My rule is always by year of first public release anywhere in the world. I see beyond the borders of my own country
But if you follow that rule, Six, there are films you never list as your favorite of the year while they actually are, no ?
If you take Playground, released in two countries you don't live in last year, and which was selected in festivals, but you actually see it in 2022. You consider it's a 2021 film so you don't list it now. But you hadn't seen it in 2021 so you didn't list it then (it's an example, maybe with you've seen it in a festival in 2021, but you get my point). So in the end, it's one of your favorite films of the year, but you didn't put it on your list in 2021 and you won't in 2022.
As I said, none of them had a public commercial screening until this year.
Festivals don't count. Hell, you even have filmmakers reediting their film after a fest screening.
Shit my bad man I should've waited until I was completely awake to give a smart-ass response to that post. My reading comprehension is clearly pretty shaky at 7:30 AM
I assure my demented logic is at least consistent!
Like I said, Playground is just an exemple. What do you do when you haven't seen the year before, in a festival, a film that has Playground's profile in terms of release ?
Like if you had seen Playground only in April this year ?
I assure my demented logic is at least consistent!
Like I said, Playground is just an exemple. What do you do when you haven't seen the year before, in a festival, a film that has Playground's profile in terms of release ?
Like if you had seen Playground only in April this year ?
It would still be a 2021 film for me, even if I saw it this year, as it got its first public release that year.
Just like when I see a film this year that was released in 1966- it's not a film from 2022!
It sure is a 2021 film. I just prefer to make my "favorite of the year" lists with films that have been released that year and that I have seen that year, it's easier and more acutely reflects the films I have actually seen. And yeah, I am lazy to check which year it was released in its origin country
The Inspection is really underrated. It tells a very powerful story that hasn't really been told before and the performances from Jeremy Pope and Gabrielle Union are tremendous. Hopefully more people will check it out in the future.
Hit the Road
You Won't Be Alone
Triangle of Sadness
The Banshees of Inisherin
Ali and Ava
Decision to Leave
The Beasts
Emily the Criminal
Holy Spider
After Yang
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Burning Days
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Stranger
Nope
Still to see Tar, The Whale, Women Talking, and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
I'm not really understanding all of the praise All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is getting. I saw a trailer a while back and to me, it looked like a made-for-TV thing. Also, I'm not sure if a well-off and famous person is the best figure to be telling us about the opioid crisis.
Maybe I'll eventually watch it on Hulu but I can't see it topping last year's Jacinta, in my opinion.
Hit the Road
You Won't Be Alone
Triangle of Sadness
The Banshees of Inisherin
Ali and Ava
Decision to Leave
The Beasts
Emily the Criminal
Holy Spider
After Yang
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Burning Days
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Stranger
Nope
Still need to see Tar, The Whale, Women Talking, and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Was surprised you hadn't seen this yet until I went on IMDb and discovered that it not only hasn't opened in the UK, it's yet to open anywhere outside of the US and Canada. Universal is really taking their sweet ass time with the international rollout for this one (and The Fabelmans for that matter)
Over here it's tradition to release the awards films in Jan and Feb so that distributors can use the awards to promote the film. Hence Tar and Fablemans in Jan, The Whale and Women Talking in Feb.
Makes it frustrating for someone like me who is gagging to see films for months.
Over here it's tradition to release the awards films in Jan and Feb so that distributors can use the awards to promote the film. Hence Tar and Fablemans in Jan, The Whale and Women Talking in Feb.
Makes it frustrating for someone like me who is gagging to see films for months.
I knew that was the case with the titles that release between late November and December in the US, but the 3+ month wait for TAR is wild. The festival chiefs in Europe have to be giddy about that staggered release strategy. You're basically guaranteed to sell out every screening when something is confirmed to not be playing again in a theater in the country for another 3-5 months.
The long wait between the release in the US and Europe may sometimes seem wild today, but honestly it's nothing compared to what it used to be before the age of Internet, which left no choice to distribs but to release the films sooner because of piracy. But I remeber in the 90's, it was all too common to have to wait months to get even the blockbusters that today are always released day-and-date everywhere in the world, at least in the West.
I remember The Phantom Menace was released in France in October 99, a full 5 months after the US. The wait was killing.
I should've waited until I was completely awake to give a smart-ass response to that post. My reading comprehension is clearly pretty shaky at 7:30 AM