Best of 2021 Poll!

[flip]

Getting an early start on the SCFZ "Best of 2021" poll, where we poll our favourite films released last year:

- post a list of your favourite films from 2021
-- you can list no more than half of the 2021 films you have seen, up to a maximum of 10, except:
--- if you have seen between 40 and 59 feature films from last year: then you can list up to 11 films
--- if you have seen 60 or more feature films from last year: then you can list up to 12 films

The longer ballots are meant to give lesser-seen films (that only those who have seen a lot of 2021 movies might have seen) more of a chance.

- ranked ballots are *strongly* encouraged (if you aren't sure how to rank, maybe rank in reverse-order of letterboxd views, to give less-seen films more weight). Unless you tell me otherwise, I'll assume your ballot is ranked.
- scoring for ranked ballots will be on a 1-2-3-4-...-maximum scale (so a three-film ranked ballot will award 3, 2 and 1 points to the three films)
- unranked ballots will award the same total points as a ranked one would, but of course awarding an equal number of points to each film. So a ten-film unranked ballot, say, will award 5.5 points per film

- you can post a ballot now and edit it later - no need to let me know about changes unless you make changes on the day of the deadline. As usual, I post the results on Academy Award day, which is March 27 this year

deadline: March 25


I'll start the never-very-popular Academy Awards poll in a separate thread when the nominations are announced in February

[flip]

i'm just at the point where i'll be catching up on 2021 releases, so i thought it would be both fun and helpful to start this poll up way too early, so i (and hopefully others) can get recommendations. and i thought i'd do this now because i always find my end-of-year ballot hilarious at the actual end of the year, because i don't watch many new things.

more than two months to the deadline, but you can post a ballot now if you want and just edit it as many times as you like

[flip]

it's possible only none, one, or two of these will end up on my final list, once i watch more stuff

1. Judas and the Black Messiah (Shaka King)
2. Cruella (Craig Gillespie)
3. Being the Ricardos (Aaron Sorkin)
4. Nobody (Ilya Naishuller)
5. Belfast (Kenneth Branagh)
6. The Vault (Jaume Balaguero)
7. Moxie (Amy Poehler)
8. The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
9. Licorice Pizza (PT Anderson)
10. The Mauritanian (Kevin Macdonald)

edited: seen a few more things, still don't like much

[Silga]

I hope this is that kind of end-of-year poll where we don't just go by IMDb year tag, but also allow films that have an 'earlier year" (in this case, 2020) tag, since a lot of indies get premiered at one of the festivals and wait for another year to get a public release at cinemas or VOD.

EDIT: Flip, no worries, I found your answer to the same question in the 2020 Poll thread.

[oscarwerner]

Seen 80+
1. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy(Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
2. „Drive My Car“ (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
3. „Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn"(Radu Jude)
4. „Leave no Trace“ (Jan Paweł Matuszyński)
5. „The Hole“ (Michelangelo Frammartino)
6. „Parallel Mothers“ (Pedro Almodovar)
7. „Licorice Pizza“ (Paul Thomas Anderson)
8. „Annette“ (Leos Carax)
9. „The Last Duel"(Ridley Scott)
10. „Last Night at Soho" (Edgar Wright)
------
11. „Red Rocket" (Sean Baker)
12. „Unclenching the Fists“ (Kira Kovalenko)

hope to see more and update.

[greennui]

1. The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)

[Silga]

1. Spencer (Pablo Larraín)
2. Zack Snyder’s Justice League
3. No Sudden Move (Steven Soderbergh)
4. Belfast (Kenneth Branagh)
5. Some Kind of Heaven (Lance Oppenheim)
6. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (Jia Zhangke)
7. The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
8. Being the Ricardos (Aaron Sorkin)
9. Dune (Denis Villeneuve)
10. Shiva Baby (Emma Seligman)
11. The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)

[Monsieur Arkadin]

1. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
2. Benedetta
3. The Power of the Dog
4. Shiva Baby
5. Licorice Pizza
6. Annette
7. France
8. Bad Trip

It'll probably change as I'm just starting to get to all the more interesting ones now.

[ofrene]

thus far seen 80+ (IMDB)

Drive My Car
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
Mr. Bachmann and His Class
All Light, Everywhere
France
The Power of the Dog
Annette
Il Buco
In Front of Your Face
Petite Maman
The Souvenir, Part 2

top 3 is concrete, not sure about rest.. and watchlist

West Side Story, Licorice Pizza, Memoria, The Worst Person in the World, For Lucio, Compartment No. 6, A Night of Knowing Nothing, Onoda, A New Old Play, Pig, Bergman Island, Summer of Soul, Parallel Mothers, etc...

[---]

SEEN 20 !! RANKED !!

Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma)
Untold: Malice at the Palace (Floyd Russ)
Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve)
HIM (Guro Bruusgaard)
Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege (Abdallah Al-Khatib)
Be Still (Elizabeth Lazebnik)
The Boathouse (Hannah Cheesman)
Bootlegger (Caroline Monnet)
The Stonebreakers (Azul Aizenberg)
Framing Britney Spears (Samantha Stark)

[nrh]

always one of the more interesting end of year surveys - http://www.conlosojosabiertos.com/la-in ... fila-2021/

[rischka]

incredibly i have 16

from bakersfield to mojave
velvet underground
judas and the black messiah
summer of soul

i didn't mind dune and the matrix. hated the french dispatch.

i just watched 'what do we see when we look at the sky' and i am not ready to have an opinion except 'it was long'

[Silga]

I watched Spencer two days ago, but I still can't find the right words to fully describe my emotions. All I'm gonna say for now is that Spencer is the best movie I've seen since The Favourite in 2018. Pablo Larraín made an unforgettable masterpiece and will watch it again this year, for sure.

[DT.]

Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Love)
The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
Dune (Denis Villeneuve)
France (Bruno Dumont)
The Hand of God (Paolo Sorrentino)
Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Titane (Julia Ducournau)
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)

[...]

Taming the Garden (Salomé Jashi)
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet (Ana Katz)
Black Medusa (Youssef Chebbi, ismaël)
Triforium (Jayne Parker)
The Bones (Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña)

[therouxxx]

Atrangi Re (Aanand L. Rai)
Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
House of Gucci (Ridley Scott)
In the Heights (Jon M. Chu)
Krack (Gopichand Malineni)
Love Affair(s) (Emmanuel Mouret)
Murina (Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović)
Nenjam Marappathillai (Selvaraghavan)
Stillwater (Tom McCarthy)
Uppena (Buchi Babu Sana)

[flip]

i'm undecided now if i should keep to the sunday deadline for this poll, since editing ballots doesn't seem easy (i think it's possible? but i haven't figured out how to do it), and if there are multiple copies of ballots in the thread, tabulating will be a pain. actually maybe i am decided: i'll tally the academy awards poll on sunday a few hours before the oscars (so please cast your ballots there before then!) but i'll leave this open until we have more clarity about the technical issues here. so the deadline will be soon, but not in two days.

[john ryan]

I should have a ballot for this thread at some point 3/26.

[BradS]

1) Memoria
2) The Card Counter
3) Last Night in Soho
4) Annette
5) Drive My Car
6) Mass
7) A Hero
8) The Tragedy of MacBeth
9) The Worst Person in the World
10) Red Rocket

[ofrene]

Final, miss so many but not gonna watch more 2021 stuff till this month..

Drive My Car
Memoria
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
Mr. Bachmann and His Class
All Light, Everywhere
France
The Power of the Dog
Annette
Il Buco
For Lucio
In Front of Your Face

honorable mention : Flee, Happening, History of Ha, Licorice Pizza, Petite Maman, Procession, Souvenir Part 2, The Card Counter, Train Again

[St. Gloede]

I completely missed that this was already live... and am very happy to see the deadline got pushed.

Out of 75 films:

1. Gritt (Itonje Søimer Guttormsen)
2. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude)
3. Brother's Keeper (Ferit Karahan)
4. Petite maman (Céline Sciamma)
5. La traversée / The Crossing (Florence Miailhe)
6. Un monde / Playground (Laura Wandel)
7. De uskyldige / The Innocents (Eskil Vogt)
8. Taming the Garden (Salomé Jashi)
9. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
10. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
11. Das Mädchen und die Spinne / The Girl and the Spider (Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher)
12. Piccolo corpo (Laura Samani)

[nrh]

Sarpatta Parambarai (Pa. Ranjith)
Karnan (Mari Selvaraj)
Joji (Dileesh Pothan)
Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar (Dibakar Banerjee)
Nenjam Marappathillai (Selvaraghavan)

[john ryan]

Seen 100+

1. Pig (Michael Sarnoski)
2. The Last Duel (Ridley Scott)
3. French Exit (Azazel Jacobs)
4. Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
5. Azor (Andreas Fontana)
6. The Green Knight (David Lowery)
7. No Sudden Move (Steven Soderbergh)
8. The Night House (David Bruckner)
9. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude)
10. The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen)
11. Petite Maman (Celine Sciamma)
12. The Killing of Two Lovers (Robert Machoian)

[oOgiandujaOo]

Some of the major films from 2021 are in the cinema right now for me. By the end of the weekend I will have seen The Worst Person In The World and several others critical darlings too. I understand the aesthetic concept of parrying the odious Academy Awards, if you can wait until Sunday then that's great if not, no worries.

[karl]

Compartment No. 6
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

[flip]

oOgiandujaOo -- if you post a ballot on sunday or monday, i'll be sure to include it, i'll wait until early next week to tally this. and anyone else who'd like to participate, please post before monday (or let me know to wait a day or two longer)

[bipolarvision]

Annette (Leos Carax)
Nenjam Marappathillai (Selvaraghavan)
Karnan (Mari Selvaraj)
Joji (Dileesh Pothan)
Zeros and Ones (Abel Ferrara)
Introduction (Hong Sang Soo)

[Silga]

Final list:

1. Spencer (Pablo Larraín)
2. Zack Snyder’s Justice League
3. No Sudden Move (Steven Soderbergh)
4. Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma)
5. Boiling Point (Philip Barantini)
6. France (Bruno Dumont)
7. Belfast (Kenneth Branagh)
8. Some Kind of Heaven (Lance Oppenheim)
9. Happening (Audrey Diwan)
10. Evolution (Kornél Mundruczó)
11. Benediction (Terence Davies)
12. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (Jia Zhangke)

[Silga]

Forgot to say that I've seen 65 films from 2021.

[rischka]

i would add drive my car to my list if i could edit it