World Cup, Season 3, Match 1F: Sweden vs Japan vs Turkey vs Lebanon

[joachimt]

12 voters so far:

Sanbiki no samurai: 2.417 (19-17)
West Beyrouth (À l'abri les enfants): 2.417 (19-17)
Bulanti: 2.333 (20-16)
Ingeborg Holm: 2.833 (14-22)

Head-to-head
Sanbiki no samurai - West Beyrouth (À l'abri les enfants): 7 - 5

This seems to be a very close match!

[Armoreska]

Bulanti still in the lead though

[joachimt]

Bulanti still in the lead though

Whoops. I shouldn't post stuff like this right after waking up without breakfast.

Corrected ranking:

Bulanti: 2.333 (20-16)
Sanbiki no samurai: 2.417 (19-17)
West Beyrouth (À l'abri les enfants): 2.417 (19-17)
Ingeborg Holm: 2.833 (14-22)

Head-to-head
Sanbiki no samurai - West Beyrouth (À l'abri les enfants): 7 - 5

[RBG]

playing a silent film in competition is a bold move. ingeborg holm is fantastic -- but you're always gonna have some voters who don't like silent films, no matter how good they are

[Smoover]

Its really hard to follow the pre 1915 features. Maybe Ingeborg Holm is beside of some Louis Feuillade Movies the best of them. I liked it more than i expected but for me it is not really a movie which can challenge my favourites of the 20's ;).

[Armoreska]

playing a silent film in competition is a bold move. ingeborg holm is fantastic -- but you're always gonna have some voters who don't like silent films, no matter how good they are

one of the first no less. it never stood a chance. this couldve been a 4 way.

[Armoreska]

5 days without votes, but the weekend is upon us

[Angel Glez]

1. West Beirut
2. Three Outlaw Samurai
3. Ingeborg Holm
4. Nausea

A painful vote since Sjöström is the greatest director competing in the whole cup (I think he shot his first masterpiece in 1917, though) and Turkey is a great cinematography to explore (and it's usually ill-treated in this forum).

[Smoover]

Strong round

Bulanti - 8.0
Sanbiki no samurai - 7.5
West Beyrouth - 7.5
Ingeborg Holm - 7.0

[Mario Gaborović]

Three-way round, interesting.

[joachimt]

Sanbiki no samurai: 2.357 (23-19)
Bulanti: 2.357 (23-19)
West Beyrouth (À l'abri les enfants): 2.357 (23-19)
Ingeborg Holm: 2.929 (15-27)

Ingeborg Holm - Sanbiki no samurai: 5 - 9
Ingeborg Holm - Bulanti: 6 - 8
Ingeborg Holm - West Beyrouth (À l'abri les enfants): 4 - 10
Sanbiki no samurai - Bulanti: 6 - 8
Sanbiki no samurai - West Beyrouth (À l'abri les enfants): 8 - 6
Bulanti - West Beyrouth (À l'abri les enfants): 7 - 7

I think this means Bulanti is in the lead and Sanbiki 2nd.

[burneyfan]

Wonderful round, but so hard to rank. All four films were great.

1. Sanbiki no samurai (Japan)
2. Bulanti (Turkey)
3. Ingeborg Holm (Sweden)
4. West Beyrouth (Lebanon)

[PeacefulAnarchy]

playing a silent film in competition is a bold move. ingeborg holm is fantastic -- but you're always gonna have some voters who don't like silent films, no matter how good they are

one of the first no less. it never stood a chance. this couldve been a 4 way.

Probably should have gone with something else in retrospect, but it actually felt like a safe choice in my mind.

[tommy_leazaq]

Has there been any silent winner, except American ones? I remember a British and German silents losing their matches. Cant remember any other silents

[mjf314]

Has there been any silent winner, except American ones? I remember a British and German silents losing their matches. Cant remember any other silents

Shen nu won its match in season 1.

[wasabi]

Bulanti still in the lead though

Bulanti only got 5.9 on douban; I'm excited to find out if I'm gonna like it.

[zhangalan]

1. West Beyrouth
2. Sanbiki no samurai
3. Ingeborg Holm
4. Bulanti

[weirdboy]

1. Sanbiki no samurai 三匹の侍 (Three Outlaw Samurai) - 1964 - Hideo Gosha 8/10
2. West Beyrouth [A l'abri les enfants] (West Beirut) - 1998 - Zlad Doueri 7/10
3. Bulanti - 2015 - Zeki Demirkubuz 6/10
4. Ingeborg Holm - 1913 - Victor Sjostrom [re-watch] 5/10

[joachimt]

Sanbiki no samurai: 2.176 (31-20)
West Beyrouth (À l'abri les enfants): 2.353 (28-23)
Bulanti: 2.471 (26-25)
Ingeborg Holm: 3 (17-34)

[tarr]

1. Sanbiki no samurai
2. West Beyrouth
3. Ingeborg Holm
4. Bulanti

[Armoreska]

Some sanity coming back to this round.

[cayado-coro]

1. Ingeborg Holm (Sweden)
2. Sanbiki no samurai (Japan)
3. West Beyrouth (Lebanon)
4. Bulanti (Turkey)

I've just seen Bulanti and it doesn't compare to the other three, all wonderful.

[Renegade]

1. Sanbiki no samurai
2. Bulanti
3. Ingeborg Holm
4. West Beyrouth

[jvv]

1. Sanbiki no samurai - 8/10
2. West Beyrouth - 7/10
3. Ingeborg Holm - 6.5/10
4. Bulanti - 5/10

Sanbiki no samurai - I liked the little bits of humor sprinkled throughout the movie.
West Beyrouth - Solid coming of age movie.
Ingeborg Holm - The story is rather predictable.
Bulanti - Slow movie with an uninteresting (to me) main character.

[joachimt]

Sanbiki hasn't received a vote lower than #2 for twelve in a row votes now.

Sanbiki no samurai: 2 (42-21)
West Beyrouth (À l'abri les enfants): 2.429 (33-30)
Bulanti: 2.667 (28-35)
Ingeborg Holm: 2.905 (23-40)

If Bulantie drops one place more, we finally got the order right.

[monty]

1. Sanbiki no samurai
2. West Beyrouth
3. Ingeborg Holm
4. Bulanti - A bold choice but longwinded and depressing as hell. Not my cup of tea.

[filmbantha]

1. Sanbiki no samurai
2. Bulanti
3. Ingeborg Holm
4. West Beyrouth

[hurluberlu]

1. Bulanti 8-
2. Sanbiki no samurai 7
3. West Beyrouth 7
4. Ingeborg Holm 6

[klaus78]

1. Sanbiki no samurai (Japan) 7/10
2. West Beyrouth (Lebanon) 6/10
3. Bulanti (Turkey) 6/10
4. Ingeborg Holm (Sweden) 6/10

[Mate_cosido]

1. Sanbiki no samurai

2. West Beyrouth

3. Bulanti

4. Ingeborg Holm

[clemmetarey]

1. Ingeborg Holm (1913) 7/10
2. Sanbiki no samurai (1964) 7/10
3. Bulanti (2015) 6/10
4. West Beyrouth (À l'abri les enfants) (1998) 4/10

[Mochard]

1. West Beyrouth (A l'abri les enfants) - 7.5/10
2. Sanbiki no samurai - 7/10
3. Ingeborg Holm - 6/10
4. Bulanti - 6/10

[joachimt]

Last seven votes hardly changed a thing.

Sanbiki no samurai: 1.857 (60-24)
West Beyrouth (À l'abri les enfants): 2.464 (43-41)
Bulanti: 2.714 (36-48)
Ingeborg Holm: 2.964 (29-55)

[Armoreska]

Situation stable, I've got Sweden where I want it and still doubt Turkey can challenge us again.

[Nathan Treadway]

1. West Beyrouth
2. Ingeborg Holm
3. Bulanti
4. Sanbiki no samurai

[Lilarcor]

1. Ingeborg Holm 8/10
Best film from this year that I've seen and probably the best director to ever enter the World Cup. Very moving.

2. Bulanti 7/10
Not seen any by the director before and Turkish cinema is underseen by me. New favorite from this country and a director I want to see more of. Film lost me a bit at the end when the imagery became so very obvious and I felt there were nothing more to unlock.

3. Sanbiki no samurai 7/10
Quite good and the completely opposite of Bulanti in its very brisk pace. My issue here is that the story is a bit all over the place because of this action movie pace. I would appreciate more character interactions.

4. West Beyrouth (À l'abri les enfants) 6/10
Really good take on its historical time and a decent coming of age to boot. Needed a little more edge to it for me to really be invested in it.

[edward5]

1. Sanbiki no samurai 7/10
2. West Beyrouth 7/10
3. Ingeborg Holm 6/10
4. Bulanti 5/10

[joachimt]

4 days left

Sanbiki no samurai: 1.935 (64-29)
West Beyrouth (À l'abri les enfants): 2.452 (48-45)
Bulanti: 2.742 (39-54)
Ingeborg Holm: 2.871 (35-58)

[Armoreska]

The final weekend! That's 31 votes already, felt like less.
PA still to vote, so Sweden still has a chance too.

[tommy_leazaq]

1. Three Outlaw Samurai - 79. Terrific. Can't believe its a debut feature
2. West Beirut - 71.
3. Bulanti - 67.
4. Ingebord Holm - 57.