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Lots of good options in there, even the obvious ones. Only folks I'd prefer not to cover are GDT (just tired of him) and Cronenberg (20 movies too many movies)
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Nah this is year for gdt, just had one of his best films. But gimme that sataoshi kon also.
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Feb 22, 2023 18:36
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Have they released the full bracket anywhere? I quick skim of the website, twitter and reddit didn't find anything, but I'm famously blond and dumb.
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Feb 22, 2023 19:28
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March first voting starts so probably then
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Feb 22, 2023 19:32
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I've never seen The Beach but imma watch Men in Black again with the two friends and Ben tonight.
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Feb 23, 2023 07:37
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They should do Wong or Varda so I can finally make myself finish those Criterion sets
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Feb 23, 2023 16:07
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I would love a Leone series. So much context, and would lay the necessary groundwork for an eventual Clint Eastwood series. But also.... Peter Weir. Oceans are now battlefields.
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Feb 23, 2023 17:29
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Leone just seems like it would lack variety. 5 of his films are westerns, though many great ones. But would be a shorter series at least
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Feb 23, 2023 17:33
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Coheed and Camembert posted:I would love a Leone series. So much context, and would lay the necessary groundwork for an eventual Clint Eastwood series. On the one hand, I would loving love a Peter Weir series. (A Weiries, if you will.) However this is also one of the few times we have a shot at getting a director whose works aren't all primarily in English.
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Feb 23, 2023 17:41
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There are a lot of people they should just do who are on the bracket. Weir is like suspect no. 1 for why is this dude here they will definitely cover him. But also they should just do weir. I wish they would do a lot more classic and foreign films in general.
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Feb 23, 2023 17:45
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Varda too, they both (but especially David) seem to have a lot of love for her. I don't think she'll win a bracket, and it seems inevitable they'll cover her on their own.
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Feb 23, 2023 19:01
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Here's the full bracket https://twitter.com/blankcheckpod/status/1629915956771266565 Peter Weir would be a fun miniseries
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Feb 26, 2023 22:04
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I guess I thought each continent would get its own part of the bracket, which I realise now thinking about it makes no sense.
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Feb 26, 2023 22:28
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So we're gonna vote as a block just for Lars von Trier, right? Not because we want to, but just to make them have to spend multiple hours of their lives talking about Manderley and Dogville.
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Feb 26, 2023 23:19
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Sadly Lars is up against Kon who is one of my favorites. I like Jackson and Del toro, just they feel like example blank check directors as they had big Hollywood films and got to make their passion projects. So I would assume they would be covered naturally though its been like 7 years now.
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checkplease posted:Sadly Lars is up against Kon who is one of my favorites. I like Jackson and Del toro, just they feel like example blank check directors as they had big Hollywood films and got to make their passion projects. So I would assume they would be covered naturally though its been like 7 years now. O god, I wouldn't want to actually listen to a couple hours of them talking about super hosed up sex and racism stuff. Even in the space of a joke I wasn't meaning to imply that. In terms of serious voting strategy, I'm campaigning hard for the intersection between "film-makers who never worked in English" and "film-makers who they're unlikely to ever consider again". Like I loving love Bong Joon-Ho, been a fan since The Host, but they've made noises in the past about covering him so he's gonna lose my vote if it comes to it.
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Feb 26, 2023 23:59
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Not doing Kon eventually would be a crime, he's only got four movies. I would doubt he'd win though. Lean would be interesting, I've only Sean Lawrence and Brief Encounter, but there's gotta be something to a dude who can make two classics that are that fundamentally different.
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Xiahou Dun posted:Like I loving love Bong Joon-Ho, been a fan since The Host, but they've made noises in the past about covering him so he's gonna lose my vote if it comes to it. Yeah, this is true for me as well but also I loving love Abbas Kiarostami and just wanna hear smart people talk about him and honestly that is kind of weirdly hard to find.
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Feb 27, 2023 00:30
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Sam Sanskrit posted:Yeah, this is true for me as well but also I loving love Abbas Kiarostami and just wanna hear smart people talk about him and honestly that is kind of weirdly hard to find. I think FilmSpotting did a Kiarostami marathon if you haven’t already heard it
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Feb 27, 2023 00:32
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Peter Weir would be great but they boys would probably drive me mad talking about The Australian Pschye and Gallipoli. But there are so many interesting films! Jackson I would love but I love those LOTR films too much I probably wouldn't handle any criticism of them. Bong and Takovsky would be my pick just for variety's sake.
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Feb 27, 2023 00:33
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Sam Sanskrit posted:Yeah, this is true for me as well but also I loving love Abbas Kiarostami and just wanna hear smart people talk about him and honestly that is kind of weirdly hard to find. Hey, I'd vote for that. It's not gonna be my top vote, but that has nothing to do with film quality and everything to do with his filmography being very long and about half documentaries.
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Feb 27, 2023 00:35
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WeaponX posted:I think FilmSpotting did a Kiarostami marathon if you haven’t already heard it Thank you for this. Filmspotting has never been my favorite but I end up dipping into their stuff for things like this every once and a while and it is better then nothing.
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Feb 27, 2023 00:36
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Sam Sanskrit posted:Thank you for this. Filmspotting has never been my favorite but I end up dipping into their stuff for things like this every once and a while and it is better then nothing. Yeah it can be a very dry, public radio sorta vibe but I feel like they a really do a fine job breaking down filmmakers with their marathons
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Feb 27, 2023 00:38
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Wong Kar-Wai is a 1 seed for a reason. And then they also need to review This perfect short as well. 
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Feb 27, 2023 03:07
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I want a Lynne Ramsay series real bad
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Feb 27, 2023 03:24
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It'd be cool if Kon could win but also I get the impression that whenever they decide to do an anime director again he'll be the one they pick so I won't be too sad of his eventual loss. Pretty happy with the lineup overall, trying to think of what my worst possible outcome would be. Maybe Peter Jackson? And even then it's not that I'd hate it but rather that I'd prefer most of the other directors on the bracket over him.
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Feb 27, 2023 14:16
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I adore his movies but Cronenberg might be the worst outcome. Tons of movies, all in English, with a lot of pretty similar themes.
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TychoCelchuuu posted:I adore his movies but Cronenberg might be the worst outcome. Tons of movies, all in English, with a lot of pretty similar themes. You’re not wrong I guess but I want to hear them talk about goop so I want him to win
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Drunkboxer posted:You’re not wrong I guess but I want to hear them talk about goop so I want him to win I think Cronenberg could be a good series, but making it the international pick would be pretty messed up. The entire globe and all the worlds cultures are available, if they go with another older white dude but this time from the other big mostly English-speaking country in North America... it's just not cool. Now if you wanted to make them do an entire separate parallel podcast but they only cover horror movies, that I'll get behind.
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Feb 27, 2023 17:34
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the important thing is that if youre on their patreon, you vote for the godzilla millennium series
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Feb 28, 2023 01:35
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Pretty much all the patreon options are good this time, I was dreading some of the franchises in past years
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Feb 28, 2023 01:36
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I’ve given up on trying to watch along with the Patreon, Crocodile Dundee II was where I drew the line. I’m fine with any of the main feed options, almost all of them have major blind spots for me.
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Del Toro and Jackson are gonna be favorites (and I’d be thrilled with either) but I feel like that might work against them. My dark horse favorites are Park Chan-Wook and Stephen Chow. Chow would be so much fun. Edit:  
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They should do Lucio Fulci’s entire filmography
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Drunkboxer posted:They should do Lucio Fulci’s entire filmography Yes. And Ben has a squishy-gross sound effects for whenever they talk about eyes.
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Listening to this 28 days later episode, the guest is kind of a downer so far. Complaining about the Shaun of the dead being mean? What. The genre of zombies always involves the struggle of fighting them. Also movie ends with them learning to live with some zombies…
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Yeah that was a pretty lukewarm take and I also don’t agree with David’s issue with the tonal shift in SotD, but it also sounds like it’s a personal hang up that he can’t get past the dissonance of violence with a sort of winking tone. Him trying to compare it to Guy Ritchie movies is incredibly wrong though.
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Shame is basically "Horny Jail: The Movie" lmao. McQueen would be interesting in terms of a black English voice. I am confused as to where they get 9 films for him unless they mean 4 features plus 5 Small Axe films. Also I'm spiritually an old man so I liked Davey Rees.
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Yeah they’ve said they’d treat each of the Small Axe movies as their own podcast
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Finally watched the Killing, what a great film. Time to boot up Millions and see what the fuss is about.
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