World Cup, Season 2, Match Final: Italy vs USA

[joachimt]

This is match Final of the second season of iCM Forum's Film World Cup.

Country	Original Title	English Title	Year	Manager	IMDB	ICM
Italy	Una giornata particolare	A Special Day	1977	sortile9io	link	link
USA	Lonesome		1928	klaus78	link	link

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Una giornata particolare


Lonesome

Voting Rules:
- You must watch both films before you vote.
- To vote, rank the films from most favorite to least favorite. (note: you're ranking the individual films, not the countries)

Voting deadline = Mar 8th
Countdown till deadline

The winner of the match is the film with the most #1-votes. Of there's a tie at the deadline, there'll be a three day extension.

Here's a quick summary of how the tournament works

We start with 48 films from 48 countries.
The winning country from each match advances, and will be represented by a different film in the next round.
There are 5 rounds. In round 1 there are 3 films per match (only 1 advances). In rounds 2-5 there are 2 films per match.

iCM-list of all movies in this World Cup

[beavis]

Una giornata particolare - 8,5
Lonesome - 6,5

[tarr]

1. Una giornata particolare 9/10
2. Lonesome 7/10

[Gershwin]

1. Una giornata particolare 9/10
2. Lonesome 7/10

Same here.

[joachimt]

1. Una giornata particolare 9/10
2. Lonesome 7/10

Same here.

Me too

[brokenface]

1. Lonesome
2. A Special Day

Both really great films. Special Day has more depth, but Lonesome just a bit more of a personal favourite.

[klaus78]

1. Lonesome (USA) 9/10
2. Una giornata particolare (Italy) 8/10

[zhangalan]

Great choice for USA.

1. Lonesome
2. A Special Day

[Mario Gaborović]

Una giornata particolare - Lonesome: 4 - 3

[jvv]

1. Una giornata particolare - 8/10
2. Lonesome - 6.5/10

[clemmetarey]

1. Una giornata particolare (1977) 8/10
2. Lonesome (1928) 7/10

First time in the world cup where I've seen both films already.

[zuma]

01. Una giornata particolare

02. Lonesome

[HVM]

1. Lonesome 7/10
2. Una giornata particolare 7/10

[Lilarcor]

1. Una giornata particolare 8/10
2. Lonesome 7/10

[joachimt]

Una giornata particolare - Lonesome: 8 - 4

[Cocoa]

1. Lonesome 8/10
2. Una giornata particolare 6/10

[sebby]

1. A Special Day - 8/10
2. Lonesome - 7/10

[RBG]

1. lonesome

2. a special day (wasn't all that special) i did like the look of the film - fascist brownshirt



successfully deglamorizing loren. and mastroianni is enjoyable as ever

[Mario Gaborović]

Sofia filmed Fortunate Pilgrim in my hometown in 1988. The coulisses that played buildings were just 50m airline from my window.

[toro913]

1. A Special Day
2. Lonesome

[Carmel1379]

#1 Una giornata particolare (1977, Ettore Scola)
#2 Lonesome (1928, Paul Fejos)

[joachimt]

Una giornata particolare - Lonesome: 11 - 6

[sortile9io]

Sofia filmed Fortunate Pilgrim in my hometown in 1988. The coulisses that played buildings were just 50m airline from my window.

Not a bad way to start the day: waking up and seeing Sophia Loren through your window.

[Melvelet]

1. Una giornata particolare 8+/10
2. Lonesome 7/10

The sound parts of Lonesome are horrible. I got the feelng that the producer who had the greeeat idea of including those scenes also wrote the dialogues himself.

[joachimt]

Lonesome was already on our fav-movies list and A Special Day wasn't. I wonder if this match will change that.

[Armoreska]

The Italians may start celebrating all through the next week.
Me, yet to see any of the two.

[cayado-coro]

1. Lonesome
2. Una giornata particolare

Two great films.

[monty]

The Italians may start celebrating all through the next week.

Do we actually have any Italian members?

[Armoreska]

The Italians may start celebrating all through the next week.

Do we actually have any Italian members?

I only recall Onshy who's not around that much. Other than that, maybe there's somebody from among the IMDb refugees

[Lonewolf2003]

1. Una giornata particolare (1977): 8.8 - I have to congratulate sortile9io, every movie he picked for Italy was a complete hit for me; I favorited them all. Italy really deserves to win this cup for me. This was one was no exception, although I already had seen this one twice and it was already a favorite, it's again an excellent movie from Italy and excellent choice by sortile9io.

2. Lonesome (1928): 7.5 - oh l'amour . Another example that a simple movie about love can be good. But the sound part really fell out of tone with the rest of the picture, and also some of the other innovative stuff like the imposed colors distracted more than added to it for me.

[Mario Gaborović]

Sofia filmed Fortunate Pilgrim in my hometown in 1988. The coulisses that played buildings were just 50m airline from my window.

Not a bad way to start the day: waking up and seeing Sophia Loren through your window.

Too bad I was quite small back then and still asexual. Also 7 years ago Ralph Fiennes was 50m from me (though from the other side, where my balcony is) but I find no charisma within him.

[Smoover]

1. Una giornata particolare 8/10
2. Lonesome 7/10

[Mario Gaborović]

The Italians may start celebrating all through the next week.

Do we actually have any Italian members?

I only recall Onshy who's not around that much. Other than that, maybe there's somebody from among the IMDb refugees

Once they discover the forum it's gonna be impossible to beat Italy in the WC 'cause tons of good films paired with that hypothetical invasion of theirs.

[mjf314]

1. Una giornata particolare
2. Lonesome

[RogerTheMovieManiac88]

U.S.A. - 1st place
Italy - 2nd place

[Mario Gaborović]

Una giornata particolare - Lonesome: 15 - 8

10 days left.

[metaller]

Okay, I have seen both films before, but I initially wanted to rewatch them before the deadline.
But I have too much stuff coming up IRL, so I don't really want to invest time in those rewatches.
Both are really good films, but I overall prefer the touching simplicity of Lonesome, that tells a simple story to near perfection. The Italian entry is swell too, with the two central performances being the highlight for me.

1. Lonesome 8/10
2. Giornata 7.5/10

[jdidaco]

Two very good films indeed; great final:

1. Lonesome
2. Una giornata particolare

My enthusiastic reaction when I watched 'Lonesome' five years ago at a Silent Film Festival: "I saw Fejös exceptionally beautiful and poignant film ‘Lonesome’ on a pristine 35mm print from the George Eastman House. I was riveted by the juxtapositions of the first images, the actors' interplay (especially Glenn Tryon's body language), and, for me at least, the wonderfully surprising and touching final shot. Another aspect I quiet liked (although I may be alone in this) were the few talking scenes which I found rather charming in their primitive awkwardness, especially the first one on the beach, it reminded me of the same simplicity of Rohmer's "beach/summer films"." I love Scola's too, having the opportunity to watch it a couple of times during theatrical revivals (it’s a perennial favorite in this city, like many Scolas are), featuring remarkable “against-type” performances from the two stars.

[Lonewolf2003]

Which city is that?

[wasabi]

1. Una giornata particolare
2. Lonesome