Vanity Poll: which night of emil.y's film club was the best?

Not sure what "our twentieth evening of filmic delights" means but it looks like an amazing fusion of art and exploitation. I'll go with Bitter Tears as a personal fave but I applaud Angel Angel Down We Go the loudest.

Glad you approve, KJB. It's just a small bunch of us who get together every so often to drink and watch stuff, and I figured hey, why not gauge ilx's appreciation of these films too?

i suppose i should vote funeral parade of roses cuz it's the only one i've seen

v tough

in the end i voted fir the Stone Tape, because even tho' it's prob not the 'best' film on this list (and even tho it's not really a film at all), there are so many clever original ideas in it that you can't help but be inspired by it, even now - also, i just love all the old tape/electronics gear in it.

'fir'!

also love: black sabbath (tho' blood and black lace is prob my fave bava), messiah of evil (jack fisk art direction and v proto-lynchian throughout), wizard of gore, the war game, thundercrack, funeral parade of rose and deep end (which i only saw for the first time this year on that fabby new BFI set.)

don't know the freddie francis at all - is it a horror?

I voted for The Stone Tape too, having only seen 25% of this list. It's the most fun, most up my street. A ghost story from the golden age of UK telly/film; the clothes, the dialogue, the electronics and the suspense. I love it.

war game/threads

Black Sabbath (<3 Barbara Steele), but honestly I haven't seen most of these and look forward to trying (and possibly failing) to find them. Emil.y always likes the best things, so I know I won't be disappointed.

I have seen none of these, and thus voted on "instinct".

wow, bravo emily, this looks rad. i've seen very nearly nothing on the list so again voting on instinct; the one i'd be most psyched to catch is 'the cremator', though even that is maybe more testament to it being a thing i've heard of/something w/cultural cachet. would be psyched to see so much i hadn't heard of.

i had a film night & ran #25 screenings; will maybe post up the listing when this is done, they're neat to compare.

personal nb: i once used #17 as a kinda 'date film' thing, inviting someone to watch it. was kinda hard to explain afterwards.

these movies seem like a perfect litmus test for your date, good idea imo

don't know the freddie francis at all - is it a horror?

Yeah - it's quite an odd one. Upper-class family consisting of the titular characters completely isolate themselves from the outside world excepting excursions by the developmentally-arrested overgrown children to find 'new friends' to 'play' with.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yKAxZm9Y_wg/TDbc9uXD4qI/AAAAAAAAGwI/R4yayxvh6sc/s1600/23804234.jpg

It looks great and it has The Stone Tape's Michael Bryant in, so definitely worth watching.

The Happiness Of The Katakuris

I once recommended this masterpiece to someone. While watching it he texted me to say that it was "weird".

Oops, that was bigger than I expected.

I really liked The Cremator, though that coincided with having the most people round, and it proved a bit slow and nuanced for a rowdy drunk crowd, so split opinion quite badly. The other one of his that we watched, Morgiana, is absolutely stunning, though.

Would be psyched if someone had invited me on a date to watch You, the Living.

Also find it interesting that we've so far watched nothing from the '90s. Should probably go for some earlier stuff at some point, too.

Voted Andersson. Fifteen new movies to check out.

Voting Thundercrack.

man i shoulda dated some ilxors huh.

I really liked The Cremator, though that coincided with having the most people round, and it proved a bit slow and nuanced for a rowdy drunk crowd, so split opinion quite badly. The other one of his that we watched, Morgiana, is absolutely stunning, though.

yeah this is a huge thing. one of the most successful things we screened was makhmalbaf's the apple, & i was so concerned for the first twenty minutes that it was going to jar, tonally, with the kinda breezy meal & evening we'd had until then. but it was so successful and moving & progressed so gradually, changing the mood in the room as it all unfolded. we watched puppetmaster, by hou, however, hou-ever, & it was kinda brutal -- too long, too slow for a sorta 'social' watch, etc. maybe not 'slow' but just, too personal maybe?, not something you were joined to others in absorbing or reacting to.

think the cremator's the first one i'll catch!, anyhow. are you voting in this, btw emily, based on preference/programming pride?

Would be psyched if someone had invited me on a date to watch You, the Living.

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ha ha. i just remember the one scene with a woman, maybe in her 30s, & a much older women, perhaps a mother or grandparent, gently sobbing. it was really brutal. mikke larsson maybe gave me a last minute reprieve, with its poetry & wailing guitar. i think someone on ilx mentioned going to catch kids as a date film (which would be rad to discuss but kinda gruelling to sit through, i think). another domestic programming highlight was when a new roomy moved in & i was all, hey come watch a film! we barely knew each other & i couldn't help but worry that the first half hour of gates of heaven was reflecting badly on me.

i think someone on ilx mentioned going to catch kids as a date film (which would be rad to discuss but kinda gruelling to sit through, i think).
i sat through this on what may have been a date once (though i doubt i am the person who referred to it earlier) and it was an indication that things were...not going to work out. we're still friends though. i think we were friends at the time, but maybe he thought it was kind of a date? i have no idea.

i really do think movies like this make perfect date movies, no kidding

this = emily's list, not kids

I havent seen any of these movies! I've always wanted to see Penda's Fen though. Theres a thread on ilx about it somewhere.

I did find myself singing 'hej micke you're so fine' at certain points during You, the Living, which rather disrupted the gravity of the thing. But yeah, Andersson is so good at that bleak existential despair. I still say I prefer Songs from the Second Floor, though.

I'm not sure how I'm voting yet, possibly Funeral Parade of Roses as I'd never seen it before and it just blew me away. But then I will always have massive love for our Nuclear Winterval night. And Thundercrack is just fantastic. And and and and... I just don't know, there are too many great ones.

haven't seen a lot of these, but wd go with nuckear miserabilism or Thundercrack!

really like jim o'rourke's sleevenotes on the funeral parade dvd, too!

The Fassbinder one.

I'm not sure how I'm voting yet, possibly Funeral Parade of Roses as I'd never seen it before and it just blew me away. But then I will always have massive love for our Nuclear Winterval night. And Thundercrack is just fantastic. And and and and... I just don't know, there are too many great ones.

aw. great poll btw. funeral parade next on my list.

Voted The Happiness Of The Katakuris but need to see more of these, because the ones I'm familiar with are all fun. Thanks for the "to watch" list emil.y!

Seconding EZ Snappin', this makes for a wonderful "to watch list"!

Also, totally wkiw Emily and film club

Awwww, you guys.

there was some talk of a remote, group-ILX-screening of one of kore-eda's films - i forget if it was nobody knows or maborosi - on his thread, a while back. just in case this kindles an appetite for the joy of joint consumption of films. i realise that that isn't exactly what's so appealing about a film night though, between the food, the cumulative variety in cinematic diet, the real-time visible ripples in appreciation, etc etc etc.

co-sign the wkiw anyway

You must have awesome nights. Black Sabbath or Mumsy, Nanny, etc.

Ok since Cult of the Damned/Angel Angel was on the netflix queue already, we watched this one tonight. It was v promising at first, and I loved the collages and general weirdo vibe, but then I found myself a little disappointed at the end. Skydiving with jewels? That's as freaky as they were going to get here? I was expecting a BtVotD bloodbath or something, but it was tamer than I expected. Still, I liked that it had music (reminded me of Psychomania in that way) and I found a blog with the soundtrack, so all's well that ends well.

Night of the Hunted may be up next, not sure.

I totally wuvved the claymation bit at the end of The Happiness of the Katakuris, especially when the little dog Puchi is rescued from the volcanic eruption.

do any of the other films feature claymation?

Hm, I don't think so. I assume you already like Svankmajer? He's kind of obvious in that field, I suppose.

Fantastic stuff -- I think the chief curator of the London Film Fest is retiring this year so emil.y should apply.

The Fassbinder was wonderful, a great evening, but haven't watched much.

Haha, well, it's a collaborative effort. There are a couple of real film buffs in our group and we usually vote on what to watch on the night.

Penda's Fen

Just recalled that i saw Matsumoto's Demons earlier this year, which ws a brutal revenge tale with a frankly bizarre set of tracking shots. Gotta get Funeral Parade...

Haven't seen a lot of these, but You, The Living is great so that one.

The Stone Tape is brill! The gear, set-up involving yer boffins + that room reminded me of Resnais' Je t'aime, je t'aime. Brilliant work by the Radioponic workshop on this. Jane Asher is p hot in this..

Kuchar's films (watching the archive on Ubu) less so, but I always have issues w/lo-fi. No reason for this to look as crap as it does. Still making my way through tho'.

Even though I've only seen a 1/4 of the list its hard to choose. There is a youtube of the whole of The Cremator as well.

I'd like to see "Deep End", haven't seen that in years

Jane Asher is p hot in this

... as she is in "Deep End" too! What is this, the Jane Asher Hotness Film Club?

needs debbie does dallas in there

What is this, the Jane Asher Hotness Film Club?

:D

To be fair, though, there was probably more ogling of John Moulder-Brown going on during Deep End. I seemed to be the only one who thought he was an out and out mentalist, everyone else was all 'awwww isn't he cute? He can stalk me any time'.

He was quite cute. I just didn't think cuteness excused weird stalky behaviour.

To quote Mark E. Smith, he was something of "D. Bowie lookalike", wasn't he?

Hmmm. Not really?

http://www.timeoutsingapore.com/contentFiles/image/2011/8-august/film/23-film-deep-end-482x298.jpg

penda's fen

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

#7: The War Game (dir P Watkins, 1965) / Threads (dir M Jackson, 1984) 1

i stand alone.

To be fair, it would have been my second choice, it's just that Funeral Parade of Roses really struck me hard.

i watched deep end last night! i really loved it

where is this film club? how can i come?

Finally got round to vote for Stone Tape two hours before this closed. Its great, probably not the best film of the five or six I've seen (enjoy War Game just as much) but as I found out about it through this thread...

Went to the BFI shop to buy Funeral Parade... - its been deleted :-(

But through the magic of the web

This reminded of all sorts of French films - obv. Godard of Un Femme Mariee and a general obsessive curiosity of what the youth are up to, and the ending felt somehow like a lightly done reveal in the manner of My Night with Maud - right up to its greek-classical-tragico ending, that is!

Looks forward to the photographed theatrical violence of his next film, Demons, from '71

Deep End is on Film4 tonight

thundercrack! is so great

^^^

The actual best.

some ppl walked out of the screening at the cambridge film festival last year! I don't know what they were expecting to see tbh

this
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8c/Thunderpants.jpg/220px-Thunderpants.jpg

I guess I could see people expecting trash but being shocked when they got actual porn in there? But I dunno, I feel like it's notorious enough for most attendees to be aware of that. It really is bloody great, though.

xp lol

I assumed homophobia & glared tbh

We need a pt. 2 emily! Im out of films to watch this winter.

There was a part two, Moka!

Vanity Poll #2: emil.y's film club 21-40