Well Friends...
It is time. If you haven't already sent in your ratings for TFF #51 films that you saw, now's the time. A reminder about the process. Email me a list of the films you saw and rate each on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 means it was very bad, 5 means you thought it was terrific. Decimals are fine.
The deadline for this year to turn in your ratings will by Sept. 15th.
I'll compile all of your responses and post those a few days after the festival.
MTFB AND THE BETS
MTFB went 23/25 on the "Final Bets" missing on the inclusion of The Young Mothers' Home and Resurrection. Also, I had only one "possible" that made the lineup and that was Megadoc.
"Bets" I was proud about making predictions for:
*Blue Moon and A Private Life and predicting them despite contradictory premiere designations.
*Urchin which I snuck in at the last minute.
As I have alluded to, this year seemed to be the toughest to crack in a long, long time.
Statistically, this year was my least successful since I started doing the expanded "Final Bets" back in 2016.
2024: 25 0f 25
2023: 24 of 25
2022: 24 of 25
2021: 24 of 25
2020: No fest
2019: 24 of 25
2018: 25 of 25
2017: 24 of 25
2016: 20 of 20
Additionally, the first stab at "Bets" back in June was fairly successful going 7 of 10. The films that screened that appeared on my very first "Bets" are in Bold below:
1) It Was Just an Accident/Panahi
2) Blue Moon/Linklater
3) Bugonia/Lanthimos
4) The Love That Remains/Palmason
5) Sentimental Value/Trier
6) The Young Mothers' Home/Dardennes
7) The Secret Agent/Filho
8) Hamnet/Zhao
9) Deliver Me from Nowhere/S. Cooper
10) The Ballad of a Small Player/Berger
Here's the track record of initial bets going back to 2011:
2011: 8/10
2012: 5/10
2013: 6/10
2014: 7/10
2015: 4/10
2016: 3/10
2017: 7/10
2018: 5/10
2019: 4/10
2020: No fest
2021: 8/10
2022: 6/10
2023: 6/10
2024: 7/10
2025: 7/10
The puts the average at 5.9 correct guesses per year.
FEWEST FILMS EVER
Through a series of events (such as missing all of Monday) I saw fewer films this year than any year since I started coming back in 2006.
Hamnet 5/5
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere 5/5
Jay Kelly: 4/5
Blue Moon 3/5
That's it.
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