How was this match up not called "Ladies on Fire?" I'm voting for the metaphorical lady on fire this round.
Aslan - 1 week ago
OUATIH is a good film, but if it didn't make the 64 bracket, I wouldn't have necessarily been upset. As far as "Portrait", I can't begin to tell you how many people I've recommended this film to since it's come out (including just last week). It's in my top 5 of the century so far.
Adelaide Spence - 2 weeks ago
OUATIH is a film I deeply loathe. Taraninto’s inherent sexism in much of his films is fully on display here and the historical fiction perspective falls much more flat here than in Inglorious Basterds. The choice to steer away from the interesting lead characters to shoehorn in a half developed Sharon Tate and Manson Family story makes less and less sense the more I think on it.
Portrait of a Lady On Fire made my personal sight and sound list 3 years ago and still stands paramount as one of the creates love stories in all of film. I do have a bit of genuine fear that it may lose here and can’t imagine a world where this is sent into the incinerator instead of a mediocre auteur’s worst film of the century.
Daniel - 2 weeks ago
I could make an argument that portrait of a lady on fire is the best film of the century. If once upon a Time in Hollywood was in another part of the bracket it would probably make my final four, but there is no way that I can take this over portrait of a lady on fire
Chris Moody - 2 weeks ago
I cannot allow OUATIH, despite being QT's best film in ages, to take out Portrait of a Lady on Fire. It's wrong, and you all should know it.
Erin Teachman (Los Angeles) - 2 weeks ago
As much as I loved seeing Margot Robbie watch Sharon Tate on screen in rapture in a movie that dared to dream about an alternate reality of that awful summer, Portrait of a Lady on Fire was my #1 film of that year and it is daring to to dream about a lot more than alternate history. Portrait has a rough road for staying long in this tournament (hello Mulholland Dr), but it definitely needs to be with us for a little longer.
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How was this match up not called "Ladies on Fire?" I'm voting for the metaphorical lady on fire this round.
OUATIH is a good film, but if it didn't make the 64 bracket, I wouldn't have necessarily been upset. As far as "Portrait", I can't begin to tell you how many people I've recommended this film to since it's come out (including just last week). It's in my top 5 of the century so far.
OUATIH is a film I deeply loathe. Taraninto’s inherent sexism in much of his films is fully on display here and the historical fiction perspective falls much more flat here than in Inglorious Basterds. The choice to steer away from the interesting lead characters to shoehorn in a half developed Sharon Tate and Manson Family story makes less and less sense the more I think on it.
Portrait of a Lady On Fire made my personal sight and sound list 3 years ago and still stands paramount as one of the creates love stories in all of film. I do have a bit of genuine fear that it may lose here and can’t imagine a world where this is sent into the incinerator instead of a mediocre auteur’s worst film of the century.
I could make an argument that portrait of a lady on fire is the best film of the century. If once upon a Time in Hollywood was in another part of the bracket it would probably make my final four, but there is no way that I can take this over portrait of a lady on fire
I cannot allow OUATIH, despite being QT's best film in ages, to take out Portrait of a Lady on Fire. It's wrong, and you all should know it.
As much as I loved seeing Margot Robbie watch Sharon Tate on screen in rapture in a movie that dared to dream about an alternate reality of that awful summer, Portrait of a Lady on Fire was my #1 film of that year and it is daring to to dream about a lot more than alternate history. Portrait has a rough road for staying long in this tournament (hello Mulholland Dr), but it definitely needs to be with us for a little longer.