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No poll this week (Patreon)

Published:
2019-01-22 06:04:06
Edited:
2019-01-22 06:05:13
Imported:
2022-10

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With the Skandies deadline looming, and a bunch of films still left for me to watch/rewatch/sample (The Captain, for example, was an anticipated 10 minutes, thank u, next that unexpectedly held on), I am declaring this week a special cinephile holiday. I’ll watch/review last week’s winner (Walk Hard) in a few days, once I’ve officially locked 2018 survey-wise, and resume the weekly poll next Monday. Thanks for your patience. Maybe I’ll post some exclusive Skandies-related content here. Actually, I could post the daily rundown here. Hadn’t even thought of that ’til just now. Hmmm. Also might eventually conduct some polls in which y’all vote (open to all tiers). Lemme ponder.

(If you’re unfamiliar with the Skandies—an annual year-end survey I’ve conducted since 1995—feel free to investigate our past results, which I dare say are more interesting than those of any other award-giving body. Certainly we’re the only ones who contemporaneously gave Best Picture to such films as 25th Hour, Irreversible, and Dogville. Wow, that was three consecutive years, too. Oh, and Dogtooth. We ❤️ dogs.)

D’oh! Just remembered that today is in fact a national holiday in the U.S., so I didn’t even need to invent one. Doofus.

Comments

Anonymous

Not going to Sundance this year? The Skandies do indeed rule and should be an example to all awards bodies. We need an Academy that can give Best Picture to Under the Skin one year and Fury Road the next and not sweat it.

gemko
>>19134843

Since nobody’s paying me to cover Sundance, I only tend to go if the lineup includes several films I’m actively excited about (or at least one film that seems unmissable, as was the case with Upstream Color, Simon Killer, Boyhood, Manchester By The Sea). Not the case this year—there are a few I wouldn’t mind seeing, but nothing worth driving 11 hours each way for. (Plus the friend with whom I usually stay rented a smaller condo, so my presence would be a bit cumbersome.)

Anonymous

Hey Mike, wondering when/if you're watching The Other Side of the Wind. Excited to see your thoughts on it.

gemko
>>19146994

Will definitely watch it. It’s neither Skandies-eligible nor going anywhere so it’s a low priority at the moment, but I’ll likely get to it in February.

Anonymous

I just caught up with your great Dissolve piece on HIGH AND LOW, and was wondering what kind of fundraising effort it would take to get you to do a similar breakdown on the filmmaking in another movie of your choice.

Anonymous

It would be kind of fun to see the Patrons’ Skandies (though it would entail a lot of work and, at this tier level, may have a lot of overlap with the regular voting body) I always eagerly look forward to the Skandies each year —- indeed the most eclectic and exciting awards of the season and presented with comprehensive context!

Anonymous

Were the individual Skandies ballots/ratings prior to 2006 not saved? Would've liked to see that info.

gemko
>>19152110

Not so much a matter of money (I could just spend a few days on that in lieu of regular reviews) as finding a suitable subject. If I see something worthy of detailed formal analysis in the near future, I'll consider writing something along those lines.

gemko
>>19155383

Sadly, they were not. At one point I thought it might be possible to reconstruct it all, but apparently I deleted or somehow lost many of the emailed ballots. I couldn't find them, at any rate, even though I have old email going back to the '90s.

Peng

I remember you used to write about your W/O on letterboxd before it attracted too much heat. Now that you have a more (semi-)private platform to write in, would you consider bringing it back? I have always enjoyed reading your reasons about those. May not have to be full reviews or anything, maybe an update post consisted of short-paragraph W/O write-ups on recent films. I'd understand if it draws too much time from what you are already doing here though.

gemko
>>19187851

I'm confused as to what you're remembering. Pretty sure I never wrote up W/Os on Letterboxd—there's no way to do so without logging as "watched" a film that I have not actually watched, which I would never do. I did sometimes write short comments on my blog, so maybe that's what you're thinking of. But I stopped doing so only for logistical reasons, not due to any "heat." In any case, others have made the same request, so I'll consider it. But those were always hard to write, because 90% of the time the reason for bailing amounts to "nothing grabbed/impressed me." There are exceptions, though, e.g. <i>Madeline's Madeline</i> and its "life is an acting workshop" ethos, which just makes my skin crawl (because I studied acting for a while and despised all of that shit).

gemko
>>19187851

(It occurs to me that by "heat" you may be thinking of the list of W/Os I briefly kept, which really angered a few people for some reason. But that was strictly a list, no specific commentary.)

Peng
>>19187851

Oh yeah, I misremembered the heat, in which you got from that list but not any W/O review. Now I'm remembering (maybe the only) one example that has me conflated that list with reviews though, which is your write-up of Blue Ruin, now deleted but attached to your Green Room entry instead. As for the logistic of logging W/O on letterboxd, if you don't mark the date when logging the review, it's not going to factor in on your diary entry list on the right side, or the current number of films watched this year at the top, I think.