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nrh wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 1:22 pm so far the moire film grid has been the fun one to watch - https://moir.ee/editions/cannes24

ha, a 0.3 average rating (out of 5) for the sorrentino film. that jury grid does look a lot more interesting than the standard one, i edited it into my post with all the ratings

just six films left to go in the competition, and the guardian has yet to give a 1-star or 5-star review (which is unusual, based on past years). so perhaps there are no clear winners or duds this year, though the films that screened yesterday all rank either at the top or at the very bottom of the ...

all this smiley face talk got to me so wifey and i decided to get high as god's ass and rewatch it and i am IN on the smiley face championing and if possible i would like to REMOVE Reality Bites (Ben Stiller, 1994) from my fifth tier and REPLACE it with Smiley Face (Gregg Araki, 2007) done! still d...

not sure if i should wait for mr carmady (who said he'd post a ballot by friday, three days ago). the rest of the results are tabulated. i guess i'll wait until tomorrow to see if anyone else is interested in participating, and if i don't hear anything, i'll announce the final list!

we're exactly halfway through the competition, and there's a new leader on the jury grid -- the substance , a body horror comedy starring demi moore that apparently got a ten minute standing ovation. its rating might drop as the last reviews come in, but it's slightly ahead of the jia zhangke on the...

pabs wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 4:38 am I went to the cinema to see Guadagnino's CHALLENGERS (2024) starring Zendaya. I'd call it a trainwreck, but that makes it sound too interesting. Such a stupid film.

i just saw this too, and you are very right.

Curtis, baby wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 8:40 pm NOT dallas regardless who they play

ha, i guess it's a bad pick then. i kind of have to pick dallas since i picked them at the beginning to make it to the final...

i have tallied all the ballots posted so far. if anyone wants to edit their ballot, i suppose that's possible, but you'd need to make a new post explaining the edits you want (don't change the original ballot). i know there are some scfz regulars who have not posted a ballot -- there is still time! ...

dallas (regardless who they play)
florida

big names again tomorrow: in competition, films by jia zhangke and jacques audiard, out of competition premieres by leos carax and guy maddin

and so far, really no standout films on the jury grid

greennui wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 3:36 pm Not really that satisfied but ah well, gonna edit in directors as well.

i took care of adding the directors, so you don't need to do that

megalopolis apparently very divisive. two big names screen in competition later today - yorgos lanthimos and paul schrader.

the first 5-star film of the festival, per the guardian, is Lou Ye's An Unfinished Film. i haven't been interested in watching a Lou Ye film since seeing Suzhou River quite a while ago, but maybe i'll watch this one

the world premiere of Coppola's Megalopolis is 45 minutes away...

as i do every year, i'll post each film as it screens, along with the rating (out of 5) it gets from the guardian. i take ratings from the guardian not because i like their film criticism (i have no opinion of it, i don't read it), but because i know they rate everything, and i figure they might be ...

good to have more contestants! the competition is now officially underway, the first film has already screened...

i think i'll get started tabulating this some time today or tomorrow, which means i won't be accepting any edits to already-posted ballots, unless they're made in the next 5-6 hours. but i'll still be able to factor in new ballots, so if anyone hasn't voted yet, there's still time! would be great to...

i gave it a 4, which is a helpful vote

there is still time! actually the first competition film won't screen until tomorrow (wednesday), and it will end at 17h43 france time, roughly noon eastern time, so that will be the deadline to submit a slate of predictions. would be more fun to have two or three more participants, it only takes a ...

reminder that cannes starts on tuesday, so just a couple of days left to post predictions!

Hermann Kösterlitz's Katharina, die Letzte was my favorite discovery this year. :D oh cool, i love that movie! it only got three votes, but they were 6, 6, and 5, so maybe it has a chance in the future. hermann kosterlitz later became henry koster, director of several deanna durbin films, but he ha...

so far one of my nominees got in, arrival (mani kaul), and another, play (gholam reza ramezani), had an average rating over the threshold but not enough votes overall. so already a more successful year for my noms than i've had in a few years i think!

thanks for all your work, angel

this could be a close contest, given that we all almost agree on what is like to win! hopefully some contrarian ballots also come in

one note, entirely my fault -- the title of the rasoulof film is the seed of the sacred fig (i got it wrong when i first posted the list of nominees)

Highest average rating: lovericekim-4,95 this is the one issue i have with the tabulation (getting voters to rate each individual film is the best system, overall, but it's still not perfect). when one voter gives an average rating of almost 5, really what you're partly measuring when averaging the...

great to see the new ballots! i gather greenui and mr carmady still plan to post ballots, and i'm hoping karl will too -- is anyone else planning to participate? if not, i'll start tabulating when the new ballots i mentioned come in...

I have left myself in your's and Gregg Araki's hands for 1hr 25m with Smiley Face. you may need to agree with me and former scfz'er adam (was that his name? the philosophy prof who hasn't been around for years, actually i think it was aaron) that anna faris is a comedic genius to really enjoy that ...

dallas if they make it, otherwise colorado
edmonton

florida
carolina

i feel like this isn't a very adventurous slate of predictions, but these are my picks: Palme d'Or: Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes) Grand Jury Prize: Parthenope (Paolo Sorrentino) Jury Prize: All We Imagine As Light (Payal Kapadia) Director: The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof) Alternate: Megalo...

Cannes 2024 starts next week (May 14), so time for our annual Cannes betting contest! The in-competition lineup is intriguing -- it includes the long-awaited Megalopolis (Coppola), a new film by Jacques Audiard who I had forgotten existed (but who has won both the Grand Prix and the Palme d'Or in th...

always happy to see someone watching (and liking) the early nobuhiro yamashitas. the linda linda linda cult is deserved but i think he has one of the more interesting careers of the last two decades or so, and there is something very striking about those first few very low budget movies. yeah it wa...

great to have your ballots, shara and oOgiandujaOo, lots of scfz favorites on there, along with several titles that are unfamiliar to me that i'll have to investigate...