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Skandies: #18 (Patreon)

Published:
2023-02-15 17:01:00
Imported:
2023-02

Content

Picture: The Tsugua Diaries (40/4)
Director: Jane Schoenbrun, We're All Going to the World's Fair (38/4)
Actress (tie for #17): Françoise Lebrun, Vortex (30/4)
Actor: Lau Ching-wan, Detective vs. Sleuths (47/4)
S. Actor: Yuriy Borisov, Compartment No. 6 (41/3)
S. Actress: Lucie Zhang, Paris, 13th District (42/3)
Screenplay: Richard Linklater, Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (36/4)
Scene: Opening shot, Reflection (34/2)

[Was pleasantly surprised to find this on YouTube, though it starts late (by at least a couple of minutes) and doesn't have quite the same impact as does seeing the entire thing. Another scene that was on my shortlist but got bumped at the last minute.] 

HISTORY: 

Not sure whether anyone I know has even seen Schoenbrun's first feature, A Self-Induced Hallucination. In any case, it was never Skandie-eligible.

All four actors are new. Also, I failed to notice yesterday that a couple of the actors had in fact tied for a higher position. (The balloting software doesn't register ties, gotta look for 'em myself.) Vicky Krieps is actually part of a three-way tie for 17th; Georg Friedrich is tied with Borisov for 18th. 

Linklater is a previous Screenplay winner, alongside Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, for Before Midnight (2013). He was one of the five true nominees in Skandies Year One (1995), when I did it Oscar-style; Before Sunrise (written with Kim Krizan), however, lost to Egoyan's Exotica screenplay in the second round of voting. He's also placed 2nd for Before Sunset (2004, likewise written with Delpy and Hawke), 9th for A Scanner Darkly (2006), 19th for Bernie (2012, written with Skip Hollandsworth), 5th for Boyhood (2014), and 7th for Everybody Wants Some!! (2016). Let us not speak of 2017-2019. Those were the dark days.

We have our first Picture finalist that's explicitly about the Covid-19 pandemic. (Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is set during the pandemic and involves a lot of mask-wearing, but you can't really say that it's about it. Whereas Tsugua Diaries would not exist had the lockdowns not happened.) 

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Comments

Anonymous

Well done, Lau hive.

Anonymous

Had Lucie Zhang 12 or 13 on my female lead list, which means she would've been 4 or 5 on supporting. It was a mistake to not throw points to her in supporting. And I should have done the same with her co-star Makita Samba (who likewise was just off of my male lead list but would've placed much higher in supporting). Both were edge cases anyway. In my mind, they were both leads while Merlant was supporting, but I can easily make the case for all three being leads or all three being supporting.

Anonymous

Thank God for the Skandies. After what feels like 6 months of year-end lists that all looked the same, it's really refreshing to see here a bunch of movies that weren't on my list at all and that I now wish to hunt down (just in the last 3 posts, The Tsugua Diaries, Detective vs Sleuths, Friends and Strangers, Hold Me Tight, Benediction and Emergency all look fine)

Anonymous

"self induced hallucination" is online here https://vimeo.com/275691576/4429fa2599 - it's somewhat interesting but nonessential; it's hard in retrospect not to view it as a sort of extended research project that anticipated and fed into "World's Fair"

Anonymous

18-20 so far is full of "titles that I thought I might vote for in the Skandies, caved and torrented because no legit NZ release, thought my downloads didn't have subtitles, bailed, and only discovered after the voting deadline they were set up in a way that my Plex server didn't recognise the subtitles". PARIS and DETECTIVE were two in particular I felt likely to vote for. Also falling prey to this malady: TRIANGLE OF SADNESS and THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER.