Final round: The best movies from years celebrating an anniversary divisible by 10 (1923-2013), as chosen by ... ILX

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These are the dozen movies that ILX has chosen from the individual deca polls throughout the year. Which is the absolute best? (Write-in votes for Goodfellas are not allowed.)

Poll Results

Option	Votes
DUCK SOUP (Leo McCarey; USA; 1922)	9
DUCK AMUCK (Chuck Jones; USA; 1953)	8
DAZED AND CONFUSED (Richard Linklater; USA; 1993)	8
8½ (Federico Fellini; Italy; 1963)	6
THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (Victor Erice; Spain; 1973)	5
GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (Tsai Ming-liang; Taiwan; 2003)	4
SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker; France; 1983)	4
UNDER THE SKIN (Jonathan Glazer; UK; 2013)	4
MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid; USA; 1943)	1
SAFETY LAST (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor; USA; 1922)	1

― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Friday, 27 October 2023 11:24 (two years ago)

These are the ~~dozen~~ ten movies that ILX has chosen

― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Friday, 27 October 2023 11:25 (two years ago)

Three of my all-timers in that line-up, and only one that I can't say I have much fondness for. Not too bad.

― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Friday, 27 October 2023 11:26 (two years ago)

Let me cast the one and only vote for the one my super-sensitive intuition tells me you have no fondness for: Dazed and Confused.

― clemenza, Friday, 27 October 2023 14:04 (two years ago)

Close, but not the one I'm thinking of

― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Friday, 27 October 2023 14:08 (two years ago)

(Though I will be adequately villainously annoyed when it inevitably wins this round over the Marker, the Tsai, and the Jones.)

― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Friday, 27 October 2023 14:09 (two years ago)

Went with Chris Marker.

― birdistheword, Friday, 27 October 2023 16:50 (two years ago)

Went with Chris Marker.

― birdistheword, Friday, 27 October 2023 16:50 (two years ago)

I like and admire every film here, but the ones I love are:

Sans Soleil
Duck Soup
Dazed and Confused
Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Duck Amuck in its own circle of sublimity.

― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 October 2023 16:58 (two years ago)

Went with Chris Marker.
― birdistheword, Friday, October 27, 2023 11:50 AM (nineteen minutes ago)

I'll mentally add one vote to whatever the final tally is.

― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Friday, 27 October 2023 17:10 (two years ago)

Duck Amuck probably informed the comic sensibility of every Gen X-er on the planet so that one.

― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Friday, 27 October 2023 17:42 (two years ago)

Tokyo Story or Madame De... should have won the 1953 poll over Duck Amuck in my opinion

I'm going to go with one of: 8 1/2 (which I'm pretty sure is the one Eric doesn't have fondness for), Goodbye, Dragon Inn, or Sans Soleil

― Dan S, Sunday, 29 October 2023 22:41 (two years ago)

I can't watch it either.

― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 October 2023 22:42 (two years ago)

Bingo, have mostly never had much use for Fellini … tho this one is about as close to enjoying one of his films that I’ve gotten

― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Monday, 30 October 2023 01:06 (two years ago)

I Vitelloni for me.

― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 October 2023 01:15 (two years ago)

I voted

― My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 October 2023 01:17 (two years ago)

lol I love Dazed & Confused but it's punching a bit above its weight here

voting for the duck amuck

― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 30 October 2023 10:09 (two years ago)

I’m basic enough to adore UNDER THE SKIN but how could I pass up GOODBYE DRAGON INN?

― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 30 October 2023 11:47 (two years ago)

lol I love Dazed & Confused but it's punching a bit above its weight here

voting for the duck amuck

― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 30 October 2023 10:09 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

voted

― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 30 October 2023 11:50 (two years ago)

Congrats for voting Duck Amuck, the correct choice.

― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 30 October 2023 12:41 (two years ago)

Morbsies placements, fwiw...

#31: DUCK SOUP
#43: SANS SOLEIL
#79: UNDER THE SKIN
#87: THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE
#96: MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON
#120: GOODBYE, DRAGON INN
#129: DAZED AND CONFUSED
#345: DUCK AMUCK
#348: 8½
#981: SAFETY LAST [basically had one single runner-up vote]

― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Monday, 30 October 2023 13:26 (two years ago)

Five of the top in the top 100 and two more just outside of it ... good consistency

― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Monday, 30 October 2023 13:29 (two years ago)

Continuing my streak of voting for Goodbye, Dragon Inn at every opportunity — but this was the hardest call, over Sans Soleil and Meshes. (I also love Dazed and Confused to pieces, but yeah it's not quite at this level imo.)

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 30 October 2023 13:42 (two years ago)

At the risk of activating the silent majority, yes, I hold Dazed in pretty high regard, but it's not the deathless masterpiece a number of others here are.

― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Monday, 30 October 2023 13:44 (two years ago)

We're not silent, we're... biding our time, man.

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 30 October 2023 14:45 (two years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Thursday, 9 November 2023 00:01 (two years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Friday, 10 November 2023 00:01 (two years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e90eWYPNtJ8

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 10 November 2023 00:35 (two years ago)

lol

― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Friday, 10 November 2023 01:50 (two years ago)

All these Dazed and Confused voters--or all the people who voted for There Will Be Blood in some other recent poll--start posting. Make yourself heard.

― clemenza, Friday, 10 November 2023 02:01 (two years ago)

Good winner imo.

― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 10 November 2023 11:09 (two years ago)

The Morbsies strike again

― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Friday, 10 November 2023 11:32 (two years ago)

Duck Soup joins The Rules of the Game and ... *goodfellas* ... in the ILX anniversary pantheon. (I quite rationally gave up on this exercise in '01 and '02.)

― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Friday, 10 November 2023 11:43 (two years ago)

six months pass...

2024 version is live: Final round: The best movies from years celebrating an anniversary divisible by 10 (1924-2014), as chosen by ILX

― Rich E. (Eric H.), Friday, 10 May 2024 16:10 (one year ago)

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