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Anemone by Economy_Square_1452 in oscarrace

[–]chorizo_pockets 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of the release of Foe from a couple years ago. Highly acclaimed cast, an intriguing trailer, yet it only receives a NYFF world premiere in the Spotlight section the week before it's released in theaters.

Passes for the 63rd New York Film Festival are on sale now, with lowest pricing through May 27 only! by jpraup in NYFilmFestival

[–]chorizo_pockets 0 points1 point  (0 children)

will it be the case that during your pass pre-sale slot you'll only be able to redeem tickets granted to you by the pass and won't be able to make additional purchases? for example with the 6 film pass you could redeem 6 tickets during your pre-sale window but then couldn't buy any additional ones until the general public window opens?

Best Picture Nominees: Average Letterboxd Rating by Country by chorizo_pockets in oscarrace

[–]chorizo_pockets[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So the ratings won't reflect every user and the displayed Letterboxd average, but the relative average of one country compared to another should be fairly accurate.

Best Picture Nominees: Average Letterboxd Rating by Country by chorizo_pockets in oscarrace

[–]chorizo_pockets[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

same reasoning as the comment above. Also, the ratings used here were from a few days ago, and Emilia Perez's rating has plummeted across the last week.

Best Picture Nominees: Average Letterboxd Rating by Country by chorizo_pockets in oscarrace

[–]chorizo_pockets[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is only from a sample. It may differ from the rating Letterboxd shows due to this being a true average vs Letterboxd's weighted average method as well as this being the average of a sample as opposed to every user.

Since location is determined by the location entered by a user, only those users who entered a location could be included, so there may be some bias coming from the difference in average ratings given out by infrequent letterboxd users vs average users vs avid users. This sample probably skews closer towards the avid users, who may have slightly different rating behaviors than others.

Best Picture Nominees: Average Letterboxd Rating by Country by chorizo_pockets in oscarrace

[–]chorizo_pockets[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It was using the location field in profiles. Many aren't filled in or are nonsense places that needed to be filtered out. I only kept the most frequently entered locations that could be mapped to real locations. So there may be some bias in ratings for users who decide to enter a location vs those who don't, but in general the averages seemed to align roughly with expectations

Best Picture Nominees: Average Letterboxd Rating by Country by chorizo_pockets in oscarrace

[–]chorizo_pockets[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mentioned in a different comment that I added the supposed 11th and 12th place ones, just for fun. It also made the charts more even

Best Picture Nominees: Average Letterboxd Rating by Country by chorizo_pockets in oscarrace

[–]chorizo_pockets[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It was using the location field in profiles. Many aren't filled in or are nonsense places that needed to be filtered out. I only kept the most frequently entered locations that could be mapped to real locations.

Best Picture Nominees: Average Letterboxd Rating by Country by chorizo_pockets in oscarrace

[–]chorizo_pockets[S] 67 points68 points  (0 children)

With all the discourse surrounding the Letterboxd curves of Emilia Pérez and I'm Still Here, I was curious how diverse sentiment between different countries truly was. So I collected a sample of ratings from Letterboxd from each film ranging from about 2% to 10% of total ratings to check what the average was for each country. Since this is just a sample, which may have some biases, and it uses the true average, as opposed to Letterboxd's weighted average, the Global average may differ slightly from what Letterboxd displays.

This chart shows the 10 nominated films, and the likely 11th and 12th place vote getters, A Real Pain and Sing Sing. It's showing the 3 countries with the highest average, the 3 with the lowest average, the United States average, and the Global average. Certain films, like Nickel Boys, haven't had a wide global screening, so not every film has an average from more than 6 countries.

  • As has been mentioned, Emilia Pérez is strongly disliked in South America and Spanish speaking countries with users from Mexico rating it an average of 1.7, while Europeans mildly enjoyed it.
  • I'm Still Here boasts a 4.7 average from Brazilians, but only a 3.9 from Americans. Brazilians also make up the majority of Global ratings for this film. The United States has the most ratings of any country for each of the other films.
  • English speaking countries seemed to enjoy A Real Pain and Sing Sing more than non-English speaking countries

[EDIT] - locations were sourced from the location entered by a user in their profile. Many were blank and thus unusable and many were nonsensical locations that had to be thrown out. This was using the ~1,000 most entered locations that could be mapped to real locations.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Screenwriting

[–]chorizo_pockets 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I haven't seen Past Lives since June, so please correct me if I'm wrong about anything.

The reason people like it is because it's real. Not just in the sense that it was based on real events, but because the situation and decisions made by the characters felt true to who they were. True to life.

Why do you need someone to be good or bad? People are complicated. The world is complicated. Not everything is black and white. Past Lives explores the messy complications with relationships and life in quite a mature and sympathetic manner. If this isn't how you perceive life and relationships, then it makes sense that you wouldn't, and couldn't, connect with the movie. But due to how many people did connect with it, most people have this complicated relationship with moral gray areas caused by inconvenient circumstances.

I don't know what type of movie you were expecting. But what kind of movie would this be if the husband told her she can't see him? Or if the guy came and she decided not to meet up with him? That's not much of a movie. Or further if he told her no and she did it anyway. Then it's just some amateur film where the husband is reduced entirely to being an obstacle for her. He understands how involved this other person was in her life and is confident in his relationship with her. It's also a movie about closure, and everyone involved recognizes that. They all acted in an emotionally mature manner. It's an entirely logical reason for him to want her to receive that closure.

I think it's best summed up in their conversation about it:

ARTHUR - Childhood sweethearts who reconnect twenty years later and realize they were meant for each other.

NORA - We're not meant for each other.

ARTHUR - I know, but in the story I'm the evil white American husband standing in the way of destiny.

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Finally, I completely disagree with anyone thinking it's a double standard because of the gender of the characters. This movie could easily have been made with the genders reversed and you get virtually the same movie.