It's time for all you film fanatics to delve into your own brains and sort through the greatest of the great films you have in there and pick something spectacularific to go head to head with other nominations in this - MOFOs 29TH HALL OF FAME.
What's a Hall of Fame you ask? What are the rules? What conditions? What's going on here? It's all contained in the time-honored, mystical rules. Nobody knows who wrote them, or how long ago they were written. Okay, not true, I think @Citizen Rules did it :
Rules of Participation:
Movie Nominations: Any movie that you feel is worthy of an HoF, that's under 240 minutes, can be nominated...Previous HoF winners are excluded. Movies that were HoF nominated in the past but did not win are still eligible.
PM me your nominations and include: film title & year of release. Keep your nomination a secret until the unveiling of the films at the reveal.
Open Door Policy: For one week after the reveal of the movie nominations, new members can still join. This is also the time period in which to withdraw from the HoF if you've changed your mind. I suggest people review the movies that are nominated and make sure they can watch them, if not you can withdraw during the Open Door week.
Length of HoF: There will be 5 days of viewing time per movie. So if there are 12 movie nominations the HoF will be about 2 months long. The deadline to finish will be posted after the HoF starts.
During the HoF: Everyone watches the nominated movies and will discuss them in this thread. You need to write at least a few sentences about your thoughts on each movie after you watch it. Part of the process is a shared discussion of the movies, as a group.
Note: If you've seen a movie recently or have seen it many times you can skip watching it, otherwise you have to watch all nominated movies. But you will still need to post a review about it.
Requesting help to locate movies: If you have trouble locating a movie make a post and ask for help in the HoF. When responding with a movie link send it by private message, don't post links or embed films in this thread.
Dropouts: Members who don't finish will be disqualified and their movie nomination removed from the HoF. Please make sure you have the time to complete this. It helps to start watching the movies right away so that you don't have a bunch of movies to watch at the end. If for any reason you do need to drop out make sure and let me know that you can't finish.
***Withdrawing during the Open Door week is not considered Dropping Out.
Participation: An HoF is about participation, you can go at your own pace with one caveat: If a member is inactive with no movies reviewed for long periods of time, I will contact them to see what's up. Depending on the situation I might place their movie in 'undetermined status' meaning the movie is not out of the HoF but is not required to watch at that time. Basically we don't want a situation where someone joins but never participates as that's not fair to the other members and we can't tell if that person has dropped out or not. As long as someone finishes by the deadline then all will be good.
Ballots: When you're done watching the nominations PM me your ballot. Once you've sent in a ballot it's not changeable so make sure you're happy with your rankings before sending it in. Keep your ballot private until after the reveal of the final voting results, then it's customary to post your ballot (voting list) once the HoF is all done.
Please note : I'm operating under Australian Western Standard Time, which will feel a little unusual compared to other hosts. If you ever want to quickly check how it compares, then :
If you're on the West Coast of the U.S.A. add 15 hours
If you're on the East Coast of the U.S.A. add 12 hours
If you're in the U.K. add 7 hours
Adams ębler (2005) - Disqualified
Nominated by : MovieGal
Stroszek (1977)
Nominated by : Wyldesyde19
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Nominated by : Siddon
A Moment of Innocence (1996)
Nominated by : SpelingError
Das Boot (1981) - Director's Cut
Nominate by : Citizen Rules
* The film nominated is the director's cut which runs approx 216min - but the shorter version can be watched and reviewed as an alternative
Tomboy (2011)
Nominated by : Allaby
Goldfinger (1964)
Nominated by : rauldc14
Robot (Enthiran) - (2010)
Nominated by : ueno_station54
Anomalisa (2015)
Nominated by : Torgo
The Promise (La promesse) - (1996)
Nominated by : Okay
The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
Nominated by : PHOENIX74
A few hours after the 27th ended I saw people asking "Hey where is the 28th already?" so I though "dammit, I'm going to deliver this baby pronto" - but it's all the same, because there is so much time to ponder a choice and send a nomination. I won't be looking at my watch, then at all of MOFO saying, "Well?? The clock is running!"
I guess it's about that time of the year that I join one of these again. I'm in.
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"A film has to be a dialogue, not a monologue a dialogue to provoke in the viewer his own thoughts, his own feelings. And if a film is a dialogue, then its a good film; if its not a dialogue, its a bad film."
It's a special perk for the person running a Hall of Fame to know what has been nominated long before everyone else does - and I have to say I'm pretty giddy with anticipation knowing the selection we have thus far. I'm looking forward to this more than any other Hall I've been a part of.
The 1st of July has a nice roundness to it, but I think by the 28th June I'll be bursting to do the reveal, so it should be then. My 28th morning should be the night of the 27th for most all of you I think.
My nomination for this round is only 74 minutes long, so it should be a change of pace over my last nomination being 3hr 42mins. It's also among my favorites, so I'm curious how well it'll do here.