tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post2280747531097328080..comments2024-03-25T21:14:21.671-04:00Comments on Listen Eggroll: Skandiewrap, or More Than You Wanted to Knowmd'ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055853987416332662noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-86181856467811721442018-02-21T17:10:53.171-05:002018-02-21T17:10:53.171-05:00Thought I had a shot at "Alone Again" bu...Thought I had a shot at "Alone Again" but holy crap people liked GUARDIANS 2 more than the new Malick.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05902486713575127522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-86264564471207976192018-02-20T10:08:48.489-05:002018-02-20T10:08:48.489-05:00Wow, thanks a lot Joshua for digging that info up!...Wow, thanks a lot Joshua for digging that info up!<br /><br />Also: I believe this is the first fictional Skandies #1 film to not place a single performance in the Top 20. (At least, I went as far as doc <i>Grizzly Man</i> before getting distracted.)Alexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-658539384422738862018-02-20T05:10:53.637-05:002018-02-20T05:10:53.637-05:00Re: the Bill Morrison film, I'd turn it around...Re: the Bill Morrison film, I'd turn it around and say that I don't get why non-avant aficionados are so in love with it. It is boring as ass.Michaelhttp://academichack.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-48513184686166270052018-02-20T02:54:51.032-05:002018-02-20T02:54:51.032-05:00Thanks, Encyclopedia Gromit! (And now actually I t...Thanks, Encyclopedia Gromit! (And now actually I think it was 2WG that was McWeeny, not DscribeDC. James Meek did indeed become Callan after he got married.)md'ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06055853987416332662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-16925888005628845762018-02-20T02:18:18.709-05:002018-02-20T02:18:18.709-05:00I think James Meek was James Callan, but I'm n...I think James Meek was James Callan, but I'm not certain.Joshua Kreitzernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-46115418532812928882018-02-20T00:25:18.114-05:002018-02-20T00:25:18.114-05:00I have a printout of the 1995 results with the lis...I have a printout of the 1995 results with the list of participants. Most of them are already on the all-time voter list, although there may be a few who were using online pseudonyms that I can't match up with the list.<br /><br />The 1995 participants were:<br /><br />Mike D'Angelo<br />Dave Cowen<br />Harold Wexler<br />Scott Renshaw<br />Bryant Frazer<br />Alex Fung<br />"Dave G." (dscribedc@aol.com) (i.e. Drew McWeeny)<br />"2WG" (pavlov@ix.netcom.com)<br />Peter Reiher<br />Eric C. Johnson<br />Charles Francois<br />David Garrett<br />James Meek (I forget whether this is a pseudonym for another AVB member)<br />James Berardinelli<br />Joshua Kreitzer<br />John Hey<br />Adam Villani<br />Joshua Kreitzernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-75287276544941595132018-02-19T15:09:16.156-05:002018-02-19T15:09:16.156-05:00Kind of strange that it could start off with one o...<i>Kind of strange that it could start off with one of the best scenes of the year and not be worth sticking with.</i><br /><br />The scene I voted for does not feature either of the film's two lead actors.md'ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06055853987416332662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-66541697836240735762018-02-19T14:58:10.893-05:002018-02-19T14:58:10.893-05:00I would also love to take part, having followed th...I would also love to take part, having followed the Skandies since the early 2000's. Like Anthony I do admit feeling slightly inadequate but I still think I have the right qualifications. I've worked as a film critic professionally as well as doing it pro bono and I currently live in Austin, Texas (going to film school there) which means I am able to see a lot of non-mainstream stuff in theaters thanks to Austin Film Society and the Alamo Drafthouse (though living in my native Iceland wasn't actually all that bad in terms of seeing stuff early).<br /><br />Also, I'd like to think I'm not an idiot. But you be the judge of that.Atli Sighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09542195031294304732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-47191236392096771762018-02-19T13:30:13.654-05:002018-02-19T13:30:13.654-05:00Would love to take part in this, but would feel sl...Would love to take part in this, but would feel slightly inadequate as I'm a non-professional who doesn't regularly attend festivals and essentially does this as a mere hobby and nothing else. But thanks for putting this info together -- as an engineer-who-loves-film I'm strangely compelled by such meticulous statistics and all the interesting minutiae they reveal (e.g. despite BONE TOMAHAWK scoring a healthy average of 3.18 -- 0.18 higher than BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 -- it didn't even place for Best Picture in 2015, whereas BRAWL wound up at #11). Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595363654366120236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-5058541540331940812018-02-19T09:12:10.142-05:002018-02-19T09:12:10.142-05:00Also shouldn't Froilan be listed as "(199...Also shouldn't Froilan be listed as "(1996-present) [absent 1998, 2017]"? Or did he retire this year?Theonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-35213941251529905422018-02-19T06:54:58.561-05:002018-02-19T06:54:58.561-05:00Frederic Da, qu'est-ce que c'est?Frederic Da, qu'est-ce que c'est?Theonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-48223278792049867382018-02-19T03:30:52.800-05:002018-02-19T03:30:52.800-05:00Oh OK that makes sense. Kind of strange that it co...Oh OK that makes sense. Kind of strange that it could start off with one of the best scenes of the year and not be worth sticking with.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-57521082821054411682018-02-19T03:13:27.788-05:002018-02-19T03:13:27.788-05:00Voila.<a href="https://film.avclub.com/what-i-learned-from-watching-the-first-10-minutes-of-50-1798286324" rel="nofollow">Voila.</a>md'ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06055853987416332662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-48597905295085187992018-02-19T02:26:45.594-05:002018-02-19T02:26:45.594-05:00Mike, what's the story with Valerian making yo...Mike, what's the story with Valerian making your best scenes list but not being listed on your site as watched or even walked out on? Just curious.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-87643626066954528902018-02-19T00:33:10.034-05:002018-02-19T00:33:10.034-05:00Whoops, brainfart. What I get for nerding out on S...Whoops, brainfart. What I get for nerding out on Skandies stats at work.ddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01009382323004019335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-66324382182409966152018-02-19T00:01:11.174-05:002018-02-19T00:01:11.174-05:00You probably know this, Doug, but just to clarify:...You probably know this, Doug, but just to clarify: Titles in parentheses were seen by fewer than 10 voters. Films seen by fewer than five voters don't get ranked at all and are shunted onto their own <a href="http://skandies.org/results/movies/supplementary_ratings?year=2017" rel="nofollow">separate page</a> (which I suspect a lot of people don't notice).md'ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06055853987416332662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-53323955074364032062018-02-18T21:53:16.907-05:002018-02-18T21:53:16.907-05:00Fascinating that Bong, the Dardennes, Haneke, Mali...Fascinating that Bong, the Dardennes, Haneke, Malick, Rian Johnson and Payne all had their weakest-rated films this year, and next to bottom for Linklater and Haynes. (Technically true for Ostlund, Maclean, Zahler, Unkrich, Giuraudie and Farhadi, but smaller sample size, and also for Alfredson for THE SNOWMAN and Errol Morris for THE B-SIDE, but less than five voters for those, but I suspect both would wind up there anyway.) That feels like an abnormally large number of whiffs from established heavy hitters, but maybe I'm totally offbase. ddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01009382323004019335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-9297906341419839172018-02-18T20:05:05.409-05:002018-02-18T20:05:05.409-05:00Why is I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anym...<i>Why is</i> I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore <i>not eligible? Lack of NY theatrical run?</i><br /><br />Correct.<br /><br /><i>Will that make future Netflix films like Scorsese's</i> The Irishman <i>ineligible as well?</i><br /><br />I'll be surprised if <i>The Irishman</i> doesn't get a week in New York, just as films like <i>Okja, Bright</i> and <i>The Meyerowitz Stories</i> did. But eventually I'm gonna have to change my eligibility rules. As I keep saying, I'll do so the first year that not doing so seems absurd. md'ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06055853987416332662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-65975914691107597322018-02-18T19:52:57.315-05:002018-02-18T19:52:57.315-05:00Why is I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anym...Why is I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore not eligible? Lack of NY theatrical run?<br /><br />Will that make future Netflix films like Scorsese's The Irishman ineligible as well?PhilTnoreply@blogger.com