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[caley]

We've had this dispute ongoing in the pimping threads, so I thought we'd better sort if out.

Should we go with a blanket IMDB date for running the Best of 2010, in other words, if IMDB has it as 2010 no matter where it was released it counts and nothing else included?  Or should we allow a little leeway and IMDB is the first criteria, but allowances are made for stuff that just played at festivals or didn't get wide or limited release until the following year are granted access?

For instance, if we go by IMDB than a film like '13 Assassins' would be eligible for the 'Best of 2010' list but wouldn't be eligible for 'Best of 2011' even though it got a full release in America in 2011, not to mention featured on Roger Ebert's site (And likely his best of the year of 2011)?  If you go with the IMDB way, foreign films tend to get the shaft because they're not as quickly available outside of their native country, often for months/a year later.  If you go the leeway way, it makes it really tough on the UK posters for figuring out what is eligible and a lot of film's fall into contentious discussion?  Personally, I'm okay with either, I just want to get a majority viewpoint on it.

[Kawada~!]

Strict IMDB would be my choice.

[odessasteps]

Given that you're talking about almost 2 years ago, using IMDB sees fine.

I mean, does it matter now whether someone saw a particular movie in Dec 2010 or Feb 2011 or even Aug 2011?

[Hijo Del Parties]

I voted IMDB, but I would hope people do still make an effort to find the foreign stuff.  Intriguing 2010 stuff that has just arrived/is currently/recently left US theaters includes BEGINNERS, SUBMARINE, CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS, THE MYSTERIES OF LISBON, TABLOID, and THE TRIP, all of which can be found online.

I'm hard pressed to think of much that's "officially 2010" by IMDB standards, but which isn't readily available via DVD or download by now.  Loznitza's MY JOY and Hung's adaptation of Murakami's NORWEGIAN WOOD are the three that come to mind.  And really, are those game changers?

If this is to become an annual poll, we could also adopt a WON awards approach, wherein we say that any "2010" title that had its first wide theatrical release after this poll's deadline of Oct. 1st 2011 will instead qualify as a 2011 film, thereby making it eligible for next year's vote.  Even a stickler like me can concede that if none of us will be able to see a certain title until Oct 2011 at the earliest (and more likely sometime in 2012), that for our purposes it need not be ranked as a 2010 movie.

[throughsilver]

caley, on Sep 1 2011, 12:39 AM, said:

If you go the leeway way, it makes it really tough on the UK posters for figuring out what is eligible and a lot of film's fall into contentious discussion?

Exactamundo, dude! Keep it strict.

[Yo-Yo's Roomie]

Hijo Del Parties, on Sep 1 2011, 06:33 PM, said:

Hung's adaptation of Murakami's NORWEGIAN WOOD

Have you seen this? And if so, how was it?

[Hijo Del Parties]

I haven't, though in looking a little harder, it does seem like it's out there on the information superhighway.  Festival reviews were quite mixed.

[Yo-Yo's Roomie]

It's one of my favourite books, so on the one hand I really wanna see it to see how it translated to the screen, but on the other hand I'm nervous that it will be bad.

[caley]

Closed poll.  IMDB has it.  I'll update the other thread accordingly.