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welcome back! and thx for getting the forum online again!

and whoa - hello thoxans!

i think this may not be the most recent scfz top 100 ballots thread (i couldn't find a more recent one though), but maybe it will help some people here get a head start on a new ballot, without needing to type everything up all over again: https://scfzforum.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=552 and since i...

i'm sure i'll edit this a bit later, but first draft of my ballot: A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996) They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Sydney Pollack, 1969) Manoel’s Destinies (Raul Ruiz, 1984) Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974) Nostos: Il Ritorno (Franco Piavoli, 1989) ...

brian d wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:33 pm diacritical marks are undesirable, right? so joao cesar monteiro instead of joão césar monteiro?

yes, thank you! i updated the original post

the SCFZ 10th Anniversary Poll is now open! this is a poll to identify our community's favourite films from cinema history. the rules: • you can vote for up to 100 films • short films and tv movies are eligible, tv shows and tv series are not • your ballot can be ranked in up to five tiers of equal ...

thank god the forum is back, doing this on discord would have been a nightmare. i'll open the poll today in a new thread!

I haven't seen May December yet, but I love Todd Haynes' work so I'll be checking it, hopefully soon. i think several of us were surprised it won the poll (and by a huge margin, actually, though it's closer now with the new ballots) -- even though we all voted for it! i'm not sure anyone had it in ...

FINAL RESULTS i have updated the results to reflect all the new ballots posted here and on discord. no change to #1, but changes otherwise in the top five. most obvious change is the rise of oppenheimer , from the mid-40s in our previous iteration to nearly a top ten spot in this one. and by pure s...

i have updated the count with all the ballots posted so far, unless someone lets me know they plan to post a ballot, i'll probably just go ahead and post the new results in 24 hours or so

wba wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 8:15 pm The Spiral Staircase is 1946 on ImdB (and letterboxd as well).

thanks, that appears to be the correct year too, not sure why i had it in my notes as a 1945 film. well i guess i'll vote for hitchcock then!

i also posted this on discord, but in case the tabulator would prefer it here: Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini) Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz) Hangover Square (John Brahm) Danger Signal (Robert Florey) Kitty (Mitchell Leisen) Cornered (Edward Dmytryk) Les Enfants du Paradis (Marcel Carne) The H...

edit: lol, wrong thread

DT. wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 9:34 pm Welcome back all! For posterity:

since there's roughly a 1 in 3.6 million chance a ranked ballot would also be in alphabetical order, i'm going to assume your ballot is unranked, but if that's not the case, please let me know!

i'm usually strict on the end-of-year poll deadline, but because so many people didn't get a chance to participate because of the forum going down, i'll factor in any new ballots that come up in the next couple of days. if you posted a ballot to discord though, please don't also post a new one here,...

with apologies to karl and cinesmith, whose ballots were not properly factored into our 2023 poll results (because i couldn't see them while the forum was down), i have worked out the updated tally with both ballots included (along with wba's late ballot posted on discord), and in the next couple of...

yes, thank you so much!

march 2024: Stranger on Horseback (Jacques Tourneur, 1955) - 9/10 Flesh and Blood (Paul Verhoeven, 1985) - 8/10 Ned Rifle (Hal Hartley, 2014) - 7/10 Reality (Tina Satter, 2023) - 7/10 Intolerance (DW Griffith, 1916) - 7/10 Buddy Buddy (Billy Wilder, 2023) - 7/10 Loophole (John Quested, 1981) - 6/10 ...

february 2024 -- entirely 2023 movies for the poll: The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer, 2023) - 8/10 Sun and Concrete (David Wnendt, 2023) - 8/10 How to Have Sex (Molly Manning Walker, 2023) - 7/10 You Hurt My Feelings (Nicole Holofcener, 2023) - 7/10 Blue Jean (Georgia Oakley, 2023) - 7/10 Air (...

we can do 100 film ballots if people are up for that, but with really long ballots, i'll have to insist everyone format them the same way, or else tabulating will take forever if we do 1 point per film, there will be millions of ties, so i'd like to do some kind of ranking, in tiers, i'll think on h...

watched some really good films to start the month, then switched to catching up on 2023 and that was a very mixed bag Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006) - 9/10 The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (Raul Ruiz, 1978) - 9/10 Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson, 1971) - 8/10...

one of the least-viewed years for me, but a lot of what i've seen is amazing, so i'm sure i'll think 1924 a very strong year once i've seen more: Sherlock Jr (Buster Keaton) Entr'acte (Rene Clair) Au Secours! (Abel Gance) The Last Laugh (FW Murnau) The Fugitive Futurist (Gaston Quiribet) Ballet Meca...

hi gryffin, welcome to scfz!

anatomy of a fall holy crap this is 150 mins why is everything so loooooong yeah, that's exactly what i thought when i was watching the new mission:impossible movie (and the new indiana jones). i was expecting those films to at least be a bit fun, but they were slogs, and way too long (though to be...

If the deadline was 6 months longer, I'd probably manage to see a few more 2023 films by then, but so far I haven't managed to see much. I assume other people will have the same problem. i think you've posted this every year for the past five years, and my answer is always the same: if you want to ...

my ballot, i'll edit as i watch more films: Best Picture -- seen seven 1. Anatomy of a Fall 2. Killers of the Flower Moon 3. The Holdovers __________ 4. Past Lives 5. Oppenheimer 6. Barbie 7. Maestro Best Director -- seen three 1. Martin Scorsese - Killers of the Flower Moon _____ 2. Justine Triet -...

these are the nominees this year, in case anyone wants to copy/paste to make their own ballot: Best Picture American Fiction Anatomy of a Fall Barbie The Holdovers Killers of the Flower Moon Maestro Oppenheimer Past Lives Poor Things The Zone of Interest Best Director Justine Triet - Anatomy of a Fa...

The Academy Award nominations have just been announced. For our never-very-popular annual Academy Awards poll, using the official nominations, you can vote in any category you like. I'll post all the nominees in this thread some time today. The rules, which I have changed slightly since last year: •...

i've seen 50 from the year so far, but will watch more. still not thrilled with my list yet, but i do think well of the top few films: 1. Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet) 2. Fremont (Babak Jalali) 3. The Marsh King’s Daughter (Neil Burger) 4. May December (Todd Haynes) 5. Kidnapped (Marco Bellocchi...

SCFZ Best of 2023 I'm starting up our annual best of the year poll, where we poll our favourite films released last year: • post a list of your favourite films from 2023 -- you can list no more than half of the 2023 films you have seen, up to a maximum of 10, except: --- if you have seen between 40...

St. Gloede wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 1:49 pm (Oh, and what's the name of the Uzbek film? Looks like something I should seek out ASAP)

i think it's The Bottomless Bag