Directors The Best Film of 2005 Tournament (1 Viewer)

[SteveGon]

The Devil's Rejects
Proof

 

[Brook K]

Advancing

A History of Violence over The Devil's Rejects - 6-2 (I'd give a narrow edge to Rejects)

Brokeback Mountian over Proof - 4-3 (Whew! I can now put off seeing Proof indefinitely)

Round #4 Continutes


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[Rich Malloy]

I just saw "Downfall" on cable (HDMovienet?), and "Cache" (again) on DVD in the last week. Both excellent films. I prefer "Cache".

I also really liked both films in the next matchup, and though the more epic scope of "Youth" makes it feel like a bigger, more significant film, I prefered the careening pace through the harsher emotional terrain - and humor - of The Squid and the Whale. A tough choice.

 

[Bill McA]

Cache

The Best of Youth

 

[Elizabeth S]

Downfall
abstain (BoY is still in my "to watch" pile)

 

[tyler payne]

double abstain

 

[Kirk Tsai]

Downfall
The Squid and the Whale

 

[Adam_S]

double abstain

 

[SteveGon]

Cache - Very tough.
Abstain

 

[Brook K]

Advancing

Cache over Downfall - 4-2 (includes my vote)

The Squid and the Whale over The Best of Youth - 2-1 (I'll grudgingly abstain to avoid the tie)

Round #4 Continues


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[Bill McA]

The New World

abstain - no Ballroom

 

[Adam_S]

y'll are missing out on mad hot ballroom

Narnia
abstain.

 

[JohnRice]

That can't be true. The Gods Of Film have cast it off as fluff.

 

[SteveGon]

The World
Abstain

 

[Rich Malloy]

"The New World" - very tough. I liked "The World" alot the first time I saw it, and somewhat less the second (was it my mood?), and I'm anticipating a longer cut of "The New World". I'll stick with my selection, but I feel I could go either way.

"Mad Hot Ballroom" - I can't quite accept this as being one of the best films of the year, though it's certainly worth seeing, but it beats the hell out of "Narnia". And I read a good many of the Narnia chronicles when I was a kid, looked forward to the film, etc. Tilda was great. The rest was not.

 

[Brook K]

Ok, I was waiting on Rich as I think he was the only one remaining that had seen this combination of films.

Advancing

The New World over The World - 3-1 (including my vote)

The Chronicles of Narnia over Mad Hot Ballroom - 2-1 (I'll break the tie for Narnia. Ballroom is a very good doc, but I was impressed by how good Narnia turned out to be. I recently saw part of it again and the magic I felt on first viewing still held up)

Round #4 Final Matchups


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[JohnRice]

Pride & Prejudice (yes, Steve, that's right)

 

[Adam_S]

Good night and good luck
wallace and gromit

 

[Bill McA]

abstain - no Good Night. I have the disc here, but it's gonna have to wait as Pink Floyd: Pulse commands my full attention tonight.

The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

 

[tyler payne]

Sin City
Wallace and Gromit