December 19, 2007

Skandies. Best Undistributed Films of 2005.

Tale of Cinema Your first question might be: Skandies? The short answer is: a poll among a modestly sized group of cinephiles who've known each other for some time now. As he's the one who does the conducting and the math, Mike D'Angelo explains.

Your second question might be: Don't you mean 2007? No, as Mike D'Angelo explains again, the list he's posting today is comprised of films that appeared in 2005 yet still remain undistributed. The poll itself is fresh, see; it's the movies that aren't anymore - from a marketer's standpoint only, of course.

As Anthony Kaufman points out, introducing indieWIRE list of best undistributed films (released in 07, but still orphans as the year closes), Hong Sang-soo's Woman on the Beach topped last year's list. At the top of the Skandies list is Hong's Tale of Cinema; what's more, notes Mike D'Angelo, "This is the criminally undistributed Hong's second victory in this category, following 2002's Turning Gate."



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Posted by dwhudson at December 19, 2007 2:19 PM

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Didn't New Yorker Films pick up WOMAN ON THE BEACH and will be distributing it in North America come 2008? Or was that just my wishful delusions?

Posted by: Adam Hartzell at December 19, 2007 2:53 PM

Not a delusion at all, thank heavens - here's Anthony at indieWIRE: "Or look on the brighter side: Think of it as a stopover on the way to a limited 2008 release and a deal with a small DVD label. (At least that's what happened to Woman on the Beach; the movie was acquired by New Yorker Films and will be distributed, starting at New York City's Film Forum on Jan. 9)"

Posted by: David Hudson at December 19, 2007 2:59 PM