"It's not Bro Time, It's POLL Time" The ILX 2015 Film Poll Thread - Voting Ends Sunday February 21st at Midnight EST

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Any film is eligible that was released theatrically in 2015, so if you want to count festivals or rep screenings than have at it.

Ballots can be up to 25 films, weighted, with normal rules applying. Please send a minimum of five films on your ballot. No formatting guidelines but please use English titles where possible.

Send to ilx2015filmpoll @ g ma i l. com

Submissions must be in by midnight EST of Sunday, the 21st of February, with the rollout hopefully beginning the next day.

Costa's Horse Money not on disc/Bluray til March. I don't see the rush, and I'm not 'done' with 2014 yet.

NYC commercial releases of the year, which is my standard. I don't count even those films that are 5+ years old (especially if I saw them at a festival or one-off in the previous decade):

https://letterboxd.com/alexfung/list/new-york-city-2015-commercial-releases/

And you should make an effort to see a number of these, especially #48:

http://www.filmcomment.com/blog/best-films-of-2015/

Horse Money has been on Netflix Instant since last month if you've got access to that.

nope, i don't do that. i accidentally am stuck w/ Amazon Prime for a bit

Filmcomment list is cool - don't really get the love for Clouds of Sils Maria, and About Elly was made in 2009 (but then I guess they have the Rivette, too)

both those last two had a weeklong (plus) run in the US for the first time.

I have plenty of disagreements with the FC list but every poll ever, you know. It's a starting point.

Great image choice btw Gukbe - however ppl felt about Hard to be a God, it's hard to deny that particular sequence, a moment of pure cinema no less!

what is happening in that sequence? i have the movie on my watchlist but haven't gotten to it yet. that image reminds me of andrei rublev

i really enjoyed clouds of sils maria

In that sequence we see the main character smear a big load of gloopy mud over his face (it's featured in this trailer for the film):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11sMDQIgggA

As to its meaning, I took it as sign of the character's complicity in this strange world's cruelty and obscenity - he too is in the shit, and he knows it, and he is ashamed of it. But lots of the film's meaning is deliberately alien, so that what looks superficially like 'our' world is revealed to be 'other' (for example, there are a great many strange little rituals associated with eating throughout the film).

Reckon Hard to be a God does suffer in comparisons with Rublev and Marketa... Too 'loud', overdoes 'suffering' (almost a cliche). I don't want meaning to be telegraphed but I'm not going to be overwhelmed by three hours of noise so I'm looking for what else might be there. I really want to read the book and maybe watch it again but it'll be years to see it at another screening.

Amour Fou ain't gonna win this, is it.

It's probably going to place higher here than on any other EOY poll tho

Amour Fou SHOULD win this.

My best so far (still organizing the rest):

Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem,
Amour Fou
Horse Money
Mad Max: Fury Road
Listen to Me Marlon
Maps to the Stars
Tangerine
Aurora

https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/best-films-of-2016-part-two/

Ballot sent!

I'm sorry, but I saw a great Latvian film today which has no chance of a US release ever, and I HAVE to include it on my ballot, as well as the Estonian film quite like it I saw a few months back. #NewWaveofStylishBalticCinema. #StillWorkingontheName.

Dawn. By Laila Pakalnina, btw.

two of my pet not-really-documentary makers had accomplished works this past year:

Jem Cohen - Counting
Jenni Olson - The Royal Road

Can I vote for Don Hertzfeldt's "World of Tomorrow"?

How can I see World of Tomorrow?

It was just released theatrically in N America in a package of Academy-nominated short films...

It is 17 minutes long. It would be akin to including a single in an albums poll, oui?

I smell "the fewer rules the better, cuz just movies!" Polls are the worst.

Any film is eligible that was released theatrically in 2015, so if you want to count festivals or rep screenings

See, the second half of this sentence invalidates the first. Two or three "festival screenings" and a "theatrical release" are different things.

saw 'world of tomorrow' last night, it's awesome

It's on Netflix. David Ehrlich included it in his countdown so if you choose to be so bold, there is a widely seen precedent.

Morbs, two years ago I tried to do it by academy rules but it was very unpopular. Don't really know what I can do other than say it was shown in a cinema in 2015.

Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central selected World of Tomorrow as his #1 film of the year.

Watched it a couple of hours ago and loved it

It'll still be a couple of years before I'll feel comfortable making out a best of 2015 ballot. Fuckin' boondocks.

It'll still be a couple of years before I'll feel comfortable making out a best of 2015 ballot.

Same, but then I'd never get to participate at all, so I've gotten used to the discomfort. :)

William C - get a ballot in!

no one vote til 2/20

Bump! Catch Up, Folks!

not if darraghmac is voting

Everyone is allowed although Gukbe should filter out the votes for The Bridge of Spies

dont know that title

Spielberg can't even get the titles right - that's how useless he is!

For every Bridge of Spies vote I take out, I'll have to take out a Hateful Eight or a Mad Max vote as well.

Replace them all with Amour Fou.

Weekly bump! These will become more frequent.

bump bump

I'll definitely be voting, but I want to keep watching up to the end.

Voted

I'll definitely be voting, but I want to keep watching up to the end.

― Cherish, Monday, February 8, 2016 6:17 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea same. prob will vote the last day fyi

Yeah, me as well.

deadline is too early

It should preferably be in 2020, but, well, other than that I don't think a week or two will change a lot.

I translated my review of Amour Fou, if anyone is interested in why I think it's the best film of 2015. Couldn't be arsed to do spellcheck, sorry, it took a stupid amount of time to remember how to work in blogspot. http://centrifugue.blogspot.com/2016/02/amour-fou.html

sent

Gonna bump this every day. Thinking I should actually extend it a week due to work being crazy this coming week.

uh HUH

Thinking I should actually extend it a week due to work being crazy this coming week.

why not? Im going to a screening of "Carol" on Tuesday...

My list is just about set, but I wouldn't mind the chance to watch a couple more.

xtra wk sounds good

Okay then, February 28th at Midnight EST

ie literally as the Oscar ceremony is ending

the poll finds its final resting place

You're welcome.

Ward Fowler: I have not received a ballot from you. It's ilx2015filmpoll @ G m etc

Thanks Gukbe, I think I got the address wrong before - have sent again

get yr votes in all. includes Morbs

gonna email now

u all hv time to watch Arabian Nights, still

re Amour Fou: I've never seen you proselytize so intensely for a film before.

nevvvver? It's just a reaction against eternal teenagerism in moviegoing on the board, perhaps.

anyway, to come this week: The Duke of Burgundy, The New Girlfriend, perhaps Experimenter, a rewatch of The Look of Silence.

sent!

Thanks Alfred!

I hope there's a last minute rush this weekend. Pretty low on ballots. Everyone thoughtfully put in a ballot based on the dozens of films you saw last year!

(or just throw something together but don't tell Morbs)

I'll vote this weekend. I just have a couple more to see!

Ballot sent!

ballot sent!

voted just now!

Thanks! Just a few more days...

Against my better judgment I'll probably send in a top 10 over the weekend.

if i had watched more than ~3 movies from 2015 (one of which was ridiculous 6, yikes) i would totally send a ballot but alas :( looking fwd to ilx's results tho!

ok i voted

I managed to see a decent count of the year's films, but still have a longlist of 45 I'd like to see before this poll ends... If I manage 6, I guess I can be happy with that. Sadly, I don't think Arabian Nights is going to be one of them unless I've watched say, 10 films by 3pm tomorrow. Here goes...

I only saw 22 movies from 2015, all from the US or UK. I sent in my top 5.

Missed a showing of Bone Tomahawk this week, who knows what difference that will have made. Anyway, voted.

Altered ballot resubmitted, sorry.

Not qualified to vote in this, due to my lack of appreciation for The Great Man and my vast appreciation of Mad Max, but I'll be rooting for Mustang & Amour Fou & Tangerine. Prolly would have thrown some points to Hard To Be A God and Taxi, neither of which was perfect, but I would sit and rewatch over a lot of stuff I theoretically rated higher at the time. Oh and Phoenix, which to me is a minor Petzold but I genuinely think he is the best director working today. Prolly forgetting a bunch of good stuff, but it's the things that stay with you that you should rate, yeah?

Ach, changed my mind, sent a top eleven off the top of my head SPOILER Bridge Of Spies ain't on it

Oh, this is that thread

I see a lot of films but as with the ilm poll I just don't have my shit together enough atm to do this. What even came out last year? Inside out, tangerine, horse money... Idk maybe I saw more repertory/MUBI stuff in 2015. I will check the rollout tho & root for not-star-wars

Voted – just a baker's dozen, not every new thing I saw last year.

Wins, if you saw Horse Money, you should definitely vote!

The two I most regret missing: Arabian Nights and Heart of a Dog. Still, I did pretty well this year, saw almost everything I was excited about.

I’m going to watch a couple more today, then vote.

one of my regrets of last year was not staying for the Q&A after horse money - my friend didn't want to stay and we were both hungry and in need of refreshment - but I loved it. Never seen any costa before but I ended up seeing it twice at the cinema which I hardly ever do. Other regrets of last year: same as you! And missing amour fou, which did actually play here unlike HOAD and AN

I thought the deadline had already passed! This is what I mean about not having my shit together. I will try to make a ballot then

Dammit forgot to stick Room somewhere on my ballot. That probably deserves something.

Really? It seemed ghastly from the trailer.

I watched amour fou! It is really, really good. Still digesting but it will prob make my ballot if I vote.

Room was much better than its trailer (largely on the strength of the performances), and though it won't reckon in the higher reaches of my ballot I'd still say it's worth seeing for the experience.

We just finished watching Amour Fou! It was uncannily sensitive...and I liked how such opulence could be made to feel so stagnant and claustrophobic. It was like a muted rollercoaster. Very funny too.

Have managed five today. Must watch Horse Money, Inside Out and The Wonders before voting. I'd like to include Mustang, but there's no way of me viewing it as a 2015 release being that it's only just surfacing in UK cinemas now.

JHM: you can still resubmit. Not counting until they're all in.

Does Arabian Nights count as one? Please let it count as one.

Looking at the films I haven't seen. I'm bad at this. Oscar-bait. Does Hard to be a God even count? It's from 2013. Oh well. Please vote for Amour Fou, everyone!

I don't know how Hard to be a God qualifies for this, but it's been on so many critics' best of 2015 lists that I just went with the flow.

Never seen any costa before but I ended up seeing it twice at the cinema which I hardly ever do.

I love Costa! You've started at the top, but don't worry - they're all really good.

Please vote for Amour Fou, everyone!

I will! I should have done more proselytizing for my favorites. Oh, well. Has everyone seen Güeros? That's the only last-minute watch that landed in my top ten.

Ballot sent!

reluctantly sent

Just sent an e-mail to every one I received confirming as such. If you didn't get it, re-send or just let me know.

Still some hours to go.

how many? there are more films to see!

although we just saw Hard To Be A God and maybe the thing to do now would be to curl up and laugh myself into a coma

desperate last-minute ballot beaten into weeping submission, stuffed into a filthy canvas sack, dressed in 75' of sturdy nylon cord, safely packed in an old refregierator, and (despite the fact that i've seen only 7 movies this year, four of which were vivid videos)

sent

I will! I should have done more proselytizing for my favorites. Oh, well. Has everyone seen Güeros? That's the only last-minute watch that landed in my top ten.

― Cherish, Saturday, February 27, 2016

It's good.

I loved it

reluctantly sent

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Sunday, February 28, 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Your work is done good sir! Time to relax, its #OscarTime

I voted for Gueros too. It didnt make my top ten tho

Might make it my #1 idk I'm not into ranking

Trying to put something together now, I'm sure I'm forgetting stuff I saw & loved/voting for stuff I saw 2 years ago

About to vote. Everything I'm voting for is also in tt's ballot, which is much bigger and better, EXCEPT I threw a little internet video on the end of mine, because why not?

Oh, and film snobs, I'm not fucking up your poll. I love literally all the big serious films. Including Mad Max.

Voted! :) Work in four and a half hours...

Oh, and if there's a negative points option, please take 500 points away from Whiplash, even though we snubbed it last year too. The worst moviegoing experience of 2015, maybe the worst overall since The Dark Knight Rises

So something's goofed with the spreadsheet (vertical merging problem?) which means I'm going to have to manually tabulate the results. Not a big deal but I'll have to start it after work tomorrow evening so if anyone wants to submit a ballot between now and 5pm EST tomorrow they are more than welcome to.

Really lucky. I fell asleep last night - tough weekend - so only finished it now. Also, this is the year where I'm seriously confused by release dates. I have no idea what I saw when and where and what should be held over for next years ballot and whatnot. Oh well. I don't think I'm ruining anything. I hope.

Results tabulated. 167 films voted on. I will do a top 40 (with an alternate number 40 for those who might be prickly about the rules).

Ooh, can't wait!

thx gukbe

Looking forward to it.

if I could turn back the clock I would probably sub out my slightly self-trolling vote for the duff in favour of idk beyond clueless or something

Okay, I'll do 40-21 today. Tomorrow if I have a meeting that might keep me away until 6pm EST. I can hold off on the top 20 until Thursday at around 3:30pm EST, or I can wait until Friday when I have all day. Up to youse guys!

25 Ballots. 167ish films.

40. A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night. 75 pts. 5 votes

http://s24.postimg.org/n5tjr92th/40_AGirl_Walks_Home.jpg

Oh, should have voted for this... Good film. Great scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuN4wcDGlIc

It is. I never liked that song particularly but it's quite powerful in that scene. The "coolest" movie I saw this year.

38. Slow West 76 pts. 4 votes

http://s28.postimg.org/qov9z0pwd/39_Slow_West.jpg

I didn't see this one. Directed by the guy from Beta Band, no?

Yup. It's pretty good, but I wasn't close to thinking of voting for it. A bit too much western by the book.

Wait, no separate thread??

I don't do separate threads because we'll barely crack 400 posts by the end of this.

If this poll were about Christopher Nolan or Star Wars then maybe I could justify it.

you think we'll rise to that?? pfah

wow never knew director of 'slow west' was in beta band. liked that film

Ah for crying out loud - completely slipped my mind to vote for Girl Walks. Too low, then.

So, a bit of an explanation. This is the alternate 38 (push the previous two down one if you wish to recognize this as the canon choice). One voter counted the trilogy as one film, then a late ballot voted for two of them separately. Given that critics tended to review them separately, but include them in lists as a whole, I think either way is probably fair, and I didn't want the voter who split them to not get recognition.

38*. Arabian Nights 77 pts. 4 votes
http://s28.postimg.org/tzawqshzx/38_Arabian_Nights.jpg

The trilogy as one film got 30 pts. (tied for 77th), Volume 1 got 33 pts. (tied for 73rd), and Volume 3 got 14 pts (tied for 152nd).

Yeah, I thought Girl was from last year. Oops.

Fred, I didn't think Slow West was "by the book." It's so stylized and odd!

Slow West is def an indie western

Okay, the non-contraversial 38

38. The Look of Silence - 77 pts. 4 votes
http://s24.postimg.org/mzqf1rn9h/38_The_Lookof_Silence.jpg

Much more effective than the first part, or it's possible I sympathized with this approach.

will watch tonight. been meaning to for a while.

Watch Super Tuesday coverage instead for a real life massacre.

this film was kinda a retort to critics - “no, i’m not an asshole for making the act of killing i really care about these people and think this was horrible” BUT - i already understood that from the act of killing

I was the voter who voted for Arabian Nights as one film. But I saw them in one day, with two breaks in-between, so I've always thought of them as a whole.

x-post: Should probably have said 'indie-western by the book'. I don't think it was stylized and odd enough. It's no Jauja.

i wish i had that amount of time in my life

can i move to Denmark

37. Results - 79 pts. 4 votes
http://s29.postimg.org/yjz42vd2f/37_Results.jpg

hey Gubke, if you don't mind, can you put the name of the director in the first line please?

Feel like maybe Act of Killing blew up too much and had too many dissenters for Look of Silence to have the kind of impact it should have (I think it's a better film, and I really loved Act of Killing). But maybe it's also smaller in scope so it's less open to critical buzztakes. The scene with the daughter and the blood drinking revelation was incredible. The range of her reactions is brutal to watch.

I thought about doing that but didn't want to stir a hornet's nest by declaring myself an auteurist but yes, I can do that.

if most users oppose that i have no problem with following the group

I was just kidding. I don't think anyone does/cares. Unless it's the 70s again.

Still haven't seen Results, and I like Bujalksi. Didn't even know it existed until the EOY lists started coming out.

I love Results and loved Computer Chess as well, there is a cheering warmth to his movies

36. Inherent Vice (d: Anderson) - 81 pts. 4 votes
http://s8.postimg.org/eeepxn8d1/36_Inherent_Vice.jpg

2014 Placing: 12th, 185 pts. Total ILX Love: 266 pts.

I would have voted for Inherent Vice really high but I was going by strict release rules

i wish i had that amount of time in my life

― Van Horn Street, 1. marts 2016 22:19 (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

can i move to Denmark

― Van Horn Street, 1. marts 2016 22:19 (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He. It's just festival-life. They did the same thing in Gothenburg.

Results on my list.

Oh shit forgot to vote for inherent vice

35. Li'l Quinquin (d: Dumont) - 83 pts. 3 votes
http://s30.postimg.org/ehtz4xiq9/35_Lil_Quinquin.jpg

does he still hate everyone

oh hang on inherent vice was my #5 last year lol

I found too much laboured quirkiness in L'il Quinquin and stopped watching after an hour

34. Listen to Me Marlon (d: Riley) - 84 pts, 4 votes
http://s27.postimg.org/fpfrply03/34_Listento_Me_Marlon.png

Not seen any of these yet (except Inherent Vice) - more chatter please!

I didn't so much go strictly by release date, but rather whether things felt 2015. And A Girl Walks Home At Night and Inherent Vice both seemed like a long time ago. Never got a chance to see Arabian Nights yet, And I thought P'tit Quinquin was great (much more so than his previous work), but I didn't vote for TV series.

Agreed on the quirk level of Li'l Quinquin.

Listen to Me Marlon is good but I was never blown away. Nicely put together and I imagine that going through all those tapes was tedious as hell, but it felt like there were a lot of gaps (I wanted more from late 60s nadir).

Li'l Quinquin just didn't seem to add up to enough for me? But it's quirk-level is so high that it kinda transcends the scale. The funeral! And the song the sister is singing is pretty cool, actually.

Listen To Me Marlon was interesting enough, but I didn't see a lot of filmaking craft really. Should have voted for more documentaries (ie. more than zero documentaries) given that they make up like 50% of my viewing, but I didn't think of any in the 5 minutes I spent on my ballot. The Possibilities Are Endless maybe should have been there? The Look Of Silence seemed good, but I still had that weird taste in my mouth from the approach of the first one.

33. Jauja (d: Alonso) - 88 pts. 3 votes. 1 #1
http://s27.postimg.org/um5v7nhpf/33_Jauja.jpg

Quinquin I would have considered just on the basis of how I voted for most of my ballot, which is how much certain shots and frames stay with me, and how much I'd want to rewatch, but I genuinely didn't realised it was eligible as a film. I recall recommending it to My Special Friend though, the only person I speak to who has any appreciation for the stuff I watch.

Jauja was nice, forgot about it. I didn't even use up all my spots, just felt my ballot woould have more truth if I did it without making reference to anything. I really could have stuck some of this stuff on there, yeah I suck.

A Girl Walks Home alone pretty much fulfilled the pitch I first heard for it: what if _then_-Jarmusch made a vampire film as well?

this film was kinda a retort to critics - “no, i’m not an asshole for making the act of killing i really care about these people and think this was horrible” BUT - i already understood that from the act of killing

― i;m thinking about thos Beans (Michael B), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It would've gotten less reach if Act of Killing hadn't been made.

Jauja, yay! I think I voted for Jauja last year. Mistake. It even got a limited release in Denmark this year. It's a weird film to watch as a Dane, though, the handling of dialogue is pretty atrocious, but on the other hand it seems based on Danish culture and experience to a big extent.

Funnily enough I saw Listen to Me Marlon just after I sent the ballot - more because there was nothing else that I wanted to see that weekend and it sure was funny, except the Marlot bot. Wouldn't have placed in my top 20 tho'

Li'l Quinquin just didn't seem to add up to enough for me? But it's quirk-level is so high that it kinda transcends the scale. The funeral! And the song the sister is singing is pretty cool, actually.

― Frederik B, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There is v little quirk - but for me that codes as Grand Budapest Hotel type stuff that will probably disgust me when it makes the top 10.

A Girl Walks Home alone pretty much fulfilled the pitch I first heard for it: what if _then_-Jarmusch made a vampire film as well?

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, March 1, 2016

http://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/articles/Only-lovers-left-alive.jpeg

LTMM wasn't special as filmmaking but the clips were A+ for the most part: a compilation of an actor's intelligence and caprices. And I like how I can watch and pick it up at any moment.

Yes, that's the 'as well'

I think the point is that it's more like Jarmusch made a vampire film *back when he was good*

the vampire film was his best in more than fifteen years

So this year's minor Polling disaster (that's not happening irl at this very moment, at least) is that in copying everything from the google sheets to the mac equivalent, I didn't notice that it greys out the first line but still numbers it.

Which means everything is one number higher than it has been so far. Meaning I have to go remake all that I've done so far (which I didn't spend much time on so nbd but still).

There will be a number jump in the next one and I'll throw in the bonus New Number 40 (If you didn't count Arabian Nights) at the end of the countdown today. SORRY!

But all points assignation and vote counting is correct.

Only Lovers Left Alive was my #2 last year.

but still retire plz indie ppl! xp

No worries re: wrong numbers Gukbe. We're still showing the academy how its done!

until Mad Max shows up at no.1

the vampire film was his best in more than fifteen years

Conveniently taking it back to his last genuinely great film. And in fact I'd put Broken Flowers ahead of Only Lovers.

31. Sicario (d: Villenueve) - 93 pts. 5 votes
http://s12.postimg.org/57z4p9l59/31_Sicario.jpg

Conveniently taking it back to his last genuinely great film. And in fact I'd put Broken Flowers ahead of Only Lovers.

― Jonathan Hellion Mumble,

I don't know any great Jarmusch films but he made several that deserve watching for fashion and lighting tips.

Surprised Sicario made it despite letting the audience off the hook with its morose revenge fantasy.

I don't know any great Jarmusch films but he made several that deserve watching for fashion and lighting tips.

Well I'd debate the first part, and don't feel the vampire bisnes falls into the second.

Sicario was awfully... competent?

The biggest effects The Oscars had on me was making me want to rewatch Sicario, which I wasn't taken with all that much the first time around. Deakins+Score+Blunt are all A+. Everything else...hmmm. I think Syriana had a lot more fun with this sort of thing.

if we're going to give Benicio del Toro an Oscar nod for a marginally better Traffic, I wouldn't have minded it be for this thing

And yes, that ending made the cynicism feel especially phoned in and put upon.

30. Mustang (d: Erguven) - 94 pts. 4 votes
http://s14.postimg.org/dp85ig901/30_Mustang.jpg

Voted this high. Nae much to say about it, just immaculately done.

I liked it but thought the sisters weren't well differentiated. Would watch again.

Only one I saw after I finished my list that I had to update this ballot for. Even liked the little digressions that were clearly to Make A Point like the visit to the doctor.

Sicario was awful. The scene in the tunnels was pretty good, but the whole thing fell apart at the end.

Opening+Border Crossing+Tunnels are all keepers. But holy moly the inclusion of that police officer and his soccer playing kid should never have made it out of the first draft.

The problem I have with Sicario is that it's way to low on this list

29. Gueros (d: Palacios) - 106 pts. 4 votes
http://s27.postimg.org/ofrjyfhib/29_Gueros.jpg

Should have mentioned there was 1 #1 vote there.

the inclusion of that police officer and his soccer playing kid

AAARGH forgot about that stuff! I'm downgrading from "competent" to "fuck this shit forever"

a nice promising surprise, this one

Gueros was alright. Not really enough emotional resonance for me to consider voting for it. Who was number 1, wins?

Some great scenes in "Gueros" like the guy getting a panic attack in the car. Ruizpalacios def one to watch

Yeah mumble that was me rising to my own bait

What can I say it was a pleasure, it's mexican, great setpieces as Michael says (love the sound design), a little nouvelle vaguey with the recitation of los olvidados & brief meta jump, shades of the savage detectives and yet totally its own thing

Also maybe a sly rebuke of previous mexican car crash bollocks

28. The Revenant (d: Inarritu) - 109 pts. 4 votes. 1 #1
http://s22.postimg.org/6umf04981/28_The_Revenant.jpg

Speak of the devil

loooool

previous mexican car crash bollocks
Haw, loved that film as a younger. And may have thrown a few points to T** R******* which probably would have been better spent on Gueros.

Fuck it though, I won't be guilt tripped, I think he's a great stylist. I just regret not voting for all the better underappreciated stuff that slipped my mind.

DiCaprio is utterly shit tho. Tom Hardy was pretty good.

The revenant is fine! Altho I didn't vote for it & yeah his early films have aged badly

Something in the air another thing güeros had "shades of" because I said so

similar haircut iirc

or was I thinking of Io E Te

27. Amy (d:Kapadia) - 115 pts. 4 votes
http://s18.postimg.org/4o1p181w9/27_Amy.jpg

Never watched Amy yet, I was waiting on my mother.

Didn't much like Amy, honestly.

I loved Senna but haven't gotten around to Amy. Partly because I don't care for Amy Winehouse's music. Shameful a bit, I know, but just one of those things.

Xpost Its Tom Hardy's thousand yard staring, mumbling overacting ass thats bollocks in The Rev not Leo. Fuck it I enjoyed the EPICNESS of the movie.

Nah in a way Tom Hardy is underacting, in a very blatant way. DiCaprio's mute emoting seems much more overdone.

Tom Hardy is ridiculous in that movie, which is the register in which it should have been made rather than all the self-seriousness. The floating around the river evasion scene was great though.

Oh amy! Was wracking my brains for a sec there. Yeah not seen it but want to. Nina simone & fassbinder docs should maybe have been on my ballot

Lots of beautiful muddy stuff in the early parts, lots of beautiful snowy stuff later. These type of shots are my comfort zone I suppose, scummy vistas.

Nina Simone doc was the same as the Brando one for me, I was watching for the subject but can't justify putting them in a Best Films ballot.

I think Senna is better. The very personal focus doesn't do well in an artist-portrait, I don't think. It overwhelms her songwriting in a way it could never overwhelm Sennas racedriving. It becomes so bugged down in talking about her directness and honesty, that it can't discuss how she turned her life into art, especially not once she goes from the 'authentic' sound of Frank to the more modern - and more interesting, imo - sound of Back to Black.

26. 45 Years (d: Haigh) - 119 pts. 5 votes
http://s22.postimg.org/ys2i370kx/26_45_Years.jpg

The first time I thought it accomplished, the second time tore me apart. Tom Courtenay's drunk scene is one of the all time best.

I'm going to catch it on Friday. I really liked Weekend.

25. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (d: Heller) - 120 pts. 5 votes
http://s18.postimg.org/hhmf8ps49/25_The_Diaryofa_Teenage_Girl.jpg

This was a strong film that left little impression in the long run. A lot of those this year, I think.

45 Years was a masterclass in acting from both the leads, that last dance scene, fuuuck...

Diary Of A Teenage Girl I thought was great, more interested in seeing future work from the director and star prolly tho.

24. The Hateful Eight (d: Tarantino) - 124 pts. 6 votes
http://s18.postimg.org/7v1ahysnt/24_The_Hateful_Eight.jpg

lol

Glenn Kenny on The Hateful Eight

Shit film tbh

Stuck it literally bottom of my ballot, mainly as a point that it was a far more accomplished work than Bridge Of Spies, but yeah it wasn't great, and the amount of stuff that I am kicking myself over not including is already bothering me.

I saw Quinquin in 2014, Inherent Vice in 2015, Vice was my favorite movie last year. Quinquin was top 5.

As for Sicario, i think it's a pretty good film, but that Villeneuve really never understood what he builds.

Don't know how to say it but my favorite thing about H8 are details Tarantino didn't care about as much? Like the snow, I really enjoyed watching that snow. Or the jokes with the door.

It wasn't entirely worthless but I couldn't bring myself to vote for it. (H8)

23. Mistress America (d: Baumbach) - 133 pts. 5 votes. 1 #1
http://s9.postimg.org/79b9qu7rj/23_Mistress_America.jpg

As a Baumbach defender generally, the love for this one baffles me a bit. like it's not BAD bad, but I will honestly say I preferred "While We're Young". Does that make all my opinions here invalid?

I thought While We're Young was more straightforwardly funny at times but the screwball house visit in Mistress America is better than anything in WWY.

Also I think it's a little more insightful about it's characters. Less old timers haranguing about the youth.

A tie to close out the night. But stick around for a BONUS entry!

21. (Tie) Magic Mike XXL (d: Jacobs) - 134 pts. 5 votes
http://s27.postimg.org/cp2lk2e77/21_Magic_Mike_XXL.jpg

Although not superior to Francis Ha, Mistress America was in a flapdoodle sphere on its own and I relished what it risked.

Magic Mike XXL = best Hollywood gay film of the year.

Think I greatly underrated MMXXL. Caught about 30 minutes on TV last week and I didn't care about the shaggy road trip story at all.

VOTED FOR MAGIC MIKE XXL! So far ahead of the original (which was not bad) that I had to go back rewatch the original, see if I was missing anything. And I'm glad to have seen that again, but I stand by the new one. Didn't really get the character motivation in the first one compared with the second, but that's just maybe where I am in my life right now.

Also Channing Tatum who I just considered beefcake at the time of the first has really blossomed into something special (still fine beefcake, don't get me wrong)

They're drastically different movies. First one is a lot about post-recession America etc (that great cut just as he's about to lose it at the bank) and full of smart character stuff dotted around the edges. Second is full-on dance-cheese but in a pretty radical way. Both great.

21. (Tie) The Martian (d: Scott) - 134 pts. 6 votes
http://s30.postimg.org/566lfcfwx/21_The_Martian.jpg

They're drastically different movies. First one is a lot about post-recession America etc (that great cut just as he's about to lose it at the bank) and full of smart character stuff dotted around the edges. Second is full-on dance-cheese but in a pretty radical way. Both great.

― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Tuesday, March 1, 2016 8:16 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea its interesting, first time ive seen it articulated like this and its otm. 2nd one just didnt work for me at all though, it leans in to its reputation so much as to be basically parody imo..waay less interesting than the 1st

The Martian zzzzz...

The second Magic Mike is like the one last mission for the old dudes, go out in a blaze of glory or whatever, it's The Wild Bunch or whatever.

Or whatever.

I don't see MMXXL as parody; it's its own creation. It's about guys being gazed, guys being gayzed, guys not giving a damn about being gayzed/gazed.

"Let's go"
"Why not?"

Martian was a bit hokey at points (Scott can't do comedy) but okay enough for the most part. Fine to sit through. Might be one of those that I get caught watching again when I'm hungover and it's on some cable channel in a few year's time.

If the first film was meant to be partly based on Channing Tatum's life, and you extrapolate the second from that, it's him coming to terms with his gayness

I can't get through Matt Damon hating disco, especially since Damon is not convincing hating disco.

Martian = Best Comedy/Musical, a few disco songs on the soundtrack explain that one to me

re xxl -yea i mean its def a victory lap for all the $ the creators can pocket, w as little added originality as poss

originality in XXL comes in its style, not its material.

That "Comfort Film" thread, I think MMXXL might end up on my list, too early to tell tho, still only seen it once

But I just wanted to curl up in that bus, in amongst the flesh, go to sleep like a baby

Could we please get Bridge Of Spies over and done with so I can be positive from now out? I don't THINK there is anything I'll hate from now on apart from that

You'll have to wait until Thursday for the final 20 to see if Bridge of Spies made it. Unless I get home tomorrow earlier than expected.

Now, in case you missed it, I fucked up the numbering so if you *don't* count Arabian Nights's placement in the poll as valid, here's your number 40:

40. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (d: Abrams) - 74 pts. 3 votes
http://s17.postimg.org/qgowawdu7/40_Star_Wars_The_Force_Awakens.jpg

never heard of it

Yeah, I'll see this at some point I guess.

40. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (d: Abrams) - 74 pts. 3 votes
39. A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (d: Amirpour) 75 pts. 5 votes
38. Slow West (d: Maclean) 76 pts. 4 votes
37*. Arabian Nights (d: Gomes) 77 pts. 4 votes
37. The Look of Silence (d: Oppenheimer)- 77 pts. 4 votes
36. Results (d: Bujalski) - 79 pts. 4 votes
35. Inherent Vice (d: Anderson) - 81 pts. 4 votes
34. Li'l Quinquin (d: Dumont) - 83 pts. 3 votes
33. Listen to Me Marlon (d: Riley) - 84 pts, 4 votes
32. Jauja (d: Alonso) - 88 pts. 3 votes. 1 #1
31. Sicario (d: Villenueve) - 93 pts. 5 votes
30. Mustang (d: Erguven) - 94 pts. 4 votes
29. Gueros (d: Palacios) - 106 pts. 4 votes
28. The Revenant (d: Inarritu) - 109 pts. 4 votes. 1 #1
27. Amy (d:Kapadia) - 115 pts. 4 votes
26. 45 Years (d: Haigh) - 119 pts. 5 votes
25. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (d: Heller) - 120 pts. 5 votes
24. The Hateful Eight (d: Tarantino) - 124 pts. 6 votes
23. Mistress America (d: Baumbach) - 133 pts. 5 votes. 1 #1
21. (Tie) Magic Mike XXL (d: Jacobs) - 134 pts. 5 votes
21. (Tie) The Martian (d: Scott) - 134 pts. 6 votes

So I saw all of these by now except Arabian Nights, Amy, and the Star Wars bisnes. No real stinkers out of what I seen aside from The Martian, maybe Sicario. 4 #1's, if you include Gueros which wasn't noted in this recap. Only 4 of mine, 3 low down numbers which I don't overly care about, but Mustang (top 3 for me) deserved better. Mad Max is totally gunna own this tho, and not undeservedly

Star Wars is fine for what it is, but have to admit I'm happy it isn't higher on the list. Was going to write about how that and Amour Fou would be competing for second place, and kinda happy the joke isn't on Haussner...

Saw Carol this morning. Wow! Would def have voted for that if I'd seen it before. It also made me think less of 45 Years, honestly, for some weird reason. Both films are kinda chilly and technical, but 45 Years didn't really do anything for me. I admire how well it's made, but I never think about it, really.

What I've seen. The Diary of a Teenage Girl is some thrash poptmist vote, was probably toward the end of my ballot.

37. The Look of Silence (d: Oppenheimer)- 77 pts. 4 votes
35. Inherent Vice (d: Anderson) - 81 pts. 4 votes
34. Li'l Quinquin (d: Dumont) - 83 pts. 3 votes
33. Listen to Me Marlon (d: Riley) - 84 pts, 4 votes
25. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (d: Heller) - 120 pts. 5 votes

All I'm interested in seeing from the ones I have not (although I'll probably get to see Amy as it will gets reg repeated on TV here, mroe thrash poptimism).

37*. Arabian Nights (d: Gomes) 77 pts. 4 votes

Huge lols if you started correctly with Star Wars Gukbe. Lost opportunity.

Catching up here thks to all inherent vice ftw

I think Inherent Vice opened on like the second week of January 2015 in the UK, so definitely eligible for this poll. Hard to be a God also only got a UK cinema release (and simultaneous home video release) in 2015. I also voted for Serra's brilliant Story of My Death in this poll, because it did not, as far as I know, get any UK cinema screenings, and made its UK debut on home video last year. Arabian Nights hasn't yet had a UK cinema release (I think New Wave films are handling it for cinemas and home video) - I managed to catch it at the Glasgow Film Festival a couple of weeks ago (to my mind the first part is the best, the third the weakest (those bloody birds), though all three parts have their longueurs).

The UK did get Star Wars (very) slightly ahead of the US, tho.

I couldn't vote for Hard to be a God... Not only did I see it in - spring - 2014, it had it's world premiere in 13. I mean, I get that I should just vote tactically, because, this is about fun and hype and talking about great films, but it just felt wrong... Story of my Death is really good, yeah. He has a new one coming!

Yeah, w/ Jean-Pierre Léaud as Louis XIV - excited!

I also voted for Serra's brilliant Story of My Death in this poll, because it did not, as far as I know, get any UK cinema screenings, and made its UK debut on home video last year.

I missed its only screening ever at the ICA.

Really wanted to vote for that and No Home Movie. One screening each. Mad Max is seen as more important #lolFeminism

No Home Movie hopefully gets more releases this year? Because, fuck, it needs to be talked about at some point. Really touching. Hope to see it again on tuesday.

In fairness I missed the ICA screening of Mad Max too.

lol

Never thought about Inherent Vice, but I don't think I would have voted for it anyway (I listed 16)--maybe I would have tacked it on at the end. I've got five onto the list so far, maybe two or three more.

Girl Walks Home Alone and Inherent Vice are not considered 2015 films by any sentient American.

fucking Jedi nerdlingers

v much enjoying the ppl itt who find it difficult to love both mad max and art cinema

Its easy.

..to love now we are in poptimist and #maleFeminist times.

Who cares about years or the considerations of Americans oh right nobody, cool

I guess I saw IV in January, might have been December. A while ago anyway. Good film

Mad Max is fine. Chrome face, car crash, guitar guy, 'witness me'. Feminism. Move along.

Morbs is his own country.

One in which Inherent Vice was not screened in 2015.

Inherent Vice premiered in DK as well, unfortunately I didn't have time to see it. But it made the film poll last year, so I can see people not thinking of it as a 15-film.

star wars IV or IV

Who cares about years or the considerations of Americans oh right nobody, cool

well yeah that's why Empire of the Sun was my #1

Feel like those of us that have moved beyond mere sentience to actual thought figured out the whole staggered international release thing 2 polls ago & got over it, there isn't a lot to it

I didn't watch Star Wars episode vii the force awakens, in part because it is an actual film called that, doubt I will ever bother. The culture surrounding it is pretty shit and it will apparently run on until the end of time so I'm pretty glad it lost out here

as hinted above, Inherent Vice was 12th in last year's poll

People, they love blood. They love action. Not this talky, depressing, philosophical ILX 2014 Film Poll Thread - Voting closes Friday, Feb. 21st at Midnight EST.

I know I voted for it :)

as did i! probably top 5

#4 for me, so it would have been lower last year and higher this year had I been strict about bothering to check whether it came out last week of December or first week of January here & voted with all the UKers

Inherent Vice was a cool book. That's it.

Magic Mike was likable enough, I suppose, but ultimately just a big oiled hunk of not much.

Should I do 10 more today and then the final 10 tomorrow? Or would you all rather wait?

Wait, as in not doing any today? I'd definitely rather have some results today.

Yeah I had a meeting today scheduled a lot longer than it took so I was going to skip today but I'm home early enough to do at least 10 before the Euroxers go to bed.

20. Creed (d: Coogler) - 135 pts. 6 votes
http://s18.postimg.org/61cpdwg55/20_Creed.jpg

I really should have seen this one. But who knew that Rocky VII would turn out to be a critical carling with one-shot scenes and all that. On my to-do list.

Never gave a fuck about any Rocky film in my life but I really enjoyed Creed.

cosign

ridiculously low

19. The Assassin (d: Hsaio-Hsien) - 139 pts. 5 votes. 2 #1
http://s21.postimg.org/hwzrh72xz/19_The_Assassin.jpg

Ridiculously low (but not a 2015 film for Brit ilxors blah blah)

Sigh. Three months left!

18. The Duke of Burgundy (d: Strickland) - 140 pts. 7 votes
http://s17.postimg.org/4lzbi9gpb/18_The_Dukeof_Burgundy.jpg

most pissed about not getting to Burgundy as yet. Most worried that i know 0 about '70s Euro softcore.

Assassin left me somewhat cold the one viewing, but i was struggling with meds-induced fatigue, and that was no help.

DoB certainly had some level of craft to it, but I found it ultimately underwhelming. I remember very little about it from just a few months ago, whereas Strickland's previous 2 are still with me after years.

Assassin left me cold too. The plot was too deliberately obscured to carry me through the long takes of not much happening. Should try again when I'm less tired though and maybe soak up the atmosphere. So many good articles about it, especially on how to watch it, which is probably my failing. Still don't know who the masked person was.

Duke of Burgundy very funny.

OR Hou should just not have made a wuxia

Yeah, it's not as good as Barbarian Sound Studio. Also, this might be one again - after Jauja - where being Danish hurts. I've seen Sidse Babett Knudsens accent being described as continental and sophisticated, but to me it sounds like my bad english teacher...

God dammit autocorrect.

17. The Clouds of Sils Maria (d: Assayas) - 148 pts. 6 votes
http://s23.postimg.org/qcb3abaij/17_The_Cloudsof_Sils_Maria.jpg

xpost

The combo of Hou and genre was what made the Assassin so electrifying! It's like a fairy tale observed from a distance, or recovered from the depths of memory - so dreamlike and mysterious the deeper you go into it, but also very moving, I think.

i know that is the pro reaction, but i just wasn't feelin it

or as Scorsese quotes Coppola telling him "You can't subvert genres! It doesn't work!" (not that i agree 100%... but it usually doesn't)

Sils Maria i just found insufferable aside from K Stewart

16. Bridge of Spies (d: Spielberg) - 153 pts. 6 votes
http://s9.postimg.org/u247eo0zj/16_Bridgeof_Spies.jpg

so far I have literally only seen Inherent Vice, what is going on

(I have like 7 or 8 films yet to place that almost certainly will place btw)

BoS was my #2

who are the other 5 people who will be on darraghmac's and JHMumble's enemies lists?

I'm one.

This is the beginning of a 4 film run separated by 4 votes.

We nearly saw Bridge Of Spies. I suppose we shall soon.

Not everyone has an enemies list of people they disagree with. I'm just baffled by any love this gets.

It would never have even occurred to me to watch this film.

xp to imago I've seen fewer than usual, feel like maybe local cinema programming slightly dropped the ball last year here

Loved Creed, love it more in retrospect.

COSM really faded on second viewing. Assayas' awkward dialogue and staging defeated the actresses a second time.

The Duke of Burgundy left me ice cold.

15. World of Tomorrow (d: Hertzfeld) - 154 pts. 5 votes
http://s14.postimg.org/cagi80azl/15_Worldof_Tomorrow.jpg

Sorry Morbs

I threw Bridge of Spies a few points. Not sure how it ended up at #16, but it's a solid enough flick. I started but didn't finish both Assassin and Sils Maria. Was a little underwhelmed by Duke of Burgundy on first watch, but it has stayed with me. Creed was good fun.

saw WoT, liked it very much but shorts and features are apples and oranges

I actually caught a herztfeldt screening last year, but not this

this is this year's The External World, huh

Yeah this was a pleasant ten minutes but...

I loved World of Tomorrow but same, couldn't vote for a short. It doesn't even skirt the edge of the difference either.

I voted for a 5-minute short btw :D but at least it was one with no chance of making it

I love everybody on my enemies list

Morbs do you recommend creed

14. Girlhood (d: Sciamma) - 155 pts. 6 votes
http://s8.postimg.org/mrcn4xdbp/14_Girlhood.jpg

mostly liked the fistfights

seemed "touristic"

Creed was my #4, dmac

you've written that sentiment before and I don't get it. "Touristic" denotes a superficial interest in these girls, which I didn't experience.

xpost

The fights are really good tho

Creed felt too much like recycled Rocky (hitting all those same narrative beats as it too) to ever really love. But ya fights were good

it could be that i just find most teenagers superficial and/or uninteresting

I loved Girlhood so much. Tomboy was excellent too, but this felt like a step up in terms of naturalism employed to adrenaline-inducing effect. I remember the scene where they're all dancing in the bedroom as being the atmospheric pinnacle. I cried in the street for hours after watching this to counterbalance the adrenaline.

for a while it was my #1

i just find most teenagers people superficial and/or uninteresting

cosinecosine

I loved Girlhood so much. Tomboy was excellent too, but this felt like a step up in terms of naturalism employed to adrenaline-inducing effect. I remember the scene where they're all dancing in the bedroom as being the atmospheric pinnacle. I cried in the street for hours after watching this to counterbalance the adrenaline.

cosinecosine

There's a thread where people see the director (white middle class) going in and making a film about a section of society she doesn't understand, which might be fair. I thought the main girl's performance did that impressive amateur thing of using her lack of skills to an advantage, plus the framing is excellent throughout (I haven't seen it since the cinema some time ago, so that's my recollection). Also the Diamonds scene is amazing.

The key to it is the lack of judgment mixed with the lack of...doom? She's stuck in a lot of ways but she's trying out different ways of taking control, not always to positive effect but it never judges her for her choices.

What I wrote at the time: Perceptive about how mimicry and conformity can nevertheless lead to deep friendships, Girlhood is also cold-eyed in its tracking of how a teenager in her larval stage will discard these friends when she becomes the person she may or not be, a development impossible to imagine without those friends (often friends are tests we perform on our tolerance). When Marieme falls in with a local drug gang she shaves her head, assumes the name Vic, and projects a fearsome androgynous solidity. Although the weakest section as written, Sciamma doesn’t forget about her actress. Not once is Touré satisfied with projecting one emotion; this is an actress blessed with a face the camera loves and which can spot her thinking in character. I wanted to protect Marieme but expected a rebuff — if she didn’t she’d disappoint me.

yeah, that!

13. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (d: Andersson) - 157 pts. 9 votes
http://s7.postimg.org/wcatjide3/13_APigeon_Satona_Branch.jpg

^awesome, my #4. the scene depicted in that still is one of the greatest and most brutal things i've ever witnessed on film. about a quarter of the audience left during it at my screening. idiots!

I really liked the other two in the trilogy but this one mostly didn't work for me, save a few scenes with King Christian and, of course, that scene, which was as you said.

I was drifting off with all the melancholic quirk but then that scene happened and it took me a minute to realise just what was going on. Overwhelming.

that scene didn't work for me. highlight was stomping tavern song.

The scene didn't work for me at all. I was aghast.

After taking pleasure in these wry tableaux suddenly it happens and it felt unearned.

"Girlhood" sounds enticing. "A Pigeon..." doesnt tbh.

It's Charles, not Christian. Christian is what the Danish kings are called :)

Probably should have voted for this one, but another case of my own release date confusion. The scene with the dead man on the ferry is classic.

So nice to hear people's enthusiasms about Girlhood!

This was my first Roy Andersson film and had not been prepared for the tone. How are bleakness and silliness the two competing extremes? The photographic staging and vortexes of repetition are stifling. Got to watch the rest.

least of the recent Andersson films; hardening into shtick.

For me, it just felt like everything had led, meanderingly or otherwise, to this point. It more or less validated the entire exercise. Although I certainly like his aesthetic besides (and yeah, the ferry bit!)

Bleakness and silliness even working together at points! xps

Charles! Whoops.

After taking pleasure in these wry tableaux suddenly it happens and it felt unearned.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, March 2, 2016 11:30 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The unearnedness is key to it, I think

ah, the Drake Defense: "It's okay that he's an asshole -- he knows he's an asshole!"

nah it's more like 'it's ok he's an asshole - being an asshole right then was the right way to be'

12. Ex Machina (d: Garland) - 165 pts. 7 votes. 1 #1
http://s7.postimg.org/6vkhh9xe3/12_Ex_Machina.jpg

Nothing that anyone said at any point could convince me to want to see this.

It might even be good, but the premise is absolutely nauseating.

It's supposed to be

ah, the Drake Defense ;)

;)

the worst Oscar Isaac has ever looked

and that's ok

drinking craft beer too

11.Phoenix (d: Petzold) - 195 pts. 8 votes. 1 #1
http://s29.postimg.org/ta11en5bb/11_Phoenix.png

Saw the Andersson - good looking bollocks. One to scrape the bottom of ballots.

xp - that's more like it.

I'd watch Phoenix again but variations on Vertigo aren't my thing.

Alright, that's all for today. Top 10 tomorrow at around the same time. Predictions etc!

40. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (d: Abrams) - 74 pts. 3 votes
39. A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (d: Amirpour) 75 pts. 5 votes
38. Slow West (d: Maclean) 76 pts. 4 votes
37*. Arabian Nights (d: Gomes) 77 pts. 4 votes
37. The Look of Silence (d: Oppenheimer)- 77 pts. 4 votes
36. Results (d: Bujalski) - 79 pts. 4 votes
35. Inherent Vice (d: Anderson) - 81 pts. 4 votes
34. Li'l Quinquin (d: Dumont) - 83 pts. 3 votes
33. Listen to Me Marlon (d: Riley) - 84 pts, 4 votes
32. Jauja (d: Alonso) - 88 pts. 3 votes. 1 #1
31. Sicario (d: Villenueve) - 93 pts. 5 votes
30. Mustang (d: Erguven) - 94 pts. 4 votes
29. Gueros (d: Palacios) - 106 pts. 4 votes 1 #1
28. The Revenant (d: Inarritu) - 109 pts. 4 votes. 1 #1
27. Amy (d:Kapadia) - 115 pts. 4 votes
26. 45 Years (d: Haigh) - 119 pts. 5 votes
25. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (d: Heller) - 120 pts. 5 votes
24. The Hateful Eight (d: Tarantino) - 124 pts. 6 votes
23. Mistress America (d: Baumbach) - 133 pts. 5 votes. 1 #1
21. (Tie) Magic Mike XXL (d: Jacobs) - 134 pts. 5 votes
21. (Tie) The Martian (d: Scott) - 134 pts. 6 votes
20. Creed (d: Coogler) - 135 pts. 6 votes
19. The Assassin (d: Hsaio-Hsien) - 139 pts. 5 votes. 2 #1
18. The Duke of Burgundy (d: Strickland) - 140 pts. 7 votes
17. The Clouds of Sils Maria (d: Assayas) - 148 pts. 6 votes
16. Bridge of Spies (d: Spielberg) - 153 pts. 6 votes
15. World of Tomorrow (d: Hertzfeld) - 154 pts. 5 votes
14. Girlhood (d: Sciamma) - 155 pts. 6 votes
13. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (d: Andersson) - 157 pts. 9 votes
12. Ex Machina (d: Garland) - 165 pts. 7 votes. 1 #1
11.Phoenix (d: Petzold) - 195 pts. 8 votes. 1 #1

So far I've seen 15.

Predictions:

10. Mad Max IV
9. From What Is Before
8. Inside Out
7. Son of Saul
6. Stray Dogs (again!)
5. Blackhat
4. Carol
3. Tangerine
2. Taxi Teheran
1. Amour Fou

Carol, Amour Fou, Mad Max, Inside Out, Hard To Be A God, It Follows, Crimson Peak, Focus, The Cobbler, Jem and the Holograms - in that order.

Better not be Brooklyn.

xpost get to fuck with "Mad Max IV"

I'd unrealistically like to see In Jackson Heights sneak in there. Would be very surprised to see Blackhat--thought it was pretty bad myself.

Timbuktu?

Horse Money will be there

"The international film magazine Sight & Sound named it the third best film of 2014, behind Boyhood and Goodbye to Language while tying with the film Leviathan"

found Ex Machina and Phoenix both had one excellent performance, othwise very overrated

Stray Dogs (again!)

yeah, you're loopy

In Paris Hsou said something among the lines of: you won't understand anything the first time you see it, the second time you see it it's the perfect time to take a nap, by the third time I find it truly great.

That dude is the best. (Also my #1)

From What Is Before

Had to google to remember what this was. I think it got a single screening here at Lincoln Center.

40. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - this was super fun but faded quick
39. A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night - awesome, would have voted high, thought it was 2014?
38. Slow West - so annoying, a vacant heap of contrived tics
35. Inherent Vice - offhand funny at times, tepid overall
28. The Revenant - dug it, shipping leo & tom, runs out of steam early
18. The Duke of Burgundy - cool & creepy, my only vote to show so far
15. World of Tomorrow - gave this way too many points, little girl is super cute tho
13. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence - pigeon has sitting on my hard drive unwatched for like SIX MONTHS now
12. Ex Machina (d: Garland) - good movie, didn't vote for it

goodnight mommy ftw!

From What Is Before

Had to google to remember what this was. I think it got a single screening here at Lincoln Center.

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), 3. marts 2016 04:46 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Better than Norte, imo.

10. Mad Max IV Amour Fou
9. From What Is Before
8. Inside Out
7. Son of Saul
6. Stray Dogs (again!)
5. Blackhat
4. Carol
3. Tangerine
2. Taxi Teheran
1. Amour Fou lolFeminism

― Frederik B, Thursday, 3 March 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fixed.

god, did people like carol?

Yes.

not especially

critics liked it

Loved it

I found it as frustrating as Far From Heaven, which I rewatched a couple weekends ago.

I found it much better than Far From Heaven. Both are pastiche, but Carol is pastiching something non-filmic, and it comes out a lot weirder, than the - good - Sirk-homage. I only saw Carol yesterday, though, so didn't vote for it.

dessicated. the romance of dry white toast.

I liked it but I didnt love it. It lacked an emotional sucker-punch

10. It Follows (d: Mitchell) - 198 pts. 9 votes
http://s10.postimg.org/pgnafh42x/10_It_Follows.jpg

I didn't vote (didn't see enough movies for a ballot to have been meaningful) but this prob would have snuck onto mine. Good flick.

I want to see this but...I'm too frightened. No lie.

More creepy than scary, if that helps.

p good of the genre, didnt come close to denting my top 25

score is very nice

Creepy, I love. As long as I'm not wound up and panicked about things jumping out at me.

9. Carol (d: Haynes) - 199 pts. 9 votes
http://s29.postimg.org/8rnylx3o7/9_Carol.jpg

Like it.

oh hey, it follows was good! a bit donnie darko in the haunted teens + downbeat retro suburbia combo. nicely stylized nighttime photography and an effectively eerie soundtrack. a bit underwhelming/anticlimactic, fun to play compare & contrast with only lovers left alive. can't remember if i voted for it. better than carol, anyway.

not really any jumpies in it follows, just a solid stream of dread.

morbs is rite tho: "score"

Score only worked half the time for me.

I loved Carol though. Thought there were many emotional sucker punches. Not least the moment when it's Carol looking through the car windows and not Terese.

7. (Tie) Timbuktu (d: Sissako) - 201 pts. 8 votes
http://s10.postimg.org/dnbaa6z1l/7_Timbuktu.png

Loved it.

7. (Tie) Taxi Tehran (d: Panahi) - 201 pts. 9 votes
http://s29.postimg.org/ezi6of9w7/7_Taxi_Tehran.jpg

better than i remembered on second viewing. very 'accessible' for a Sissako film. xp

had Taxi #17

Getting better before it gets worse.

really, really want to see this. tt assures me it's brilliant

i actually might like it least of all Panahi's post-arrest films

6. Horse Money (d: Costa) - 224 pts. 9 votes
http://s17.postimg.org/3mqh31kf3/6_Horse_Money.jpg

Timbuktu made me cry. Loved how it presented islamic fundamentalists as dorky clueless virgins. Also loved the conversation of the relative merits of Zidane v Messi. And the female witchdoctor

Is Taxi Tehran just coversations in a taxi?

Saw Horse Money the night I voted. Made it my #5 on the spot. Unearthly, harrowing, bleak as hell, beautiful. As dreamlike as postcolonial films get (and vice versa)

The bit in the elevator made me feel like I was losing my mind

actually had Taxi #15 -- not entirely, MB, but close. It's also not a 'documentary' tho some unobservant people seemed to have thought so.

Horse Money #5 for me too, need a 2nd viewing

Is Taxi Tehran just coversations in a taxi?

― i;m thinking about thos Beans (Michael B), Thursday, 3 March 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes, conversation in cars beats car crashes.

5. Inside Out (d: Docter, del Carmen) - 242 pts. 9 votes
http://s14.postimg.org/6v12kcgmp/5_Inside_Out.jpg

I was just blown away by that Os Tubarões track on the Horse Money trailer, it looks fucking good as well.

yes, conversation in cars beats car crashes.

― xyzzzz__, Thursday, March 3, 2016 9:35 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

MMFR has plenty of the former!

taxi tehran: fury road mashup pls

oh look here's another film i intend to see (having largely given up on pixar)

Inside out a cartoon? It begins.

Horse Money and Timbuktu in my top 15.

Inside Out is a very sweet and lovely film. Pixar back on track.

in fact, I gave loads of points to 3 of what will be the remaining 4, and the other one is tt's favourite of the year which i also haven't seen yet

good top ten

I havent seen Horse Money yet

4. Hard to be a God (d: German) - 312 pts. 11 votes. 2 #1
http://s27.postimg.org/aqyex59tf/4_Hardtobea_God.jpg

Stills of this film look striking but 3 hr length and some talk about how gruelling it is made me put it on the long finger

It's...a lot to take in

Endurance Cinema etc

had this at #22; a well made, deeply felt piece of work that i have no desire to endure again.

Saw Horse Money with an unforgettable Q&A at the ICA. The whole series is an achievement for all sorts of reasons.

My #1. Laughed for the entire duration. One of the most profoundly funny films ever.

Apt that the most pure operatic effects arthouse is now about to rub shoulders with Mad Max.

3. Love (d: Noe) - 347 pts. 10 votes. 2 #1
http://s11.postimg.org/5c6wwvdvn/3_Love.jpg

Seriously, the comic timing in HTBAG is out of this world. The surreal dialogue is some of the best in film, and everyone is being literally pissed on for about 70% of the time. What is not to like?

oh nice one gukbe ;)

LOL I missed the art house porn last tear.

oh fuck, there are way worse things than Star Wars fanboys xxp

2. The Danish Girl (d: Hooper) - 376 pts. 15 votes. 1 #1
http://s21.postimg.org/kv1a14amv/3_The_Danish_Girl.jpg
1. Stonewall (d: Emmerich_ - 534 pts. 20 votes 6 #1
http://s17.postimg.org/odn8t7ue7/1_Stonewall.jpg

okok

Gucci Redmayne

okay too much

Lol I wasn't fooled for a sec that anyone voted for Gaspar Noe

good one

The surreal dialogue is some of the best in film, and everyone is being literally pissed on for about 70% of the time. What is not to like?

Literally no one brings this up. Its purely about the look of it and the intensity. Suffers from being compared to Tarkovsky or Vlacil.

3. Amour Fou (d: Hausner) - 377 pts. 14 votes 2 #1
http://s11.postimg.org/bltgbrfgj/3_Amour_Fou.jpg

v funny, you got me with #3

i find the real one almost as unbelievable! my topper

Lol I wasn't fooled for a sec that anyone voted for Gaspar Noe

― calzino, Thursday, 3 March 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was but that's bcz I probably would've voted for it. xp

This is on Netflix (i think). Weekend viewing sorted

lmao at that triple feature fakeout

I didn't know (or care) that Noe had a new one out, and I'd already forgotten about the existence of Stonewall.

My number one - and to be beaten by bullshit.

this was 'only' my #7 but i do want to see it again, it is exquisite & the sensibility is unlike any period drama i've seen

Should be 3 #1 for the Hausner

this film also has the best dog casting choices ever

I was just mesmerised by Hard To Be A God, didn't feel like 3 hours. Just so much going on i in every frame. Looks like I put it #7. Taxi I put #6,yes it's the weakest of the last 3, by some margin IMO, but that doesn't cancel out it's brilliance. Similar story with Phoenix, possibly the weakest film he's ever made (stagey in a different, lesser way than his best), but still my #5 film of the year. I had voter's remorse after my thrown together ballot, but no regrets about any of them.
Amour Fou my #4, I just loved the staging of it, really funny too

The ardor for this movie is what makes ILE awesome

I think I would have placed it higher if I hadn't seen it the day before the extended voting deadline too - it's sunk in really well

I wasn't convinced of all the hype when I saw it but yeah, it sticks with you. Planned to rewatch it but ran out of time. Probably would've been higher on my ballot.

I think I'd rather have Love at #3 than that tiresome, emotionally constipated drivel

there it is

Alright, Top 2

2. Tangerine (d: Baker) - 388 pts. 14 votes 2 #1
http://s13.postimg.org/66i95vtx3/2_Tangerine.png
1. Mad Max Fury Road (d: Miller) - 552 pts. 20 votes 4 #1
http://s8.postimg.org/nmcu3nhxh/1_Mad_Max_Fury_Road.jpg

proper

Fuck you all

the sensibility is unlike any period drama i've seen

that's because it's a comedy!

My top 2, in that order.

But thanks for running the poll Gukbe. You are ok.

the tangerine screen cap made me think it was MMFR at #2 for a second, looks like they're driving through a firestorm

Liked Tangerine; a new Mad Max movie is a thing I just don't care about.

I was genuinely surprised Tangerine did so well. Only 11 points higher than Amour Fou, mind.

ok, Tangerine almost as overrated as MM:FR

i mean that diner climax is slightly above avg sitcom stuff

Once again, didn't vote, but c'mon guys--where are Appropriate Behaviour and Chi-raq?

the sensibility is unlike any period drama i've seen

that's because it's a comedy!

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 March 2016 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

But was it profoundly funny?

the right #1 *ducks*

my own #3. george miller is a genius of the spectacle. and he's smart about dialogue and plot too. and he has a heart. and this film somehow avoids all the blockbuster pitfalls. it's somewhat miraculous.

tangerine is tt's #1 but she hasn't shown it to me yet. it is very much the next thing we'll watch, i think

ty gukbe

Dinner climax redeemed by the one character breaking into Destiny's Child.

amour fou got quite a few laughs at our viewing, yeah. ofc it was profoundly funny.

I was the only one to vote for Chi-raq xpost

xpost

*Diner climax

Feeling like when Lisa helped Burns get his millions back.

My ballot:

1. Amour Fou (Hausner, 2014)
Taxi Tehran (Panahi, 2015)
Stray Dogs (Tsai, 2013)
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2015)
Timbuktu (Sissako, 2014)
Phoenix (Petzold, 2014)
P’tit Quinquin (Dumont, 2014)
Horse Money (Pedro Costa, 2014)
Inherent Vice (Anderson, 2015)
10. Maidan (Sergei Loznitsa, 2014)
The Look of Silence (Oppenheimer, 2014)
Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1993)
Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1974)
Dior and I (Tcheng, 2014)
Closed Curtain (Panahi, 2014)
Carol (Haynes, 2015)
Mother and Son (Sokurov, 1997)
Almayer's Folly (Akerman, 2011)
The Gold of Naples (de Sica, 1954)
20. Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2014)
The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller, 2015)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson, 2014)

Thanks everyone!

Pretty happy with the rankings, for the most part. Very disappointed at the low showing for Mustang, other than that all the stuff I actually cared about did well. Thanks Gukbe, nice job.

Diner climax of Tangerine is incredible, foo. Hilarious, heart-wrenching and awful all at once.

Thanks, gukbe

The thing I liked least about Tangerine was the Christmas Eve setting.

yeah thx guk

Interesting results – thanks for running this one, Gukbe.

(would be interesting to repoll each year five years later)

My list:

Girlhood
45 Years
Magic Mike XXL
Creed
Heart of a Dog
The New Girlfriend
Appropriate Behavior
Results
In the Name of My Daughter
Timbuktu
Mad Max: Fury Road
Tangerine
Amour Fou
Aurora
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
Horse Money
Listen to Me Marlon
The Assassin
Spotlight
The Look of Silence

Mad Max: Fury Road
Tangerine
Mustang
Amour Fou
Phoenix
Taxi
Hard To Be A God
Magic Mike XXL
The Revenant
A Pigeon Sat On A Branch yada yada
The Hateful Eight

My ballot:

World of Tomorrow
Timbuktu
Inside Out
Amy
The Lobster
Bitter Lake
Tangerine
Anomalisa
45 Years
Going Clear
The Revenant
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max Fury Road
Gueros
Ex Machina
Carol
Listen To Me Marlon
Buzzard
The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
Call Me Lucky
Dope
Slow West
Room
Sicario

Hard To Be A God
Shaun The Sheep Movie
Mad Max: Fury Road
A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence
Horse Money
White God
Amour Fou
Radiator
The Lady In The Van
Dear White People
Welcome To Me
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 4

mine:

1. Ex Machina
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. Tangerine
4. Amour Fou
5. World of Tomorrow
6. Listen To Me Marlon
7. The Martian
8. Maps to the Stars
9. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
10. Horse Money
11. Hard to be a God
12. Inherent Vice
13. Sicario

A subjective mashup of what I enjoyed most and what I thought were the best. (Very different things in my mind.)

Shaun The Sheep, imago?

it's so good, aardman's best ever

ok didnt know they aardman/nick park were responsible for it. fair enough

Good list! Jauja and Güeros were too low, but my top ten did surprisingly well this year.

1 The Assassin
2 Hard to Be a God
3 Clouds of Sils Maria
4 Phoenix
5 Jauja
6 Horse Money
7 Güeros
8 Tokyo Tribe
9 Girlhood
10 Slow West

Oh, and thanks for all your hard work, Gukbe. This is always fun!

Thanks for doing this again Gukbe; I was all prepared to get behind Love (which I haven't seen) over a Pixar movie

1. From What is Before (Diaz)
2. Li'l Quinquin (Dumont)
3. Hard to be a God (German)
4. Journey to the West (Tsai)
5. Horse Money (Costa)
6. Story of My Death (Serra)
7. Taxi Tehran (Panahi)
8. Inherent Vice (Anderson)
9. Dr Jekyll et les Femmes (Borowczyk)
10. The Duke of Burgundy (Strickland)
11. It Follows (Mitchell)
12. Jauja (Alonso)
13. The Tribe (Slaboshpytskiy)
14. Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller)
15. The Lobster (Lanthimos)
16. Carol (Haynes)
17. Timbuktu (Sissako)
18. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Amirpour)
19. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Andersson)
20. Sunset Song (Davies)
21. Irrational Man (Allen)
22. Phoenix (Petzold)
23. The Dance of Reality (Jodorowsky)
24. Results (Bujalski)
25. Wild Tales (Szifron)

Thanks for running this again.

1. Best of Enemies
2. In Jackson Heights
3. Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
4. Diary of a Teenage Girl
5. The Martian
6. Eden
7. Mistress America
8. Hitchcock/Truffaut
9. Straight Outta Compton
10. She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry
11. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
12. While We’re Young
13. Very Semi-Serious
14. Listen to Me Marlon
15. Mustang
16. Dior & I

I sent mine in early and saw Girlhood a few weeks later--probably would have included it somewhere in the bottom half.

From What is Before (Diaz)

Coming to a creen near you (or probably not)

Really wanted to see The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, and possibly the only other vote for Dior & I.

Should've voted for Best of Enemies.

Thanks for running the poll, gukbe! My ballot was a little brief; for practical reasons, 2015 wasn't much of a filmgoing year for me.

1. Carol
2. Tangerine
3. Amour Fou
4. Mad Max: Fury Road
5. Girlhood
6. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
7. Clouds of Sils-Maria
8. It Follows

"Really wanted to see The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution"

It is currently on i-player

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b071gr5h/storyville-20152016-17-the-black-panthers

1. Amour Fou
2. Taxi Teheran
3. Son of Saul
4. Arabian Nights
5. Tangerine
6. The Family
7. Lost and Beautiful
8. The Treasure
9. The Wonders
10. Into the Crosswind
11. A Girl of Her Age
12. Chasuke’s Journey
13. El Club
14. Dawn
15. Inside Out
16. Toponymy
17. The Pearl Button
18. Saint Laurent
19. In Jackson Heights
20. Rams
21. Limbo
22. Mediterranea
23. The Hateful Eight
24. Queen of Earth
25. James White

I wasted a lot of votes on stuff, huh? I think 8 of the top ten, I either voted for this year, last year, or next year (Carol!) Oh well, somehow, this poll turns out great each year anyway! Thanks Gukbe.

1.Jauja
Amour fou
Amy
The duke of burgundy
Aaaaaaaah!
Hard to be a god
The revenant
It follows
Force majeure
Mad max : fury road
45 years
A pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence
Ex machina
Star wars : the force awakens
The assassin
The lobster
Spring
Inherent vice

thx again gukbe!

1. mistress america
2. amy
3. while we're young
4. results
5. unfriended
6. ex machina
7. maps to the stars
8. clouds of sils maria
9. life partners
10 ptit quinquin
11 pigeon on a branch...
12 mad max fury road
13 mustang
14 it follows
15. heroin: cape cod, usa
16 3.5 minutes, 10 bullets
17. montage of heck
18. 99 homes
19 apartment troubles
20. Tangerine
21. soaked in bleach
22. listen to me marlon
23. daft punk - unchained

v curious about Unfriended

Vanguard of the Revolution is probably not among the top 5 Black Panther documentaries.

Unfriended has a small but vocal group of fans. Labuza had it on his top 10, I think? I need to catch it. But, you know, it looks shit.

take your analogous pick, its an updated scream and/or blair witch m/l

im also a sucker for teen movies that get the mean- + petti-ness of teens right

otoh Clouds of Sils Maria did not look shit, and was.

wd've been my Worst Film, suggest adding that as a choice of one next time.

worst film is a good idea, id of had to split it btwn amour fou/mmxxl tbh

haha

you need medication for putting Baumbach's two worst films as #1 and 3, god almighty have you ever seen films sober?

and my other worst-film contender, merde quinquin

The mediocre and disappointing Clouds of Sils Maria as worst film in this poll or in a year with The Danish Girl and The Big Short?

oh when you have a grave illness you don't see those films. time time time

i will never see a Redmayne biopic i assure you

see i don't "have to" see ____bait films anymore, unlike bloggers in voting groups. WINNING

I realized I should have added the worst film category someway during the tabulation stage. That said, I'm thinking there's a difference between "worst film" and "biggest disappointment", the latter of which hurts more but is probably not totally fair. Eden was my biggest disappointment by miles (Mia Hansen Love made a film about French Touch! And it was boring with a tedious main character and nothing of interest to say and bloody hell the music couldn't even liven it up), but easily the worst film I saw all year was Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 and that's not fair on Mia Hansen Love at all.

I'll ask again: the Assayas film was the worst of the year? I thought Dennis Perrin tweets would've shown you how English subtitles shouldn't work.

i think if you live to be 400 you might be 20% as witty as you think you are.

It had really tired, lazy pokes at comic book films. I thought you'd love it.

(Okay it wasn't very good)

Also I'd consider The Big Short, though not very good, to be a far more interesting film than Clouds.

actually prob worse was i saw most of kingsmen on hbo, in a near hostage situation at my ex-gf's house

Actually Binoche's laugh at Stewart's pretentious defense of nerd shit was the only thing i liked in her performance! i thought Assayas was on Stewart's side. xp

i think if you live to be 400 you might be 20% as witty as you think you are.

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius),

You've already made it to 40 and are 100 percent as predictable as you hoped to be.

Also I'd consider The Big Short, though not very good, to be a far more interesting film than Clouds.

― Insane Prince of Fals

Nah. If I want people shouting obvious things to me in a witty way that I'll eventually tune out, I want Morbs to do it, not characters written by the director of Anchorman.

DID YOU KNOW YOU ARE BALDING?

*sips wine*

Official Top 40 rundown for posterity/ease of future browsing.

40. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (d: Abrams) - 74 pts. 3 votes
39. A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (d: Amirpour) 75 pts. 5 votes
38. Slow West (d: Maclean) 76 pts. 4 votes
37*. Arabian Nights (d: Gomes) 77 pts. 4 votes
37. The Look of Silence (d: Oppenheimer)- 77 pts. 4 votes
36. Results (d: Bujalski) - 79 pts. 4 votes
35. Inherent Vice (d: Anderson) - 81 pts. 4 votes
34. Li'l Quinquin (d: Dumont) - 83 pts. 3 votes
33. Listen to Me Marlon (d: Riley) - 84 pts, 4 votes
32. Jauja (d: Alonso) - 88 pts. 3 votes. 1 #1
31. Sicario (d: Villenueve) - 93 pts. 5 votes
30. Mustang (d: Erguven) - 94 pts. 4 votes
29. Gueros (d: Palacios) - 106 pts. 4 votes 1 #1
28. The Revenant (d: Inarritu) - 109 pts. 4 votes. 1 #1
27. Amy (d:Kapadia) - 115 pts. 4 votes
26. 45 Years (d: Haigh) - 119 pts. 5 votes
25. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (d: Heller) - 120 pts. 5 votes
24. The Hateful Eight (d: Tarantino) - 124 pts. 6 votes
23. Mistress America (d: Baumbach) - 133 pts. 5 votes. 1 #1
21. (Tie) Magic Mike XXL (d: Jacobs) - 134 pts. 5 votes
21. (Tie) The Martian (d: Scott) - 134 pts. 6 votes
20. Creed (d: Coogler) - 135 pts. 6 votes
19. The Assassin (d: Hsaio-Hsien) - 139 pts. 5 votes. 2 #1
18. The Duke of Burgundy (d: Strickland) - 140 pts. 7 votes
17. The Clouds of Sils Maria (d: Assayas) - 148 pts. 6 votes
16. Bridge of Spies (d: Spielberg) - 153 pts. 6 votes
15. World of Tomorrow (d: Hertzfeld) - 154 pts. 5 votes
14. Girlhood (d: Sciamma) - 155 pts. 6 votes
13. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (d: Andersson) - 157 pts. 9 votes
12. Ex Machina (d: Garland) - 165 pts. 7 votes. 1 #1
11.Phoenix (d: Petzold) - 195 pts. 8 votes. 1 #1
10. It Follows (d: Mitchell) - 198 pts. 9 votes
9. Carol (d: Haynes) - 199 pts. 9 votes
7. (Tie) Timbuktu (d: Sissako) - 201 pts. 8 votes
7. (Tie) Taxi Tehran (d: Panahi) - 201 pts. 9 votes
6. Horse Money (d: Costa) - 224 pts. 9 votes
5. Inside Out (d: Docter, del Carmen) - 242 pts. 9 votes
4. Hard to be a God (d: German) - 312 pts. 11 votes. 2 #1
3. Amour Fou (d: Hausner) - 377 pts. 14 votes 2 #1
2. Tangerine (d: Baker) - 388 pts. 14 votes 2 #1
1. Mad Max Fury Road (d: Miller) - 552 pts. 20 votes 4 #1

horrifically overlooked by ILE in bold

Amour Fou
Bridge of Spies
Arabian Nights, Volume 1: The Restless One
Creed
Horse Money
Magic Mike XXL
The Forbidden Room
Court
Gueros
Stations of the Cross
45 Years
Heart of a Dog
The Look of Silence
Bone Tomahawk
Taxi
Field Niggas
The Mend
Arabian Nights, Volume 3: The Enchanted One
Appropriate Behavior
Eastern Boys
Counting
Hard to Be a God
The Iron Ministry
The Fool
In Jackson Heights

The last eight or so could've been swapped out for some others, like:

Christmas, Again
Results
Heaven Knows What
Timbuktu
Tangerine
Son of Saul
Mad Max: Fury Road (but never in THIS poll)
Stinking Heaven
'71
The Assassin
Listen to Me Marlon
Ex Machina

And i am not DONE til i hit 100 features, so 23 or so to go.

wow, Heart of a Dog played nowhere yet, huh? and The Forbidden Room, people?

if you have time, Gukbe, #41-60 might be interesting

It played here a few weeks before Xmas. I talked myself hoarse urging people to see it.

Criterion just released Heart of a Dog for rental on iTunes and Vudu on Tuesday. I plan to catch it in the next week. The Forbidden Room, however, was (and remains afaik) damn near impossible to see. If it played in the DC area last year, I totally missed the memo. It's the one I really, really wanted to catch up on as well.

41. The Lobster 74 4
42. White God 71 3
43. Son of Saul 69 2
44. What We Do in the Shadows 67 3
45. Maps to the Stars 63 3
46. Wild Tales 63 3
47. While We’re Young 62 3
48. In Jackson Heights 56 3
49. Song of the Sea 56 2
50. Force Majeure 55 3
51. Love & Mercy 53 3
52. The Lady in the Van 53 3
53. Eden 52 3
54. Forbidden Room 51 2
55. Straight Outta Compton 49 2
56. Welcome to Me 49 2
57. Dope 47 3
58. Far from the Madding Crowd 47 3
59. Heart of a Dog 46 2
60. Queen of Earth 45 3
61. Shaun the Sheep Movie 44 2
62. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation 41 2
63. Radiator 41 2
64. The New Girlfriend 41 2
65. Best of Enemies 40 1 1
66. From What is Before 40 1 1
67. Lost River 40 2
68. Mommy 38 2
69. Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem 37 2
70. Dior & I 34 2
71. The Falling 34 2
72. Appropriate Behavior 33 3
73. Arabian Nights Vol. 1 33 1
74. Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict 33 1
75. Stray Dogs (2013) 33 1

Apologizes for the formatting there. First number is points, second number is votes, and if there's a third number, it's the number of #1s.

Maps to the Stars, Force Majeure, and Stray Dogs all placed last year.

ty again

i thought Assayas was on Stewart's side.

I thought he wasn't on anyone's side. They were both reacting to each other, with equal (but opposite) doses of bullshit. I liked that. But then I also thought the movie was great. :P

HTBAG was released in 2013, I mean, i'm okay with some largesses when it comes to releases but 2013 is a whole 2 years prior.

It got a US release in 2015, hence it's inclusion in a number of US-based eoy lists. According to IMDB the only proper release it had prior to 2015 was Russia in 2014.

my ballot

1. The Assassin
2. The Son of Saul
3. It Follows
4. Inside Out
5. Youth
6. Mad Max: Fury Road
7. Oncle Bernard: A Counter Lesson in Economics.
8. Bridge of Spies
9. Carol
10. Trainwreck
11. Red Army
12. What We Do In The Shadows
13. Creed
14. The Martian
15. Far From The Madding Crowd

xpost, yeah i'm out of line, i had friends who saw it in early 2014 (I haven't), that's probably why it's so jarring to me. you did a great job, thanks for organizing this.

I really want to see Oncle Bernard, but I have no idea how I can do so.

I predict The Lobster to be on next year's list.

BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE ftw in 2016!

Fantastic roll-out, thank you Gukbe! My ballot:

Tangerine
Hard to Be a God
The Falling
Taxi Tehran
Welcome to Me
Mad Max: Fury Road
Mommy
Girlhood
Grandma
Amour Fou
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
The Lady in the Van
White God
Carol
Radiator
Horse Money
Far from the Madding Crowd
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting On Existence
Inside Out
The Overnight
Appropriate Behaviour
Listen Up Philip
Love & Mercy
Shaun the Sheep Movie
Dope

It is so awesome to see Tangerine at 2 on the list. Best American film of the year. By far. The final shots of the armenian husband alone in his apartment were almost Costa-esque in my book.

Lady in the Van is television not cinema.

good television tho

xxp ^all of that

It's an outrageously bold piece of work. Every scene is crushingly upfront with the viewer and the characters are so much more knowable for it. I love how it catapults from moments of pure poignancy to manic humour. Its success in light of the way it was shot, cast, funded and distributed felt like a proper reclamation of American independent cinema from the likes of Searchlight. Those performances... Aaaaah. Love love love love this film.

Lady in the Van is television not cinema.

I'm not really concerned with cinema purism. It's obviously a film.

i have the feeling that the joke is on the guy who voted for 'mirror' 41 years after its original release

i mean by that logic, i'd have made 'stalker' my #1 after seeing it in the cinema last year, and we could have had a completely farcical poll

Its a bunch of jokes - you are missing Sokurov, De Sica etc from my ballot.

Voting for great old films gets to be a part of your experience - you wouldn't understand if you watch cartoons and television.

and sheep.

Voting for great sheep gets to be a part of your experience

Sheep is for eating and keeping you warm.

Best movie of 2016 so far is a sheep film

Did it have cartoons in it too?

or 'anime'

sadly not

Rams is from 15! Oh dear, have I already screwed up the 16 list? It's very good, yeah.

Quite want to watch Le Quattro Volte from a few years back, that's a goat film tho

I knew what it was.

Le Quattro Volte is pure cinema so be careful.

Are we doing a 2010-2015 poll?