This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year AND DECADE in Cinema" -- 2019

Here we go!!!

https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/best-movies-of-2010s-decade/

the obligatory horror inclusions give me a headache

lol that list, yikes. anyway the best film of the decade is stray dogs

I liked 'Moonlight', a lot, but best of the decade?! Get outtahere. And that's the least of my problems w/ this list. ILX can do better.

would prefer it was all midbrow trash rather than including a film as good as no home movie amongst some of this shit

must watch The Arbor, The Illusionist (2010), Sunset Song, The Handmaiden, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, Personal Shopper, The Wind Rises again at some point - but most of that top 10 is rank overrated shit.

Not down with The Master ranking anywhere other than dead last among PTA movies of the last decade.

DOCTOR: you cant keep doing this to yourself. making Best of the Decade lists five months early online will destroy you. you must stop posting with ignorance
INDIEWIRE: No,

— Ryan Swen (@swen_ryan) July 23, 2019

aaaaaand I just concluded this semester's film course with a screening of....Moonlight

Detrius in July is disturbing

go to hell Indiewire

Spring Breakers too low, The Social Network too high, Inception being on the list at all.

big stinkers at #88 and 11, among others

what i remember of boonmee is more aching generational sadness than "delightful fantasy realm"

Syndromes and a Century is leagues better and definitely top 5, for me.

placing an espn doc but not nu twin peaks, utter madness

I saw that earlier today and was trying to find an applicable thread...I never care what is #1 on these lists (panel lists, anyway--I'm interested when it's one writer: Hoberman, Edelstein, Kael or Sarris or Kauffmann if they put one together from the grave), what I think is missing, etc.; their interest is seeing films I liked get some notice. So from this list, I enjoy seeing At Berkely, The Turin Horse, Frances Ha, Eden, Margaret, Boyhood, O.J.: Made in America, The Social Network, and Inside Llewyn Davis.

Syndromes and a Century is leagues better and definitely top 5, for me.

― Funky Isolations (jed_), 23. juli 2019 23:50 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

It's also from 2006 :)

People are still maintaining that Moonlight and Fury Road are great films, huh

They are.

Or we are.

Moonlight isn't a great movie, but it's good enough, and worth inclusion. We tend to forget breakthrough queer films starring African Americans deserve boosting. I screened it yesterday for students, and it impressed them. We had a good chat about its cinematography, narrative, and sound design.

Boost away. Anyone who says it's the best of the last ten years is not serious.

I expect the polls casting wider nets will push The Tree of Life into that #1 spot in the end.

(xpost) Not to get semantic, but it's a poll--it's a bunch of people saying it's one of the best.

I.e., they don't, that I can see, link to individual lists, but it's possible not one of the eleven contributors listed it at #1--it may have just had most of them putting it reasonably high on their lists.

A colleague of mine seems pretty convinced this list wasn't to the letter collaborative and I partially agree.

Meaning someone was allowed to re-order it with readership, etc. in mind, like Rolling Stone and other publications do?

I think with lists like these, voters often use their #1 slot for quirkier, more personal choices. I can see where something like Moonlight would have broad support without even getting close to a #1 vote.

Yeah, it feels a bit like the editor railroaded some titles up (or on the list in the first place). But, all's fair in list-bait.

I wish to hope Bellflower continues to remain 'overlooked'

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/07/most-underrated-movies-decade-1202160014/

It's also from 2006 :)

― Frederik B, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 11:20 (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Pedant!

Eh, I think the pedantic thing to say would be that it actually had its Greek premiere at the 2010 Thessaloniki Film Festival, so by the rules guiding most of the ILX film polls it's eligible.

that was my criterion ;)

I don't seem to have rated a single contemporary film as 5/5 since joining Letterboxd 5 (?) years ago, and can't recall one I might from '10-14 (Certified Copy could come close).

So that's my current position: I've seen zero great films this decade.

That King’s Speech blurb is some gymnastics.

On Thursday, Gotham Award nominations kick things off in earnest.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/from-joker-to-trump-the-2020-oscars-are-going-to-be-totally-insane-is-it-time-to-tune-out

The 2020 Oscars Will Be a Politically Divided Sh*tshow

The Oscars are cynical awards dressed in the guise of earnestness, which is what the people most vocally critical about them—from far-right news outlets to Marvel fans—miss entirely. Whether the awarded films are “the best” or not is beside the point. The Oscars are a television spectacle that mostly function as a marketing opportunity for large corporations. And these corporations have financial reasons to be concerned about ratings, which is why, every year, we hear about them.

...

Still, great filmmakers can—and have, and must—achieve greatness without the Oscars. Limitations in resources do not necessarily deprive a film of quality, which the history of film can easily attest to. Directors like Shirley Clark, Euzhan Palcy, Elaine May, Vera Chytilová, Bill Gunn, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ousmane Sembène, Cheryl Dunye, and Julie Dash made their work anyway and whether we see their films or not is partly up to us—our own curiosity and love for art that is imaginative and doesn’t simply “make you think,” as the trite saying goes, but thinks itself. And as for superhero films, they will undoubtedly continue to get made and distributed to your local multiplexes and chosen streaming services; whether there’s any shame in consuming them will always be both a political and personal consideration.

it's like a veil has been lifted from my eyes and i can now see everything clearly.

IDA's doc nominees

https://www.documentary.org/awards2019/nominees

Rosenbaum has already posted his Sight and Sound top ten:

https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2019/10/ten-best-list-for-sight-and-sound-2019/

Still mad at him for docking Femme Fatale from his "best of the 21st century" list.

Not a strong year for crossover docs either, huh.

Didn't Foxtrot come out like 5 years ago?

Here we go!

GOTHAM AWARD NOMINATIONS 2019 ... also known as the A24 AWARDS

Best Feature
“The Farewell” (A24)
“Hustlers” (STXfilms)
“Marriage Story” (Netflix)
“Uncut Gems” (A24)
“Waves” (A24)

Best Documentary
“American Factory” (Netflix)
“Apollo 11” (NEON and CNN Films)
“The Edge of Democracy” (Netflix)
“Midnight Traveler” (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
“One Child Nation” (Amazon Studios)

Breakthrough Director
Laure De Clermont-Tonnerre for “The Mustang” (Focus Features)
Kent Jones for “Diane” (IFC Films)
Joe Talbot for “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” (A24)
Olivia Wilde for “Booksmart” (United Artists Releasing)
Philip Youmans for "Burning Cane" (Array Releasing)

Best screenplay
“The Farewell,” Lulu Wang (A24)
“High Flying Bird,” Tarell Alvin McCraney (Netflix)
“The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Jimmie Fails,” Joe Talbot, Rob Richert (A24)
“Marriage Story,” Noah Baumbach (Netflix)
"Midsommar," Ari Aster (A24)

Best Actor
Willem Dafoe in “The Lighthouse” (A24)
Adam Driver in “Marriage Story” (Netflix)
Aldis Hodge in “Clemency” (NEON)
André Holland in “High Flying Bird” (Netflix)
Adam Sandler in “Uncut Gems” (A24)

Best Actress
Awkwafina in “The Farewell” (A24)
Elisabeth Moss in “Her Smell” (Gunpowder & Sky)
Mary Kay Place in “Diane” (IFC Films)
Florence Pugh in “Midsommar” (A24)
Alfre Woodard in “Clemency” (NEON)

Breakthrough Actor
Julia Fox in “Uncut Gems” (A24)
Aisling Franciosi in “The Nightingale? (IFC Films)
Chris Galust in “Give Me Liberty” (Music Box Films)
Noah Jupe in “Honey Boy” (Amazon Studios)
Jonathan Majors in “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” (A24)
Taylor Russell in “Waves” (A24)

already p much "no surprises"! well done, all

I mean, Hustlers up there is a little bit of a surprise.

They don't do supporting actors, right? So the film is there instead of J.Lo.

I guess The Souvenir will get all The Max Bialystock "Too Good" non-honors.

Plenty of those non-honors to go around.

no ScarJo for Marriage Story? lol

Good to see André Holland though.

Not having seen it, all the attention seems to be getting directed at Driver and Dern.

Here's another thing:

https://www.screendaily.com/news/the-personal-history-of-david-copperfield-wild-rose-head-2019-bifa-nominations/5144228.article

Bifa Nominations 2019

Best British Independent Film
Bait, Mark Jenkin, Kate Byers, Linn Waite
For Sama, Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts
The Personal History Of David Copperfield, Armando Iannucci, Simon Blackwell, Kevin Loader The Souvenir Joanna Hogg, Luke Schiller
The Souvenir, Joanna Hogg, Luke Schiller
Wild Rose, Tom Harper, Nicole Taylor, Faye Ward

Best Director
Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts, For Sama
Oliver Hermanus, Moffie
Joanna Hogg, The Souvenir
Mark Jenkin, Bait
Asif Kapadia, Diego Maradona

Best Actress
Jessie Buckley, Wild Rose
Holliday Grainger, Animals
Sally Hawkins, Eternal Beauty
Vicky Knight, Dirty God
Renee Zellweger, Judy

Best Supporting Actress
Jessica Barden, Scarborough
Ruthxjiah Bellenea, The Last Tree
Elizabeth Debicki, Vita & Virginia
Tilda Swinton, The Personal History Of David Copperfield
Julie Walters, Wild Rose

Best Screenplay
Joanna Hogg, The Souvenir
Armando Iannucci, Simon Blackwell, The Personal History Of David Copperfield
Paul Laverty, Sorry We Missed You
Peter Strickland, In Fabric
Nicole Taylor, Wild Rose

Best Actor
Sam Adewunmi, The Last Tree
Tom Burke, The Souvenir
Kris Hitchen, Sorry We Missed You
Josh O’Connor, Only You
Dev Patel, The Personal History Of David Copperfield

Best Supporting Actor
Chiwetel Ejiofor, The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind
Hugh Laurie, The Personal History Of David Copperfield
Edlison Manuel Olbera Núñez, Yuli – The Carlos Acosta Story
Peter Mullan, The Vanishing
Bluey Robinson, Dirty God

Best Documentary
Coup 53, Taghi Amirani, Walter Murch, Paul Zaentz
Diego Maradona, Asif Kapadia, James Gay-Rees, Paul Martin
For Sama, Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts
Seahorse, Jeanie Finlay, Andrea Cornwell
Tell Me Who I Am, Ed Perkins, Simon Chinn

Best International Independent Film
Ash Is Purest White, Jia Zhang-Ke, Shôzô Ichiyama
Marriage Story, Noah Baumbach, David Heyman
Monos, Alejandro Landes, Alexis Dos Santos, Fernando Epstein, Cristina Landes, Santiago A Zapata
Parasite, Bong Joon-Ho, Jan Young-Hwan, Moon Yang-Kwon, Sin-Ae Kwak, Han Jin Won
Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, Céline Sciamma, Véronique Cayla, Bénédicte Couvreur

There are more categories, but you get the gist.

https://twitter.com/TimGrierson/status/1189977187983560705

http://twitter.com/TimGrierson/status/1189977187983560705

Crap, third time's the charm, I hope:

LAFCA is very pleased to announce that Elaine May will be the recipient of this year's Career Achievement award. We will be honoring this legendary actress/writer/director at our annual awards dinner on Jan. 11, 2020. pic.twitter.com/IFsMaxtHj2

— LA Film Critics (@LAFilmCritics) October 31, 2019

This was earlier in the year, but worth adding:

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2019/4/results

#5-#1 still have yet to be revealed, but:

https://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/the-best-films-of-the-2010s

Boyhood all the way down at #25 is a welcome surprise.

What do we thing will have made the top five? I'm guessing Uncle Boonmee is a given. Probably Turin Horse as well. Think Stray Dogs could have made it, or has it been snubbed? Oh, and the list is pretty US-heavy, so I'm guessing Leviathan and Magic Mike as well?

forever clueless

In this case, delightfully so.

Phantom Thread #1, based on the other PTAs already placing.

Oops, I was wrong...

1. The Tree of Life
2. Moonlight
3. Inside Llewyn Davis
4. Mad Max: Fury Road
5. Phantom Thread

#murica

smdh at 2 and 4, and even somewhat at 3

(all of which are good btw)

All five are perfectly fine.

And glad they all ranked above Roma, The Wolf of Wall Street and The Social Network.

only two can remotely be considered Decade's Best in my book xp

Dare you to scroll thru all 100: https://filmschoolrejects.com/most-beautiful-shots-of-the-decade/

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

They're really into silhouetted figures against sunsets.

A better Llewyn Davis shot (and I don't even like cats):

http://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/BHZgaujR6xlzEFulLIZTeaPWDF4=/0x0:1280x690/920x690/filters:focal(831x197:1035x401):format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/62574303/MV5BZDFmMDgxOTQtYTc3MC00YWMxLWI1NjMtNmFhN2UzZDI1ZDE2XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNDAxOTExNTM_._V1_.0.0.jpg

The page loads so slowly I can't go through the list, but I assume Boyhood is in there somewhere. Maybe my favourite shot of the decade:

http://scontent.fyzd1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/11070084_10152583857176534_3043664573621445994_o.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_oc=AQm75Cg2ypzRtLL7G5rQkHmfVdqi_hfMvDGLLXaPeIaU-MBmWmXDuAB8M9dz2azt0SQ&_nc_ht=scontent.fyzd1-2.fna&oh=082edf0d7a850a400a8178c3b0f70afe&oe=5E47AA76

(I have no confidence either of these images will show up.)

rogue one doesn't have any perfect shots

Surprised they went with the obvious crying shot from Get Out but not the one from Call Me by Your Name.

Missed this a few days ago, but the Critics Choice Documentary Awards were lorded over by Apollo 11.

Best Documentary Feature – Apollo 11 (Neon)
Best Director – TIE – Peter Jackson – They Shall Not Grow Old (Warner Bros.)
Best Director – TIE – Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar – American Factory (Netflix)
Best Cinematography – John Chester – The Biggest Little Farm (Neon)
Best Editing – Todd Douglas Miller – Apollo 11 (Neon)
Best Score – Matt Morton – Apollo 11 (Neon)
Best Narration – Bruce Springsteen – Western Stars (Warner Bros.)
Best First Documentary Feature – Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov – Honeyland (Neon)
Best Archival Documentary – Apollo 11 (Neon)
Best Biographical Documentary – Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (Magnolia)
Best Music Documentary – Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (Greenwich)
Best Political Documentary – American Factory (Netflix)
Best Science/Nature Documentary – Apollo 11 (Neon)
Best Sports Documentary – Maiden (Sony Pictures Classics)
Most Innovative Documentary – They Shall Not Grow Old (Warner Bros.)
Best Short Documentary – Period. End of Sentence. (Netflix)
The D A Pennebaker Award – Frederick Wiseman
The Landmark Award – Michael Apted

At Berkeley
National Gallery
In Jackson Heights
Ex Libris
Monrovia, Indiana
Unfriended https://t.co/W3t1ukvqv7

— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) November 13, 2019

Best Latin American Films of the Decade:

25. Cocote
24. Wild Tales
23. Güeros
22. Gloria
21. (tie) Neon Bull
21. (tie) In the Intense Now
20. The Untamed
19. Ixcanul
18. The Human Surge
17. It All Started at the End
16. No
15. A Fantastic Woman
14. Birds of Passage
13. El Club
12. The Tiniest Place
11. Neighboring Sounds
10. (tie) Araby
10. (tie) A Useful Life
9. Tempestad
8. Jauja
7. Aquarius
6. Post Tenebras Lux
5. Nostalgia for the Light
4. Roma
3. Embrace of the Serpent
2. La Flor
1. Zama

https://remezcla.com/lists/film/best-latin-american-films-2010s/

How many have you seen? I'm at 18.

Same.

Yup.

wd have to research. i rated Jauja on L'boxed and have no memory of it.

(quite commonplace for me)

I will never forget Viggo Mortensen's atrocius mangling of the Danish language. But Ghita Nørby was great as old Karen Blixen.

I'm sure that list is an aggregate but in no universe I want to inhabit is Roma better than Post Tenebras Lux.

I don't really know where to put this but... Guy Lodge (who Iike a fair bit as a critic and a lot as an internet person) posted on twitter today that he was having his house refurbished and put almost everything he has into storage while the refurb was being done and the storage place burned down and he lost everything :(

Some personal news: the storage facility in which I was keeping 80% of my worldly possessions while renovating my house — you know, for efficiency and safekeeping — has burned down. I am trying to be stoic, but did cry four times today.

— Guy Lodge (@GuyLodge) November 15, 2019

I like that Latin American films of the decade list

so many good films on that list

Birds of Passage is so far my favorite film this year

Guy Lodge is a lovely man in person.

I bet <3 he's one of the online people I'm sure I'd enjoy in life.

I feel really sad for him.

https://film.avclub.com/the-100-best-movies-of-the-2010s-1839846306

My pleasure that of all things Mad Max: Fury Road has emerged as the consensus choice of the decade is only partially offset by The Master being the most common first-runner-up.

consensus might give us Pete Buttigieg too

it is to be shunned

What isn't, sunshine?

well sunshine can give you melanoma so no

From the comments: "Did I miss it or are there no MCU films on this list? What, did Scorsese put this list together or something?"

Fury Road certainly affected me more than almost anything else this decade. I hadn't been seeing very many movies for several years prior to Fury Road, and it kicked off a new spate of movie-watching.

someone will be mystified that Turin Horse and Uncle Boonmee only reached #94 and 97

"only"

Not a ton of docs on this list.

oh look The Florida Project!

top 20 is pretty good except for inclusion of that and Social Network... also only about 2.5 non-English-lang films. Try harder.

Not enthusiastic about The Master, The Social Network, or Boyhood. Outside of that, top 20's fine or better.

Fury Road is *not* a better film than Mad Max II, and anyone claiming that was The Film of the Decade in 1989 would've been told to collect their toys and get on the school bus.

OK Armond.

:p

if the Film Comment poll is along these lines, it will confirm my opinion that this was the worst decade for narrative cinema yet

some films that I haven’t seen on any consensus lists (outside of genre lists) so far, but hoping some will show up on the Film Comment list:

Mysteries of Lisbon
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Stray Dogs
Horse Money
A Touch of Sin
Cemetery of Splendour
Embrace of the Serpent
The Death of Louis XIV
Son of Saul
24 Frames
Zama
Kaili Blues
Western
Certain Women
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Good Time

I'm sure I can will a certain number of those onto the Sl4nt list.

Jimmy Hoffa style?

it pains me that the DiCaprio Wall St pigout looks to be the only Scorsese on these laundry lists

I don't know why I don't like it more, in retrospect. I ought to prefer its lack of, shall we say, moral seriousness.

It's trying to be morally serious though, in a woefully misjudged way.

Dan S's list is a large part of the reason this was a good decade for cinema. Also Jafar Panahi, Corneliu Porumboiu, Amour Fou, A Quiet Passion, Play, Lav Diaz, Pablo Larrain. The focus on American men is understandable, the same as always, but I'm surprised how old the directors on most of those lists are. George Miller, Terence Malick, especially. But how many will claim Coen, PTA, Linklater, made their best works this decade? Ok, perhaps Linklater.

generally thought PTA was shit til this decade

I don't understand that at all... He is still shit.

Punch-Drunk Love is good, though.

his worst

Good Time

Genuinely surprised this hasn't shown up on consensus lists, given its initial reception.

Mysteries of Lisbon, The Death of Louis XIV, and A Touch of Sin will be on mine, and Good Time struck me then as an actor showcase.

That and a soundtrack showcase.

and tut-tutting an AV Club list is classic Morbius. This ain't Film Comment -- if they can preach about Uncle Bonmee, they've done a service (though it's not my Apitchapong pick this decade).

I thought I Hated PTA in the 2000s but Inherent Vice and Phantom Thread introduced the lighter touch that the enhanced interrogation technique called Punch Drunk Love couldn't fathom.

Fully intend to give Punch Drunk Love another chance despite it having what I'm pretty confident is the worst P.S. Hoffman performance ever.

I can't complain about too much of that AV Club list tbh, it has a lot of overlap with what would be in mine

Ppl I know who've seen both unanimously seem to prefer the new one over Good Time fwiw

Fully intend to give Punch Drunk Love another chance despite it having what I'm pretty confident is the worst P.S. Hoffman performance ever.

― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.),

I still hang on to my crawl-under-the-seat response to The Phone Call.

...and Good Time struck me then as an actor showcase.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, November 18, 2019

That and a soundtrack showcase.

― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.)

thought the photography was really good too!

The colors!

Good fonts.

tut-tutting an AV Club list is classic Morbius

tut-tutting, am I? you may have confused me with Uncle Pumblechook from Great Expectations.

Let me clarify: No matter what their outlet, anyone who writes that Her Smell is one of the 100 best films of the decade should have their hands cut off.

I had Aunt Bumblefuck from Hard Times in mind.

I'd have opted for Martin Chuzzlewit in Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street.

Speaking of Chuzzlewit and Bumblefuck, I watch The Two Popes tonight.

Because individual lists are ALWAYS better than aggregate lists:

https://time.com/5725149/best-movies-2010s-decade/
https://time.com/5720170/best-movie-performances-2010s-decade/

(Somewhere is one of the worst movies I saw all decade, for the record.)

Good on Zacharek for remembering Spall and Being.

Spall and Being, an existential treatise by Mike Leigh

Bening and Nothingness.

Hawke for Before Midnight instead of First Reformed is...odd.

not to 'romantic' married str8s

My favorite film from each year of this decade:

2010: Black Swan
2011: The Tree of Life
2012: Holy Motors
2013: A Touch of Sin
2014: Under the Skin
2015: Mad Max: Fury Road
2016: The VVitch
2017: Get Out
2018: Zama
2019: Parasite

2010 was slim pickins

Slim Pickins Who Can Recall His Past Lives

:)

hehe :) prolly kind of a basic list, i aspire to be more of a film buff

2010 was also the year of Mysteries of Lisbon, Certified Copy, Poetry, Meek’s Cutoff, White Material, My Joy, Nostalgia for the Light, Carlos, Everyone Else, Mother. I don't think all of them had showings in the US that year though

what is this "VVitch" thing? is that how the title of the Eggers film is spelled?

I think that was in the title credits

Contemplating my own year-end list possibilities, I don't think any film has meant as much to me this year as the "Co-Op" episode of Documentary Now.

Independent Spirit Awards nominations (ever so slightly less Oscary than usual this year, excepting the extra actress nod to account for Zellweger, and all those nods for Marriage Story and ... Clemency?)

BEST FEATURE

A Hidden Life
Clemency
The Farewell
Marriage Story
Uncut Gems

BEST FEMALE LEAD

Karen Allen, Colewell
Hong Chau, Driveways
Elisabeth Moss, Her Smell
Mary Kay Place, Diane
Alfre Woodard, Clemency
Renée Zellweger, Judy

BEST MALE LEAD

Chris Galust, Give Me Liberty
Kelvin Harrison Jr., Luce
Robert Pattinson, The Lighthouse
Matthias Schoenaerts, The Mustang
Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE

Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
Taylor Russell, Waves
Lauren “LoLo” Spencer, Give Me Liberty
Octavia Spencer, Luce
Zhao Shuzhen, The Farewell

BEST SUPPORTING MALE

Willem Dafoe, The Lighthouse
Noah Jupe, Honey Boy
Shia LaBeouf, Honey Boy
Jonathan Majors, The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Wendell Pierce, Burning Cane

BEST DIRECTOR

Alma Har’el, Honey Boy
Lorene Scafaria, Hustlers
Julius Onah, Luce
Robert Eggers, The Lighthouse
Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie, Uncut Gems

BEST SCREENPLAY

Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story
Jason Begue & Shawn Snyder, To Dust
Ronald Bronstein & Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie, Uncut Gems
Chinonye Chukwu, Clemency
Tarell Alvin McCraney, High Flying Bird

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY

Fredrica Bailey & Stefon Bristol, See You Yesterday
Hannah Bos & Paul Thureen, Driveways
Bridget Savage Cole & Danielle Krudy, Blow the Man Down
Jocelyn DeBoer & Dawn Luebbe, Greener Grass
James Montague & Craig W. Sanger, The Vast of Night

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Todd Banhazl, Hustlers
Jarin Blaschke, The Lighthouse
Natasha Braier, Honey Boy
Chananun Chotrungroj, The Third Wife
Pawel Pogorzelski, Midsommar

BEST EDITING

Julie Béziau, The Third Wife
Ronald Bronstein & Benny Safdie, Uncut Gems
Tyler L. Cook, Sword of Trust
Louise Ford, The Lighthouse
Kirill Mikhanovsky, Give Me Liberty

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD (Given to one film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast)

Marriage Story
Director: Noah Baumbach
Casting Directors: Douglas Aibel, Francine Maisler
Ensemble Cast: Alan Alda, Laura Dern, Adam Driver, Julie Hagerty, Scarlett Johansson,
Ray Liotta, Azhy Robertson, Merritt Wever

BEST FIRST FEATURE

Booksmart
The Climb
Diane
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
The Mustang
See You Yesterday

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000)

Burning Cane
Colewell
Give Me Liberty
Premature
Wild Nights With Emily

BEST DOCUMENTARY

American Factory
Apollo 11
For Sama
Honeyland
Island of the Hungry Ghosts

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

Invisible Life (Brazil)
Les Misérables (France)
Parasite (South Korea)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (France)
Retablo (Peru)
The Souvenir (United Kingdom)

Noah Jupe, Honey Boy
Shia LaBeouf, Honey Boy

kill me

Yeah, Kevin Garnett robbed.

I like the screenplay nod for HFB

Aren't they all from A24?

always happy to see Alfre Woodard get any plaudits

and at the very end there's one token for The Souvenir

assorted decade shite:

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6693-2010s-the-listing-begins

Top Films of the Decade
2010: CRAZY ASS
2011: DO I KNOW YOU?
2012: LOVE IN MY PANTS
2013: JESUS IV
2014: PERIOD FILM
2015: LIFE IS A LIE
2016: HAPPY THINGS HAPPEN
2017: DRY KISSES
2018: GET OUT BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE
2019: PLEASE HOLD ME

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) November 17, 2019

is that Pete Buttigieg's porn rental list?

Stephanie Zacharek seems to be the first out of the gate this year, even before John Waters.

https://time.com/5737103/best-movies-2019/

1. Pain & Glory
2. The Irishman
3. Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
4. Marriage Story
5. Little Women
6. Parasite
7. Knives Out
8. Dolemite Is My Name
9. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
10. Hustlers

Oh, and performances.

https://time.com/5737198/best-movie-performances-2019/

1. Antonio Banderas, Pain & Glory
2. Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
3. Adam Driver, Marriage Story
4. Taylor Russell, Waves
5. Matthias Schoenaerts, The Mustang
6. Renee Zellweger, Judy
7. Joe Pesci, The Irishman
8. Margot Robbie, Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
9. Eddie Murphy, Dolemite Is My Name
10. Kristen Stewart, Seberg

As usual, too much English-lang stuff.

Saw John Waters on the first floor of MoMA last night! Should've badgered him for his choices.

I already know from the Polyester Criterion that Climax is probably on that list.

whatever these are

https://awardswatch.com/once-upon-a-time-leads-hollywood-critics-association-nominations/

I get the enthusiasm for Pain & Glory all too well: a film about film for critics. Second-tier Almodovar.

http://www.fimoculous.com/decade-review-2010.cfm?cat=film

If Jojo Rabbit, The Joker and Shia LeBeouf are gonna keep popping up in these, its gonna be a long awards season.

Vanity Fair's best of the decade: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/11/best-movies-decade-2010s-collins

List manages to include what is my very least favorite movie of the decade tbh.

Wolf is amomg mine; Leviathan too

I guess this goes here?

https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-sound-magazine/best-dvds-blu-rays-2019?fbclid=IwAR1ANFFDEJyYGFqm4dPEMOWxg9ZMTqtYJqf-CYXNVUqW0diUICltmS4GPog

icymi, the NY Times decade picks

Manohla Dargis:

The Assassin — Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Boyhood — Richard Linklater
Faces Places — Agnès Varda and JR
In Jackson Heights — Frederick Wiseman
Luminous Intimacy: The Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler [retrospective] — Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler
Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
No Home Movie — Chantal Akerman
Poetry — Lee Chang-dong
13th — Ava DuVernay
A Touch of Sin — Jia Zhang-ke

AO Scott:

Carol — Todd Haynes
Inside Llewyn Davis — Joel & Ethan Coen
Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
Minding the Gap — Bing Liu
Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
Norte, the End of History — Lav Diaz
Timbuktu — Abderrahmane Sissako
Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick

all-purpose decade link: https://www.yearendlists.com/category/2010s-movies

LOL, Fury Road is the only overlap.

didn't paste their Most Influential list bcz no one should gaf

back to 2019 -- props to Jonathan Rosenbaum for #9 and 10:

Vitalina Varela — Pedro Costa
Transit — Christian Petzold
It Must Be Heaven — Elia Suleiman
Flannery — Elizabeth Coffman and Mark Bosco
Foxtrot — Samuel Maoz
Conrad Veidt: My Life — Mark Rappaport
Where's My Roy Cohn? — Matt Tyrnauer
If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
Ad Astra — James Gray
The Souvenir — Joanna Hogg

Sight and Sound's annual round-up of the best blu-ray (and DVD) releases:

https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-sound-magazine/best-dvds-blu-rays-2019

...and the Sight and Sound top fifty films of 2019:

https://www.bfi.org.uk/best-films-2019

jesus do people really think us is that good

is the Last Black Man in San Francisco going to get left off best of the year lists? I thought it was the best film I saw this year.

Definitely in my top ten

I find it really hard to bring myself to watch the whole Eighth Grade/Booksmart/Mid90s run of wealthy white millennial directors getting self-serious about their suburban upbringings.

Man spoke too soon, looks like 2/3 of them grew up rich kids and I'm not so sure about Bo.

Richard Brody's decade-list from a few days ago:

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/decade-in-review/the-twenty-seven-best-movies-of-the-decade

I don't usually seize on one pick, but The Wolf of Wall Street, yikes.

Anti-detritus sermon aimed straight at Morbs’ heart, among others’s

https://www.anothergaze.com/elena-gorfinkel-manifesto-against-lists

John Waters' list drops and, indeed, his #1 is Climax:

https://www.artforum.com/print/201910/john-waters-81340?fbclid=IwAR3DFbO8OPNBC3hqkQ3DJNLqO5_g3deSTL1-oTZUt8xFOx6HDk9tabd9uAo

yeah, I had to remind myself what that is, and hence why I don't care what he likes

I'm with him on Amazing Grace, Hail Satan and Once Upon a Time
Border woulda been in my top 20 for last year
Still need to see Climax, pain and Glory and Souvenir

both extended dance routines in Climax are great but you should switch the film off after the second one.

booksmart is very funny.

Eighth Grade is great btw

they are both better than mid-90's which had some charms but was kind of forgettable.

anyone see Waves? the trailer makes it look like the cheesiest thing ever.

I thought Waves was awesome

The music use in it is incredible

The trailer does not do the first half of that movie justice

good to know!

Yeah, it’s really bold and stylish, the music use is like an expressionist fever dream, I kind of wish they would do the soundtrack as one 75 minute track or something. One of my faves of the year!

I find it really hard to bring myself to watch the whole Eighth Grade/Booksmart/Mid90s run of wealthy white millennial directors getting self-serious about their suburban upbringings.

― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, November 30, 2019 1:00 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

eighth grade is pretty obviously not a self-serious movie about bo burnham's suburban upbringing

you should watch it just for the dope anna meredith soundtrack tbh whiney

xps:
Climax could have been better if the 15 minute sequence of 2 and 3 part improvs that painted every character in a negative light were dropped. After that, I saw the rest as a morality play where justice was dealt.

I've decided that inclusion of Upstream Color and Under the Skin is my litmus test for critical lists of the decade. I've returned to both regularly.

both of those movies would be on my list, though i'm like... physically incapable of returning to them. thankfully they both burned themselves into my mind on first contact

the first twenty minutes of upstream color is body horror even beyond my personal threshold and the drowning scene in under the skin is just... nope, can't do it again

Y'all should watch Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

it's not even out as a limited release yet, keep your pants on

December 6 here in flyover land.

I'm aware! I'm saying don't miss out.

I have to decide between Waves and the Mr. Rogers thing tonight.

Kinda think i need to try Atlantics tonight.

Some of the people really laying into Waves probably need to take a step back from the A24 backlash pileon but ... I can absolutely see the validity of the criticisms about the first half in particular.

I'm always get some anxiety that ILX FILM GUY movies are are like The Souvenir and Gloria Bell where its like "a subtle, unhurried character study of a woman navigating life's valleys and occasional peaks"

And like exciting, cool, exploitationy art-house stuff like A24 is for herbs and noobs

you might prefer Diane as she dies at the end?

(ILX FILM GUY spoiler)

but A24 did release The Souvenir!

i got fifteen minutes into mid90's and bailed, it was boring

Anyway, I liked Waves

And Gloria Bell is a remake, so we all prefer the Chilean original. Whine better, Whiney!

is the remake worth a watch? i really liked the original but kinda assumed there was no point to the remake except to sell a proven commodity to an anglo audience.

I don't.

I didn't find time to watch the remake, but it's probably good. My mom liked it.

I liked the original, but in the context of American film it's cool we can still get a subtle, unhurried character study of a woman navigating life's valleys and occasional peaks -- with a little sex in it.

Sure, sure. I just really don't care about that context :)

Latin American cinema has been really great with those subtle studies of middle aged women, btw. Gloria, Las Herederas (which might still be on Netflix), and The Desert Bride.

Marriage Story swept the Gotham Awards, winning best feature, best actor, best screenplay, and the audience award. Akwafina won best actress, and Taylor Russell (Waves) won breakthrough performer. American Factory won best documentary.

With Bo Burnham and Awkwafina, our current path to a celebrated cinema career is lined with crypto-racist rap YouTubes. Really cannot wait for Riff Raff and Lil Dicky to be crowned the new Welles and Bergman

Really cannot wait for Riff Raff

I mean, James Franco's big critical breakthrough was like 7 years ago now.

Roman Polanski’s ‘An Officer and a Spy” Earns Five Lumieres Awards Nominations in France https://t.co/IvWKO7HmJH

— Variety (@Variety) December 3, 2019

National Board of Review kicks off “ok boomer” season:


Best Film: THE IRISHMAN
Best Director: Quentin Tarantino, ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD
Best Actor: Adam Sandler, UNCUT GEMS
Best Actress: Renée Zellweger, JUDY
Best Supporting Actor: Brad Pitt, ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD
Best Supporting Actress: Kathy Bates, RICHARD JEWELL
Best Original Screenplay: Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie, Ronald Bronstein, UNCUT GEMS
Best Adapted Screenplay: Steven Zaillian, THE IRISHMAN
Breakthrough Performance: Paul Walter Hauser, RICHARD JEWELL
Best Directorial Debut: Melina Matsoukas, QUEEN & SLIM
Best Animated Feature: HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD
Best Foreign Language Film: PARASITE
Best Documentary: MAIDEN
Best Ensemble: KNIVES OUT
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography: Roger Deakins, 1917
NBR Icon Award: Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: FOR SAMA
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: JUST MERCY


Top Films (in alphabetical order)

1917
Dolemite is My Name
Ford v Ferrari
Jojo Rabbit
Knives Out
Marriage Story
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Richard Jewell
Uncut Gems
Waves

Top 5 Foreign Language Films (in alphabetical order)

Atlantics
Invisible Life
Pain and Glory
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Transit

Top 5 Documentaries (in alphabetical order)

American Factory
Apollo 11
The Black Godfather
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Wrestle

Top 10 Independent Films (in alphabetical order)

The Farewell
Give Me Liberty
A Hidden Life
Judy
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Midsommar
The Nightingale
The Peanut Butter Falcon
The Souvenir
Wild Rose

Good list: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/12/top-15-movies-2019

Another list with Climax at #1 (hence, better list): https://www.vulture.com/article/best-movies-2019.html

It's time for my annual December "good lord, I have to take a Clint Eastwood movie seriously."

I'm usually wrong (The Mule's politics were more interestingly gnarled than usual).

Some are saying that Jewell is transparently MAGA.

“ok boomer” season:

srsly, is this a trending Irishman slur? cuz its Big Four are all older than that. (Five if you count Thelma S.) Or are they talking about the audience?

No, a slur about NBR being the fustiest of the four "major" crix groups.

OFFICIAL: Beacon Cinema proprietors' best of the decade lists. pic.twitter.com/0aPe5LKKaw

— The Beacon Cinema (@TheBeaconSEA) December 4, 2019

Mountains May Depart is a strong challop, lol.

"With Bo Burnham and Awkwafina, our current path to a celebrated cinema career is lined with crypto-racist rap YouTubes." what?

Good NYFCC mourning!

wd've gone with The Chambermaid

BEST FIRST FILM: Atlantics #NYFCC

— Falco Ink (@Sidney_Falco) December 4, 2019

Guess it didn't win best picture:

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: PARASITE

— Falco Ink (@Sidney_Falco) December 4, 2019

There will be a live reveal of the Film Comment poll at Lincoln Center next week. I would go, but when Parasite comes up #1 I would have to throw peaches at the stage.

I forgot they did that; they turned it into a podcast last year too.

how many critics have peach allergies, I wonder

I can see The Souvenir coming in second on FC

Peaches are delicious. Every time I think about watching a movie, I should do the sensible thing and eat a peach instead.

DARE to keep critics off peaches

FC poll usu top heavy w/ NYFF films, so I think Irishman and Marriage Story are top 5 certainties (possibly 2 and 3).

Peaches are delicious. Every time I think about watching a movie, I should do the sensible thing and eat a peach instead.

― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.),

https://cmbyn-gifs.tumblr.com/post/169502724648/elio-the-peach-requested-by

nonfic: Honeyland
anim: I Lost My Body

both those coming up at MoMA rear-in-review

xp Meh movie

Honeyland, For the Birds and Hail Satan?? all neck and neck for best doc in my mind

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE #NYFCC

— Falco Ink (@Sidney_Falco) December 4, 2019

I raise no protest.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: JOE PESCI FOR "THE IRISHMAN" #NYFCC

— Falco Ink (@Sidney_Falco) December 4, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/movies/best-films.html

wish dargis could've pushed give me liberty (her #11) into her top ten, since it's not getting love from any other places, but what can you do?

yay for pesci; i liked irishman a lot and he was absolutely the high point for me

go quiet, win award

he's fine in it yep

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: LAURA DERN FOR "MARRIAGE STORY" AND "LITTLE WOMEN" #NYFCC

— Falco Ink (@Sidney_Falco) December 4, 2019

doubleshot o' Dern

BEST ACTOR: ANTONIO BANDERAS FOR "PAIN AND GLORY" #NYFCC

— Falco Ink (@Sidney_Falco) December 4, 2019

Now is the time to get pumped for another left-field Best Actress winner.

missed seeing that film last Saturday bcz of fucking trains

He's the best part of a film too damn sweet by half.

leftfield like Swinton the Younger?

hoo boy

BEST ACTRESS: LUPITA NYONG'O FOR "US" #NYFCC

— Falco Ink (@Sidney_Falco) December 4, 2019

That's not AS leftfield as I was talking about, but glad for it anyway.

Everything was destined to be a comedown from them awarding Regina Hall last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6FrXELTAMQ

longing for the days when horror was shut out

she was by far the best part about a movie that's otherwise mostly exited my memory

BEST SCREENPLAY: QUENTIN TARANTINO FOR "ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD" #NYFCC

— Falco Ink (@Sidney_Falco) December 4, 2019

hi, Morbs!

hmmm? it saaayz nothing to me about myyyy life.

well it was the best american film of the year

boom

i bet it was a boom, in toddler parlance

take me home, cliff

That’s bop, boomer

celebrating the shit of 1969 on its 50th anniversary

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Bécassine, The Image Book

well the awards dinner shd be fun

BEST DIRECTOR: BENNY AND JOSH SAFDIE FOR "UNCUT GEMS" #NYFCC

— Falco Ink (@Sidney_Falco) December 4, 2019

so netflix wins for best director, best supporting actor/actress, best first film and presumably best film?

wait til Climax upsets for best film

BEST PICTURE: THE IRISHMAN #NYFCC

— Falco Ink (@Sidney_Falco) December 4, 2019

anticlimax

They're not on a terribly exciting streak of best picture winners, after Roma, Lady Bird (good tho that movie is) and La La Land.

i can't imagine an "exciting" winner (other than The Souvenir or Image Book) that wouldn't sicken me

Good.

good indeed! didn't get sickened

second Scorsese film to win NYFCC bf (Goodfellas)

One good vomit and you'll be rid of that NYCC.

dude is a hilarious piece of shit:

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2019/12/150338/

Lupita basically delivered an intelligent, first-rate, Jamie Lee Curtis-level scream-queen performance with a side order of raspy-voiced predator doppleganger

so she earned the award then

Lupita Renee Zellweger basically delivered an intelligent, first-rate, Jamie Lee Curtis-level scream-queen performance with a side order of raspy-voiced predator doppleganger

Lupita Nyong’o wins the NYFCC’s Best Actress trophy for Us? Seriously? Eight parts wokester virtue-signalling, two parts serious regard for a noteworthy performance…trust me. Last Year’s Best Actress award to Support The Girls‘ Regina Hall comes to mind. The NYFCC used to be the NYFCC — now it’s an organizational ally of Indiewire‘s wokeness gesture crusade.

Legitimately happy this asshole is upset.

lupita was the only reason to see (and maybe actually good enough to justify a watch) Little Monsters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlKnp52moe4

AFI MOTION PICTURES OF THE YEAR

1917

THE FAREWELL

THE IRISHMAN

JOJO RABBIT

JOKER

KNIVES OUT

LITTLE WOMEN

MARRIAGE STORY

ONCE UPON A TIME IN...HOLLYWOOD

RICHARD JEWELL

SPECIAL AWARD

PARASITE

Special Award sucked imho

it wasn't all that special even

Has anyone seen Little Women? It looks a little twee to me

Tomorrow. A colleague wept.

i think i am taking my Alcott-obsessive partner to it on christmas

hoping to go on Christmas, I'm very excited

saw the trailer for the first time ahead of Knives Out and tbh I'm even more in love with Saoirse Ronan than I was before

Alfred, did you end up seeing Waves or Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Waves tonight.

In the last few nights:

Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Uncut Gems
bits of Parasite (saw it once before).

Er, I meant I'd seen those movies in the last few nights.

Out of curiosity and undiagnosed disorder, I aggregated a meta-list of the decade-end lists here and on that fimoculous link with 50 or more titles. You won't like this.

13 mentions: Mad Max: Fury Road
12: Boyhood, Inside Llewyn Davis, Moonlight, The Master
11: Get Out, The Social Network
10: Call Me by Your Name, Frances Ha, Her, Phantom Thread, The Act of Killing/The Look of Silence, The Tree of Life, The Wolf of Wall Street, Under the Skin
9: 12 Years a Slave, Burning, First Reformed, Holy Motors, Inception, Lady Bird, Roma, The Grand Budapest Hotel
8: A Separation, Carol, Inside Out, Melancholia, Parasite
7: Elle, Force Majeure, La La Land, O.J.: Made in America, Shoplifters, The Handmaiden, Toni Erdmann
6: A Ghost Story, Amour, Before Midnight, Certified Copy, Drive, Dunkirk, Hereditary, High Life, Leviathan, Manchester by the Sea, Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood, Paddington 2, Phoenix, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Tangerine, The Florida Project, The Lobster, Whiplash, You Were Never Really Here
5: American Honey, Annihilation, Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, Blue Valentine, Bridesmaids, Gone Girl, Green Room, Inherent Vice, Margaret, Only Lovers Left Alive, Spring Breakers, Stories We Tell, The Duke of Burgundy, The Favourite, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Upstream Color
4: 20th Century Women, Black Panther, Cameraperson, Dogtooth, Eighth Grade, Faces Places, If Beale Street Could Talk, It Follows, John Wick, Magic Mike XXL, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, No Home Movie, Personal Shopper, Silence, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, The Babadook, The Revenant, The Turin Horse, The Witch, What We Do in the Shadows, Zero Dark Thirty
3: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Birdman, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Cold War, Ex Machina, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Good Time, Gravity, Her Smell, Ida, Jackie, Logan, Minding the Gap, Moonrise Kingdom, Mother!, Nightcrawler, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Selma, Sing Street, Son of Saul, Sorry to Bother You, Spotlight, Stranger By The Lake, Swiss Army Man, Take Shelter, The Farewell, The Great Beauty, The Immigrant, The Lost City of Z, The Raid: Redemption, The Rider, The Souvenir, The Wind Rises, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Weekend, Your Name, Zama

Having perused all these, I'm pleased by how much the appraisal of Boyhood and The Revenant has fallen, and the growing appreciation of Under the Skin, Holy Motors, The Duke of Burgundy, and Take Shelter; disappointed by the lesser recognition of Zama, The Witch, Nocturama and Timbuktu, perplexed by the admiration of High Life and Annhilation, Swiss Army Man, and angry that film critics would mention Last Jedi and Inception in the vicinity of a canonical list. And I think I need to see Phoenix and The Immigrant.

You do (re the The Immigrant). I'm lukewarm on Petzold generally.

is "a ghost story" worth the time?

I'm trying to determine ten more 2019 films to see before end of the year that i've yet to watch and have landed on: ash is purest white, atlantics, the chambermaid, Ad Astra, For sama, Pain and Glory, Seahorse, Souvenir, Burning Cane and high life. anybody wanna weigh in on prioritization and/or naysaying?

ulysses did you see Alita Battle Angel, you should watch that

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

oh this is on my list

i did! it was good! not life changing but good. as with the rabbi's cat (which i also saw recently) it was SO true to the comic that I felt like i had kinda already seen it somehow.

really think Phantom Thread and The Souvenir are near-great films with overlapping aesthetics

In Fabric would make a good double bill with Phantom Thread.

Anyone who watches Alita Battle Angel should be reported to a sex offender registry

why are you so mad Whiney

he got peanut butter on his waifu pillow again

Quite a few trans cinephiles are extremely fond of Alita

Robo-Peter Travers' characteristically featureless top 10:

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-lists/10-best-movies-of-2019-918400/joker-921104/

watched my first Lav Diaz film, The Woman Who Left. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a film from the Philippines before (I’ve been planning on watching Brillante Mendoza’s Ma’ Rosa but haven’t gotten around to it yet).

I thought it was really great. Kanopy has two others - From What Is Before and Norte, The End of History - so I will get to see those too

Le top 10 2010-2019 des Cahiers du Cinéma.
Pour acheter le numéro en ligne : https://t.co/VU1Beukw6g pic.twitter.com/R64vuIlhDD

— Cahiers du Cinéma (@cahierscinema) December 6, 2019

the Peaks blinders live on

I was expecting slightly more hilarious trolling from Cahiers - where's the obligatory third-rate Eastwood? https://t.co/U47X47t13I

— Guy Lodge (@GuyLodge) December 6, 2019

Or Redacted?

cahiers list is very good

personally, as someone who doesn't give a shit whether twin peaks s3 is a movie or a show

big Nanni Moretti fan, Brad?

Nymphomaniac wd've been a better and ballsier choice than Melancholia.

whatever TP was, i stopped halfway months ago. (planning on finishing in next 3 weeks)

Dumont was about as terrible as usual

wasn't head-over-heels about either Joe i saw this decade (Boonmee, Cemetery) but he sure made a lotta shorts i didnt see

i am pretty head over heels about boonmee and cemetery, and holy motors at no. 2 feels very right to me. i agree the von trier pick is safe but i also really love melancholia. also i haven't seen every film on the list lol

I guess that will be the only list to include The Image Book

didnt mind Holy Motors, but its no Pola X

nah, i think anyone who's Godard-centric will list that or Film Socialisme (surely Brody had both?)

Why do you even watch movies anymore?

because a Souvenir comes along every now and then?

Have seen Melancholia pop up a lot on mainstream decade lists the last few weeks.

also i concentrate on repertory, where most of the good stuff i haven't seen is

i thought you liked the list of a dozen i posted on FB last week? A dozen is p good considering ive seen maybe 35-38 features this year.

Brody:

The Wolf of Wall Street — Martin Scorsese
Madeline’s Madeline — Josephine Decker
Get Out — Jordan Peele
An Elephant Sitting Still — Hu Bo
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? — Travis Wilkerson
The Future — Miranda July
Margaret — Kenneth Lonergan
The Grand Budapest Hotel — Wes Anderson
Somewhere — Sofia Coppola
Li’l Quinquin — Bruno Dumont
Film Socialisme — Jean-Luc Godard
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty — Terence Nance
Holy Motors — Leos Carax
Coma — Sara Fattahi
Red Hook Summer — Spike Lee
Zama — Lucrecia Martel
Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
The Mule — Clint Eastwood
It Felt Like Love — Eliza Hittman
The Last of the Unjust — Claude Lanzmann
In Jackson Heights — Frederick Wiseman
A Ghost Story — David Lowery
A Screaming Man — Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
A Quiet Passion — Terence Davies
Jafar Panahi’s Taxi — Jafar Panahi
Let the Sunshine In — Claire Denis
Infinite Football — Corneliu Porumboiu

https://www.yearendlists.com/2019/11/richard-brody-the-twenty-seven-best-movies-of-the-decade

a couple of serious "hell yeah"s from me for that list which suggests I might want to watch other things on it

Brody for me is either dead on (rarely) or spectacularly off the mark, generally regarding some element of the film that didn't bother me at all.

At least he’s not talentless pervert Anthony Lane!

http://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388917094l/54890.jpg

the memory of melancholia > actually rewatching it

god the blurb on the bottom of that cover is almost as nauseating as anthony lane's own writing

I read Lane with pleasure until 2001 or two, after which he couldn't stop yawning in character.

lol at Oncle Boonmee vs Under The Skin

morbs I don't remember if you stopped at or before episode 8?

I like a lot of the Lane in that book, sometimes skim him in the magazine now hoping for a bon mot or two but

ze mots, zey are not bon

His novelist and poet profiles >>>> reviews

sic yes i saw 8 if it's the alien/bomb one

yah, David Bowie recast as a giant kettle

Metacritic's aggregate has an odd point system:

https://www.metacritic.com/feature/critics-pick-top-10-best-movies-of-2019

#1: 3 pts, #2: 2 pts, #3-10: 1 pt

Why do you even watch movies anymore?

Let me try a new answer: most of the films I was responding to are made by overrated auteurist darlings.

That describes most of the films we like too.

I liked Loznitsa's My Joy and Donbass and am curious about State Funeral, which was on Hoberman's and Quandt's lists

also re: Hoberman’s list, I think Christian Marclay’s 48 War Movies is really interesting, but if I’m going to vote for a video art installation it’s going to be Lisa Reihana’s In Pursuit of Venus (Infected) or JR’s The Chronicles of San Francisco

I’m not going to vote for a video art installation

hearing him casually bash Spielberg while introducing Cutter's Way a couple months ago, I was reminded that I pretty much hate Hoberman's pretentious ass

the memory of melancholia > actually rewatching it

― johnny crunch, Friday, 6 December 2019 21:02 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

rewatched last week and can confirm

The direction and script are schematic, but Alfre Woodard is marvelous in Clemency, deserving the plaudits (as usual).

that's true of most von trier films IME. Melancholia is probably my favorite of his.

i'm aware this has been hashed out heavily in the relevant thread without me, but after three of his films (stopping at dogville), I've concluded i kinda fuckin' hate LVT and am okay not seeing any of his work ever again.

It took me three more than that, but yeah.

If y'all want detrius, here's my list of the decade's 50 best films.

Margaret isn't coming up on nearly enough lists. Also, this is the first time I've seen Stranger by the Lake or Being 17 appear on any of these things (I agree).

and no Moonlight on mine!

...which has appeared on every list (it's okay, works splendidly as course material).

Moonlight is only like my 5th or 6th fave queer movie of the decade, but I definitely think its more than OK.

so many good to great queer films this decade that I don't have patience with lists omitting the rest but keeping Moonlight.

Personal Shopper the film that had probably the most impact on me and not seeing it on that many lists. Leave No Trace prolly my no.2. I'd like to see more love for Dredd, too.

xp: Margaret and Stranger by the Lake have appeared on a few of these retrospective lists. Alfred's list is pretty unique in highlighting Poetry, Girlhood, Being 17, Love and Friendship, Love is Strange, In Jackson Heights, The Ornithologist, In The Family, The Other Side of Hope, Ava, BPM (Beats Per Minute), Inside Job, Of Gods and Men, Barbara, and The Ghost Writer.

Of Gods and Men should be appearing on most of these lists, IMO.

In Jackson Heights (appears on a couple).

n Jackson Heights is my favorite Wiseman film so far, but I still haven't seen Monrovia, Indiana

*In

I would not have guessed that Of Gods and Men was as recent as 2010

I endorse its inclusion

might put Beauvois's The Guardians in a top 100 as well

Los Angeles crix handing their awards out now. So far ...

Actor: Antonio Banderas, Pain and Glory (ru: Adam Driver, Marriage Story)
Supporting Actor: Song Kang Ho, Parasite (ru: Joe Pesci, The Irishman)
Cinematography: Claire Mathon, Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Atlantics (ru: Roger Deakins, 1917)
Production Design: Barbara Ling, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (ru: Ha Jun Lee, Parasite)
Music Score: Dan Levy, I Lost My Body (ru: Thomas Newman, 1917)
Animation: I Lost My Body (ru: Toy Story 4)

Updated LAFCAs...

Best Picture: PARASITE (Runner-up: THE IRISHMAN)
Best Director: Bong Joon Ho, PARASITE (Runner-up: Martin Scorsese, THE IRISHMAN)
Best Actor: Antonio Banderas, PAIN AND GLORY (Runner-up: Adam Driver, MARRIAGE STORY)
Best Actress: Mary Kay Place, DIANE (Runner-up: Lupita Nyong’o, US)
Best Supporting Actor: Song Kang Ho, PARASITE (Runner-up: Joe Pesci, THE IRISHMAN)
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lopez, HUSTLERS (Runner-up: Zhao Shuzhen, THE FAREWELL)
Best Screenplay: Noah Baumbach, MARRIAGE STORY (Runner-up: Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won, PARASITE)
Best Editing: Todd Douglas Miller, APOLLO 11 (Runner-up: Ronald Bronstein & Benny Safdie, UNCUT GEMS)
Best Cinematography: Claire Mathon, PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE and ATLANTICS (Runner-up: Roger Deakins, 1917)
Best Production Design: Barbara Ling, ONCE UPON A TIME … IN HOLLYWOOD (Runner-up: Ha Jun Lee, PARASITE)
Best Music/Score: Dan Levy, I LOST MY BODY (Runner-up: Thomas Newman, 1917)
Best Animated Film: I LOST MY BODY (Runner-up: TOY STORY 4)
Best Documentary Film: AMERICAN FACTORY (Runner-up: APOLLO 11)
Best Foreign Language Film: PAIN AND GLORY (Runner-up: PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE)
Career Achievement Award: Elaine May
Douglas Edwards Prize for Experimental Film: Ja’Tovia Gary’s THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT

anyone seen Diane?

twice! it's a top ten film for me; really felt like an honest evocation of a kind of motherhood i know.

Personal Shopper is my #2

It's in my top 5.

Probably my top 10...

01. Certified Copy
02. Magic Mike XXL
03. Stranger by the Lake
04. Personal Shopper
05. The Tree of Life
06. Spring Breakers
07. Heart of a Dog
08. Under the Skin
09. A Separation
10. The Turin Horse

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/12/golden-globes-2020-nominations-1202194923/

the Tarantella is a musical or comedy, it seems

I completely forgot Where'd You Go, Bernadette existed

Ah here's that Two Popes Globe bump the world's been waiting for.

god that movie looks like shit

Maybe needless to say, but the top headline I'm seeing on my Twitter feed this morning is that no female directors were nominated.

btw Knives Out won best film from Phila critics

shocking disloyalty to Frank Sheeran

the Tarantino movie is a comedy, you'd know if you'd seen it!

no smoke, but it really is a sweet comedy... one where brad pitt crushes a woman's skull on a mantelpiece, but that's qt for you

along those lines, not finalizing this year's list til the Woody Allen film is released

man, the preview on that really does look like dogshit

what, the Woody? did you see a trailer in Mexico, u?

there's this thing called youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iim8YnZRm2Y

he made some good movies this decade- midnight in paris, irrational man, blue jasmine...

Blue Jasmine is damp excrement.

i guess i don't know how anyone watches that preview and thinks "hm, this looks good!"

I don't know how anyone watches the last, oh, 15 Woody Allen movies and thinks, "hm, his next could be in my top 10 this year!"

I haven't seen the trailer. I saw Woody's movies out of habit, and usually half the fun was the fossilized crowd.

Glamorous NYC locations, glitzy party scenes, movie stars delivering amazing well-rehearsed performances, and razor-sharp jokes about things like prostitutes and the morning-after pill - whats not to love, looks like another Woody classic!

is Timothee nude in it

pvmic

Obligatory link to this year's David Ehrlich montage/top 25: https://vimeo.com/378176559

Oops, neglected to share the biggest tub of detrius of the entire detrius season.

GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS

Best Picture, Drama

1917
The Irishman
Joker
Marriage Story
The Two Popes

Best Actor, Drama

Christian Bale, Ford v Ferrari
Antonio Banderas, Pain and Glory
Adam Driver, Marriage Story
Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
Jonathan Pryce, The Two Popes

Best Actress, Drama

Cynthia Erivo, Harriet
Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
Saoirse Ronan, Little Women
Charlize Theron, Bombshell
Renée Zellweger, Judy

Best Picture, Musical or Comedy

Dolemite Is My Name
Jojo Rabbit
Knives Out
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Rocketman

Best Actor, Musical or Comedy

Daniel Craig, Knives Out
Roman Griffin Davis, Jojo Rabbit
Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Taron Egerton, Rocketman
Eddie Murphy, Dolemite Is My Name

Best Actress, Musical or Comedy

Ana De Armas, Knives Out
Awkwafina, The Farewell
Cate Blanchett, Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Beanie Feldstein, Booksmart
Emma Thompson, Late Night

Best Supporting Actor

Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes
Al Pacino, The Irishman
Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Best Supporting Actress

Kathy Bates, Richard Jewell
Annette Bening, The Report
Laura Dern, Marriage Story
Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
Margot Robbie, Bombshell

Best Director

Bong Joon-ho, Parasite
Sam Mendes, 1917
Todd Phillips, Joker
Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Best Screenplay

Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story
Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won, Parasite
Anthony McCarten, The Two Popes
Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Steven Zaillian, The Irishman

Best Original Score

Alexandre Desplat, Little Women
Hildur Guđnadóttir, Joker
Randy Newman, Marriage Story
Thomas Newman, 1917
Daniel Pemberton, Motherless Brooklyn

Best Original Song

“Beautiful Ghosts,” Cats
“I’m Gonna Love Me Again,” Rocketman
“Into the Unknown,” Frozen II
“Spirit,” The Lion King
“Stand Up,” Harriet

Best Foreign Language Film

The Farewell, U.S.A.
Les Misérables, France
Pain and Glory, Spain
Parasite, South Korea
Portrait of a Lady on Fire, France

Best Animated Film

Frozen II
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
The Lion King
Missing Link
Toy Story 4

largely awful as always

So, the live action remake of The Lion King is an animated film?

Not sure about Bale and Pryce, but otherwise we're looking at many Oscar nominees next month.

And maybe winners ... I had to go back and check and, indeed, nearly everything that won a Golden Globe last year went on to win the Oscar -- Green Book, Cuaron, Malek, Coleman, Ali, King, Green Book's screenplay, "Shallow" for song, Spider-Verse for animated, Roma for foreign film. The only single miss was First Man for original score.

is it wrong to expect a Marriage Story sweep

and ugh Supporting Actor filled with slumming stars

I hadn't even noticed that! so boring and shitty. Pacino especially really doesn't need to be in the mix

He would've been replaced by the similarly craggy Dafoe, probably.

There's no way that category doesn't have a median age of 67 this year.

I can see Dafoe making it to Oscar nod, just to seal his comeback.

er, nom

Don't nom my nod.

*sigh, do i hafta?* fuck the Oscars

i shared a GG link yesterday, saves bandwidth

So, the live action remake of The Lion King is an animated film?

― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Tuesday, December 10, 2019 6:35 AM (two hours ago)

It’s not live action and contains only animated performances so yes

who is the lead in the Mr Rogers biopic, if the Mr Rogers actor is Supporting?

Matthew Rhys as the ghost of Christmas past

was gonna ask the same question; settled on daniel striped tiger (likely josh gad role)

https://vimeo.com/378176559

it's about an Esquire writer, sic

Mr Rogers is the savior

xpost why in the world would anyone watch that

it's about an Esquire writer, sic

Mr Rogers is the savior

I already had no interest in this movie, now I'm Bret Easton Ellis ovah heah

Consensus seems to be "decent movie that would have been intolerable if almost anyone else directed it"

Tom Hanks is phenomenal in it, all the Gondry-esque touches are cute/cool (but would have been better with Gondry), but it's mostly pretty meh

someone observed that the Esquire offices in the late '90s are seen as staffed significantly by women and people of color...

xp to whiney: because it's well edited (if painfully scored)

(and it is very much detritus)

Why would I want to watch a bunch of movie clips edited together for 14 minutes?

"Wow, what if someone made the montage that opens the Oscars but it had Midsommar in it!"

I love film, but I don't think I understand film fans sometimes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Plays_Itself

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Fog

https://www.acmi.net.au/events/terror-nullius/

Yes, the Twitter guy editing Star Wars scenes is just like Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma

sometimes i think you mostly like to argue

i'm with whiney here though, that edit is obnoxious

There is entirely too much Midsommer in there.

there's a top 25 list once you get past the intro, which i skipped entirely. or possibly don't watch it?

or possibly don't watch it?

capitulation!

or.... possibly do?

Even Film Comment succumbs to the detriusness of it all.

Our live talk unveiling Film Comment's Best of 2019 poll is starting now. Follow updates in this thread. 🎥 pic.twitter.com/AO9BiQZska

— Film Comment Magazine (@FilmComment) December 11, 2019

#1 no surprise

Souvenir at #6 is fine but still too low

Still a bit perplexed by how well High Life (FC's #7) is doing. Belated recognition of the director? It's probably in the poorer half of Denis's output, and among 2019's "lost in space" art films I liked Aniara more.

It's a sex movie imo

The car wash Sybian is about as sexy as a wrench set...

God, I forgot High Life existed

robots in dis guys

I wish I could forget High Life exists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adw772km7PQ

"back in the fuck box again" would make for an excellent Peaches comeback single

TIFF's Canadian top 10:

And The Birds Rained Down by Louise Archambault, Quebec
Anne At 13,000 Ft by Kazik Radwanski, Ontario
Antigone by Sophie Deraspe, Quebec
Black Conflux by Nicole Dorsey, Newfoundland/Quebec
The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn, British Columbia
Matthias & Maxime by Xavier Dolan, Quebec
Murmur by Heather Young, Nova Scotia
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk by Zacharias Kunuk, Nunavut
The Twentieth Century by Matthew Rankin, Quebec
White Lie by Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis, Ontario

I hear great things about a couple of these but I wouldn't mind if they took a year off from Dolan worship

well he is only director on that list that most of us down south have heard of

The Body Remembers... is on Netflix, at least in Canada. I suspect Anne at 13,000 Ft will make some waves when it makes the rounds theatrically next year. (I haven't seen it but ppl I trust loved it, and it earns automatic points for its 75-minute runtime.)

You can always count on the week of the Golden Globe and SAG Award nominations throwing a big dose of ice bucket water on the whole season...

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
“Bomshell”
“The Irishman”
“Jojo Rabbit”
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
“Parasite”

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Christian Bale, “Ford v Ferrari”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
Adam Driver, “Marriage Story”
Taron Egerton, “Rocketman”
Joaquin Phoenix, “Joker”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Cynthia Erivo, “Harriet”
Scarlett Johansson, “Marriage Story”
Lupita Nyong’o, “Us”
Charlize Theron, “Bombshell”
Renee Zellweger, “Judy”

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Jamie Foxx, “Just Mercy”
Tom Hanks, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”
Al Pacino, “The Irishman”
Joe Pesci, “The Irishman”
Brad Pitt, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Laura Dern, “Marriage Story”
Scarlett Johansson, “Jojo Rabbit”
Nicole Kidman, “Bombshell”
Jennifer Lopez, “Hustlers”
Margot Robbie, “Bombshell”

(I'll say that, for the first time, I now feel Parasite actually will get that best picture nod.)

i thought everyone was unthrilled by Harriet

Just Mercy?

Classic industry awards gravitating toward the wrong middlebrow candidates. Ergo...

I know CLEMENCY is neither widely seen nor easy to watch, but to those who have, Alfre Woodard's near no-show in this year's awards season so far looks close to absurd: no American actor this year is working at a higher level of detail, complexity and emotional intuition.

— Guy Lodge (@GuyLodge) December 11, 2019

Harriet, many have been quick to point out, actually made a fairly large chunk of change. More than any other best actress candidate outside of Lupita, so far.

This feels early this year:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/purple-rain-amadeus-boys-dont-cry-clerks-enter-national-film-registry-1261469

Amadeus (1984)
Becky Sharp (1935)
Before Stonewall (1984)
Body and Soul (1925)
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Clerks (1994)
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island (1903)
Employees Entrance (1933)
The Fog of War (2003)
Gaslight (1944)
George Washington Carver at Tuskegee Institute (1937)
Girlfriends (1978)
I Am Somebody (1970)
The Last Waltz (1978)
My Name Is Oona (1969)
A New Leaf (1971)
Old Yeller (1957)
The Phenix City Story (1955)
Platoon (1986)
Purple Rain (1984)
Real Women Have Curves (2002)
She's Gotta Have It (1986)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Zoot Suit (1981)

I've been banging on the Alfre Woodard bell for a couple weeks.

Clemency boasts one of my favorite drunk scenes in a while too.

try ringing it xp

there was a MoMA screening of Clemency that i missed last night

Neon hasn't promoted it a-tall.

Congrats to new National Film Registry inductees Elaine May's A New Leaf, Claudia Weill's Girlfriends, Phil Karlson's The Phenix City Story, Albert Magnoli's Purple Rain, Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It, and Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit, the last film released in Sensurround Plus!

— Matt Prigge (@mattprigge) December 11, 2019

yikes, Clerks!

https://time.com/5747503/national-film-registry-2019-additions/

FC top 20

https://www.filmcomment.com/best-films-of-2019/

I sat thru #12-14, and there went many hours

At this point each year's Nat'l Film Registry list is about half eye-opening and incredibly cool-looking a-g or documentary works from the first half of the century, and half I Love the 80s/90s fodder.

Cool list

Morbs where did you watch a 13 hour movie?

It screened at some fests and rep houses, split over three nights

what does the film registry actually do with the things it preserves? Obtain celluloid prints and place them in cold storage?

I'm not part of the Ash is Purest White-Pain and Glory consensus. Need to watch Transit again; I've never been mad about Petzold.

Mildly shocked Portrait of a Lady on Fire is as low as it is.

in NYC, Lincoln Center split La Flor into 5 parts, I think. Took me 13 days, I think.

Transit would be in my top 5 fer sure

How do you split La Flor in five?

it would be hilarious to watch one "part" per night considering the wildly divergent lengths of the parts

Yeah, isn't one part like three days long?

seemed so

Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/2019/12/every-movie-of-the-2010s-ranked-sort-of.html

lmao that is one way to do it

I'm so glad I maxed out on the articles I can read there for free this month.

The one at 5,272 played in main competition at Cannes, and how the fuck hasn't that cost someone their job already?

I had no idea they even had an article limit which I guess says it all.

The only WTF I care to mention is What's Next in the Worst

you’re next is the worst movie of the decade? they need to try harder

or i guess one of the worst*

they also stuck Endgame at the very bottom for the clicks, which? fine

melancholia is #1, Avenger at #5,279 suggest this is mostly a list of movies in unranked order for clicks so wheeeeeeeeeeeee

Here are the 4,961 films that are neither the best nor the worst movies.

https://www.gq.com/story/every-best-picture-nominee-of-the-2010s-ranked

It's clickbait and I won't blame anyone for not peeking, but ...

The Tree of Life (#52) criminally too low

Way too many to list criminally too high

otm

Les Miserables too high in that BP ranking

also Vice

Dallas Buyers Club is in the bottom quarter and it really should be in the bottom 4 or so.

the bottom -4, you meant

NO OSCARS

the trouble with ranking them is that 30 of them should be in the bottom 3

i was surprised dallas buyers club wasn't at the very bottom

jean-marc vallée is a fucking hack

not that there was any salvaging that material anyway but ^^^^^

down in Death Vallée

this was a new one on me, giving it a look: https://www.topic.com/cutting-my-mother

may i point out that The Image Book is next to The Illusionist, which came out in 2006

Now, not featuring anyone who's in this thread! (I think.)

https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/the-25-best-films-of-2019/

Different illusionist, right? The animated one by the triplets of Belleville guy is from this decade

Malick 11th in Slant

Image Book 38th, smdh

It's like a bad dream written in a stormy night

http://jlroeder.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/snoopy.jpg

insults, communist songs

Best Australian films of the decade at The Guardian

Indiewire Poll: https://www.indiewire.com/2019/12/best-movies-2019-critics-survey-poll-performances-parasite-adam-driver-lupita-nyongo-1202197615/

BEST FILM
1. “Parasite”
2. “The Irishman”
3. “Marriage Story”
4. “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood”
5. “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”
6. “Pain & Glory”
7. “Uncut Gems”
8. “The Souvenir”
9. “Joker”
10. “Little Women”

BEST DIRECTOR
1. Bong Joon Ho, “Parasite”
2. Martin Scorsese, “The Irishman”
3. Quentin Tarantino, “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood”
4. Celine Sciamma, “Portrait of a lady on Fire”
5. Josh and Benny Safdie, “Uncut Gems”
6. Noah Baumbach, “Marriage Story”
7. Pedro Almodovar, “Pain and Glory”
8. Greta Gerwig, “Little Women”
9. Joanna Hogg, “The Souvenir”
10. Todd Phillips, “Joker”

BEST SCREENPLAY
1. “Parasite”
2. “Marriage Story”
3. “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood”
4. “The Irishman”
5. “Knives Out”
6. “Little Women”
7. “Pain & Glory”
8. “Uncut Gems”
9. “The Farewell”
10. “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”

BEST ACTRESS
1. Lupita N’yongo, “Us”
2. Scarlet Johansson, “Marriage Story”
3. Elisabeth Moss, “Her Smell”
4. Rene Zellweger, “Judy”
5. Awkwafina, “The Farewell”
6. Florence Pugh, “Midsommar”
7. Mary Kay Place, “Diane”
8. Zhao Tao, “Ash Is Purest White”
9. Saoirse Ronan, “Little Women”
10. Adéle Haenel, “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”

BEST ACTOR
1. Adam Driver, “Marriage Story”
2. Antonio Banderas, “Pain & Glory”
3. Adam Sandler, “Uncut Gems”
4. Joaquin Phoenix, “Joker”
5. Robert De Niro, “The Irishman”
6. Leonardo Di Caprio, “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood”
7. Eddie Murphy, “Dolemite Is My Name”
8. Taron Egerton, “Rocketman”
9. Song Kang Ho, “Parasite”
10. Brad Pitt, “Ad Astra”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Laura Dern, “Marriage Story”
2. Jennifer Lopez, “Hustlers”
3. Florence Pugh, “Little Women”
4. Zhao Schuzhen, “The Farewell”
5. Margot Robbie, “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood”
6. Da’Vine Joy Randloph, “Dolemite Is My Name”
7. Julia Fox, “Uncut Gems”
8. Annette Bening, “The Report”
9. Scarlet Johansson, “Jojo Rabbit”
10. Park So-dam, “Parasite”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. Joe Pesci, “The Irishman”
2. Brad Pitt, “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood”
3. Al Pacino, “The Irishman”
4. Wilem Dafoe, “The Lighthouse”
5. Song Kang Ho, “Parasite”
6. Tom Hanks, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”
7. Alan Alda, “Marriage Story”
8. Tom Burke, “Souvenir”
9. Shia LaBeouf, “Honey Boy”
10. Wesley Snipes, “Dolemite is My Name”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. “1917”
2. “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood”
3. “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”
4. “The Lighthouse”
5. “Parasite”
6. “The Irishman”
7. “A Hidden Life”
8. “Uncut Gems”
9. “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”
10. “Ad Astra”

BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. “Apollo 11”
2. “American Factory”
3. “Honeyland”
4. “For Sama”
5. “One Child Nation”
6. “Varda by Agnes”
7. “Amazing Grace”
8. “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story”
9. “Hail Satan?”
10. “Diego Maradona”

BEST FIRST FEATURE
1. “Atlantics”
2. “Booksmart”
3. “The Last Black Man in San Francisco”
4. “An Elephant Sitting Still”
5. “Les Miserables”
6. “I Lost My Body”
7. “The Mustang”
8. “The Chambermaid”
9. “Burning Cane”
10. “End of the Century”

BEST FOREIGN FILM
1. “Parasite”
2. “Pain and Glory”
3. “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”
4. “Atlantics”
5. “Transit”
6. “Monos”
7. “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”
8. “An Elephant Sitting Still”
9. “Synonyms”
10. “Les Miserables”

here's what they're choosing from. don't worry: "Cuck" made the cut.
https://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/92nd_oscars_reminder_list.pdf

I'm proud we picked Portrait of a Lady on Fire, shattering consensus.

Sorry yr fave only made runner up

OFCS nominations are up. Gotta say, this is one of the less embarrassing slates I've seen this group come up with:

Best Picture
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Knives Out
Marriage Story
1917
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Parasite
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Uncut Gems
Us

Best Animated Feature
Frozen II
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
I Lost My Body
Missing Link
Toy Story 4

Best Director
Bong Joon-ho – Parasite
Sam Mendes – 1917
Celine Sciamma – Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Martin Scorsese – The Irishman
Quentin Tarantino – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Best Actor
Antonio Banderas – Pain and Glory
Robert De Niro – The Irishman
Adam Driver – Marriage Story
Joaquin Phoenix – Joker
Adam Sandler – Uncut Gems

Best Actress
Awkwafina – The Farewell
Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story
Lupita Nyong’o – Us
Florence Pugh – Midsommar
Renée Zellweger – Judy

Best Supporting Actor
Willem Dafoe – The Lighthouse
Al Pacino – The Irishman
Joe Pesci – The Irishman
Brad Pitt – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Song Kang-ho – Parasite

Best Supporting Actress
Laura Dern – Marriage Story
Jennifer Lopez – Hustlers
Florence Pugh – Little Women
Margot Robbie – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Shuzhen Zhao – The Farewell

Best Original Screenplay
Knives Out – Rian Johnson
Marriage Story – Noah Baumbach
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino
Parasite – Bong Joon-ho, Han Jin-won
Us – Jordan Peele

Best Adapted Screenplay
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood – Micah Fitzerman-Blue, Noah Harpster
Hustlers – Lorene Scafaria
The Irishman – Steven Zaillian
Jojo Rabbit – Taika Waititi
Little Women – Greta Gerwig

Best Editing
Ford v Ferrari – Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker
The Irishman – Thelma Schoonmaker
1917 – Lee Smith
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood – Fred Raskin
Parasite – Jinmo Yang

Best Cinematography
The Irishman – Rodrigo Prieto
The Lighthouse – Jarin Blaschke
1917 – Roger Deakins
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood – Robert Richardson
Portrait of a Lady on Fire – Claire Mathon

Best Original Score
Joker – Hildur Guðnadóttir
Little Women – Alexandre Desplat
Marriage Story – Randy Newman
1917 – Thomas Newman
Us – Michael Abels

Best Debut Feature
Mati Diop – Atlantics
Melina Matsoukas – Queen & Slim
Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz – The Peanut Butter Falcon
Joe Talbot – The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Olivia Wilde – Booksmart

Best Film Not in the English Language
Atlantics
Monos
Pain and Glory
Parasite
Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Best Documentary
American Factory
Apollo 11
For Sama
Honeyland
One Child Nation

I count on the voting body to pick the worst and/or most boring shit possible

as a Randy Newman fan, I have to say his Baumbach score blew

shoulda picked Atlantics or, if it lives up to press, Uncut Gems

Bilge Ebiri with a take

https://slate.com/culture/2019/12/uncut-gems-phony-adam-sandler.html

Bilge seems fun.

Besides the fact that "the characters didn't behave like humans" is a boring complaint, the movie is full of small characters who are utterly believable/recognizably human, way moreso than most movies, even

there ya go

https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/the-100-best-films-of-the-2010s/

only one in the top ten that made me roll my eyes was #6 (not even as good as Fury Road)

“It’s Such a Beautiful Day is the finest animated depiction of depression since Hideaki Anno’s Neon Genesis Evangelion.”

“The difference between Magic Mike and its sequel calls to mind how Robert Christgau described the difference between listening to janet. on a junk radio box versus a hi-fi stereo system as “the difference between daydreaming about sex and having somebody’s crack in your face.” “

🤮

Why is movie writing like this

“In which a Gallic neo-Hitchcock charts out the undulations of what the French refer to as “little deaths,” and then sets a Grimm fairy tale in the dead zone representing that throbbing, nobly malignant impulse deep within the limbic system of all gay men.”

Film writing is nobly malignant.

"Dead Zone Representing (Throbbing Nobly)" by LimBic System O.A.G.M.

And a grand "fuck you, too" to Whiney.

The Master is the only thing in the top 10 that made me roll my eyes.

sorry, didn’t know that was u dogg

It's fine. I write partially to annoy people.

killer to killer

Usually at the point where she has to rewrite and rethink them, to keep the audience from leaving the clickbait!

It had been awhile since Owen G. took the opportunity to be the official worst critic out there:

https://variety.com/2019/film/columns/the-10-most-overrated-films-of-the-decade-the-master-skyfall-1203452706/

(I even agree with his #1.)

'Overrated' is the most overrated critical term, no?

I agree that The Master is the least of the three PTA features of the decade.

I am finding Phantom Thread underrated on most of these decade lists.

But don’t tell that to the cinema-equals-the-director’s-cut bohemian purity brigade.

I bet they want to see a 4-hour Bernie Sanders documentary, those purity commies.

I'm more or less proud of my critics group:

http://www.floridafilmcritics.com/2019/12/23/2019-ffcc-winners/

8. “Support the Girls” (2018)
If you sought this movie out after learning that Regina Hall was voted best actress by the New York Film Critics Circle for her work in it, you’d see that she delivers a gutsy, lived-in performance as the general manager of a restaurant called Double Whammies — and that Haley Lu Richardson also excels as the most devil-may-care of the waitresses. Yet the movie, directed by Andrew Bujalski, looks like what would have happened if Jonathan Demme had been the showrunner of an ’80s sitcom. The local-tavern-version-of-Hooters setting is never convincing (it’s “Cheers” with a pinch of downscale desperation), and though critics praised the sisterly solidarity of it, the filmmaking is too ramshackle to lend the empowerment much power.

MY HERO! THANK YOU!

Sight and Sound 2019 list

https://www.bfi.org.uk/best-films-2019

recently watched Ash Is Purest White and An Elephant Sitting Still. I thought they were both really great, they are two of my favorite films of 2019

Florence Pugh had a REALLY good year

Noted critic Barack Obama's list. Morbs may appreciate he dug The Souvenir.

Next up are my favorite movies and TV shows of 2019. Of course, there’s also American Factory, a film from our own production company, Higher Ground, that was recently shortlisted for an Oscar. Here’s the full list: pic.twitter.com/PEcgwotcxm

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) December 29, 2019

go directly to prison

my Obamacare budget has already cost me one rep cinema membership

He neglected to mention his appearance in The Image Book, i wonder why...

Six of his ten overlap with mine! I generally like Obama's aesthetic taste! I'd get a beer with that guy.

Reminder that PWB faps to an Obama speech in the pilot

A lot of movies started with "A" this year.

I refuse to believe that Obama's year-end lists aren't just culled from the Metacritic meter.