FUCK, i forgot ghostbusters!
― welcome to lorde season (Karl Malone), Monday, 14 June 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link
I can't even remember what I had on my ballot (besides The Music Box)!
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Monday, 14 June 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
You don't automatically bcc yourself?
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 June 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
never look in your sent folder! you can't change the past, you have to move forward
― welcome to lorde season (Karl Malone), Monday, 14 June 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
That's (at least) 55 ballots accounted for.― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Monday, June 14, 2021 12:10 PM (one hour ago)
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Monday, June 14, 2021 12:10 PM (one hour ago)
56, because Cherish and braised cod are two different people!
― Cherish, Monday, 14 June 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link
I do cherish braised cod so tho.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Monday, 14 June 2021 19:14 (two years ago) link
lol
― braised cod, Monday, 14 June 2021 19:16 (two years ago) link
hard to be a cod
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 June 2021 23:05 (two years ago) link
Uh, if final tallies are not yet counted then I'm putting a ballot together literally right now..
― tangent x (tangenttangent), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 19:37 (two years ago) link
Still working on it, so send away.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 19:57 (two years ago) link
Yay, thank you! I'm up to G, so should be sendable within the next couple of hours.
― tangent x (tangenttangent), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 20:17 (two years ago) link
Well that was optimistic. Most brutal ballot yet! So many arbitrary and/or ruthless decisions!
Looking forward to The Hobbit getting the recognition it deserves through the write-in vote.
― tangent x (tangenttangent), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 22:56 (two years ago) link
It’s a fifteen-bagger
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 23:39 (two years ago) link
i disagree: it's at least 6 sodas
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 23:56 (two years ago) link
You’ll be filling those soda buckets back up because the movies are so freakin’ long!
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 00:12 (two years ago) link
(number of nominated movies) x (5 bags) = (code to hack into top secret Morbsies results)
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 00:36 (two years ago) link
Oh I hacked that ages ago. Spoiler alert:
It's all Jerry Lewis. Although I would like to know how he saw The Day the Clown Cried before the donor restrictions expire.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 02:35 (two years ago) link
having just seen it, i would now like to go back and add Jacques Tati's PlayTime to my list because wowowowowowowowowowowowow
― davey, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 10:58 (two years ago) link
Yes! Funny and poignant and perfect. It's in my top 10.
― Cherish, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 12:31 (two years ago) link
Top 5 over here. Been fortunate to see it in the theater a couple of times.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 13:12 (two years ago) link
At TIFF, I saw a special screening of Playtime that was moved to another venue so they could show a 70mm print.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 13:29 (two years ago) link
Using a VPN, I managed to get myself a free trial for Criterion Channel and watched Playtime. I found it very funny in places and enjoyed it but I think I'd need to see it a few more times and preferably in a cinema to truly get it.
― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 14:38 (two years ago) link
i'm glad that dunkey introduced so many people to playtime
― wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
think I'd need to see it a few more times and preferably in a cinema to truly get it
Tati intended for it to be shown on a loop, so people could come in and out and rewatch any amount of it at random.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 19:44 (two years ago) link
i could ramble on and on about how beautifully that movie uses glass as a motif. very neat that it was intended as a loop.
i am reminded that i'd like to read this book, "Shard Cinema" by Evan Calder Williams, which muses extensively on things (like glass) shattering and fragmenting on screen.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32446754-shard-cinema
― davey, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 01:22 (two years ago) link
Playtime was a really memorable film, was in my favorite 25
recently watched Jeanne-Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows for the first time and thought it was fantastic! If I were voting again I think I would put into my ballot in place of Le Samouraï
― Dan S, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 01:59 (two years ago) link
Sorry, everyone: Playtime topped my "Geez, I hope this doesn't win" list. If it does, fine.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 02:03 (two years ago) link
I really like the earlier Tati films, especially Mon Oncle; found Playtime hit the same note over and over again. It's not really funny, either, which I'm sure some people think is the point (or beside the point).
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 02:08 (two years ago) link
I don't have a "hope this doesn't win" list, I should put some thought into that.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 02:09 (two years ago) link
I liked PlayTime a lot more once I decided that it was okay that I didn't think it was actually that funny.
― edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 02:14 (two years ago) link
Mon Oncle was good too
feel pretty sure whatever wins will be fine
― Dan S, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 02:16 (two years ago) link
I don't know if I've ever had such a viscerally negative reaction to a revered film. Reverence that seems relatively recent--I found a site with a detailed breakdown of the 2002 S&S vote, and if that's accurate, it got 2 votes. What exactly happened after that?
https://www.cinemacom.com/2002-sight-sound.html
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 02:19 (two years ago) link
The only time I faced a full-scale riot in my film class happened while showing Playtime.
They calmed down when I explained it's a dud as a comedy but a solid example of visual and sound design, use of long shot, of showing how America looked like in a post-World's Fair climate, etc.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 02:21 (two years ago) link
but, clem, correct me if I'm wrong, you're not much of a fan of the sort of leisurely film that Pauline Kael made few exceptions for, right?
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 02:23 (two years ago) link
I don't know: I think I like/love lots of films that amble along (The Straight Story and Comfort and Joy immediately come to mind). You're probably onto something with "dud as a comedy but a solid example of visual and sound design"--I think I expected something funny, not painfully and skull-crushingly whimsical. The sound design drove me up the wall, mind you.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 02:30 (two years ago) link
Having read lots about the '64 World's Fair, though, there might be something there for me.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 02:34 (two years ago) link
i'm just hoping shawshank redemption won't win. enough is enough!
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 02:35 (two years ago) link
hasn't that noxious cult died already?
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 02:37 (two years ago) link
wait, shawshank redemption isn't going to win right
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 02:47 (two years ago) link
i mean, that scene where he crawls through a 100 yards of shit and climbs out on the other end a free man and raises his arms to the pouring rainstorm - that was dogshit
its actually a deeply illuminating metaphor but i am not going to tell you what it means due to my cruelty
― Clay, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 02:50 (two years ago) link
showing how America looked like in a post-World's Fair climate, etc.
is it intended to depict America?
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 02:52 (two years ago) link
just industrial society, I thought. I wouldn't compare The Straight Story, to me Lynch's least interesting film, to Playtime
― Dan S, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 03:03 (two years ago) link
(obv the comparison can still be useful for Soto connecting the work to disengaged teens, whether or not Tati meant to build a USA)
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 03:16 (two years ago) link
i love how RUDELY NOISY PlayTime is throughout, and i get it if that's not tolerable for everyone
― davey, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 09:49 (two years ago) link
when the jet engine cuts in blaring over the (already chaotic) action in the opening scenes i got a feeling the movie would be a lot of fun
― davey, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 09:54 (two years ago) link
Not to be reductive, but Playtime's ability to still get under people's skin is a mark of its greatness.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 13:08 (two years ago) link
I agree with the take of dud comedy but great sound design art film.
― Rich Valley Girl, Poor Valley Girl (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 13:11 (two years ago) link
bump? (no pressure)
― g simmel, Monday, 28 June 2021 11:46 (two years ago) link
I give it till the rains break
― Rich Valley Girl, Poor Valley Girl (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 28 June 2021 12:06 (two years ago) link