THE FIRST FEATURES LIST
(June 17 - July 29)
Compose a list of no more and no less than 25 feature films in ranked order and submit to me, domino harvey, by July 30 2021
What is eligible?
- Film must be feature length, which for these purposes is longer than 40 minutes. Cases of extreme closeness will be decided on case by case basis
- Only one film per director, because duh
- Director must be credited with directing on-screen. Exceptions may be made if extremely compelling evidence bears out a film qualifying, but don't ask about anything you aren't going to vote on
- For first features credited solely to a single director only, unless the director is widely known for working in a duo. In these cases, subsquent solo works are not eligible, as these aren't really first films. See below for some prominent examples
the Coens : Blood Simple
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris : Little Miss Sunshine
the Wachowskis : Bound
- Early co-directing credits for directors who quickly went on to solo direct (Une balle dans le canon, the Curse of the Cat People) are not eligible
- If the first solo credited feature is lost (actually lost, not just unavailable on DVD), I may designate the oldest available film as eligible for our list's purposes. Ask first, though
Exceptions:
- West Side Story counts, but for Jerome Robbins only. The Robert Wise vote has to go to Mademoiselle Fifi
UPDATE:
domino harvey wrote: ↑Sun Jun 13, 2021 10:44 amOkay, my adjustment is this: there are a lot of films that technically fit the perimeters of this list but don't qualify for the spirit of it. But that gets some of you super hard so that's okay. The new rule is an adjusted version of Vote For It, namely:
> You may select only one film per director on your list, but that film could be the first shorter work (that's still at least 40 minutes long-- that's not going away) or the first full-length film
> You may select the film that came chronologically first or was discovered much later after the fact
> This means there MAY be two appearances on the final board list by the same director. Want your (hopefully sane) choice to be the one that factors into the final list? Campaign for it
> Lost first features may be substituted with the oldest surviving film of that director, but you absolutely must ask me specifically which film you want to be eligible to get a ruling in advance. I will throw out lists which skip this step