ILX Film Club, The (1924-2019)

Yeah I'm in, tho can't promise to keep up every week - one objective I have this year is to watch more films from the rest of the world than US films overall and while these lists are varied and wonderful I fear they'd still land me on the wrong side of that in the end.

Why does ILX hate L'Atalante so much?

Is this true?

Yes, fuck all canal barges.

Alba can you tell which ilxors are hating I'll bully them for you.

Ha ha I was just making a glib comment after seeing the spreadsheet and noticing tha it placed relatively well in the S&S top 100s but nowhere with ILX.

I think that applies even more to Beau Travail but I was looking at the early films.

Gonna watch Beau Travail in a proper theater next week -- my first non-DVD/streaming experience w/it!

While everyone's gearing up, a reasonably engaging quiz:

Try this quiz - https://t.co/yyLpPtjiKP pic.twitter.com/fdHFKTXEpL

— DVDBeaver (@DVDBeaver) February 11, 2023

66/100. I raced through it, probably wouldn't have done much better if I'd taken my time (I either knew it or guessed--though I would have gone back and changed a few guesses based on subsequent answers).

more mainstream:
https://www.cinenerdle2.app/

68/100. Projectionist but no professor. But what's wrong with being a projectionist?

Wtf, I'm boycotting this quiz

Reasoning?

Putting professors above projectionists!

Ah!

96/100 and only because I accidentally put Jacques Rivette when I meant François Truffaut

Check out the big brain on Brad!

77/100 -- a couple of dumb mistakes on movies I've seen, a couple of lucky guesses on movies I haven't seen

71, though at least half were guesses.

(Some of them informed guesses, though.)

76. About five films I did see and couldn't place grr

88. Nailed every one I knew, every guess I guessed wrong

Oh and messed up Spike Lee . Just couldn't place that image in that film somehow

84/100!

I guessed on most of the contemporary Asian stuff, which rarely payed off. And I got the Black female directors all switched around. The only film I've seen that I miscredited was Death of Mr. Lazarescu.

I just exchanged texts with my friend who actually is a projectionist but did not mention this quiz.

I got 89. several of them were guesses based on what I know about the filmmakers’ visual aesthetics or the time periods from the images. I got several directors mixed up - Mizoguchi and Kobayashi, Kazan and Wyler, Etrice and Saura and others. I guessed Larisa Shepitko’s The Ascent correctly only because I have recently seen stills from it on twitter, but I haven’t watched it. Also still have yet to watch Djibril Diop Mambéty’s films, a few of which are on Kanopy, or Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman

My projectionist friend told me about this yesterday:
https://framed.wtf

oh, it's a one-per-day thing, like wordle

Yes. I only started doing it yesterday.

But I like, I like.

I love Framed but I get annoyed every time a Marvel movie zilches my overall record

Will we be using this thread for discussion of films that are not on your list but are still, say, Morbius favorites?

Just the ones on the list, think there are several which wouldn't be there without his influence.

just downloaded sherlock jr, which i think just sneaks in as public domain. only i seem to have an entirely silent one and i can her neighbours clanking around

Looking through the list, some of my favourite directors, Louis Malle, Miloš Forman, Roy Andersson, Sidney Lumet, are either missing entirely or have a single entry, think this is probably A Good Thing on a personal level, more to explore, less so to those whose favourites are more well-represented I suppose, though otoh everyone likes talking about their favourites.

xp There are many different options for watching Sherlock Jr on YouTube with different soundtracks.

To your last post: that is sort of the whole good and bad of lists in a nutshell.

I've watched the first hundred.

For those who have MUBI, try to catch The General over the next 3 days before it gets yanked

I really am going to be forced to watch Holiday on the Buses huh

Whose first place vote was that?

Is Holiday on the Buses the same as Mexican Bus Ride?

Man those MUBI Leaving Soons are torture. I rewatched THE GENERAL recently and maybe still have it saved on my cable box so I think I will pass on that and watch a few others.

i never her.

finished Sherlock Jr as it was only 44 minutes long. (this was an archive.org download rather than youtube. ogg video in fact, only 100MB, 400x300 but perfectly watchable)

is that a recognised meaning of the work sheik?

yes -

2 usually sheik : a man supposed to be irresistibly attractive to romantic young women

lots of things that are now cliches, probably a lot different back in 1924. the suitcase jump kinda spoilt it - everything else was at least possible

THE GENERAL also avaiable in several other places, Amazon Prime, Criterion and... wait for it... Tubi. https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-general

Actually I have to be careful here as I have been fooled before. Oftentimes something will show up there as being on Amazon Prime but in fact it is only there with a subscription, a subscription to MUBI.

Is Holiday on the Buses the same as Mexican Bus Ride?

― The Windows of the URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2023 17:27 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I like to think so.

As Mark S likes to tell me, the first On The Buses film was the highest grossing film at the box office that year.

Pfunkboy was Holiday on the Bus's #1 vote

^this

based on the 5 or so bergmans i've seen, he's better at ordinary human stories than he is at fantasy

love wild strawberries so much

Finally watched Wild Strawberries, it took that long to arrange dual English/Chinese subtitles and get some time to sit down together with my wife, as she is very keen that I don't watch Bergman without her.

So yes, absolutely loved that, connected with me even more than The Seventh Seal. Something about the wistful memories of trying to break crippling emotional repression and make a connection with other people - that's a topic that I can find endless depth in.

So great, isn't it?

Yeah, instant favourite.

I remember it as good, but am conscious of needing to refresh my memory, not least because 73.56% of reviews of Jay Kelly in the past month or so draw comparisons.

So this is a biggie

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Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock, 1958

Morbsies #1
Sight & Sound critics #2
Sight & Sound directors #6

There has been a degree of pushback to the hype but yes it's a massive film

*raises hands*

For the pushbike? I mean I get it, but it's such a deep, rich movie. Belongs in the Surrealist canon

Pushback. Excuse my fucking phone

Better than The Searchers for sure.

I've seen it maybe six times, but am going to show it to the kids, we will see if that adds a new perspective.

going to refer to pushback as pushbike from now on.

Lol I corrected it for my first post and then missed it second time round.

I don't really care if it's come to overshadow other Hitch, which I don't really think it has, but I think there are legit reasons why it's become such a critical touchstone

And having said that I was thinking that for the last two or three years my most obsessive Hitchcock thinking has been about the scene in Psycho where Marion is pulled over by the beshaded cop

Last film from that S&S list I watched was The Piano on the iPlayer. I coincidentally watched The Bad Lieutenant, both of which have a stressed out, naked Harvey Keitel.

I was mystified by it in my teens, unimpressed in my twenties, and begrudgingly started coming around to it in my thirties. Now I adore it.

My bruv got me the Jeanne Dielmann blu ray for my birthday:D

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) is now in the public domain

Watched Vertigo a few times over the last two weeks, think it may be up there with my all-time most watched now (Pelle Svanslös probably at number one still) - but don't know if I have any more to say about it, just everything about it kind of astounds me even now, but especially the cinematography and the sound design, is there any better out there? Think my favourite moments are probably the dream sequence, Midge saying "stupid! stupid!" to herself and of course that final shot of him standing on the ledge at the church with his hands outstretched. How does that play out at the cinema, people who have seen it there?

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Touch of Evil, Orson Welles, 1958

Morbsies # 66
Sight & Sound Critics #108

Never seen this one!

So much fun -- a nightmare with indelible dialogue and performances.

Saw the Director's Cut during its '98 theatrical run, and then numerous times since then. Never saw any of the other cuts that sometimes get packaged with DVD/Blu-ray releases, because why would I bother? This one is perfect--my fave Welles.

This was definitely an "acknowledged classic that blew me away" experience (to adapt a certain a thread title) when I saw it early in the century. I have a (possibly cheap and nasty) DVD, come to think of it, but don't recall watching whatever cut that is!

So well made, great entertainment. People talk about the ridiculousness of Heston's role, but they're all ridiculous, and that just heightens the movie's effects. It has kind of a wild energy.

To the end of his life Heston was bemused that this became his most lasting cultural legacy; he kept reminding people that he'd starred in Ben-Hur and The Agony and the Ecstasy, in part b/c he was shrewd enough to realize, according to his (excellent) journals, that Hank Quinlan became the tragic hero while he devolved into the straight guy with the dumb heroic dialog.