23 February 2011

Skandiewrap, or: More than you really needed to know.

And there you have it. As was the case last year, I find that I don't actually have a whole lot to add to various discussions that have taken place in the comments for previous posts, remarkable though the results turned out to be. In particular, The Social Network not only failed to win Best Picture, it finished way down (given its virtual sweep of the critics' awards and polls) at #4, becoming the first film in Skandie history to win both Director and Screenplay but not the big magilla. Some have cried foul, but I don't know that the magic of a movie always necessarily adds up to the sum of its various crafts—there are intangibles involved, and you can admire the hell out a film's mise-en-scène or screenplay without surrendering your heart to it.

Not that much real surrendering went on, far as I can tell. In truth, there just was no overwhelming favorite this year. Dogtooth appeared on 20 of 35 ballots, and had the highest average rating of any film, but that average (3.28) is fairly anemic compared to other recent champs like Inglourious Basterds (3.46), There Will Be Blood (also 3.46), and The Departed (3.42). Arguably the most passionate response came from #teamblackswan, though their numbers were small enough that they only managed to catapult it into 3rd. (Highest in average-points-per-voter, however, by a small margin, was Enter the Void—few loved it, but those few really loved it.) Dogtooth's victory makes it three in a row for Cannes, by the way, with several films from last year's lineup (Kiarostami, Joe) looking poised for a shot at next year's title.

Furthermore, while 2009's Basterds sweep seemed to me inexplicable and ridiculous, I can't find much fault with our winners this time around. Supporting Actress does puzzle me a little, though. I took a second look at The Ghost Writer after the results were in, paying special attention to Olivia Williams this time, and was again unwowed—not because she doesn't do a fine job, but simply because the role seems to me so unexceptional as to make awesomeness impossible. And while I'm kind of tickled that Aggeliki Papoulia nearly pulled off a major upset, I must say it never even occurred to me to vote for any of the actors in Dogtooth, especially the "kids." Why Papoulia rather than Tsoni, for example, and why did they both get a number of votes while the actor playing the son was totally ignored? They were all more or less playing Stunted, and the degree of difficulty there seems kinda low, frankly. Still, better the workmanlike solidity of Williams or Papoulia than the showboating of Oscar nominees like Melissa Leo and Jacki Weaver, both of whom I was relieved to find in the bottom half of the top ten. (Lesley Manville still suckered folks, though. Nothing hammers on the defenses like naked desperation.)

Okay, now for the number-crunching. (Many of you will want to check out at this point.) Longtime Skandie voters will recall that I used to produce a massive Word file every year (originally snail-mailed to everyone!) that featured a bunch of statistical odds and ends. I still put that together, actually, but for the past few years I'm the only person who's seen it. Might as well put that stuff up here, I figure, if not eventually on the official Skandies site.




HIGHEST AVERAGE RATING (1996–2010)
(includes only films receiving a minimum of ten votes)

01. 3.65 The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
02. 3.61 Being John Malkovich (1999)
03. 3.58 Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
04. 3.57 In the Company of Men (1997)
05. 3.56 Secrets & Lies (1996)
06. 3.53 La Promesse (1997)
07. 3.52 Yi Yi (A One and a Two…) (2000)
08. 3.50 From the Journals of Jean Seberg (1996)
09. 3.48 Irma Vep (1997)
09. 3.48 Lone Star (1996)

3.46 Inglourious Basterds (2009)
3.46 There Will Be Blood (2007)
3.45 In the Mood for Love (2001)
3.45 No Country for Old Men (2007)
3.43 Before Sunset (2004)
3.43 Mulholland Dr. (2001)
3.43 Spirited Away (2002)
3.42 The Departed (2006)
3.42 25th Hour (2002)

(NOTE: The dominance of films from the '90s on the "real" list is almost certainly due to the fact that many participants have become much stingier with the higher ratings over the past few years. No film has managed to crack the top ten since Yi Yi back in 2000. Hence the subsidiary list of the highest-rated films since, many of which would surely supplant the likes of Lone Star and Secrets & Lies if we were to vote on them again.)




LOWEST AVERAGE RATING (1996–2010)
(includes only films receiving a minimum of five votes)

01. 0.20 Date Movie (2006)
02. 0.58 Miss March (2009)
03. 0.60 Dragonfly (2002)
04. 0.67 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)
05. 0.75 The Mod Squad (1999)
06. 0.80 Just One Time (2000)
06. 0.80 13 Ghosts (2001)
06. 0.80 What’s the Worst That Could Happen? (2001)
09. 0.83 Battlefield Earth (2000)
10. 0.90 Company Man (2001)
10. 0.90 Evan Almighty (2007)
10. 0.90 Shadow Hours (2000)




MOST DIVISIVE FILMS (2010)
(std. deviation >= 0.75; minimum 2 votes 3.5 or higher, 2 votes 1.5 or lower)

• Trash Humpers (1.12)
• Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (1.11)
• Fish Tank (0.86)
• Inception (0.82)
• Catfish (0.81)
• Black Swan (0.78)
• Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 (0.78)




BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT
(lowest-ranked film seen by at least 75% of respondents)

1996: Twister (1.80)
1997: The Lost World: Jurassic Park (2.33)
1998: He Got Game (2.59)
1999: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (2.18)
2000: Nurse Betty (2.31)
2001: Vanilla Sky (2.20)
2002: Storytelling (2.03)
2003: The Matrix Reloaded (2.29)
2004: The Village (2.30)
2005: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2.49)
2006: Little Miss Sunshine (2.52)
2007: Ocean's Thirteen (2.52)
2008: Milk (2.83)
2009: The Hangover (2.35)
2010: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2.71)




PASSIONATE MINORITY AWARD
(lowest average among top 20 films in Picture voting)

1996: Dead Man (2.94)
1997: Crash (2.52)
1998: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (2.68)
1999: The End of the Affair (2.96)
2000: Requiem for a Dream (2.73)
2001: Amélie (2.71)
2002: 8 Women (2.79)
2003: The Good Thief (2.81)
2004: I ♥ Huckabees (2.84)
2005: Oldboy (2.68)
2006: Manderlay (2.69)
2007: Once (2.79)
2008: Funny Games (2.83)
2009: A Serious Man (2.83)
2010: The Exploding Girl (2.75)




DAMNED WITH FAINT PRAISE
(highest-ranked film by average rating not to place in Picture voting [10+ voters] )

1996: Get on the Bus (3.29)
1997: Forgotten Silver (3.36)
1998: The Kingdom II (3.14)
1999: My Name Is Joe (3.18)
2000: Erin Brockovich (3.14)
2001: No Man’s Land (3.19)
2002: Roger Dodger (3.14)
2003: The Weather Underground (3.18)
2004: Bright Leaves (3.16)
2005: Howl's Moving Castle (3.15)
2006: The Devil and Daniel Johnston (3.18)
2007: The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (3.25)
2008: The Duchess of Langeais (3.20)
2009: Night and Day (3.07)
2010: Another Year (3.21)




DAMN THE REVIEWS, FULL SPEED AHEAD
(lowest average among films seen by at least 10 respondents)

1996: Twister (1.80)
1997: Batman & Robin (1.28)
1998: The Avengers | Stepmom [tie] (1.50)
1999: Jawbreaker (1.14)
2000: Pay It Forward (1.41)
2001: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (1.26)
2002: Scooby-Doo (1.08)
2003: Bad Boys II (1.60)
2004: Exorcist: The Beginning (1.21)
2005: Undead (1.29)
2006: The Hills Have Eyes (1.65)
2007: Smokin' Aces (1.64)
2008: Jumper (1.54)
2009: Gigantic (1.00)
2010: The Last Airbender (1.05)




SELECTION COMMITTEE ON CRACK
(lowest average for a film that screened at the New York Film Festival)

1996: Flirt (2.20)
1997: Kiss or Kill (1.79)
1998: Voyage to the Beginning of the World (1.80)
1999: Dogma (1.89)
2000: Before Night Falls (2.31)
2001: La Ciénaga (1.95)
2002: In Praise of Love (1.95)
2003: Chi-Hwa-Seon: Painted Fire (2.19)
2004: Free Radicals (2.08)
2005: Palindromes (2.15)
2006: Rolling Family (1.83)
2007: The Go Master (1.93)
2008: Married Life (2.25)
2009: The Windmill Movie (2.13)
2010: Hereafter (2.05)




ALONE AGAIN (NATURALLY)
(suggested by Alex Fung; lowest average for a film that received a 4-star rating

1996: The Stupids (2.30) | Bryan “Frankenseuss” Theiss (ret.)
1997: Kissed (2.46) | Alex Fung
1998: Psycho (2.11) | Erik Gregersen
1999: Twin Falls Idaho (2.28) | Milton Lawson (ret.)
2000: Beautiful People (2.29) | Keith Collins
2001: The Road Home (1.88) | Erik Gregersen
2002: In Praise of Love (1.95) | Jeremy Heilman
2003: Gigli (1.92) | Jeremy Heilman
2004: The Passion of the Christ (2.18) | Victor J. Morton
2005: The Brothers Grimm (2.29) | Bilge Ebiri
2006: The Fountain (2.21) | Peter Reiher
2007: Southland Tales (1.88) | Dave Cowen; Jeremy Heilman
2008: Jellyfish (2.36) | Daniel Waters
2009: 12 (2.29) | Bilge Ebiri
2010: Somewhere (2.41) | Nictate




The next three items I put together for the first time last year. We do not often agree with festival juries in my opinion.

Cannes Palme d'Or

1995: Underground (#15, 1997)
1996: Secrets & Lies (#2, 1996)
1997: Taste of Cherry (#15, 1998)
1997: The Eel (did not place)
1998: Eternity and a Day (did not place)
1999: Rosetta (did not place)
2000: Dancer in the Dark (#10, 2000)
2001: The Son's Room (did not place)
2002: The Pianist (did not place)
2003: Elephant (did not place)
2004: Fahrenheit 9/11 (did not place)
2005: L'Enfant (The Child) (#6, 2006)
2006: The Wind That Shakes the Barley (did not place)
2007: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (#1, 2008)
2008: The Class (did not place)
2009: The White Ribbon (did not place)
2010: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (TBD but pretty much a lock for the top five imo)

Venice Golden Lion

1995: Cyclo (#14, 1996)
1996: Michael Collins (did not place)
1997: Fireworks (Hana-Bi) (#5, 1998)
1998: The Way We Laughed (did not place)
1999: Not One Less (did not place)
2000: The Circle (did not place)
2001: Monsoon Wedding (did not place)
2002: The Magdalene Sisters (did not place)
2003: The Return (did not place)
2004: Vera Drake (#6, 2004)
2005: Brokeback Mountain (#3, 2005)
2006: Still Life (#18, 2008)
2007: Lust, Caution (did not place)
2008: The Wrestler (#13, 2008)
2009: Lebanon (did not place)
2010: Somewhere (did not place)

Sundance Grand Jury (Dramatic)

1995: The Brothers McMullen (did not place)
1996: Welcome to the Dollhouse (did not place)
1997: Sunday (did not place)
1998: Slam (did not place)
1999: Three Seasons (did not place)
2000: Girlfight (did not place)
2000: You Can Count on Me (#3, 2000)
2001: The Believer (did not place)
2002: Personal Velocity (did not place)
2003: American Splendor (#20, 2003)
2004: Primer (#10, 2004)
2005: Forty Shades of Blue (did not place)
2006: Quinceañera (did not place)
2007: Padre Nuestro (did not place)
2008: Frozen River (did not place)
2009: Precious (Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire) (did not place)
2010: Winter's Bone (#2, 2010)




Most Appearances in Top 20 (Actors)
(ties for number of appearances broken by average placement)

[The same five as last year except the other three women caught up with Ms. Winslet.]

01. Philip Seymour Hoffman (13)

3s. Charlie Wilson's War
5. Capote
6. Synecdoche, New York
6s. The Talented Mr. Ripley
6s. Almost Famous
10s. Magnolia
10s. 25th Hour
11. Doubt
12. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
12s. State and Main
15s. Happiness
15. Owning Mahowny
19s. Mission: Impossible III

02. Nicole Kidman (9)

2. Eyes Wide Shut
2. Dogville
2. Margot at the Wedding
6. Moulin Rouge
9. The Others
9. The Hours
11. Birth
16. Rabbit Hole
18. Birthday Girl

03. Isabelle Huppert (9)

2. The Piano Teacher
2s. 8 Women
4. Gabrielle
8. The School of Flesh
12. White Material
13s. I ♥ Huckabees
15. La Cérémonie
17. Time of the Wolf
19. Home

04. Tilda Swinton (9)

1. Julia
4s. Michael Clayton
5. The Deep End
9s. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
11. I Am Love
12s. Burn After Reading
13s. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
18. Female Perversions
19s. Thumbsucker

05. Kate Winslet (9)

3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8. Titanic
9. Jude
10s. Quills
10. Revolutionary Road
12. Little Children
13. Holy Smoke
16s. Hamlet
17. Hideous Kinky




Most Films Landed in top 20 (Directors)
(again, ties broken by average placement)

01. Joel [& Ethan] Coen (8)

2. No Country for Old Men
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
5. The Man Who Wasn't There
6. Fargo
7. A Serious Man
11. Burn After Reading
12. The Big Lebowski
12. True Grit

02. Christopher Nolan (5)

2. The Prestige
3. Memento
5. The Dark Knight
13. Inception
19. Batman Begins

03. Lars von Trier (5)

1. Breaking the Waves
1. Dogville
10. Dancer in the Dark
19. The Five Obstructions
20. Manderlay

04. Claire Denis (5)

6. Beau travail
10. 35 Shots of Rum
13. Trouble Every Day
14. Friday Night
19. White Material

05. Quentin Tarantino (4)

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Kill Bill Vol. 1
4. Kill Bill Vol. 2
4. Grindhouse




And finally. Back when I started the survey, I remember looking forward to the time, a decade or so later (i.e. now), when there'd be tons of accumulated data to wade through. In particular, I was excited about the prospect of being able to compare how various films from major directors had been received over the years. Granted, that process isn't exactly definitive—the AVB has mutated over the years and even the diehards tend to be stingier with their star ratings than they were back in the mid-'90s. But perhaps my favorite task after receiving the averages is updating my Directors' Gallery, plugging this year's films into various post-'94 oeuvres. Here are the entries that saw additions this year—every filmmaker who's ever placed in the Director top 20. 2010 films are in bold. Numbers in parentheses indicate how the film placed in Best Picture that year, if applicable; if the film title is in parentheses that means it received fewer than 10 votes and hence the result is a bit less meaningful. N/A (not applicable) means it was eligible but didn't even get five votes and so didn't make the main list.

Ben Affleck

Gone Baby Gone (6): 3.24
The Town: 2.63

Woody Allen

Everyone Says I Love You: 3.09
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (19): 2.98
Match Point (13): 2.93
Sweet and Lowdown: 2.63
Deconstructing Harry: 2.61
Cassandra's Dream: 2.60
Small Time Crooks: 2.37
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion: 2.33
Scoop: 2.28
Whatever Works: 2.24
Anything Else: 2.13
Hollywood Ending: 2.13
Celebrity: 2.04
Melinda and Melinda: 2.00
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger: 1.93

Darren Aronofsky

The Wrestler (13): 3.02
Black Swan (3): 2.97
Requiem for a Dream (15): 2.73
Pi: 2.65
The Fountain: 2.21

Olivier Assayas

Irma Vep (5): 3.48
Summer Hours (3): 3.23
Carlos (6): 3.21
Late August, Early September: 2.88
Les Destinées: 2.79
Clean: 2.78
demonlover: 2.45
Boarding Gate: 2.35
Paris je t'aime: 2.24 [for entire film]

Jacques Audiard

A Prophet (15): 3.09
(A Self Made Hero): 3.06
The Beat That My Heart Skipped: 2.88
Read My Lips: 2.55

Noah Baumbach

The Squid and the Whale (6): 3.21
Margot at the Wedding: 2.92
Greenberg: 2.84
Mr. Jealousy: 2.72

Marco Bellocchio

Vincere (16): 2.94
Good Morning, Night: 2.65
The Wedding Director: N/A

Bong Joon-ho

The Host: 3.19
Memories of Murder (9): 3.16
Mother (5): 3.11
Tokyo!: 2.37 [for entire film]

Danny Boyle

Trainspotting (11): 3.19
Millions: 2.93
28 Days Later: 2.90
127 Hours: 2.76
Sunshine: 2.74
Slumdog Millionaire: 2.42
(A Life Less Ordinary): 2.22
The Beach: 2.08

Catherine Breillat

Bluebeard: 3.02
The Last Mistress: 2.88
Fat Girl: 2.85
Sex Is Comedy: 2.66
Romance: 2.00
Anatomy of Hell: 1.77

Joel [/and Ethan] Coen

No Country for Old Men (2): 3.45
Fargo (6): 3.31
The Man Who Wasn’t There (5): 3.28
The Big Lebowski (12): 3.03
Burn After Reading (11): 3.01
True Grit (12): 2.98
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (4): 2.94
A Serious Man (7): 2.83
Intolerable Cruelty: 2.72
The Ladykillers: 2.24
Paris je t'aime: 2.24 [for entire film]

Sofia Coppola

Lost in Translation (8): 3.04
The Virgin Suicides (19): 2.84
Marie Antoinette: 2.65
Somewhere: 2.41

Jonathan Demme

Rachel Getting Married (4): 3.28
Neil Young: Heart of Gold: 2.94
(Storefront Hitchcock): 2.92
The Manchurian Candidate: 2.70
(Man From Plains): 2.67
Beloved: 2.64
(Neil Young Trunk Show: scenes from a concert): 2.50
The Truth About Charlie: 2.48
(The Agronomist): 2.39

Claire Denis

Beau travail (6): 3.15
Friday Night (14): 3.09
35 Shots of Rum (10): 3.02
White Material (19): 2.93
(Nénette et Boni): 2.92
Trouble Every Day (13): 2.88
The Intruder: 2.23

Bruno Dumont

Hadewijch: 3.00
Flanders: 2.96
Humanité (13): 2.79
Twentynine Palms: 2.42
(Life of Jesus): 2.19

Clint Eastwood

Million Dollar Baby (9): 3.06
Letters From Iwo Jima: 2.82
Mystic River: 2.81
Changeling: 2.70
Space Cowboys: 2.63
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: 2.57
Invictus: 2.53
Flags of Our Fathers: 2.52
Gran Torino: 2.46
Blood Work: 2.35
Absolute Power: 2.32
True Crime: 2.31
Hereafter: 2.05

Atom Egoyan

The Sweet Hereafter (1): 3.65
Felicia’s Journey: 2.66
Where the Truth Lies: 2.50
Adoration: 2.44
Ararat: 2.33
Chloe: 2.21

David Fincher

Zodiac (3): 3.27
The Social Network (4): 3.22
Fight Club (3): 3.19
The Game (9): 2.95
Panic Room: 2.79
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: 2.42

Michel Gondry

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2): 3.28
Dave Chappelle's Block Party (19): 3.02
Be Kind Rewind: 2.59
The Science of Sleep: 2.53
Human Nature: 2.40
Tokyo!: 2.37 [for entire film]
The Thorn in the Heart: N/A

Debra Granik

Winter's Bone (2): 3.24
Down to the Bone: N/A

Paul Greengrass

United 93 (3): 3.34
The Bourne Ultimatum: 3.05
Bloody Sunday: 2.58
The Bourne Supremacy: 2.57
Green Zone: 2.39

Andrew Jarecki

Capturing the Friedmans (3): 3.33
All Good Things: 1.81

[I'm not gonna go to the enormous trouble of checking, but this may be the biggest single-film nosedive in Skandie history.]

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Micmacs: 2.75
Amélie (13): 2.71
A Very Long Engagement: 2.55
Alien Resurrection: 2.39

Neil Jordan

The End of the Affair (20): 2.96
The Butcher Boy: 2.86
Michael Collins: 2.85
The Good Thief (18): 2.81
Ondine: 2.65
Breakfast on Pluto: 2.32
In Dreams: 1.91
The Brave One: 1.72

Neil LaBute

In the Company of Men (2): 3.57
Possession: 2.78
Your Friends & Neighbors: 2.62
Lakeview Terrace: 2.43
Nurse Betty: 2.31
The Shape of Things: 2.27
The Wicker Man: 1.79
Death at a Funeral: N/A

Mike Leigh

Secrets & Lies (2): 3.56
Vera Drake (6): 3.26
Another Year: 3.21
Topsy-Turvy (9): 3.18
All or Nothing: 3.02
Happy-Go-Lucky (12): 2.97
Career Girls: 2.83

James Marsh

Man on Wire (16): 3.19
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980: 2.58
The King: N/A
Wisconsin Death Trip: N/A

Gaspar Noé

Irreversible (1): 3.12
I Stand Alone: 2.94
Enter the Void (11): 2.78

Christopher Nolan

The Prestige (2): 3.40
Memento (3): 3.31
The Dark Knight (5): 3.17
Insomnia: 2.92
Inception (13): 2.84
Batman Begins (19): 2.81
(Following): 2.28

Roman Polanski

The Pianist: 2.96
The Ghost Writer (18): 2.94
Oliver Twist: 2.71
The Ninth Gate: 2.38

Alain Resnais

Private Fears in Public Places: 2.95
Wild Grass (10): 2.92
Same Old Song: 2.87

Robert Rodriguez

Grindhouse (4): 2.93 [for entire film]
Frank Miller's Sin City (10): 2.74 [with Frank Miller]
Spy Kids: 2.71
Machete: 2.61 [with Ethan Maniquis]
The Faculty: 2.60
Spy Kids 2 The Island of Lost Dreams: 2.50
Once Upon a Time in Mexico: 2.44
From Dusk Till Dawn: 2.43
(Spy Kids 3D: Game Over): 2.06
Shorts: N/A

David O. Russell

Three Kings (9): 3.18
Flirting with Disaster: 3.12
I ♥ Huckabees (14): 2.84
The Fighter: 2.76

Martin Scorsese

The Departed (1): 3.42
Kundun (7): 3.22
Shutter Island (14): 3.05
Gangs of New York (9): 3.01
The Aviator: 2.96
Bringing Out the Dead: 2.52
Shine a Light: 2.50

Ridley Scott

Gladiator (20): 3.04
Black Hawk Down (20): 2.78
Matchstick Men: 2.78
American Gangster: 2.50
Body of Lies: 2.50
G.I. Jane: 2.42
Kingdom of Heaven: 2.33
(White Squall): 2.22
Hannibal: 1.94
(A Good Year): 1.93
Robin Hood: 1.91

Steven Soderbergh

Out of Sight (1): 3.37
Traffic (5): 3.24
Erin Brockovich: 3.14
The Limey: 2.99
(Gray’s Anatomy): 2.94
Ocean’s Eleven: 2.93
The Informant!: 2.92
Solaris: 2.86
And Everything Is Going Fine: 2.75
The Girlfriend Experience: 2.72
Schizopolis: 2.70
Bubble: 2.66
The Good German: 2.66
Full Frontal: 2.63
Ocean’s Twelve: 2.52
Ocean's Thirteen: 2.52
Che: 2.35
Eros: 2.15 [for entire film]

Todd Solondz

Welcome to the Dollhouse: 3.14
Happiness (4): 2.92
Life During Wartime: 2.63
Palindromes: 2.15
Storytelling: 2.03

Johnnie To

Exiled (18): 2.97
Mad Detective: 2.95 [with Wai Ka-fai]
Vengeance: 2.87
Election: 2.79
Fulltime Killer: 2.74 [with Wai Ka-fai]
Election 2: 2.73
(Breaking News): 2.50
(Throwdown): 2.33

Edgar Wright

Grindhouse (4): 2.93 [for entire film]
Shaun of the Dead: 2.90
Hot Fuzz: 2.89
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: 2.71

Zhang Yimou

Hero (5): 3.15
Not One Less: 3.03
House of Flying Daggers (20): 3.00
Curse of the Golden Flower: 2.65
(Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles): 2.50
(Happy Times): 2.44
(A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop): 2.19
The Road Home: 1.88


Until next year...

3 comments:

dd said...

I can't imagine you want to go to the trouble, but it'd be fascinating to see what the Skandie jury would have selected as the best film at the festivals in question (i.e. the highest rating film in competition at Cannes, Venice and Sundance).

Thanks as always for yr hard work.

bentclouds said...

"Andrew Jarecki

Capturing the Friedmans (3): 3.33
All Good Things: 1.81

[I'm not gonna go to the enormous trouble of checking, but this may be the biggest single-film nosedive in Skandie history.]"

Spike Lee went from 3.42 for 25TH HOUR to 1.32 for SHE HATE ME.

Nictate said...

Yes, thanks to MD'A and Mark P. for all of their efforts. Long may the Skandies reign.

The one good thing to come out of All Good Things was Kirsten Dunst's surprisingly mature performance. There is life after sunny dimples.