, but would probably go for under the skin.

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:35 (nine years ago) link

Still championing Zero Dark Thirty as great must be more out of stubbornness at this point

Chris L, Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:38 (nine years ago) link

Better than Argo at any rate.

Eric H., Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link

reluctantly agree. similar lies, worse craft, just a tad less odious in political context.

touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:48 (nine years ago) link

Suspect "Boyhood" will be the Moby's "Play" of movies.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:52 (nine years ago) link

By which I assume you mean "the superlative cultural artifact of its decade".

Brodozer Coke Buffet (Old Lunch), Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:57 (nine years ago) link

Argo has a fatal smugness about it as well as all the bullshit, like the level of self satisfaction you get in the worst George Clooney movies/performances multiplied a couple of times.

xelab, Thursday, 5 February 2015 22:00 (nine years ago) link

Suspect you're right. #1 ranking is ludicrous.

Eric H., Thursday, 5 February 2015 22:01 (nine years ago) link

No Only God Forgives!?

bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Thursday, 5 February 2015 22:01 (nine years ago) link

xp Tho, hey, better that than Social Network.

Eric H., Thursday, 5 February 2015 22:01 (nine years ago) link

for sure, pretentious TV on the big screen. one great scene: the regatta.

touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 February 2015 22:07 (nine years ago) link

top 3 are far more regrettable/incomprehensible than the list overall

A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 February 2015 22:40 (nine years ago) link

short term 12 had the potential to be good but ended up awful. no idea why its on here.

StillAdvance, Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:02 (nine years ago) link

no american hustle no credibility but that's just one ilx poster's opinion

franklin, Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:08 (nine years ago) link

my top 10 -

Holy Motors
Uncle Boonmee
Margaret
The Social Network
A Seperation
12 Years A Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street
Certified Copy
Toy Story 3
Goodbye to Language

StillAdvance, Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:14 (nine years ago) link

Voted Uncle Boonmee. Since Stray Dogs isn't on there, that seems the obvious choice. With two Iranian directors in the top five, I can't really attack it too much for americo-centrism. Annoyingly.

Frederik B, Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:23 (nine years ago) link

comment folks underneath the feature seem most perturbed by the lack of Drive, although i bloody loathed it so no harm done.

piscesx, Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:25 (nine years ago) link

wish i liked uncle boonmee more. or that syndromes & a century had been released a little later.

A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:27 (nine years ago) link

margaret -- one of my favorites of any half-decade

boyhood at 1 is a good argument for waiting 20 years before trying to build a canon

qualx, Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:27 (nine years ago) link


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