ORBEMHARBBIE: The ILX film poll for 2023 viewings voting thread: Ballots due 30th October

Clear out your streaming queues. Return your library DVDs. Hastily organise the last double-features for your screeinng groups.

Voting is NOW OPEN for the ILX 2023 film poll: things that came out somewhere, in some format, for the first time, are eligible. If they only came out in your local community hall's off-site adjunct film festival side-event in 2023, and everywhere else some other time, you will probably want to make your case to the elctorate, though.

Send ballots to i l x polls ter [at] g ma il [dot] c o m by October 30th, by which time I expect to have remembered which browser might have that account saved in it.

MAXIMUM 35 votes
MINIMUM 7 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.) (Pollrunner reserves the right to completely change the order of your list if you ignore this every year.)

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 please type the English title first. (This is also to help with tallying, and does not otherwise reflect the poll's stylebook.)

Questions and campaigning are both welcome ITT. Complaints about placement or non-placement in the results thread will be scorned if you didn't make any case, or passing mention, here. Feel free to spread this thread or the voting instructions to friends, strangers and oomfies.

I voted!

Is it just films this time or are we including TV shows, streaming, etc.?

As ever, you’re welcome to vote for Tiktoks of your own phone videos of your dog, if you think enough other people will also vote for them

Campaigning:

Zhang Yimou's Under The Light is a great Chinese crime thriller, kept back by censorship for years and you can see why, even if its eventual release dovetailed w/ official "anti corruption" initiatives. Yimou has quickly lost my good will again by following this up with a truly turgid propaganda courtroom drama. Guess it's one for me/one for them right now for Chinese directors, if not one for me five for them.

Indian cinema: Rocky Aur Rani is a delightful, (mostly) socially progressive romcom doubling as a primer on Tamil/Punjabi cultural differences. Leo is a great action thriller with baddies straight out of a 70's eurocrime film. Thunivu is a heist film with one of the musical numbers proclaiming "even Ghandi had an accounnt with swiss". Jawan is perhaps a bit bloated but def good leftist wish fulfilment.

Fly Me To The Saitama is perhaps the most esoteric thing on my list. Interested in obscure Japanese regional rivalries and what the dullest parts of Japan are? This is the film for you. Or you can ignore all that and enjoy it as a bizarre Terry Gilliam before he sucked thing.

Pictures Of Ghosts is a love letter to the disappeared cinemas of Recife and I'm a sucker for that kind of thing.

Junkyard Dog - Life as a closeted gay dude in small town France, amazing performance from France's current big hope Raphael Quenard. Content warning tho the dog does die.

River - Wonderful time travel comedy. This was made by a theater troupe that seem to only do timeloop stories, I've seen two other films of theirs and they always rule.

Out Of Season - Washed up French film star retreats to a spa, hijinks ensue.

My top 21 of 2023:

1. May December (dir. Todd Haynes)
2. Passages (dir. Ira Sachs)
3. One Fine Morning (dir. Mia Hansen-Løve)
4. Winter Boy (dir. Christophe Honoré)
5. Showing Up (dir. Kelly Reichardt)
6. Afire (dir. Christian Petzold)
7. The Boy and the Heron (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
8. How to Blow Up a Pipeline (dir. Daniel Goldhaber)
9. Will-o’-the-Wisp (dir. João Pedro Rodrigues)
10. A Thousand and One (dir. A.V. Rockwell)
11. em>Killers of the Flower Moon (dir. Martin Scorsese)
12. Anatomy of a Fall (dir. Justine Triet)
13. Monster (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)
14. John Wick: Chapter 4 (dir. Chad Stahelski)
15. Barbie (dir. Greta Gerwig)
16. Everything Went Fine (dir. François Ozon)
17. You Hurt My Feelings (dir. Nicole Holofcener)
18. Alcarràs (dir. Carla Simón)
19. Master Gardener (dir. Paul Schrader)
20. Little Richard: I Am Everything (dir. Lisa Cortés)
21. Nobody’s Hero (dir. Alain Guiraudie)

Jawan was very enjoyable

Shout out to Paul Duane's "All You Need is Death" - a pretty great and uniquely Irish horror. Reminded me of Kurosawa's Pulse. Folk song as spiritual curse. Soundtrack from one of the Lankum lads.

Made my fifty-film longlist, now checking release dates for year-of-impact vs December release, single festivals, or wide-in-Australia-2023/single-US-festival 2024.

Alfred, I love some of the films on your list that I've seen and am looking forward to others

I can't think of a lot of films to list myself, but maybe I can come up with something

My favorite film of 2023 though is definitely Kelly Reichardt's Showing Up. It premiered at Cannes in 2022, had a premiere in the USA in 2023, and was more widely available in 2024, so I am going to consider it a 2023 film. It isn't a film that I think many people will value or even like, but I think it is great

The whole "when it was first shown, when it opened in the US, when it was more widely available, when you first saw it" thing is hard to parse. I'm tempted to vote again for some films I saw and voted for in 2022 that had wider impact in 2023

^^ this last behaviour is endorsed and encouraged, as past rollouts show

Seconded.

by which time I expect to have remembered which browser might have that account saved in it.

lol I just paid $69.40 to reactivate the email address that had the recovery code for the poll address sent to it

A reminder that Neil Breen released a movie in 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtpT99CzeVc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFMGjNjsq-k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-DQYhlvglM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtpT99CzeVc

Oops already posted

I voted!

A reminder that Neil Breen released a movie in 2023

Megalopolis is next year

THANK YOU

voted!

voted

My lobbying is too late for the early voters, but Rye Lane was my favorite romcom in years.

So to be clear, things that had festival releases in '23 and wide releases in '24 (like The Beast and Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World) could be considered in either/both the '23 and '24 polls? Because I'm more inclined to vote for them in the year I saw them, but if they're going to be in this poll I'd vote for them here too.

We tally films in every year they get votes, and note the previous year’s points & placing if they recur.

(I’ve voted for something that had a wide release in 2023, and as far as I know one (1) US festival screening in 2024. Bet it’ll go well!)

remember to vote this week folks

My lobbying is too late for the early voters, but Rye Lane was my favorite romcom in years.

Not needed for this early voter. I loved Rye Lane!

We currently have fewer ballots in than I've seen films in a cinema this month. Let's go for parity!

I think there may be more interest in ilxpollvoting after uspresidentvoting, if you're willing to extend the deadline.

Will try and flick something through - 2023 was a bit of a blur w/a young child and largely recall post-S&S repertory screenings. Shout out to Wei Shujun's Only The River Flows, a Yu Hua adaptation that splits the difference between Black Coal, Thin Ice and Memories of Murder.

since Netflix got rid of its dvd service I've stopped posting regularly in film threads, and now with all of my many worries I have been mostly watching comforting tv shows on streaming.

I look forward to a time when I have gotten sick of TV again and feel confident about my future and and will post in the film threads

I have tried to go for comfort on Audible. Ann Patchett's Tom Lake was pretty comforting. I most recently chose Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarchuk's 35-hour audiobook The Books of Jacob because it sounded interesting and important. It is remarkable but is way way too long and aleatoric, and listening to it in the middle of the night just takes me back into all of the obsessions I have about my own worries. I've already listened to more than 20 hours of it so will see it to the end

I have a MUBI subscription. Maybe I will watch The Substance tomorrow on Halloween, maybe not

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And not a silent or pre-code among them!

I'm sorry my ballot is late, but I've sent it anyway, just in case the deadline has been extended.

Indian cinema: Rocky Aur Rani is a delightful, (mostly) socially progressive romcom doubling as a primer on Tamil/Punjabi cultural differences. Leo is a great action thriller with baddies straight out of a 70's eurocrime film. Thunivu is a heist film with one of the musical numbers proclaiming "even Ghandi had an accounnt with swiss". Jawan is perhaps a bit bloated but def good leftist wish fulfilment.

Even though Jawan is a more ambitious film, I just love Pathaan more. I wonder why this could possibly be? And for all that it's been getting a bit of a kicking because it apparently shouldn't have been the Indian nomination for the Oscars, Lapaataa Ladies (on Netflix) is a really charming and quietly political bit of film-making.

Argh meant to send a ballot but distracted by life. If it’s extended I promise to get one in! But if not I understand, it’s not like there wasn’t notice.

keep 'em coming! if anyone else is dawdling, speak up, otherwise I'll start tallying tomorrow.

voted. ended up including Cette Maison again, as I (and millions of others?) didn't see it til its Criterion Channel release in 2023. and 'cause it's incredible. but forgot the part about previous points being noted, so strike if needed.

I don't think previous points mean anything in this poll, it's not like Pazz & Jop

would be happy if tipsy and others voted

so far I haven't gotten any trick-or-treaters, disappointing, but have been enjoying watching The Substance, which is total trash, on MUBI tonight

Previous *placement* and points then tallied are noted; points don’t get counted again (so voting in two consecutive years is totally sensible)

Voted!

EARLY SPOILERS: more votes received for Bottoms than Dicks.

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Also more votes received for How To Blow Up A Pipeline than How To Have Sex.

I saw How to Have Sex but have not seen How to Blow Up a Pipeline yet