BABADOOK
― Swen, Friday, 8 March 2024 14:00 (six months ago) link
inherent vice... easily? ofc i haven't seen goodbye to language or leviathan
― ivy., Friday, 8 March 2024 14:28 (six months ago) link
Probably the worst year overall from the last 15 or so. Goodbye to Language over Inherent Vice.
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Friday, 8 March 2024 14:30 (six months ago) link
Girlhood > Boyhood, of course
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Friday, 8 March 2024 14:31 (six months ago) link
Girlhood was my favorite film of 2015. Our beloved, often addled Morbs thought it advocated shoplifting and hooliganism.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 March 2024 14:34 (six months ago) link
Both can be true
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Friday, 8 March 2024 15:15 (six months ago) link
Grand Budapest Hotel
― UKXEPCTED TWITS (WmC), Friday, 8 March 2024 15:47 (six months ago) link
Definitely would have voted for Winter Sleep if it were an option. Horse Money was sub-standard for Costa, Leviathan was powerful but emotionally monotonous. Respect to anyone voting for Godard but I feel he was starting to thin out by then.
Voting Timbuktu, even though I can't recall any more vivid impressions than "liking it" at the time.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 8 March 2024 20:45 (six months ago) link
Godard I think
The wrong Leviathan made the list
― Morris O’Shea Salazar (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 March 2024 21:31 (six months ago) link
THE BABADOOK - mostly very good, but was sleepy when watched and haven't finished ending.BOYHOOD - loved it, clown away if you want. i realize it was a gimmick. eat me.GONE GIRL - "that's marriage!" is cringe, but pretty effective boilerplate crime dramaTHE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL - not a big Wes fan, but this one was heartwarming and funny and Fiennes is hilariousINHERENT VICE - maybe my favorite on the list? needed even more Martin Short cameoINTERSTELLAR - 30 good minutes, then a complete pile of shitWHIPLASH - enjoyed it as long as I didn't take it as an endorsement of Simmons' character (regardless of whether Chazelle did or not)
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 March 2024 21:42 (six months ago) link
Interstellar is maybe the one Nolan film (outside of Dunkirk, which barely feels like his) that I kinda have any fondness for? Helps that it's so incredibly dumb that it can't even pretend to posture that it's anything but
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Friday, 8 March 2024 21:46 (six months ago) link
inherent vice... easily?
― ivy., Friday, 8 March 2024 14:28 (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
otm
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 8 March 2024 21:49 (six months ago) link
interstellar is great. the only nolan i wholly support (haven’t seen dunkirk)
― ivy., Friday, 8 March 2024 21:58 (six months ago) link
Boyhood first, Girlhood second, Andersons nowhere; Eden from runners-up.
― clemenza, Friday, 8 March 2024 21:59 (six months ago) link
Probably my ten favorites from that year:
1. Boyhood2. Goodbye to Language3. Horse Money4. Timbuktu5. Citizenfour6. The Grand Budapest Hotel7. Journey To The West8. Phoenix9. Two Days, One Night10. Mr. Turner
― birdistheword, Saturday, 9 March 2024 04:22 (six months ago) link
Lot of my favorites on the undercard here.
1. Goodbye to Language2. Horse MoneyTimbuktu
― intheblanks, Saturday, 9 March 2024 04:29 (six months ago) link
whoops, accidentally posted early
1. Goodbye to Language2. Horse Money3. Heaven Knows What4. The Look of Silence5. Phoenix6. Two Days, One Night7. Timbuktu8. Clouds of Sils Maria9. Jauja10. Citizenfour
― intheblanks, Saturday, 9 March 2024 04:32 (six months ago) link
I absolutely love some of Linklater's work, but a decade later, I'm still a little baffled by acclaim that Boyhood received, there must be something I'm missing with that one.
― intheblanks, Saturday, 9 March 2024 04:34 (six months ago) link
1. Boyhood2. Inherent Vice3. Guardians of the galaxy4. Calvary5. Leviathan6. Gueros7. Timbuktu8. Wild Tales9. Citizenfour10.Mr Turner
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Saturday, 9 March 2024 06:50 (six months ago) link
Inherent Vice is the one fir me
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 March 2024 07:02 (six months ago) link
Goodbye to Language still has the best, most inventive use of 3D I've seen in the modern era.
― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 9 March 2024 09:11 (six months ago) link
The part in Boyhood that struck me most was that kid had de facto siblings for a while and then suddenly, for reasons entirely outside his control, he didn't. Really highlights how much childhood is about things happening to you, with no agency or even the means to properly process any of it.
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 9 March 2024 09:20 (six months ago) link
Another for Goodbye to Language. The only good thing to come out of the 3D craze
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 9 March 2024 10:55 (six months ago) link
Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams was another, if you can see it in 3D on the big screen.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 10 March 2024 16:37 (six months ago) link
Recapping our winners, who will join this crew?
1944: A CANTERBURY TALE1954: REAR WINDOW1964: DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB1974: CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING1984: THIS IS SPINAL TAP1994: SÁTÁNTANGÓ + CHUNGKING EXPRESS2004: TROPICAL MALADY
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 18:14 (five months ago) link
lol that Birdman missed the top 2000. I haven't seen more than a handful of these, but I'll throw a vote to Paddington, because it is a very fine movie in all respects that won't rate at all with the ilx film snobs
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 18:27 (five months ago) link
Shame that Pigeon... and Winter Sleep just missed the cut-off (and though Journey to the West isn't my favourite Tsai Ming-liang, was an absorbing experience at a Guangzhou installation back in the day)
― etc, Thursday, 18 April 2024 01:42 (five months ago) link
surprised by how few of these I’ve seen. write in for HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT
― brony james (k3vin k.), Thursday, 18 April 2024 01:46 (five months ago) link
what a bunch of dreck lmao
― Clay, Thursday, 18 April 2024 02:34 (five months ago) link
didnt click that birdman didnt make the list
would have been very close to picking that over inherent vice
i reread the thread for it only a few weeks ago and was struck by the absolute dullard level of analysis tbh
also, ILE rates paddington but its a 7/10 with nice quality touches.
paddington 2 is the masterpiece
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 April 2024 09:08 (five months ago) link
Girlhood, one of the decade's best.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 April 2024 09:18 (five months ago) link
I like Grand Budapest Hotel, which was kind of a Return To Form for ol’ Wes. Second choice would be Force Majeure. Nothing else jumps out at me.
― o. nate, Thursday, 18 April 2024 14:25 (five months ago) link
― Morris O’Shea Salazar (Noodle Vague), Friday, March 8, 2024 4:31 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
was about to vehemently agree, but apparently it came out the previous year.
can't really get too worked up about any of the actual choices here, i still haven't seen girlhood though
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 18 April 2024 14:59 (five months ago) link
I wonder how many of the people at the time who were crying "Why is it 'BOYHOOD?' Why not a movie called 'GIRLHOOD,' huh!?" ended up seeing Girlhood.
― Chris L, Thursday, 18 April 2024 15:20 (five months ago) link
especially since in the States Girlhood got a spring '15 release.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 April 2024 15:21 (five months ago) link
This was pretty easily Boyhood for me.
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 18 April 2024 15:23 (five months ago) link
(I’ve only seen three of the choices.)
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 18 April 2024 15:24 (five months ago) link
I’ve seen all of them (not usually the case for me with these retrospective polls). My five favorites are
The Wonders =Leviathan
The Grand Budapest HotelInherent ViceGoodbye to Language
― Dan S, Thursday, 18 April 2024 23:30 (five months ago) link
The Wonders by Alice Rohrwacher is a beautiful pastoral film about teenage yearning. It features a girl, Gelsomina, who is starting to assume responsibility for her family and their apiary in the dusty Tuscan countryside, but who becomes distracted. IMDB describes the family as “a household disrupted by the simultaneous arrival of a silently troubled teenage boy and a reality TV show intent on showcasing the family “, which is as good a description as any.
― Dan S, Thursday, 18 April 2024 23:37 (five months ago) link
Her new film opens here next week
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 April 2024 00:10 (five months ago) link
Leviathan for me, I love PTA but IV was a shaggy dog. Dunno what the previous posters were referring to with "the wrong Leviathan" - a fishing documentary? Anyway the Zvyagintsev film has stayed with me and I've watched it several times. I love the major scene toward the end (no spoilers for a decade old movie).
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 19 April 2024 00:13 (five months ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 21 April 2024 00:01 (four months ago) link
Andrey Zyagintsev’s Leviathan is a story about a fisherman who fights back when a corrupt mayor tries to seize his ancestral home, which brings even more misfortune to him. It’s funny and tragic, and has amazing images
The Return (2003) is shockingly good as a first feature film about a dangerous father who resurfaces in the lives of his two sons. It takes place in a remote area of Ladoga Lake near St. Petersburg.
His film Loveless (2017) is about a child who goes missing in the middle of a bitter divorce, and is also amazing
― Dan S, Sunday, 21 April 2024 00:39 (four months ago) link
Yeah I know Z's films and agree with much of your assessment (altho disliked Loveless) - I just wondered what NV's comment upthread about "the wrong Leviathan made the list" meant.
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 21 April 2024 01:24 (four months ago) link
Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel made a fishing documentary in 2012 through the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard called Leviathan. It was a very avant-garde film that experimented with waterproof cameras aboard a fishing ship to capture raw, wordless, hallucinatory images and occasional fragments of dialog.
It is a beautiful film as far as it goes, but there is no story
― Dan S, Sunday, 21 April 2024 01:43 (four months ago) link
you say that like its a flaw
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 21 April 2024 01:51 (four months ago) link
It's not a flaw as such, just that ultimately the film doesn't have a greater meaning for me.
I know there are other films I have loved where the images matter more than the story,Satyricon may be one
― Dan S, Sunday, 21 April 2024 02:08 (four months ago) link
Sounds interesting nonetheless!
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 21 April 2024 02:43 (four months ago) link
The fishing documentary is called Leviathan (which may confuse some people given the excellent Russian film by that name which was released a couple of years later). I caught the premiere at Alice Tully Hall for the NYFF and thought it was great, but it's not a film that'll appeal to everyone - there were famously some walkouts during its initial theatrical run as some people claimed it was actually physically hard to watch, inducing something like real sea sickness.
Here's Jim Hoberman's rave.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 21 April 2024 02:49 (four months ago) link
It's been too long for me to recall where exactly I saw those reports of sickness, but FWIW, here's a recent report published last fall:
The film uses an experimental filmography style, including the use of multiple GoPro cameras. This technique offers a unique perspective, ranging from the depths of the ocean to breathtaking bird’s-eye views. To some, this technique was disorienting. Several attendees of the screening even reported feeling sea sick.
Senior Emily McAllister, a film and media studies major with concentrations in sociology and philosophy, was among the audience members who left feeling dizzy.
“I felt the absence of a narrative or plot dissolved any possibility of the romanticization or glorification of this line of work, leaving viewers with the bare authentic reality of deep sea trawling. If the filmmaker had used any other mode of communication to describe life on the trawler, it would not have been as impactful or immersive. The camera work represents a wet, disorienting and dizzying existence, successfully inducing these sensations upon the viewers. When I stood up to leave the theater, I felt myself wobble a little,” McCalister said.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 21 April 2024 02:53 (four months ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 22 April 2024 00:01 (four months ago) link
I'm happy that Boyhood is the winner. I can see that it is a film people really connect to, and I think it is one of the great films ever. It definitely deserved to win the Oscar for Best Film over Birdman in 2014
I also like seeing that every film got a vote
― Dan S, Monday, 22 April 2024 00:35 (four months ago) link
I demand a Boyhood-Girlhood double feature.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 April 2024 00:43 (four months ago) link
Triple feature with Boyz N The Hood
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 22 April 2024 00:53 (four months ago) link
Either they don't know, don't show, or don't care about what's going on in Boyhood
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Monday, 22 April 2024 12:39 (four months ago) link
voted godard, though hill of freedom is the actual best film of 2014
― devvvine, Monday, 22 April 2024 13:33 (four months ago) link
And the last two pieces of the puzzle:
1924's Best Movies: 100 Years Later1934's Best Movies: 90 Years Later
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Monday, 22 April 2024 19:48 (four months ago) link