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and based on the reviews/ratings, these are the awards i imagine each source would give, arbitrarily giving the jury prize to the 3rd ranked film, and best director to the 4th ranked. the guardian somewhat absurdly gave 4-star reviews to ten films (and 5-stars to another), so i used their award pred...

there doesn't appear to be much consensus about the best and worst films of the festival, but the two films that screened on the very last day end up being the top and bottom films on the screen daily jury grid. here are the best and worst from each source: The Guardian best film: All We Imagine As ...

and perhaps interesting: our best-of-the-decade choices are almost completely different this time than last. only two of the films are the same (vertigo, and one other from our top ten that i'll reveal later).

Curtis, baby wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2024 8:29 pm for top films im gonna be WACKY and guess News From Home (im guessing this won), Jeanne Dielman (covering for my NFH bet), and The Shop Around the Corner

shop around the corner was (tied for) the top film of the 1940s! but it won't quite make the top ten...

all of our top ten films came from the 1920s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. i'm listing the top films from each decade below, but i'll withhold the top ten films for now. some of the films below ranked very well (one is in a tie for 11th), while others won't even make a top 250 list. i imagine it may com...

Jean-Luc Godard was next (as st gloede guessed) with 11 different films, followed by Luis Bunuel, with 10. nearly 60 directors received votes for 5 or more different films -- a lot of names you might guess, and a lot of potential surprises. perhaps somewhat shocking, only five john ford films got a ...

the director of the greatest number of different films that received a vote in our poll is Ernst Lubitsch (wba guessed it right!) with a staggering 14 different films that got some support: Die Puppe (Ernest Lubitsch, 1919) The Oyster Princess (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919) Madame DuBarry (Ernst Lubitsch, 1...

i think this was the most recent poll -- ford's highest ranked film was 54th (the sun shines bright) https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list/top-250-films-scfz-sixth-anniversary-poll/ directors like ford and ozu and many others i think often don't do all that well in these polls because their votes ...

the competition screenings are officially over -- the final film has finished. the awards are announced tomorrow evening france time. i'd normally collect the average letterboxd rating for each film along with the jury grid scores, just to see which resource is the best predictor of the eventual awa...

two of the three directors with 10+ films have been guessed already, one (the director in third place with exactly 10 films) hasn't even been mentioned...

in a couple of hours, i'll post a list of all of the directors who had many different films that got votes.

so the tabulation is now done -- a few summary details: • 1596 different films got at least one vote • 144 different directors got votes for 3 or more of their films • three directors got votes for 10 or more of their films -- i'll reveal the names soon, but if anyone would find it fun to guess, now...

MrCarmady wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 8:33 am sorry!

i managed to include your votes in the final results (though if you could follow the instructions next time -- english titles, no accented characters, full director names -- i'd appreciate it!)

peculiar predictions (especially for the top prize) from the guardian today, this is after they had seen almost all of the films: Palme d'Or: Emilia Perez (Jacques Audiard) Grand Prix: Anora (Sean Baker) Jury Prize: The Substance (Coralie Fargeat) Director: The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasou...

Mauries wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 6:34 pm I'm not there this year, but heard from friends that All We Imagine As Light is a contender

it's the first 5-star film in competition, according to the guardian!

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...