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

DON'T THINK: JUST VOTE!

Ballots are due this Saturday night. It doesn't matter if you get your ballot wrong, 2020 doesn't count.

Due to the everything, anything you want to vote for is eligible: multiplex viewing, festival premiere, drive-in adventure, streaming feature, even watching on your FUCKING phone. Just remember that it won't even get counted unless one other person also thought of it as a 2020 release.

Send ballots to i l x polls ter [at] g ma il [dot] c o m by December 11th.

MAXIMUM 25 votes
MINIMUM 5 votes

Votes are weighted. Please send your lists with your TOP choice at the TOP, but do not number your choices. (It's very annoying for formatting.)

If you're voting for a non-English-speaking film that has a commonly-accepted English title, by all means include the original title in brackets, but type the English title first. (This is also to help with tallying, and does not otherwise reflect the pollrunner's preferences.)

this saturday? the matrix isn’t even out

2020, dogg

Just some clarification--we're voting on 2020, right (I assume because the gap nags at you)? I love the four-day voting window.

2020, dogg

one ballot received!

I never make my film list until at least a year later so good timing.

I voted

oh how confusing

I probably should have mentioned 2020 somewhere in the OP

And I probably shouldn't be confused by someone launching a 2020 poll on Dec. 7, 2021.

but you were right first time :)

The whole sneak attack thing obviously a Pearl Harbor homage.

🎞🎞🎞

📺📺📺

Mank Hive attack

There were no films released in 2020 but I will try to make some up

Four ballots received!

Six ballots received!

I'll give you a ballot this evening.

Oh right I need to ballot this

I'm deeply troubled by Raymond verbing ballot.

I don’t know why I did that. It’s been a weird few days.

Anyway, at an airport waiting for my flight to board so: no time like the present.

Absurdly short ballot submitted, because I’ve seen very few films from 2020.

[@netflix waiting room]

Me: [chanting] Mank, Mank-

Others in lobby: Mank, MANK

Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] MANK, MANK, MANK

— Brett ________ (@BrettRedacted) December 4, 2020

Will try to throw across a tiny ballot later. I don’t suppose this is campaigning at this stage, but I hope people remember to vote for Saint Maud. Maybe even watch it - it’s very good!

Saint Mank

Voted. A slim ballot. No Mank.

Go Mank or Go Home

sent one yesterday, hopefully received

Fifteen ballots! Maybe we should do a leisurely 8-day voting window for 2021 next month and see if we can double that.

I'll start compiling tonight, but if anything trickles in by tomorrow night, it might also get its numbers crunched.

EIGHTEEN BALLOTS

Brad there's one film on my list you could save from being a lone-vote exclusion

this is all a joke, right

just not that funny

sending ballot!

sent!

:)

home from seeing the matrix, Brad has 12 minutes to get a ballot in

Closed, tallied. Rollout starts Tuesday.

a portion of this year's awards were announced earlier, at a separate ceremony

THE WOODEN SPOON AWARD
ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE: ONE POINT

LA GOMERA
Corneliu Porumboiu
1 point, 1 vote

S01E03
Kurt Walker, Michelle Yoon
1 point, 1 vote

THE REDISTRICTING AWARD
#1 vote receivers that also only received 1 vote


PREPARATIONS TO BE TOGETHER FOR AN UNKNOWN PERIOD OF TIME (Lili Horvát)
THE MAN IN THE HAT (John-Paul Davidson and Stephen Warbeck)
LÄRJUNGEN (Roland Fauser, Jimmy Karlsson, Ulrika Bengts)
HUDSON YARDS VIDEO GAME (Conner O'Malley and Cole Kush)
DON'T RUSH (Elise Florenty and Marcel Türkowsky)

DON'T RUSH (Elise Florenty and Marcel Türkowsky)

this was my 1st pick, three guys in an athens apartment play rebetiko music on their pirate radio show. rejuvenating, and open; a séance of a film.

wrote briefly about it here https://bombsweplant.substack.com/p/dont-rush

(smoking 500 cigarettes for 5g and leather metropolis were conner o'malley's best work last year imo)

https://i.imgur.com/MTzlQI2.jpg

20. SOUND OF METAL
Darius Marder and Abraham Marder (USA)
48 points, 4 votes

yay!

https://i.imgur.com/HuqpFM3.jpg

19. SAINT MAUD
Rose Glass (UK)
50 points, 3 votes

A good film that just snuck into the bottom of my Top 10 because I only had nine definites when I started listing things.

(re: Sound of Metal, that is)

157 films received votes. Only one comic-book-movie placed.

One too many obv

I think I did slip Sound of Metal a few points, for reasons visible in that screen grab

Kept meaning to get around to Sound of Metal, but somehow the premise felt too difficult to imagine.

Saint Maud was my number 1. A Persona-esque interplay of tightly woven psychosexual dyadic power struggles and externalised self-horror. Quietly, tensely enthralling.

love that saint maud still, ima check out this film

Saint Maud one of the few films I got to see in a cinema in 2020!

i made a ballot for this and sent it off but to the wrong email address and didn't get it flagged back as undelivered until today, oh well!

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

https://i.imgur.com/RjJ8Vuy.jpg

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

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

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

fun one, i voted for it

I was the other voter.

https://i.imgur.com/wPFPSRF.jpg

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

Prolly gonna be my number one for 2021 ^

2021 movie afaic

https://i.imgur.com/gYnXLr6.jpg

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

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

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

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

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

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

https://i.imgur.com/RMtHTZS.jpg

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

still haven't seen it

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

and put some damn socks on

I really hope The Disciple places on this list.

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

wait, when did this happen?

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

ah that explains it

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

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

https://i.imgur.com/3KzyHyS.jpeg

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

https://i.imgur.com/jKy37n2.jpeg

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

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

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

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

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

speaking of home

https://i.imgur.com/o9hz1LD.jpeg

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

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

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

The D-40 "Still Tippin'" conundrum

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

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

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

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

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

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

It was not one-night-only

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

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

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

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

(whiney is not screaming)

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

https://i.imgur.com/KCAVryc.jpeg

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

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

https://i.imgur.com/aJU5TdD.jpeg

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

Can’t believe I still haven’t seen this

color out of space played in nyc for quite some time btw

IN WHAT YEAR THOUGH???!??!

another double-feature idea: City Hall + Rats In The Ranks.

xp 2000
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/color-out-of-space/

that was the opening, but it ran for sometime after that

damn, disqualified

https://i.imgur.com/HhKuRpW.jpeg

9. BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS
Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
71 points, 3 votes

(USA)

Saddened not to see that higher tbh.

It's the last film in the three-vote zone; one hopes at least that many people will watch it as a result of this placing.

i didn't like it? Felt hokey and unengaged.

I agree. I was excited by the concept but didn't feel it came off organically.

https://i.imgur.com/YcJU37c.jpeg

8. THE VAST OF NIGHT 
Andrew Patterson, Craig W. Sanger (USA)
74 points, 5 votes

Aargh--I'm always going on about Wiseman on ILX, and this one (highest-placing film on a year-end?) I haven't seen. (Well, I started it and just got sidetracked for various reasons.)

City Hall was one of my votes.

https://i.imgur.com/Iyqy3zj.jpeg

7. THE INVISIBLE MAN
Leigh Whannell (AU)
81 points, 4 votes

the invisible posts

city hall is great! wish i could've seen it in theaters though. Hard to appreciate a wiseman from home.

I though Invisible Man was kinda lame; tapped out when they kept twiddling their thumbs waiting to get to the part when the invisible man shows up. Oooh, there's breath behind her but no one's there! What could it mean? Could it be... THE INVISIBLE MAN?!?!?!? well fucking of course it is, check the title

I voted for both of the last two. The Vast of Night is a good comfort movie.

forks, pictured watching The Invisible Man:

https://i.imgflip.com/5y1q05.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/KHj9W2T.jpeg

6. NOMADLAND
Chloé Zhao (USA)
97 points, 5 votes

I did not vote for this movie.

It’s fine.

(I didn’t vote for it either)

I really liked this film overall, there were many beautiful aspects, but didn't like the music

https://i.imgur.com/YtwNZRN.jpeg

5. BACURAU
Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles  (BR)
110 points, 6 votes

Placed at #48 in 2019, with 75 points from 3 votes.

Still haven't caught up to that one despite all the extra free time.

very fun to watch but didn't think it was a great film

still thinking about Yeri Han who played Monica, Jacob's wife in Minari, who no one seemed to notice

final 4 tonight or tomorrow morning? who up?

Tonight, fuck it

I will watch

i liked bacurau, i think i voted for it in the 2019 poll. the invisible man sucked, empty man is the better man

Good few movies, except City Hall's the first Wiseman film I thought too long

bacurau is a great b-movie, elevated. harsh ending too!

Martin Eden, Beanpole, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, and First Cow are films I really loved from 2020

but Never Rarely Sometimes Always is a film I will never forget

Nomadland is a 2021 movie imo

5. BACURAU
Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles (BR)
110 points, 6 votes

That is literally the only 2020 film I've seen.

Hope Lover's Rock doesn't lose a close vote at the top. I should have voted for it but didn't--I voted for a different Small Axe film, and just absent-mindedly never thought of the same filmmaker placing two films on my year-end list.

thought mangrove was pretty weak, a couple of the other small axe films made the end of my ballot.

with the exception of a couple of things i wanted to see but didnt get the chance to (city hall and bloody nose...), very out of touch with whats on this list; god knows what vast of night is

Yeah, Mangrove was the least interesting of the six for me.

https://i.imgur.com/ocO6Sia.jpeg

4. ANOTHER ROUND (DRUK)
Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm (DK)
119 points, 6 votes

Oh yeah, forgot that one was still in the mix.

I keep forgetting that I watched this. My 3.5/5 rating on Letterboxd indicates that I liked it, though.

why is this not no. 1 ffs

Oh yeah, forgot that one was still in the mix.

― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Thursday, December 16, 2021 12:09 PM (eighteen minutes

nyuk nyuk

https://i.imgur.com/o6UXPhl.jpeg

3. Small Axe: LOVERS ROCK 
Steve McQueen, Courttia Newland (UK)
122 points, 6 votes

press play on this while you compose your replies

AR release got pushed back here & will prob be on my 2021 list, I think it was the second film I saw after cinemas reopened this year (first being first cow)

https://i.imgur.com/kiu2xWI.jpeg

2. Da 5 BLOODS 
Spike Lee, Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, Kevin Willmott (USA)
144 points, 8 votes

Nice! Didn't think this one was gonna place at this point.

Hit us with that #1

that first place?

https://i.imgur.com/c3ZRI2h.jpeg

1. FIRST COW 
Kelly Reichardt, Jonathan Raymond (USA)
202 points, 9 votes

Where are my Mankheads at, this is fucked

the cream will rise to the top

cant bring myself to watch 1st cow

Can't argue too much with the #1.

Oh yeah, definitely need to see. No Kajillionaire is a surprise? I didn't get to see that either, but thought it was pretty hyped here.

Another Round is excellent, but definitely 2021 for me.

Yeah, list needs Mank, Kajillionaire and Shirley

Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank Mank

im sorry but the card says "moops"

I do love me some Tony Shalhoub

I scrolled through ILX's "Last x movies" thread, also checked a couple of prominent 2020 year-ends to come up with a list. I should have put Lover's Rock at #8 or #9, and I'm sure I could have come up with a 10th film if I'd checked around a bit more. Dates are highly fluid, obviously. Something like Nomadland existed outside of time--I saw lobby posters in December of 2019 (I think); opened late in 2020 (I think); won the AA for 2020's Best Picture; most people (including me) didn't see it till 2021.

1. Education (from the Small Axe films)
2. What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
3. Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
4. The Last Dance
5. Nomadland
6. The Nest
7. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
8. Little Women

1. The Kid Detective
2. Driveways
3. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
4. First Cow
5. The Vast of Night
6. Spontaneous
7. Da 5 Bloods
8. The Invisible Man
9. American Utopia
10. Sound of Metal

Thanks for running this, sic!

had i voted, she dies tomorrow would’ve been my no. 1

My stingy ballot

1. City Hall
2. Lovers Rock
3. Mayor
4. First Cow
5. Time

1. Lovers Rock (dir. Steve McQueen)
2. Beanpole (dir. Kantemir Balagov)
3. First Cow (dir. Kelly Reichardt)
4. Vitalina Varela (dir. Pedro Costa)
5. The Truth (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)
6. Days (dir. Tsai Ming-liang)
7. Sorry We Missed You (dir. Ken Loach)
8. The Assistant (dir. Kitty Green)
9. Bacurau (dirs. Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
10. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (dir. Eliza Pittman)
11. Da 5 Bloods (dir. Spike Lee)
12. Nomadland (dir. Chloé Zhao)
13. Summer of ’85 (dir. François Ozon)
14. Ema (dir. Pablo Larraín)
15. Invisible Life (dir. Karim Aïnouz)
16. The 40-Year-Old Version (dir. Radha Blank)
17. The Traitor (dir. Marco Bellocchio)
18. Time (dir. Garrett Bradley)
19. Workforce (dir. David Zonana)
20. The Vast of Night (dir. Andrew Patterson)
21. City Hall (dir. Frederick Wiseman)
22. The Half of It (dir. Alice Wu)
23. Mangrove (dir. Steve McQueen)
24. Martin Eden (dir. Pietro Marcello)
25. She Dies Tomorrow (dir. Amy Seimetz)

1. Mank
2. Small Axe: Mangrove
3. The Wild Goose Lake
4. Kajillionaire
5. Small Axe: Lover’s Rock
6. Possessor
7. Shirley
8. Da 5 Bloods
9. VFW
10. Bacurau
11. First Cow
12. Deerskin
13. Blood Quantum
14. True Story of the Kelly Gang
15. The Assistant
16. Sound of Metal
17. The Vast of Night
18. Another Round
19. The 40 Year old Version
20. Soul
21. Small Axe: Red, White and Blue
22. The Wolf House
23. Impetigore
24. Beanpole
25. The Whistlers

I just went by what was a 2020 release on imdb

1. Another Round
2. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
3. Mayor
4. Minari
5. Finding Jack Charlton
6. Possessor
7. Zola
8. Mank
9. Bacarau
10.Nomadland
11.Black Bear
12.Kajillionaire
13.The Empty Man
14.Sound of Metal
15.Crock of Gold: A few rounds with Shane McGowan
16.Saint Maud
17.Butt Boy
18.Im Thinking of Ending Things
19.Siberia
20.Blow the Man Down

1. The Disciple
2. Tenet
3. City Hall
4. The Mule
5. Da 5 Bloods

Like I said, I didn’t see many 2020 movies.

1. Spree
2. Bloody Nose Empty Pockets
3. The Booksellers
4. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
5. Olympic Dreams
6. Minari
7. Im Thinking of Ending Things
8. Shithouse
9. Shiva Baby
10. The Wrong Missy
11. Baby God
13. Downfall

My mistake in thinking i voted for Kid Detective, it is on my 2021 Notepad list

1. First Cow
Invisible Man
Soul
The Kid Detective
Minari
Feels Good Man
Mangrove
Psycho Goreman
Palm Springs
The History of the Seattle Mariners
11. Smelf the Elf Holiday Special

Thank you for running! Will be watching the Vast of the Night later on.

Saint Maud
Colour Out of Space
Take Me Somewhere Nice
Bacurau
MS Slavic 7
Host
Infinite Football
Saint Frances
David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet
How to Build a Girl
Emma
Krabi, 2562

Twin peaks: the return
Butt boy
The lighthouse
Parasite
The empty man
The woman who ran
Color out of space
Uncut gems
Relic
The hunt
St maud

I probably should have voted for possessor uncut

My mistake in thinking i voted for Kid Detective, it is on my 2021 Notepad list

I checked after you posted in case I’d missed a Kid Detective vs The Kid Detective while standardising all the Small Axes (and deleting ppl’s numbers in front of titles) :)

Will probably run a 2021 poll in mid-Jan, just because I’ll have some PST mornings to be able to post in (and might have seen Drive My Car, Benedetta, and Bad Luck Banging by then). European residents are welcome to campaign for US 2020 releases to be re-voted.

Days
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
First Cow
Opera
Lovers Rock
Time
Welcome to Chechnya
Let Them All Talk
City Hall
The Grand Bizarre
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Soul
Red, White and Blue
Dick Johnson is Dead
Da 5 Bloods
Sound of Metal
The 40 Year Old Version

Don't Rush (Turkowsky, Florenty)
First Cow (Reichardt)
Sin Titulo (año pasado) (Garcia)
Days (Tsai)
Mallorca (Forteza)
Fourteen (Sallitt)
Corporate Accountability (Perel)
France against the robots (Straub)
Her Socialist Smile (Gianvito)
Beautiful young ladies (Batteault)
I Was at home but... (Shanelec)
Marriage Story (Rovinelli)
Apiyemiyekî? (Vaz)
Undine (Petznold)
Liberte (Serra)
This is not a Burial. It’s a resurrection (Mosese)
The Woman Who Ran (Hong)
Paris Caligrammes (Ottinger)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Sciamma)
Lover's Rock (McQueen)
Bird Island (Kosa, Da Costa)
Time (Bradley)
Malni - Towards the ocean towards the shore (Hopinka)
Education (McQueen)
S01e03 (Walker)

thanks for running the poll!

The Empty Man
Another Round
First Cow
Possessor
Little Women

can't wait for second cow!

Big Women

guess I'm going to subscribe to mubi to watch Days. just have so many subscriptions that it's overwhelming

Another Another Round

^ hee hee

Little Women Origins: Littler Women

i didn't see this thread pop up in time to vote but here's some last year listmaking.

Great 2020 Movies:
Feb – Uncut Gems (2019, Safdie Brothers )
Feb – Desert One (2020, Kopple)
Feb – The Whistlers (2020, Porumboiu)
Apr – The Truth (2020, Kore-eda )
Apr – Bacurau (2020 – Filho and Dorneles )
Apr – Bad Education (2020, Finley)
May – South Mountain (2020, Brougher )
May – América (0202, Stoll and Whiteside)
May – The Painter and The Thief (2020, Ree )
June – 8:46 – Dave Chapelle (2020)
June – Be Water (2020, Nguyen)
July – Jasper Mall (2020, Thomason and Whitcomb )
July – The Personal History of David Copperfield (2020, Iannucci)
Aug – Martha: A Picture Story (2020, Miles )
November – The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020, Blank)
November – Deux (2020, Meneghetti )
Dec – Nate (2020, Burgers)
Dec – The Nest (2020, Durkin)
Dec – Soul (2020, Docter )
Dec – In and Of Itself (2020, Oz)

Great (non-2020):
Jan - Spirited Away (2001, Miyazaki – Rewatch)
Jan –The Wind Rises (2013, Miyazaki – Rewatch)
Jan – Honeyland (2018, Kotevska and Stefanov - Rewatch)
Mar – Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988, Zemeckis – Rewatch)
Apr – Force Majeure (2014, Ostlund)
May – Safety Last (1923, Newmeyer and Taylor )
Jun – Monkey Business (1952, Hawks … problematic but great)
Jun – The Jerk (1974, Reiner )
July – The Tiger of Eschnapur (1960, Lang … racist as fuck unfortunately)
July – Short Films of Charley Bowers (1927 to 1935 )
July – Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977, Mariposa Film Group )
Aug – The Legend of Drunken Master (1994, Chia-Liang )
Oct – Il Capo (Ancarani, 2010)
Oct – Motown: 25 (1983)
Dec – Baldwin’s Nigger (Ové, 1968)
Dec – Syvato (Kossakovsky, 2005)

Consistently Pretty Good to Very Very Good:
Jan – What Did Jack Do? (2020, David Lynch)
Feb – Koko Di Koko Da (2020, Nyholm)
Mar – Human Nature (2019, Bolt )
Mar – Saint Francis (2019, Thompson )
Mar – Bellbird (2019, Bennett )
Mar – Crip Camp (2020, Lebrecht and Newnham – )
Apr – Platform (2019 - Gaztellu-Urrutia – )
May – Sorry We Missed You (2020, Loach )
May - Driveways (2019, Ahn )
May – Fourteen (2020, Sallitt )
June – You Don’t Nomi (2020, McHale )
June – Yourself and Yours (2020, Hong Sang-Soo )
June – El Campeón de Mundo (2020, Madiero and Borgia )
June – Who You Think I Am (2020, Sebbou )
June – Red Dog (2020, Pinkston and Dick )
July – Miss Juneteenth (2020, Peoples )
July – Pahokie (2020, Lucas and Bresnan )
July – Pipe Dreams (2020, Tenenbaum)
July – Palm Springs (2020, Barbakow)
July – The Ghost of Peter Sellers (2020, Medak )
July – Air Conditioner (2020, Fradique )
July – John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020, Porter )
August – All I Can Say (2020, Hoon )
August – Cunningham (2020, Kovgan )
August – Lucky Grandma (2020, Sealy )
September – Watermelon Juice [short] (2020, Moray )
October – Shithouse (2020, Raiff )
October – Mandibles (2020, Dupeiux )
October – Love and Monsters (2020, Matthews )
November – Lynch: A History (2020, Shields )
November – The Mole Agent (2020, Alberdi )
December – Build the Wall (2020, Swanberg )
December – Possessor (2020, Cronenberg )
December – Druk (2020, Vinterberg )

Consistently Pretty Good to Very Very Good (non-2020):
Jan –Jay Himself (2019, Wilkes)
Jan – Muxes (2016, Olita - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlzhXBjmaUw )
Jan – Midnight Family (2019, Lorentzen)
Jan – Porco Rosso (1992, Miyazaki)
Feb – Knives Out (2019, Johnson )
Mar – Metropolis with Metropolitan Ensemble Livescore(Lang)
Mar – The Barkley Marathons (2014, Kane and Iltis)
Mar – American Factory (2019, Reichart)
Mar – Project Grizzly (1996, Lynch )
Apr – Drawn from Memory (1995, Fierlinger)
Apr – The Hottest August (2019, Story )
Apr – The Mighty Atom (2017, Greenstein)
Apr – Boy (2012, Waititi )
May – Nina Conti: Talk to the Hand (2013, Hare )
May – Nina Conti: Make Me Happy (2012, Eastall – Vimeo - https://vimeo.com/49714692)
May – Moon (2009, Jones )
May – A Kid from Coney Island (2019, Ozah )
June – Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo (2012, Higuchi and Ghibli )
June – 80 Blocks from Tiffany’s (1979, Weis )
June – Where’s My Roy Cohn? (2019, Tyrnauer )
June – Aya of Yop City (2013, Abouet and Oubrerie )
June – Jump Shot (2019, Hamilton )
July – Trust Us, This Is All Made Up (2009, Karpovsky )
August – Too Funny To Fail: The Life and Death of the Dana Carvey Show (2017, Greenbaum)
August – Korla (2015, Turner and Christensen )
September – Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 (2007, Niles )
October – Long Gone Summer (2020, Schnack)

Almost Okay to Occasionally Pretty Good:
Jan - Color Out of Space (2020, Stanley)
Feb – Slay the Dragon (2020, Goodman and Durrance)
Mar – Fantastic Fungi (2019, Schwartzberg )
Apr – Bad Trip (2020, Sakurai )
Apr – Bit (2019, Elmore )
May – Spaceship Earth (2020, Wolf)
May – Hannah Gadsby: Douglas (2020, Parry)
May – Patton Oswalt: I Love Everything (2020, Raboy)
June – Sometimes Always Never (2020, Hunter )
June – Ringside (2020, Hörmann)
June – Eating up Easter (2020, Mata’u Rapu )
June – Booksellers (2020, Young )
July - Inmate 1: The Rise of Danny Trejo (2020, Harvey )
July – Old Guard (2020, Prince-Bythewood)
Aug – She Dies Tomorrow (2020, Seimetz )
Aug – Tu Me Manques (2020, Bellott )
Aug – Tiny Tim: King for a Day (2020, von Sydow)
Aug – Class Action Park (2020, Porges and Scott III)
September – Biography: I Want My MTV (2020, Waldrop and Meason )
September – Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020, Ross, Ross IV )
September - #Alive (2020, Il Cho)
September – All In: The Fight for Democracy (2020, Cores and Garbus)
September – The Fandom (2020, Kries )
October – Save Yourselves (2020, Wilson and Fischer )

Almost Okay to Occasionally Pretty Good (non-2020):
Jan – John Berger and the Art of Looking (2016, Dvorak)
Feb – Who Let the Dogs Out (2019, Hodge )
Mar – Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (2019, Wolf)
Mar – Last Breath (2019, Da Costa and Parkinson )
Apr – Tread (2019, Solet )
Apr – Ethiopiques: Revolt of the Soul (2017, Bochniak )
Apr – The Woman Who Loves Giraffes (2018, Reid )
Apr – Dolemite is My Name (2019, Brewer)
Apr – Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013, Lowney )
May – How I Came to Hate Maths (2012, Peyon )
July – The Indian Tomb (1960, Lang )
August – Fist of Fury (1972, Wei )
September – Salvage (2019, Elliott )
September – The Donut King (2020, Gu )
October – First Cow (2020, Reichardt )

Deeply Flawed to Barely Watchable:
Mar – War on Everyone (2016, McDonagh )
Apr – It Started as a Joke: Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival (Clem and Druckerman, 2019 )
Apr – Circus of Books (2019, Mason)
May – Greed (2020, Winterbottom )
May – The Land of Steady Habits (2018, Holofcener)
May – Hellraiser (1987, Barker )
May – Genius Party (2007, Multiple Directors)
May – Buzzard (2014, Potrykus )
May – DC Showcase: Adam Strange (2020, Lukic)
May – Hala (2019, Baig )
May – Villain (2020, Barantini )
Aug – Boys State (2020, Moss and McBaine )
Aug – Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren and Stimpy Story (2020, Cicero and Easterwood)
Aug – Pretending I’m Superman: The Tony Hawk Game Story (2020, Gür )
Aug – Feels Good Man (2020, Jones )
Aug – Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020, Parisot )
Dec – The Santa Trap (1909, Griffith )

No:
Jan – Jacob, Mimmi and the Talking Dogs (2019, Jansons )
Jan – Chained for Life (2018, Schimberg )
Feb - Judy (2019, Goold , great lead acting role though)
Feb –Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts: Life Overtakes Me, Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (2019, various directors – basically broccoli)
Feb – Guest of Honor (2020, Egoyan)
Mar – Onward – (2020, Scanlon )
Apr – Wetlands (2013, Wnendt )
Apr – Buffaloed (2019, Wexler )
Apr – Limelight (2011, Corben )
May – Raising Buchanan (2019, Dellis )
May – How to Build a Girl (2020, Giedroyc )
May – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020, Hittman )
May – The Last Right (2019, Crehan )
May – Your Name (2016, Shinkai )
June – Miwa: Looking for Black Lizard (2010, Vincent )
June – Days of the Bagnold Summer (2020, Bird )
July – The Translators (2019, Roinsard )
July – Vanilla (2019, Dennis )
August – The Disappearance of My Mother (2019, Barrese )
September – My Octopus Teacher (2020, Ehrlich and Reed )
September – I’ve Got Issues (2020, Collins )
October – 12 Hour Shift (2020, Grant )
October – What the Constitution Means to Me (2020, Heller)
November – Tank Girl (1995, Talalay)
November – The Pollinators (2020, Nelson)
November – Freaky (2020, Landon)
November – Tenet (2020, Nolan)
December – The Last Blockbuster (2020)

I was the only Copperfield voter! So a ballot from you still wldn’t have got it on. But I was dazzled by how perfectly Ianucci got the tone of a comedy Dickens translated to a modern feature.

awestruck that someone can watch so much stuff they hate and keep rolling with the punches, are you a professional reviewer forks cos you sure do the work of one

copperfield wouldve made my ballot, just forgot to list it

UK folks, American Utopia is on Sky Arts (Freeview 11) at 6pm tonight.

xp to LJ: I think my signal-to-noise ratio in 2020 was pretty high actually! And not liking things isn't the same as hating them of course.

But anyone on this board for any amount of time knows that I've extended poptimism out as a worldview wherein i give everything the benefit of the doubt and shoulder any inability to appreciate a thing as likely my more fault that the art, gross misjudgment aside.

I wanna suggest again that the ILPLEX thread on 77 gets a gander as i am heavily curating there

Checking too see if there's a list of the Top 20 for the Film Poll Results thread.

They Poll Movies, Don't They? The ILX Film-Poll Results Thread

The Assistant definitely got better second time around, on DVD with captions (first time: bootleg rip at my sister's place, no captions, straining to hear every last line of dialogue). The scene with the personnel guy is perfect. Can't think of another film that so effectively sustains the feeling of never knowing what all the peripheral conversations around the main character are about. As a men-are-awful film, it kind of reminded me of The Company of Men. Two very different approaches, obviously; I find the earlier film more harrowing, but The Assistant will stay in my mind. (Didn't know for sure till I checked the credits that Julia Garner's character even had a name--not giving her one wouldn't have been without justification.)

2021 voting!

Barb & Star Go To The Sofa: The ILX Film Poll (for 2021 viewings) Voting Thread - Ballots Due Saturday January 22nd

I had a better home viewing experience of The Assistant than you clemenza but thats one I definitely wished I'd caught in the cinema, just for the sound design. (I loved it.)

1. First Cow (Reichardt) 202 points, 9 votes
2. Da 5 Bloods (Lee) 144 points, 8 votes
3. Lovers Rock (McQueen) 122 points, 6 votes
4. Another Round (Vinterberg) 119 points, 6 votes
5. Bacurau (Dornelles/Filho) 110 points, 6 votes
6. Nomadland (Zhao) 97 points, 5 votes
7. The Invisible Man (Whannell) 81 points, 4 votes
8. The Vast of Night (Patterson) 74 points, 5 votes
9. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Ross/Ross) 71 points, 3 votes
10. Mangrove (McQueen) 70 points, 5 votes
11. City Hall (Wiseman) 70 points, 4 votes
12. Color Out of Space (Stanley) 67 points, 3 votes
13. Soul (Docter/Powers) 63 points, 4 votes
    Possessor (Cronenberg) 63 points, 4 votes
15. American Utopia (Lee) 62 points, 3 votes
16. The Empty Man (David Prior) 59 points, 3 votes
17. Minari (Chung) 58 points, 3 votes
18. The Kid Detective (Morgan) 54 points, 3 votes
19. Saint Maud (Glass) 50 points, 3 votes
20. Sound of Metal (Marder) 48 points, 4 votes