(silents, that is) xp
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
Arguing for cinema as purely visual is wrong-headed imo
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
LBI we should hang out and do a movie weekend at some point haha
― imago, Tuesday, February 25, 2020 4:40 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
A lot of tears and a lot of confusion, see you on Friday! :D
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
well "purely visual" is a subjective term
ie there was always music w/ silents
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
"You brought the wrong Melancholia, dammit!"
― imago, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
Haha
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
Morbs I agree it was a general ramble. I sometimes feel like sound design is a better argument for modern movies in a theatre than the visual sense.
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 16:13 (four years ago) link
Surprised no one else has Synecdoche
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
2001The Burmese HarpCertified CopyCrumbThe Grand Budapest HotelLate SpringLe MéprisMulholland Dr.News from HomeUncle Boonmee
Archers left out because I couldn't decide btw 7 films
― Miami weisse (WmC), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:01 (four years ago) link
xpost I have an unwatched copy of Synecdoche that I might finally be done waiting for my gf to feel like watching with me; will update.
― Expart of Languidge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link
This Sporting LifeGoodfellasWild StrawberriesStroszekRear WindowSweet Smell of SuccessBigger Than LifeBarry LyndonCome and SeeMeantime
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link
I could easily put Peeping Tom or Psycho in either of my previous two lists
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:09 (four years ago) link
wow. Citizen Kane's taking a pounding in this thread. call off the dogs!
― cajunsunday, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 21:00 (four years ago) link
not very thorough, just the stuff I'm in the habit of naming or have loved most in the last few years
Ninotchka (1939)The Gang’s All Here (1943)Hester Street (1975)Killer of Sheep (1977)Losing Ground (1982)Love & Basketball (2000)Bad Education (2004)Poetry (2010)Cameraperson (2016)Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
― geoffreyess, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link
The Third Man2001A Brighter Summer DayNews from HomeWinter Light Black NarcissusThe Devil, ProbablyRobocopMaborosiSafe
― Chris L, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 23:12 (four years ago) link
ah god fuck it I can't not do another one
THE APARTMENTFRIDAY NIGHTSHANGHAI EXPRESSTHROUGH A GLASS DARKLYI'M STILL HERETHE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCEZABRISKIE POINTHEATHERSZOOLANDEREYES WIDE SHUTTHE IMAGE BOOKTHE HUMAN SURGE
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 03:09 (four years ago) link
I have yet to watch A Brighter Summer Day or Yi Yi but I own both. I am saving them for....something. I'm not sure what yet.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 03:20 (four years ago) link
both of them are great, especially A Brighter Summer Day. I still haven't seen Taipei Story, but it's on the Criterion Channel so I will have to watch it
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 03:38 (four years ago) link
His most realized imo
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 03:39 (four years ago) link
Don’t forget Terrorizers, it’s streaming a few places.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 03:39 (four years ago) link
the Through a Glass Darkly - Winter Light - The Silence trilogy is fantastic, there are so many great Bergman films
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 04:00 (four years ago) link
have to go with Wild Strawberries and Fanny and Alexander in the end, though
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 04:07 (four years ago) link
re yang, that day, on the beach is also a must see
― devvvine, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 10:46 (four years ago) link
yes Eric, you see more recent greatness than I do*, that's why youre still in the arena
*do you? really? I can't even call Certified Copy great. It's... enough already.
I do, absolutely. And it is great, absolutely.
― 🚶♂️💨 (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 13:26 (four years ago) link
The goodness of most of the lists on this thread is kind of proof that lists are nonsense.
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 16:58 (four years ago) link
The inability for many on ILX to count to 10 justifies Morbs' contempt.
― 🚶♂️💨 (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
lists are great, everyone should make lists
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
just don't call them the "best" anything, my end of decade list was just a list of some movies from the decade, I'm an idiot and shouldn't be ranking dick
nah that's more what i meant tbf
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:37 (four years ago) link
Looks like at this early point, 2001 is the most-mentioned, with 5.
― 🚶♂️💨 (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:39 (four years ago) link
no cinephile can meaningfully confine a list to 10 w/out playing "electability"-style Family Feud
(or usually, 'let me vote for what others won't')
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
If I were to vote strictly on the "electability" index (i.e. movies that were already solidly in the top 50/100 last decade), I guess my ballot would be selections from these:
The Rules of the Game (1939)The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)Late Spring (1949)The Night of the Hunter (1955)Imitation of Life (1959)L'eclisse (1962)La Jetée (1962)Gertrud (1964)Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)Barry Lyndon (1975)Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)Nashville (1975)Close-Up (1990)A Brighter Summer Day (1991)Sátántangó (1994)Mulholland Dr. (2001)
― 🚶♂️💨 (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:46 (four years ago) link
The trick is to have three classic films to establish that you've seen the basics, three strategic votes for something you want to see move up on the list, and three votes for something no one else will vote for, so that you seem like you have a personality. And a joker.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link
The Art of the Listmaker
― 🚶♂️💨 (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link
Aren't there 12 picks on each ballot?
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link
Has there ever been a favourite-films ILX poll? Maybe before I got here, but I don't remember one since. You should run one, Eric, in advance of the S&S poll. At least there won't be arguments over what qualifies. Everything does.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
I mean... You should definitely run the poll, but there will be arguments when The Return of Twin Peaks wins it...
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
Let's wait a few years until there's Netflix films that don't appear in the cinema :)
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
Bird Box doesn't count?
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link
Limited theatrical run in December 2018 (and a festival before that)
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 18:56 (four years ago) link
Huh. The more you know
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
For the most part avoiding S&S films (many of course objectively better or more influential):
Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara, 1964)Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)Come and See (Klimov, 1985)Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Schrader, 1985)For All Mankind (Reinert, 1989)Underground (Kusturica, 1995)Happiness (Solondz, 1998)Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr & Hranitzky, 2000)Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang, 2000)Synecdoche, New York (Kauffman, 2008)
― Save us, Covid19 (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
I don't mind running an all-time poll as soon as I can come up with something better than Schmight and Schmound.
― 🚶♂️💨 (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 19:34 (four years ago) link
sought and signed
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 19:36 (four years ago) link
Devils on the Doorstep is a very good film
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 19:58 (four years ago) link
― Frederik B, Wednesday, February 26, 2020 11:47 AM (two hours ago)
Actually, I think we cracked the code on the 2012 ballots thread:
for younger crix the alogorithm is usually1 x silent film that isnt potemkin sunrise or w/e1 x bresson/dreyer1 x japanese1 x godard else maybe eustache or markers or suchlike2 x ford/hawks/sirk/&c2 x hitchcock/welles/kubrick1 x tsai/breillat/&c antiseptic post 95 arthouse1 x avantgarde― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:59 PM (seven years ago)
1 x silent film that isnt potemkin sunrise or w/e1 x bresson/dreyer1 x japanese1 x godard else maybe eustache or markers or suchlike2 x ford/hawks/sirk/&c2 x hitchcock/welles/kubrick1 x tsai/breillat/&c antiseptic post 95 arthouse1 x avantgarde
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:59 PM (seven years ago)
1 silent, preferably in which an elephant dies on camera1 fruity early sound musical1 first wave a-g1 newer a-g, preferably a horror movie in disguise1 golden age of horror1 French 60s (maybe Bresson)1 French 70s (maybe Bresson)1 movie with men kissing, but they're actually killing each other unless one is underageSatantango2 girls, 1 cup reax YouTubes― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Wednesday, April 25, 2012 2:04 PM (seven years ago)
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Wednesday, April 25, 2012 2:04 PM (seven years ago)
― 🚶♂️💨 (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link
1 silent, preferably in which an elephant dies on camera1 fruity early sound musical1 first wave a-g1 newer a-g, preferably a horror movie in disguise1 golden age of horror1 French 60s (maybe Bresson)1 French 70s (maybe Bresson)1 movie with men kissing, but they're actually killing each other unless one is underageSatantango2 girls, 1 cup reax YouTubes― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Wednesday, April 25, 2012
add 1 ounce Campari and/or Averna add 1/8 ounce Noilly Pratt sweet vermouthstir
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link
for younger crix the alogorithm is usually1 x silent film that isnt potemkin sunrise or w/e1 x bresson/dreyer1 x japanese1 x godard else maybe eustache or markers or suchlike2 x ford/hawks/sirk/&c2 x hitchcock/welles/kubrick1 x tsai/breillat/&c antiseptic post 95 arthouse1 x avantgarde
replace "avantgarde" with "Lynch" and this is perfect
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:12 (four years ago) link
Right, at this point one slot on each ballot is reserved for Mulholland Dr. or Inland Empire or Twin Peaks: The Return. No question.
― 🚶♂️💨 (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
https://media2.giphy.com/media/qPLjY64Y1qeNG/giphy.gif
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:24 (four years ago) link