Reminder: The People's Telluride / MTFB and the Bets / Fewest Films Ever

REMINDER: THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE

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.

Report your ratings to: mpgort@gmail.com 

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: 8/10 

The puts the average at 6.0  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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