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What time should we have the presentation of the Filmspotting Top 30?

Monday,  Sept 1. 5pm PST
8 (50%)
Thursday, Sept 4, 2pm PST
1 (6.3%)
Thursday Sept 4, 5pm PST
4 (25%)
Friday Sept 5, 5pm PST
3 (18.8%)

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MartinTeller

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Re: Filmspotter Top 100 2014-- Discussion
« Reply #110 on: August 08, 2014, 04:00:15 PM »
You know, maybe.  I mean, it was bumped to make room for Linda Linda Linda, but I could see SFaM slipping down my list now that I'm in a much healthier relationship.

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Re: Filmspotter Top 100 2014-- Discussion
« Reply #111 on: August 08, 2014, 04:03:03 PM »
17.   Margaret

34.   The House of Mirth*

Nice. :)

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Re: Filmspotter Top 100 2014-- Discussion
« Reply #113 on: August 08, 2014, 06:51:37 PM »
Great list. Lot of surprising additions (The Yards!) and lots of stuff I need to watch (Campion and others).

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Re: Filmspotter Top 100 2014-- Discussion
« Reply #114 on: August 08, 2014, 07:17:55 PM »
Great list. Lot of surprising additions (The Yards!) and lots of stuff I need to watch (Campion and others).
Thanks! I think it was your love for The Yards - and my recent experience with The Immigrant - that pushed me into seeing it finally. So glad I did!

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Re: Filmspotter Top 100 2014-- Discussion
« Reply #115 on: August 08, 2014, 07:53:34 PM »

oad-- I love how your choices are more about the poetry of humanity, and not mostly focused on plot or thrills:

The Son
Poetry
There's Something Wrong With Kevin
It's a wonderful Life
Morvern Callar
Margaret
Sunrise

Near the top of your list are more solid entertainments, but as I drift down there is more that communicates something unique about the human condition.  I love that.
Thanks, oldkid :) And I like your way of describing that. It's not that plot driven films aren't about our humanity - all film is, surely, at some level (I'm sure you agree) - but yes, many of my choices, you've made me realize, tend toward a more poetic, less-straightforward (plot-wise) approach. (Your alternate title here, "There's Something Wrong With Kevin," made me laugh, btw. :D Intentional re-wording or unconscious slip?)

Yes, exactly.  I just happened to notice that you had a number of these alternatively-plotted films that insist upon us discovering about the characters that we otherwise could have ignored.

And it was part slip and part realization it was wrong, but being too lazy to look it up.  It's good to be laughed at once in a while.
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Re: Filmspotter Top 100 2014-- Discussion
« Reply #116 on: August 09, 2014, 12:58:10 AM »
Yes, exactly.  I just happened to notice that you had a number of these alternatively-plotted films that insist upon us discovering about the characters that we otherwise could have ignored.

And it was part slip and part realization it was wrong, but being too lazy to look it up.  It's good to be laughed at once in a while.
Yes - I really that way of putting it.

Aw, I wasn't laughing at you, just at the appropriateness of the guessed at title. :)

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Re: Filmspotter Top 100 2014-- Discussion
« Reply #117 on: August 09, 2014, 02:59:41 AM »
Will you be posting an updated list this year?

For sure.
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Re: Filmspotter Top 100 2014-- Discussion
« Reply #118 on: August 16, 2014, 01:49:43 PM »
I presently have received ballots from the following people:

Antares
smirnoff
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MartinTeller
1SO
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Totoro
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Sam the Cinema Snob
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Let me know if you think you've submitted and are not on the list.
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Re: Filmspotter Top 100 2014-- Discussion
« Reply #119 on: August 16, 2014, 01:52:51 PM »
Too few, I want 5 times that!  :)